"> ". .■'I « -, /itieKii ) ,^-AU^ iH rWf*^ f. /hrvkX^^i^ THE REGISTER OP RICHARD FOX, WHILE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. A.D. MCCCCXCII— MCCCCXCIV. EDITED BY EDMUND CHISIIOLM BATTEN, M.A, F.R.S.E. WITH A LIFE OF BISHOP F'OX. ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED. MDCCCLXXXIX. HARTIISON AND SONS, PUtNTERS IN OUDINART TO HEB MAJESTY, ST. mautin's I.ANE. CONTENTS. PAGE Preface I-II Life of Bishop Richard Fox 1-142 Introduction to the Register i Titles of Entries in Register (Translated) vii Alphabetical Table of Benefices and Lay Patrons xii Index to Register xv Reoistrum RicARDi Fox, Bathoniessis et Wellexsis Eriscori.... 1-174 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Duke University Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/registerofricharOOcath B33\R PREFACE. One only of the Medifeval Episcopal Registers of England has as yet been printed entire. This is the Palatine Register of Richard do Kellawe, Bishop of Durham, 1311-16, edited by Sir Thomas Hardy. The original Promoters of the present work desired tliat one of the Mediffival Registers of the Bishops of Bath and Wells should be printed entire. Two reasons for selecting, among those in the Wells Registry, the Register of Bishop Fox, were: first, the very interesting period to which it relates, a period quite anterior to the Reformation, and yet almost on the eve of that event ; secondly, the comparative bre\ity of the volume, which enaljles the exact words of the forms used to be lastingly recorded, without oppressive repetition. It was necessary to have an accurate transcript of tlie Register made for the printer, and the services of Mr. C. T. Martin were secured to make it. He had transcribed Bishop Kellawe's Register for publication. Relying on his skill and scholarship, the exj^and- ing the frequent abbreviations in the original manuscript was sanctioned, otherwise the abbreviated words would have been often unintelligible to an ordinary scholar, and would have rc(iiiired a translation as well as a transcript. It would have been unusual and unbecoming to present in a permanent form the Episcopal Register of Bishop Fox and not to give an account of the Life of tliat Great Man. II The valuable assistance which has been readilj- given to the work by those most qualified to afford it, is gratefully acknow- ledged. Among those whom tlie Editor has to thank, not specially mentioned in the course of the ensuing pages, are Dr. Bloxam, Mr. Boase, Mr. H. F. Burke, Mr. T. Dickson, Mr. James Gairdner, and Mr. W. H. St. John Hope. ]\Ir. Octavius Malet has actively promoted the production of the volume by liis zealous correspon- dence. Mr. E. Green has given very kind service in preparing the Index. Whilst tlie courtesy and good will of Mr. Harris, the Episcopal Registrar at Wells, and his Clerks, must be specially mentioned ; thanks cannot be too cordially expressed for the free and hearty way in which the Fox Registers of their Dioceses were laid open and illustrated by Mr. Burch, tlie Dejiuty Episcopal Registrar of Exeter, Mr. Bootli, the Deputy Episcopal Registrar of Durham, and Mr. Wooldiidge, the Episcopal Registrar of Win- chester. Lastly, the warm thanks of the Promoters are due to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Lord Arthur Hervey, for his valuable and ready co-operation in the undertaking. His friendly criticism and advice has been always willingly afforded, and the whole of tlie sheets have had the benefit of his careful revision. E. C. B. Tliornfalcon, 22nd May, 1889. LIFE OF BISHOP RICHARD FOX. There siuldenly comes out on the page of English historj', the tirst time, in the winter of 1484-85, the name of a personage who thenceforth maintains for forty-two years a commanding position. This was Eichard Fox, a man then marked by Richard III. as a special object of Eoyal antipathy. Bishop Kemp had been reported to the King as intending to institute and induct " Master Eicliard Fox, clerk," to the vicarage of Stepney, one of the richest parochial cliurches in the kingdom.* On the 22nd January, 1485, Eoyal letters were sent to the Bishop certifying that this Eichard Fox was tlien with the King's great rebel, Henry of Tudor, called Earl of Eichmoud, in counsel, favour, and aid, as much as in Fox lay, supporting the rebellious Earl against the King,t and the lettera jiresent another clerk to the vicarage. The IMshop did not admit the King's clerk, and the sceptre was so loose in the usurper's grasp that he cared not to resent the slight ; and, in fact, unknown to the King, the Bisliop had already, on the 30th Octolier, 1484, personally admitted and instituted Eichard Fox in proxy to this vicarage.^ Bishop Kemp was then seventy-nine years of age, and would hardly have exposed liim- self to the peril of countenancing Eichmond, by instituting Fox • Kniglit'9 Life of Colet, p. 231. + llarl. irSS. ; Ston's London, vol. ii., p. 755. X This institution was not rocorilccl in the Bishop's register until after March, 1485. B 2 LIFE OF niSHOP FOX. ail avowed siqiporter of the Earl, to this very important vicarage. TILelimond, then twenty-eight years old, was. in Jannar\% 148.'i, witli Charles VIII. (a boy of thirteen) at Montargi.s. Tlie Eail in the first week of October, 1484, had made that memorable iliglit, riding from Vannes into France, when he passed out of the Duchy of Brittany but an hour before Landais' light horsemen, pursuing him, were stopjied by the land-mark of the Marches of Brittany and France. Such influence had been brought to bear upon Anne de Beaujeu, the King's sister and guardian, and the French Pri\'y Council, that on the 11th October, 1484, at Montargis, the Governor of Limousin (present as a member of the Council) Avas ordered by the Council to go to meet the Earl of Eichmond, who had set out from Brittany for France, and to welcome, receive, and lodge him in the towns through which he should pass, and 2,000 francs were placed at the disposal of the Governor to deal with as he thought fit. By the 23rd October, the Governor of Limousin was again with the Council at Montargis, so that he must have met the Earl ; and on the 4th November, tlie followers of Eichmond, to the number of 400, were directed to be lodged and entertained at .Sens, arrangements being made shortly after- wards for the Earl himself keeping Christmas at the Court.* It does not appear that Eichmond had ever been in France before his flight thither from A'annes. Philip de Commines was a member of the Privy Council that welcomed him at Montargis ; Commines says that the Earl of Eichmond told him, a short time before his departure from France, that since the age of five years he had been always guarded and confined as a fugitive in prison. * We foHunatel}' have the exact, particulars of the hospitality and encourage- ment given by Anne de Beaujeu to Henry Til., from the Minutes of the Sittings of the Privy Council, but tliey entl with the sitting at Montargis on the 12tli Januarv, 1485. Seances (In Conseil cle Kegence clu Koi Charles VI 11. Paris, IS.'iG. LIFE OF BISHOP FOX. 3 This was the Earl's position in I'rittany from his reception there witli his uncle Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, after the battle of Tewkesbury, until his eniliarkation on the voyage to join Buckingham on 12th October, 1483, from which he returned to Brittany by the 30th of the same month. Nothing indicates that diiwn to the time of Richmond's entering France in October, 1484, Fox had any connection with him. The letters of Eichard prove that in January, 1485, Fox was with Eichmond. The IJishop said on oath in April, 1527, that it was then forty-one years since he knew Henry VII.; tliis would exclude the probability tliat he ever saw the King when Earl of Eichmond, until Eichmond had joined the Court of Charles at Montai-gis. There, probably, or at Sens, or Paris, the Earl first met Fox. And now before describing his career from his thirty-seventh year, which is marked liy tlie warmest admiration of his con- temporaries and the unanimous .applause of posterity, wliich left no duty unperformed, no honour unbestowed, it would be interesting to be able to tell of Fox's early time, how he was educated, and wliere he passed nearly the first half of his life. This period is singularly obscure. The tradition which tells of Ins education at Boston School, at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, may be true, but it is not supported by contemporary evidence. The books and proctor's accounts of Majrdalen Colletre, Oxford, and Pembroke College, Camlu-idge, give no indication that he was ever a student at one college or the other.* There is no entry in the University registers of his being * It is a question wliellier ho. wns ever a student at Pembroke Hall, for in the letter wliich the Fellows sent to BL-'hop Lajburn, u]ion Layhurn's elertion as Master in 1.50.'>, they tell him tliere was not a man in Knghiml bred in the College besides liimself (hat was worthy of thiit. place. Wren's Maslei-s of Pembroke Hall, Leland's Coll., vol. r, p. 389. Fox, in 1502, Rave Pembroke Hall £5U for two priests to pray for the soul of John Dawson, llean of Sarum, and the prosperity of him, Richard Fox, Bishop of Winehester. Idem. B 2 4 LIFE OF BISIIOI' FOX. admitted to any degree at Oxford or Cambridge, but these books, proctors' accounts, and registers are very imperfect. He is called Bachelor in Laws in the Bishop of London's registry of his admission to the vicarage of Stepney, in October, 1484, and iu his admission to the prebend of Brownswood, in October, 1485. Tliis may mean that he was Bachelor of both Laws or of Canon Law only.* He is styled, when Bishop of Exeter, by his contemporary Bouse, Doctor of Decrees, but in his admission to the prebend of South Grantham, in February, 1486, and his appointment to the Privy Seal, he is styled Doctor of Laws, so that his proceeding to the doctorate must have been between these two dates. Parker's Skeletos styles him, in the account of Pembroke Hall, Socius LL.D. Parisiis, but no degree in Civil Law was then allowed at Paris, and if he was made Doctor in the Faculty of Law in Paris, it must have been only Doctor of the Canon Law or Decrees. Tliere is no allusion in Fox's after life, by himself or otliers, to anything connected with his education or his earlier years. When some reference to any previous connection with the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge may be expected, there is none. The University of Oxford write to him, when Bishop of Exeter, for a donation to rebuild St. Mary's Tower, but they make no allusion to his having had any connection with their University; when Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, request liim in 1507 to be their new ]\Iaster, they do not ask the favour on the ground of his having been an alumnus there. Much as he was, when Bishop of Winchester and Visitor of Magdalen College, mixed up with that house, the college never appear to have reminded him that he was a student within its walls. He may have been at a grammar school at Boston, but the Corpus Christi Guild there, of whieli he became a member in 1492 whilst Bishop of Bath and WeLls,t had * Boasc's Register of Unir. of Oxford, vol. i, p. xxrii. t Harl. MSS., 471)5. LIFE OF lilSIIOr FOX. O no school attached to it, and in tlic same year other courtiers were achnitted to mcndjership. A graduate he undoubtedly was of a university, and jivolialily of Paris, and there may yet be among the registers of that university proof of his liaving taken his degrees there. Bishop Fox was the son of Tliomas Fox and PLlinoi', his wife. These names his filial piety hands down in his fo\uidatiou .statutes, directing that tliey should have the prayers of his college. Tliomas Fox lived at a house called Pullock and sometimes Pullocks Manor in Eopsle}' Co. Lincoln. " To. this manor house did anciently belong," says Twyne in his MS. Collectanea, " land worth beyond all reprises £26 yearly," that is more than £.")00 a year of our money. According to the estimate of Mi'. Froude, which generally we shall adopt, that money then was relatively to money now as one to twelve. Thomas Fox was a person of position above a yeoman, though perhaps not entitled to wear coat armour. His only sister, Elizabeth Fox, married John Broiineswell, and from this marriage many illustrious families are descended. The name of Fox as a landowner in Eopesley goes back to the time of Edward III., and the sisters of Bishop Fox married into the good families of Colston and Joyner before he himself was a distinguished man. In Bullocks Manor Bishop Fox w-as born in 1448, and the room in which he first saw light has been jiointed out by an unvarying tradition down to the present day. John Fox, described as of Eopesley, receives from Sir Christopher Barker, Garter, (28 Henry VIII.) a grant of arms,* in wliicli the pelican is introduced among.^t the charges on a cliief, but tlie charges on the field are lions' heads. He occujiied most prol)ably the liouse where the Bishop was born, and whic-li the reverent piety of the • MSS. HoraUrf CM. C PRINCIPAL SECRETAKY TO THE KING. college of Ills fouudaliou has purcliased. Small ami mean as that house may now appear, it was, it would seem, the residence of a gentleman entitled to bear arms in 1536. Fox is said by Greenway, the President of Corpus Christi in 1566, to have been educated in grammar-learning at Boston, and in academical-learning at ^Magdalen College, Oxford, and to have removed from IMagdalen to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in consequence of the plague breaking out at Oxford, and then to liave gone to Paris to study Canon Law. Fox, although not in October liS-i, an avowed partisan of Richmond, may have been in the earlier part of 1484 in communi- cation with Bishop Morton or Christopher Urswicke, Morton's agent, and it may have been that Fox was then in England previous to being presented to the vicarage of Stepney ; and this earlier part of that year may have been the period of his tradi- tional visit to Eopesley, alluded to in Queen Elizabeth's time, by the old inhabitants who then reported him to have returned there from France in good sort, and refused to stay with his parents saying he must over sea again, and if one thing hit out right, all Kopesley should not serve him for a kitchen. This one thing may have been the renewed invasion of England by llichmond. Probably from January, 1485, Fox acted as Secretary to Eichmond. To him, as Secretary, we may attribute the style of the letter of the Earl to his friends in England, which was issued from Paris in the spring of 1485, when Pichmond uses the forms, if not the signature of a King.* Eichmond embarked at Harfleur on the 1st of August, 1485, and arrived at Milford Haven on the seventh day after. Fox and Christopher Urswicke were with the expedition, and these two * nalliweH's Eojal Letters I. 261, from Harl. MSS., 787, p. 2. It is given uiulcr the signet and siyncil 11. R. Tlie signet was always in tlie keeping of tlie King's seeretary. PRINCIPAL SECRETAUY TO THE KING. 7 clergymen were by liis side, wlieii iiiiiiiediiitely on liuuling tlic Earl knelt down and began the Psalm " Judica me Deus et decerne causam meam ; " then kissed the ground and signed himself M'ith tlie Cross. Richmond when in Wales issued a letter to his friends, and in this second letter Fox sustains the position he had taken in the letter from I'aris. He makes tlie Earl assume the Royal style, and even with greater ostentation, for the letter is not only given " under our Signet," but headed " by the King." Henry had been proclaimed King at Exeter on the 18th October, 1483. Fox must have maintained that Henry was King before the battle of Bosworth. This was the line taken by Henry and his advisers after Bosworth, confirmed by Parliament, and continually kept up by making the first day of his reign, the 21st August, 1485, the day before the battle. When that battle was over, Henry knelt down and tlianked God. He was proclaimed and crowned King on the field, Urswicke was tliere, but of the ecclesiastics who lifted up their voices in prayer after the victory, Fox, the Secretary, was chief.* The House of York wa.s most popular in the county and city of York, where Richard had been recrowned. Not a moment was to be lost in securing the city, for Stillington, Bishop of P.ath and Wells, the bitter enemy of Henry, the crafty plotter who had been sent by Edward IV. to St. Malo to secure the delivery of Henry to Edward, was there. At Leicester, the twenty-third, tlie day after the battle. Fox, as secretary, drew up a Royal Warrant signed FOX for the arrest of Stillington, " one of the adlierents and assistants to our great enemy Richard, late Duke of Gloucester." It is remarkable that the first document which is extant, to whieli is attached Fox's counter-signature as Princi]>al Secretary, • Bernard Ainlro, Vilii llcni'.i VU., in Kolls I'lilv,. )>. Xi. 8 PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO THE KING. should Le the warrant for the arrest of Stillingtou, his immediate predecessor in the bishopric of Bath and Wells. On the 24th August, Sir Uoger Cotton, Knight to Henrj', arrived in York to proclaim him as King, and on the next day AVindsor Herald and Eobert Borow, a Sergeant to the King, arrived there with a Proclamation which was issued the same day, and must have been drawn up by Fox as the King's Secretaiy. This Proclamation clearly shows that the fierce time of pro- scription was passed, and that the King, and Pox his Chief Councillor, had determined to discourage any punishment of those who had supported Pichard, iisurper though he were. It commences thus : — " Henry, by the Grace of God, King of England and of France, Prince of Wales, and Lord of Ireland, strictly chargetli and com- mandeth, ujson pain of death, that no manner of man rob or spoil no manner of commons coming from the field, but suffer them to pass leave to their countries and dwelling-places, with their horses and harness. And, moreover, that no manner of man take ujjon to go to no gentleman's place neither in the country, nor within cities nor boroughs, nor pick no quarrels for old or for new matters, but keep the King's peace upon i)ain of hanging, &c."* The Secretary to the new King was of course at once presented to such offices as it was in the power of the King or his friends to * The King followed up this course bj ascertaining the losses of corn and grain sustained by the townships of Atcrston (£20), Widerby (£13), Aterton (£8 lOs.), Long Drayton (£20), Manseter (£5 lO*.), Ath,"rston (£-1 Vis. 4f/.), and \i-lnch were occasioned by the King and his company at his late victorious field, and directing on 29tli November these sums to be paid, and also on the 7tli December directing 100 marks to be paid to the Abbot of Merivalc as recompense " who had and sustained right great hurts, changes, and losses, by occasion of the great rcpajn-e and resort that oure people connng toward our late field made as well unto the House of Merivale aforcsaide as in going over his ground to tlic destruction of his corn and pastures." E. P. Materials ]li.-l. lien. VII., vol. i, 1S8 aud 201. Drake. Ebor. 112. PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO THE KINO. 9 give. The King gave him on the 28th Septemher tlie Keepership of the Little Park at Windsor, and on the lOtli of Novemher the Keepcrsliip of the Exchange at Cahiis, which had been held by John Kendal, llichard III.'s Secretary. Fox, being in holy orders, was enabled to receive those sinecures attached to cathedral churches, whicli afforded so frequently provision for clergymen engaged in other than ecclesiastical duties. He was appointed by liisliop Langton of Salisbury to tlie rrebend of Bishopston in that church, and by Bishop Kemp on the 26th of October, 1485, to the prebend of Brownswood, in the Church of St. Paul's, vacant by the death of John Davj'sou or Dawson, Dean of Salisbury; and in Fcliruary, 1486, he was appointed (having resigned the Prebend of Bishopston shortly before) to the prebend of South Grantham, in the Church of Salisbury. The King went from Leicester to London by short stages, and rested at Coventry. He arrived in London early in September, and before the seventeenth of tliat month Fox had resigned the good vicarage of Stepney, which was subject to the obligation of con- tinual and personal residence. The victorious field of Bosworth had secured peace at home. Fox always urged on the King, and Morton who joined tliem in London in September concurred in advising, the cultivation of peace. Before September was out, a truce was made with the King of France for a }'ear, and letters of safe conduct were sent two days afterwards to Ambassadors from Scotland, to confirm the truce with that kingdom for three years made by Eichard III. at Nottingham in September, 1484. The Coronation of the King in October, bcf(U-e waiting for liis marriage, was a continuous assertion of liis own right to the Crown ; the holding a Parliament in November, and the obtaining a confirmatory Bull from the Pope, were fit antecedents to the 10 PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO THE KING. maniage of Henry and the heiress of Edward IV. in January 1486, wliicli comiilcted the links which fastened the royal diadem of England on the head of the first of the Tudors. No sooner was the Parlianieut dissolved than the King availed himself of the services of his Secretary Fox in drawing up the nolile expressions of gratitude and thankfulness which are in the Letters Patent creatmg Sir Giles Daubeny, who came to him in Brittany and fought at his side at Bosworth, a peer of the realm. Fox was a Vrivj Councillor by the 10th November.* Henry, either from his regard for Fox, or from his desire to elevate the dignity of the office, raised the position of the King's Principal Secretary ; Fox was the first who was advanced to the rank of a Privy Councillor. In the sj^riug of 1486, boldly and wisely, the King went north as far as York, and west as far as Bristol,t Fox was with him as Secretary. The Iving returned to London in June, and as the Herald:J: says, "soon after July, 1486, the King departed from Westminster towards the western parts, and hunted in the New Forest and went to Winchester, where Arthur, Prince of Wales, was born in the Priory of St. Swithin on the 20th September. 1486. Fox as the King's Secretary accompanied the King throughout these journeys, and to Winchester. At the splendid christening of the Prince in the Cathedral at Winchester, the Herald speaks • Hall, fol. 3. t In April, 1186, the King kcj^t, says the Ilerald, at Lincoln right devoutly the Holy Feast of Easter, and like a Christian Prince liad his divine service in the Cathedral Cliurch and in no privy ehapel. On Shere (llaundy) Thursday he had in the Bishop's Hall twenty-nine poor men to whom he humbly and cristenly, for Christ's love, with his noble hands did wash their feet. He was just twenty-nine years old, and was met in his progress northward with crowds eoniing out of the cities, men, women, and children crying " King Henry, King Henry," and saying "Our Lorde preserve that sweet and well-favoured face." I Lelaud's Coll., Ed. 2, vol. iv., p. 20 j. LORD PRIVY SEAL. 11 of " many noble doctors in rich copes and grey amys. Master Eobert IMorton, Master of the Kolls, the Dean of "Wells Master John Gunthorpe, Doctor Fox, the King's Secretary,* with many more."t On the 11th August, 1486, William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, died. On the 15th the Chapter of the Cathedral solicited the King's permission to elect a Bishop in the room of Waynflete. Peter, or Piers Conrtenay, Bishop of Exeter and Lord Privy Seal, was elected and approved of by the Pope in January and the King in February. Bishop Courtenay, on the 24th February, 1487, resigned the Privy Seal, which the King gave on that day to his Secretary Fox, so that Fox held at the same time the King's Signet as Secretary, and the Privy Seal as Lord Privy Seal. This office of Lord Tiivj Seal, like that of Secretary, was much dignified by Henry YII. Kiug Eichard had appointed Gunthorpe, Dean of Wells, to the office ; the selection of a man so little raised above ordinary Churchmen was due in Eichard's case to the King's practice of acting on his own opinion and without Council or ]\Iinister, and to the estrangement which his usurpation and murder of the Princes, had produced in the public opinion of the day, but Edward IV. had no higher personages than commoners for Lords Privy Seal. Courtenay was a member of one of the great ruling families of England. His appointment gave the office eminence and rank, and we may trace in King Henry's elevation of those in the immediate service of the Crown, the wise counsel of the King's mother, who well knew how to maintain dignity and state.J • Henry sajs of OliTcr King, Fox's successor, " As Sir Oliver King, our Secre- tary, is nlwavs in nttendance on our person, he cannot, in bis person, visit certain jiarisli cliurclies situ.atcd in bis Archdeaconry of Taunton." R. P. Venetian, vol. i, pp. 191 and 1110. t I.i'land, lid. 2, vol. iv, p. 205. % Materials for Hist, llcnrv VII.. pnssiin. 12 LOUD VlllVY SEAL. On the 1st March, 1487, Fox executed a deed as Bishop of Exeter at the Bishop's liouse outside Temple Bar, aud appointed his beloved Christopher Urswicke to a prebend. Fox must have been elected Bishop of Exeter by the Chapter of the Cathedral Church liefore this date ; this election must have been confirmed by the Pope, and his oath of allegiance accepted by the King before the 2r)tli of JMarcli, 1487, as on that day a writ for the restitution of the temporalities of Exeter to Fox as Bishop of Exeter, was issued, dated at the Monastery of Chertsey ; on the 2nd of April another writ for the restitution of the temporalities of Winchester to Courtenay as Bishop of Winchester was issued. This latter writ was dated at Colchester, from which place the King passed to Bury St. Edmunds, and there issued liis commis- sions of array for Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex, to meet the appre- hended invasion of the Earl of Lincoln and Lambert Simnel. Fox, notwithstanding his election as Bishop of Exeter aud liis appointment as Lord Privy Seal, is addressed as Secretary as well as Bishop by the ]\Iayor of York on the 31st of March, being then also unconsecrated. The Mayor sending to Bisliop Fox the confession of a man who had seen Lord Lincoln at York, on the King's visit there the previous year, addresses the letter : " To the Eight Eeverend Fader in God, and my right especial singler good Lord, The Bishop of Exeter, the King's Secretary," aud proceeds as follows : — "Plight Pievereud Fader in God, and my right especial aud singler good Lord, I commend me unto you with hearty thankes for [what] your goode Lordship showed unto this poor Citie, most especially at such times as Master John Haringtou hath been with you in matters of the same for the which we have bouude us to your continual service," &c., and begs him to lay the papers before the King.* • -Vrcha'ological IiisUtiitc rrocccdings, iit York, p. G. LORD PlilVY SEAL. 13 Tlie King, witli Fox, Morton, and Courtenay iu attendance on him, arriveci at Norwicli on the 4th April. On the 8th of April Fox was consecrated Bishop. The consecration took place at Norwich, the Sub-Prior and Convent of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury having consented to the consecration of Eichard Fox, Doctor of Laws, Elect of tlie Clnircli of Exeter, out of the Cathedral of Christchurch Canterbury. This consent, and Fox's oath of obedience to Morton as Archbishop of Canterbury, are entered in the Archbishop's Register.* Morton officiated, assisted by Courtenay, and James, the Bishop of Norwich.! Thus the appointment of llichard Fox to be Bishop of Exeter was complete. * The Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury were entitled to insist on on all Bishops of that province being conseerated there. Keg. Morton, Lauibelh Palace LibraiT. + Stubbs' Eegisl. Sacrum, p. 72. 14 lUSHOr OF EXETEE. The bishopric of Exeter was founded by the Confessor. It comprised the counties of Devon and Cornwall, and down to the time when Fox was elevated to the See was counted one of the best in England. Tlie Bishop had tlie patronage of twenty-four prebendaries who were secular priests, and the estates belonging to his bishopric were valued, in 1534:, at £1,566 Us. 6d. per annum, equivalent to £18,800 of our money. The Bishops are said to have had fourteen houses belonging to the See at this time. Besides the Palace at Exeter, Mr. Lysons says we know of Cargol and Caddenback in Cornwall ; Crediton I'ark, Bishop's Clist, Paignton, Bishop's Nympton, Bishop's Tawton, Chudleigh, Bishop's Morchard, in Devousliire.* There were also the Bishop's Palace, in London, and his Manor House of East Horsley, in Surrey. The London house of the Bishop of Exeter, called Exeter House, was one of those pleasant mansions with gardens reaching to the River Thames, which formed its border from the city walls to Westminster, of which the last surAiving to our time was Northumljerland House. Its gardens adjoined the gardens of the Middle Temple, and included the present Essex Street. Bishop Fox was so engi'ossed by his duties as Lord Privy Seal and as principal adviser to the King that he did not visit Exeter. He must have been enthroned liy proxy, and he was obliged to adopt the usual practice of absentee Bishops. Dr. William Sylke, Canon of Exeter, was appointed Official Principal and Vicar- General in Spirituals for the diocese by a commission from the • Lveons' Mag. Tiril., Devon, p. 203. BISITOr OF EXETER. 15 Bishop, dated at Kcnilworth the 30th May, 1487* The Vicar- Geiieral was empowered to do everything for him except those duties which a consecrated Bishop alone coukl perform. And on tlu' :!nl June, 1487, tlie Bishop grants a commission as Suffragan Bishop to Thomas Cornish, Bishop of Tenos. This Suffragan Bishop seems to have officiated in place of the Bi.shop of the See when the functions of an ecclesiastic of the episcopal order were to be exercised during Fox's episcopate. On Bisliop Fox being fully invested with the bishopric of Exeter, his ecclesiastical sinecures of the prebends of Brownswood and South Grantham would become vacant. Probably at the request of Bishoi? Kemp, so as to hasten for him the j^atronage of Briiwnswood, Fox resigned the prebend before his appointment as Bishop.t He also resigned his reversionary interest in the office of Prothonotarj' in Chancery .| The mode of performing the duties of the Bishop of a See by the double organisation of a Vicar-General in Spirituals and a Suffragan Bishop was so familiar to the episcopal statesmen of that age, that Fox would have startled the ecclesiastical mind more by refusing than by accepting the bishopric whilst Lord Privy Seal, and thus executing the episcopal office. We shall see by and by how he afterwards regarded tliis practice. The possession of the bishopric assured him of independence and patronage ; nor was the dignified Loudon residence of the see without considerable attraction to a statesman, and his position as Prelate gratified the Iving by enabling his councillor to minister before him in the most sacred offices of the Church. • Keg. Fox Exon. Fox says in this ileed that because liis seal was not at. hand, he had procured the seal of Jolin Uisliop of Ely to be ajipendod to it. t Reg. Kemp, Lond., p. US. Tlie collation of the new prebendary was dated lltli April, Its-. I Materials for Hist. Henry VII., R.V.. vol. ii, p. 358. 16 BISHOP OF EXKTER. Tlie King kept his Easter at the Bishop's Palace, Nonvicb, Jloiton and Fox being with him. " On St. George's Day," says the Herald, " the King went to Coventry to be in the centre of his kingdom, until he had certain advice of the designs of his enemies ; and there he kept his Feast of St. George. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Winchester, Ely, Loudon, "Worcester, Fox as Bishop of Exeter, and the Prior of Coventry, all in ponti- ficalihus* read the Pope's Bullf touching the King and Queen's rights, and there in the choir, in the Bishop's seat, by the authority of the same Bull, cursed with book, bell, and caudle, all those who did anything contrary to the King and Queen's rights, and approved their titles good." On leaving Coventry, the King rode to Kenilworth to the Queen and the Lady Margaret the King's mother, who were staying at that splendid monument of the grandeur of John of Gaunt and the great House of Lancaster. Here Fox was in attendance on the King.J The excellent orders for the conduct of the army, excluding from the host all vagabonds, all Ijud women, all pillagers, and denouncing all quarrel with any man for any offence against the King without His Majesty's special command, which show how much the horrors of civil war might be tempered, were issued, says the Herald, ''by the advice of the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Bishop of Winchester, and Fox the Bishop of Exeter."§ The spirit in which they are framed accords so entirely with the * The words " in pontificalibus " arc expressed in English by the phrase " under stole " in the record of this proceeding in the Records of the eitj of York. Pro- ceedings of Archofcological Institute, at York, 1846. ■f Of March 27th, 1486, contirming the dispensation of the marriage of the King and Queen, and excommunicating rebels. Eynier xii, 297. X Bishop Fox's Register, Exeter, May 30, 1487. § Leland's Collectanea, by Ucarne, Ed. 1774, vol. It, p. 211. r.Tsiior OF EXETEi;. 1 7 rroclaniation of Leicester after Boswortli, that we may attribute tlie orders mainly to Bishop Fox, M'ho alone of the three Prelates named was at Bosworth. On the morninw of the Kith June (Saturday), when the battle of Stoke was fought, the King early rose and heard two masses, " whereof," says the Herald, " the Lord Fox, Bishop of Exeter, sang the ton." That same day there is a letter from the King to the Mayor of York, which must have been one of the last letters (h-;iftcd liy Fox as Secretary, and is as follows : — " By the King. "To our trusty and well-beloved the Mayor of our city of York. "Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well, and forasmuch as it hath liked our Blessed Saviour to grant unto us of His benign grace the triumph and victory of our Eebels without death of any noble or gentleman on our part, we therefore desire and pray you, and since this victory proceedeth of Him and concerncth not only the weal and honour of us, but also of this our Iioyaumc, no less charge you, that calling unto you in the most solemn church of our city there, your brethren, the iUdermen, and others, ye do lovings and praisings to be given to our said Saviour after llie best of your power. "Given under our Signet, at our town of Newark, xvi day of June."* On the 24th June, the King was again at Lincoln, ami comes hack to Kenilworth.t where, on 4th July, he issued a patent giving IJichard Fox, Doctor of Laws, a King's Councillor, and Bishop of Exeter, and now Keeper of the Privy Seal, 20 shillings a day as • ArebiEolog. Inst. Proceedinpa. nt York. ]>, 0, altered into modcTn Englinli. t A \ellfT to Pope Innocent of Ucnry was dalod at Keiiihvortli, 5th Ju1_y, 1187. Mat. IlisI,, Henry VII., vol. ii, p. 138. C 18 BISHOP OF EXETER. salary of the said office.* Prolialily al tins time he gave up tlu^ Signet of the Secretary's office to the King, who conferred it upon Oliver King, Archdeacon of Taunton, before the llth August, 1487. On the ISlli of August.t the King reached Newcastle by York and Durham. The rebellion being over, the Pope issued a Bull on the Gth August, 14S7, empowering the Archbi.shop of Canterliury to absolve the rebels from the efiect of the excommu- nication pronounced by him and Fox and their brethren at Coventry, and about the same time the King issued general pardons, with restitution of lands, to many of the rebels. But one repeated offender was to be restrained from mischief. Bishop Stillington, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who, pardoned by the clemency of the King in November, 1485, after his capture under Fox's writ at York, had favoured the rebellion of Lord Lincoln, and fled to Oxford after the battle of Stoke. From Oxford, despite his claimed privilege as head of a house, he was before 12th September sent in custody to Windsor, and there remained in ward notwitlistauding special exertions of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and their commission to the King in his favour. Bishop Fox, in the Parliament which met in November, 1487, returning from Scotland, is made a Trier of Petitions, and is in London on the 10th of that month. From Newcastle, the King sent Bishop Fox and Sir Eichard Edgcombe, Comptroller of the Household, as Ambassadors to James III. of Scotland, to eflect a permanent peace between the two kingdoms. * This was one of the four highest offices of the State, the other three being the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Treasurer, and the Lord President of the Council, and t)ie salary, at Mr. Froude's relative estimate of twelve to one, was more than four thousand a year of our money. With the Bi.'^hopric, Fox had now an income of more than twenty-three thousand a year of our money. t Mat., Ilcury Vll., II., 1G3. BISHOP OF EXETER. 19 Bishop Fox took so important a part in the arrangements with Scothmd, wliich hnl ultimately to the union of tlie Crowns nf Enghiud and Scotland, that it is worth while to attend carefully to the progress of these negotiations. The relations of England to Scotland were naturally an object of great anxiety with Henry and his Councillors, next after the relation.s of England to France. Tiie safe conduct of September, 1485, to Scotch Ambassadors, wliich we havi^ mentioned, wa.s renewed on the 2nd Feljruary, 1486, but the Scotch Ambassadors did not come to London till l\Iay, 148G.* The result was a truce for three years from .3rd July, 148G, and the Articles, dated that day, provided that on tlie 8th March following Cduimissioners and Orators should be sent by the King of England to the King of Scotland at Edinburgh, to discuss a proposition of a marriage between the Marquis of Ormoud, the second son (lioru in March, 147G) of the King of Scotland, and the Princess Katharine, the third daughter of Edward IV., the sister of Elisabeth, Henry's Queen. The Queen of Scotland died on the 14th of the same month of July. Until the battle of Stoke on the 16th June, 1487, the King was too much engaged in dealing with Lord Lincoln and his followers to attend to matrimonial negotiations with Scotland, but as he was near Scotland at Newcastle, sent on Bishop Fox and Sir Eichard Edgcombe to Edinburgh, to meet Commissioners of James TIL there. Fox was back by the 23rd September, on which day he was at Cambridge.t He probably was with the King and Court at Warwick in September.^ A document, dated 28th * The entries in Rymer are wrongly put in 14S7. They were entertained in a Bumptuous ninnner in London for seven weeks from .Inly 7th; £23i were spent in their reception, and bows and arrows were given tliem for tlieir hunting in Eltham Park. t Fox Rep. Exon. X Ryiuer, vol. xii, p. 328. c 2 20 BISHOP OF EXETEK. November, shows that ISi.sliop Fox and Sir IticharJ lulgcoiube* had met cither in Edinburgh or elsewliere in the north, the Bishop of Aberdeen and Lord Bothwell on the ]iart of James, and had discussed not only the marriage of the second son of the King of Scotland with the I'rincess Katharine, but also the marriage of the now widowed Scotch King himself with the Queen Uowager of Edward IV., and of the Prince of Scotland with such other of the English Queen's sisters as both the Kings should choose, and had arranged a meeting of the Kings in July, 1488. Thus the subject of the connection of the two reigning houses of the two kingdoms by marriage was fairly brought before the King and Bishop Fox, and we shall see what progress was hereafter made in the matter. Bi.shop Fox is not uamed as present at the Queen's Coronation on the 25th November, 1487, although his colleague, Sir Eichard Edgcombe, appears. Fox peihaps was with the King on this occasion, who with his mother witnessed the ceremony from a latticed seat in the Abbey.f Fox did the Divine Service at even- song before the King on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day, 1487.t " At Whitsuntide," says the Herald, " the Eeverend Father in God, the Bishop of Exeter, Lord Privy Seal, did the Divine Service at Windsor." Windsor soon came with the Prebend of Exeter Cathedral to Christopher Urswicke, his companion on the voyage from Harfleur and on the field of Bosworth, now the Kiug's Almoner and a considerable pluralist.| " After AMiitsuntide," says the Chronicler, " all the summer * Knighted after the Buttle of Bosworth Field ou the field. Book of Knights, p. 2. + Lclaiid's Coll., Tol. iv, p. 224. X A King 80 devoted to religious ceremonies as Henry VII. was sure to encourage his clerical Ministers of Slate to olTieiate in them, and the Lord Privy Seal acted as Chaplain as well as Councillor on many occasions in 1488. BISHOP OF EXETEK. 21 fdllowing, His Grace liuntod ami sported himself merely, and slew liis gresse in tlu; Park of Woodstock and in the Forest of Whicli- ■wood." In March, 1488, Arthur, I'rince of Wales, heing then not two years old, Henry and Ferdinand and Isabella began a Treaty for the marriage between the Prince and Katharine, the Princess of Arragon. Fox and Lord Daubeny were the King of Englnnd's Commissioners. Tlie Treaty with Spain was made by them the same year. Fox was deeply engaged in the foreign diplomacy of the King. Lady JMargaret, in that same month of IMarch, 1488, writes to Fox when the question of who should be the husband of Anne, the heiress of Brittany, was mooted : " My Lord, I pray }'ou I may hear of your news of Flanders," and so much confidence is shown in Fox that the Treaty expressly reserves a disputed question of fact to be decided by the word of honour and oath of the Bisliop of Exeter, Lord Privy Seal. In Novemlier, 1488, Fox writes to the Pope to say that Adrian de Corneto, appointed Nuncio to Scotland,* had been well received in England, and that he (Fox) had shown him all good will and affection. He signs himself, " Ricardus Exonien. presbyter. "+ In January, 1489, the Pope's Collector, John de Giglis, writes to Pope Innocent VIII. that he had obtained audience of the King. " The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter (Fox) who are all-powerful with the King, stood by and favoured us."J The King kept his Easter at Hertford, where at that season (April 19), says tlie Herald Chronicler, "the Reverend Father in God the Lord Ilichard Fox did the Divine Service, and on St. George's Day the morn he sang the Mass of Eeqiiiem." • Preface to Stat. Eccl. Scot., p. 109, note, Biiiinntjno Club, ISUG. + We liave otber inslanees of bishops sigiiiiijj tliemselvos " priest." I R. r. Venetian, vol. ), p. 177. 22 UISIIOI- OF EXETEli. Jiinies III. of Scotland was munlered on tlie 11th of June, 1-488, so that the meeting of the Kings of England and Scotland, arranged by Fox for July, 1488, could not happen. Fox was at Windsor in September, 1488, and kindly assisted Pjishop Stillington, still Bishop of Bath and Wells, and in gentle continenient at Windsor, with iiis seal and attestation in executing a deed, \\liich the Dean and Chapter of Wells wished their diocesan to gi-ant. For some reason it was important that the circumstances under which this deed was executed should be testified to the Chapter. So it was sent to Wells by Edmund ilyll, a faithful servant of Bishop Fox, with a letter of credence.* At All Hallow-tide, November 1, 1488, at Windsor, the Bishop again did Divine Service. Cliristmas Day, 1488, the King kept at Shene, and Fox did the Divine Service both Christmas Day and Twelfth Day. The sulisidy granted by the last Parliament was being levied in Yorkshire, when suddenly, on St. Vitalis Day, the 28th of April, 1489, was slain the Earl of Northumberland, the Collector of the Subsidy, beside Thirsk, tidings hereof being brought to the King at Hertford ; and the Chronicler tells us that His Majesty soon answered the Ambassadors of the King of the Romans, the King of Portugal, and the King of Naples, who were in attendance on liini, and on the 22nd day of May departed from Hertford towards tlie north, and lay that night at Dunstable, accompanied by the liishop of Exeter, Privy Seal. The King was at York from 29th ]May to 4th June, 1489, comes back to Leicester and Windsor by June, and grants general pardons to the malcontents. Upon All Hallows even, 1489, the Queen took her chamber at * Reynolds' "Wells Statutes," App. M, 179. Myll if not then married to Anne, liisliop Fox's niece, was so married by the month of April, 1492, there is then a grant l>y tlic Bishop to Edmund Myll and Anne, his wife, of Eome land, for their joint lives and llie life of the longer liver of them. BISHOP OF EXETKR. 23 Westminster, expecting the birth of Margaret, afterwards Queen of Scotland. The Chronicler says : " My Lord, the Queen's Chamber- lain, in very good vvordes desired in the Queen's name, the people there present to pray God to send her the goode time. The Reverend Fader in (lod tlio Bishop of Excester sung the Mass in Pontificalibus, and after Agnus Uei." The Princess was born on the 29th November. Fox again on CIn-istmas Day, 1489, did the Divine Service at Greenwich. " On Candlemas Day, 1490, into Westminster Hall came King and Queen, the Bishop of Exeter, Privy Seal, who did the Divine Service in Pontificalibus." Soon after,* the King sent an Embassy into France, consisting of Fox, the Earl of Ormond the Queen's Chamberlain, and William SeUyng the Prior of Christ Church of Canterbury. The object of the Embassy was to treat with Charles, King of France, concerning his differences with tlie Duchess of Brittany, and for a perpetual peace with liim, and it went to France before 12th March, and was there at Easter time, 1490, so that SeUyng could not keep Easter at Canterbury.! IMeautime the Bishop had exercised his patronage, as we shall find lie often did, in bestowing of3&ces on men who afterwards were of service to liim and to the Church. On the 9th of May, 1489, he collates llichard Nykke, Doctor of Laws (in 1503 Bishop of Norwich) to the prebend in tlie cluircii of Crantock, and made him afterwards Archdeacou of Exeter; and gave Bishop Cornish the Wardenship of the College of Ottery St. Mary. He gave Dean Arundel the prebend of Crediton. In the autumn Bishop Fox is at Woking with the King, and on tlie 26th September, 1490, witnessed a Treaty between the King and Ferdinand and Isal>clla for the marriage of Prince Arthur with Katharine of Arragou. • 27tli February, 1190, Rymcr. t Hist., MSS., noI. ix, \\ US. 2-4 nisnop of exetek. Bishop Fox had before October, 1490, taken up his residence at the JIanor of Horsley, and ou the 11th of October dates a collation at " our ]\Ianor of Horsley, in the diocese of Wincliester," very convenient to the King's house at Woking. On the 8lli of the same month, Bishop Fox and his colleague received furtlier powers of treaty witli tlie King of France, whose councU was most expert at delay and dissimulation. East Horsley was a manor liouse belonging to the Bishops of Exeter, and at wliich tliey sometimes resided. Tlie bishopric was so valuable a possession that it aflbrded a Prelate, whom duty or inclination induced to live in London, this agreeable country-house, with its easy rising and billowy downs sloping up to the heights above the vales of Guildford and Dorking,* )jy way of change. In 1-191, on February 17th, the Bishop and his colleague have further po^\•er to treat with France,! a power which is extended on the 26th February to enable them to treat with the Duchess of Brittany also. In April, 1491, the Duchess was married by proxy to Maximilian, the King of the Romans. The King receives the Breton Ambassadors in June, 1491. Fox is then in London at Exeter House. The King in July directs a benevolence to meet the expected subsidy (to be voted him by rarliament for a war in France) which the Parliament, meeting ou IVth October, 1491, voted. diaries attacks the Duchess' papital city of Yannes, and on the Gth of December, 1491, marries the Duchess at Langeais on the Loire,! and she is crowned at St. Denis. Bishop Fox's labours as * Bishop Booth died, and was buried there in Ajiril, 1478. Leland tells us that Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, in Henry V. and VI. dayes, lay sometimes at this house. Its site is very near Lord Lovelace's house. t In February, 1491, Henry VIII. ■nas baptized by Bishop Fox (as he himself declared in 151i7) in the Church of the Observants, Greennicli. J "Arma yeruut alii, tu, felix Austria, nubcs." niSIIOl' OI' EXETER. 25 Ambassador on her lielialf to Charles would now seem likely to end. In May, 1491, Stillington, IJishop of P.ath and Wells, died at Windsor, where he had been detained under arrest from September, 1487. Nothing is done to fill n]) the vacant bishopric until, on tlie 6th February, 1492, the I'ope issues a Bull for the translation t)f Bishop Fox from Exeter to Bath and Wells ; and the King on the 8th "March, 1492, directs the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and the Prior and Chapter of Bath, to elect Bishop Fox to the vacant See. He is elected, and obtains a restitution of the temporalities on the 4th May, 1492, and by the 10th of May, 1492, he had taken possession of the London house of the Bishops of Batli and Wells, M'hich was situated on the Thames just outside Temple liar, next to the house of tlie Bishop of Exeter, and there issued the first instrument recorded in his episcopal register. The connection which liad been proposed b}^ tlie King and earned out by Fox between the Koyal Houses of Spain and England, made the conquest of Granada of more interest to the King than the lively concern lie felt for the maintenance of Christendom would alone have roused ; the Chronicler tells us that after the Te Deuni, solenndy sung in St. Paul's Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Gth of April, 1492, standing on the steps before the choir door, declares to the people how the famous city of Granada, which many years had been possessed of the Moors, being infidels .and unchristened people, was taken by Don Ferdinand and Isabella his wife. King and Queen of Spain, Aragon, and Castile. The last act of Fox recorded in the episcopal register of Exeter as being personally performed by him was done on the 14th April, 1492, in his Hospice of Isleworth, a suburban residence he nuist have ocoipicd fVciin its ('(invenicnl nearness to IJirlnnniid. 26 BISHOP OF BATH AND \\T:LLS. The liisliopric of Bath and Wells was founded by Edward the Elder in 909. It was and is almost coterminous with the county of Somerset. The bishopric was an ecclesiastical preferment of high honour, large revenues, and great power and patronage. The Bishop of Bath and Wells was, and is, by prescription entitled to a prominent place in the Coronation of the Sovereign, being in the procession on the left-hand of the King, while the Bishop of Durham is on the right.* The annual income of the property of the Bishop was carefully taken in 1505, and amounted to £1,642 a-year, which, according to the estimate of I\Ir. Froude, is in present money nearly £20,000 a-year.f The Bishops of Bath and Wells having such possessions were not likely to have neglected to provide themselves with the resi- dences which personages so great were accustomed in the times of the I'lautagenets and Tudors to maintain on their estates. The habit's of the great from King John's time to Henry VII.'s were to move from one manor-place to another, and to have a mansion in London. Lelaud numbers eight manor-places of the Bishop in the county, Banwell, Chew, Evercreecli, Wiveliscombe, Wells, Twiver- ton, and Claverton, besides the London house just without Temple Bar, and the ample domain of Dogmersfield in Hampshire. One * Tliis position was taken by tlie Bishops of Bath and Wells from the Corona- tion of Rit'liurd I. down to that of Queen Victoria, Rutland Pa})cr8, C.S., p. 12 («). t The average price of wheat in Ilenry Vll.'s reign was 6s. Sd. a quarter. Froude, vol. i, p. 21 (1856). The average price of wheat from 1830 to 1875 was 56s. a quarter, or just eight times as much, but all these estimates of relative value arc to be qualified by other consiilcratii^ns, such as the relative necessary personal expenses, and the price of the siipcrlluities and luxuries of life. BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 27 Bishop would gratify his taste by building on one manor, and another on another. These manor houses were on Bishop Fox's accession some of them let and some of them out of repair, but the rough accommodation which they afi'orded was always supplementeil by costly moveable effects, so that in a short time the house could be sufficiently prepared to receive the lord, and the obligations of the tenantry, as to ser\ice of carriage and rent in kind enabled the lord to accommodate his retinue and to exercise that virtue of hospitality which has been the duty as well as the privilege, in England, of the Fathers of the Church. The London house of tlie Bishop of Bath and Wells, sometimes called Batli Place, was in the Strand, next to Exeter House, and tlie same class, with gardens down to the riverside. It was a residence fit to receive the King himself, and Henry VII. in passing from Eichmoud to Greenwich in ]\Iarch, 1508, stayed there from the 13th to the 18th.* It was afterwards Arundel House, and included the present Arundel Street.f The patronage of the Bishop included all the members of the Chapter of Wells ; besides the many livings whose advowsous were vested in the Bishop. Bishop Fox was now employed by the King in the negotiations wiih France for a peace, and was, as when appointed to the See of Exeter, obliged to ajjpoint an official Principal and Vicar-General to act in his absence, and to employ a Suffragan Bishop to perform the functions n>nuiring a member of the Episcopal Order. He appoints iJr. liichard Nykke, now Archdeacon of Exeter, Vicar-General in Spirituals, and Cornish Bishop of Tenos,:J: who had conferred orders • " Where Arundel's famed structure reared its frame, The street nlonc retains an emptor name." — &ay's "Trivia." + Bishop Fox calls it his Manor withuut the Bars of the New Temple. I Tenos is a small islan.'i in the -Kgean Sea, then belonging to the Venolian Kepublic, wlierc the Greek Church was established, but tlie Latin Bishop liad souie 28 mSlIOI' OF liATII AXli WELLS. for liim ill the diocese of Exeter from l«t March, 1487, to the end of his episcopate, to commence ordinations for him in the Lady Chapel next the cloister of "Wells Cathedral on tlie IGtli of June, 1492. Fox does not appear to have appointed liishop Corni.sh* Sull'ra- gan Bishop for Bath and Wells as he had appointed him Sufi'ragan Bishop for Exeter. WTien a special function is to be exercised by a Bishop, the practice seems to have been for Dr. Xykke as tlie Vicar-General to have given Cornish a special commission to perform it, as the reconciliation and benediction of the polluted parish church of West Pennard on the 24th November, 1492, and the consecration and benediction of the uewly-built parisli church of Long Sutton on the 8tli June, 1493. During the short episcopate of Bishop Fox (two years and a lialf) there were 104 collations and institutions to ecclesiastical offices. The collations where the Bishop was patron wei-e 18; the ecclesiastical and monastic patrons were 48 : the ecclesiastical being 23, and the lay patrons 38. Tlie Bishop during his episcopate of Bath and Wells allowed his Vicar in Sjiirituals to collate to tlie lesser preferments in his gift; these would be filled up by appointing persons who from local circumstances were most fitted in the eyes of tlie Vicar- General. The Bishop himself in person collated to the more important offices ; the recipient of these preferments had to attend Bishop Fox at his episcopal house in London or at his episcopal manor of Dogmersfic.ld, in Hampshire. precedence over tlie Greek Bisliop, according to Tournefort. It is not a Bishopric in partibiiK infidi'lium, but it is a Bishopric Sine Cura, and it is still retained in the Episcopal Lists at Rome. * t'ornish was Master of St. John's Hospital, Wells, and Eeetor of St. Joiin the Baptist, Axbridge, in this diocese at this time. msnor of bath anh wells. 29 On the 12th of June, 1492, Fox, now Bishop of Eatli and Wt'lls, was associated with Lord Daubeny, the Lieutenant of Calais, and John Kendall, Prior of St. John's, to treat again for peace witli France. The peace which Fox and liis colleagues were authorised to contract with France, was, it would appear, not acceded to by Charles VII., and Henry continued his preparations for war. He summoned and met his Parliament, who granted an Act making lawful a benevolence he had olitained. lie sent Cin-istopher Urswicke, and another to urge Maximilian to join him at Calais ; he meanwhile collecting a powerful army in the neighbourhood of London. Fox on the 1st of September was in London, and on the 9th September the King, with his army, left Greenwich for the sea, embarked at Sandwich 6th of October, and the same day landed at Calais, and a fortnight removed from Calais, and after four days' march sat down before and besieged Boulogne. We have an account of what Fox was then doing in his own words in after days. " Truth it is that before the Siege of Boulogne, I and others to a right good number as Ambassadors met and had many treaties and commimications with th' Ambassadors of France, sometyme at Boulogne, sometyme at Calais, sometyme at Sandyngfeld ; and after all my company except Sir John Doon and Sir John Turlier- Aalle were returned into England, they two and I met at Boulogne" eleven tymes with the Lord Cordez, all whicli season endured from about Mychaelmas to it was about Candlemas then next ensuing ; and in the meantime, besides the times of the said meetings I continued always at Calais ; and during that time by the King's ordinance that dead is, whose soul Ood pardon, I meddled with the liavt'ii of Calais, and in my mind broUL;lit it to that conditinn that 30 BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. if llie sluices that I caused to be made hail not lieen dcstrojTd I)y Sir Jolm Turlierville, the Treasurer of Calais, it bad been made a jjood haven, and also in the same time I rode to Hammes and Guisnes and had good cheer with the captains, but fnr tliis dv'l I never meddle in none of the said places."* The siege of Boulogne helped on the peace wbich Bishop Fox and Lord Daubeny were commissioned to contract. Charles on his part sent Ambassadors to propose his terms, and on 1st November the chief Generals and CajJtains of the King's army, either of their own motion or at the suggestion of some leading statesman attached to the Court, at all events with the knowledge that the proposition would not fall upon an unheeding ear, asked the King to accept the King of France's proposals. The fact that Henry's Ambassadors to Maximilian had told him that I\Iaxin)ilian could do nothing, confirmed the King's determination for peace. The result was that on the 3rd November, 1-492, at Etaples a Treaty of Peace was signed by Fox and his colleagues for the joint lives of the Kings, so that the first public act of Bishop Fox, after he became liishop of Bath and Wells, was to effect that famous Treaty with France which is well known in history as the Treaty of Etaples.f By this Treaty Charles VIII. undertook to pay to Henry 745,000 crowns of gold by half-yearly instalments of 2.5,000 crowns each. Stephen Frion, the French Secretary of Henry VII., being dismissed in June, 1490,f was the chief contriver of the Perkin Warbeck plot, and was in Ireland with Perkin in March, 1492. * Ellis' Letters, 2nd Series, vol. 2, p. 7, altered into modern English. t The importance of the Treaty of Etaples is attested by the ratifications of it whieh came in during the year 1196 from the Parliaments and corporate towns of France, and are duly recorded in Kyraer's " Fujdei-a." t Another French secretary was appointed by the King on the 16tli June, 1490. " Cal. Pat. Rolls," Henry VII.', p. 53. BISIIOr OF BATH AXD WELLS. 31 Fi'ion wrote from Ireland letters in Perkin's name to the King of Scotland, who in consequence did not confirm the truce previously made by his Commissioners with the English Commissioner for five years, but only agreed on 18th March, 1492, to a truce till 20th November, 1492. The same day as the Peace of Etaples was signed, when it must have been well known in Scotland that a peace was being arranged between England and France, the truce between England and Scotland was extended to the 30th April, 1494. The Peace of Etaples extinguished the support given by Charles VIII. to Perkin Warbeck, and lasted for tlie life of Henry VII. In fact, on the 6th Decemlier, 1492, Charles VIII. promised, by an instrument made at Amboise, not to assist rebels against the King of England.* Charles kept his promise, and Perkin Warbeck had to remove to his patroness Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV. Slie encom-aged Perkin, gave him a guard of honour, called him the " White Eose of England." The King returned to London to keep Christmas at Westminster, but Fox remained at Calais until he left it for London in Feliruary, 1493, and neither he nor the King could have known to what an extent the conspiracy promoted by Margaret had gone when on the 18th February, William Worsley, LL.D., was collated and personally instituted by Fox at his London house to the Arch- deaconry of Taunton. Worsley may have been then, as he was afterwards, a favourer of Perkin's designs. The Bishop personally collated in Loudon Thomas Barowe to the Provostship of Wells Cathedral on the 31st March, 1493, and doubtless concurred in the measures adopted by the King against Warbeck and his supporters. • Rymer's "Poodcra," vol. xii, p. 508. 32 lilSHOl' OF KATII AXD WELLS. Dogmersfield was a residence of great aiiu'iiily in those days, and, beinu' only about 40 miles from London, was easily accessible to the Bishop for passing tiie Piaster vacation. Easter fell tlii.s year (1493) on the 7th of April, and we find him at Dogmersfield at Easter-tide, largely employed in the affairs of the diocese of Bath and Wells, temporal and spiritual. In mediaeval times, mills were a kind of property of special value because of the monopoly which often belonged to them. The mill of a manor had general exclusive right of gi-inding the corn produced on the manor. Suit to the Lord's mill was an ordinary service of tenants of the manor. At Wells, the gushing and abounding springs in the Bishop's grounds at once create a water power of considerable force, called St. Andrew's Stream ; on this and on other streams were the Bishop's mills, of which there were four in the time of Domesday Book. The tenants of the Bishop's manor of Wells were bound to resort exclusively to these Bishop's mills. Shortly before Easter, 1493, Bishop Fox heard that the Cor- poration of Wells had opened new mills. This was not to be borne ; no doubt the rights of the bi.shopi-ic had been relaxed in Stillington's day.s. Sir Amias Paulet, his steward, and Bicliard Nykke, his Vicar-General, being with him at Dogmersfield, the Bishop put into form his comjilaint against the Corporation of Wells in four articles to be delivered to the Master of the Town, as the Mayor was then called. The Mayor summoned a meeting of the burgesses, and Dean Gunthorpe attended the meeting on the 15th April, 1493, wliich was held in the Chapter House at Wells, and delivered the four articles to the burgesses. The interest of the proceedings between the Bishop and the Corporation of Wells to the biography of Fox lies in the light BISIIOI' OF BATH AND WELLS. 33 thrown mi his character and disposition by his mode of dealing with the city, and we may antii'ipah' the account of what took place after his Easter at Dogmcrsiicld, and ruturu again to liis acts there. The four articles were as follows : — " Articles to be shewed to the Maister of the Towue and his brethren by the comniandement of the Lorde of Batli — Firste, they hold thuiu for the King's Biu-gesses, and not myne; Secondely, they usurpe the makjmg and amovyng of Burgesses, where the authority thereof pertaineth onely unto me ; Thirdely, where my Bayliff by myn auctoryte niakytli a Burgess, he cannot be so accepted amonge the Burgesses, unto he aftersones be made by them ; Fourthly, where by my Customaryes which I have seyno, the Burgesses, by custome of my Manor, should serve uuto my mylles ; the said Burgesses open strange mylles." The Corporation at this meeting in April determined to send an answer to these Articles by John Tyler, one of the Burgesses. At the next meeting of the Corporation, on the 11th of June, Tyler reported that he had gone on horseback to the Bishop at Keuil worth, carrying tlie answer of the Town to the Articles, and a letter to the Bishop from the Corporation of the 22nd April, wliich began in these words : " We recommend us unto your good Lord- sliip in as humble wyse as we can or may suffice, mekely beseeching your said Lordship not to yend hasty credence to any syiiystcr in- formation yeven against your said Cyte ; for unfailingly ye sludl find your saide Citie of as good and faitiiful disposition towards your Lordship after the power as they can think to be," &c. Tyler also produced a letter from the Bishop, wliich was as follows : — " Whereas by your writing sent aiul delivered to me by yo'' 1) 34 BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. coTiiburgeys, this berer, ye desyre me to yeve uo hasty credence againste you, affermynge yo'' disposition unto me as good as ye can think, Neighbours, I have yeven j'ou no cause to thinke I am liglite of credence, for I neyther condemned ne sued nor vexed you upon any mater that I have not firste caused j'ou to be spoke with and herd at lengthe, nor yet at this tjnne am I so disposed to do. How be it ye make me such answere upon my firste article that ye yeve me righte good cause to sue you ; and as for your good disposition towarde me I have yene you no other cause nor shall do want^ yo'' gte defnynge. I know it is my dutye to love and cheryshe you, and so will I do as ferre as I may withoute doynge my Churche and Successors wronge. I thinke also it shall be your wysdome to doe me your good herte, for I tlianke God and the King it lieth in my jiower to do you good and pleaso'', as so suerly I was determined to have done, and namely, in such thinges as some of you have sued in time passed. I praye you, Neighljours, sette aparte all wylfulness and haultesse and be contente to ly^^e imder the righte of the Churche according to your dutye ; And as ye appointe to stryve witli the same, Loke mipon yo"" neighbours how they have spedde in case lyke. Loth would I be that all the lande should make both you and hie to stryve for your Name. How be it, that it toucheth me moche more than it doth you. Seynge that it could not be littel prejudice to me, standynge yo"' Lorde and Lorde of ye Burgh, to suffer you to call yourselfe the Kings Bur- gesses, which claymeth nothing on you more than the dutye of yo' allegiance, nor noughte ye have nor hold of him within that Burgh, nor of non of his predecessors. Exccpte ye will liyde by the grante of King John which I trowe at length ye wuU refuse ; Neighbours, your answers specially upon this article accordeth to no lawe nor reason, nor tliey be not these wherewith ye shoulde desyre me to holde me contented, for they be neither clere, certain, ne reason- BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. oO able. And therefore as ye wull that this matter take an eiide betwixt us aparte by mutual cousidera^on w*oute falliiii,' to tlie sute in the lawe, I pray you seude me as soue as ye goodely may, oone of the best of your comburgeysses and a man learned in the lawe, furnyshed witli sucli evidence as ye have, And or they deporto fro me I truste either partie shall better knowe the right of the other wherewith of reason lie shoidd hold hym contente. As so ye shall be sure I will do when I shall be informed that yo"" ryhte is better than myne ; trustynge to finde semblabledisposytion in you for your partye : and thus fare ye well. At Warrewyck the xxvii Day of April." On reading this answer it appeared, the Corporation say in their minutes,* that plainly the Bishop was not satisfied, and they determined to send the Mayor I'iolianl Vowell, and with him Burgess Richard Burnell, to his lordsliip. On tlie 24tli of -Tunc, anotlier meeting of the Cor]Miration was held; at this meeting the Mayor and Burgess Burnell reported that Ijy the mediation of Sir Eeginald Bray, a very great well-wisher to the city. Bishop Fox received them favourably. He examined their evidences, and assented to their having confirmed to them everj'thing given them in the times of the Venerable Fathers Robert, Eeginald, and Savaric, Bishops of Wells, and of the very noble John, King of England, according to the charters. The Bishop said he would rather increase than diminish their jirivileges. The deputation also reported that the said Veneralile Father the Bishop, of liis magnanimity and noble liberality, sent to War- wick, before their arrival at Kenilworth, venison, the best and fat, in plenty, and paid all their expenses to Warwick for four days for • Tlicsc proceedings arc all copied by the kind permission of Mr. Foster, Town Cleric of Wells, from a MS. Tohnne in his odioe, lettcroil " Acts of tbo Corporation, A.D. 1450-1503," p. 178. D 2 36 BISHOP OF BATH AND WEIXS. eight persons and eight horses, and directed them to be daily commensals in the hospice at Kenihvorth. On their return to their countiy he delivered to them a warrant for two fallow deer,* and a hogshead of the best wine to feast and enjoy themselves with all the Burgesses. After his letter from Warwick to the Corporation of Wells on the 27th April, the Bishop returned to Dogmersfield, and when there, on the 7th May, corrected an irregularity in the form of installation of dignitaries at Wells, by an ordinance (duly con- firmed by the Chapters) reqiiiring the oath of observance of the statutes and customs of the Church of Wells to be always taken by the personage installed. The Bishop staid at Dogmersfield over the 12th of May, when we find him making Ealpli Lepton, already a Canon of Wells, a Canon Residentiary, by granting him canonical houses,t and then he formally appoints Sir Amias Paiilet Steward of the Bishopric for life.t and returns to the King at Kenilworth. The King was at Kenilworth during the whole summer of 1493, uncertain what part of the kingdom might be attacked by the forces of the Duke of Burgundy and the filibusters of Perkin Warbeck, supported by the Dowager Duchess. Henry consequently in July made requisitions for such levies as he thought necessary to meet an attack.§ Shortly after these requisitions were issued, Henry sent Ambas- sadors to the Duke of Burgundy]] to insist on the attempts of * The Bishops of Bath and Wells had the liberty of keeping deer at Claverton Park and Dogmersfield Park. t Ecg. Fox, Bath. & Well. X Keg. Fox, Bath. & Well. § See Letters from Henry VII. from Kenihvorth, 5th July, 1193 (Ellis' Letters, 2nd series, vol. i, p. 168), .and 20tli July, 14'J3 (Gairdner's Riehard III., p. \iV>). II The Conmiission to Sir Kdward Poynings, Deput}' of Calais, and Wni. Warhani, to treat with the Duke of Burgundy, is dated IStli July, 1493 (Pat. 8, lien. VU.). BISnOr OF BATH AND WELLS. 37 Warbeck not lieiiig encouraged within the territory of the Duke. The Ambassadors were Sir Edward Poynings, Deputy of Calais, and ^^"illianl W'arham (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), Doctor of Decrees, who, as orator of the embassy, required that Perkin Warbeck slioukl be expelled from the Duke's dominions. The answer returned to this embassy by the Council of the Duke, that he declined to interfere with the dower domains of the Duchess Dowager, where Perkin was then entertained, comjielled King Henry to stop all commercial intercourse with Flanders by Proclamation dated 18th September, 1493. Bishop Fox was probably with the Kiug during July and August. In July the Bishop, to encourage Lord Daubeny, who would be certainly high in command in case of hostilities, granted to him the offices of Keeper of the Park of Westbury and Steward of the Manor of Dogmersfield for life ; and on the 10th August, Fox, being at Lichfield, collated Thomas Colston, his nephew, to the Prebend of Compton Dundon in Wells Cathedral. It was ob^^ously a time of great anxiety ; the most vigorous measures being required to be carried out with a high hand against Flanders and Scotland. John Sherwood, tlie Bishop of Durham, had died at Pome on the 12th January, 1493, and tlie Cardinal of Sienna (afterwards Pope Pius III.) wrote the next day to Pope Alexander VI. beseech- ing him riot to settle or decide about the See of Durham until acquainted with the wish of the King of England, " for that bishopric is of the greatest importance to his Majesty's State."* The Pope waited the expression of the King's will for about a twelvemonth ;t the King meanwliile exercised all the powers of • R. P., Vcnoliiin Papers, p. 217. Wrongly daled 121 li Jaminrv, 119-1. t From a letter reeouimemliiif; John de (Jiglis for Uisliop of Worcester by Cardinal of rcrugia. Letters, Rich. III. and lieu. Yll., R. P., vol. i, p. 103. 38 BISHOP OF BATH .VXD WELLS. the Princu Bishop of Durham, as usual, during tlie vacfuicy of a See. Tlie truce with Scotland extended to April, 1494, but this did not prevent an arranged raid l)y Scottish border chiefs* in favour of Perkin Warbeck shortly before November, 1493, and Fox must, Irom the confidence placed in him by King Henry, who relied upon his knowledge of the Scotti.sh Court, have been cojitiuually con- sulted upon the subject of Scotland. Henry and Fox were upon such terms that the Bishop would gladly reward the King's Ambassador to Flanders, William War- ham, on his return, and accordingly on the 2nd November, 1493, he appointed Warham, mcritis suis cjflorcntihvs, to the Precentor- ship of Wells Cathedral ; nor was his selection in the same montli of tlie dignified and liberal Richard Beere to be Abbot of the great liouse of Glastonbuiy, a less judicious exercise of patronage. Ever mindful of character, choosing those who promised best for the Church, and never forgetting those who had served or were serving him well, the Bishop did not cease to bestow his cathedral ])atronage on men who afterwards justified his selection. Dr. Sylke, his Vicar-General at Exeter, gets a Prebend at Wells ; John de Giglis (afterwards Bisliop of Worcester) gets another Prebend ; and the Vicar-General, Richard Nykke, is appointed Ai-clideacon of Wells on tlie resignation of William Nykke. In September, 1494, the Bishop is with the King at his pleasant Lodge of Woodstock, which, from the sport the park and the neighbouring forest of Whychwood afforded him, was a favourite autumn resort with Henry ; whilst there. Fox is found encouraging the principle of the parochial tithe being the proper provision for the jiarish minister by granting to Dr. Cornisli, as Vicar of Chewe, and his successors a beneficial and long lease of the tithes of the * See TvUer's Hist, of Seollniul, vol. iv, p. 322. BISHOP OF HATH AND WELLS. 39 Bisliop's lanils tlicre. In Augiist, 1494, tlie Bishop was selected as arbitratiii' in a dispute between the Chaiiter of Wells and tlie Priory of Moutacute,* respecting a mill uewly built by the Cliapter within their manor of North Curry, on the Eiver Tone, which, like other manor mills, would be of great profit to the Chapter ; but before he coidd make his award he was made Bishop of I)urh;nii. His attention was, however, called to this mill some years later, as we shall see. The King must have made up his mind to procure for Fox the Bishopric of Durham by the 22ud May, 1497, for he is so described in a commission to him and others of that date to treat for peace with Scotland.! It is true that in the same commission Henry, the icing's second son, is described as Duke of York, although not actually created Duke till 31st October, but the date is probably correct, and Fox is called the Bishop of Durham in the Herald's account of the Duke's creation.^ The actual appointment to Dur- ham is said in the title of Fox's Durham Eegister to be by Papal Authority. The Bull of Translation is dated 7th December, and the writ for the restitution of the temporalities to Fox as Bishop is_dated the 8th December, 1494.§ * Reynolds' Wells Statutes, Appendix M. t Rot. Scot., A.D. 1194. I Leland's Coll., 2nd edition, vol. i, p. 388. § The Inst Act under Fox's authority as Bishop of Bath and Wells, is dated 3rd December, 1494. 40 BISHOP OF DURHAM. Tuv. IJishopric of Duiluini was a very different See from those of Exeter and Bath and Wells. It comprised the counties of Durham and Nortliumherland, and its Prelate was the temporal head of the County Palatine of Durham. The bishopric was moved to Durham in 975. The annual income of the Bishop was, in the King's Books, A.D. 15o4, £2, with the great changes in the nave. The internal roof of the choir is of wood, framed to imitate stone. In point of fact, this roof was probably completed and decorated by Fox before the end of 1502. Among the coats of arms which are to be found on tlie bosses • The monks of tlie Priory were fouml to be 3r>, ami tlieir aniuml i-cvoniu' to be £1 ,000. Milncr'a History of Wincliestcr. G8 BISHOP OF WIXCIIESTER. of this internal roof are not only those of Bisliop Fox and Henry VII., Init also a coat of the IJoyal Arms of England, with a label of three points ; and anotlier coat having in the first and and fourth grand quarters, tlie arms of Castile and Leon quartered, and in the second and third grand quarters, those of Arragon and Sicily impaled. Those two coats are the arms of Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Katharine of Ai-ragon, respectively. We are indebted to Dr. Kitchin, the Dean of Winchester, for the suggestion that Bishop Fox would not have inserted these two coats of arms, unless the roof was in substance completed before the death of Prince Arthur in 1502. Nor is this all ; not only was the roof of the choir decorated by the end of Fox's first year at Winchester, but tlie preparation for the support of this roof was executed by him. Tliis sujiport is liy flying buttresses. These flying buttresses, which the jointing of the masonry proves. Professor Willis saj's,* to have been suIj- sequent insertions into the walls of the clerestory, have tbe pehcau of Fox carved on them. The insertion of these buttresses is explicable if we recollect that these clerestory walls have been attributed with great propriety by the Professor to Bishop Edington. To what extent the whole stone-work of the east end of the choir was done continuously after the completion of the roof it is difficult to say, but it is probable that the gable and east window were not finished until after Fox had built the side aisles and their stone roofs of liern work. On St. Paul's Day, 1502-3, at Eichmond, the espousals for the marriage, so long promoted by Bishop Fox, of tlie King of Scotland with Henry's eldest daughter, the Princess Margaret, were entered * Arch. Hist., Wincli. Callicdral. Proceedings Arch. Hist., Winchester, 1846. BISHOP OF WINCIIESTEU. G9 into. Fox was present They were published at Paul's Cross, and Te Deum was solemnly sung. Elizabeth of York, to the great grief of the nation, died in giving birth to a daughter in the Tower of London on the lltli February, 1503, just after the espousals of her daugliter Margaret. The King and Queen of Spain continued very urgent for the contract of marriage of Henry, now Prince of Wales, and Katha- rine, and a treaty for the marriage was entered into at Richmond on the 23rd of June, 1503. Ferdinand asserting as a fact " that although they were wedded, the marriage lietween his daughter Katharine and Arthur, Prince of Wales, was formal only."* The Princess JMargaret was not to be sent to Scotland in pursuance of the treaty of marriage until 1st Sejitember, 1503. On the 25tli June, 1503, gallantly attended, she set out for the North, the King bringing his daughter on the way as far as Colly- weston, the seat of his mother, and then consigning her to the attendance of the Earl of Northumberland. The Earl, with a great troop of lords and ladies of honour, brought her into Scot- land, and she was actually married to the King at Edinburgh on 8th August, 1503, to the great joy of both nations. " This 3farriar/c had been," says Lord Bacon, " in Treatie by the space of almost three years, from the time that the King of Scotland did first open his mind to Bishop Fox."t In January, 1504, the King summoned a Parliament. It was in this Parliament that Sir Thomas j\Iore, then a youth of 2-4, opposed the amount of the aids which Henry asked the Commons to give for making his eldest son a knight and for marrj'ing his eldest daughter. Instead of these indefinite demands, the Commons • R.P., fipnnish, vol. i, p. 300. t Uncoil, HiMi. VII. Ed. 1621, p. 208. Il was iu treaty iiioro than seven years. Sup , pp. 42-44. 70 BI«1I0P OF WINCHESTER. offered a subsidy of £40,000. Tlie Kiug accepted only £30,000, but was angry with young More for his opposition. Eoper, More's son-iu-law, in his " Life of More," written in 1547, says Bishop Fox offered to give More advice wliat to do to restore himself to the King's favour, but tliat instead of going to tlie Bisliop, ]\Iore consulted liichard Whytford, thi' Bishop's Chaplain, who jiraycd him in no wise to take counsel with the Bishop, " for my Lord, my master," quoth Whytford, " to serve the King's turn will not stick to agree to his own Father's deatli." Eoper adds, " So Sir Tliomas IMore returned to the Bishop no more, and had not the King soon after died, he was determined to have gone over the sea, thinking that being in the King's indignation, he could not live in England witliout great danger." This violent and disloyal speech of Whytford, if uttered, is of a piece with the wild language he used on other occasions, but so far from More retiring from pulilic notice and practice in his profession, he in October, 1504, is walking up and down Westminster Hall as usual; in 1505 was so successful in practice as to be able to marry well ; and in j\lay, 1506, Erasmus writes to Whytford of More, as so iufhieutial a person, that as a patron he left nothing to be desired, lioper does not say that More told him this story, and during the five remaining years of the King's reign, we find no trace of More suffering from any withdrawal of royal favour. It is not unlikely that Fox did take an opportunity to soften the King's displeasure against More. This year, 1504,* Bishop Fox and Archbishop Warham were named by Julius IL in a renewed Commission granted to inquire into the claims to canonization of Henry VL Innocent Vlll. had issued, at the request of Henry VIL, a reference to certain Cardinals and a Commission to Arclibishop Morton and Bishop * MSS., Colt. Cleopatra, Ed. III. lUSIIOr OF WINCHESTER. 71 Fox directing tliein to go to Windsor where Henry VI. was buried, and inquire iuLo liis character and the miracles done by him. In 1494,* this Commission was repeated to Archbishop Morton and Bishop Fox by Alexander VI. At tlie same time, and upon the request of the Kiug, a Commission was issued by Pope Alexander to the same prelates to inquire into tlie character and miracles of St. Anselm, formerly Archbishop of Canterljury. The favourable return to this Commission led to the canonisation of St. Anselm ; the expenses of which were paid by the King.f As to Henry VI., the Commission of "I'ope JuHus was not returned in Henry VII. 's lifetime.t and llie matter, as Bacon puts it, died under the reference, for Bishop Fox knew as well as Pope Julius the distance tliat should be kept between Innocents and Saints. In 1504, Dr. Fi.sher was made Bishop of Rochester. There is a letter extant from the King§ to Lady Margaret his motlier informing her that he is well minded to promote Master Fisher, her confessor, to a Bishoj)ric, but without her pleasure known, the King wrote, " I will not move him, nor tempt him therein." In after years, Bishop Fisher, in his dedication of a book to Bislu)!) Fox,|l states tliat Fox was the chief author of his being raised to tlie episcopate. In May, 1.504, Bishoji Fox's attention was again directed to the new mill on the I'iver Tone, in Somerset (see supra, p. 39). After tlie Bisliop's translation to Durham, a Eoyal writ in Jlareh, 1495, suggested to the Prior of ]\Ioutacute to continue the reference to Bishop Fox as arbitrator, notwithstanding his trans- lation to Durham. But Fox seems to iiave declined the office. • Wilkins' Concilia, vol. iii, A.u. 149-t. t Dean Hook's Life of Abp. Morton. Tbe fees were 1,500 ducats. X llarl. MSsi., 1,213, No. 31. § Ex. Reg. Coll. Joh. Puhlislica bv Hakcr, 1708. |l Dedic. to Qicolampadiiis, 1525. 72 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. The question was referred to other arljitrators in ]\Iay, 149G; the decision was made, the mill and mill-weir were built, and tlic mill, being the lord's mill for the manor of North Curry (more than 11,000 acres) belonging to the Chapter of Wells, with the usual exclusive right of grinding all corn grown Ln the manor, was a source of considerable income to them. The mill-weir, however profitable to the Chapter, was a source of great evil to the copyhold tenants of Bishop Fox's manor of Taunton Dean adjoining the river, as it produced great floods, inundating their cornfields and pastures. Not only the copy- holders of the Bishop's own manor complained to him, but also the tenants of the Prior of Montacute ; and the men of Tauuton protested against the erection, as being an obstruction to the navi- gation of the King's navigable river between Taunton and Bridgwater. Bishop Fox was not the man to neglect these complaints, and sent down IMaster William Frost, the Steward of his Bishopric of Winchester, and Edmund Myll to inquire into them, and in May, 1504, the Dean of Wells and Bishop Cornish and anotlier member of the Chapter were appointed to meet the counsel of Bishop Fox, and endeavour to arrange the matter. Nothing was settled, and in November the Chapter wrote to Bishop Fox, and sent their letter to him in London by the Dean, W. Cousyn, who reports to the Chapter : " In noe wyso I can not have his Lordshij) at no conclusion, but tluit he will have doune the Bay of Stone made by the Prior." In 1505, proceedings go on, and the Dean, on 3rd April, 1506, is again sent to see the Bishop ; the report is illustrative of Fox's character. " So it is, that upon Monday, tlie last day of Aprile, the Deane and I spoke with my Lord of Wynchester. The cause why we spoke with him no sooner was for his being at his Maner of Esher, mSllOr OF WINCIIEST-EK. 73 where he gave orders oa I'assion Sundny Eve. WHien we had moved hym in siiche maters as we came for, we found him some- what rough, saying he was divers times misinformed by us ; and that the King on tlie one part suffered wrong bj' reason of the stopping of his Common Stream, and also that the tenants were grievously hurt by the reason of our miU : witli as soft manner and word as we could, (we) pacified liis mind for the time. The morn after we were with him again, and tlien he shewed us liow it was reason for him as well to give credence to his counsel as to us, and that he would speak with them in the cause. Neverthe- less he gives us gentle and kind words like a nobleman, but as yet we have not our final answer ; ye wolde wonder what causes he hath to do and tlierefore we must aliyde his leisure."' The Cliapter tried to turn the lUshop through the intervention of his niece, Mrs. Myll, and witli this intent wrote to him on 19th January, 1507, but it seems the inexorable writ for abating the stone weir was coming to the Sheriff of Somerset, founded upon a Commission which sat at Taunton, and the Chapter \n-ite to Richard Philips, Under-Sheriff of Somerset, a letter " given at Wells at "Whitsunday in haste, a.p. 1507, that they have obeyed the "Writ to remo\'e the building made in the water of Tone, and beg him to come and iu-spect the place." Eeynolds, Wells, App. M., p. 210. Later in the year, on 19th August, 1504, Bishop Fox was placed at the head of a Commission to examine claims upon tlie King for loans or prests. Such loans or prests iiad been usually made to the King ujjon the security of expected grants to liiui in I'arliament. It is probable that some had been made upon the credit of the aids or subsidy to be granted by the Parliament of January. Henry was accustomeil to pay these loans with great punctuality at tlie lime appointed, Imt Dudley, the Speaker of that 74 mSllOP OF Wl.NCllKSTKE. riirliaraent had probably cauLiouud him against relying upon grants of Parliament for the future. Certain it is that the King sunnnoned his faithful Commons no more. Bishop Fox had found, Erasmus says* difficulty enough with the clergy in getting subsidies from them, and had also put the celebrated dilemma to them, "that those who lived poorly must needs have money, because they laid up ; and those who were spenders must needs have, because it was seen in their port, and manner of living."t The Bishop seems to have undertaken this year the super- intendence of building works connected with almshouses at Westminster, called the King's Almshouses.t It were super- fluous to enquire what in particular these were. Henry VII. " built and endowed many religious foundations," says Lord Bacon, " besides his memorable Hospital of the Savoy. And yet he was "a great Alms-giver in secret; which showed that his Works in " public were dedicated rather to God's Glory than his own."§ In February, 1505, Henry, Prince of Wales, attained the age of fourteen. Warham advised in June 1505, a protestation by the Prince against the contract of marriage with Katharine of the 23rd June, 1503, which had been sanctioned by the Bull of the Pope of 7th January, 1504. Bishop Fo.\ was selected by the King to be the perison before whom the protestation was to lie taken. It was made before the Bishop sitting "judicially, instead of a tribunal." The effect of it was, as Bishop Fox stated upon his examination on the subject in 1527, that the Prince should not be bound to the contract made in his infancy by acquiescence after puberty, and that he might according to his free will * In his Book of Ecclesiastes or tlio Preacher. t Tliia is credited by Bacon to Morton, and called Morton's Fork. Bacon, Ucn. VII. Ed. 1621, p. 101. t Excerpta Ilistorieii, Hen. VII., Expenses, Nov. 29lli, 1501. § BiK-on, Ucn, VII. Ed. lO-'l, p. 233. BISlIOr OF WIN-CIlESTEl!. 75 select auy woman lie wished for a wife. The protestation was witnessed by I/ord Danbeny, Sir Charles Somerset, the King's Secretary Dr. West, and Sir Henry Marney, all Priv^^ Councillors, at Durham Place where the Princess resided, and in her presence.* Fox, as Bisiiop of Winchester, maintained the discipline of the Church. On his return to Eslier, on the Gth July following the protestation, he gave special directions to his archdeacons to visit personally all the churelies in their respective archdeaconries, and to insist upon the residence of all parochial clergy ;t and he had not long before issued an inhibition that no excommunicated person was to be allowed to receive the EucharistJ He upheld the severity of excommunication; we have seen liow he used tlie penalty of tliis sanction against the lawless men of Tynedale and Redesdale; and a few years later he treated the churcliyard of St. Margaret, in Southwark, as so polluted by the burial in it of an excommunicate, as to require the oliice of reconciliation before it could be restored to its uscs.§ Tlie Piisliop, as Prelate of the ( »rdcr of tlie (iarter, of course attended at the installation of Philip, Duke of liurgundy and King of Castile, at Windsor, on the 9th February, 150G, wlicn Philip had been storm-staid at Weymouth. King Henry appears to have taken the opportunity of asking King Pliiliii for a renewal l>y him as King of the Intercursus Magnus, Fox's Treaty of 149G with him as Duke ; to this renewal Philip agi-eed. After tlie installation, and in the Chapel of St. George, Archbishop Warliam, as Lord Chancellor, and Fox, as Lord Privy Seal, presented to King Henry the draft of the Treaty of Amity and I'eace, with divers new Articles, and there, sitting in their stalls, each King signed • R. P., Spanish Documents, vol. i, p. 359. t Kc-g. Fox, Winton. 2'"' fo. 97, b. 98. X III. 81. § Id. 3* 55. 76 BISHOP 01" WINCUESTEIi. with his owu haud the -writings, and swore to observe the same. The Treaty was dated 9t]i February, 1506. During the visit of King I'hilip and his Queen, a marriage was uegociated between Henry YII. and Philip's sister, the Arch- duchess Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Savoy, and the details of the treaty were left to ambassado)-s on either side, of whom Bishop Fox was one on Henry's part. The ambassadors concluded a treaty of marriage on 20th ]\Iarch, 1506, but the lady declined the i^roposals although renewed again and again. It was in the subsequent negociations that Wolsey, who had been introduced to Henry VII. by Bishop Fox, was first employed by the King. Fox, in 1506, held a visitation of Magdalen College at Oxford, and spent the autumn at Esher, in the chapel of which manor on 17th September, 1506, he again celebrated general Orders. The Bishop's attention was now directed to the state of the nunneries and monasteries in his diocese. It was his especial care to look after the discipline of the conventual houses of nuns. Tlie House of Eomsey seems to have been exposed to some danger by the conduct of a ]\fr. Folton, which the Bishop by his Vicar- General, in January, 1507, sharply rebuked. Folton was not to approach, or send or direct letters to be sent to, any nun of Eomsey under jjain of excommunication ; the Vicar of Eomsey was implicated in the matter, and he was warned that he was to have no communication with the Abbess or with any of the nuns of Eomsey.* This same month, Fox sent his Vicar-General to visit the Abbey of Hyde, and at this visitation by Dr. John Dowman,t the Prior with sLx senior monks was summoned to the Chapter House to hear serious charges. These were, as to the permitted * The proceedings were partly taken in St. George's Inn at Ronisej, and partly in the Chnpler House of the Abbej. Reg. Fox, II., 41 b. t Liber Moiiasterii de Ilyda. Inter., p. Ixii. R. P., 1866. BISirOr OF WIXCIIESTEK. 77 access of women into the precincts of the monastery ; the alleged freqiientation of taverns in the city and suburbs by some members of the community ; the insufficient instruction of tlie younger monks in religious duties ; and, finally, as to an unseemly dis- cussion which had arisen respecting the next presentation to the church of "Worthy. Then twenty-five junior monks were summoned in their turn, and duly admonished. This done, the Vicar-General conferred with the Ablwt liimsclf and tlie seniors as to reformatory measures. The seniors admitted laxity as to egress ; alleged their ignorance of all foundation for the more serious charges ; spoke of the difficulty of enforcing a strict and literal observance of some points of their Benedictine rule ; but promised %agilance and increased exertion for the future.* During Easter, 1507, the King had a violent attack of quinsey, but quite recovered his health, and enjoyed his hunting in tlie summer.t Bishop Fox, although he did not become Chancellor of Cam- bridge University a second time, yet interested himself in the prosperity of Pembroke Hall there, and sent the £50 before mentioned (suj^ra, p. 37t) to the Hall by Eoger Layborn and Ealph Leptou.;]: Laylwrn became Bishop of Carlisle, and, in Novemlier, 1505, Master of Pembroke Hall, and on his death, in August, 1507, the scholars of the Hall elected Bishop Fox Master, and wrote to him a letter wliicli they sent by their brethren, Thomas Patterson, S.T.B., and Thomas Hostebe, M.A., begging his accept- ance of the office, by which acceptance he would perform an act in their opinion as pleasing to God and pleasant to mortals as if he • Reg. Fox, Winton, II, 42. t R. P., Spanish, vol. i, p. 437. J Vet. Reg. Aul. Pemb., p. 9-17. Examined by the kind assistance of the Master, Dr. Searle, 8th March, 1888. 78 BISHOP OF WIXCIIESTEIi. were to found a new college. They beg their brethren to plead for them, and say that sixteen of the scholars are priests and will pray for him. At the time of his election as Ma.ster of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, he was engaged in revising the statutes of Ballinl College, Oxford. This college had already elected him Visitor. These statutes were revised under a Commission from Pope Julius II. to Bishop Fox or the Bishop of Carlisle, Eoger Layborn, to revise them. Layborn's decease not only made the JIastership of Pembroke Hall vacant, but threw the burden of this revisal upon Bishop Fox. He accomplished his task in an admiralile manner, which has made his statutes for Balliol models for other collegiate institutions.* The Treaty of Windsor (February, 1506) was called " Intcr- cursus Malus" by the Flemings, because the privilege of free fishing upon the coasts and seas of England granted by Fox's treaty of 1496 was not confirmed to them by the Windsor Treaty. In October, 1507, Bishop Fox, the Earl of Surrey, Lord Trea.surer, Thomas Docwra, Prior of Ehodes in England, and Doctor West, went to Calais to have a conference M'itli the legates of Flanders on the subject of commerce. Tliis was an important embassy, and the King, before it was sent, spent some days at Winchester.! In December, 1507, Bishop Fox returned to Dover, and we are told by Andrei that he was ill, but in the same month he was engaged in negociating the marriage of Princess Mary \\itli Charles, the Prince of Castile, afterwards Charles V. The treaty for this mari'iage went on until the actual contract was signed * Tlieir merits are particularly enlarged upon by Mr. Maxwell Lyte in tlie first Tolume of his Hist. Univ., Oxford, p. 41.'). t Puebla's letter .5fli Oct., 1507. R. P., Spiuiisli, vol. i, -l;!;. nisnor of wixchester. 79 by Bishop Fox and tlie other commissioners at Calais in 1508. Bishop Fox, in August, ITiOS, was attacked hj- tlic sweating sickness. It broke dut in England with the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. It was said to have first appeared in 1485 in Henry VII. 's army, upon his landing at Jlilford Haven, but there is no mention of it until the disease attacked London on 21st September, after the army's arrival there. It was peculiar to England, appeared many times, and always in summer; in 1506, now in 1508, afterwards in 1517, when Fox was again attacked, and then it was so violent that it killed in the space of three hours; once in 1520, again in 1528 and proved fatal in the space of six hours. It was here in Edward VI.'s reign in 1551, when it was stated to be a judgment for the Eeformatiou. It seems to have been a form of the plague brought from the Levant, and modified liy the moist English climate. It is said to have affected Englishmen, even when it broke out in France, more than the inhabitants. Erasmus, who lost his friend Ammonius by it, does not hesitate to attribute it to the practices of uncleanUness in the English dining halls, where rushes were spread which were seldom renewed ; and to the want of ventilation in other sitting rooms ; practices which, after his experience of Dutch scrupulosity and cleanliness, must have appeared particularly repulsive to him.* In July 1509, A. Badoer, the Venetian Ambassador writes to the Council, "The Bishop of Winchester is the warm friend of Venice ;" and we find that Bishop Fox was always in favour of that line of foreign policy which supported the Venetian • Little is known about it more tlian is told by Froind, Jortin, and Hume. Freind's Hist, of Physic; Jortin's Life of Erasmus; Hume's Hist., vol. iv, p. 20; Quarterly RcTiew, .Tan., 1887. 80 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. Republic and maintained the alliance of England with the Council of Ten. Henry VII. never joined or encouraged the League of Cambray, formed against the Venetian.? by the King of France and the Emperor Maximilian, and signed at Cambray on the 10th December, 1508,* by the Archduchess JIargaret. It was intended to divide between the contracting parties and the Pope, when he should concur, all the terra firma of the Venetians, and to give to all an interest in the destruction of the only state sufficiently strong to maintain the independence of Italy, and to be, as Henry VIII. called Venice, " a bulwark against the Turk."t In the beginning of 1509| Fox was again obliged to issue injunctions as to the conduct of monks on a visitation of the Priory of St. Denys, Southampton. In order to the true worship of God it was enjoined that the nocturnal and daily offices, the celebration of masses, the ceremonies and hours according to rules in choir and convent, be duly observed ; that since ignorance is the mother of error, the rule of public reading and exposition be diligently kept ; that no meetings with women be permitted in the church, and none liut honest women admitted within the convent; that the brothers go about two by two, and never frequent taverns, nor go to Portswood or Southampton to dine, except by leave, lest by secular conversation their quiet be disturbed, and they be tempted to worldly thoughts and desires ; that when at home they exercise themselves in reading ; that • This treaty was only the completion of a secret Treaty of Blois of the 22nd Sept., 1504. t R. P-, Venetian, Vol. ii, p. I In the early part of 1509, says Anthony Wood, there was a book dedicated to Fox, entitled " De casu Animce," written by Aubrey Mantuan, a student of tlie University of Paris, whose Epistle Dedicatory being dated at Paris on the Kalends of January, 1509, hath several matters therein in commendation of the Venerable Prelate, all of which, for brevity sake, Wood says, " I pass by." BISIinP OF WINCHKSTEI!. 81 doors be shut at proper times and safely kept ; that no drinking be allowed in the refectory ; that the brethren wear tlie dress of their order (Black Canons of St. Augustine) and no other ; that they make no discussions in the House ; that accounts of the convent be rendered openly before all, at least once a year. These injunctions were contained in twenty-four articles, and were issued on loth February, 1509.* And now the reign of the founder of the Tudor dynasty was drawing to a close, and Fox alone was left of those three coun- cillors who brought him in first, and then guided him on, — Morton, Fo.x, and Bray. Henry VI I., only twenty-eight years of age when he fought at Bosworth, had had singularly little opportunity of acquiring habits of business, and must at first liave been very dependent upon tlie advice and assistance of his ministers. " In his greatest business," says Bacon, " King Henry imparted himself to none except Morton and Fox." Morton was sixty-five when the King began to reign, so Fox was much nearer in point of age to Henry, and more the personal friend of the King tlian Morton. Morton died in 1500, and from that time Henry seems in the higher branches of state affairs to have con- fided in no one but Fox. Henry VII. signed his last wiU at Canterbury lOtli ^\]iril, 1509, and then issued a proclamation of general pardon for all offences down to that day. He died at Richmond on tlie 21st of the same month. The young King remained at tlic Tower till after the funeral of his father. Margaret, Countess of Richmond, signs at the head the directions for, the obsequies. Tiiese directions were drawn up liy Fox, and are in his iiand- writing. • Davies, Hist, of Soutbamploii. p. 441, quoting from lli'g. Fox, Win'oii II, 119. 82 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. Henry VII. was buried on tlie lOtli of May at Westminster " in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and the sepulchre."* Nor was the monument of his tomb unbecoming, for in bis buildings he was magnificent, and although Sir Eeginald Bray has the credit of being his guide and counsellor in this matter, yet Fox, who was of excellent skill in architecture, and so much with the King, would be also consulted and employed by him. Fox, from his own first accession of power and fortune, encouraged, like his Sovereign, architectural display. We cannot but think that Eopesley Church affords an early instance of the taste as well as the pious gratitude of Bishop Fox ; for the south porch was built in the year 1486 ; and in February, 1486-87, he was made Lord Privy Seal. The porch is panelled and pinnacled with a carved statue on the central pinnacle, and inside the porch over the door leading into the church is the following inscription : — A° Dni Mo cccc° lxxxvi" ista pokta fa fuit. On the stone work above the outer entrance to the porch is another inscription — " Hag non cede via, nisi dicas, Ave Mafja." Fox no doubt long before 1499, by his contributions encouraged building in his Dioceses, and at Oxford and Cambridge, but his first personal interference seems to have been at Durham, where his sense of proportion, one of the greatest excellencies of good architecture, produced the work which Sir Thomas Darcy admired,t and the best taste of our times approves. It was at Winchester, again, that be, as Bishop, during his beloved King's life, constantly exerted his architectural skill. * Hacon, Hen. VII. Ed. 1621, p. 147. t Supra, p. 52. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 83 The next work to tlie roof of tlie choir of the cathedral there wliich Fox inily at Soutliampton or Ports- mouth and engrossed in the work of a Diplomatist and Minister at War. It was at the time tliat he was engaged in performing the duties of War Minister that Bishop Fox commenced the founda- tion of what eventually became Corpus Christi College at Oxford. He appears, after coming to the See of Winchester, to have been in the habit of giving exhibitions or allowances to poor scholars at the University of Oxford, placing them under the tuition of Kesident Members of Baliol, New and Magdalen personage to whom Wolscy was sent. This obligation to bear the brand of heresy was removed in Braban's case on the 8th July, 1513. Reg. Fox, Wiiiton III., G9. * Reg. Fox, Winton III., 73. FOUNDS CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. 05 Colleges, and under the general charge of his early friend, John Claymold, President of Magdalen. Fox was apparently credited by the Scholars of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge (siijira, p. 78), witli the intentio7i in 1507 of founding a new College. The founding of Brasennose in 1509 by Bishop Smith of Lincoln, with the help of Sir Richard Sutton, mu.st have quickened Fox's zeal in this direction. The successor of William of Wykeham and William of Waynflete must have been kept wakeful, by the colleges. New and Magdalen, the trophies of their Victories of Peace, until he had become a Founder. He was at first desirous of founding a college which sliuuld be partly after the pattern of Gloucester Hall, Durham College, and Canterbury College, respectively founded at Oxford for student monks of the monasteries of Gloucester, Durham, and Canter- bury ; and partly after the pattern of the later foundations of Wykeham, Waynflete, and Smith. His first plan was a college for a warden, eight novices from his own Cathedral Priory of St. Swithin's at Winchester, and secular scholars. The selieme was more in accordance with the age than making the college a nursing place for monks exclusively. He began to build his college on certain parcels of land at Oxford, near Merton College, before Aiigust, 1512. It was not without disturbance that the work was begun, and the source of trouble was the jealousy of Bi.shop Smith's rival college of Brasen Nose Hall. In August, 1512, an undergraduate of that foundation was committed to prison for an assault on a workman of Bishop Fox ; and Fonuby, the principal of Brasen Nose, was found in a recognizance, some time after, to keep the peace towards William Vertue and William Est (Freema.sons) 96 FOUNDS CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. and Humphrey Coke (Carpenter), Masters of the Worlvs of tlie Bishop of Winchester's new college near Merlon. In I\Iarch, 1.51.3, he obtained letters patent for carrying out his first plan, antl authority to give to Winchester Priory 100/. a-year for the purpose. But the scheme of making any pro^asion for student monks was not the temper of his fellow minister, Wolsey, who, as soon as he was elected Bishop of Lincoln, to encourage secular founda- tions, conveyed lands to John Claymond, as an additional endow- ment to Magdalen College.* AVolsey was Bishop of Lincoln for six months only. He told Fox that during that .short period he had some knowledge of iniquities among the clergy, like those which Fox discovered when he confined himself to his episcopal duties ; and the idea of Fox making his college in any way a foundation for student monks must have been distasteful to Wolsey. Bishop Oldham agreed to be a benefactor, conditionally on leaving out the provision for monks, saying as reported by Holius- hed.t " Monks, whose end and fall we ourselves may live to see. No, no, my Lord, it is more meet a great deal that we should have care to provide for the increase of learning, and for such as, by their learning, shall do good to the Church and Common- wealth ;" and he supported his opinions by a gift of 6,000 marks (in our money 24,000/.) towards the buildings of the house. Fox had probably no other architect than the freemasons, the masters of his works. The designs were very likely his own, the details and working plans being left to them. The quadrangle contains the chapel, hall, and librarj' ; it remains externally in its original state, except that, according to Aylifie.t it was not • 15th Feb., 1514. t Holinshed, Hen. YIII. Sub. Ann, 1518. : Ayliffe, 1714. FOUNDS CORPUS CIIRISTI COLLEGE. 97 adorned witli battlements and pinnacles until the time of James I. The hall is iifty feet in len^tli by twenty-five in breadth.* The lilirary lias books presented by the founder, Bishop Oldham, and by John Claymond. In his charter, dated at Wolvesey, 1st March, 1516, Fox dedi- cated his college to the honour of God Almighty, the Most Holy Body of Christ, and also of St. Peter and St. I'aul, St. Andrew, St. Cuthbert, and St. Switliin, tlie patron saints of liis four bishoprics, Exeter, Wells, Durham, and Winchester. He appointed John Claymond, with whom he had been intimately acquainted thirty years. President, and names various scholars and fellows. lie took (26th November, 1516), conditionally on the surrender of tlie letters patent of 1513, a licence from the Crown to found a perpetual college for the learning of the sciences of Divinity, Philosophy, and Good Arts, for one president and thirty scholars, graduate or non-graduate, more or less, according to the faculties of the place ; and that he might endow the college with £350 (in our money £4,200) yearly. The chapel was completed and divine service began to be solemnized there on the 20th January, 1517. By his statutes Fox appointed lecturers to lecture in hall or in some i)ublic place iniblicly ; one for Humanity, one for Greek, the third for Divinity, and named tlie Latin and Greek authors who were to be the subject of the public lectures ; providing also for private lectures on any Greek and Latin authors to such members of the household of the college as wish to liear them. " voluntary fireside-lectures " as tliey have been called. Fox was of large views as to the persons who were to be tlie • The Hall was used in 1518 or 1519. When Wolsey founded liis lectures at Oxford, Erasnms read certain lectures in the imblic refectory of Corpus Christi College. Wood, I, 198. H 98 FOUNDS CORPUS CHUISTI COLLEGE. lecturers as well as to those to whom they were to be delivered : not only were the lectures to be public for the benefit of nny nieniliers of the University, but he also with a singular i'aith in the comity of Universities, provided that if no person in his college was competent to lecture, or if competent, yet if a stranger be found much more learned in the judgment of the electors, he is to be proposed to the oflice, provided only he is born in England, Greece, or Italy beyond the Po.* The details of the statutes are familiar to students of college history at Oxford ; they are elaborate and specific. The encourage- ment of the New Learning, the study of Greek, was the portion of them which attracted most attention at the time of their being promulgated, and is now the chief object of general interest. Those whom we have found associated with Bishop Fox, Dean Selling, Dean Gunthorpe, and Bishop Fisher, were not only striving to introduce the study, but had studied it themselves — Selling and Gunthorpe in Italy. The provision for the new learning made by Fox won the praise of Erasmus and the imitation of Wolsey. Those who loved Fox, those who lived with him, assisted in the work ; not only did Oldham give his six thousand marks, but William Frost, Steward of the Diocese of Winchester, gave an estate at Maple Durwell for the endowment of the college, subject to the life interest of himself and his wife. Anthony Wood says that I'ox proceeded with the buildings which he had begun, the which had the foundation at first been equal to his second thoughts, would have been larger, but being begun, it could not well be altered, which in all probability was the reason why he enlarged the buildings afterwards by adding the cloister-chambers. There is in the library of the college * Does this mean norlli or soulli of tlie Po ? FOUNDS CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. 99 a manuscript containing some of the expenses of tlie Iniilding ; and it appears from Hearne's examination of it that the whole expense there stated was £(397 17.<. Sd. (with 12 as a multiplier £8,400), but this could liardly have been the whole expense even of the quadrangle. And now Fox began to slacken in his attendance upon the King, and to leave affairs to Wolsey alone. Dr. Brewer's remarks are instructive : " Fox was always anxious to get away. He felt it inconsistent with his duties as a Bishop to be immersed in Politics, and he laments it to Wolsey. It must also be remembered that Fox belonged to that old order of things, when monastic seclusion, to men of his devout turn, and total retirement from secular employments, seemed the only Life that deserved the name of Eeligious. Great was the fascination exercised by Henry VII. and Henry VIII. over the minds of such men, till traces of compunction came, when the total alienation of thouglit and action from their duties as spiritual men liccanie au intolerable burden. So far from driving Fox from the Court, it is the utmost that Wolsey can do to bring him there ; and when he succeeds, it is evidently more out of compassion for Wolsey's incredible labours than his own inclinations." Down to Holy Cross Day, 1514, Fox was constantly working with Wolsey ; the two were regarded by the Pope and all foreign courts as the real ministers of England. The next day (15th Sep- tember) the Pope signed the Bull for the translation of Wolsey from Lincoln to York, vacant by the death of Cardinal Bainbridge. In April, 1515, the King's Latin Secretary and the Pope still treat Wolsey and Fox as the Ministers of Henry, and the Pope gave Fox power to recall the Legatine authority in Scotland of the Archbishop of St. Andrews. The Pope in May liopes the King II 2 100 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. ■will join the Italian League against Francis I., ami urges Wolsey and Fox to help his Holiness in persuading the King to do so. Fox writes from Esher ou 'lOih July to Wolsey in his vigorous style ahout the unruly doings of tlic canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, in not obeying the letters of leave to elect, and begs Wolsey to issue a commission to order the election, putting out " the three young fools " wlio sue for voices in it, though they be not in sacris. On September 7th Wolsey is made Cardinal ; in October and November Fox is still linked with Wolsey by everybody,* but the end of this state of things was coming. Archbishop Warham resigued the Great Seal, and Wolsey received it on 22nd December, 1515, in a chamber of Westminster Palace ; Fox was not present ; besides a clerk, no one was there but the King, Wolsey, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, whom Henry treated like a brother. The King went to Eltham, and was there till the 5th January, 1516, when Fox was in London, for that day the Venetian Ambas- sador writes that he had seen Fox, Bishop of Winchester, " A Lord of extreme authority and goodness. "t The exact time when Fox resigned the Privy Seal does not appear ; as he speaks in his letter of the 23rd April about having the lloyal licence to be occupied in his Cure, it is probable that he had in January, wliile the Court was at Eltham, expressed to the King his desire to resign the ofiice, which he had held for thirty years. He must have been fully occupied down to the 1st March with the charter to his college of that date ; and on this 23rd April wrote to the Cardinal Chancellor the letter we have re- ferred to : — • * On tUe IStli Nov., 1515, Fox and the Arelibishop of Canterbury, with no cro^ia before them, followed Wolsey in his inaugural Cardinal's procession, preceded by his croBS. t R P. 7 Hen. VIII., No. 1306, vol. ii, p. 378. RESIONS THE PRIVY SEAL. lOt " Has heard from William Piirdn that "Wolsey had asked for him caud M\aiits to know when he will bo at Court. Had he not good impediment and the King's licence to be occupied in his Cure, to make satisfaction for 28 j'ears' negligence, he would be very blameable and unkind, considering Wolsey's goodness to him in times past. Had never greater will to serve the King's father than tlie King himself, especially since Wolsey's great charge, ' perceiving better, straighter, and speedier ways of justice, and more diligence and labour for the King's right, duties and profits to be in you, than ever I see in times past in any other, and tliat I myself had more ease in attendance upon you in the said matters than ever I had before.' Thinks W^olsey would not have him serve the world to the damnation of his soul and other souls committed to him ; his absence is not to hunt or hawk, nor for quietness of his mind, which is troubled night and day with other men's iniquities more than he dare write, of which Wolsey told liim lie had some knowledge when he was Bishop of Lincoln. Considers that Wolsey has as much labour of body, and business of mind, as ever any man had, and with less help. If the Swiss and the Emperor speed well, sees no great occasion for disquiet. ' And I require you, and heartily pray you, lay apart all such business from 6 of the clock in the evening forward ; which if ye will use it, shall after your intolerable labours greatly refresh you, And, good my Lord, when the term is done, keep the Council will) the King's grace wheresoever he be.' Winchester, 2 ord April, To my Lord Cardinal of York."* On the 18th May the King being at Greenwich, the Privy Seal was given to Eouthal, Bishop of Durham. The withdrawal of Fox from the Court is well known in London in June, " My lord • Tliis is acconling to Dr. Brewer's Abstract, which wo shall g.nerall^ adopt, R.r. Ilcn. VIII., vol. ii, p. 1, No. 18U. 102 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. of Winchester comes not here, writes Lord Shrewsbury's steward to his lord* The Treaty of Noyon (13th August, 1516) between France and Charles V., who had succeeded his father Ferdinand, opened the prospect of general peace ; stiU Maximilian's Germans carried on a merciless raid in tlie Veronese March. The position of affairs seems to have brought up Fox to Court again, and on the IStli of November the Venetian Ambassador writes that Winchester, who has hitherto held aloof, has returned to Court and graciously received the Ambassador, and explained that the Treaty of London, which was to confirm the Noyon Treaty, was defensive only, and that neither Henry nor the Catholic King wanted to engage in war ;t Maximilian acceded to the Treaty of Noyon in December ; and Venice recovered the possessions she had lost by the effects of tlie League of Cambray. On the 10th of February, 1517, the Venetian Ambassador writes, as to the capture of Verona, " that lie believes the Court is very much vexed, except the Bishop of Winchester, wlio has always been opposed to the Emperor."t In January, 1517, Bishoi) Fox published, for the benefit of the nuns and novices in his diocese, a translation into English of the Piule of St. Benedict, now so very rare a black-letter book that we think the work and character of Bishop Fox well illustrated by reprinting the preface. " Forasmuch as every person oughte to knowe the thyng that he is bounde to kepe or accomplish, and ignorance of the thynge that he is bound to do cannot nor may not excuse Mm, and for so muche also as the reding of the thynge that a person is bounde to * 8th June, 151G, No. 2018. t 18th November, 1616, No. 2559. I No. 2896. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 103 do and execute except he understande it is to the executing thereof no thyng vahiable but only thyng futile, travail in vayue and time lost, AVe therefore, Kicharde by the permission and sufferance of our Lord God, Bisshope of AVinchester, revolving in our mind that eertaine devoute and religious women being within our Diocese and under our pastoi-al charge and care, have not only professed them to the observance of the Rule of the Holy Cofessoure Seinte Benet, but also be bounde to rede lerne and understande the same when they be novices and before they be professed. And also after their profession they should not onely in them selfe kepe observe execute and practise the sayde rule but also teche other their sisters the same, and so moche that for the same intent they daily rede and cause to be rede some pte of the sayd rule by one of the sayd sisters amonges the selfe as well in their Chapiter Howse after the redlge of the Martyrologe as some tyme in their Fraitur in tyme of refectos and collacios, at the which reding is always don i the latin toge whereof they have no knowledge nor understandinge but be utterly ignorant of the same whereby they do not only lose their tyme but also renne into the evident danger and perill of the perdicion of their soules. We the sayd Bischope knowing and considering the premisses and rememberyug tliat we may not without like peryll of onr sowle suffer the sayd religious wemen of whose sowles we have tlie cure to continue in their sayde blindnesse and ignorance of the sayd Hule to the knowledge and observance whereof they be professed and specially to thentent tliat the yonge Novices may first knowe and understande the sayde Eule before they professe tliem to it, so that none of them shall nowe afterward probably say that she wyste not what she professed, as we knowe by experience that some of them have sayd in tyme passed. For tliese causes at thinstant requeste of our ryght dure and welbeloved daughters iu 104 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. oure Lorde Jim, The Abbasses of the Monasteries of Uunisay \^^larwel Seynt ^Maries within the Citie of Winchester and the Prioresses of AVintnay, our right religious diocesans, we liave translated the sayde rule unto our luoders tonge, comune playue rounde Euglishe easy and redy to be understaude by the sayde devoute religiouse women. And by cause we wo\ilde not that there should be any lacke amongis them of the bokis of tliis sayd translation we have therefore above and beyoude certayne bokes thereof which we have yeven to the sayde Monasteris caused it to be emprinted by our welbeloved Eichard Pyuson of London printer the XXII day of the monethe of January the yere of oure Lorde MCCCCCXVI and the XVIII yeare of the Eeyne of our SoverajTie lorde Kynge Henry the VIII. and of our translation the XVI." On the 28th of June, 1517, the statutes of his college were read, and then approved of by Bishop Fox, in the Church or Chapel of St. Cross, in the presence of clerical and laical people. Fox did not encourage the new learning only by his founding the lectures in Greek to his college. " Lately," writes Sir Thomas More from Loudon to Erasmus on 15th December, 1517, " in a large concourse of people, the Bishop of Winchester affirmed that your version of the New Testament was worth more to him than ten commentaries." This was the New Testament published for the first time in Greek with a new Latin translation. It was re- ceived with unprecedented enthusiasm. Men struggled earnestly to procure it and read it eagerly ; it was in every hand and beloved.* In May, 1517, Bishop Fox, and with him Sir Thomas More, William Paulet, and William Frost, are put into the Commission for Hampshire for inquiring into the arable land converted into 2)asture since the Act 4 Henry VII. contrary to the statute of that * Erasm., Ep. 557. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 105 date ; and the number of parks then enclosed and tlie land added to parks, and other violations of the Act. More had just published his " Utopia," and in it be liad said, " Noblemen and Gentlemen and certain Abbots, Holy men of God forsooth, leave no ground for tillage. All their lands they convert into pasture. They raze the farm houses to the ground ; they depopulate whole villages ; notliing is left but the Church, and that is often turned into a sheep house ; and if you had not lost ground enough by your forests, woods, and parks, these good and holy men turn all dwelling places, yea, all arable lands, iiito desolation and a wilderness." In July Fox was in London, and the Treaty of London between the Emperor, the King of England, and the Prince of Castile, for the defence of the Church, which we have mentioned as being discussed in November, 1516, was confirmed. Fox on the 6th of July, 1517, settled the draft of it, and appended to the draft an important Latin note. By the 31st July he was at his diocese fifty miles off.* Cardinal Adrian de Castello, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, liad in 1514 been removed from the ollicc of Pope's Collector in England at the King's instance, instigated by Wolsey, who had been promised the See. Castello was at Venice, and the Venetian Ambassador had sent his son to Fox with letters from the Council of Ten in favour of Castello.f The Ambassador writes that his son liad returned from the Bishop of Winchester; his audience was delayed because this Prelate likewise (as well as Wolsey)t had taken the " sweat." He had a generous welcome by Fox, who represented the matter of • ."list July, 1513, No. 3544. t GUi August, 1517, Xo. 3558. t W'olscj hail tnkcn it for the fourth lime. Ammouius had died of it in eight hour?. 106 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. Castello's disgrace as desperate, saying " We have to deal with the Cardinal who is not only Cardinal but King, and no one in tlic Realm dare attempt auglit in opposition to his interests." Fox had written in February from St. Cross to Wolsey, thanking him for expediting the King's letter for the free election of the Abbess of Holy Cross, Wlierwell, and, as the sisters had made a choice pleasant to God and true to the King, begs his favour of the bearer sent to obtain tlie Royal assent.* Fox also tells Wolsey of the rumour of an army and na.vj in Normandy, " Will advertise him of further information. If war be intended against England, the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth are too feel^le for defence, our manner is never to prepare for the war to (till) our enemies be right at our doors." In June, 1518, King Henry went to Southampton to see the Venetian galleys, and then left Southampton for the Bishop of Winchester's palacef at Winchester, where he visited Fox for some days. In October.l Bi.shop Fox writes to Wolsey, and thanks him for licence for non-attendance on the King this summer, " wherein your Grace did no less for me than if ye had delivered me of an inevitable danger of my life. No Englishman is gladder than he of this alliance with France. It is the best deed that ever was done in England, and, next to the King, the praise of it is due to Wolsey." The Commission as to enclosure of arable land seems to have produced a finding upon inquisition against Bishop Fox himself, that he had made enclosures of arable land contrary to the statute. With respect to this charge in the same letter, " In conformity * 19tli Feb., 1518, No. 3752. t No. 42.32. ; 30th October, 1518, No. 4540. BISHOr OF WINCHESTER. 107 with Wolsey's desire that the Bishop shoukl, upon his honour, certify him by letters, in a case then before him in the Chancery, of his right touching such enclosures," Fox states " that before Micl\aelmas last he caused inquiries to he made by his Stewards and others, and they have certified that the Inquisitions found against the enclosures were untrue, and th2P. No, 3334 122 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. officials surrounding his episcopal tlirone which belonged to so great a Prelate. Harpsfii-ld's account of Fox's household is " Numrrosnm et amplissimam familiam dwcntorum ridelicct ct vigeidi hoininum aluit." It is difficult t" know exactly what this means, it may merely mean the Episcopal open table, but in the valuation for the subsidy tlie entry is : " Household servants to the Lord Bishop of Wincliester, thirty-four names, £4 8s. lOfZ."* In April, 1527, Hemy VIII. had Bishop Fox examined on interrogatories to procure evidence in favour of the divorce from the Queen ; anything more repulsive to Fox cannot be conceived. Ou the Bishop's declining to subscribe his deposition on account of his blindness, and none of his Councillors being allowed to be present. Dr. Wolman said he was instructed to sign it, if necessary, in the Bishop's name. Whereuijou out of deference to the King's command. Fox signed it.t It is to this period and not to 1528 that Fox's undated letter of 7th April to Henry VIII. must be ascribed. He says he has executed the King's commands to the best of his ability, memory, and conscience, according to his Grace's letter and credence sent by Dr. Wolman. Begs the King to continue his good Lord, and have consideration for his great age, blindness, and lack of memory. 'Winchester, 7th April.J On the 17th November, 1527, Fox writes to Wolsey from Marwell :§ " Hears from his Chancellor that Wolsey is displeased with him (the ChanceUor),|| in con- sequence of sinister information, and because he has laid claim to a 2>arish church and prebend that Mr. Uowman had, and that WoLsey has ordered him not to depart witliout special licence. • 1524. No. 969 (5),R.P. t April, 1527, No. 4049. + 7th April, 1527. In R.P. dated 1528. § 17tli November, 1527, No. 3583. II The Chancellor was John Incent. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 123 Asks Wolsey to hear together tlie Chancellor nnd those "who gave tlie iiiiormation, and doubts not that he will lind he has acted uiniglitly. He has sufficient learning and experience for his charge, and is wise, discreet, and circumspect in giving judgments, with good will, diligence, and boldness. Does not think there are two men in the shire who will complain of him. Doubts not that he can show Wolsey his title to the said benefices, and that he will be ordered according to Wolsey 's pleasure. Wants his Chan- cellor daily, and especially for the kee])ing of his consistories, of which the ne.\t will be on the Saturday after the Feast of St. Andrew, and for a Visitation in the New College of St. Mary beside Winchester.* Asks that he may return, and, if Wolsey wishes, he can appear before him in Hilary Term. Harwell, 17th Novembei'." Wolsey not complying with the Bishop's request he wrote again from Marwell on the 1st December, 1527.t " Hears from his Cliancellor that Wolsey has not complied with request in his letter sent by j\Ir. I'aulet. Asks Wolsey to allow him to return, as the clerical subsidy must be assessed before Christmas, and he, from the last three years' practice, can do more in fifteen days than any other in a month. " Thanks God that his wit and body serve liim as they did as when he was last with Wolsey, but lie trusts he does not think he will ride about the country this winter season for the subsidy. His Chancellor has had to do not only with the subsidies, but also with the prests which the King has had of the clergy. They have always been assessed before Christmas, soon after levied, and paid before all others. His Chancellor can return to Wolsey to answer any complaint, but Fox hopes Wolsey will find him what he said in his last letter." • He had risited this CoUegp in 1526. t 1st December, 1527, No. 3623. 124 BISHOP OF ■WINCHESTER. This letter Wolsey complied with, ami Fox writes on 18th January, 1528,* to Wolsey from Wiachester. " Thanks him for being gracious to his Chancellor, as he is informed by Master I'aulet. As to the misdemeanours of which the Bishop himself and his Chancellor are accused, in matters concerning his jurisdiction, it is true that the religious women in his diocese are forbitlden to leave their monasteries, '' and yet so much liberty appeareth sometime too much." Had lie the same authority as Wolsey, he would endeavour to " mure and enclose" their monasteries according to the ordinance of the law ; otherwise there will be no surety for their observance of good religion. For the rest, they are as favourably dealt with as any religious women in the realm. The religious men have been put to less cost in my daj's than others be. Never took procurations of them for all his visitations, by the space of twenty-six years, and has shown many of them great kindness. Has not been severe on the secular clerks except for fornication and adultery. Never deprived any one in any of his dioceses. Except at Southwark, wliich is under the Archdeacon's jurisdiction, there is as little known crime as within any diocese in the realm." Yet Bishop Fox was most kind to the nunneries in his diocese. There is a MS. Pontifical Service Book in English in the University Library at Cambridge, with a La.tin inscription, This Book belongs to the Monastery of Nuns of St. Mary in the City of Winchester, from the gift of the Eeverend Father in Christ, the Lord Eichard Fox, Bishop of the same city and a principal bene- factor to the monastery.f On the 13th February, 1528, the Bishop, under a power reserved to him liy the College Statutes of 1517, made the final * 18th January, 1528, No. 3816. + Maskell, Mon. Rit. iii, 331, 2 Ed. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 125 alterations in them. The New Statute.s are signed by hira and by a notary public in the presence of Mr. John Incent, Doctor of Laws, and "our Chancellor," Oliver Coren, S.T.P., and "our Confessor,"* Mr. Roger Stokesley, M.A., and Treasurer of our Chamber," and ]\Ir. Gilbert Burton, Bachelor of Decrees, " our Secretary.'' In the same month, two days after, the Bishop executed his last will. The will commences with a solemn and touching introduc- tion, and then provides for his burial. If he should die in his Palace of Wolvesey or in the Hospital of Saint Cross befoi-e noon, his body was to be buried that afternoon in the chapel which he had ordained for tliat purpose in the Church of St. Swithin ; if he should die in the said Palace or Hospital in the afternoon, then his body (if possible) was to be borne to the choir of that Church and there depo.sited till the next day, and tlien buried in the chapel ; if he died elsewhere his body was to be taken to St. Swithin's, and in no case to remain unburied more than two days. He next deals with that most anxious subject for a great prelate : dilapidations. He says he believes he had sufficiently repaired, and left in good condition all his churches, castles, manors, and other houses, and the places pertaining to them, but if it should happen that Wolsey should succeed him in his See, the Cardinal should have five hundred marks in money and the hangings and vessels of silver, some gilt and some plain, which are mentii)ned in his inventory, and which he values at live hundred marks, and the vessels and liousehold furniture specified in the inventory, of which some for tlie use of his house remain in the hands of the officers of his cellar, of his watermen, of the * Oliver Coren was M.A. and a Fellow of Peiubroke Hall before ISlt. Vet. Reg. Pcmb., 9, 3. 12G BISHOP 01' WIXCIIESTER. officers of his pantry, of the clerks of his kitchen as appears by the indenture made between these officers and Roger Stokesley, the Treasurer of his Chamber, on condition that the Cardinal as successor gives the executors a release against all claims, but if any other person should be his successor he was to have the hangings and silvLT plate and nothing else, and these und(.'r the same conditions of giving a full release to his executors, and he most solemnly and sacredly beseeches his successor, whoever he may be, to be satisfied with these legacies, the testator being con- vinced tliat he has suffered no dilapidation or noticeable ruin in the edifices belonging to his See. The Bishop then leaves to the Most Illustrious, Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, his hangings containing nine pieces, called " Le Hercules," and a gold salt-cellar witli tlie cover ; hangings and salt-cellar both specified in the inventory. To the Most Noble, William Sandys, Lord of Sandys, the King's Chamberlain, his hangings containing ten pieces, called " Le Vineyards," and a bed with its apparatus, as specified in the inventory. To his very beloved William Paulett, Knight, his hangings of four pieces, in English called " Le Grissell," with two pieces of St. John, and a bed with its apparatus, as expressed in tlie inventory. He gives twenty pounds to each of his executors, confirms the gifts in his inventory, directs all his goods not disposed of by this liis will or his inventory to be sold by his executors, and the produce within a year after his death to be distributed by his executors among such persons as in his lifetime having been his tenants in any of the demesnes of his Bishopric of Winchester, within the county of Southampton, or Bailiwick of Downton in the county of Wilts, sliould in the discretion of his executors BT8II0P OF WINCHESTER. 127 at tlie time of tlie distribution be deemed the most poor and in want. He appoints Sir William Faulet, Mr. John Claymond, Presi- dent of Corpus Christi College ; Mr. John Incent, the Custos of the Hospital of St. Cross, his Chancellor ; Masters William Disney and Lionel Norris, Esquires, and Mr. Eoger Stokesley, Treasurer of his Chamber, Executors. He appoints overseers of his will the said Lord Manjuis of Exeter and the said Lord of Sandys, beseeching them for the mutual love which for a long time had between them and him, to assist the executors of his will as long as they inviolably observe it in each particular. The will is attested by Oliver Coren, S.T.P., his confessor, Nicholas Harpsfeild, Doctor of Decrees, his Commissary, Master Gilbert Burton, Bachelor of Decrees, his secretary, and Dominm .lohn Lambert, Chaplain, and John Eufford, Gentleman, specially called for the jmrpose. The will is signed and sealed by the Bishop before a Public Notary at his Manor of Marwell.* He had been working at the repairs of his episcopal buildings for some time, and on the 25th April, 1528, he writes to the Lord Treasurer requesting him to make his excuse to the King for payment of a prest of 100 marks to be delivered by As.'^umption Day. Has been at great charge in repairing his ruinous houses in Southwark, and keeping (in repair) of the church of Hyde these two years past and more. • The will was not proTpd, but is kc)it at Corpus Christi College. We are indebted to the President, Dr. Fowler, for hia unbounded kindness in giving neces.s and guidance to all the treasures in his eareful eustodv relating to the Founiler of his House ; tlie Portraits, the Plate, and the nianuseripts ; and in supplying much prized information which his zeal has acquired, and his good judgment as nil Antiquarian has enabled him to properly apjireeiate. 128 Jil.SilUl' OF WINCHESTER. On the same day Lord Sandys writes Wolsey " hears from the Bisliop of Winchester that contrary to Wolsey's promise that he should only furnish ten men, the King's letter commands him to furnish fifty. If all the other letters are similarly increased, he has sent out more than necessary."* Wolsey's power was waning when Lord Sandys, on Bisliop Fox's behalf, could write to the Cardinal in this style. Fox's Inventory is not at the College. Besides the references to it in the Will, there are other notices of its contents.! Among the debts due from Cardinal Wolsey at his departure from Cawood Castle are entered, " To Sir Liouell Norays, for goods bequeathed to him by the Bishoi^ of Winchester in recompense for his service and withheld by the Cardinal, £40," and " To William Disuey for money and goods bequeathed by the BishoiJ of Winchester for thirty years' service, whereof he was in possession and dispossessed by the Cardinal, £200."| The value of the personal estate in the Inventory would not appear to be very great, for Stephen Gardiner, who succeeded Wolsey in the See of Winchester, in a letter to Cromwell in 15.32, says: "Remember that I receive £1300 less from the Bishopric than Bishop Fox did, and owe twice as much as he was worth when he died, if his Inventory be true." The Bishop's legacies not only showed his regard but his judg- ment and good taste in the distribution of them to the legatees. His very beloved William Paulet, nephew to Sir Amias Paulet his Steward at Wells, he had known probably since his stay in 1493 at * R.P., vol. iv, part II, No. 4109. t Some of tlie Plate coiulitionally given by it to Wolsey is iiulicated by three ])ieces among his Plate at Cawood with Pelicans on the covers. K.P. iv, 3, p. 30-tl-. J Disney was Treasurer of the Household to Wolsey at Wolsey's death, and ijrobably had been retained in the service of Wolsey at Winche6tpr from the service of Bisliop Fox. HISIHU" OK WIXCIIESTER. 129 Dogmersfield. This seal of the IJisluip of ]'>atli and "\\\lls was near Basintj, a manor wliich Sir William I'aiilet, following his uncle Sir Amias' o.Namjilo at Hiiiton St. George, enlarceil into the Great I'lace of Basing House, eminently fit to be beautified by the costly hangings bequeathed to him by the Bishop. On the other side of Basing Lord Sandys had converted his ancestral Manor House of the Vyne into the stately mansion which still remains to show how worthy a receptacle it was to the appro]niate tajiestry of " the Vineyards." Henry Courtenay, now made Marquis of Exeter, who " in the camp of the Cloth of Gold," as Gibbon tells us in his chajiter on the House of Courtenay, " brfike a lance against the French Monarch," had a " fair mansion " in the Cit}-, near the river, forfeited by the splendid Duke of Buckingham, the chambers of which were doubtless adorned by such hangings as " the Hercules," and the banqueting room of which would exhibit gli.stening plate only surpassed by the gold saltcellar and cover of Bishop Fox. The I'.ishop thus to the last encouraged in his friends not only Henry the Seventh's habit of building fine hou.^^ but also of ornamenting them with costly tapestry,* brightening their walls with hangings of a brilliant colour, freely displayed by the oriels and windows, made safe by the lloyal policy of Peace. Before detailing his last work of benevolence, we may notice some of Fox's good acts which have not been mentioned before. In 1524, he, in conjunction with Lord Sandys, founded anew the Guild and Fiee Cha])el of the Holy Ghost near Basingstoke, and added a scho(jl, and a priest to officiate in the chapel and teach in the school.f • Three entries of purclia»os of arras hy Hcnr.v VII. luako up JE12000 of our money. Parkcr'« Poincstic Anbitpcture, vol. ii., p. 33. t Woodward's History of Uampshire, III., 226. Charter dntcd NoTcmber 16, 1521. History of llic Vyne, p. 11. K 130 BISHOP OF ■WINCIIKSTKI;. Since Warton's time, the transept roof of Netley Abbey Church, the rebuikliug of which is, on his authority, attributed by Dr. Ingram to Fox, has fallen down. A pelican carved on a stone in a neighbouring Museum is all that remains to testify wliat Netley owed to the architectural taste of the Bishop.* The altar screen at St. Mary Overy, Southwark, must have been erected by Fox. The upper frieze of it is entirely covered with Pelicans vulning themselves, and Holy Lambs. It was probably finished after the completion of the Great Screen at Winchester, and is much on the same plan, although of course on a smaller scale.t Fox, if attending the Court, Convocation, or I'arlianient,! would use Winchester House, his Southwark Palace, close to St. Mary's. Farnhara Castle was apparently not often occupied as a residence by the Bishop, § but traces of his work are pointed out in the present kitchen, on the left-hand side of the present entrance hall ; it was not possible for him to live in the Castle without adding something to its stately fitness. The historians of Surrey say that from the initials of his name and other memorials being yet traceable among the ruins of the Keep, it is surmised that this division of the fortress was proljably restored or reliuilt during Bishop Fox's residence here.|| Fox's last work of pious foundation is the Free Grammar School at Grantham. Wood says : " He had intended to build it at Eopesley, in a little grove joining to the house where he was * Sup., p. 119 (n). Woodward Hist., vol. ii., p. 3'ii. f See an article in G-entleman's Mag. for 183 1, p. 151. J Bishop Fisher said that Fox, in his last years, desired not to mix himself with the bnsiness of either Parliament or ConTocation. R.P., viii., 335. § Henry VIII. was at Farnham Castle in July and August, 1516 ; in November, 1517, he received tlie French Ambassador there. II Brayley and Brittou's Hist, of Surrey, vol. v., p. 2'i9. FOUNDS GRANTHAM SCHOOL. 131 born, but the place being but a village, and therefore unfrequented, he altered his mind and built it at Grantham, which was then a place of commerce and trading."* In selecting Grantham for the place of liis Free Grammar School, he was probably not unmindful of the fact that the first ecclesiastical preferment he held was the Prebend of South Grantham, in the Church of Salisbury. This Preliendary was the patron of the A-icarage of South Grantham, in the Clmrch of Grantham, which was a se]iarate vicarage from that of North Grantham in the same Church till 1714. He first built a school and master's house in Grantham on the north side of the churchyard — a spacious and handsome stone school house and a good stone house and offices for the master.t The difference between the style of Fox's schools at Taunton and Grantham is considerable. Taunton, the earlier building, is lighted by large windows to the south and east of a size and character corresponding with halls of Somersetshire manor houses of the period. Grantham, the later building, has smaller windows on both sides. The design for the Taunton School was proliably submitted to Fox before his sight was affected : the details of the Grantham buildings must have been left to his local Master of the Works. Tn these school houses Fox's power of judicious adapta- tion is as visible as in his College at Oxford and Sanctuary at Winchester. It is only on his sacred edifices that he lavishes that outward ornamentation, those " forms of more curious and extpii- site building," which Speed says " Henry MI. and Bishop Fox first • Wood. Hist. Coll. Oxon., vol. iv., p. .387, cd. 1786. t An engraving of the srliool is given in Turner's Hist, of Grnntl>am ; it hno, on the west gnble, a Pelican in stone. Turnor gives llie dimensions seventj-five feet bv thirty. \Vc have been kindly assisted by the ])rejent master, W. J. IloUings, Esq!, M.A. K 2 132 PISIIOP OK WINCHESTER. (as is reported) learned in France and thence brought with tliom into England."* It is cliaracteristic of Fox that his total blindness so little affected his usel'ulness or activity. It did prevent his conferring Orders and his performing Divine Service as Prelate at the Chapters of the Garter. AVlien attending there on the new Statutes being made.t Henry VIII. treated him with all honour. He alone sat at the Iloyal table. The young King's confidence in Bishop Fox continued after he had become blind. " The Bishop of Winchester," writes the Venetian Eesident in June, 1523,| " who has much influence with the King,§ but is blind, has advised him to make truce with France, and to recal two Captains sent by Wolsey against France for the sake of keeping them at a distance from the Court. The Bishop says that money is expended fruit- lessly, and it seems that the Cardinal is no longer in such great favour with the King as formerly." Xotwithstanding his blind- ness. Fox continued his literary labours. In March, 1524, a Pro- cessional after the Salisbury use was printed at Antwerp and published in London, " novitcr ac rursus castigatuvi j)cr excellent issi- mum et reverendissimum in Christo patrcm domiimm nostrum dominum Ejoiscopum de Wi/nton." It was probably between his translation of the Eule of St. Benet, in 1516|| and 1524, that he gave the translation of the Consecration Service to the Nunnery of St. Maryh, Winchester.!! The Bishop, still desirous that the mem- bers of nunneries in his diocese should know their religious obliga- * Speed Hi9t., p. 970, ed. 1672. t SiijK, p. 109. X ''Hi?* CJ race went to dyrierin Ilall, and there kept his T\o\al Estate, non sitting at his board but only tlie Lord Ric. I'ox, Bisliojjp of Winchester and Prelate of the Order." Anstis' Order of the Garter. § R.P. Venetian, 1520 — 1526, p. 320. The Italian is "qua! e mol/o ajjpresso il Be." il ffup.,'p loi. t *';> , I' 121. nisiiop OF wixcuESTEi;. 1.''.3 tions and wliat lliey professed on tlieir consecration, seems to have caused this transhition of the Order for Consecration of Nuns into their mother tongue, to he made for the nuns of St. JIary's. This appears from the insertion of the name of lliis nunnery in the form of Profession. Even when he was the King's Secretary in tlie autumn of 1486, Fox showed great interest in ritual literature. There is in the British Museum* a beautiful manuscript with illuminated borders in gold and colours by John de Ciiglis, afterwards liishop of Worcester, being a copy made by him, at Secretary Fox's request, of a treatise on the proper mode of observing Lent. Bishop Fisher's dedication'of " the CEcolampadius " in 1525 to Foxt shows that he then had the same interest in the literary works of others as when Linacre presents to him his translation of Galen dc Sanitate tuendd, in 1517, and writes begging the Bishop, " whose house was the constant resort of the learned," to secure from them a favouralile opinion of the ljook.| Nor did Fox's blindness prevent his exercising his episcopal jurisdiction. In June, 1528, we find him attending to his judicial functions as Bishop. Dr. lucent, his Chancellor, brought before him at !Marwell from St. Cross one Cockes,the Curate of Kingston- on-Thames, who claimed an article taken in distress by tlie Doctor's bailiff. The Bishop asked for Cockes' dispensation, which he could not produce : " Ye should have had it with you," said the Bishop. " Jly Lord," said Cockes, " I owe your Lordsliip no such obedience, my obedience is unto my Lord Cardinal immediately, and though I be in your diocese, I am not of your diocese." lucent accused Cockes of stealing the article; Fox heeded not the appeal to • Harl. MS3., vol. i., p. 203, No. 2.30. t Svp., p. 71 (n). I I.ifc of LiiiatTP, p. 213, App. 317 ; " doctorum, quo' in conliihernio habes." 134 BISnOP OF WIXCHESTER. Wolsey's Legatine power, but sent Cockes between two tall persons to his own pi'ison at Wolvesey for custody.* The Bishop would, as long as his dear friend John Claymond was blaster, from 1505 to 1524, use St, Cross as his own house; and Incent, his Chancellor, when appointed Master by him on John Claymond's resignation, would encourage the Bishop's habit of using the Master's quiet Lodge as a "cell" to the palace of Wolvesey. The endowment of the Grantham School was not completed until the 2nd October, 1528, when the Bishop granted to the Corporation of Grantham lands in Lincolnshire and in Wells; some of the Lincolusliire lauds having been only conveyed to William Disney and others in trust for the Bishop on the 20th August previously. The endowment was made as a provision " for the schoolmaster for the time being and actually teaching grammar in the school-house which he had builded in the said town of Grantham, and dwelling, inliabiting, and household keeping in and upon the mansion-place nigh adjoining unto the school-house which the said Bishop had likewise builded."t Harpsfieldl saj's that in his last years Bishop Fox confined himself to the work of his diocese, and there most carefully per- formed all the duties of his episcopal office. § He repaired the losses of his long absence by nourishing the famished souls by himself and his clerical assistants, and by sacred preaching; the * R.P., xi., p. 127. Cockes tells the story. f Disney is deseribed as of Norton Disney, Co. Lincoln. J Ecel. Hist., 15 Cent., Douai 1622. He \yrote this history in prison, where, lifter twenty-four years confinement, he died, 1583. He was probably nephew of Kieholas HarpsfeiUl, the Bishop's Commissary. § The last occasion on which the Bishop conferred Orders in person was on the 22nd December, 1520 ; from that time, he becoming bhnd in 1522, the Ordinations were performed in the Diocese of Winchester, by William, Bishop " Daricnsis," instead and by the authority of Bishop Fox, down to the 19th September, 1528. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. 135 poorer sort of people he supplied with sustenance, all necessaries of life, food, clothes, and money. Losing his sight, he applied himself night and day to prayers and sacred meditations. He provided that two chantry priests should commend his soul an^l the souls of all departing in the faith of Christ by prayers to God. " At length," adds the Chronicler, " this pious man changed his frail and mortal life for a heavenly and immortal one, at which time I, yet a boy, remember that I was present at his obsequies and funeral, being then sent by my parents from London to "Winchester, there to imbibe the first elements of letters." The Bi-shop was buried under his chantry on the 5th October, 1528, the day of his decease, in accordance with the directions of his will* Caidinal "Wolsey on tlie Gth October, the day after, wrote to the King from Durham Place : " I have news of the death of the Bishop of Winchester (Fox), and as in your communications M'ith me you have expressed your desire for 'drawing my promotions near unto your Grace,' I thought it convenient to put you in mind of the great commodity now offered ' for establishing my things after such sort ' as I might do you greater service."! On tlie 20th October there is a grant to Wolsey of the custody of tlie See and Temporalities of Winchester void by the death of Eichard the last Bishop during such voidance. But the Cardinal did not get from the Pope the appointment to the actual Bishopric of Winchester. On the 1st February, 1529, Clement VII. i-ssued his Bull of Provision, appointing Wolsey only perpetual administrator of the See of Winchester. At this Wolsey expressed his surprise in April,! saying he had bctii, wlun iqipointed to Durham, provided * Sup., p. 125. t R.P., Hen. VIII., vol. iv., p. 208(5, No. 4821, t R.P., vol. iv., p. 2389, Nos. 5+2;^, 5132. 136 BISHOr OF WINCHESTER. to tlie Bisliopric. His wisli for the full honours of Bishop of Winiliestev was not gratified, and the terms on which he obtained administration of that See from tlie King were that he should resign the See of Durham ; before ten months had elapsed he was compelled to resign Winchester also.* On looking over his acquisitions Wolsey found that Fox had given the Mastership of the Game of the See to Lord Sandys ;t in no fitter hands could it have been placed, for when withdrawing from Court to the Vyne, in sympathy with Queen Katharine, Sandys vigilantly protected the King's deer in the neighbouring Eoyal forests.l Corpus Christi College, Oxford, show with pride and p)leasure the unrivalled collection of plate which Fox gave to his House. First of all are the precious vessels for the highest Service of the Sanctuary ; the chalice and the paten, made, with that devoted reverence for the Holy Eucharist which was the rule of Fox's life, of pure gold. Tliis magnificent chalice is quite unique in its way. It is, say the latest writers on the subject,§ " the only English medieval gold chalice that has escaped the hands of the spoiler, and it is satisfactory to know that its true value, archfeological and artistic, is thoroughly appreciated by its guardians." The paten fits the chalice, and is of the same date, 1507-8. Besides these sacred vessels, there are two basins, silver gilt, each seventeen inches in diameter ; one of them has the hall mark 1493-4. The other has on the side of its depression a small hole of trefoil shape, and on the under side is a nondescript beast's head (a miniature gurgoyle) out of which the liquid would * 17Ui Feb., 1530. t R.P., vol. iv., pi. 3, p. 2915. See a Grant, svp., p. 50. X History of the Vyne, p. 45. § Messrs. W. H. St. John Hope, and T. M. Fallow. Arch. Journal, toJ. xliii, 371. BISHOP OF ■WINCHESTER. 137 pour. Its ball mark is 1514. Both have in the centre a boss with a shiekl containing in enamel the arms of the See of Win- chester impaling a pelican vulning herself. There are also twelve silver gilt spoonis, six with Bishop Oldham's owls as handle ends, hall marked 1506; and .six with balls as handle ends, hall marked 1516. These spoons may be the spoons bequeathed to tlic College by Kobert JNIorwent, second President. He by his will, dated 1557, leaves to the College " a dozen spoons with .slypps." Tlie College also possesses a Tazza or silver gilt covered cup ornamented with pomegranates, ball mark, 1515 ; the .silver gilt crozier of the founder,* in very fine preservation ; and, lastly, a noble salt-cellar of silver gilt, representing hunting scenes, pelicans, &c., .surmounted by a rim with the initials I!, F., frequently repeated. This last piece, which is one of the finest specimens of JIedia?val plate existing in England, is probably of French or Italian workman- ship, there being no hall mark. It is probable that the chalice and paten had been those always used by the Bishop himself after his accession to Win- chester, and they may possibly have been given to the College during his life-time. The armorial bearings of the College include the pelican in her piety, that is, standing in her nest wounding her bosom and feeding her young with her blood, and this device represents there the armorial bearings of Bi.shop Fox ; but down to the foundation of the College his general practice was to use the pelican vulning herself only, without the nest or the young. The pelican alone simply \nilning herself is more commonly used by the Bishop's • Shaw's Specimens of Antient Furniture: Saltcellar, pi. G5 ; chalice, pi. 09 ; crozier, pi. 71. The saltcellar in Skelton's Oxonia Restaurata, pi. Ixv. There is a Replica of the Pomegranate Cup in the South Kcusingtou Museum. It was, per- haps, a gift from Queen Katharine. 138 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. sculptors ill stoue and carvers in wood. Of his episcopal seals those of Winchester and Bath and Wells runiain, liis Palatinate Seal of Durliani also, and neither of the latter have the piety. His arms as recorded in tlie Herald's College omit the piety. They are : " Az. a pelican vulniug herself or, within a hordure of the last a canton ermine ;" but there is no grant of these arms to the Bishop. The piety is not inserted in his " Book of St. Benet," nor in any of the representations of the pelican in the chancel and on his chantry at Winchester ; and the piety was omitted in the arms recorded hy Wood as being in the College hall. Instead of the piety, the armorial bearings of the Bishop in the College chapel had a canton ermine, and in the Roll of Parliament (6 Henry VIll.) a bordure of gold. The episcopal ring in the custody of the President of the College seems to be the ring represented in the portrait by Corvus in the College hall. It was given by the founder himself to John Claymond, and Ijy him bequeathed to his successors in the Presidency. This is the ancient picture described by Walpole as painted after the Prelate had lost his sight. That writer says (incorrectly) tliat 110 other work of Corvus is known, and tliis one only from the inscription Johannes Corvus Flandrensis faciebai on tlie frame, apparently of tlie same age as the picture. Walpole adds that tliere are two or three pictures of the same Prelate in the College, but tliis is probably the original. Besides one at Sudeley Castle, there are five other por- traits in the College, two of which are probably portraits of Fox, the three others are undoubtedly copies of the Corvus portrait. There are portraits of the Bishop at the Palace, Wells, Magdalen College, Taunton, and Grantham, apparently copies of the Corvus R.Fox EpWint' C.P.S. THE LAMBETH PALACE PORTRAIT. p. 139. Bisnor OF WINCHESTER. 139 portrait, and engravings of it in Kniglit's " Life of Colct," Fiddes' ' Life of Wolsey," and Hutchinson's " Durham." There is one portrait of Fox of great vakie in the private drawing-room at Lambeth Palace whicli deserves particuLir atten- tion. The eyes are open, the face is younger than iu the Corvus portrait, and it was probably painted before he resigned the Privy Seal, as it has the initials after his name, C.P.S. Tlie character of Bishop Fox requires the pen of a Clarendon to fitly portray it. FiHiug great places iu Church and State, he carried himself so well in them as to acquu-e the love and reverence of all who came near him. He was indeed, as their IVIiuister reports him to the Signory of Venice, " a Lord of extreme authority and goodness." As a statesman, he was not merely a lover but an earnest pro- moter of peace. His counsel first assuaged the horrors of civil war ; the cry in the strife of the Poses of " Vw vidis " was no more heard. " Parccre suhjcdis " was his ruling guide, and so the discord abated and ceased, not stamped out, but melted away by the soft shower of Mercy. Nor was he less of a peacemaker with rival king- doms. He made peace with Scotland, and confirmed it by securing that marriage which made the Poyal Houses of the two kingdoms one Family. With foreign powers beyond the sea he proceeded in the same spirit. He first insisted on England's having the com- mand of the narrow seas, and then made her power and influence of weiglit in the conflicts of Germany witli Fiance and Spain, and strong for the protection of Italy, always very dear in his sight. He heartily encouraged the defence of Europe against the Mussul- man, and would have gladly seen her rid of the Turk, as she became in his day, by the conquest of Grenada, rid of the Moor. As a prelate he first upheld discipline, next the free* promotion • Lady Sandys' letter. R.P., lion. Till., vol. ix., p. 220. 140 BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. of good men, and then did what in him hiy to repress the growth of a vicarious performance of their duties by an absentee and plui-alist parish clergy. Tlie monks and nuns were almost too much for his powers, but his personal character made his visita- tions and injunctions carry a force beyond tlieir real strength. He felt that he owed a duty to the supreme office he held as a Prelate of the Church to preserve the rights of his I'lace, whilst he did not stand upon his authority or content himself with self-assertion. If he appealed to anything in support of his position it was to the affection which he showed for tliose placed under him, and their ivindly reception of the good offices he had done for them. His acts and works here briefly set down are the best monu- ment of his fame. He may be judged too by the character of his friends. First and foremost, King Henry VII., who even now has not had justice done him, for the mighty change he made in England iu his twenty-five years' reign, still less for tlie loving features of his domestic life ; then the young King, for the first ten years of his reign, taking the couusel of and delighting to honour his father's friend ; then come Morton and Bray, I )aubeny and Darcy, Bishop Fisher and Bisliop Oldliam, tlie colleagues and asso- ciates of his active years. When tired of statesmanship, he devotes himself to his Episcopal Cure, and retires from the Court to dwell among his own people, and by e^■ery means iu his power to diffuse and perpetuate education " in virtue and godliness," he has the love of his old and tried dependants, and draws round him by the strong cords of affection the young Marquis of Exeter and the rising courtiers Sir AVilliam I'aulet and Lord Sandys. His opinions were not ahead of the wiser men of his age ; but in a period when advance was the order of things he was among tlie most advanced. He assisted by private patronage the students of the New Learning, when the language of Greece had been driven BISIIOr OF WINCIIESTEi;. 141 from Constantinople by tlie Turk, not long after his birth. Among tlie foremost of these students were Prior Selling and Dean Gun- thorp. Whilst niareliing in the procession of the pious founders of colleges and scliools of his time, he excelled their work by making his College a light of learning to the whole University, and his schools a fount of education, without price, to the whole inhabi- tants of their towns. Once more, let us look at the results of his achievements in faithful duty to Cliui'ch and State. They have come down to our own times; tlie throne of Great Britain, which by his plans was built up in the next century, unites England and Scotland into one people of transcendent loyalty and aflection to a gracious Queen ; his College stands, and has been ever since its erection, for all kinds of learning, divine and human, paramount for eminent persons bred there, among wliom tlie Church of England will gladly and gratefully give the highest place to Eichard Hooker ; whilst among the pupils of his schools, stands Nature's greatest interpreter, the incomparable Isaac Newton. Hooker's uncle in the next generation, says of Bishop Fox : " Such a man was he for wisdom, knowledge, learning, and trutli, that he left not his lyke at that time after him."' It is impossible to read these words M'ithout contrasting the character of Wolsey with that of Fox. Fox undoubtedly had, like Wolsey, extraordi- nary powers and capacities. In Fox, however, we see how " Love and meekness become a churchman better tlian ambition." He was exceedingly free from any self-seeking, and although observ- ing a solid and real stateliness in all the surroundings of a great place, he was conspicuous for the absence of ostentation. This was due to his fervent and exalted, yet most humble piety. Tlie (!od whom he tru.sted protected liiin in weakness, lilindness, and danger: loyal to his heart's core, he would only serve his King in 142 BISHOP OF AVINCHESTER. whatever might become a priest of the Lord, and so, whilst Wolscy felt himself given over in his grey hairs. Fox was mightily sus- tained by the Divine Mercy in a good old age, full of days and honour. After all it is not as Statesman or Prelate that Fox stands highest in the estimation and love of succeeding ages. It is as a man that he excels. To adapt the language of the Master of historic portraiture, in his character of the Lord Capel : — He was a man, that, whoever after him has deserved best of the English Church and Nation, can never have thought himself under- valued, when he heard, that his charity, virtue, and fidelity, had been laid in the balance with, and compared to, that of Bishop Eichaed Fox. INTRODUCTION TO THE REGISTER. The Episcopal TJegister of Bishop Eicliard Fox, in the E]iiscopal Registry of Bath and Wells, is a folio volume, bound in calf, with the original boards. It commences with the words — and contains 37 numbered leaves, with 1- additimial leaves not paginated. It extends from 10th May, 1492, to 3rd December, 1494. At the beginning, before the title of the lirst Entry, it purports to be the Eegister of the admissions, institutions, collations, exchanges, and other letters and acts of his Ecclesias- tical Jurisdiction, duly made and completed during the time of the Reverend Father in Christ the Lord Eicliard Fox, by the (Jrace of God Bisliop of Bath and Wells, by himself and by his Yicar-Geueral in Spirituals during his absence. The contents of the Eegister accord pretty accinatcly with the initial description. There are forms of institution and colla- tion to I'arish Churches, Cathedral Dignities and Canonries, Chantries and Benefices. These are sometimes preceded by ]>rocesses of Inquisition as to Eights of Patronage, and by Grants of next Presentations and Exchanges, and accompanied by grants of Pensions to Incnmlients resigning. Tliere are Appointments of Officials of the See, temporal and spiritual : Apostcilic and Episcopal Disjiensations, Letters Dimissory, IMamimissions to Serfs on Episcopal Manors, and Licences. There occur detailed accounts of the Nomination, Election and Appointment to the 11 IXTRODUCTIOX TO THE REGISTER. respective headships of the ReHgious Houses of St. John tlie Baptist's Hospital Bristol, of Berlieh, and of Glastonbury, with the subsequent proceedings, some few other exceptional entries, and many pages of Orfination Lists of those Ordained in the Diocese to Minor and Holy Orders. There are five cases of inquisitions as to Bights of Pati'onage. The Bishop was entitled to issue this inquisition directed to six clergymen and six laymen, if two persons claiming to be patrons presented to the vacant living. Godolphiu (1687, p. 644) says: "If there be but one only that doth present to the Ordinary yet he may award a Jure Patrouatiis (21 Hen. VI, 44; 34 Hen. YI, 40). The Inquisition not only inquired as to the Patron's right, but as to the I'resentee, whether criminous, legitimate, and free from simony. In the cases of Weston* (8) and Castle Gary (21) the only persons presenting were the Prior and Convent of the Cathedral Church of Bath, who had presented tlie last time ; Sehvorthy (11) was in lay patronage, and apparently an instance of double presentation. South Cadbury (128) was a case where Lord Hastings, the j^atron presenting, was not the patron presenting the last time. The form of Inquisition is not entered in the case of "V^'raxhall (39). There are several grants of the next Presentation, i.e., the Advowson for one turn, and in three cases the Grant is entered; Carhampton (93), Chard (103), Eedyngton (133) : but notwith- standing the entry of the Grant of the Advowson of Carhamp- ton, a Bond is taken from the Incumbent and a Surety to indemnify Bishop Fox from having omitted to award an Inqui- sition as to the right of patronage, it not being perfectly clear. Of course in every case where a Layman presents to a Vicarage, it is by virtue of a Grant from the Religious Body to whom the Rectory was appropriated. This is the case in the Vicarages of Banwell (87) and Chard (103). * The figures in jmreiitheses refer to pages in the Register. TNTKODUCTION TO THE liEGISTER. lU The bulk of the Smaller Parish Churches are given to persons styled " aqicUani '" and upon resignations. The Pa'signations are in several cases made upon a pension provided out of the Benefice for the Incumbent resigning ; sometimes the provision is con- firmed by the oath of the presentee ; sometimes by a surely ; in one case (114), there is a licence to the incumbent to treat with the proposed presentee on the amount of the pension. The Otticials appointed by the Bishop are several. The first appointment made is the first Entry in the Register ; the Commission to Eichard Xykke, an Oflicial Principal to preside in the Consistory Court at Wells. In the same Instrument, to provide during the absence of the Bishop from his diocese, the same person is appointed a Vicar-General in Spirituals. He is empowered to perform the various acts entered in the Begister as being afterwards done by him, which are specified, and also armed with all other powers of the Bishop's administrative .Turisdietitin, and a power of selecting a Bishop for admitting Candidates to Orders, and for exercising all the special functions of the Episcopal Order within the Diocese. On the 1st Septemlier, 1492 (15), the Bishop aiipointed a Commissary-General. This grant is during pleasure to Pichard Docheson, Bachelor in both Laws. The same office is given by Bichard Nykke, the Bishop's Vicar-(ieneral, on the 4th May, 1493 (38), during pleasure, to John Lugwardyne, Bachelor in Decrees. The Office of Registrar of the Bishop's Chancery and Audience is given on loth April, 1493 (50), at Dogmersfield, to Robert Williamson, Priest, a notary by Apostolic authority, for life. The Office of Bailiff of the Bishop's Liberties, in or out of Somerset, is given on 15th April, 1493 (51), at Dogmersfield, to William Fulford, the Bishop's Serjeant, for life, with an annual fee of £4. 6s. 8rf. These Lifehold appointments are confirmed by the Chapter of Wells and the Con\ent of the Cathedral Church of Bath. a 2 IV INTRODUCTION To THE REGISTKi;. On the 1st June, 14t):3 (G:!), tlie Office of Cliicf Steward (Capitalis Scncscalcia) of the Episcopal Hundreds, Lordships, Lands, and Tenements, as well w-ithin the County of Somerset as witliout, is given to Sir Amias Poulet for life, with a pension of 20 marks charged on the Manor of Kingsbury. The proper con- firmations of the two capitular Bodies of Bath and "Wells are added. On the L'Oth June, 1493 (97), the Office of Scribe or Registrar of the Consistory Court Wells, and of proceedings before the Commissary- General, is given by the Bishop to Robert Dikar, Clerk, for life. Xo confirmations of this grant are entered in the Ilegister. On the 12th January, 1493-94 (120), the Office of Auditor of all Eeceivers of all the possessions of the Bishopric in Somerset, Gloucester, Soutlmmpton, and Middlesex, and elsewliere in England, is given by the Bishop with a right to the proper fees, to Thomas Hobsou fur life. Apostolic Dispensations, or Dispensations to enable Incum- bents to hold two or more livings in plurality, were only given by the Pope ; Copies of three are in the liegister, one from Pope Inno- cent YIII. (48), for the Head of a Religious House, the Prior of Worspring ; another from Pope Sixtus IV. (41), for a Brother of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Wells ; and a third from the same Pope (71) for a Parisli Priest, the Rector of North Tawton in Exeter Diocese. A Bishop could dispense with residence, and in the case of John Strete, the holder of two livings (Hinton St. George and Cliard) by virtue of an Apostolic Dispensation, there is a dispen- sation by the Vicar-General to him, granted two days after his institution to Chard, for non-residence on his third Rectory of Capland (122). Manumissions of Serfs, first, at Dogmersfield on 13th Ajiril, 1492 (54), are made to Richard Hawkyns, a! ins Twizel, a " natinis," belonging to the Episcopal Manor of Ba nwell, and his issue ; second, on 20th May, 1493 (79), to Jolin Croker and liis named sons, "nativi," belonging to the Episcopal Manors of ISanwell and INTRODUCTION TO THE EEGISTEK. V AVokcy, and to their issue. These grants are confirmed by the Cajntidar Bodies of Wells and Bath. Glastonbury Abbey, as a Benedictine house, and Berlich, as a priory of licgular Canons of the Order of St, Augustine, were suliject to the Episco])al Jurisdiction of Bath and Wells ; the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, at Bristol, was originally under the government and patronage of the Bishoji of Bath and Wells. The proceedings relating to the ai)pointnient of the heads of these three houses have their special peculiarities. At Glastonbury (170), Bishop Fox annulled the election of Thomas Wasing by the convent, on the death in July 1493, of Abbot Selwood, and thereupon, in Novem- ber, with the King's licence, appointed Bichard Bere abbot. At Berlich, Eobert Wynde, prior, was deprived (160) or had resigned,* and his othce was filled up by the three only remaining canons electing Thomas Birde, a canon of the Augustine Priory of Taunton, to be their head. At Bristol (90), the Jlayor nominates to the Bishop, Eichard Colyns, a Priest, wlio is willing to profess himself a Brother of the Order of St. Augustine, to be Magister or Head of the Hospital of St. John Baptist. Ordinations are all performed by Bishop Cornish for Bishop Fox ; they took place generally at Wells, wiiere Bishop Cornish resided, once at Axbridge, of which church he was A''icar, and once in the Conventual Church of Jlucheluey. Tlie ordination lists are very full. Orders were divided into major or sacred, and minor or non- sacred (7). The sacred orders were subdeacon, deacon, and priest; the only minor order in these lists is the order of acolytes. No one could be admitted to any order unless he were tonsvrcd, wliicli operation was performed by a bishop clipping the hair in a prescribed mode. The tonsured person must have been baptized and confirmed, instiucted in the rudiments of the faith, and able • Wyiifle lind been elected on October 41 h, 1488, by two Canons, there being no more at tliat time belonging to tlie ConNcnt. Vi IXTUODCCTIOX TO TIIF. RKGIKTEE. to read and write. Wlieu tousured he became a clerk (dericus), and entitled to the benefit of clergy.* An acolyte, it is said, must have passed through the other minor orders,t and be 14 years of age;^ it was not necessary that a person should be an acolyte before he was instituted and inducted to a living ; he must have been " dericus." Tlie Register offers an instance of this, William Lynton, dericus, is presented to the liectory of Spaxton, and instituted on the 23rd May, 1493 (44). Lynton was ordained acolyte 21st September, 1493. No title is mentioned upon which acolytes are ordained except in Lynton's case, when his Eectory of Spaxton is given as his title ; many of the acolytes are ordained upon letters diniissory which were given by the bishop of the diocese in which they were born (7), or had their domicile (78). Every person according to these lists wlio is ordained to Holy Orders is ordained upon a title ; in only three cases, those of Baker (151), Morrys (140), and Lynton (152), upon that of parish cliurches; many ai-e oidained upon the title of their stalls in catlie- dral churches, of their being monks or friars of religious houses, or brothers of hospitals, but the vast bulk of those ordained are admitted " upon the title of a religious house or hospital ;" that is, upon a presentation by it, involving liability to maintain the ordained person until he was provided with an office or situation affording him a competent maintenance. In Bath and Wells diocese, these titles come more frequently from the lesser monasteries and from hospitals ; tlie great Abbey of Glastonbury, although within six months seven of its members receive onli- nation as monks, gives no title to anyone ordained in these * Tonsura ca?rcinonia ab ecelcsia iiistituta qua laicus bajitizatus, et Bacramento confiniiationis consignatus, sacro ritu in elerum institutus. Maskell, II, p. xcv. + Sir T. Hardy. Preface to Reg. Pal. Dimelnieuse, vol. iii, p. Ixix. J Et similiter ille qui priuiam toiisuram suscipit ordinandus in aeolytiim, debet esse major xiiij annis. Id. p. cxviii. TITLES OF ENTRIES IN REGISTER. vii lists.* There are many letters diniis.sory granted, diverse iu form, and apparently intended to keep clear of the vexed question whether the Bishop gi-anting them, or the P.islid]) ordaining upon them, was liable to maintain the person if ordained on a title becoming insufficient. There is a licence to a monk to serve a chapel (Ly Abbotes) (81), and to administer sacraments, although he was apparently a monk only, not a priest. There is a change of the Feast of the Dedication Day at Kuestoke (59). A Dedication feast w-as appointed on the consecra- tion of Burnham Church in 1315 as a day which was to be devoutly kept, and to those who frequented it with due contrition, confession, and votive oblations, forty days' indulgence were granted.f The Register is ajiparently kc'pt by the Registrar in the Bishop's Registry at Wells, and one of the many official acts done by Bishop Fox at his Episcopal ]\Ianor of Dogmersfield at Easter-tide, 1493, prescribes this custody (50). This provision involved entries being registered of acts of the BLshop performed at a distance from the Registry, from minutes and documents, which are inserted imperfectly and irregularly, and not in chronologi( al oidcr. TITLES OF ENTRIES IN REGISTER. (Translated.) I., Institution. C, dilation. R., Rector. V., Vicar. P., Prebend. C'n., Chantry. P.O., Parish Church. Commi.toke, t. Laverton. Speke, iTohn, Esq., Sequestrator, 109. Spranlesnieade, alias, Burtle Priory, 144. Seneschal or Chief Steward, v. Poulet. Sufion, Long. Consecration of the Church, 46. Temple Bar, the Bishop's house near, 5, 16. Tinensis ; Tenos, Thomas Cornish, Hishop of, 25, 26, 101, 135, 138, 140, 141, 147, 150. 152, 155, 157. Vicar of Chew, 118. Rector of Asbridge, 127. Vicar-Gcncral, v. Nykke. Warham. Precentor Wells (afterwards Archbishop), 70. Wells. St. John Baptist Hospital, Conventual Church of, 40, 41. Ordinations in, 138, 140, 144, 152, 155, 157. Vicar's Close, Chambers in, 31-32, 45, 126, 1,32. Cathedral appointments in, passim. Corpjis Christ i Chantry, Chaplain resigns, 37, 117. Ordinations at St. Mary's juxta Cloister, 135. Weston (Bath), v. Inquisitions. Williamson, R., Vicar of Barowe, 31, 44. Registrar, 50. Woky, T. Manumission. Worslcy, W., Archdeacon of Taunton, 28. REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, BATHONIENSIS ET WELLENSIS EPISCOPI. Incipit Eegistrum Eeuerendi in Christo patris et domiui domiui Ricardi Fox, Dei gratia Bathoniensis et Welleusis episcopi, ad ipsas ecclesias ab ecclesia Catliedrali Exouiensi Anno Domini millesimo cccc"" Ixxxxij" auctoritate apostolica translati, de diversis admissiouil)us, instituciouibus, collacionibus, perniuta- cionibus, aliisque Uteris et execuciouibus jurisdiccionis sue eccle- siastico per ipsiim et vicarium suum in spiiitualibus generaleni, i]iso in remotis ageute, eiusdem Reuereudi patris tempore ordinate factis et expeditis. Comissio vicarii in spiritualibus generalis facta Magistro Ricardo Nykkc utriusque juris doctori. Ricardus permissione Diuina Batlioniensis et Wellensis epis- copus, dilecto nobis in Cluisto JMagistro Ricardo Nykke, utriusque juris doctori, ecclesie nostrc Cathedralis Wellensis canonico et prebendario prebende de Yatton' in eadem, salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Ad cognoscendum et procedendum in quibus- cunque causis et negociis spiritualibus et ecclesiasticis, eciam ex officio mero, sine ad alicuius partis promocionem siue instauciam, eciam matrimonialibus et diuorcii, in consistorio nostro Wellcnsi liactinus inchoatis et motis, siue postliac inelioandis et mouendis, easque et ea cum omnibus et singulis siue incidentibus, emergen- tibus, depcndentiVnis et conncxis quibuscunque audiendum, exan;- iuaudum, discutiendum, decidendumque ct tine canonico tcrminan- h 2 EEGISTRUM RICAIiDI FOX, iluni, ac (|ue in hac parte legitime decreueritis debite executioni demandanduni, et deiiiandari faciendum, necnon testes qui fueriut nomiuati, si se gratia, odio vel tiniore subtraxerint, ad perliibeii- dum testimonium veritati per censuras et peuas ecclesiasticas canonice compellendum, ceteraque omnia et singula in premissis uel aliquo premissorum necessaria sen quomodolibet de jure requesita iuxta iuris exigenciam atque disposicionem exercenduni et exf)ediendum, vobis, de cuius sciencia virtute et circumspectionis industria iu hiis et aliis quam plurimum confidimus, vices nostras committimus et pleuam in Domino potestatem, vosque curie dicti nostri consistorii episeopalis AVelleusis et nostrum officialem prin- cipalem preficimus, ordiuamus et deputamus per presentes. Et cum preterea nos propter diuersa negocia dominum nostrum Eegem statuuique et defensionem vniuersalis ecclesie atque regni Anglle concernentia continuo in diocese nostra residere non iiossunnis, de vestris fidelitate, scientia et circumspectionis industria predictis, vt prefertur, plurimum in Domino confidentes, vos vicarium nostrum in spiritualibus generalem ordinamus, creamus, facimus, constitui- mus et preficimus eciam per presentes, damusque et concedimus atque committimus in ea parte vobis vices nostras ixitestalemque generalem ac maudatuni speciale quibuscunque religiosis infra diocesem nostram, cum eorum ecclesia vacauerit, licenciam eligendi concedendi et assensum electis prestandum dandi et prebendi, electiones quoque canonicas ac quosvis canonice electos et eligendos in quibuscunque monasteriis, prioratibus, domibus atque collegiis et locis nobis subditis cum suis juribus et pertinenciis vniuersis auctoritate nostra confirmandi, cauoniceque instituendi et installandi, ac installari et in possessionem realem et corporalem induci maudandi, electiones insuper minus canonice factas et celebratas, si et prout de jure fuerit faciendum infirniandi, cassaudi, et anuUandi, necuon personas ydoneas ad quecunque beneficia in BATIION. ET WEI.I,. EPISCOri. 3 nostris ciuitato ft diocuse qualitcrcunque vacantia ct vacatura presentatas, simpliciter uel ex causa pennutaciouis fieiule, iicl ex (|nncuni[iie alia cans;!, licenciam ad tractandum ct coimnnnicanduni de et super quacniicjue assiiJtnanda et limitauda annua pcnsionc congrua de fructibus et cbuciiciouibus ciiiuscuu(pie beneficii huiusmodi concedendi, et ad hoc fiendum consenciendi, ac qvas- cun(|ue ordinaciones de et super assignata pensione huiusmcdi factas forsan et initas auctoritate nostra ordinavia sub quibusuis penis et censuris per quascuuque partes vallatas, iirmatas et emologataa roborandi et confirmandi, ac desuper decernendi ; dictas insuper personas in beneficiis prefatis auctoritate nostra canonice instituendi cum suis juribus et pertineutiis vniuersis, ac in realem actualem et corporaleni possessionem quorunicunqne huiusmodi beneficiorum et suoruni predictorum jurium et per- tinentiorum vniuersorum iuducendi, atcj^ue iustitui et induci man- dandi, et facicndi ; deque et super juribus patronatuscpiarumcunque ecclesiarum debite iuquircndi ac inquiri faciendi ; commissiones insuper pro expedicionibus ac expediendis negociis quarumcunque pernintacionum alii ac aliis in debita juris forma concedendi, ac de et super eisdem in forma debita scribendi et committendi ; quas- cunque insuper personas eciam regulares dignitates, prioratus, abbacias, officia et beneficia ecclesiastica quecun(pio in nostris pre- dictis ciuitate et diocese illieite oceupantcs, sen quas a beneficiis et administracionibus suis ecclesiasticis de jure inveneritis seu noueritis per processum legitimum merito ammouendas, pro tempore aut pro pcrpetuo prout videritis destitucndi, amouendi, et priuaiidi ; monasteria quoque, prinralus, collegia, domos, liospitalia et alia loca pia cpiecunque nostre predicte diocesis tam in capite quam in membris, clerumque et populum eiusdem nostre diocesis actualiter visitandi, ac eos ad hoc conuocandi et congregandi, ac nostram iurisdiccionem in ca parte exercendi; ac de et super B 2 4 REGISTRUM ETCAKDI FOX, heretica prauitate, crimineque ac criminilnis heresis ac aliis cri- minibus et excessibus quorumcunque subditorum nostrorum eciam clericorum et laicorura quociens et quum visum fuerit expedire inquirendi ; crimina quoque et excessus quorumcunque subditorum nostrorum eciam clericorum et luicorum eciam detecta et comperta quecunque canonice reformandi, corrigendi et puniendi ; iniuuc- tiones iusuper in monasteriis domibus et locis religiosis iuxta efiectum inquisicionura et visitacionum inibi forsan factarum et exercitarum, iuxtaque discretionem vobis a Deo datam faciendi et imponendi, penitentiam quoque condignam et salutarem nostris l)redictis subditis vtriusque sexus personas iuxta et secundum qualitatem et quautitatem delictorum eorum et excessuum pro commissis iniungendi ; necuon clericis nostrarum predictarum ciuitatis et diocesis secularibus et regularibus, vt a quocunque episcopo Catholico Sedis Apostolice gratiam et executionem sui officii obtinente, tam ad minores quam omnes sacros ordines, eciam presbiteratus, licite valeatis propoueri, licenciam concedendi; ac cuicunque episcopo Catholico vt in ciuitate et diocese nostris tam minores quam omnes sacros ordines etiam presbiteratus tempore congruo et legitimo conferat, baptisatosque confirmet, ac oleum et crisma sanctum conficiat, eaque omnia et singula que sunt ordinis episcopalis ut exerceat et expediat auctoritatem et potes- tatem dandi et prestandi ; in casibus insuper a jure nobis permissis cum nostris subditis dispensandi ; penitentiaries insuper vnum vel plures deputandi, ordinandi, et proficiendi; clericos insuper quos- cunque infra nostram jurisdiccionem super quibuscunque crimini- bus irretitos seu conuictos et conuincendos, qui de iure et secundum regni Anglie consuetudines gaudere debeant priuilegio clericali, vt moris est, per vos aliumve aut alios vendicandi, petendi, et recipiendi ; ac super hoc alii uel aliis persone aut jiersonis ydoueis, prout videritis expedire, in forma requisita com- BATIION. ET WELL. Enscori. 5 mittendi, purgacionemque eorundein clericorumque conuictorum cum expedite videritis recipiendi, et adiuittcndi ; omueni iiisupcr et omniniodam nostram ixirisdiccionem spiritualem et ecclesinslicam de iure expressam tarn in genere quam in specie vbiiibet in dioceso nostra gerendi, exercendi, et expediendi ; necnon omnia alia et singula de iure et consuetudine sub officio vicarii genevalis aut officialis principalis cadencia ac cadere debencia, et que ad ufficia ilia incumbere et pertinere dinoscuntiir de iure et consuetudine huiusmodi faciendi, eciam que nos facereraus vel facere possemus si personaliter in diocese nostra presentes essemus, exercendi, gerendi et expediendi ; ac que vos in premissis uel aliquo premis- sorum decreueritis, de iure expediendi, ac debite execution! demandandi. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum presentibus apposui- nius. Datum in Hospicio nostro extra Barras Noui Tempi i in Sul>- urbiis London', x""" die meusis Maii Anno Domini Millesimo cccc"'° nonagesimo ij""" et nostra trauslationis anno primo, Institucio Rectoris ecclesie parocliialis do Sokke. Vicesimo vj'° die dicti mensis Maii Anno Domini suprascripto. Antedictus Magister IJicardus Nykke, Supradicti Keuerendi in Cliristo patris domini liicai'di translati JSathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, auctoritate officii huius- modi sibi commissi, in domo solite sue residencie Wellie, venera- bilem virum Magistrum Nicholaum Ilalswell' in Medicinis doc- torem, ad ecclesiam j)arochialem de Soke, Bathonieusis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem naturalem domini Eoberti Sjiycer vltimi rectoris eiusdcm vacanlem, ad (piam per egi-egium virum dominum Thomam Marchionem Dorsett', dominum Ferrarium de Groby ac dominum de Asteley, llaryngtou et Jionf'yld, verum eiusdem 6 EEGISTKUM EICAEDI FOX, ecclesie patronum, eidem vicario in spiritualibus general! presentatus extitit, adiiiisit in persona Eoberti Dykar procuratoris sxii suffi- cieuter et legitime in ea parte constituti, ipsurnque rcctorem iusti- tuit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertiuentiis vniuersis, curam animarum jDarocliianorum ipsiiis ecclesie sibi in Domino plenins committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus episcopalibus Batlioniensibus et Wellensibus, ecclesiarumque catbedraliuin ibidem dignitate in omnibus semper saluis. Et prestito per dictum procuratorem nomine domini sui antedicti canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione Arcbidiacono "VVelleusi seu eius ofliciali sub forma consueta. CoUacio ecclesie parochialis de Westammeir et institucio in eadem, Eicardus permissione diuina Ilatbonieusis et Wellensis episco- pus, dilecto nobis in Cluisto domino Tbome Shelyngford, pres- bitero, salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Ecclesiam parocbialem de Westecammell' nostre diocesis, per liberam et spontaneam resignacionem domini Andree Grantham, idtimi rectoris eiusdem, vacantem, et ad nostram coUacionem pleno iure spectantem, tibi conferrimus intuitu caritatis, tetpie rectorem instituimus canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertiuentiis vniuersis, curam animarum parochianorum eiusdem ecclesie tibi in Dondno committendo, iuribus et dignitate ecclesiarum nostrarum cathe- dralium Bathoniensis et Wellensis, in omnibus semper saluis. Datum sub sigillo nostro in hospicio nostro extra Barras Noui Templi in Suburbiis ciuitatis London' xxvij""" die mensis Maii, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc™° nonagesimo ij'^° et nostre transla- tionis anno primo. Et incontinenter idem admissus et institutus super sancta Dei euuangelia per ipsum corporaliter tacta, prestitit iuramentum ipKjd BATIIOX. ET AVELL. EPISCOPI. 7 ipso erit fulelis et olieiliens prefato Eeiieremlo in Cliristo patri ot domino, ipsiusque successoribus oanonice iutrantibus, ac eorum officiariis et ministris quibuscumqiie in Ileitis (it canonicis maii- datis. Hincinde scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius ofliciali, vt est moris. Litere dimissorie in forma. Item, autedictus vicarius in spiritiialibus generalis concessit literas dimissorias Johanui Fyttoke, accolito, quas idem Johannes obtiuuit sub liac forma : — Kicardus Nykke, vtriusque juris doctor, Canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis, ac lieuerendi in Christo patris et domini domini IJicardi perniissione diuina Bathoniensis et Welleusis episcopi, ipso Eeuerendo ])atre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Cliristo Jolianni Fyttoke, accolito, in parochia de Scliepton Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis oriundo, salutem in Domino. Vt a quocunque episcopo Catholico gratiam Sedis Apostolice et executionem sui officii obtinente, tibique sacras mauus imponere volente, ad oiimes ordines tarn sacros quam nun sacros! quos nondum es assecutus, licite valeas promoueri, eo nou obstante quod de dicta diocese Bathoniensi et Wellensi oriundus existis, dum tamen natalibus, moribus et etate inuentus fueris ydoneus, titulum- que sufficientem exhibueris, et aliud canonicum non obsistat, tarn tibi recipiendi quam episcopo huiusmodi ordines conferendi me- moratas, liberam tenore presencium concedimus facuUatem. lu cuius rei testimonium sigillnm officii nostri presentibus apposuimus. Datum Wellie, iiij'° die mensis Jnnii, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc""" nonagesimo ij""" et translationis dicti reuerendi patris anno ]iriino. Litere dimissorie in forma consueta. Item, viij° die mensis et anni predictorum. Idem Magister 8 REGISTRCM RICAUDI FOX, Eicardus Nykke, vicarius goiieralis prelibatus, apuJ Wc'lliam con- cessit domino Xicholao ]\Ionnte, diacouo, Bathonieusis et Wellensis diocesis, vt a quocunque episcopo Catholico recipere valeat pres- biteratus ordineni queni nondum est assecutus. Inquisicio facta de et super jure patronatus ecclesie parrochialis de Weston', Venerabili ac circumspecto viro IMagistro Eicardo Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctori, Canonico ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis, ac Ifeuerendi in Cliristo patris et domiui domini Eicardi pernussionc diiiina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso Eeuerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicario in spiritualibns generali, vester liumilis et devotus Eobertus Olyver, rector ecclesie parochialis de Pryston', vester conimissarius ad infra scripta specialiter et legitime deputatus, omnimodam obedientiam et reuerenciam debitas cum lionore. Literas vestras, Eeuerende, nuper cum ea qua decuit reuerencia, recepi sub forma que sequitur tenoris verborum : — Eicardus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor, Canonicus ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis, ac Eeuerendi in Christo patris et domiui domiui Eicardi permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso Eeuerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicarius in spiritualibns generalis, prouido viro domino Roberto Olyver Eectori ecclesie parochialis de Priston, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Cum nuper religiosi viri Prior et Conventus ecclesie Catliedralis Bathoniensis, dominum Johannem Chaunceler ad vicariam per- petuam ecclesie parrochialis de Weston' dicte Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis per mortem naturalem domini Johannis Phylips nuper vicarii eiusdem, vacantem, ut asseritur, et ad eorum pre- sentationem, vti pretendunt, spectantem, nobis presentarunt. Nos dictis presentantibus et presentato iusticie complementum cum RATHON. ET WELL. EIUSCOPL 9 (Icbito fauore niiiiistrare volentcs, de iureque patronatus illius ecclesie et ipsius iuris possessioiie modoque ct forma vacacioiiis eiusdem cerciores effici cupientes, ad proccdendum et diligeutcr inquirendum, vocatis primitus iuxta iuris exigeuciam omnibus et singulis in hac parte dc iure vocandis, de et super buiusmodi patronatus iure et possessione, de modoque et forma vacacionis eiusdem : — videlicet quis illius ecclesie verus sit patronus, aut qui sunt veri patroni. Quis aut qui vltimum dicte ecclesie vicarium presentauit aut presentauerit ad eandem. Ad (juem sen ad quos aut quo titulo ius presentandi ad ipsam ccclesiam hac vice pertineat, ac qualitcr, et a quo tempore ilia vacavit, de ceterisque articulis et circumstanciis in tali uegocio inquiri consuctis in ecclesia jiarrocliiali de Weston' anledieta, per rectores, vicarios ad omnes minus sex in numero, et alios sex viros lionestos et fide- dignos, prumissam noticiam veresimiliter meliorem habentes, in forma iuris iuratos et examinatos die aliquo certo per vos qui presons nostrum mandatum duxeritis exequendum, voliis assumpto ali(pio notario indifl'erenti in scribam, ceteraque omnia et singula in tali negocio necessaria seu quomodolibet oportuna faciendi, et exercendi, vobis de cuius fideHtate et circumspectionis industria satis confidimus, vices nostras ac plenam in Domino facultatem cum cuiuslibet cohercionis canonice exequendique que in bac parte decreueritis potestate. Et quid feceritis in premissis, nos quam cicius comode poteritis certificetis per literas vestras potentes clausas harum literarum nostrarum et inquisicionis vestre seriem, vna cum nominibus et cognomiuibus earum personarum per quas incjuiri contigerit, plenarie continentes sigillo autentico consignatas. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri presentibus ap- posuimus. Datum in dnmo nostre solite residencie Wcllie, vj'° die mensis Junii, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc'"°, nonagesimo ij**". Post (juaruni cpiidum literarum vestrarum receptionem et oneris 10 EEGISTRrNr lilCAKm FOX, earundem in me Eol)ertum Olyver assumpcionem, earum auctori- tate et vigore vocatis in liac parte oiimibus et singulis suuni putantibus interesse et de lure vocandi[s] in genere, de et super patronatiis ct advocacionis iuris ecclesie parrochialis de Westoa predicte, uecnon de et super omnibus et singulis articulis in Uteris commissionis mee antedicte specificatis, in ecclesia parrocliiali predicta, octavo die mensis Junii, Anno Domini supradicto, ad officium ini|uisicionis huiusmodi fiendum prefixo et assignato, per circunispectos viros dominum Eobertum Alday, Magistrum donius sive Hospitalis Sancti Joliannis Baptiste Batlionie ; Magistrum Johauuem Lord, vicarium perpetuum ecclesie paiTochialis de Batlieston' ; dominum Joliannem Woode, rectorem ecclesie Beate Marie infra Portam Borialem civitatis Bathonie ; dominum Willelmum Eogers, Tliomam Chaunceler, Joliannem Cokkes, Joliannem Weuer, Joliannem Slegge, Tliomam Eynge, Joliannem Hardyng, et Willelmum Tybott, viros fidedignos, vicinos veritatis noticiam in hac parte veresimiliter obtinentes, coram me citatos comparentes, de veritate premissorum dicenda in forma iuris iuratos, inquisicionem feci diligenter pariter et fidelein. Qui quideni iurati per eorum Sacramenta prestita dicunt, asserunt et afiirmant, quod dicta ecclesia parrochialis de Weston' vacat et incepit vacaii xxix'"" die mensis Mail, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc™°, nonagesimo ij"*", per mortem naturalem domini Johannis riiilips, vltimi vicarii eiusdem. Dicunt eciam quod venerabiles ac religiosi viri prior et conventus ecclesie Catliedralis Batlionieusis sunt veri patroni eiusdem ecclesie parrochialis de Weston iure et titulo. Et quidam venerabilis in Christo pater dompnus Willel- mus Sotliliroke, quondam prior dicte ecclesie Catliedralis Bathoni- ensis et eiusdem loci conventus, prcsentarunt dictum dominum Joliannem Bliylyps vltimum vicarium eiusdem. Dicunt insuper quod venerabiles ac religiosi viri prior et conventus ecclesie BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPL H' Catliedralis Bathoniensis fuerunt et sunt in p.icifica possessione iuris presentandi. Quam quidem inquisicionem sic, vt premittitur, per me vestra auctoritate in forma iuris captam sigillo officii officialitatis veneraliilis viri domini Arcliidiaconi Bathoniensis, quod ad manus hahetur, impresso et pendente, et eoruni per quos huiusmotU inquisicio capta fuerit sigillis pendentibus consignatam, ipsorum nomina et cognomina ac vestre commissionis tenorem in se contineutem circumspectionem transmitto. In tidem et testi- monium omnium ct singulorum premissorum, assumpto michi in Imiusmodi inquisicionis negocio Magistro Willelmo Fluett, Notario Pulilico, in scribam. Datum in ecclesia parrocliiali de Weston' antedicta die et anno supradicto. Institucio vicarii Ecclesie parrochialis de Weston'. Decimo die mensis Juuii Anno Domini supradicto prefatus vicarius generalis apud Welliam Dominum Johannem Cliaunceler capcllanum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parrochialis de Weston' Bathoniensis et AVellensis diocesis per mortem iiaturalem domini Johannis Philips vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros prioreni et conventum veros dicte ecclesie patronos dicto vicario generali presentatus extitit, in persona sua propria admisit, ac vicarium perpetuum de continuo et personaliter residendo in eadem, iuxta exigenciam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iurilius et pertinentiis vniuersis; curam animaruni parrocliiauorum ipsius ecclesie parrochialis sibi in Domino com- niittendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Et prestito per eundem admissum canonice obedientie iuramento, scrijjtum I'uit ])ro ipsius induclione Archidiacouo Bathouiensi seu eius otliciali vt est nioris. 12 EEGISTRUM RICAKDI FOX, Institiicio Rectoris Ecclesie parrochialis de Farley Hungerford. Item, vicesimo sexto die meiisis Junii, Anno Domini supva- dicto, antenominatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis apiid Welliam, dominum Thomam Wer, capellanum, ad ecclesiam parro- chialem de Farley Hungurl'ord, Eathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Walteri Elyot, vltinii rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per egregium viruni Walterura Hungurford militem, dicte ecclesie verum patronum, dicto vicario general! extitit presentatus, in persona sua propria admisit, ac rectorem instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parrocliianorum ipsius ecclesie parro- chialis sibi in Domino plenius comiiiitteudo, iuribus et con- suetudinibus, etc. Et prestito per dictum donunum Thomam canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali, vt est moris. Institucio vicarii Ecclesie parrochialis de Lydearde Episcopi. Item, penultimo Junii Anno Domini sepedicto, antefatus \'icarius generalis apud Welliam, dominum Johannem Aleyn', vicarium choralem ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parrochialis de Lydeard episcopi, Eathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles viros decanum et capitulum dicte ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis veros dicte ecclesie patronos dicto vicario generali presentatus extitit, in j)ersona sua propria admisit, ac vicarium perpetuum de contiuuo et personaliter residendo in eadem iuxta exigeuciam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum iuratuni, instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis; curam animarum parrocliianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino plenius comitteudo, BATHON. ET WELL. EFISCOri. 13 iuiibns et consuctudinibus, etc. Et prcstito per cuiidem dominum Johannein Aleyn', admissum cauonice obedieutie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione decano et capitulo ecclesie Catbedralis Wellensis seu eorum official!. Institucio vicarii Ecclesie parrochialis de Poulett. Item, xviij die mensis Julii, Anno Domini supradicto, ante- fatus vicarius generalis apud "VVelliam, dominum Joliannem Cutteler capellaniim ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parrochialis de Poulett, Bathouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem doniini Joliannis Edwardes vltinii et immediati vicarii eiusdeni vacanteni, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros Abbatem et Conventum Monasterii Sancti Augustini iuxta Bristolliam veros dicte vicarie patronos eidem vicario generali extitit presentatus, admisit in persona sua propria, et vicarium perpetuum do person- aliter et continue inibi resideudo iuxta exigenciam constitucionum Icgatinarum in ea parte editarum primitus iuratum, instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertiuentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuctudinibus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino Johanna Cutteler canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius ofticiali vt moris est. Institucio pectoris Ecclesie parrochialis de Staulegh. Item, vicesimo die mensis Julii, Anno Domini supradicto, ante- fatus vicarius generalis apud Wclliam, dominum Johanncm Sewell, capellanum, ad ecclesiam parrochialem de Staulegh, Bathoniensis ct Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Willdnii 14 EEGISTRUM ItlCAKDI FOX, Eose vltimi et inmediati rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ail qnam per e"Tef;iuni \innn Aniisiiun Pnwlelt milituni, dicte ecclesie patronum, prefato vicario generali extitit presentatus, adniisit in perf30iia sua propria et rectorem instituit canonice in eadern cum suis iuribus et perlinentiis vniuersis ; curam aniniarum parrochianorum ipsius ecclesie silii in Domino plcnius committendo, iuribus et con- suetudinibus, etc. Et prestito per eundem admissum et institutiim canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius iuduc- tione Archidiacouo Taunton' seu eius officiali, vt moris est. Institucio capellani cantarie perpetue Sancte Marie de Ichelstoke. Item, septimo die mensis Augusti Anno Domini supradicto memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, apud Welliam, dominum Eobertum ]\Iacy capellanuni ad cantariam perpetuam Beate Marie de Ichestoke, Batliouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, vacantem, ad quam per egregium virum Amisium Poulett militem, verum dicte cantarie patronum, eidem vicario generali extitit pre- sentatus, in persona sua propria admisit et capellanuni perpetuum de obseruando statuta et ordinaciones ipsius cantarie iuxta fundacionem et ordinacionem eiusdem iuratum, instituit canonice in et de eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam, rerrimen et administracionem illius cantarie sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Et prestito per dictum dominum Eobertum Macy canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione Arcliidiacono Taunton' seu eius oflficiali, vt est moris. Institucio vicarii Ecclesie parrochialis de Frome. Vltimu die mensis Augusti Anno Domini supradicto, memo- BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 15 ratus vicariuR f^eneralis apud "Welliam, dominum Eobertum Olyver presbiteniiu ad vicariam perpetuain ecclesie parrochialis de Frome, Bathoniensis ct Wellensis diocesis, per liberam et spontaneam rcBignacionem domiiii Joliannis Caiitloo, prions ecclesie Catliedralis Batlioiiie, vacanteui, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros, Abljatem et Convcutum Monasterii Beate Marie Virginis Ciren- cestr', ordinis sancti Augustini, veros dicte vicarie patronos eideiu vicario generali extitit preseiitatus, admisit in persona sua projuia et vicariinn perpetuum de personaliter et coutiuuo inibi residendo iuxta exigenciam constituciouum legatinanim in ea parte editaruni priniitus iuratum instituit canonice in eadcni cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis, curam animaruin parrocbianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuetu- dinibus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem Domino Roberto 01}^er canonice obedientie iuramento, scrij)tum fuit pro ipsius inductioue Archi- diacono Wellensi seu eius officiali. Commissio Commissarii Generalis, llicardus permissione diuina Batboniensis et Wellensis episcopus, dilecto nobis in Cbristo filio Magistro Eicardo Doclieson in vtroque iure bacallario salutem, gratiam et beuedictionem. Cuncta nobis detecta commissa personaliter exercere non valentes, ac de tuis circumspectione et industria plurimum in Domino confidentes, ad cognoscendum et procedendum in omnibus et singulis causis et negociis ex officio nostro niero, mixto, seu promoto, contra subditos infra nostras ciuitatem et diocesem, necnon infi-a nostram pecu- liarem iurisdiccionem de Cberd, Cbewe et Wellyngton' delinquentes, uel eorum aliqnem uel aliquos motis uel mouendis ; de quibus criminibus et excessibus quorumcunqne subditorum nostrorum huiusmodi quociens opus fuerit inquirendum ; crimiuaque et defectus subditorum uostrorum huiusmodi corrigendum puui- 16 REGISTRUM EICAUDI FOX, enclum et refonnandum, penitentiasque condignas eis et eorum cuilibet pro commissis iniungenduin ; ac tcstamciita et ultimas defuuctorum voluntates vbicunque infra iioslram diocesein, quorum testamentorum et vltimarum voluutatum probacio, appro- bacio et insinuacio ad nos de iure at consuetudine pertineant, probandum, approbandum et insiimandum ; et pro valore huius- modi testamentorum et vltimarum voluutatum ]ironunciandum; administracionesque bonorum subditorum liuiusmodi testancium, et ab iutestato decedencium, illis quibus de iure fuerit committendum in debita iuris forma committendum ; compotumque, calculum et raciocinium administracionis Imiusmodi audiendura et recij)iendum ; ac soluentes quoscunque liberandura et acquietandum ; necnon fructus et prouentus, iuraque et emolumenta quorumcunque bene- ficiorum infra ambitum nostrarum diocesis et iurisdiccionis pecu- liaris prodictarum, et alia bona quecunque subditorum nostrorum huiusmodi in casibus a iure et consuetudine permissis, vocatis de iure vocandis, legitime sequestrandum, ac eas et ea sub arto et secure custodire sequestro mandandum et faciendum ; ceteraquc omnia et singxila faciendum, exercendum et expediendum que in premissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint sen quomodolibet oportuna. Et que ad huiusmodi coniissariatus ofiicium qualitercumque noscuntur pertinere, tibi tenore presencium committimus vices nostras, teque commissarium nostrum generalem ac peculiaris iurisdiccionis nostre antedicte officialera cum coliercionis cuiuslibet canonice potestate prefecimus et deputamus per presentes ad nostrum beneplacitura duraturas. Datum sub sigillo nostro in manerio nostro extra Barras Noui Temidi ciuitatis Loudon' primo die mensis Septembris, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc"° nonagesimo ijii" et nostre translationis anno primo. BATnON, ET WELL. EPISCOri. 17 Institucio vicarii Ecclesie parrochialis de Lydearde episcopi. Item, vicesimo vj'° ilie mensis Septembris Anno Domini supra- scriptn, anli'fiitus vicarius generalis apud Welliam doiuinum Tlioniani A\"ebber presbiterum, vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parro- chialis de Lydearde episcopi, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam et spontaneam resignacionem domini Johannis Alyen' vltimi et immediati vicarii oinsdem vacantem, ad quam per venera- biles viros decanum et capitulum ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, veros eiusdem vicarie patronos, eidem vicario general! extitit pre- sentatus, admisit in persona sua propria, et vicarium perpetuum de persoualiter et continue inibi residendo, necnon de fideliter soluendo annuatini dicto domino Johanni Alyen' dictani vicariam resii,'nanti, quamdiu idem Johannes Alej'u' vixerit in hnmanis, animani pen- sionem xxs. ad ij°' auni terminos equis porcionibus, videlicet, ad festa Pasche et Sancti Jlichaelis Archangeli, primitus iuratum insti- tuit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertineutiis vniuersis ; cinam animarum parrochianorum ipsius ecclesie parrochialis sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuriljus et cousuetudiuilnis, etc. Et recejito ab eodem domino Thoma Webber canouice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione decano et capilulo dicte ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis seu eorum officiali. Institucio vicarii de Pytmyster. Item, secundo die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini suprascripto, antefatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis in ecclesia conuen- tuali de Bruton', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, dominuni Johannem Leveson capellanum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parrochialis de Pytmyster, dicte Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Johannis Sweyn' vltimi et immediati vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros c 18 EEGISTRUM RICAUDI FOX, priorem et conuentum prioratus de Taunton veros eiusdem vicaiie patronos eidem vicario general! extitit presentatus, adniisit iu persona sua jirnpria et vicariuni perpetuuni de personaliter et con- tinuo inibi residendo, iuxta vim ibrmam et efl'ectum constitucionum legatinarum iu ea parte editarum, primitus iuratum, instituit canonice in et de eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam aniniarum parrocliianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Doniino plenius committendo, iurilms et cousuetudimbus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino Johaune Leveaon canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius iiiductione Archidiacono Taunton' seu eius officiali vt est inoris. Processus Inquisicionis facte de et super jure ecclesie parrocMalis de Selworthy. Quarto die mensis Septembris Anno Domini supradicto, ante- fatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis in ecclesia parrochiali de Selworthy, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, auctoritate et vigore ofScii sui Imiusmodi, ad effectum subscriptum iudicialiter sedens, inquisicionem fecit debitam et canouicam de et super iure ecclesie parrochialis de Selworthy predicte per inquisitores viros discretes et iu ea parte ydoneos : videlicet, sex rectores et vicarios et alios sex viros laicos honestos et fidediguos dicte ecclesie viciniores, iuris patrouatus illius ecclesie et aliorum articulorum in tali negocio haberi et inquiri consuetorum, et de iure debitam noticiam veresimiliter meliorem obtinentes, in forma iuris iuratos et examinatos, vocatis primitus iuxta iuris exigeuciam per monicionem legitimam in ecclesia parrochiali autedicta factam, omnibus et singulis ius aut interesse aliquod in ea parte habentibus seu habere pretendentibus. Qui quidem inquisitores asserunt et affirmant quod dicta ecclesia parrochialis de Selworthy vacauit et vacare incepit mense Julii vltimo trausaeto per mortem domini Johannis I BATIION. ET WELL. EriSCOPI. 19 C(ilj-ng' vltimi rectovis eiusdem, (jiio die pretacti meusis Julii noii recolunt. Etiam dicunt quod Johannes Vogge miles vltimo pre- sentauit ad eandem in iuro Alicie vxoris Willelmi Saynte Johan, Et quod Johannes Avundell' Treres Arniiger est verus patronus eiusdem ecclesie, et lialiet ius presentandi hac vice iure hereditario. Et quod idem Johannes est seisitus in manerio de Estluccomlje cum suis pertineutiis, vna cum aduocacionibus ecclesiarum parro- cliialium de Esthiccombe et Selwortliy in dominico suo vt de feodo talliato. Et quod eadem ecclesia parrocliialis de Selwortliy est pensionaria Monasterio de Athelney in xls. per annum, et collegio de Eton' in xx.s. ac porcionaria ecclesie parrochiali de Estluccombe ad valorem octo uel xs. communibus annis. Insujier quod non obuiat aliquid nee oliest presentanti aut presentato pre- dicto de canonicis institutis. Et (piod presentatus ad eandem ecclesiam per sepedictum Johannem Arundell' Armigerum, est liber, legitimus et j'doneus in ordine sacerdotali ac etate legitima con- stitutns. Eciam est alibi beneficiatus, quia est rector ecclesie parrocliialis sancte Ladoce, ac porcionarius porcionis de Clare in ecclesia parrochiali de Twyuerton, Exoniensis diocesis ; preteria quod non est aliqua paccio sine simoniaca prauitas inter pre- sentantem et presentatum vt dicunt. Insuper dicunt quod preteusa aduocacio Roberti Arundell' facta Johanni Bryswod et Thome Vpcote coniunctim et diuisim de ecclesia parrochiali predicta nuUius est efifectus, nee vllum delict sortiri effectum de iure, pro eo et ex 60, quod quidam Willelmus Saynte Johan, Armiger, fuit seisitus in manerio de Estluccombe cum pertineutiis, vna cum aduocacioni- bus ecclesiarum parrochialium de Estluccombe et Selwortliy in dominico suo vt de feodo talliato ; et cepit in vxorem quandam Aliciam et siue herediljus de corpora suo seisitus decessit, post cuius mortem dicta Alicia fuit seisita in manerio de Estluccombe cum pertineutiis, vna cum aduocacionibus predictis in dinniuico suo vt c 2 20 EEGISTRUJI RICAEDI FOX, de libero tenemento racione dotis sue, ex dotacione ipsius AVillelmi Saynte Johan, rai et mariti sui. Post cuius Alicie mortem dictum manerium de Estluccoiii^e per (cum) pertiuentiis vna cum aduo- cacionibus ecclesiarum predictarum accreuit dicto Johanui Arimdell' armigero, vt consauguinio et proximo heredi dicti Willelmi Sajiite Johan, et quia illud manerium de Estluccombe cum pertiuentiis, yna cum aduocacionibus predictis erat talliatus, vt in forma pre- dicta ; et similiter predicta Alicia erat seisita vt premittitur tempore concessionis aduocacionis facte per dictum Eobertum de eadem. Ac eadem Alicia predictum Eobertum superuixit, qua de re dicta aduocacio nullum debet de iure sortiri effectum vt dicunt. Institucio ecclesie parrochialis de Selworthy. Item, xxij"'° die meusis Octobris, Anno Domini suprascri])to, sepedictus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis apud Welliam, domi- num Eadulphum Henkes, presbiterum, ad ecclesiam parroclnalem de Selwortliy, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Johannis Colyng', vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per prouidum virum Johaunem Arundell' Trerise, armigerum, verum eiusdem ecclesie patronum, eidem vicario general! extitit presentatus, admisit in persona Johannis Glover literati, et rec- torem instituit cauonice in et de eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertiuentiis vniueris ; curam animarum parrochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et con- suetudinibus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem Johanne canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione Archidiacono Taunton sen eius ofQciali vt moris est. BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPT. 21 Processus inquisicionis facte de et super iure patronatus ecclesie parrochialis de Castel- cary. Veneral)ili ac circumspecto viro Magistro Eicardo Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctori, caiiouico ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis, ac reuerendi iu Christo patris et domini domini Ricardi permissione diuina Bathouiensis et Welleusis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suaiii diocesem in remotis ageiite, vicario iu spiritualilius geuerali, vester liuniilis et deuotus llicardus Dochesou, iu ytntipio iure bacallarius, vester ad iufrascripta commissarius specialiter et legitime deputatus, omuimodam obedientiaui et reuerenciani cum honore. Literas vestras reuereudas cum ea qua decuit reuereucia recepi sub eo qui sequitur teuore verborum : — Ricardus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor, cauonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis ac reuerendi in Christo patris et domiui domiui Ricardi permissione diuina Bathouiensis et Welleusis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suam diocesem iu remotis agente, vicarius iu spiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Cliristo Magistro Ricardo Dochesou, in vtro(pie jure bacallario, dicti reuerendi patris per dictam suam Batlionieusem et Welleusem diocesem commissario ac sequestrator! geuerali, salutera iu omnium Saluatore. Cum nuper veuerabiles et religiosi viri Prior et conuentus ecclesie Cathedralis Batho- uiensis, dominum Willchuum Lutte presbiterum ad vicariam per- petuam ecclesie parrochialis de Castelcary, dicte Bathouiensis et Welleusis diocesis, per mortem domiui Nicholai Whethyll', vltimi vicarii eiusdem, vt asseritur, vacautem et ad earum presen- taciouem, vti pretenduut, spectantem, nobis presentarunt. Nos igitur dictis presentauti et presentato iusticie complemcntum cum fauore debito ministrare voleutes, de iureque patronatus illius ecclesie et ipsius iuris possessione, modoquc et forma vaca- cionis eiusdem cerciores effici cupientes, ad procedendum et dili- 22. EEGISTEUM lilCAKDI FOX, genter inquirendum, vocatis primitus in liac parte de iure vocandis, de et super buiusmodi patronatus iure et possessione, de modoque et forma vacacionis eiusdem ; videlicet, quis illius ecclesie verus sit jiatrouus, aut qui sint veri patroui ; quis aut (^ui vltimum dicte vicarie vicarium presentauerit seu presentauerint ad eandem ; necnon ad quem seu quos et quo titulo ius presentandi ad ipsam vicariam hac vice pertineat ; ac qualiter et a quo tempore ilia vacauit, de ceterisque articulis et circumstauciis in tali uegocio iaquiri et haberi consuetis in ecclesia parrocbiali de Castelcary predicta nono die mensis Nouembris proximo future, per rectores et vicarios ad omnes minus sex in numero, et alios sex viros laicos bonestos et fidedignos premissorum noticiam veresimiliter meli- grem babentes, in forma iuris iuratos et examinatos, assumpto Magistro Eoberto Dykar notario publico in scribam, ceteraque omnia et singula in tali negocio necessaria seu quomodolibet oportuna faciendo et exercendo, vobis de cuius fidelitate et cir- cumspectionis industria satis confidimus, committimus vices nostras ac plenara in Domino facultatem cum cuiuslibet cober- cionis canonice exequendique que in bac parte decreueritis potes- tate. Et quid feceritis in premissis nos quam cicius commode poteritis debite certificetis per literas vestras clausas barum lite- rarum nostrarum inquisicionis vestre seriem, vna cum nominilnis et cognomiuibus earum personarum per quas iuquiri contigerit, plenarie continentes, sigillo autentico ac ipsorum inquisitorum sigillis pendentibus consignatas. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri presentibus apponi fecimus. Datum Wellie, j"" die mensis Nouembris, Auno Domini millesimo cccc"'° nonagesimo ij"^" et translationis dicti reuerendi patris anno primo. Tost quarum quidem literarum vestrarum recepcionem, et oneris earundem in me Eicardum Doclieson', assumpsionem, earum auctoritate et vigore, vocatis omnibus et singulis suum putanlibus BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 23 iuteresse et de iure vocandis in genere, de et super iure patronatus ecclesie parrochialis de Castelcary predicte, necnon super omnibus et singulis in Uteris commissionis nice antedicte specificatis in ecclesia parrocliiali predicta, nono die instautis mensis Nouembris, Anno Domini suprascripto ad effectum inquisicionis huiusmodi fiendum, preiixo et assignato per prouidos vires dominos Thoinam Davell' rectorem de Maperton, dominum Johannem Samford, rectorem de Almsfford, Kectorem Osborn, rectorem de Sowthe Cadebery, Willelmum Goodwyn, rectorem de Blacford, Wil- lemum Whebbery, rectorem de Haltou, Tbomam Savvcer, rectorem de Northeborow, necnon prouidos et honestos viros Kicardum Wych, Willelmmu IMabbeley, Hugonem Eagland, Willelmum Feyrman, Ricardum Eowell, et Walterum Pole, veritatis noticiam veresimiliter in bac parte obtinentes, coram me citatos comjiarentes de veritate premissorum dicenda in forma iuris iuratos, in([uisi- cionem feci diligentcm pariter et fidelem. Qui quidem iurati per eorum sacramenta prestita dicunt, quod dicta ecclesia par- rochialis de Castelcary vacat et vacare incepit vj'° die mensis Octobris vltimo elapso per mortem naturaleni domini Nicholai Jonys alias Whethyll vltimi vicarii eiusdem. Dicunt eciam quod venerabiles et religiosi viri prior et conueutus ecclesie Cathedralis Batlioniensis sunt veri patroni eiusdem ecclesie parrochialis de Castelcary iure et titulo suis. Et quidem veuerabilis in Christo pater dompnus Willelmus Sowthbroke quondam prior dicte ecclesie Cathedralis Bathoniensis et eiusdem loci conuentus presen- tarunt dictum dominum Nicholaum Jonys alias Harrys vltimura vicarium eiusdem. lusuper tlicunt quod venerabiles ac religiosi viri prior et conuentus dicte ecclesie Cathedralis Bathoniensis fuerunt et sunt in pacitica possessione iuris presentandi. I'^t ([uod dictus dominus Willelmus modo presentatus est lilier, legitinms et ydoueus, ac in ordine sacerdotal! coustituUis, et quod habet pre- 24 JfEGISTRUM lilCARDI FOX, bendam in ecclesia collegiata Salopie. Quam quidem iuquisicioneni sic, vt premittitur, per me vestra auctoritate in liac parte captani sigillo officii comissariatus Bathouieusis et Welleusis diocesis, quod ad manus habctur, impresso et pendente, et eorum per qiios hniiismodi iuquisicio capta fuit sigillis pendeutibus consignatam, ipsorum nomiua et coguomina ac vestre comniissioiiis tenorem in se contiuentem transmitto in fidem et testimonivim omnium et singulorum premissorum, assumpto mihi in huiusmodi iuquisicionis negocio notario publico milii demandato in scribam. Datum in ecclesia parrocliiali de Castelcary antedicta, die et anno supra- dictis. Institucio vicarii ecclesie parrochialis de Castelcary. Item, x"'" die niensis Nouembris, Anno Domini predicto, memo- ratus vicarius generalis in domo sue solite residencie Wellie, dominum Willelmum Lutte capellaniim ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parrochialis de Castelcary, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Nicholai Whethyll' alias Harrys, vltimi vicarii eiusdem, vacautem, ad quam per venerabiles et reli- giosos viros priorem et conuentum ecclesie Cathedralis Batlio- niensis veros dicte ecclesie patronos prefato vicario in spiritualibus generali extitit preseutatus, admisit in persona sua propria, ac vicarium perpetuum de personaliter et continue inibi residendo, iuxta exigenciam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum, iuratum, instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et per- tinentiis vniuersis; curam animarum parrochianorum ipsius ecclesie parrochialis sibi in Domino plenius committeudo, iuribus et consuetudinibus episcopalibus, etc. Et prestito per dictum dominum Willelmum Lutte canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductioue ArchiJiacono WcUousi seu eius official!, vt moris est. BATHON. ET WELL. EPLSCOPI. 25 Commissio facta domino Thome episcopo Tinensi ad reconciliandum. et benedicendum ecclesiam parochialem de Yestepennard. Uicanlus Xykkc vtiiusinie i\u'is iloetor, etc. Janierenciana tanto patri debitaiu cum honorc. Ad reconciliaiidiuu et l)L'iie- dicendum eccletnam ]inn'oclualem de Yestpennard dicte Batlio- niensis et Welleii.sis diocesis, per sanguinis effusionem, vt infor- mamur, nnper poUutani, necnon ad cetera omnia faciendum, exercendum et expediendum que in ea parte fuerint de iure quomodolibet rcquisita, vobis commilimus plenam in Domino potestatem, rogantes attente quatiniis liuiusmodi negocio expedito DOS de omni eo quod feceritis in Iiac parte, ac eciam de die recon- ciliacionis et benedictionis sic per vos faciendarum, velitisplene ac ])lane reddere cerciores. Datum .sub sigillo nostro Wellie xxiiij die mensis Nouendiris Anno Domini millesimo supradicto et translacionis dicti rcuerendi patris anno primo. Institucio vicar[ii] ecclesie parrochialis de Wedmore. Item, xviij'"" die pretacti mensis Nouembris, Anno Domini predicto, memoratus vicarius in sjiiritualibus generalis in dome solite sue re.sidencie Wellie, Magistrum Joliannem Eetford, theo- logie bacallarium, ad vicanam perpetuam ecclesie parrocliialis de Wedmore, r.allionicnsis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Eogeri Jannys, vltimi vicarii eiusdem, vacantem, ad quam per venerabilem virum Magistrum Joliannem GunthorjJC decauum ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis, verum dicte vicarie patronum, pre- fato vicario in spiritualibus general! extilit extitit (sic) pieseiitatus, admisit in persona Magistri Johannis Standerwyke notarii publici, et vicarium de continue et personaliter inibi residendo primitus iuratum instituit canoiiice in et de eadein cum suis iuribus et 26 REGISTRUM KICARDI FOX, pertinentiis vuiuersis ; curaiu aniiaaruiu parrochianonim ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus episcopalibus, etc. Et recepto ab eoilem caiionice obedientie iuianiento scriptmu fuit pro ipsius inductione Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius otliciali. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parrochialis de Orchardeley. Item, xxvj'" die mensis Nouembris Anno Domini supradicto, Magister Wnielmus Bokatt decretorum doctor, vices dicti vicarii in spiritualiljus generalis gerens, in domo solite sue residencie Wellie, Magistrum Johannera Ester fyld, arcium magistrum, ad ecclesiam parrochialem de Orcliardeley, Bathoniensi et Wellensi diocese per mortem domini Thome Clymmowe vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacautem, ad quam per probum virum Henricum Champ- neys Armigerum, verum eiusdem ecclesie patronum eidem vicario extitit prescntatus, adniisit in jjersona domini Bicardi capellanum et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus etc. iuriljus episcopalibus etc. Et recej)to ab eodem canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit j)ro ipsius inductione Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali vt est moris. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parrochialis de Cliarleconi[be]. Item, xj™" die mensis Decembris Anno Domini supradicto, prefatus Magister Willelmus Bokatt, in domo solite sue residencie AVellie doniinnm Thomara Yong' presbiterum ad ecclesiam j^ar- rochialem de Charlecombe, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam resignacionem domini Henrici Thomas vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per probum virum Morganum Thomas, verum eiusdem ecclesie patronum, eidem extitit prescntatus, ad- niisit in persona sua propria et rectorem instituit canonice in et BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 27 de cadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis viiiuersis etc. iiirilms episcopaliljus etc. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obedit'utic iuraiueuto, scriptum fuit pro ipsius inductione ArcLidiacouo Batlioiiieusi seu eius ofliciali vt est moris. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis do Kulmyngton'. Vltimo die meiisis Decenibris Anno Domini supradicto, me- nioratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, in ecclesia Cathedrali Wellensi, dominnm Alcxandrum Giles presbytcrum ad ecclesiam parochialem de Kulmyngton, Batliouiensis et Welluusis dioccsis, per mortem domini Johaunis Rose vltimi rectoris eiusdem va- cantem, ad quani per venerabiles et religiosas mulieres abba- ti.s.sam et connentum monastorii Sliaftnu', veras eiu.sdem ecclesie patrouas, prefato vicario generali extitit presentatu.s, adnii.sit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et perti- nentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino plenins -committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus etc. Et pre.stito jier eundem admissum canonice obedientie iura- mento, scriptum i'nit pro ipsius indiccione (sic) Archidiacouo Wellensi seu eius ofliciali vt est moris. Institucio Cantarie de Wyke. xxvij" die Januarii Anno Domini supradicto, antenominatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis dominum Robertum Pryde, capc'llanum, ad perpetuam Cantariam Beate Margarete de Wyke, Batliouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem Magistri Ricardi Birde vltimi capellani eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per noliileni virum Amisium Paulet militem, verum dicte Cantarie patronum, prefato vicario generali extitit presentatus, admisit et capellanum iustituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vni- 28. EEGISTEUSI KICARDI FOX, uersis, iuribus etc. Et prestito per eundem admissum canonice obedieutie iuramento, scriptuin fuit pro ipsius iuduccione Arclii- diacouo Tauntou' seu eius officiali vt est moris. Collacio archidiaconatus Taunton' cum pre- benda de Miluerton Prima, etc. xviij die Febiuarii Anno Domini supradicto, dominiis iu Hospicio suo extra Barras Noui Templi London', Archidiaconatum Taunton' et prebendam de Miluerton Prima in eadem vacantem, contulit Magistro Willelmo Worsley legum doctori intuitu cari- tatis, ipsumque Archidiaconura et prebendarium prebeude de Miluerton Prima canonice instituit et inuistiuit in et de eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis. Scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Magistro Thome Harrys etc. Institucio vicarii ecclesie parochialis de Longeashton'. \'ltimo die Februarii, Anno Domini supradicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis doniinum Tliomam Draper presbiterum ad perpetuam vicariam ecclesie parochialis de Longe- ashton Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam resignacio- neni domini Wilhelmi Corbette vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam jjer venerabiles et religiosos viros priorem et conuentum ecclesie Cathedralis Bathoniensis, veros eiusdem vicarie patronos, prefato vicario generali extitit presentatus, admisit et vicarium perpetuum de continue et personaliter resideudo iu eadem iuxta forniam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum iuratuin, canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vni- uersis ; curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus etc. Et prestito per eundom ad- missum canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 29 induccionc Archidiacono Bathoniensi scu cius ofllciali \\t iiKiris est. Institucio vicarii ecclesie parochialis de Hasilbere. Secundo die mensis Marcii, Anno Domini supradicto, pre- noniinatus vicarius doniinuni Ilobertum Balche capellanum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie prebendalis de Hasilbere, Batlioni- ensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Eicardi Ilolte vltimi vicarii einsdem vacantem, ad qnam per venerabilem virum JIagistrum Walterum Kuyztley cauouiciim ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis ac prebendarium prebeude predicts verum dicte vicarie patronum, prefato \acario generali extitit presentatus, admisit et vicarium perpetmim de continue et personaliter residendo in eadcm iuxta formam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem, (sic) suis inribus et per- tinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, inribus etc. Et prestito per eundem admissum canonice obedientie iuramento scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione decano seu eius officiali etc, Collacio ecclesie parrochialis Sancte Marie Maioris de Ilchestre. xxi die mensis Marcii Anno Domini supradicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis ecclesiam parochialem Sancte Marie Maioris de Ilchestre, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Jacobi Fitzharrys vltimi rectoris vacantem, et ad collacionem dicti reuerendi patris pleno iure spectantem, Ma- gistro Thome Alphyn' in legibus bacallario contulit intuitu cari- tatis, ipsumque rectorem auctoritate dicti reuerendi jiatris sibi commissa canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et 30 REGISTRUiM liUAinU FOX, pertinentiis vniuersis ; cuvam animanuii parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sil)i in Dininno committendo, iuiilms etc. Receptoijiie al) eodeiu adiiiisso canonice obudieiitie iuraiiientn, scriiitum fviit pro ipsius iuducciouo Arcliidiacoiio Welleusi seu cius olliciali ut est moris. Collacio ecclesie parochialis de Chelworth. xxiij° die iiiensis JIarcii Aimo Domini predicto, nieiuoratus vicarius iu spiritiialibus generalis eeclesiara parocliialem de Chelworth per liberam resignaeionem domini Willelmi Albone vltinii pectoris eiusdem vacantem, et ad conacioiiem dicti reue- rendi patris pleno iure spectantem, domino Eicardo Halle pres- liitero contulit intuitu caritatis, ipsumque rectorem eiusdem ecclesie auctoritate dicti reuereudi patris sibi in hac parte com- missa canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinen- tiis vniuersis, curam animarum parochianorum ijisius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus etc. Eeceptoque ab eodem admisso canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Bathoniensi seu cius officiali ut nioris est. (Sic) EQUITUR ANNUS DOMINI MILLESIMUS CCCC""" NONAGESIMUS TEECIUS. Collacio prepositure ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis et prebende de Comba xij^ eidem annexa. Altimo die mensis Marcii Anno Domini i^redicto, dictus Eeuerendus pater in hospicio suo e.xtra Barram Noui Tenipli London,' preposituram ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis ac pre- BATHON. ET ■WF.i.i.. iTisrori. 31 bendam de Conilia xij uiilem aiinexani vacantes et ad suani cdlla- cioneiu pleno iure spcctautes, Magistro Thome Barowe contulit intuitu caritatis, ipsumque preixisitum et prebendarimu cano- nice instituit et inuestiuit in et de eisdem cum suis iurilnis et pertinentiis vniuersis, iuribus etc. Et scriptnm fnit pro ijisins induccione Magistris "Willehno Pxiket et Joliauni Stevyns cauo- uicis ecclesie Cathedralis predicte etc. Institucio vicarie de Barowe. Primo die niensis Aprilis Anuo Domini predicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritnalibns generalis ]\Iagi,striim Eobertnm William- son notarium publicum ad ■s'icariam perpetuam ecclesie parocliialis de Barowe cauoiiice instituit, ad quam per venerabilem viium Magistrum Willelmum Nykke Arcliidiaconum Wellensem extitit prcsentatum, et scriptura fuit pro ipsius induccione Arcbidiacono Wellensi seu eius otiiciali vt est moris. Collacio vicarie de Stowey iuxta Chewe. Eisdem die et anno predicto, prefatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis auctoritate dicti reuerendi patris sibi in liac parte com- missa, contulit domino Thome Smyth capellano vicariam per- petuam ecclesie parochialis de Stowey iuxta Chewe vacantem. Scriptum fuit pro ipsius indiccione (sic) ofi&ciali peculiaris iurisdic- ciouis de Chewe, vt in forma. Collacio camere none ex parte oriental! clausi vicariorum Wellie. Eodem die et Anno Domini jiredicto, memoratus \acarius in spiritualiljus generalis apud Welles cameram nonam ex parte orieutali clausi vicariorum Wellie vacantem auctoritate prefati 32 EEGISTRUM RICAUDI FOX, reuerendi patris sibi in ea parte comniissa, Thome Ferre vicario chorali ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis coutulit iutiiitu caritatis, iuxta statuta et onliiiacioiies recoleiule memnrie doiiiiiii liadulphi de Salopia quondani ISatlioniL-nsis et Welleusis episcopi in ea parte editos possideiulain. Et super hoc lileras obtinuit sub coni- muui forma conceiitas etc. Institucio ecclesie parrochialis de Pytteney. Item, ij''" die mensis Aprilis Anno Domini predicto, pre- nominatiis vicarius in spiritualibus geueralis Tliomam Baker clericum ad ecclesiam parochialem de Pytteney, Bathouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam resignacionem domiui Willulmi Fulbroke vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacautem, ad quam per discretam mulierem Agnetem Morton viduam veram dicte ecclesie patronam, eidem vicario in sjiiritualibus geuerali extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et perti- nentis vniuersis, iurilius et consuetudinibus etc. Et prestito per eundem Thomam Baker canonice ol)edientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius iuduccione Archidiacono Taunton sen eius officiali ut est moris etc. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Holford. Item, eisdem die et anno memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis dominum Henricum Fychett capellanum ad ecclesiam parrochialem de Holford, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, vacantem, ad quam per venerabilem virum magistrum Henricum Bost prepositum coUegii regalis Beate Alarie de Eton' iuxta Windesoram, verum eiusdem ecclesie patronum, eidem vicario in spiritualibus generali extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis, curam animarum parocliianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in BATHON. ET WELL. EriSCOPL 33 Dnmino plenius committcndo, iiirilnis et consuetudinibus episcopal- ibus, etc. Et prestito per supradictum doiainum Heuricum Fycliett canonicc obedieiitie iurameuto, .scriptinu fuit pro ipsius iiiduccioue Arcliidiacono Tauulon' sen eius otliciali ut est moiis. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Ore. Itein, eisdein die et aiiiio supradictis, menioratu.s vicavins in spiriLualibu.s generalis domiumu Thomam Sniytli capellaimm ad ecclesiam parocliialem de Ore, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domiui vltimi rectoris eiusdem, ad quam per discretum virum Henricum Kelly generosum verum dicte ecclesie patrouum, eideni vicario extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorein in persona Johannis Glover literati, procuratoris sui sufficientis in hac parte constituti, canouice instituit in eadcm, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianornm ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committcndo, iurilnis et consuetudinibus episcopal ibus, etc. Et prestito per eundem dominum Thomam Smyth canonicc obedieutie iurameuto, scriptum fuit jiro ipsius induccione Archidiacouo Taunton' seu eius ofliciali, ut est moris. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Kyttenore. Item, eisdem die ct anno predictis, prenominatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, dominum Johannem Midelham capellanum ad ecclesiam parocliialem de Kyttenor, Bathoniensis et Wellensis dioce.sis, per mortem domini Henrici Lymyn, vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem,ad quam ]ier probum virum Nicholaum Brattou' armigcrum veram dicte ecclesie patronum, eidcm vicario extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentis vniuersis; curam animarum parochi- anornm ipsius ecclesie .sil>i in Domino comniittendo, iuribus, etc. Et prestito per supradictum dominum Johannem Midlchaui D 34 EEGISTEUM RICAKDI FOX, cauonice obedientie iurameuto, scriptum fait pro ipsius iiuluccioiie Archidiacouo Tauuton' stni eius officiali, et (sic) moris est. Collacio prebende de Dynder in ecclesia Cathedral! Wellensi. Item, duodecimo die meusis Aj^rilis Anno Domini predicto, dictns Eeuereudus pater in manerio suo de Dogmersfeld, canoni- catum in ecclesia sua Catliedrali Wellensi et prebendani de Dynder in eadem per liberam resignacionem domini Willelmi Pavy, vltinii possessoris eorundem vacantes et ad suam collacionem pleuo iure spectantes, domino Johanni Menyman presbitero, contulit intuitu caritatis et ipsum canonicum et prel)endarium instituit et inuestiuit canonice in eisdem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem domino Johanna ]\Ieuyman canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius iuduccione dccano vel subdecano ecclesie Cathedralis WeUensis, seu in eorum abseucia president! capituli et capitulo eiusdem ut moris est. Collacio prebende de Asshill. Item, eisdem die et anno predictis, prefatus reuerendus pater in manerio suo de Dogmersfeld canonicatum in ecclesia sua Cathedral! Wellensi et prebendam de Asshill in eadem per mortem Magistri Johauuis Wanesford vltim! jiossessoris eorundem vacantes, et ad suam collacionem pleno iure spectantes, Magistro Eadulpho Lepton in legibus bacallario presbitero contulit intuitu caritatis, et ipsum canonicum et prebendarium instituit et inuestiuit canonice in eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione decauo, etc., ut supra. BATHON. ET WKl.L. EPISCOM. 35 Collacio prebende de Comba Octaua. Item, eisdeni die et anno supradictis dictus reuerendus pater in manerio suo predicto canoiiicatum in ecclesia sua Cathcilrali Wellensi et prebendam de Comba viij* per mortem ma^istri Johanuis Taylour sacre theologie professoris vltimi possessoris eorundem vacantes, et ad suam collaciouem pleno iure spectantes, magistro .Tohaiini Retford in sacra theologia bacallario prosbitoro contulit intuitu caritatis, et ipsum cauouicum et prebcndarium instituit et inuestiuit canonice in eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obedientie iuramento scriptum fuit pro ipsius iuduccioiie decano, etc., ut supra. Collacio prebende de Shalforde. Item, eisdem die et anno preibctis pret'atus Eenei'cndus pater in manerio suo predicto cauonicatum in ecclesia Catliedrali Wellensi et prebendam de Shalford per liberam- resignacionem magistri Willehni Boket vltimi possessoris eorundem vacantes, et ad suam collacionem pleno iure spectantes, magistro Petro Carse- legh in sacra theologia bacallario contulit intuitu caritatis, et ipsum canonicum et prebendarium instituit et inuestiuit canonice in eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obedientie iuramento scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione decano, etc., ut supra. Collacio prebende de Whitlakyngton'. Item, xvj" die eiusdem nicnsis Apiilis Anno Domini predicto, prefatus Reuerendus pater in manerio suo predicto cauonicatum in ecclesia .sua Cathedrali Wellensi et prebendam de Wliitlakyngton' in eadein, per mortem magistri Joliannis Lascy vltimi canonici et prebendarii eorundem vacantes, et ad suam ct)llacionem pleno iure D 2 36 REGISTEUM EICARDI FOX, spectantes, Magistro Willelmo Boket decretorum doctori contulit intuitu caritatis, et ipsum canonicum et prebendarium instituit et inuestiuit canonice in eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obedientie iurameuto scrijjtum fuit pro induccione ut in forma. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Aysholte. Item, vltimo die eiusdem meusis Aprilis et Anno Domini pre- dicto, memoratus vicarius ia spiritualibus generalis domiuum Jobannem Pawle capellanum ad ecclesiam parocbialem de Ays- holte, Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis, per mortem domini Thome Harrys vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per probimi virum Jobannem Courteney Armigerum, verum eiusdem ecclesie patronum, prefato %'icario generali extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parrochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus episcopalibus, etc. Et prestito per eundem admissum cauouice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archi- diacono Taunton' seu eius of&ciali ut est moris. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Wol- feryngton. Item ij*^" die mensis Maii Anno Domini predicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis dominum Eicardum Dale ad ecclesiam parocbialem de Wolferyngton, Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis, vacantem, ad quam per probum virum Jobannem Torny Armigerum, consanguineum et heredem Walteri Torney, nuper de Wolferyngton Armigeri, videlicet, filium et heredem Philippi Torney, filii et heredis Thome Torney, lilii et heredis predicti Walteri, verum eiusdem ecclesie patronum, prefato vicario generali I BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 37 extitit presentatns, admisit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertineiitiis vniuersis; curam animarum pai'ocliianoruni ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus episcopalibus, etc. Et prestito per euudem admissum canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Arcliidiacono Wellensi sen eius ofSciali ut est moris. Litere dimissorie. Item, eisdem die et anno predictis, prenominatus vicarius in spiritualibus geueralis dimisit Magistriun Willelmum Morys in legibus bacallarium Bathonieusis et Welleusis diocesis, ad omues sacros ordines sub forma cousueta, etc. Collacio cantarie ad altare Corporis Christi in ecclesia Cathedrali Wellensi. Item, eisdem die et Anno Domini prcdicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis perpetuam cantariam ad altare Corporis Cliristi in ecclesia Catbedrali Wellensi per liberam resignacionem domiui Johannis Pomefeld, vltiiui capellani eiusdem vacantem, et ad coUacionem reuerendi in Christo patris et domini domini Eicardi permissione diuina Bathonieusis et Wellensis episcopi pleno iuro spcctantem, domino Thome Crosse, capellano, auctoritate dicti reuerendi patris sibi in hac parte commissa, coutulit intuitu caritatis, ipsumque capeUanum eiusdem cantarie cum onere per- soualiter residendi in eadem, iuxta formam ordinacionis et funda- cionis eiusdem, canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis, iuribus et consuetudinibus episcopalibus, etc. Et prestito per eundem dominum Thomam Crosse canonice obedientie iuramento, mandatum fuit JIagistro Roberto Pemberton ad induceudum eundem, etc. 38 KEGISTRUM EICARDI FOX, Commissio commissarii generalis. Riciirdus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor, canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis ac Keuerendi in Christo patris et domini doiuiui Eicardi permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suani diocesem in remotis agente, vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Christo Magistro Johanni Lugwardyne, in decretis bacallario, salutem in omniiun Saluatore. Cuucta nobis detecta commissa persoualiter exercere non valentes, ac de tuis circumspectione iidelitate et industria pluriniuni in Domino confidentes, ad cognoscendum et procedendum in omnibus et singulis causis et negociis ex officio Dostro mero, mixto seu promoto, contra subditos infra ciuitatem et diocesem Bathoniensem et Wellensem, necnon infra peculiarem iurisdiccionem de Cherde, Cliewe et Wellyngton delinquentes, vel eorum aliquem vel aliquos metis vel mouendis ; deque criminibus et excessibus quorumcunque subditorum huiusmodi, quocieus opus f uerit inquirendum ; criminaque et defectus subditorum huiusmodi corrigendum, puniendum et reformandum ; penitentiasque con- dignas eis et eorum cuilibet pro commissis iniungendum ; ac testa- menta et vltimas defunctorum voluutates vbicunque infra Batho- niensem et Wellensem diocesem et peculiarem iurisdiccionem de Cherde, Chewe et Wellyngton' antedictam, quorum testamentorum et vltimarum voluntatum probacio, approbacio et insinuacio ad dictum reuerendum patrem de iure vel de consuetudine pertineant, probandum, approbandum et insinuandum ; et pro valore huius- modi testamentorum et vltimarum voluntatum pronnnciandum ; administracionesque bonorum subditorum huiusmodi testancium et ab intestato decedentium, illis quibus de iure fuerint com- mittende in debita iuris forma committendum ; corapotumque calculum et raciocinium administracionis bonorum huiusmodi audiendum et recipiendum ; ac soluentes quoscunque liberandum BATHON. ET WELL. F.rTSCOPL 39 et acqwietandum ; nccnon fructus et prouenlus, iuraque et emolu- menta quorumcunquc bencficionira infra ambitum Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis et peculiaris iiirisdiccioiiis predicte, et alia bona quecunque snbditornra huiusmodi in casibus a iure et consuetudiiie premissis, vocatis iure vocandis, legitime sequestrandum ; ac eas et ea sub arto et securo custodie sequestro mandandum et faci- endum ; ceteraque omnia et singula faciendum, exercendum et expediendum que in premissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint, seu quomodolibet oportuna ; et que ad huiusmodi commissariatus offieium qualitercunque noscuntur pertinere, tibi auctoritate dicti reuerendi patris nobis in liac parte commissa, committimus vices nostras, teque commissarium generalem ac peculiaris iurisdiccionis antedicte officialem, cum cohercionis cuiuslibet canonice potestate, auctoritate predicta jireficimus et doputamus per presentes, ad beneplacitum nostrum duraturas. Datum sub sigillo officii nostri, quarto die mensis Maii Anno Domini millesimo cccc"" nona- gesimo tercio, et translatiouis dicti Eeuerendi patris anno priiuo. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Wroxale. Item xiiij" die Maii Anno Domini predicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis dominum Willelmum Drewe, capellanum, ad ecclesiam parochialem de Wroxale, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Thome Moyse vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per egregium virum Edmundum Gorges militcm verum dicte ecclesie patronimi, prout per inquisitionem debitam et canonicam de iure patronatus illius ecclesie in forma iuris captam plenius apparut, prefato Adcario generali extitit pre- sentatus, admisit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertincntiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum ipsius Ecclesie sibi in Domino comniittendo, iuribus et consuetu- diuibus episcopalibus, etc. Et prestito per euudeui admissum 40 REGISTRUM RICAIiDI FOX, canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Bathoniensi seu eius ofFiciali ut est iiioris, Copia capacitatis domini Willelmi Drewe. Sixtus episcopus seruus seruoruiu Uei, dilecto filio ^Yillelmo Drewe, fratri Hospitalis Sancti Joliaunis Baptiste in Wellia ordinis Saucti Augustini, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Eeligionis zelus vite ac moram honestas aliaque laudabilia probitatis et virtutum merita, super quibus apud nos fidedigno commendaris testimoiiio, nos iuducunt ut te specialibus faiioribus et graciis prosequamur. Hinc est quod nos, uolentes te premissorum meritorum tuorum intuitu fauore prosequi gracioso, teque a quibuscunque excominuni- cacionis, suspensionis et interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sententiis, censuris et penis, a iure vel ab Lomine quauis occasione vel causa latis, si quibus quomodolibet iunodatus existis, ad eifectum pre- sencium duntaxat consequenduru, harum serie absoluentes et abso- lutum fore censentes, tuis in bac parte supplicacionibus inclinati, tecum ut quodcumque beneficium ecclesiasticum, cum cura vel sine cura, per clericos seculares regi solitum, eciani si parocbiabs ecclesia vel eius perpetua vicaria, cantaria vel libera capella, liospitale vel annuale seruicium eisdem clericis in titulum perpetui beneficii ecclesiastici assignari solitum, et de iure patronatus laicorum fuerit, ac cuiuscunque taxe seu annui valoris illius fructus redditus et prouentus existant, si tibi alias canonice conferatur, presenteris vel assumaris ad illud, et in eo instituaris, recipere et quoad uixeris retinere, ilhidque simpliciter vel ex causa permuta- cionis, quociens tibi pbacuerit dimittere, et loco diniissi abud simile vel dissimile beneficium ecclesiasticum per eosdem clericos teneri solitum siinibter recipere, et ut jirefertur retinere, libere et licite valeas, quibusuis apostolicis ac bone mcmorie Octonis et BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 41 Octoboni olim in regno Anglie scdis apostolice legatoruni, ac in prouincialibus et sjTiodalibus consiliis editis generalibus vel spc- cialibus constituciouibus et ordinaciouibus, necnon hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste in Wellia ordinis Sancti Augiistini, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, cuius frater, et ut asseris ordinem ipsum expresse professus existis, ac dicti ordinis iura- mento, coufirmacione apostolica vel quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et consuetudinibus ceterisque contrariis nequaquam ob- stantibus, auctoritate apostolica tenore presencium de specialis dono gracie dispensamus. Nulli ergo omuino hoininum liceat banc paginam nostre absolucionis et dispensacionis infriiigere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quia autem hoc attemptare pre- sumpserit, indignacionem omnipotentis Dei ac Beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum Eius, se nouerit incursurum. Datum Eonie apud Sanctum Petrum, anno lucarnacionis Dominice millesinio quadriugentesimo septuagesimo quiuto, quiuto Idus Januarii, pontificatus nostri anno quinto. Institucio vicarie de Northover in Ilcliestre. Item, xv" die Maii anno predicto, memoratus Adcarius in spi- ritualibus generalis, domiuum Johannem Beele caiiellauum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie paroclualis de Nortbover, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Jobannis Donyll, vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per religiosos viros magistrum et confratres domus sine Hospitalis Sancti Joliannis Baptiste de Piruggewater, vcros dicte Adcarie patronos, eidem \icario general! extitit preseutatus, in persona sua propria admisit et vicarium per- petuum de personaliter et continue iuibi resideudo iuxta exigenciam constitutionum legatinarnm in ex parte editarum iuratuni, instituit canonicc in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertiuentiis vuiucrsis ; curam auimarum parocbiauorum ipsius ecclesie parocbialis sibi in 42 EEGISTRUM EICAEDI FOX. Domino plenius committendo, iurihus et consuetudinihus episco- palibus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino Johanne Beele canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fnit pro ipsius induccione Arcbi- diacono Welleusi seu eius officiali, ut moris est. Institucio vicarie de Sliapewyke. Item, xx° die Maii, Anuo Domini predicto, mumoratus vicarius in Spiritualibus generalis dominum Thomam Knygbt capellanum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Shapewv'ke, Batboniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Jobannis Comsyn', vltimi ^'ica^ii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros abbatem et conuentum Monasterii Beate Marie Glaston', veros eiusdem vicarie patronos, eidem vicario general! extitit preseutatus, in persona sua propria admisit et vicarium perpetuum de personaliter et continue inibi residendo, iuxta formam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum, iuratum instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis; curam animarum parocliianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus episcopalibus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino Tboma Knygbt canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione custodi spirituali- tatis iurisdiccionis Glaston', ut moris est. Ecclesie parochialis de Lauerton permutacio. Vicaria de Southstoke. Item, eisdem die et anno predietis, prefatus vicarius in Spiritu- alibus generalis apud Welles, in quodam permutacionis negocio facto inter dominum Thomam Warrand', rectorem ecclesie paro- chialis de Laverton', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, et dominum Thomam Eckyls, vicarium perpetuum ecclesie paro- chialis de Sowthstoke, eiusdem diocesis, facte, ligitime procedeus, BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 43 audiuit examinauit et plenarie discussit causas et negocium per- mutacionis huiusmodi, ipsisque causis veris et legitimis inuentis approbauit easdem, dictaiuque periiiutaciouem auctorizauit, necnon receptis resignacionil)us de dictis ecclesiis factis, ipsisque oljtentu permutacionis huiusmodi fiende admissis, idem vicarius in Spiritu- alibus generalis prefato domino Thome Ekkyls dictam ecclesiam parochialem de Laverton, ad collacionem reuereudi in Christo patris et domini domini Ricardi Dei gratia Bathoiiieusis et Wellensis episcopi spectantem, auctoritate silii per eundem reuer- endum patrem in ea parte commissa, contulit intuitu caritatis, et ipsum rectorem instituit iu eadem cum suis iuribus et per- tinentiis vniuersis, curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie parochialis de Lauertou predicte sibi in Domino plenius commit- tendo. Quo facto idem vicarius in Spiritualibus generalis prc- fatum dominum Thomani Warrand ad perpetuam vicariam ecclesie parochialis de Sowthstoke dicte diocesis, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos vims jniorom et capitulum ecclesie Cathedralis Bathoniensis, veros dicte vicarie patronos, ex memorate permuta- cionis causa eidem vicario generali extitit presentatus, admisit et eiusdem permutacionis obtentu vicarium instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis, curam animarum parochianorum dicte ecclesie de Sowthstoke sibi iu Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et cousuctudinilius, etc. lieceptisque a prefatis dominis Thonia et Tlioma canonice obedientie iuramentis, scriptum fuit pro induccione dicti domini Tliome Ekkyls Archi- diacono Wcllensi sen eius officiali, etc., et pro indiccione (sic) domini Thome Warrand Archidiacono Bathoniensi seu eius officiali, ut est moris. Institucio vicarie de Barowe. Item, xxij" die Mali, Anno Douiiui prcdicto, memoratus vicarius 44 REGISTUUM RICAEDI FOX, in Spiritualibus generalis, dominum Thomam Marsshall, capel- lanum, ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parocliialis de Barowe, Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis, per liljeram resiguaciouem Magistri Eoberti Williamson, vltiuii vicarii eiusdem vacauteni, ad quam per venerabilem viruiu ]\Iagistrum Willelminn Nykke, Archidiaconum Wellie, verum dicte vicarie patrouuni, eidem vicario geuerali extitit presentatus, admisit et vicariiim perpetuum de continue et personaUter residendo in eadem, iuxta formam con- stitucionum legatLnarum in ea parte editarum, iuratum, instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum prefate ecclesie sibi in Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuetudhiibus, etc. Et prestito per dictum dominum Thomam canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono WeUie seu eius ofEciali ut est moris. HIC MUTATUR ANNUS TRANSLACIONIS DOMINI PRIMUS IN ANNUM SECUNDUM. Institucio ecclesie parocliialis de Spaxton. Item, xxuj die Maii, Anno Domini predicto, memoratus vicarius in Spiritualibus generalis Willelmam Lynton' clericum ad ecclesiam parocbialem de Spaxton', Bathoniensis et WcUunsis diocesis, per mortem Magistri Leonardi Say, vltimi rectoris vacantera, ad quam per prouidos viros Henricum Ediall clericum, et Ricardum Eliot generosum, veros dicte ecclesie patronos ratione aduocacione illius ecclesie ipsis hac vice tantum facte, ut plenius apparet, eidem vicario generaU extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iiu'ibus et per- tinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum prefate ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus, etc. Et prestito per dictum Willelmum Lynton' canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 45 pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Taunton' seu eius official! ut est moris. Collacio camere xviij^ ex parte occidentali clausi vicariorum Wellensis. Item, xxx" die Maii, Anno Domini predicto, memoratus vicarius aptul Welles, cameram xviij*" ex parte occidentali clausi vicari- orum Wellensis vacantem, auctoritate prefati reuerendi patris sibi spectantem in ea parte commissa, domino Willelmo Baron' vicario cliorali ecclesie Cathcdralis Wellensis, contulit intuitu caritatis, iuxta statuta et ordiuacioncs recolcnde memorie domini lladulphi de Salopia, quondam Batlioniensis et Wellensis episcopi, in ea parte editas possidendam. Et super hoc literas obtinuit sub com- muni forma conceptas. Dimissio ad ordines. Item, quinto die Junii, Anno Domini supradicto, idem vicarius in Spiritiialibus generalis diniisit Johannem Hawkar accoHtum ad omues sacros ordines ut in forma. Institucio vicarie de Lityll Sampford. Item, ■\'ij"° Junii Anno Domini predicto, idem vicarius in Spiritualibus generalis, dominum Johanncm Orchard capella- num, ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Litill Samp- ford, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Willelmi Hirdeson' vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosas muliures abbatissam et conuentum domus Beate Marie et Sancti Johannis Euuangeliste de Legh Canonica- nim, veras eiusdem vicarie patronas, eidem vicario generali extitit prcscntatus, admisit et vicarium perpetuum de continuo et person- aliter resideudo in eadcm iuxta formam coustituciomun Ic^atin- 46 REGISTRUM lUCAltDI FOX, arum in e;i parte editaruiii, in persona Joliaunis Browne literati procuratoris sui in ea parte sufficienter constituti iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iiiribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curara animarum parocliianorum eiusdem eeclesie sibi in Domino commit- tendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Ex prestito per eundem procuratorem canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Taunton' sen eius ofificiali, ut est moris. Institucio eeclesie parochialis de Whit- staunton. Item, x° die eiusdem mensis, et Anno Domini supradicto, memoratus vicarius in Spiritualibus generalis Magistrum Hurafri- dum Wawtard, arcium magistrum, ad ecclesiam parochialem de Wliitstaunton, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Thome Mallacke vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per discretam mulierem Johannam Hugyn', filiam et heredem Johannis Hugyn' Armigeri, veram dicte eeclesie liac vice patronam, prout per inquisiciouem debitam et canonicam de iure patronatus illius eeclesie in forma iuris captam, plenius apparet, prefato vicario general! extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem in persona Magistri Thome Goldwegge, procuratoris sui in hac parte sufficienter constituti, canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinentiis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum prefate eeclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus, etc. Et prestito per dictum procuratorem canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit ijro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Taunton' seu eius officiali, ut est moris. Commissio ad consecranduni et benedicen- dum ecclesiam parochialem de Long Sutton. Bicardus Nykke, etc., venerabili in Christo palri Thome Dei BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOrL 47 gratia Tinensi cpiscopo salutem in Auctore salutis. Ad dedicandum, consecraudum et benedicendum ecclesiam parocliialem de Long Sutton, cum cimiterio eiusdem nuper ex integro et nouo edificatam et constructam, uecnou ad cetera omnia faciendum exercendum et expediendum, que in ea parte I'uerint de iure quomodolibet re- quisita, vobis auctoritate michi traarton' in eadem, per mortem domiui Johanuis Hill vltimi cauonici et prebendarii eoruudem vacantes et ad suam collaciouem pleno iure spectautes, intuitu caritatis, ipsumque canonicum eiusdem ecelesie et prebendarium prebcude predicte canonice instituit et inuestiuit in et de eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis, iuribus et consuetudiuibus etc. Et prestito per eundem j\Iagistrum Willelmum Thomson canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccioue decano vel snbdecano ecelesie Cathedralis Wellensis, et in eorum abseucia presidenti capituli et capitulo ut in forma consueta. Litera testimonialis super induccione Magistri Thome Barowe prepositi ecelesie Cathedra- lis Wellensis. Vniuersis Christi fideliljus presentes literas iuspecturis vel audituris, Johannes Stevens canonicus et residenciarius ecelesie Cathedralis Wellensis, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noueritis nos literas reuerendi in Christo patris et domini doraini Eicardi, permissioue diuina Eathouiensis et Wellensis episcopi, recepisse tenorem qui sequitur continentes : — Ricardus permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopus dilecto nobis in Christo filio Julianni Stevens canonico et residenciario ecelesie nostre Cathe- dralis Wellensis, salutem, graciam et benediccionem. Quia nos dilecto in Christo filio Magistro Thome Earowe, Archidiacono Colcestr', preposituram ecelesie nostre Cathedralis Wellensis canoni- cumque et prebendarium prebende de Comba xij". in eadem, eidem prepositure annexe vacan[tes] et ad nostram collaciouem pleno iure spectan[tes] contulimus intmtu caritatis, vobis mandamus qua- teuus eundem Magistrum Thomam Earo\\e aut suum procuratorem BATHON. ET WELL. EriSCOPI. 85 aJ line nomine sno constitutum in corporalem dicte prepositure canonicatusque et prebende possessionem realem realiter iuducatis, aut sic induci faciatis, cum suis inrilnis et pertinenciis vniuersis, eidemque stallum in clioro et locum in capitulo eisdem spectantia assignetis. Datum in hospicio nostra extra Barras Noui Templi in Suburbiis ciuitatis London' situato, vltinio die mensis Marcii Anno Domini millesimo cccc"". nonngesimo tereio et nostre translacionis anno primo. — Post quarum (juidem literarnm rencrcndorum recep- cionem pariter et inspeccionem, Nos Johannes Stevens canonicus et residenciarius ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis antedictus, volentes ut tenemur vlterius exequi mandatuni renercndi patris nostri ]ire- dicti in liac pai-te, prcfatum Magistrum Thomam Barowe in persona Magistri Willelmi Boket procuratoris sui suffieientcr et legitime constituti, in realem et corporalem possessionem prepositure ecclesie Cathedralis AVellensis memorate, canonicatusque et prebende de Comba xij* in eadem dicte prepositure annexorum, iurium et per- tinenciorum suorum vninersorum,(lecimo octauo die mensis Aprilis Anno Domini supradicto induximus, stallumque in chore et locum in capitulo eiusdem Cathedralis Cathedralis (sic) Wellensis dicte prepositure canonicatuique et prebende ab antique debita eidem Magistro Willelmo Boket, nomine procuratoris doniini sui ante- dicti assignauimus et inuestinimus, ut moris est, prestito primitus iuramento corporali per eundem de obseruando omnia et singula statuta, ordinacioues et laudabiles consuetudinas ad predictam ]ire- posituram canonicatum et prebend am ab antique spectantes sine pertinentes, iuxta prefate ecclesie Cathedralis "Wellensis laudaliiles consuctudines et statuta, ut est moris. In cuius rei testimonium, quia sigillum mei Johannis Stevens predicti quanq)Iurilius est incognitum, sigillum reucrendi in Christo jtatris et domini domini Ricardi Dei gratia Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi sepedicti prescntibus apponi prucuraui. Et nos igitur Bathoniensis ct 86 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, Wellensis episcopus antedictvis ad instanciam ct testimonium prefati Johaunis Stevens, sigillum nostnim presentibus apposuimus in fidem et testimoniinn omnium et singulorum preuiissorum. Datmn decimo octauo die meusis Ajjrilis Anno Domini millusimo cccc™". nonarresimo tercio. [S]EQUITUE ANNUS DOMINI MILLESIMUS CCCC""» NONAGESIMUS QUAETUS. Institucio ecclesie parochialis de Lucton'. Item, XV die mensis Aprilis Anno l)omini su]iradicU), jirefatus vicarius in spiritualilms generalis apud Welliam, dominum Joban- nera Colyns presbiterum ad ecclesiam parocliialem de Lncton', Batboniensis et "Wellensis diocesis, per li])eram resignacionem domini Jobannis Cbamberleyn', vltimi rectoris eiusdem in manilius dicti vicarii generalis factam ct per ipsum admissam vacantem, ad presentacionem nobilis viri Jobannis domini de Cobbam veri eius- dem ecclesie patroni, admisit et rectorem in propria sua persona instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertineuciis vni- nersis; curam animarum i^arochianorum eiusdem ecclesie sibi in Domino committcndo, iuribus, etc. Et prestito per eundem domi- num Jobannem Colyns canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptura fuit pro (sic) induccione Arcbidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali ut est moris. Licencia absentandi ab ecclesia causa studii. Piicardus Nykke, etc., dilecto nobis in Cbristo Willelmo Ben', vicario perpetuo ecclesie parocbialis de Wemdon', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, salutcm in omnium. Saluatore. Fusis nobis pro parte tua precibus fauorabiliter inclinati, vt ab ecclesia tua pre- BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 87 dicta studio literarum insistendo in aliqua viiiuersitate per trien- nium a data preseucimn continue numerandum licite te valeas absentare, fructusque redditus et proueutus eiusdem iutegrc pcrci- pere, ac si in eadeui residures, dumtaiaen eidem ecclesie tue interim competenter deseruiatur in diuinis, et aniniarum cura minimo ncgligatur in eadem, procuratoremque idoneum ibidem dimittas, qui dicto reuerendo patri et oiticiariis sius debite respondeat vice tui, liberam in Domino tenure presencium, auctoritate dicti reue- eudi patris nobis commissa, tibi concedimus facultatem. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii uostri presentibus apposuimus. Datum Wellie xvij° die mensis Aprilis, Anno Domiui millesimo cccc™" nonagesimo quarto, et trauslaciouis dicti reucreudi patris anno secundo. Dimissio ad Ordines. Item, xij° die mensis ]\Iaii, Anno Domiui supradicto, prefatus vicarius generalis dimisit Magistrum Alexandrum Bosgrove, in legibus bacullarium, liathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad omnes ordines tarn minores quum sacros, ut in forma, etc. Institucio vicarie ecclesie parochialis de Ban- well'. Item, xxj die Maii Anno Domini supradicto, memoratus vica- rius in spiritualibus .generalis Magistrum llobertum Assbecum, arcium magistrum, presbiterum, ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de I'anwell, Batboniensis ct Wellensis diocesis, iier liberam resignacionem Magistri Thome Wodyngton', decretorum doctoris, vltimi vicarii eiusdem, in manus dicti vicarii generalis factam et per ipsum admissara vacantem, ad quam per probum virum Reginaldum Bray militem veruni dicte vicarie patronum, racioue aduocaciouis illius vicarie ipsi hac vice facte ut pleuius 98 KEGISTRITSI EICARW FOX, spparet, eidem vicario general! extitit presentatus, admisit et vica- rium perpetuura de continuo et personaliter residendo in eadem iiixta formam constitucionum Legatinarum in ea parte editarum priuiitus iuratiiin, institiiit cnnonice in eadem cum suis iuribus el pcrtiuenciis vniuersis; cuvam nniinarum parncliiaiionim ])refate vicarie sibi in Domino jilenarie committendo, iuribus, etc. Et prestito per dictum Magistrum Eobertum Assliecum canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione officiali iurisdiccionis de Banwell, vt est moris. mC MUTATUR ANNUS CONSECRACIONIS DOMINI EPISCOPI IJdus IN ANNUM TERCIUM. Presentacio ad domum siue hospitale Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie. Eeuerendo in Christo jiatri et domino domino Ricardo iiermis- sione diuina Batlioniensi et Wellensi episcopo, eiusve vicario in spiritualibus geuerali, vestri bumiles et deuoti Henricus Vaughan, maior ville Bristollie, ac tota connnunitas eiusdem ville, omnimodas reuerencias tanto patri debitas cum lionore. Ad Hospitale siue donmm sancti Joliannis Baptiste in Eedeclyfpytte, Bristoir, quod -vel que de nostro patronatu existit, de magistro sive custode con- fratribus et confratre eiusdem penitus destitutam ac vacantem, dilectum nobis in Christo dominum Eicardum Colyus presbiterum ad ordinem regulam et obseruanciam in eodem hospitali sive domo antiquitus solitas et consuetas profiteri se volentem ut asseruit, presentamus, humiliter sujiplicantes quateniis eundem dominum Iiicardum ad professionem liuiusmodi ordiuis regule et obseruancie in eodem hospitali admittere, ac ij^sum sic admissum et professum, iiecnon regulari lial)itu (pii ad magistrum dicti Hospitalis pertinet, siue pertinere delict indutum, in magistrum Hospitalis siue domus illius canonice instituere cum suis iuribus et pertiuenciis vniuersis, BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 89 ceteraquo quo vcstro in Imc parte incumbunt officio pastornli, graciose peragere dignetur paternitas uestra prelibata, qniiin diu conseruet summa Triiiitas increata. In cuius rei tostiiiKinium taui sigillum oflicii maioratus ville predicte, qnam sigillum nostrum commune eiusdem ville presentibus apponi mandauimus. Datum in Guyhalde Bristollic predicte, die Mercurii in Vigilia Ascensionis Domini, anno regni Itegis ITcnrici Scptimi jjost conquestum Anglie nono, et Anno Domini millesimo cccc"° nonagesimo quarto. Commissio ad recipiendum professionem Magistri Ricardi Colyns. Johannes Vowell, legiun doctor, canonicus ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis ac venerabilis viri ]\Iagistri liicardi Nykke vtriusque iuris doctoris, canonici dicte ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis, reue- rendi in Cliristo patris et domini domini Eicardi permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patrc extra suam dioccscm in reniotis agente, vicarii in spiritualibus gcneralis, commissarius ac vices gerens, dilecto nobis in Christo patri Bcnedicto Prandergyste, confratri domus siue hospitalis Sancti Joliannis Baptiste I'ristollie, ordinis Sancti Augustini, Bathoniensis ct Wellensis diocesis, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Cum dilec- tus nobis in Christo IMagister IJicardus Colyns in sacra theologia bacallarius, se Deo dedicare, vitamque regularem per religionis ingressum ex sincere devocionis affectu, prout accepimus suscipere intendat, professionemque ordinis Sancti Augustini, que secundum Deum ct regulam ipsius Beati Augustini in dicto Hospitali insti- tutus esse dinoscitur, quod quidem hospitale per mortem fratris Johannis Mede, vltimi magistri eiusdem, aliquamdiu fuit et est de presenti gubernatoris solacio destitutum, profiteri desideret ; cir- eumspcccioni igitnr tue ad adniittendum prefatum Magistrum Eicardum Colyns in confratrem eiusdem Hospitalis, ac eciam regu- 90 REGISTRUM EICARDI FOX, larem per dicti ordinis confratres emitti solitam professionem iuxta foriiiain iiiluiins aiiiiotatam recipiendum ; necnon rcgularem habi- tum iuxta dicti Husjjitalis cousuetudineui ct iiistituta conferenduin, et exhibeudum, aliaque omuia et singula faciendum, disponendum, oidinandum, et exequendum que in premissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint sen quomodolibet opportuna, plenam et liberam tenore pre- senciuni concedimus potestatem; mandantes quatenus de omni eo quod feeeris in hac parte nos negocio huiusmodi legitime expedite, per literas tuas barum seriem continentes sigillo autentico con- signatas, vna cum cedula quam idem Magister Eicardus in sua professione subscribet, nobis transmittenda reddas debite cerciores. Forma professionis per dictum Magistrum Eicardum facieude, sequitur et est talis ; — Forma professionis. Ego Eicardus Colyus presbiter, promitto continenter viuere ac sine proprio, iuxta regulam et obseruanciam in hac domo sine hospitali Saucti Johannis Baptiste liristollie ab antique obseruatam et consuetam ; profiteorque ordinem regularem Sancti Augustiiii iuxta instituta dicte domus sine bospitalis, necnon premissa me fideliter obseruaturum obligo et astriugo per presentee. In cuius rei testimonium huic cedule manu propria subscripsi. Et hoc facto subscribat cedule, crucem faciendo in liunc modum +. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri presentibus apposuimus. Datum Wellie, xxiij" die mensis Maii, Anno Domini millesimo cccc"° nonagesimo quarto, et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno secundo. Certificatorium super receptione professionis. Venerabili ac circumspecto viro Magistro Jolianni Vowel), legum doctori, canonico ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, ac Vene- BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOri. 91 rabilis viri Magistri llicanli Nykke, vtriusque iiiris doctoris, caiinnici dicte ccclesie Cathedvalis Wellensis, reiierendi in Christo patris et domiiii doniini Tlicardi permissione diinna Batliouiensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicarii in spiritualibus generalis, commissario ac vices gerenti, vester humilis et deuotus frater dominus Benedictns rrendcrgyste, confrater domns sine hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie, ordiuis Sancti Angustini, Batlionieusis et Wel- lensis diocesis, omnimodas reuerencias tanto venerabili viro debitas cum lionore. Literas vestre commissionis reuerende nuper recepi tenorom continentes retroscriptas, etc. Qiiarum quidem literarinn vestre commissionis vigore et auctoritate retroscriptum Magistrura llicardum Colyns in theologia bacallarium.iuxtamodumet formam in dictis vestris literis reuerendis expresses et annotates prefessum, in confratrem dicti Hospitalis admisi et recepi. Cuteraque omnia et singula que in dicte vestro mandato reuerendo et commissiono centinentur, humiliter perimpleui et diligenter executus sum. In cuius rei testimonium sigilluni commune dicti Hos])italis apponi fecimus. Datum in Dome nostro capitulari dicti liospitalis, xxvj*" die mensis Maii Anne Domini infrascripte. Tenor institucionis. Johannes Vowull leguni doctor, canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, ac venerabilis viri Magistri Eicardi Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctoris, canonici dicte ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, reue- rendi in Christo patris et domini demini Eicardi Dei gi-acia Bathe- niensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicarii in spiritualibus generalis cem- missarius ac vices gerens, religiose viro Magistro Eicardo Colyns prcsbitero, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Ad donium sine Hospitale Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie, Bathoniensis et Wellensis 32 REGISTRUM EICARDI FOX, diocesis, per mortem fratris Johannis Mede, vltimi prioris siue magistri eiusdem vacantem, ad (|uam vel quod per probos vires Heuricum Vauglian, maiorem ville Bristollie predicte et totam comiuunitatem eiusdem ville, veros dicte Domus siue Hospitalis patronos, nobis presentatus existis ; te in ordine sacerdotali et etate legitima constitutum, ac ordinem et regulam Sancti Augustini iuxta instituta eiusdem Domus siue Hospitalis expresse professum, Labitumcpie religiouis huiusmodi in te suscipientem, admittimus et priorem siue magistrum instituimus canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis ; curam regimen et administra- cionem bonorum tarn spiritualium quam temporalium domiis siue hospitalis antedicti, tibi in domino plenarie committentes ; iuribus • et consuetudinibus episcopalibus dicti reuerendi patris ecclesiar- umque suarum Cathedralium Batlioniensis et Wellensis dignitate in omnibus semper saluis. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum otiicii nostri presentibus ajiposuimus. Datum Wellie xxvij'"" die mensis Mail, Anno Domini millesimo cccc""" nouagesimo quarto, et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno tercio. Scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Avchidiacono Bathouiensi seu eius ofQciali, etc. Juraraentum Prioris siue Magistri factum in Admissione Sua. In Dei nomine, amen. Ego Eicardus Colyns, magister Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie, ordinem ac religiouem Sancti Augustini in dicto Hospitali expresse professus, promitto, voueo et iuro ad hec Sancta Dei euuangelia per me corporaliter tacta, quod bona spiritualia et temporalia ipsius Hospitalis dispersa cum omni diligencia congrogabo, cougregataque et habita salua iusta et idonea administracione seruabo, inuentariumque de bonis huiusmodi fideliter conficiam, et de administracione per me facta coram loci diocesano seu eius dejiutato, iuxta sacrorum canonum exigeuciam BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 93 reddam racionein, iiumcruiu confratruni atque paupcrum iuxta fuudacionem et ordinacionera atqxie vires facultatum Hospitalis predicti ibidem fore cum omni celeritate pro viribus procurabo, ac huiusmodi fundacioncm et ordinacionem laudabilesqne ipsius hos- pitalis consuutudines at(iue iura, (luantum in me est defendam, loci diocesano et eius ofliciali ac miiiistris in Ileitis et canonicis man- datis humiliter obediam ,sic me Deus adiuuet et hec Sancta. In cuius rei testimouium subscribens propriis manibus hie facio siguum crucis +. Carta aduocacionis vicarie ecclesie parochialis de Carehampton'. Omnibus Christi iidelibus ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit, Joliannes Cantlowe, permissione diuina prior ecclesie Cathedralis Bathoniensis et eiusdcm loci conueutus salutem. Sciatis nos pre- fatum priorem et conuentum vnanimi assensu et concessu nostris concessisse venerabili in Christo dompno Jolianni Abyndon', priori de Dunster, ac venerabili viro Hugoni Lutterell militi, aduocacionem ecclesie parochialis de Carehampton' in comitatu Somersetie, Bath- Guieusis et Wellensis diocesis, habendam eis pro vnica et proxima vacacione eiusdem ecclesie tantum. Ita quod licebit eisdem ad eorum libitum auctoritate presencium idoneam personam nominare et ad dictam ecclesiam cum proxime vacauerit, litteratorie presentare, ac omnia et singula que circa premissa necessaria fuerint et oportuna, exigere et perimplere, adeo bene, libere, plene, et integre prout nos faceremus si presens concessio nostra facta non fuisset. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum comnmne presentibus apjioni fecimus. Datum in Domo nostra capitulari, sexto die mcnsis Nouembris, Anuo Domini millesimo eccc™" octogesimo nono. 94 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, Institucio vicarie ecclesie parochialis de Carehampton'. Item, primo die meusis Julii, Anno Domini supradicto, Magister Johannes commissarii sufficientcr dcijutatus, dominum Ilicardum Harrys, presbiterum, ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Carehampton', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domiui Johannis Chaundeller, vltiuii vicarii elusdem vacantem, ad quara par veuerabiles viros dompnum Joliaunem Aliyndon', priorem de Dunster, et Hugonem Lutterell militem veros dicte vicarie patronos, racione aduocacionis illius ecclesie ipsis hac vice tantum facte, ut plenius apparet, eidem commissario extitit presen- tatus, aduiisit et vicarium perpetuuna de continuo et personaliter inibi resideudo primitus iuratuui, canonice iustituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochia- norum prefate ecclesie sibi in Domino pleuarie committendo, iuri- bus et cousuetudinibus episcopalibus etc. Et prestito per eundem dominum Eicardum Harrys canonice obediencie iurameuto, scrip- tuin I'uit pro ipsius induccione decano ecclesie Cathedralis Wel- lensis seu eius officiali, ut est moris. Nota Bene. Et memorandum quod dictus dominus Eicardus Harrys et Johannes Glover obliga- runt seipsos Clementi Clere et Johanni Morecote de London' per scriptum suum obligatorium quod in filarcio eiusdem temporis anni pendet, in centum libris sterlingorum soluendis eisdem ant eoruui alteri seu eorum certo attornato in festo Sancti Michaelis Arcli- angeli proximo future, in euentu quo reuerendum patrem dominum Eicardum Dei gracia Bathoniensem et Wellensem episcopum, non seruauerint and seruari faciant indempnem erga quoscumque, occasione admissionis predicti domini Eicardi Harrys ad eandem ecclesiam, de cuius patronatu non plene constat, inquisicione in ea parte pretermissa, si occasione Imiusmodi (piomodolibot tnrbatus vexatus seu grauatus fuerit reuerendus pater antedictus. BATHON. ET WKI.T.. EriSCOI'T. 95 CoUacio archidiaconatus Wellie. Item, (lecimo die mensis Julii Anno Domini supradicto, idem Eeuerendus pater in hospicio suo London', Arcliidiaconatum in ecclesia sua Catliedrali Welleusi et prebendam do Ilwyssli eidcm Arcliidiaconatui aunexam per liberam resignacionem Magistri Willelnii Nykke, vltimi arcliidiaconi et prebeudarii eorundem vacantes, contulit Magistro Eicardo Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctori, intuitu caritatis, ipsumquc Archidiaconura et prebcndarium pre- bendc prediete canonice instituit in et do eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis. Scriptum fuit pro ipsius inducciono decano ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis seu in eius absencia subdecano etc. Collacio vicarie ecclesie parochialis de Con- gresbury. Item, xv" die eiusdem mensis et Anno Domini supradicto, idem reuerendus pater in hospicio suo London', vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Congresbury suarum diocesis et collacionis, per liberam resignacionem Magistri Willelmi Tliomson vltimi vicarii eiusdem in manibus dicti reucrendi patris factam et per ipsum admissam, vacantem, Magistro Thome Tomyowe vtriusque iuris doctori, contulit intuitu cariiatis, ipsumque vicarium per- pctuura de personalitcr et continue inibi residendo in eadem iuxta formam constitucionum legatinarum in hac parte editarum [primitus iuratum], instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum eiusdem ecclesie eidem in Domino committendo, iuribus etc. Prestitoque per eundem canonice obedicncie iuramento, mandatum fuit Arclii- diacono Wellie siuc eius officiali ad inducendum eundem, ut est moris etc. 96 REGISTRUM KICAIIDI FOX, Collacio prebende de Yatton. Item, xvj'" die t-iusdeia iiit'iifis et anno supradicto, dictus reuerendus pater in liospicio suo predicto canonicatuui in ecclesia sua Cathedrali Welleusi et prebendam de Yatton', per liberani resignacionem Magistri Kicaidi Nyklce, vltinii possessoris eorun- dem vacantes, et ad suaiu collacioneni pleuo iare S])ect;nitcs, Magistro Eoberto Middelton', legum doctori, coutulit inliiitii caritatis, et ipsum canonicum et prebendarium iustituit et inues- tiuit canouice in eisdem, cum suis iuribus et peitiuenciis vuiuersis. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obediencie iuramento, scrijitum fuit pro ipsius induccione decano vel subdecano ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis seu in eoram absencia presideuti capituli et capitulo eiusdem vt est moris etc. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis de Norton' iuxta Taunton'. Item, xiiij" die meusis Augusti, Anno Domini supradicto, prefatus vicaiius in spiritualis generalis apud Welliam, Magistrum Johannem Tliwaytes in utroque iure bacallario, ad ecclesiam paro- chialem de Norton' iuxta Taunton,' Eathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem Magistri Lodowici Pollard vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per probum virum Johannem Sapcot militem, verum dicte ecclesie iure domine Elizabeth uxoris sue domine Fiztwaren' patronum, eidem vicario generali extitit pre- sentatus, admisit et rectorem in projiria sua persona instituit canonice in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis ; curam auimarum parochianorum eiusdem ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus etc. Et prestito per eundem Magistrum Johannem Thwaytes canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacouo Taunton' seu eius officiali ut est moris etc. BATIIOX. ET WELL EPlSCOrl. 97 Commissio Scribe seu Registrarii causarum correccionum in Consistorio Wellensi. Eicardus permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellcnsis epis- copus, dilecto in Cliristo filio Roberto Dikar, clerico, salutem graciam et benedictiononi. Vite ac niorum honestas aliaque laudaliilia probitatis et virtutiim merita, super quibus apixd nos fidedigno conimendaris testimonio, nos inducunt vt te specialibus fauoiihus et graciis proseqnanmr. Hinc est quod nos de tuis fidelitate et circumspeccionis industria plurimum in Domino con- fidentes, officia actorum Scribe et IJegistrarii Consistorii nostri Wellensis, uecnon Scribe siue Eegistrarii nostri in correccionum et excessuum negociis, necnon in pmbacionibus tcstamcntorum quorumcunque subditorum nostrorum vtriuscpie sexus liominuni nostrarum ciuitatum et diocesis, coram nostro commissario general! ac officiali nostro iurisdiccionum nostrarum peculiarium de Cherde, Chewe et Wellj'ngtou', quoennque pro tempore existenti, (juomodo- libet iutroducundis, agitiuidis, vel tractaudis ; necnon in causis quas in et infra iurisdictiones nostras predictas et [coram] officiali predicto moueri et agitari contigerit, tibi vna cum feodis et emolu- mentis huiusmodi officiis de consuetudine laudabili hactonus obser- uata debitis, cousuetis et pertinentilms, tibi conferrimus intuitu caritatis. ¥A insuper de vberiori gracia nostra tibi concedimus quod liuiusmodi officia ad terminum vite tue, dummodo in eisdem fidelitcr te habueris, per te aut per sufficientem deputatum tuum pro quo respondere volueris, tociens quocicns te impediri contin"at, valeas excrcere, teque dicti nostri consistorii ac in correccionum excessuum ct probacionum testamentorum negociis quorumcunque subditorum nostrorum vtriusque sexus hominum nostrarum ciui- tatum et diocesis, coram nostro commissario generali ac oniciali nostro iurisdiccionum nostrarum peculiarium predictaruni, cpio- cunque pro tempore existenti, ut prcfcrtur, quomodolibet intro- U 98 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, ' ducendis, actorum Sciibam et liegistrarium cum ouerc acta inac- titata ibidem fideliter scribendi ac proposita et exhibita coram officiali seu presidenti eiiisdem consistorii uecnon coram commis- sario nostro generali ac officiali iiinsdictionum peculiarium buius- modi fideliter custodiendi, preficiiuus et deputamiis per presentes. lu cuius rei robur et testimonium sigillum nostrum de mandate nostro presentibus est appensum. Datum London' xx". die meusis Junii Anno Domini millesimo cccc"". nonagesimo tercio, et nostre translacionis anno secundo. Institucio Capellani Cantarie Sancti Nicholai fundate in ecclesia parochiali de Frome. Item xviij" die August! Anno Domini supradicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis apud Welliam, Magistrum Thomam Comptou' in iure canonico bacallarium, ad cantariam perpetuam fundatam Sancti Nicholai in ecclesia parochiali de Frome Selwode, Bathoniensis et AVellensis diocesis, per mortem Magistri Henrici Payn', vltimi capellani eiusdem vacautem, ad quam per discretum virum Eogerum Twj^nyo, armigerum, veruni dicte cantarie patronum, dicto vicario generali extitit presentatus, admisit in persona sua propria et capellanum perpetuum, de obseruando ordinaciones, consuetudines et statuta dicte cantarie primitus iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertiuenciis vniuersis, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Curam regimen, etc. Et recepto ab eodem Magistro Tlioma canonice obedientie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Arclii- diacono Wellensi seu eius officiali ut est moris, etc. BATIION. ET WELL. El'ISCOPL 99 Composicio inter vicarium perpetuuni ecclesie parochialis de Sowtli Pederton' et parochi- anos de Chelyngton" etc, Vniucrsis yaucl.u Jlaliis ecclesiu liliis preseutes litcras insijcc- turis, visuris vel aiidituris, Eicardus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor, cauonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis ac reuereiuli in Clirista patris et domiui domiiii l!icanli permissione diuina Bathonieiisis et WnllL-nsis episciipi in reiiiotis agentis, vicarius iu spiritnalibus generalis, salutem in Domino et fidem indubiam presentibus adliibere. z\.d perpetuani rei memoriain vuiuersitatis vestre uoticijs deducimns, et deJuci volumus jier pvesentos, quod prideni ex parte dilectonun in Cliristo vuiuersorum et singulonun vtri- usque sexus luiiniinnn villulam siue liamelectam de Chelyngton', infra fines et limites ecclesie imrochialis de Southpedertou', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, situatam, et ab cadeni ecclesia liarocliiali de Soutlipederton' dependentem, habitantium, nobis extit repetitum, expositum, et deinde luiniiliter suiiplicatuni, quod cum loca mansionum sua ab ecclesia s.ua parochiali do So\ith- jjedertou' predicta per vnius miliaris spacium et vltra distent, viaque intermedia plerumque vi flumiiiis aquarumque inundancia et aliis nonnuUis discriminibus ipsis reddatur et sit nedum tediosa, sed eciam periculis plena, adeo quod corpora siue cadauera il^sarum personarum infra eaudem villulam siue hamelectam de Chelyngton' predicta, cum ab hac luce subtracte fuerint, ad dictara ecclesiam parochialem de Soutlipederton' predicta et cimiterium eiusdem sepelienda facillime pro]iter paucitatem hominimi inliabi- tantium dictam villulam siue hamelectam de Chelyngton prcdic- tam et alios casus diuersos et aduersos, qui frequenter accidunt, niiniuie deportari et adduci valeant ; quatenus premissis omnibus et singulis consideratis certain terrain siue glebam capelliiiii Saucti Jacobi de Chelyngton' predicta eircumiaceutem, quam nobilis II 2 100 REGISTEUM RICAT?DI FOX, vir Egidius Dawbeney miles dominus de Dawbeney, venis eiusdem terre siue glebe doniinus proprictarius et possessor, eidem capelle dedit et assignauit in pcrpetuum, prout per suas literas desuper confectas sigillo suo ad arma sigillatas et munitds plenius liquet, pro cimiterio et sepultura corporum siue cadaueruiu persoiiaruni vtriusque sexus liominum infra villulam siue hanielectam de Clielyngton antediota decedentium, assignare et deputare, ipsani- que teiTam siue glebam in cimiterium et pro cimiterio con- stituere, benedicere et dedicare, sen liuiusmodi terram siue glebam assignari, deputari ac in cimiterium et pro cimiterio constitui, benedici et dedicari facere, sine iuris alieni et presertim vicarii de Sowthpedertou' et parocliianorum eiusdem preiudicio, licentiam et facultatem concedere, ceteraque nostro incumbencia in hac parte officio peragere dignaremur. Nos igitur, Eicardus Nykke vicarius in spiritualibus generalis sepedictus, premissis omnibus et singulis consideratis et intellectis, preliabitaque de et super veritate eorundem in forma iuris inquisicione diligenti, vocatis in hac parte de iure vocandis et interesse habentibus, quia per in- quisicionem liuiusmodi ac alias probaciones legitimas in hac parte habitas et factas comperimus et invenimus omnia et singula pre- missa fuisse et esse vera racioni et consona, ex causis predictis et aliis nos in hac parte iuste et legitime mouentibus, considerans maxime subscripta nullatenus alicui persone sen aliquibus personis fore preiudicialia, prouiso quod vicarius vicarie perpetue dicte ecclesie parochialis de Sowthpederton' pro tempore existens habeat et percipiat ab inhabitantibus siue commorantibus dictam villulam siue hanielectam de Chelyngton siue in futurum habitaturis siue commoraturis, in et de eorum quolibet cum de hac luce subtracte fuerint vnum deuarium, prout antiquitus vicarii ibidem ab inhabi- tantibus dictam villulam siue hanielectam cum vniuerse carnis viam ingressi fuerint, pcrcipiunt et habuerunt, necnon quod inhabi- BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 101 tantcs dictam villulam sivie hamelectam de Chelyngtou' predictam ac in futiinim eandem inhabitaturi et commoratiiri, de bonis suis eisdem adeo collatis, ad construcciouem et reparacionem dicte ecclesie inarocliialis de Sowtlipederton, necnon ad empcionem quorumcunque eidem ecclesie necessariorum iuxta posse suum, cum ceteris parocliianis infra villain de Sowtlipederton' sepe- dictam commorantibus et in futuruin cominoraturis dent et con- tribuaiit sicqiie dare et contriliiiere sint astricti, dictam terrain sine glebam dictam capellam de Chelyngton' sepefatam circumiacentem et contiguam, pro cimiterio et sepultura memoratis auctoritate nostra primitus assignatam deputatam, et constitutam per reueren- dum in Christo patrem domiinim Thoniam Tiuensem episcopnm iuxta iuris exigenciam de et cum consensu et assensu omnium et singulorum Lnteresse in liac parte habencium benedici et dedicari fecimus; necnon cuicunque capellano idoneo dicte capelle de Chelyngton' per vicarium de Sowthpederton' pro tempore ex- istentem deputando et remouendo, ad celebrandum missas et alia diuina officia in eadem cnpella, sacramentaque et sacramentalia personis huiusmodi ac ceteris vtriusque sexus personis quibus- cunque infra villulam sine hamelectam de Chelyngton' sejiedicta habitantibus sine commorantibus, aut in futuruin habitaturis sen cominoraturis, ministrandum et ministrari faciendum, ipsarum- que personarum cum ab hac luce, vt prefertur, siibtracte fuerint, corpora sine cadauera in dicto cimiterio sepeliendum, ceteraque omnia et singula in preniissis et circa ea necessaria et oportuna, ac de iure requisita faciendum et exercendum, que ad curatum in hac parte possint et debeant (piouismodo pertiiiere, absque iuris prc- iudicio alieni concessimus prout tenore prcsencium concediinus legitimam ac plenam et liberam facultatem. In cuius rei testi- monium et robur sigilhim nostrum presentibus signeto domini Ricardi Caryk, vicarii de Sowthpederton' i)redicta moderni sigillatis 102 EEGISTRUM EICAKDI FOX, apposuimus. Datiiiii xij° die mensis Marcii, Anno Domini mil- lesinio cccc"" uonagesimo tercio, et translacionis dicti leueieudi patris anno secundo. Commenda Magistro Thome Compton' facta ad Cantariam Sancti Nicliolai in ecclesia parochial! de Prome. Eicardus Nykke etc. dilecto nobis in Christo Magistro T. Compton, iu iure canouico bacallario, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Ex certis causis veris et legitimia nos ad hoc mouentibus, cantariam perpetuam Sancti Nicholai in ecclesia parochiali de Frome in Selwode, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem Magistri Henrici Payn' vltimi capellani eiusdem vacantem, de consensu assensu et nominacione discreti viri Ilogeri Twynyo armigeri patroni eiusdem, tibi auctoritate nobis tradita in commendam damns et assignamus per sex menses et uon vlterius a die date presencium duraturam ; ac curam regimen et acbiiinistracioneni iuxta fundaciouem et ordinacionem illins cantarie tibi in Dumino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri presentil)ns apposuimus. Datum Wellie, xviij°. die mensis Augusti, Anno Domini millusimo cccc™". Ixxxxiiij'"., et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno tercio. Institucio vicarie ecclesie parochialis de Cherde cum assignacione pensionis. Eicardus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor, Archidiaconus Wel- lensis ac reuerendi iu Cliristo patris et domini domini Eicardi permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso re- uerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicarius in Rljiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Christo Magistro Johanni Strete, in artibus magistro, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Ad BATHON. ET M'ELL. EnSCOPI. 103 vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parrochialis de Cherde, Batboniensia et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam resignacionem domiui Roberti Hoby, presbiteii, vltimi vicarii eiusdem iu manus nostras factam et per uos admissani vacantem, ad quam per probum virum Amisiuiu Puulut lailitem veruin dicte vicarie patronum, racione aduocaciouis illius vicarie ipsi hac vice taiitura facto, vt pleuius apparet, nobis preseutatus, existis, te de continue et personaliter resideudo in eadem iuxta vim forraam et effectum constitucionuni legatiuariim iu ea pai-te editarum, necnon de solueudo dicto douiiuo Eiiljurto Hoby huiusmodi vicariam resignanti annuam pensiouem vigiuti marcarum bone et legalis monete Anglic duraute vita naturali dicti domiui Roberti de fructibus et prouentibus dicte ecclesie ad ij°' anni terminos equis porciouibus, videlicet ad festa Pasclie et Saucti Micliaelis Arcbangeli, incipiente prima solucione ad I'estum Pascbe proximo futurum, primitus iuratum, admittimus intuitu caritatis ; et te perpetuum vicarium canonice instituimus iu uadem, euui suis iuribus et pertinenciis ; curam auimaruni parocbianorum eiusdem ecclesie tibi iu Domino pleuius commit- teudo, iuribus et cousuetudiiiibus episcopalibus dicti reuereudi patris ecclesiarumque Cathedralium Bathonieusis et Wellensis dignitate in omnibus semper saluis. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii uostri presentibus apposuimus. Datum Wellie, xxiij" die meusis Augusti Anno Domini millesimo cccc'"", uoua- gesimo iiij*", et translacionis dicti reuereudi patris anno iij". Scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione officiali peculiaris iurisdic- cionis de Cherde predicLa. Tenor aduocacionis. Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes litere pemenerint. Ricardus permissinue diuina I'atlioniensis et Wellensis cpiscopus, salutem iu Domino seuipiteruam. Noueritis nos dedisse conces- 104 EEGISTUUM RICARDI FOX, sisse et presentibus litei'is nostris confirmasse dilecto nobis in Christo domino Amisio Poulet militi, aduocacionem, donacionem, presentacionem, collacionem et liberam disposicionem vicarie perpetue ecclesie parodiialis de Clierde, nostre collacionis et iuris- diccionis, cum per mortem, cessionem, dimissionem, resign acion em, priuacionem sen alium quemcunque modum eam primo et proximo vacare coutigerit, pro ilia prima et proxima vacacione duntaxat. Ita quod bene liceat eidem domino Amisio personam idoneam quam voluerit ad dictam vicariam cum proximo ut predicitur vacauerit, nobis seu successoribus nostris presentare seu dictam vicariam conferre et disponere, quousque vna persona idmiea ad presentacionem dicti Amisii Poulet ad prefatam vicariam per nos seu successores nostros legitime fuerit admissus, et in eodem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis canonice institutus et inductus, ceteraque omnia et singula que in p)remissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet oportuua, petere, exigere, facere et per- implere, que nos quouismodo facere possemus seu debuissemus si presentes litere nostre facte non fuissent, seu non emanassent. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum presentibus apj)oni I'ecimus. Datum in suburbiis London' xxj° die mensis Nouembris Anno Domini millesimo cccc™" nonagesimo iiij'" et translacionis nostre anno tercio. Decretum tripartitum annue pensionis de fructibus et prouentibus vicarie ecclesie parochialis de Cherde assignate predicto domino Roberto Hoby, eandera vicariam resignanti. Vniuersis Sancte Matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes litere . peruenerint, et quos iufrascripta tangunt seu tangere poterunt quomodolibet in futurum, Kicardus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor. BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 105 Arcliidiaconus "NVellcnsis, reiierendi in Cbristo patris et domini doniini Eicardi permissioue diuiiia Batbonieusis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso reuereiido patre extra suam dioceseiu iu remotis agente, vicarius in spiritualibus geueralis, salutem in Domino et fidem indubiam preseutibus adbibere. Ad vniuersitatis vestre noticiam deducimus et deduci volumus per presentes, Quod cum dilectus nobis iu Cbristo dominus Robertas Iloby, vicarius vicariu perpetue ecclesie parocbialis de Cberde, Batbouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, ex certis causis veris iustis et legitimis ipsum et animum suum, ut asseruit, ad boc mouentibus, et pro parte sua coram nobis allegatis, ac per nos approliatis, quas pro expressis babere volumus, dictam vicariam suam cum omnibus suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis in manus nostras pure, sponte, simpliciter et absolute nuperrime resignauerit, subijciens se in omnibus et per omnia, quantum ad victum et vestitum suos et alia vite sue necessaria quecunque sibi prouideuda ad termiuum vite sue, ordiuacioui, disposicioni, assignacioui, voluntati et decreto nostris. Quam quideni resignacionem, reseruata nobis potestate prouidendi, dis- ponendi, assignandi ct limitandi quandam annuam pensionem eidem domino Itoberto Hobj', de fructibus, redilitibus, prouentibus et emolumeutis ipsius vicarie pro vberiore vite sue susteutacione, quoad uixerit, admisimus, dictamque vicariam de Cberde vacantem vacare decreuimus et declarauimus. Consequenter vero nos Eicardus Nykke vicarius in spiritualibus generalis antcdictus, Magistrum Johannem Strete in artiljus magistrum ad eandem vicariam sic vacantem, ad nominacionem et presentaciouem nobilis viri Amisii l^cmlet militis, dicte vicarie liac vice patroni, iure aduocacionis sibi per dictum reuerendum patrem alias concesse, admisimus ii)sumque vicarium de continuo ct personaliter iuibi rcsidendo iuxta constituciones legatinas in ea parte editas primitus iuratum, iustituimus canonice in et de eadem cum suis iuribus et 106 EEGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, pertinenciis vniuersis ; curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Doinitio pleuius committendo. Deinde dictus dominus Robertus coram nobis die date presencium iudicialiter sedentibus personaliter comparens nobis humiliter supplicauit, quatenus in ipsius domini Eolwiti Iloby releuanien ac vbeiioreui vite sue sustentacioneni sibi et statui suo oportune prouidere, ac pensionem annuam de decimis, oblacionibus, fructibus, redditibus, prouentibus et emolumentis niemoratis vicarie quoad uixerit auctoritate nostra ordinuria assignare, limitare et concedere dignaremur. Nos igitur Eicardus Nykke vicarius in spiritualibus prelibatus, vocatis j^rimitus per nos de iure vocaudis, ac seruatis per nos in liac parte omnibus et singulis de iure seruandis, debito consideracionis intuitu attendentes onera per ipsum dominum Robertum Hoby circa hospitalitateni et alia pia opera supportata et supportanda, ac quod laudaljiliter prefuit in eadeni vicaria, dicto domino Roberto Hoby quamdiu vixerit ad instantem peticionem ipsius domini Roberti ac de et cum consensu assensu et uoluntate dicti Aniisii Poulet militis nominantis in hac parte requisitis, necnon de et cum consensu et assensu Magistri Johannis Strete ad dictam vicariam noniinati et admissi, pensionem annuam viginti marcarum bone et legalis monete Anglic de decimis, oblacionibus, fructibus, redditibus, prouentibus et emolumentis prefate vicarie ad vberiorem predicti domini Roberti Hoby vite sustentacioneni, assignauimus, prout tenore presencium assignamus et limitauius, annis singulis quamdiu idem dominus Robertus Hoby egerit in humanis et vixerit, bene et fideliter sibi persoluendarum satisfaciendarum et contentan- darum, ac ipsam vicariam pensionariam facieudam ad effectum et finem supra etsubseriptuni duntaxat; eandeuKpiu vicariam ac onines et singulos illius fructus, redditus et prouenius cum dicta pensione annua xx''. marcarum durante vita natural! dicti donuni Roberti lloln' et duni idem dominus Robertus egerit in humanis, onanino BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOri. 107" oucranius paritor ut obligamus. Neciion onus solucionis huius- modi aunuc peusionis xx'' marcaruin dicte vicarie de Cherde ac sepedicto Magistro Johanni Strete, prefate vicarie vicario moderiio et succespoiibus suis in eadem, ipsius doniini Roberti vita naturali durante, ac ipso in liumanis pacicntc et ageute, cum ex- pressis consensu vti prefertur assensu et voluntate prefati nobilis viri Amisii Poulet, militis, noniiuantis predicti et patroni bac vice tantum, et uiemorati ]\Iagistri Johannis Strete vicarii ibidem moderni specialiter in bac parte adhiljitis, auctoritate nostra ordinaria impoui decreuimus et imponimus per presentes. Ita videlicet quod ]\Iagister Jobannes Strete vicarius modernus vicarie predicte et quicumque eius successores ipsius vicarie de Clierde, qnanidiu idem doniiuus Eobertus Hol)y vixerit, onus solucionis huiusmodi annue pensionis xx'' niarcarum aguoscere et subire, ac ipsas xx'' marcas ad festa I'ascbe et IVIicliaelis per equales por- cioues eidem domino Itolierto nel ipsius sufficienti procuratori, in noua capella Beate Marie Virginis iuxta clauslrum ecclesie CathedraUs Wellensis, singulis anuis vita sua durante fideliter et plenarie persoluere teneantur, et eorum quilibet pro tempore suo sic persoluere teneatur ; prima solucione dicte annue pensionis xx'' marcarum in festo Pasclie proximo futuro post datani pre- sencium omnino incipiente. Ad quam quidem solucionem modo quo prefertur bene et fideliter faciendam, dictus Magister Jobannes Strete vicarius ibidem modernus, tactis per ipsum sacrosanctis Dei euuangeliis coram nobis in presencia dicti doniini Roberti corjiorale prestitit iuramentum et iurauit. Et vt premissa, modo quo pre- fertur, inuiolabiliter inqiosterum obsernentur et reddanlur cerciora, ordiuauinnis staluimus et decreuimus prout ordinamus, statuimus atque decernimus, quod quicunque successorum prefati Magistri Jobannis Strete in fulurnm superueniens in eadem vicaria insti- tuendus et intitulaudus, quocieuscunque quicunque et quomodo- 103 . EEGISTRUM EICAEDI FOX, cunque ipsam vicariam vacare contigcrit, durante vita dicti doiniai Eoberti Hoby, tempore iustitucionis sue coram dicto reuerendo patre aut successoribus suis Batlioniensibus et Wellensibus epis- copis seu alio quocunque ipsum vicariuni futurum sic instituente, ad Sancta Dei euuaiigelia per ijisuiu realiter tacta iurauieutuin prestet corporale, quod onus solucionis huiusmodi armue pensionis xx'i marcarum mode et forma prescriptis fideliter pro tempore suo, vita supranominati domini Roberti Holjy vt prefertur duraute, subibit supportabit et persoluet; quodque banc ordinaciouem nostram dicto domino Eoberto Hoby viuente non impugnabit uec contraueniet eidem vllo modo. A'lterius statuentes et decernentes prout statuinius et deceruimus per presentes, quod in Uteris institu- cionis cuiuslibet futuri vicarii vicarie predicte, dicti domini Eol)erti Hoby vita naturali durante, de iuramento predicto fiat mencio specialis et expressa, alioquin ijisam iustitucionem seu literas iustitucionis huiusmodi extunc prout exnunc et exnunc prout extunc nidlas et invalidas esse decreuimus et per presentes decerni- nius ijjso facto. Volumus insuper et decernimus quod quilibet vicarius dicte vicarie futurus in eadem vicaria durante vita dicti domini Eoberti Hoby instituendus, statim post ipsius iustitucionem coram dicto reuerendo patre eiusve successoribus seu alio quo- cunque eundem instituente, antequam in corporalem realem et actualem possessionem eiUsdem vicarie inducatur, omnibus et omnimodis appellacionis, querele, excepciouis, supplicacionis, priuilegii, proteccionis seu libertatis, iuris communis aut specialis, canonici, ciuilis aut regii remedio, auxilio et subsidio quibuscunque, et presertim omni iuri dicenti seu dictanti generalem renuncia- ciouem aut aliam quamcuuque minus valere, nisi (piatenus debite processerit magis specialis, per que dicta nostra ordinacio et con- tenta, ut prefertur, in eadem posset uel possent quomodolibet impedire, palam publico et cxpresse iu presencia notarii publici et BATHON. ET AVELL. EPISCOl'I. 109 testium fiiletli;:;nornm rcminciare teneatur, et sic renunciet realiter et cum eflectu. Volumus eciani decernimus et diffiniuius, quod si prefatus Magister Johannes Strete vicarie sepedicte vicavius moderuus ant quisquam in eadem sibi successurns, dictis ordina- cioni, decreto, monicionibus et mandatis nostris, bniusniodi i)arcre neglexerit, aut ea pertinaciter contempserit, et maxiinc si dictani solucionem tenninis supradictis seu saltern infra quadraginta dies post aliquem terminoruni supradictorum mininie perfecerit aut eadem plenarie et integraliter non satisfecerit, qnod ex tunc fructus, redditus, decime, oblaciones et prouentus dicte vicarie vicarii moderni aut cuiuslibet ibidem jn-o tempore existentis mora culpa et contumacia ad merito exigentilius, sint sequestrati prout eos ex causis antedictis quum occurrerint nunc vt ex tunc et tunc vt ex nunc tenore presentium actualiter sequestramus, Iniiusaiodi vero sequestrum nostrum nullatenus relaxantes quous(iue supra- dicto domino Roberto de huiusmodi pensione sua sic subtracta seu delata vna cum arreragiis et expensis pretextu non solucionis huiusmodi in ea parte factis debite fuerit et pleuissime satisfactum ; custodiam vero sequestri nostri huiusmodi officiali iurisdictionis peculiaris de Cherde predicta cuicunque pro tempore existeuti, Amisio Poulet militi, Johanni Speke armigero, Eoberto Gary generoso, Magistro Johanni Taylour in artibus magistro, vicario ecclesie parochialis de Ihnj'ster, Johanni Bevyn, Jolianni Forde et Johanni Znper in Domino committendo. Inhibemusque palam publics et expresse ne quis quauis auctoritate seu colore seques- trum nostrum liuiusmodi temere violare presumat sub pena iuris, prouiso semper quod de fructibus redditibus et prouentibus vicarie predicte eciam sic sequcstratis, eidem hiudaliiliter in diuinis officiis deseruiatur, ac onera oi'dinaria et exti-aordinaria omnia ct singula prcfate vicarie interim incumbencia, debite ut conuenit supportcntur. Prouiso cciam quod si auuualis redditus xx. mar- 110 EEGISTRUM RICARDI VOX, carum in quibus abbas et conuentus monasterii Beatorum Apos- tolorum Petri et rauli de Mochelney, dicte Batlioniensis et Wel- lensis diocesis, literis suis desuper confectis, et sigillo suo com- muni sigillatis, obligantur et sunt astricti, sepedicto domino Roberto, durante ipsius vita naturali, fuerit per eosdem abbatem et conuentum sen per sues assignatos terminis et festis superius descriptis bene et fideliter solutus et contentatus eidera domino Roberto aut sno sufficienti procuratori anuis singulis, durante ipsius domini Roberti Hoby vita naturali, quod tunc dicta vicaria perpetua ecclesie parochialis de Cherde prelibata, ac dictus magister Johannes Strete dicte vicarie vicarius modernus, et eiusque suc- cessores omnes et singuli eiusdem vicarie pro tempore existentes, a solucione dicte annue pensionis pro ea vice tantum omnino exonerentur. In quorum omnium et singulorum fideni et testi- monium sigillum officii nostri presentilius literis tripartitis, quarum vna pars remanet penes sepefatum dominum Robertum Hoby, reliqua vero penes sepedictum I\Iagistnim Johannem Strete, et tercia penes Registrarium dicti reuerendi patris Wellie apponi fecimus. Datum Wellie, xxiij™" die Mensis August! Anno Domini raillesimo cccc°° nonagesimo iiij'° et translaciouis dicti reuerendi patris anno tercio. Concessio custodie parci de Claverton facta Amisio Poulet Militi. Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit Ricardus permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis ejDiscopus salutem in Domino sempiternam. Sciatis nos pro bono et lauda- bili seruicio quod dilectus et fidelis Amisius Poulet miles, nobis impendit, dedimus et concessimus ei officium custodie parci nostri de Claverton' in comitatu Somersetie, habendum et occupanduin officium predictum prcfato Amisio per se vcl per deputatum suum BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. Ill sine dcpiilatos suos, a fcsto Sancti Michaelis Arcliangcli vltimo preterito, durante vita ipsius Aiuisii ; percipieudo et leuando an- nuatim in et pro officio suo predicto exerceiido, feoda et vadia dicto officio ab antiquo debita et cousueta de exitibus sine proficuis dicti manerii sine doniiuii de Claverton' prouenieiitia sine cres- ceiitia, per manus receptorum balliuoruni, prepositorum, firma- riorum sine aliormu occupatorum eiusdein manerii sine doniinii de Claverton' predicta, ad eleccionem ipsius Amisii, ad festa Pasche et Sancti Michaelis Archaugeli per equales porciones, vna cum omnibus et omnimodis aliis proficuis, libertatibus et commo- ditatibus ac emolumentis dicto officio pertineiitibus sine spectanti- bus in tarn amplis niodo et forma, prout alitjua alia persona sine persone dictum officiimi tempore preterito babuit et occupauit vel habuerunt et occuparunt, et in eodom percepit aut jierceperunt. Et si contingat prcdictum annuum feodum a retro fore in parte vel in toto per vnum mensem post aliquod festum sanctorum pre- dictorum quo vt prefertur solui debeat, extunc bene licebit prefato Amisio et assignatis suis in manerio siue domiuio predicto intrarc et distringcre et districciones sic captas licite asportare, abducere, effugare et penes se retinere, quousque de feodo predicto cum eorum arreragiis, si que a retro fueriut, ei fuerint plenarie satis- factum et persolutum. In cuius rei testimonium buic presenti scripto nostro sigillum nostrum apposuimus. Datum iij" die mensis Aprilis Anno Domini millcsimo cccc"'" uonagesimo iiij'° et anno regni regis Henrici Septimi none. Conflrmaciones. Et nos Johannes Cantlowe jirior ecclesie Cathedralis Batho- niensis, etc. Et nos Johannes Gunthorp' decanus ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, etc., vt in communi forma. 112 REGISTKUM EICARDI FOX, Presentacio ad vicariam porpetuam ecclesie parocliialis de Whitechirch' Sarisburiensis diocesis. Eeuerendo in Cliristo patri Joiuiuo Johanui Saresburiensi episcopo eiusve vicario in spiritualibus geuerali, Eicardus eadem gracia Batlioniensis et Wellensis episcopus salutem in Domino et fraterne dileccionis continmira iiicrunientura. Ad vicariam per- petuam ecclesie parocliialis de "Whitechircli' vestre diocesis, per liberam resignacionem domini Willehui Dawlys, vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacautem, et ad nostram presentaciouem pleno iure spectantem, dilectnui nobis in Christo doniinum Eobertum Borde presbiterum paternitati vestre reuerende presentamus, attente rogantes quateniis prefatum dominum Eobertum ad dictam vicariam admittere, ipsumque perpetuum vicarium canonice in- stituere in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis, cetera- que peragere que vestro in liac parte incumbit officio pastorali, dignemini cum fauore. In cuius rei testimoniuui sigillum nostrum presentibus apposuimus. Datum in Hospicio nostro extra Barram Noui Templi London' xxj" die mensis Augnsti, Anno Domini mil- lesimo cccc™° mouagesimo iiij'°, et nostre translacionis anno tercio. Concessio xx"- marcarum per annum pro pen- sione. Omnibus C'liristi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum per- uenerit, Willelmus Wykes, abbas monasterii beatorum Apos- tolorum Petri et Eauli de Moclielncy et eiusdem loci conuentus, salutem in Domino. Noueritis uos prefatum abbatem et con- uentum dedisse concessisse et hoc presenti scripto nostro con- firmasse Eoberto Hoby, nuper vicario vicarie perpetue ecclesie parocbialis de Cherde, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, quaudam annualem redditum xx'' marcarum de et in mauerio PATIIOX. ET WELL. ErL-^COI'I. 113 nostro de Drayton' cum pertinenciis ; habendum et percipiendum predictum anuualem redditum xx" marcarum prefato Roborto ad tenninum vite sue soluendum annuatim in capolla noua Beats Marie Virginis de Welles ad duos anui termiuos, videlicet ad festa Pasche et Sancti Jlichaelis Arcliangelis per equales porciones. Et si coutingat predictum aunualem redditum xx'' marcarum per vnam septimanam post aliquem tenninum cpio solui debent a retro fore in parte vel in toto nou solutum, quod extunc bene licebit prefato Roberto et assignatis suis in predictum manerium de Drayton' cum pertinenciis intrare et distringere, districciones- que sic captas effugare et asportare et penes se retiuere, qnousque de predieto annuaii redditu simul cum eius expensis et arreragiis, si que fuerint, eidem Roberto plenarie fuerit satisfactum, et per- solntum. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum conuentuale hole presenti scripto nostro apposuimus. Datum ajjuil ]\Ioclielney in Domo nostra capitulari xxj** die mensis Augusti, anno regni Henrici Septimi nono. Licencia absentandi ab ecclesia per trien- nium, etc. Ricardus Xykke vtriusque iuris doctor, Aivhidiaconus Wellen- sis ac reuereudi in Cliristo patris et domiui domini Eicardi permissions diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopus, ipso reuerendo ]iatre extra suam diocesem in remotis agcnte, vicarius in spiritualilius generalis, dilecto nobis in C'hristo domino Jolianni Faux' rsctori scclesis parochialis de Compton' Martyn', Batbo- nisnsis et Wellensis diocesis, saluteni in omnium Saluatore. Vt per tricnnium a die date confeccionis prescncium continue nu- merandum, te ab ecclesia tua predicta, dunimodo in loco honesto sen locis honestis moram trahas, licite valeas ahsentare ; fructus- qus redditus et proueutus eiusdem scclesie tue alicui persons I 114 SEGISTRUM lilCAItDI FOX, iJonee, que vtilitatem eiusdein diligciiter procmet, ad firmam dimittere, certis de causis, quas legitiuias reijutamus, tibi tenore preseucium licenciam concedimus specialeni. Sic tameu ([uchI ecclesie tue predicte iuteiim in diuinis ofliciis per capullamuu idoneuni seu caiJellauos idoueos et alios luiuistros facias congnie deseruiri, necnon iura episcopalia et ai'chidiaconalia, ac alia onera eideni ecclesie tue incumbencia debite facias supportari. In cuius rei testimomum sigillum officii nostri presentibus apponi feciinus. Datum xij" die iiieusis Junii, Anno Domini millesimo cccc"" nonagesimo iiij'° et translacionis dicti reuerendi patiis anno tercio. Licencia ad communicandum de pensione pro beneflcio resignando. Eicardus Nykke etc. dilecto nobis in Christo domino Ricardo Heycrofte, vicario perpetuo ecclesie parochialis de Somerton, Batliouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, salutem in omnium Saluatore. Pro parte tua fuit bumiliter supplicatum, quod cum tu, iam senio confractus et aduersa corporis valitudine fatigatus, prefatam ecclesiam et curam eiusdem resignare et dimittere afi'ectes, dum- modo tibi de vite necessariis ex fructibus dicte ecclesie prout conuenit prouideatur, quatenus tibi cum domino Johaune Preston' presbitero de et super quadam annua pensione congrua et cora- petenti de et ex fructibus et prouentibus dicte ecclesie quoad uixeris persoluenda et nostra auctoritate assignanda, tractandi, communicandi et concludendi licenciam et facultatem concedere et impartiri dignaremur ; vnde nos tuis in liac parte supplicacionibus inclinati, licenciam illam et facultatem tibi duximus concedendas, et concedimus per presentes. In cuius rei, etc. Datum xij" die mensis Septembris Anno Domini millesimo cccc"'" nonagesimo iiij" et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno iij°. r.ATimx. ET WELL. EFlsriilM. 115 Collacio ecclesie parochialis de Chelworth. Item, XX" (lie luensis iSepteiuliris, ut Ainiu Domini stipradicto, memoratus vicarius in spiritualibus geueralis, ccclesiam jiar- ocliialein de Chelworth', Bathonicusis et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam resigiiacionem domiui Ilicardi Hall, vltimi rectoris eiusdem in manibus suis factani et per ipsum admissam vacautem, et ad collacionem dicti reuerendi patris pleuo iure spectantem, domino Tliome Weste, presbitero, contulit intuitu caritatis, ipsumque rectorem eiusdem ecclesie auctoritate dicti reuerendi patris sibi iu hac parte commissa, cauonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis \miuersis ; curam animarum parocliianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Keceptoque ab eodem domino Tlioma Weste canouice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archi- diacono Bathouiensi seu eius ofliciali, ut est moris. Collacio prebende de Comba xiij«^- Item, xvj° die eiusdem meusis Anno Domini supradicto, dictus reuerendus pater apud Wodstoke, canonicatum in ecclesia sua Catliedrali Welleusi et prebendam de Comlia xiij* in eadem, per liberam resignaciouem Magistri Eoberti Crofte vltimi possessoris eorundera vacantes, et ad suam collacionem pleno iure spectantes, Magistro Jolianni Arundell' decano ecclesie Cathedralis Exoni- ensis contulit intuitu caritatis, ipsumque canonicum et prebenda- rium instituit et inuestiuit canonice in et de eisdem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsiiis induccione decano ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis seu subdecano, et in corum absencia presidenti capituli et capiculo eiusdem, vt est moris, etc. 116 REGISTKUM RICAliDI FOX, Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis de Nortlistoke. Item, iiij'° die mensis Octobris Anno Domini supradicto, idem vicarius iu spiritualibus gcncralis domiuum Thomani Scliafton' capellanum ad ecclesiam parocliialem de Norlhstoke, Batlioui- ensis et Wellensis diocesis, per liberam resignacionem doiuini Thome Pycher vltimi rectoris eiusdem, in maims suas factam et per ipsum [aduiissam] vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros priorem et conuentum ecclesie Catliedralis 15athonieusis veros dicte ecclesie patronos, dicto vicario in spiritualibus generaH cxtit (sic) presentatus, admisit et rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis ; curam animarum paro- chianorum eiusdem ecclesie sibi iu Domino plenius committendo, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Prestitoque delude ab eodein domino Thoma Schafton' cauonice obediencie iuraraento, scriptuin fuit pro ijisius induccione Archidiacono Batlioniensi seu eius officiali, vt est moris. Institucio vicarii de Estpennard. Pensio annua assignata resignanti. Item, eisdem die et anno supiadictis, prefatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis ad presentacionem venerabilium et religio- sorum virorum abbatis et conuentus monasterii Beate Marie Glaston', canonice instituit dominum Willelmum Brigge in vicaria perpetua ecclesie parocliialis de Estpennard, Batboniensis et Wellensis diocesis per liberam resignacionem domini Thome Gunwyn' vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, de continuo, etc., curam animarum etc., iuribus, etc. et prefatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis assignauit annuam pensionem centum solidorum prefato domino Thome Gunwyn' durante vita sua de fructibus et prouen- tibus dicte ecclesie per predictum dominum Willelmum Brigge et BATIION. ET WELL. EriSCOPL H7 successores suos lideliter persolueudorum, etc., ut pleuius apparet in decreto remanenti in custodia dicti domini Thome Guuwyn, etc. Scriptuin fuit pro ipsius induccioue Archidiacouo Welleusi sen eius officiali ut moris est. Institucio vicarii de Dunster. Item, vj'° die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini supradicto, idem vicarius in spiritnalibns gencralis ad prcscntacioncm veneral)iliiim et religiosorum ^-irorum prioris capituli ecclesie Cathedralis Eatlioniensis, instituit canon ice domimnn Thomam Kyngysbury capellannm in vicariam de Dunster per liljerara resignacionem domini Eicardi Harrys vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem ; de con- tinue, etc. Curam animarum, etc. Et recepto, etc., scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Arcliidiacono Taunton' seu eius officiali ut est moris etc. Collacio Cantarie ad altare in honore Corporis Christi in Ecclesia Cathedrali Wellensi fundate. Item, xiij" die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini supradicto, pre- fatus vicarius in spiritualibus gencralis contulit domino Johanni Teele capellano cantariam perpetuam ad altare in honore Corporis Christi in Ecclesia Cathedrali Wellensi dedicatam fundatam et erectam, per liberam resignacionem domini Thome Crosse vltimi capellani eiusdem vacantem, et ad collacionem dicti reuerendi patris domini Eicardi Dei gracia Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi pleno iure spectantem, auctoritate in hac parte sibi commissa capellanum perpetuum de obseruando statuta et consuetudines dicte cantarie iuxta fundacionem et ordinacionem eiusdem ad Saucta Dei Euuangelia iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis, iurilms, etc. Et reccplo ab 113 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, eodem domino Jolianne canonice obediencie iuramento, sciiptum fuit pro ipsius iuduccione principali dicti CoUegii Sancte Anne in la Montroy, vt est nioris, etc. Concessio decimarum dominicalium de Chewe vicario moderno et successoribus suis, etc. Vniuersis Sancte Matris ecclesie iiliis ad quos presentes litere peruenerint, Eicardus permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellen- sis episcopus, saluteni in Domino sempiternam. Noueritis nos prefatum Eicardum episcopum concessisse, dimisisse, et ad firmam tradidisse domino Thome eadem permissione Tinensi episcopo vicario perpetuo ecclesie parochialis de C'liewe, omnes et omnimo- das decimas tarn maiores quam minores, sine de exitibiis anima- lium sine aUarum rerum nostrarum successorum nostrorum siue assignatorum nostrorum de solo nostro dominico de Chewe pre- dicta in parrochia einsdem ; habendum et tenendvim omnes dictas decimas tam maiores quam minores, siue de exitibus animalium siue aliarum rerum nostrarum, seu successorum nostrorum aut nostrorum assignatorum de predicto dominico nostro proueuientes, prefato Tliome vicario et successoribus suis vicariis ibidem a die confectionis presencium usque ad terminum et finem octuaginta annorum post datam presencium plenarie complendorum alisque dolo fraude et malicia quibuscunque, reddendo inde annuatim nobis et successoribus nostris quinquaginta solidos bone et legalis monete Anglie ad festum Omnium Sanctorum pro dictis decimis et omnibus aliis seruiciis et demandis. Et si contingat redditum quinquaginta solidorum a retro fore in parte vel in toto post dictum Festum Omnium Sanctorum non solutum si petatur, tunc bene licebit nobis et successoribus nostris et nostris in hac parte assignatis in omnes terras dicte vicarie pertincntes intrare et dis- tringere, districcionesque ibidem inuentas siue captas abducere BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 119 asportave et effugare ac penes nos retinere donee de predicto red- (litu 1° solidoruiu ciini arreragiis et expensis eiusdem, ei que fueiint, pleiiaric fuerit satisi'actum et persolutum. P]t nos vero prcdictus Kicardus episcopus et siiccessores nostri omnes et oniui- niodas supradictas decimas tain niaiores qnam minores sine de exitibus animalinm sen aliannn rerum nostraruni successorum nostrornm aut assignatoruni de dicto dnniinieo nostvd nt pvofertur proueuientes, prefato Thome vicario et successoribus suis vicariis ecclesie de Chewe predicta ad predictum terminum octuaginta annorum contra onines gentes warantizabimus, acquietabinnis, et in forma predicta dofendemus per presentes. In cuius rei testi- monium vni parti huius scrii)ti penes nos et successoi-es nostros remanenti dittus Tliomas vicarius sigillnm suum apposuit, alteri vero parti eiusdem scripti indentati penes prefatum Thomam vicarium et successores suos remanenti sigillnm episcopatus nostri apponi fecimus. Datura sexto die mensis Septembris, Anno Domini millcsinio cccc'"° uonagesimo iiij'" et anno regui regis Henrici Seplimi post conquestum Anglie decimo. Institucio vicarii ecclesie parochialis de Est Chynnok. Item XV. die Octo1)ris Anno Domini supradicto, memoratns vicarius in spiritualibus generalis adm sit dominum Jolianneni Leclie capellanum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Est Chynnok, per liberam resignacionem domini Johannis Crovvclie vltimi vicarii eiu.sdem vacantem, et ad presentacionem prioris et conuentus de Mountagu [spectantem], de continuo, etc., canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribu.s, etc., curam, etc., iuribus, etc., et recepto canonice obediencie iuramento ab eodcm, scriptnm fuit ])ro ipsius induccione Arcliidiacono Wellcnsi sou eius official!, nt est moris. 120 EEGISTKUM RICARDI FOX, Concessio oflacii Auditoris facta Thome Hobson'. Oniiiibus Cliristi fidelibus ad quos preseus scriptum peruenerit, Eicardus perruissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopus salutem in domino sempiternam. Sciatis nos de fidelitate circum- spectione et industria dUecti nobis in Christo Thome Hobson' confidentes, fecisse, ordinasse, et per presentes constituisse ipsum Tliomam auditorem ad omnia et omninioda receptorum, balliuonim, prepositoram, firmariorum, collectorum, bedellorum, et aliorum miuistrorum quorumciinque omnium et singulorum dominiorum, maneriorum, teirarum, et tenementorum ac aliarum possessionum quarumcunque computabilium existeucium eiiiscopatui Batlio- niensi et Wellensi seu ecclesiis Bathoniensi sine Wellensi, vt in iure episcopatus predieti pertinentium, sine spectantium ; ac euudem Thomam auditoiem onniium et singulorum dominiorum, maneriorum, terrarum et tenementorum predictoruni in comitatibus Somers[etie], GIouc[estfie], South[antonie] et Midd[lesexie] aut alibi infra regnum Anglie audiendum et determinandum, assignauimus constituimus et ordiuauimus per presentes, habendum occupandum et gaudendum prefato Thome officium predictum per se vel per sufficientem deputatum suum sine sufficientes deputatos suos pro termino vite sue. Concessinnis eciam eidem Thome jiro termino vite sue pro occupacione et exercicio officii predieti vadia et feoda dicto officio ab antiquo debita pertinencia siue spectancia, percipi- enda sibi siue deputato aut assignatis suis de et in maneriis siue duminiis de Cherde, Kyngesbury et Wellyngtou in dicto comitatu Somersetie per manus receptoriun, balliuorum.prepositorum, firma- riorum aut aliorum occupatorum eorundem dominiorum siue maneriorum pro tempore existencium, ad festa Pasche et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli annuatim equis porcionibus persoluenda, vna cum omnibus aliis proficuis, liberlatibus, commoditatibus, auan- BATHON. ET WELL. EI'ISCOrL 121 tagiis, regardis et eraolumentis dicto officio debitis et consuetis, in tain aniplis mode et forma prout aliqiiis alius siue aliqui alii ante liec tenipora liabuit ant occupauit, sen liabuenmt aut occnpan- erunt. Et si coutingat predicta vadia et feoda a retro fore in parte vel in toto per vnum mensem post aliquod festum sanctorum predictorum, quo ut prefertur solui debeat, non soluta, tunc bene licebit prefato Thome et assignatis siue deputatis suis in domiuiis siue maneriis de Cberde, Kyngesbury et Well3mgtou' predictis, et in qualibet inde parcella iutrare et distringere, districtionesque sic captas licite asportare abducere et efTugare, ac penes se reti- nere, quousijue de predictis vadiis et feodis et qualibet indo parcella cum eorum arreragiis si que a retro fuerint, plenarie fuerit satisfactus contentus et persolutus. Dantes et concedeutes prefato Tiiome Hobson plenam potestatem et auctoritatem ad audiendum et determinandum omnia et singula liuiusmodi compota predicto- rimr receptorum, balliuorum, prepositorum, bedellorum, firmario- rum sen aliorum occupatorum predictorum, sic ad omnia et singula alia faciendum exequeudum et perimpleudum in omnibus et per omnia secundum et prout ordo compoti in liuiusmodi casu exigit et requirit. Damns autem vniuersis et singulis receptoribus, bal- linis, prepositis, firmariis, bedellis et omnibus aliis officiariis uostris quorum interest, firmiter in mandatis quod prefato Thome aut dc'putato suo, in occupacione et execucione officii sui predicti obe- (lieutes sint, intendentes, auxiliantes et assistentes in omnibus prout dceet. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum episcopatus nostri presentiVms apponi fecimus. Datum duodecimo die mensis Janu- arii Anno Domiui millesimo cccc"'" nonagesimo tercio, et anno regni regis Henrici Septimi post conquestum Anglie uouo. 122 REGISTRUM EICjVEDI FOX, Dispensacio per episcopum facta Rectori de Capland ad retinendiim eandem ecclesiam cum ijai^^s. oiiis ecclesiis quas dispensacione apostolica obtinuit. Eicardus Kylcke \triusque iuris doctor, Archidiacouus Wellen- sis, reuerendi in Christo patris, etc., dilecto nobis in Christo Magistro Jolianui Strete arcium Magistro, rectori ecclesie paro- cliialis de Capland, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, salutem in omnium Saluatore et fidem indubiam preseutibus adbibere. Tenore presencium litteraruni nostrarum attestamur et fidem facimus per easdem, quod tua ecclesia parochialis de Capland predicta, in qua prouunc iutitulatus legitime existis, est vnum de minimis beneficiis dicte Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, tarn in domibus rectorie ibidem quam parrocliiauis et populo eiusdem, ac in suis redditibus, fructibus, proueutibus et oljuencionibus pauper, tenuis et exilis liiis diebus, prout a vicinarum pnrrochiaruni parocliianis et in- liabitantibus credibiliter informamur et sumus instructi. Et (^uia curam animarum parocliianorum ipsius ecclesie alias tibi commisi- mus, et huiusmodi curam propter caristiam et defectum parocliia- norum in acta ibidem exercere non valeas, licet in liabitu curam predictam habeas tibi ut premittitur commissam, tecum vt eaudem ecclesiam de Capland predicta cum ecclesia parrochiali de Hentou Sancti Georgii ac vicaria ecclesie parochialis de Clierde, quas dis- pensacione apostolica pronunc obtines, licite tenere valeas, ita quod minime in eadem racione cure eiusdem residere tenearis, misericorditer dispeusamus, et quatenus in nobis est liccnciam damns et concedimus per presentes, iuribus et consuetudiuibus episcopalibus dicti reuerendi patris ecclesiarumque Cutliedralium Bathoniensis et Wellensis dignitate in omnibus semper saluis. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri preseutibus apposui- nms. Datum Wellie, xxv° die mensis Augusti, Anno Domini BATIION. ET WELL. EPLSCOl'L 123 niillesimo cccc""" nonagesiino iiij'° et trauslacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno tercio. Decretum et ordinacio facta super inuenci- one capellani in eapellis de Palton' et Feryiigd[on] infra parochiam de Chewton'. Vniuersis Sancte Matris ecclesie filiis presentes literas iuspec- turis seu audituris, Ricardus Nykke, vtriusqiie iuris doctor, Arclii- diacouus Wellensis ac reuerendi in Christo patris et domini domini Eicardi perniissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, i]iso reuerendo patre extra suani diocesem in remotis ageute, vicarius in spiritiialibus generalis, salutem in Auctore salutis ac fidera iudubiam presentibus adhibere. Vniuersitatis vestre noticiis deducimus ac deduci volumns per presentes, quod cum pridem per aliqua tem- pera inter Tliomam Goldwege presbiterum, vicarium peri)etuuni ecclesie parochialis de Cliewton' Subtus Menydepe, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ex parte vna, ac incolas villularum sine bame- Icctarum de Palton' et Feryngdon' infra fines et limites parochie dicte ecclesie parochialis de Chewton' situatarum et existentiuni ex parte altera, causa et occasione inuencionis et exhibicionis duo- rum capellanorum in eapellis earundem viHularum sine liamelec- tarum per dictum vicarium, vti per ipsos incolas sine inliabitantes pretenditur, subtractorum, exorta fuerit materia questionis et dif- ferencie ; expositum fuit nobis per dictum Thomam Goldwege, vicarium suprnscriptnm, et alios quam plures vii'os fidudignos, meliorem noticiam veritatis in ea parte veresimQiter obtineutes, et eciam per inquisicionem debitam et canonicam in ea parte factam iioliis liquebat et liquet, quod fructus, redditus et prouentus ipsarum capcllarum ail dictum vicarivim et vicariam suam i)re- dictam pertinentes et pertinerc debentes, fueruut et sunt adeo 1 24 EEGISTRUM EICARDI FOX, tenues et exiles quod ad inuencionem et exliibicionem congruam et decentem vnius soliiis capellaiii in dictis capellis diuina celebraturi et in eisdem curani gesturi mininie sufficiunt liiis diebus, cum summam octo marcaruni monete Anglicaue iuxta conimuuem esti- macionem non excedunt; vnde nos, Eicardus Nykke vicarius generalis antedictus, attendentes et considerantes ecclesiam paro- cliialem et matricem de Chewton' predicta ac vicarium eiusdem cum nonnullis capellis ab eadem dependentibus ac jiensioue annua quinque marcarum seruicio Beate Marie in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Andree Wellensi quotidie lionorifice celebrato et obseruato, applicatarum et aunuatim fideliter solutarum et solueudarum, ceterisque oneribus sibi et vicarie sue huiusniodi incumbentibus multipliciter onerari; nolentes eandem ecclesiam parochialem et matricem suis capellis subiecta esse, aut cum eisdem capellis iude- bite onerari, sicuti nee deberet de iure aut esse, aut vicario eiusdem qui magnam et largam curam per se et sues gerit ibidem, plus debito preiudicari seu eundem indebite grauari aut onerari ; et ue eciam eadem ecclesia parocliialis aut vicaria eiusdem fructuum diminucionem aut domorum vicarie huiusniodi dilapidacionem seu aliqua alia, per nimiam et inordiuatam emunccionem capellarum predictarum sibi subiectarum paciatur incommoda, aut eidem ecclesie parochial! et matrici seu vicarie eiusdem alia inconueni- encia occasione premissorum inferautur seu inferri poterint quo- modolibet in futurum quod absit, vocatis primitus et legittime preminitis per nos et autoritate nostra prefato vicario ac maiore et saniore parte incolarum dictarum capellarum, ac coram nobis in capella Beate Marie Virginis iuxta claustrum ecclesie Cathe- dralis Sancti Andree Wellensis predicte, die Mercurii proximo ante festum Sancti Laurencii, videlicet sexto die mensis Augusti Anno Domini mUlesimo cccc""" nonagesimo iiij'" hora consueta ad iura reddenda pro tribuuali iiulicialiter sedentibus, com- BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 125 parentibus persoiialiter, easdeiu capellas de Palton' et Feryng- doii' que adeo contigue adiaceut imllo inter easdem inimineute aquaium seu altcrius rei periciilo, qnin per vmim capellammi pussiiit commode iu diuiiiis deseruiri, per vnum capellaimin idoiieum, de fructibus redditibus et prouentibus ipsarum capellarum dumtaxat prefato vicario et vicarie sue predicte qualitercumque pertinentibus et prnuenicutilnis, de assensu et consensu et expressis ciusdem vicarii decreuimus et ordiuauimus ex causis premissis et aliis nos iuste in liac parte mouentibus, de cetero in diuinis deseruiri, nisi ex prouisione dictorum incolarum sumptibus suis propriis et ex- ]iensis proasiamento suo vohierint aliter jirouidere. Absque tamcn aliquo preiudicio prefate matricis ecclesie aut vicarie seu vicarii eiusdem imposterum quoquo mode facieudo, prout hiis scriptis decernimus et ordinamus antoritate et vigore officii nostri memo- rati, ipsis incolis vtriusque dictarum capellarum tunc presentibus nostraque decretum et ordinacionem buiusmodi audientibus et niclul omnino contradicentibus, allegantibus, i^roponentibus aut in ea parte ostendentibus sed omnino tacentibus. Volumus eciam et per presentes decernimus et ordinamus quod capcllanus qui- cumque pro tempore in dictis capellis celebraturus diebus Domi- nicis et festiuis et aliis certis diebus prout conuenit, vna vice in vna capella et alia vice in altera capella alternis vicibus diuina vt premittitur celebret seu celelirari faciat. In quorum omnium et singulorum fidem atque testimonium has literas nostras per no- tarium publicum subscriptum, curie consistorii episcopalis Wellen- sis actorum et nostrum in hac parte scribani subscribi, nostrique sigilU quo in buiusmodi vicariatus officio fungimur, appensione communiri fecimus. Acta sunt hec omnia et singida jirout sujira- scribuntur et recitantur sub Anno Domini ac sexta die mensis Augiisti, et capella Beate Marie Virginis antedictis, Indictione xij"", pontificatus sanctissimi iu Christo patris et domini nostri 126 REGISTRUM RICAKDI FOX, (loiiiini Alexaiidri diuina prouidencia Tape sexti auno secinido, et translacionis suprascripti reuerciidi patris Bathouiensis et Wellen- sis episcopi anno turcio. Subscriptio Notarii. Et ego Eobertus Dykar, clericus, Bathouiensis et Wellensis diocesis, publicus autoritate apostolica notarius, prefateque curie cousistorii episcopalis "Wellensis actomui, ac dieti Magistri Eicardi Nykke vicarii in spiritualibus generalis in suis decreto et ordinacione predictis scriba per eum assuniptus, pren^issis omnibus et singulis, (lum sic vt premittitur sub Anno Domini, indiccioue, pontificatu, mense die et loco predictis, coram prefato Magistro Eieardo Nykke et per eum agebantur et fieliant, presens personaliter interfui, eaque omnia et singula sic fieri vidi et audiui. Ideo has litems de mandato ipsius Magistri Ilicardi Nykke vicarii in spiritualibus generalis prelibati exinde confeci, meque aliunde prepedito per nlium scribi feci, publicaui et in banc publicam formam redegi, signoque et nomine nieis solitis et consuetis vna cum aii])ensione sigilli dicti Magistri Eicardi Nykke, vicarii in spiritualibus gene- ralis memorati signaui, manuque propria me hie subscripsi rogatus et requisitus in fidem et testimonium omnium et siugulorum pre- inissorum. Collacio camere sexte clausi vicariortim. Item xxvij" die mensis Octobris Anno Domini supradicto, prefatus vicarius in spiritualibus generalis auctoritate sibi com- missa contulit domino Johanni llrowgliyng, vicario ecclesie Cathe- dralis Wellensis, cameram sextani ex parte occidentali clausi vicariorum ibidem vacantem et ad collacionem dicti reuerendi patris spectantem, sub modis formis et condicionibus, etc., ut supra. BATIIOX. ET WF.M,. EPISCOPI. 127 Permutacio prebende de Cudworth cum ecclesia parocliiali de Axbrigge. Decimo nctauo die mcnsis Octobris Anno Doiniiii supradicto, idem reuerendus pater in (pioduni nerjocio permutacionis facte inter magistrnni Tliomani Itajuiys arciuui magistrum, presbiterum, canonicum ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis et prebendarium pre- bende de Cudworth in eadem, et venerabilem patrcm doniimnn Tlioniam Tinensem episcopnm rectorem ecclesie parocbialis Sancti Jobannis Baptiste de Axbrigge, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, legitime procedens, audiuit examinauit et plenarie discussit causas et negocium pernmtacionis buiusmodi, ipsisque cansis veris et legitimis iuueutis, approbauit easdem, dietanujue permntacionem auctorizauit, necnon resignacionib\is dictornm Magistri Thome et domini Thome Tinensis episcopi de beneficiis siiis antedictis hincindc factis receptis et admissis, statim dominns contulit prefato venerabili patri domino Tiucusi episcopo canonicatinii in ecclesia Cathedrali Welleusi et prebeudam de Cudworth' in eadem ex causa permutacionis antedicte, ipsumque cauouicum eiusdem ecclesie Cathedrabs Wellensis et prebendarium prebende predicte instituit et iuuestiuit canonice in et de eisdem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis. Et recepto ab eodem domino Thoma Tinensi episcopo canonice obediencie iuramento, maudatum fuit dccano vel subdecano ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis et iu eorum absencia presidenti capituli et capitulo eiusdem ecclesie, ut moris est, ad iuducendum eundem. Et iucontiuenti prefatus reuerendus pater prefatmn Magistrum Thomam Kaj'neys ad ecclesiam jiaro- cliialcm Sancti Johanuis Baptiste de Axbrigge vacantem et ad suam collacionem pleno iure spectantem, ex causa permutacionis buiusmodi admisit et ipsum rectorem in persona domini Willclmi Corbet presliiteri procuratoris sui sufticienter in hac parte con- stituti, canonice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis 128 HEGISTRUM RICAKliI FOX, vniiiersis. Et recepto ab eoclciii procuratore nomine rlomini siii caiionice obedieucie inramento, iiiandatum fuit Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali pro ipsius iiidiiccione, ixt moris est, etc. Inquisicio facta de iure patronatus ecclesie parochialis de Sowth Cadbury. Item, vltiiuo die meiisis Octobris, Anno Domini supradicto, Magister Thomas Goldwege vicarius perpetuus ecclesie parochialis de Chewtou', in capella Beate Marie A''irginis iiixta claustrum ecclesie Catliedralis Wellensis, ad effectum subscriptum iudicialiter sedens, inquisicionem delntam et canonicam fecit de iure patronatus ecclesie parochialis de Sowth Cadbury, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per inquisitores idoneos, videlicet sex rectores et vicarioset alios sex viros iidedignos, eidem ecclesie vicinos, noticiam iuris patro- natus ipsius ecclesie et aliorum articulorum in huiusmodi negocio haberi solitorum veresimiliter obtinentes, in forma iuris iuratos et examinatos, facta primitus monicione legitinia in eadem ecclesia parochiali de Sowth Cadbm-y pro omnibus et singulis ius aliquod aut interesse in ea parte habentibus seu habere pretendentibus. Qui dicunt quod dominus Edwardus Hastynges miles, dominus de Hastynges, est verus patronus ecclesie parochialis de Sowth Cadbury, iure Marie uxoris sue. Item dicunt quod probus vir Laurencius Eaynesforde miles vltimo presentauit domiuum Eicar- dum Osborn' ad eandem iure Elizabeth Hungerford uxoris sue. Item dicunt qviod ipsa ecclesia vacauit et vacare incepit xx" die mensis Maii Anno Domini millesimo cccc'"" nonagesimo iiij'°. Insuper dicunt quod presentatus ad eandem non habet plura beneficia. Insuper dicunt quod non est aliqua simoniaca paccio inter presentantem et presentatum. Insuper dicunt quod presen- tatus ad eandem est sacerdos. De ceteris articulis examinati nATIIOX. ET WEIX. EPiscori. 129 inquisitores luiiusmodi iurati dicunt quod nihil olistat preseutanti aut preseutato autedictis, etc. Institucio rectoris ecclesie de Sowth Cadbury. Eodem vltiiuo di« dieli iiieusis Octobris, Aimo Domini supra- dicto, Magister Joliannes Vowel legum doctor canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, venerabilis viri Magistri Ilicardi Nykke vtri usque iuris doctoris, Archidiaconi Wellensis reuerendi in Christo patris ct domini domini Ilicardi perniissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis agente, vicarii in spiritualibus generalis, commissavius ac vices gerens, dominum Thoniam Syde presbiteruni ad ecclesiani parochialem de Sowth Cadbury, Bathoniensis et Wellensis dioccsis per mortem domini Ricardi Osborn' vltimi rectoris eiusdeni vacantem, ad quam per noliileni virum Edwardum Hastynges militem, dominum de Hastynges, verum dictc ecclesie prout per inquisicionem de iure patronatus einsdem ecclesie captam manifeste liquet pronunc patrouum, dicto commissario extitit presentatus, admisit in persona sua propria, ac rectorem instituit canonice in eadem cum suis iurilius et pertinenciis vniuersis ; cnram animarum etc., iuribus, etc. Et prcstito per eundem dominum Tliomam Syile canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum i'uit pro ipsius induccioue Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali, ut est moris, etc. Institucio vicarii ecclesie parocliialis de Kul- neton'. Item, xiij° die Nouembris Anno Domini supradicto, Magister Johannes Vowell legum doctor, canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, commissarius dicti vicarii generalis ac vices gerens, dominum Walterum Long presbiterum ail vicariain perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Kulueton', Bathoniensis et Wellensis dio- K 130 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, cesis, per liberam resignacionem domini Willelmi Pers vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros priorem et conuentura sine capitulum ecclesie Catliedralis Batlioniensis veros dicte vicarie patrouos dicto commissario extitit presentatus, admisit in persona sua propria. Ac vicarium perpe- tuum de continuo et personaliter inibi residendo iuxta formam onstitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem cnm suis iuribns et pertinenciis vni- uersis; curam animaruni parocliianoruui eiusdem ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo ; iuribus, etc. Et prestito per eundem domi- num Walterum Long canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Taunton' seu eius officiali ut moris est, etc. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis de Crawcombe. Item, xix° die meusis Nouembris, Anno Domini supradicto, prefatus Magister Johannes Vowell legum doctor, Thomam Hall scolarem ad ecclesiam parochialem de Crawcombe, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem Magistri Johannis llocbe vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos mulieres priorissam et conuentum de Stodeley, Lincolniensis dio- cesis, veros dicte ecclesie patronos dicto commissario extitit pre- sentatus, admisit in persona Magistri Johannis Strete procuratoris sui sufiicienter et legitime in hac parte constituti, canonice insti- tuit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis; curam animarum, etc., iuribus, etc. Et recepto ab eodeni procuratore nomine domini sui canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacono Taunton' seu eius officiali vt est moris. BATHOX. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 131 Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis de Lamyate. Item, X. die mensis Nouembris Anno Domini snprmlicto, pre- fatus reuereudus pater in liospicio sue extra Barras Noui Teni])li London' dominura Johannem Williamson, capollanum, ad ecclesiam parochialem de Lamyate, Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis, per liberam resignacionem Magistri Eogeri Woode, vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per circumspectos viros Eogeruni Crosties, armigerum, Robertum Slurbourne clericum, et Tliomam Chanceler, ciuitatis Wellensis, veros dicte ecclesie racione dona- cionis sine concessionis iuris patronatus eiusdem ecclesie eis a religiosis mulieribns Abbatissa et Conuentu Monasterii Beate Marie Virgiuis et Sancti Johaunis Baptiste de Goodstowe ipsis facta, liac vice patronos, dicto reuerendo patri extitit presentatus, admisit et ipsum rectorem canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis; curam animarum parocliiaiKirum, etc., iuribus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino Joluinnc AVilliam- son canouice obediencie iurameuto, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induc- cione Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali ut est moris. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis de Rowbarowe. Item, xxiiijw die mensis Nouembris Anno Domini supradicto, idem vicarius in spiritualibiis gcneralis dominum Willelmum Eliot, capellanuni, admisit ad ecclesiam parocliialem de Eowbarowgji, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, vacantem per mortem domini Thome Nevyll vltimi rectoris eiusdem, et ad presentacioncm re- ligiosorum virorum abbatis et conuentus monasterii Sancti Augus- tini iuxta Bristolliam, et rectorem canonice instituit in cadem cum suis iuriljus et pertinenciis vniuersis, curam, etc., iuribus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino AVillelnio Eliot canonice obediencie K 2 132 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, iuramento, scriptum fuit i)ro ijjsius iiiduccione Arcliidiacono "Wellensi sen eius officiali vt est moris. Collacio duarum camerarum in Clause Vicari- orum Wellie. Item, xxvj'° (lie iiiensis Nouembris Anno Domini supradicto, vicarius in spiritualibus generalis apud Welliam concessit domino Johanni Towker, vicario chorali ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, cameram xviij""" ex parte occidentali clausi vicariorum, ac Johanni Sampson' cameram decimam terciam ex occidentali parte eiusdem clausi, et ipsas cameras eisdem Johanni et Jolianni auctoritate sibi in ea parte commissa, contulit possidendas per eosdem iuxta statuta et ordinaciones recolende memorie domiui Eadulphi de Salojjia quondam Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi superinde editas, quaradiu eiusdem ecclesie vicarii fuerint bone fame et con- uersacionis honeste, etc., ut in forma consueta. Institucio rectoris ecclesie parochialis de Radyngton'. Item, xxix° die eiusdem mensis et Anno Domini supradicto, prefatus Magister Johannes Vowell commissarius dominum Thomam Harry capellanum ad ecclesiam parochialem de Eadyng- ton' Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, per mortem domini Thome Greusy vltimi rectoris eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per nobilem virum Jacobum Awdeley dominum de Awdeley, verum dicte ecclesie patronum, racione aduocacionis illius per probum virum Willelmum Say, militem, ipsi hac vice tantimi facte, vt plenius apparet, eidem commissario extitit presentatus, admisit et rectorem canouice instituit in eadem cum suis iuribus et pertincnciis vni- uersis; curam animarum parochianoruin prefate ecclesie silji in Domino pleuarie committeutes, iuribus et consuetudinibus, etc. Et BA.TIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 133 prestito per eundem dominuin Tliomam Harry canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum i'uit pro ipsius iuduccione Archidiacono Taunton sen eius officiali, vt est moris. Carta aduocacionis ecclesie parochialis de Radyngton. Oninil)us Chrisli fidclibus ad quos presentes litere peruenorint, Willt'luius Say, miles, verus patronus ecclesie parochialis de liadyngton in comitatu Somersetie, salutem in Domino. Noucritis me prefatum Willelmum Say, dedisse, concessisse et hoc present! scripto meo confirmasse vcnerabili domino Jacobo Awdeley niiliti, domino de Awdeley, aduocacionem, donacionem, collacionem, presentacionem, et liberam disposicionem ecclesie pai'ochialis de liadyngton' supradicta; habendum aduocacionem, donacionem, collacionem, prcscntacicmeni et liberam disposicionem ecclesie sujiradicte prefato Jacobo domino de Awdeley, executoribus et assignatis suis, pro prima et proxima vacacione eiusdem tantum. Ita quotl l)ene licebit eidem Jacobo domino de Awdeley execu- toribus et assignatis suis auctoritate prcsencium, cum ecclesia predicta per mortem, privacioncm, cessionem, dimissioneni, pernni- tacionem, resignacionem, seu alio modo quocumque prime sen proximo vacauerit, seu vacare contigerit, idoneam personam ad eandem ecclesiam loci illius ordinario nominare et literatorie presentare. Ac omnia et singula (|ue circa premissa necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet oportuna, exigere, perficere et perimplere, adeo plene libcre et intcgre, prout ego facerem si presens concessio mea eidem Jacobo domino de Awdeley inde facta miiiime extitisset. Ita tamen quod aduocacio, donacio, collacio, presentacio et libera disposicio ecclesie predicte quando vacauerit, post \'nam dona- cionem sic per prefatum Jacobum dominum de Awdeley executores sine assignatos sues inde fieudani, ad me et heredes meos vt in 134 EEGISTRUM RICAKDI FOX, pristine statu nieo iutegre reuertatur. In cviius rei testimonium huic presenti scripto meo sigillum meum apposui. Datum sexto die mcnsis Julii anno regni Eegis Henrici Septimi post Concpies- tum Anglie octauo. Institucio vicarii ecclesie parochialis de Somerton'. Item, tercio die mensis Decembris Anno Domini supradicto, prefatus Magister Johannes Vowell commissarius, etc., dominum Johannem Preston' presbiterum ad vicariam perpetuam ecclesie parochialis de Somerton', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis jier mortem domini Ricardi Heycroft vltimi vicarii eiusdem vacantem, ad quam per venerabiles et religiosos viros Abbatem et Couuentum Monasterii de Mochehiey eiusdem diocesis, veros eiusdem vicarie patrouos, eidem conuuissario extitit presentatus, admisit et vicarium perpetuum de continue et personaliter residendo in eadem iuxta formam constitucionum legatinarum in ea parte editarum iuratum, canonice instituit in eadem, cum suis iuribus et pertinenciis vniuersis, curam animarum parochianorum ipsius ecclesie sibi in Domino committendo, iuribus, etc. Et recepto ab eodem domino Johanne Preston' canonice obediencie iuramento, scriptum fuit pro ipsius induccione Archidiacouo Welleusi seu eius officiali, ut est moris. BATIION. ET ■WELL. EPISCOPI. 136 Ordines generales celebrati in capella Beate \Marie Virginis, iuxta Claustrum Ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis per reuerendum patrem dominum Tliomam Tinensem epis- copum, vice et auctoritate reuereiidi in Cliristo patris et domiui domini Eicardi, Dei gracia Batlioniensis et Wel- lensis episcopi, die Sabbati iiij"' teniponim videlicet, xyj" die mensis Junii Anno Domini millesimo cccc™" uonagesiuio secundo, et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno prime. ACOLITI. Thomas Dany, Landauensis diocesis. Stephanus Stowell, Bathouiensis et Wellensis diocesis. Willelmus Luxton', Exoniensis diocesis. Thomas Lanvrege, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. SUBDIACONI. Stephanus Langston', Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum domus prioratus de Launceston', eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Thomas Key, Herfordensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum domus Monasterii de Wygmore. Joliannes Maior, Exoniensis diocesis, vicarius choralis ecclesie Cathedralis Sancti Petri Exoniensis ad titulum stalli sui in eadem. Thomas Wyther de Boltysborowe, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Staffardale ordiuis Sancti Augus- tini eiusdem diocesis. DiACONI. Johannes Zerward de Taunton, ad titulum prioratus dc Tauutou'. 136 EEGISTRUM EICAEDI FOX, Doiuimis Joliannes Carter, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titiilum prioratus de Frythele- stoke eiusdem diocusis. Dominus Joliaunes Varyat, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum prioratus de Frythele- stoke eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Cliristoforus Palle, Sarisburiensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum Abbatis et Conuentus de Newton' eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Thomas Belloye, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum domus sine prioratus de Plymton' eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Thomas Harry, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum domus prioratus de Bodman eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Eogerus Varthyng, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum prioratus Sancti Germani eiusdem diocesis. PresbitekI. Dominus Johannes Browghyng, vicarius choralis ecclesie Cathe- dralis Wellensis ad titulum staUi sui in eadem. Dominus Thomas Nicholas, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum domus prioratus de Bodman. Dominus Humfridus Dikar, Bathoniensis et WeUensis diocesis, ad titulum domus Sancti Johannis Baptiste WeUie. Dominus Dauid ap Pliilipe ap Thoma.s, Landauensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum Monas- terii Beate Marie. Dominus Willelmus Nassbyug, Bathoniensis et WeUensis BATIION. ET WELL. EI'ISGOPL 137 diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii dc Duukyswel ordinis Cisterci- ensis, Exonieiisis diocesis. Doininus Thomas Key, Heifordeiisis diocesis, per litcras sui diocesani sufficienter diinissus ad titiilum domus Monasterii de Wygmore ordinis Ci[s]terciensis eiusdem diocesis. Dominns Willelnius Drewe, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sullicieuter diinissus, ad titulum Monasterii Saucti Nectani de Hertlond eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Willelmus Penrose, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sutlicienter dimissus ad titulum Monasterii Sancti Nectani. Dominus Willelmus Albon' rector ecclesie parochialis de Chel- worth', Eboracensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesaui sufficienter dimissus. Dominus Johannes West, Exoniensis diocesis, i)er literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum domus Sancti Nicholai eiusdem diocesis. Dominus Johannes FejTey, canouicus regularis de Worspryng, Bathonicnsis et Wellensis diocesis. Dompnus Edmundus Eecliff de Farley, Eboracensis diocesis Dompnus Ludwicus de eodem, Dompnus Johannes Michelson' de Wytnay, Canturiensis (sic) orduiis. Henricus Josep, Exoniensis diocesis, per litcras sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum propositi et Collegii de Glasseney eiusdem diocesis. 138 REGTSTRUM RICARni FOX, Ordines generales celebrati in ecclesia Conuentuali Hospitalis Sancti Johauuis Baptiste "Welle per reuerendum patrem doraiiiuin Thomain Tiiieiisem episcopuiu vice et auctoritate reuerendi in Cliristo Patris et domiui douiiui liieardi Dei gracia Batliouiensis et Wellensis episcopi, die Sabbati iiij" temporum, videlicet, xxij*° die meusis Septeinbris, Anno Douiiui millesimo quadringentesiuio uouagesiiuo secundo et trauslacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno primo. ACCOLITI. Henricus Spicer, Bangorensis diocesis. Rogerus Pdcliard, Bathonieusis et Wellensis diocesis. Ricardus Beram, Bathonieusis et Wellensis diocesis. Ricardus Vowell, Bathoiiiensis et Wellensis diocesis. DiACONI. Stephanus Laugston', Exoniensis diocesis, per literas dimis- sorias sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum prioris et conuentus de Launston eiusdein diocesis. Thomas Key, Herforduusis diocesis, per literas sni diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum Abbatis et Conuentus de Wygmore dicte Herfordensis diocesis. Henricus Durgyn' Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum prioris et Conuentus de Plymton' eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Howell, canonicus regularis ordinis Sancti Augustini BristoUie. Nicholaus Say, Bathonieusis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum domus Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bathouie, eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Gowle, Saresburiensis diocesis per literas sui dioces- BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOrL 139 aiii suflicienter dimissus, ad titulum Abbatis et Couuentus de Abbatisburye, eiusdem diocesis. Galfridus Gesse, Exoniensis diocesis per literas sui diocesani suflicienter diiuissus, ad titulum prioratus et Conueutus de Tauntou'. Presbiteri. Thomas Harry, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani suflicienter dimissus, ad titulum juioris et Couuentus de Bodman eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Wey, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis ad titulum prioris et Couuentus pi'ioratus Montis Acuti eiusdem, etc. Thomas Belloy, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani suflicienter dimissus, ad titidum prioris et Conueutus prioratus de riymton' eiusdem diocesis. Johannes "Wilmot, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis ad titulum jTrioxis et Conueutus Montis Acuti eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Carpenter, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani suflicienter dimissus, ad titulum prioris et Conuentus de Frytherestoke, eiusdem diocesis. Prater Henricus de Wesalia, ordinis Fratrum Miuorum [Exoni- ensis diocesis.]* Willelmus Hamond, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui dioce- sani suflicienter dimissus, ad titulum Monasterii Sancte Fredes- wide, Oxonie. Thomas Colmore, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum prioris et Conuentus Beate Marie Magne Barnastopoln' eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Yong, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas sui dioce- sani sufBcicnter dimissus, ad titulum Monasterii de Abbatisbury, eiusdem diocesis. • Those two words arp npp.'.rcntlj sfrmk out. 140 EEGISTRU.M RICARDI FOX, Frater Eicardus Mathee, ordinis Fratrum Minorum de Brugge- water. Eicardus Grabliam, Batlionieiisis et "Wullensis diocesis, ad tituluni domus Magistri et Fratrum Wellie. Hugo Vowlys, Bathonieiisis et Wulleiisis diocesis, vicarius claoralis Ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, ad titulum stulli sui in eadem. Johannes Yarford, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Taunton'. Stephanus Eouell, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum prioris et couuentus prioratus de Launceston' eiusdem diocesis. Ordines generales celebrati in ecclesia Conuentuali Hospitalis Sancti Johanuis Baptiste Wellie per venerabilem in Christo patrem dominum Tliomam Tinensem episcopum vice et auctoritate reuerendi in Christo patris et domini domini Eicardi Dei gratia Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, die Sahbati iiij°' temporuni videlicet secundo die mensis Marcii Anno Domini millesimo cccc"'" nonagesimo secundo et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno primo. ACCOLITI. Thomas Hamant do Hertland, Exoniensis diocesis, canonicus regularis. Willelmus Burnard, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui dioce- sani sufficienter dimissus. Johannes Wyse, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus. Jolmnnes Hadkyns, Wigorniensis diocesis. Johannes Garthen', Wigorniensis diocesis. BATIIOX. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 141 Willelmus Lov.-yng, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui dioccsani sufScienter diniissus. riiilijipus Nycoll, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sufficienter diinissus. Eobertus Pbilipp', Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sufficienter dimissus. Thomas Kitowe, Exoniensis diocesis, sufficienter dimissus. Eicardus Upton, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sufficienter dimissus. Johannes Woodde, Eboracensis diocesis sufficienter dimissus. Thomas Won', Exoniensis diocesis. EoUandus Pliilippys, Arcium Magister, Vigorniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus. Thomas Trebarwyth, Exoniensis diocesis. Johannes Morton', eiusdem diocesis. Adam Lewys, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Philipp' Nycoll, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus. Matheus Bolter, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Johannes Giles, Willclnuis Bradford, canonici Monastcrii Sancti Augustini, Bristollie. Eadulphus Gray, canonicus regularis de Staverdale. SUBDIACOXI. Henricus Spicer, Bangoriensis diocesis, ad titulum domus !Monasterii Sancti Jacobi Apostoli de Staverden', Bathoniensis et AVellcnsis diocesis. Thomas Smyth, Wigorniensis diocesis, ad titulum Jlonastcrii de Malmesbury, Saresburiensis diocesis. Thomas Colman', Exoniensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus Bodminie, eiusdem diocesis. 142' EEGISTRUII EICARDI FOX, Johannes Townyng, Bathoniensis et "Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et Conuentus de Bruton' eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Symon, Exoniensis diocesis, ad tituhnn domus sine prioratus de Tywardieth. Thomas Blakborn', Wigorniensis diocesLs, ad tituUiin prioratus Sancte Fredeswyde, Oxonie. Johannes Wykam', Wigorniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad tituhim Mouasterii Beate Marie de Keyneshani. Willelmus Luxton, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum domus siue prioratus de Barm'. Hugo Jhonys, Bangoriensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de I'radesey. Walterus Garret, Wigorniensis diocesis, ad titulum domus siue hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie. Henricus Bray, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum domus siue prioratus Launceston', eiusdem diocesis. Willelmus Tanner, Sareshuriensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Newham, Exoniensis diocesis. Nicliolaus Garland, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Dunkeswyll, Exoniensis diocesis. Johannes Asshwell', Londouiensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Muchelney, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Hugo Vesy, Dunelmensis diocesis, vicarius choralis ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis, ad titulum stalli sui. Simon Everton', Wigorniensis diocesis, vicarius choralis, etc., ut supra. DiACONI. Johannes Pewe, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et conuentus hospitalis sancti Johannis Baptiste WelUe. BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 143 Thomas Whether, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et conuentus de Staverdale. Tliomas Strange, Wigorniensis diocesis, ad titulum prions domus siue hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie, Ballio- niensis et Wellensis diocesis. Kobertus Constabyll, Exoniensis diocesis, ad titulum Monas- terii de Stavj'stoke (sic), eiusdem, etc. Eogerus Eichard, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Dunkeswelle, Exoniensis diocesis. Johannes Aynell, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus Taunton', eiusdem diocesis. Henricus Bonor, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Newham. Willelmus Lane, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Collcgii Beate Marie de Oterey, euisdem diocesis. Johannes Ewyn', Exoniensis diocesis, ad titulum Hospitalis sancti Johannis Baptiste Wellie. Presbiteel Johannes Deere, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et conuentus prioratus de AVursprj'ng eiusdem diocesis. Henricus Durgyn, Exoniensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et conuentus de I'lymton', eiusdem diocesis. Johannes C'ollys, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et conuentus de Bruton'. Christoforus Palle, Saresburiensis diocesis, ad titulum abbatis et conuentus de Newham. Thomas Legat, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioris et conuentus de Moute Acuto. Joliannes Howell, canonicus Monasterii Sancti Augustiui Bristollie, ad titulum eiusdem. 14-4 REGISTRUM PICARDI FOX, ' Nicholaiis Say, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad tituluni hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste, Bathonie. Ordines generales celebrati in ecclesia conuentuali Sancti Johannis Baptiste Wellie, per Eeuerendum in Christo Patrem doniinuni Thomam Tinensem episcopnm vice et auctoritate Reuerendi in Christo Patris et doiuini domiiii Eicardi permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis epis- copi die Sabliati qua cantatur ofticiuin misse " Sicientes," videlicet, xxiij" die mensis Marcii, Anno Domini millesiiiio 0000""° nonagesimo secundo et translacionis dicti reuerendi Patris anno priino. ACCOLITI. Walterus Bater, Exoniensis diocesis. Johannes Monkelehge, Exoniensis diocesis. Thomas Baker, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Dompnus Thomas Jacob, Exoniensis diocesis, canonicus regu- laris de Fristoke, eiusdem, etc. Willelmus Cliff, Exoniensis diocesis. SUBDIACONI. Johannes Woode, Eboracensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus ad titulum domus sine prioratus Sancti Nicholai Ciuitatis Exonie. Willelmus Lovyn, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulmn prioratus Sancti Stephani Laun- ceston', Exoniensis diocesis. Thomas Hammaige, canonicus regularis Sancti Netani, Exonien- sis diocesis. Stephanus Stowell, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Burcle alias Sprawlismede, eiusdem diocesis. BATIIOX. ET WEU,. EriSClUM. l-i5 Matliens Bolter, T'.athouiensis et Wellensis diocesis ad titulum hospitalis Sancti Joliannis Baptiste BristoUie eiusdem diocesis. TIioTiias Kytowe, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titniuin ]irioratus de Launcestou', eiusdem diocesis. DiACONI. Heiiricus Spicer, Bangnriensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesaiii sutricieiilcr dimissus, ad titulum monasterii Sancti Jacobi de Sta- verden, Batliouiensis et Wellensis diocesi.s. Johannes Asshewell, Londoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum monasterii de Jloclielney, Bathoniensis et "Wellensis diocesis. Nicliolaus Garland, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titidum monasterii de Dunkeswell, Exoniensis diocesis. .Toliannes Bake, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titnlmn prioratus Sancti Germani eiusdem diocesis. Hugo Jhones, Bangoriensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum monasterii de Bardesey, eiusdem diocesis. .Tuhannes Wykame, Wigorniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum monasterii de Keynesham, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. AVillelmus Tanner, Saresburiensis diocesis, ad titulum monas- terii de Newhani, Exoniensis diocesis, jier literas, etc. Hugo Vesy, vicarins choialis ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis ad titulum stalli sui in eadcm. Simon Everton, vicarius choralis ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis ad titulum stalli sui in eadem. Stephanus Kyngman, Johannes Legge, canonici regulares de Bruton'. Willelmus Luxton', Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum domus sine prioratus de Barm', eiusdem diocesis. L 14G EEGISTRUM ItlCAKni FOX, Tliomas Colman, Exoiiiensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum domus siue prioratus Bodniinie, eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Sjmion.Exoniunsis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulnm prioratus de Tywardreth, eiusdem diocesis. Ilenricus Bray, Exouiensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum prioratus de Launceston, eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Frj% Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Abbatisse de Canonleglie, eiusdem diocesis. Walterus Garret, AVigorniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum domus siue hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie. Johannes Townyng, Bathouiensis et AVelleusis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titvilum domus siue prioratus de Bruton, eiusdem diocesis. Peesbiteki. Ricardus Hervy, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum domus Sancti Joliannis Baptiste, villc Bristollie, eiusdem diocesis. Eogerus Eichardes, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum monasterii de Dunkeswell, Exoniensis diocesis. Dompnus Petrus Londoniensis, nionachus Monasterii Llontis Acuti, Bathoniensis et AVellensis diocesis. Johannes Ewyn, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad litulum ho.spitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste, Wellie. Eobertus Constable, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Tavenstolve, eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Chapman, Bathoniensis et "Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Worspryng, eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Pewe, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Wellie. Willelmus Layne, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Collegii Beate Marie de Oteroy, eiusdem diocesis. J I5ATH0N. ET WELL. El'LSCOl'L 147 Ordines generales celebiati in ccclcsia Parochiali Sancti Joliaunis ]3aptiste de Axbrigge iufra Bathoniensem et Welleuseui diocesem j^er veuerabilem patrem doniinum Tliomam Tiueusem episcopum, vice et auctoritate Eeue- rendi in Christo patris et doniini domini IJicardi pcrmis- sione diuinaBathonieusisetWellensis cpiscopi, Sabliati iiij" temporum in Yigilia Sauctc Triuitatis, videlicet primo die niensis Junii, Auno Domini millesimo cccc"'° nonagesimo tercio, et translacionis dicti Eeuercndi patris anno secundo. ACCOLITI. Donipnus Johilnnes Lambcrd, monacbus de Atbelney. Joliannes Gilibcs, Batliouiensis ct Welleusis diocesis. Eicardus Bionifeld, Batboniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Johannes Cradocke, Landauensis diocesis, per literas, etc. Thomas Cokysden, Batliouiensis et "Wellensis diocesis. Thomas Sully, Batliouiensis et Wellensis diocesis. Johannes Keene, Saresburiensis diocesis. SUBDIACONI. Tliomas Gelyngliam, Landauensis diocesis, per literas sui diocesani sufficienter dimissus, ad titulum Jlonasterii Beate ilarie de Morgan', einsdem diocesis. Johannes Wise de Westbury Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum domus sine Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bathonie. Tliomas ap Guillym, Landauensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii Beate I\Lu-ie do Lanternan, eiusdeiu diocesis. L 2 148 KEGISTRUM RICAHDI FOX, Thomas Kewe, Laiulauensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad tituluni Monasterii Beate Marie de Morgan', eiusdem diocesis. Adam Lewys, Bathoniensis et Wellciisis diocesis, ad titulum domus sine prioratus de Berlicli, einsdem diocesis. Johannes Wel)be, Landaueusis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad tituhmi liospitalis Sancti Johaunis Baptiste Wellie. "VYillehnus Bodill, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus du Taunton, eiusdem diocesis. Dompnus Willelmus Lanston', dompnus Willelmus Powghwell, dompnus "VVillelnius Kyfte, Monachi IMonasterii de Cliva, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. DiACONI. Magister Willelmus Morreys, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, rector ecclesie parochialis de Porloke, eiusdem diocesis, ad titulum ecclesie sue, etc. Henricus Davy, Bangoriensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum prioris et conuentus de Betlikelert, eiusdem diocesis. Stephanus Stowell, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Burcle alias Sjirawlismede, eiusdem diocesis. Matheus Bolter, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum liospitalis Sancti Johanuis Baptiste Bristollie. Presbyteri. Willelmus Tanner, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Newham, Exoniensis diocesis. Hugo Jhones, Bangoriensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Berdesey, eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Townyng, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Bruton', eiusdem diocesis. BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 14'.) Henricus Spicer, Bangoriensis diocesis, per literas, etc, ad tituluiu Monasterii Sancti Jacobi de Stauerdale. Willeliiius Wylkyn', Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad tituluiu Monasterii de Cliva, eiu.sdem diocesis. Tliomas Strange, Wigorniensis dioce.sis, per literas, etc., ad titulum hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie. Johannes Wj^kham, Wygorniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Keyneshani. Johannes Bonour, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Newham, Saresburiensis diocesis. Dompnus Thomas Bristowe, Mouachus Monasterii Sancti Saluatoris de Athelney, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Walterus Garret, Wigorniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bristollie. Dominus Henricus Hillerd, canonicus regularis prioratus de Bruton', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Robertus White, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, vicarius choralis ecclesie cathedralis Wellensis, ad titulum stalli sui. Dompnus Edmundus Reklyfe, dompnus Lodowicus Breknok, Monachi prioratus de Farlegh Monachorum ordinis Cluniacensis Saresburiensis diocesis. 150 EEGISTKUM EICARDI FOX, Ordines celebrati in ecclesia connentuali Beatorum Apos- tolorum Petri et Pauli de Mochelney infra Bathouiensem et Wellensem diocesem per venerabHem patrem doniinuin Thomam Tiiiensem episcopiuu vice et auctoritate reuer- endi in Cliristo patris et domiui doniiui Piicardi permis- sione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi, die Sabliati iiij"" temporum, videlicet xjsj° die mensis Septeiii- bris Anno Domini uiillesinio cccc™° nonagesinio tercio, et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno secundo. ACCOLITI. Dompnus Thomas Broke, monachus Monasterii de Mochelney. Johannes Wadham, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Willelmus Macy, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Thomas Eodberde, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Willelmus Lynton', Couentreusis et Lichfeldensis diocesis, ad titulum ecclesie sue de Spaxton'. SUBDIACONI. Wnielmus Clyffe, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Collegii Beate Marie de Oterey, eiusdem diocesis. Thomas Jacob, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum domus de Witham, eiusdem diocesis. Thomas Thame, Wigorniensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Lacoke, Saresburiensis diocesis. Dompnus Thomas WHkyns, monachus Monasterii de Mo- chebiey. Johannes Burworde, Willelmus Gregory, canonici regulares prioratus de Taunton'. Johannes Lambert, luouachus Monasterii de Atheluey. BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 151 Thomas Baker, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, rector ecclesie parochialis de Pitney, ad titulum eiusdem ccclesie. Willelmus Willot, Landauensis diocesis, ad titidum Monasterii de Morgoii'. TQiomas] Davy, Landauensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Lautarn'. DiACONI. Tliomas Gelyngham, Landauensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Jlorgan'. Adam Lewes, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Berlieli, eiusdem diccesis. Johannes Webbe, Landauensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum Hospitalis Saucti Johannis Baptiste Wellie. Willelmus Bodell, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titu- lum prioratus de Taunton'. Johannes Wyse, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titu- lum domus Sancti Johannis Baptiste Bathonie. Huso Preste, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum monasterii de Mochehaey. Thomas Apguillym, Landauensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum monasterii Beate Marie de Latarnau eiusdem diocesis. Thomas Keroe, Landauensis diocesis, per literas, etc., ad titulum monasterii Beate Marie de Morgou eiusdem diocesis. Presbiterl Willelmus Rolfe -i Willelmus Frooste I Canonici regulares monasterii de Keyue- Thomas Tanner i sham. Johannes Stoureton J Matheus l?oltcr, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Hospitalis Saucti .Tohannis I'.aptiste P.ristollie. 152 KErilSTRUM KlCUmi FOX, Henvicus Davy, Biingoriensis diocesis, per litcras, etc., ad tituluni prioris et conueutus de Beth Kelet eiusdem diocesis. Ordiues generales celebrati in ecclesia conuentuuli hospitalis Sancti Julianiiis Baptiste Wellie iicr reuereiuluin in Christo patrem doaiinum Tliomam Dei gracia Tinensem ei^iscopum vice et auctoritate reuerendi in Cliristo patris et doniini domini Ricardi Dei gracia Bathoniensis et Wellensis epis- copi die Sabbati iiij" teniporum, videlicet, xxij'''' die mensis Februarii, Anno Doniini niillesimo cccc""" nonagesinio tercio et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno ij"^". ACCOLITI. Donipnns WiUelnu.s Newporte 1 j^^^^^j^. ^^,^^^^^^, Donipnus Jobannes Irome J Willelmus Capron', Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Johannes Vttermeer, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Iinbertus Cliaper, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc. Johannes Mason, Saresburiensis diocesis, jjer literas etc. Johannis Webbe, Wygoruiensis diocesis, per literas etc. SUBDIACONI, Jacobus Grenehalgh, Conuentrensis et Lichfeldensis diocesis per literas etc. ad titulum Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Wellie. Dompnus Johannes Lewys monachus de Witham Cart, (sic), Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Johannes Wadham, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad tiluluin monasterii de Atheluey Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Willelmus Birteporte, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Middelton' eiusdem diocesis. i BATIION. ET WELL. EPISCOPI. 153 Ilicardus Crowmefelde, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum monasterii de Cliua, eiusdein diocesis. Morganus Johaii, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titu- lum monasterii I'eate Marie do Lauteruan eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Yeill, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Lauternan eiusdem diocesis. Eicardus Vpton, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioratus de Launceston' eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Cradocke, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Morgan eiusdem diocesis. Ricardus Lewys, Landauensis diocesis per literas, etc., ad titulum monasterii de Morgan eiusdem diocesis. Frater Johannes Combe, frater predicator Bristollie, Wygor- niensis diocesis. Johahnes Morton, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad tit\i- lum prioratus de Launceston', eiusdem diocesis. Joliannes Ap Howell, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Lannternan. Joliannes Jesse, Exoniensis iliocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Duukeswell eiusdem diocesis. DiACONI. Dompnus Ricardus Wyiiterbourne 1 Dompnus Nicholaus Wedmoure J ^lon^^hi Glastou'. Dompnus Willelmus Powghwylle ~) Dompnus Willelmus Kyste / Monachi de Cliua. Alexiiiiilcr Ilody, liiUlionicn.sis et Wellensis dioce.sis, ad titulum collegii Oniniutu Aniniaruni Oxonie. Willelmus T-yiitmi', Conuentrensis et Lichfeldensis diocesis, per literas etc., vector ecclesie parochialis de Spaxton, ad tilulum ccclesie sue. I 15 i EEGISTRUM KICARDI FOX, Thomas Baker, Bathonieiisis et Wellensis diocesis, rectoi" ecclesie parochialis de Pytney, ad titulum ecclesie sue. Presbiteri. Adam Lewys, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum prioratus de Berliche, eiusdem diocesis. Thomas Davy, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Laiiternan, eiusdem diocesis. WDlelmus Willot, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Morgan' eiusdem diocesis. Stephanus Stowell, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titu- lum prioratus de Bircle, eiusdem diocesis. Nicholaus Garland, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis ad titu- lum monasterii de Dunkeswell E.xoniensis diocesis. Johannes Webbe, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum domus sine hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Wellie. Willelmus Philip, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii Beate Marie de Neyth' eiusdem diocesis. ^Yillelmus Clyff, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum collegii Beate Marie de Oterey eiusdem diocesis. BATIION. ET WKLL. EPISCOPI. 155 Oi'diues generales celebrali in ecclesia comieutuali Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Baptiste Wellie, per venerabilem in Chiisto patrem dominum Tliomam Tiuensem episcopum vice ct anctoritate reuerendi in Christo patris et doniini doinini ]iieaidi Dei gi-acia Batlioniensis et Welleusis episcopi, Sab- bato Sancto in Vigilia Pasche, videlicet, xxix° die mensis Marcii, Anno Doniini ni'° cccc""" uonagesimo iiij*°, et trans- lacionis dicti reuerendi patris, anno ij'^". ACCOLITI. Willelmus Greyner, frater hcspitalis Sancti Joliannis Baptiste Wellie. David Lung, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc. SUBDIACOXI. Tticardus Beram, Batlioniensis et Wellcnsis diocesis, ad tituluin prioratus Taunton' etc. Willelmus Kent, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioratus monasterii de Ferleigh eiusdem diocesis. Domimus Willelmus Newport "I T. TIT.- f Monachi Glaston'. Dompnus Juliannis jrouie J DiACONI. Willelmus Capron', Batlioniensis et Wellcnsis diocesis, vicarius clioralis ecclesic Catlu-dralis Wellcnsis, ad titulum eiusdem. Johannes Morgan, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioris et conuentus monasterii de Osney, Lincolniensis diocesis. Johannes Webbc, Wigorniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titu- biiii [irioris ct conuentus Bathonic, Bathouiensis ct Wellcnsis diocesis. 156 EEGISTRUM KKAUUI KOX, Ricardus Trevethike, Uxouieiisis diocesis, per iiteras etc., ad titulum domus de Trewardeth eiusdem diocesis. Pkesbiteki. Magister Jacobus Grenehalgli, Couentrensis et Lichfeldensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum liospitalis Saucti Johauuis Baptiste Wellie. Johannes Wadham, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Atlieluey, Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis. Hicardus Bromel'eld, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum monasterii de Cliua eiusdem diocesis. Ricardus Lewes, Landauensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum monasterii de Morgan' eiusdem diocesis. Andreas I'yke, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioris et conventus de Launceston eiusdem diocesis. Prater Johannes Chitley, ordinis Carmelitarum Sutton' alias Plummowth. Dompnus Willelmus Axbrigge ] Dompuus Piicardus Wynterbourne >Monachi Glaston'. Dompnus Nicholaus Wedmoure J BATHON. ET WELL. KPISCOPL 137 Ordines generales celebrati in ecclesia Conuentuali Hosiiitalis Sancti .Toliannis Baptiste Wellie per reuereiidum patrem domiiiuni Thomam Tiiiensem episcopum vice et auctorilate reuerendi in Christo patris et domini domini Iiicardi por- niissione diiiina Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi die Sabbati iiij°' temporum, videlicet, xx° die mensis Septeni- bris, Anno Domini niillesinio cccc"'" nonagesimo iiij'° et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris aiuio iij". ACCOLITI. Johannes Rode • Johannes Willy Johannes Chykc Johannes Cokston Johannes Parker Eicardus Coinpton Johannes Davy Johannes Aynesty_ Dompnus Robertus Clerk, monachus Glaston'. Frater Johannes Parak de Bristollia, ordims Sancti Francisci. SUBDIACONI. Frater Ricardus Vowell, canonicus regularis ordinis Sancti Augustini de Bruton'. Frater Johannes Jamys, canonicus etc., Bathoniensis et Well- ensis diocesis. Domjjnus Johannes Chaniberlayn' numachus Canturiensis (.s-?V) de Hcnton. Frater Thomas Slahvurtli, 1 Fralrcs domns Sancti Maici de Frater Willclmus Hall, J Gaunles de Bristollia. >-Bathonicnsis et Wellensis diocesis. 158 REGISTRUM HICARDI FOX, Thomas Eodberd, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Mouasterii Cluniacensis eiusdem diocesis. Fiater Johannes Coy, Bathonien?is et Wellensis diocesis, cauonicus regularis ordinis Sancti Augustiui de Berlich. Dauid Thomas, Exouiensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioratus Sancti Germani ordinis Sancti Augustiui, eiusdem diocesis. Dauid ap Jolian, Meneuensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioratus de Clifford Herfordensis diocesis. Willelmus Hoper, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Mouasterii de Keynesham eiusdem diocesis. Dompuus Thomas Broke, nionaclius de ]\Iochelney Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis. Frater Willelmus Tetnayle, ordinis Sancti Fraucisci de Brugge- water. Frater Eicardus Heruscot T Fiatres domus sine Hospitalis Frater Willelmus Padok /• Sancti Joliannis Baptiste Frater Willelmus Greyner J Wellie. Dompnus Thomas Bougent, raonachus C.laston'. DiACONI. Frater Willelmus Decumayn, ordinis Sancti Fraucisci E.xonie. T^ Ti A 11 TMonachi domus et ecclesie Sancti Dompnus Johannes AuscoU r> T 1 1) ' •< Andree de Tywardeth Ex- Dompnus Johannes TyKC ] .... [_ onieiisis diocesis. Frater Johannes Simon, canonicus regularis domus siue prioratus de Bodmyu, Exouiensis diocesis. Eicardus Beram, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum lirioratus de Taunton' eiusdem diocesis. Alexander Bosgrove, Batlioniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Mouasterii de Staverdale, eiusdem diocesis. BATHON. ET WELL. El'ISCOn. 159 Johannes Ypliill, Batliouiensis et Wellensis tlioccsis, adliluluni prioratus de Taunton'. Dompnus Johannes Lewys, monachus Carturicnsis (sic) de AVithani. Iiicardus Foitescu, Exouieusis diocesis, per literas etc. ad titiiluiu Monasterii de Tavystoke, eiusdein diocesis. Dompnus Johannes Lamberd, monachus de Athelney. Ilohertus AVolfe, Exonionsis diocesis, per literas etc., ad liluhiin prioratus de Launceston eiusdem diocesis. Dompnus Thomas Wilkyns, monachus de IMochelney. Frater Lambertus Brynk, ordinis Sancti Francisci de Brigge- water. Dompnus Willemus Newport 1 , , i • r> i <. • ^ ^ LMonadu Ghxston. Dompnus Johannes Frome J Presbiteri. Frater Thomas Hamant, cauonicus regularis de Hertlond, Exoniensis diocesis. Wilk'lmus Kent, Saresburieusis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titiilum Monasterii de Ferleigh eiusdem diocesis. Wilk'lmus Birtport, Saresburiensis diocesis, per literas etc. ad titulum Monasterii de Midelton eiusdem diocesis. Johannes Aphowell, Landauensis diocesis, jjer literas etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Lanterneliam eiusdem diocesis. Tliomas Wj'ther Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ad titulum Monasterii de Staverdalle. Joliannes Sergent, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Tavystok eiusdem diocesis. Iiicardus Vpton' Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum jirioris de Launceston eiusdem diocesis. 160 REGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, Johannes Arnold, Meneuensis diocesis, per litcras etc., ad titulum iwioratus Sancti Thome Martiris eiusdem diocesis. Joliannis Morton', Exonionsis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum prioris de Launciston' eiusdem diocesis. Simon Benet, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Bukfaster eiusdem diocesis. Dompnus Willelmus Cory, monachus de Athelney. Prater Johannes Eckey, ordiuis Sancti Francisci de Brugge- water. Frater Johannes Combe, ordinis Predicatomm de Bristollia. Eobertus Philipp', Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum Monasterii de Launceston, eiusdem diocesis. Eicardus Trevethyk, Exoniensis diocesis, per literas etc., ad titulum domus de Trewardeth, eiusdem diocesis. Kegistrum Eleccionum tempore Eeuerendi in Clu isto patris et domini domini Eicardi Dei gracia Bathoniensis et Wellensis episcopi contmgencium. Decretum eleccionis Prioris de Berliche, Eeuerendo in Christo patri et domino domino Ricardo Dei gratia Bathoniensi et WeUensi episcopo, vestrove vicario in spiritualilnis "enerali, vestri humiles et deuoti oratores, Johannes Hamelyn', Eicardus Brigge et Thomas Mathewe, ecclesie conuentualis ac prioratus de Berlich' ordinis Sancti Augustini, vestre diocesis, fratres et canonici, omnimodas reuerenciam et obedienciam tauto patri debitas cum honore. A^acante iam pridem prioratu nostro predicto per priuacionem domini Eoberti Wynde vltirai et inme- diati prioris eiusdem, ne idem prioratus noster per suam diutinam vacacionem et viduitatem in spiritualibus et temporalibus grauia paciatur incommoda, Johannes Hamelyn canonicus et coufrater TiATIIOy. ET WELL. EPISCOFL 101 noster, ac nos Eicanlus Briggc et Thomas ]\Iatlie\ve canonici et confratres suprascvipti, in ovdiiie sacerdotali constituti, prefatum ordinem Saiicti Augustiiii in ipso prioratu expresse professi, die Martis, videlicet tercio die mensis Septembris, Anno Domini niil- lesinio cecc""* nonagesimo secundo, Tndiccione xj", pontificatus Sanc- tissimi in Cliristo patvis et domini nostri domini Alexandri diuina prouidencia pape (.v'r) sexti, anno primo, missa de Sancto Spiritn ad Summnm Altaiv ]irffate ecclesie connentnalis nostre solenniter celebrata ipsaqnc finita, ac campana, ut moris est, ad capitulum congiepandum, pulsata, ad eleccionem futuri prioris eiusdem prio- ratus fauente Domino celehrandum domum nostram capitularem dicti prioratus adiuimns et intraninius, ]irenominatoqne confratre nostro Jolianne Hamclyn et nobis Ricardo Brigge et Thoma Mathewe, cum ad tunc non fuerint neqne sint plures confratres et canonici ipsius prioratns, saltern ius aut voces in liuiusraodi elec- cionis negocio habentes, capitulariter tunc ibidem congregatis ac conuentnm et cajntulnm illius prioratns facicnlibus, Yerbo Dei per discretum virum Eobertnm "Williamson, presbiternm, nobis et ceteris adtunc presentibus proposito, ministrato et predicate, ac Spiritus Sancti gracia per cantacionem ym])ni "Veni Creator Spiritns," bumiliter inuorata, nominilniS(|ue et oognominiliusnostris publice lectis, nos Johannes Hamelyn, Eirardus Brigge, et Thomas Mathewe, canonici et confratres suprameniorati prioratus, venera- bileni virnm Magistruni Bicardum Nykke, utriusque iuris docto- rcm, vestrnmqup, renerendc pater, vicarium in spiritualibns generalem, in directtnem et consiliarium, Bobertum Williamson auctoritate apostolica notarium publicum in scribam, et ad scri- bendum huiusmodi eleccionis acta, necnou dominos Johanncm Brodrybbe rectorem de Skilgate et Johannem Edyngton vicarium de Duluerton in testes dicti eleccionis negocii et agendornm in eodem tunc ibidem pcrsonaliter nobiscuni presentes nominauimus, M 1C2 REGISTRUM liirATIDI FOX, elegiinus et assumi)simus, ac eos uobiscuui rogamus et feciiinis ibidem remanere. Quibus sic factis prefatus Johannes Hanielyn canonicus et confrater antedictus de voluntate, assensu et consensu nostrum, IJicardi Brigge et Thome Mathewe, expressis, quasdam monicionem et protestacionem in scrii^tis redactam fecit et legit, monuitque et protestatus est sub forma verborum que sequitur : — In Dei nomine, amen. Ego Johannes Hamelyn canonicus huius prioratus ac presidens capituli eiusdem, vice mea ac vice nomine et mandato confratrum nieorum hie presencium, moneo omnes et singulos excommunicates suspenses et interdictos, aliosque quos- cunque si qui forsan inter nos sint, qui de iure seu consuetudine in presenti eleccionis negocio interesse non debeant, vel non debent, quod ab hoc domo capitulari statim recedant, me et alios de pre- senti capitulo siue conuentu, ad quos ius et potestas eligendi per- tiuet, eligere libere permittentes, protestans quod non est mea vel confratrum meorum predictorum seu alterius eorundera voluntas aut intencio tales aiimittere tauquam ius et voces in eleccione huiusmodi habentes, aut procedere seu eligere cum eisdem, immo volumus quod voces talium si que tales postmodum interesse re- periantur nulli prestent suffragium aut afferant alicui nocumeutum, sed pro non receptis seu pro non habitis penitus habeantur. Quibus monicione et protestacione sic lectis et factis, prenominatus Ma- gister Eicardus Nykke constitucionem consilii generalis que in- cipit " Quia propter " in huiusmodi actis pro informacione et in- struccione eligencium legi solitam publice legit ac formas eleccionum in eadem contentas satis euidenter exposuit et declarauit. Post cuiusquidem constitucionis lecturam exposicioncm et declaracionem habitam et factam, statim et incontineuti ac subito et repeute nuUo tractatu aut communicacionc inter nos ad tunc prehabita seu inter- ueniente, de aliqua persona eligenda, Spiritus Sancti gi'acia vti firm iter credimus inspirati, nos Johannes Hamelyne, Eicardus BATIION. KT WETX. EPISCOPI. 1G3 Bnigfje (sir) et Tliomas Matliewe cauonici et confratres supranomi- nati, (loniimim Tlioniaiii Binle, caiionicum et confratrem prioratvis de Taunton' ordineni Sancti Aiiiiustini in prioratn predicto ex- presse professum, vinun vtiipie lilievum, pvouidum et discretum, de legitime matiimonio procreatum, in etate legitima et ordine sacerdotali constitutiun, vitaqiie niorilnis ac litcrannn sciencia iinlnitum, in .spiritualibus et temporalibus plurimuni circuni- spectum, scientcni et valentem iura primatus nostri antedicti vt speramus defondere paviter et tueri, in nostrum et dicti pvioratus priorem vnanimitcr et coucorditer ac vna voce et vno spii'itu noniinauimus eleginms et assurapsimus tunc ibidem ; ac consequenter adstatim nos Johannes Hamelyne, Ricardus Brigge et Thomas Mathewe canonici suprascripti, vna cum aliis noljis ad tunc vocatis, psahnum " To Deuni laudamus " soleuniter decan- tantes et decantari facientes, ipsum Thomam Birde sic vt prefertur clcctum, ego Johannes Hamelyne Canonicus et confrater antedictus de vohmtntc, mandato, assensvi et consensu expressis dictnrum Eicardi Biiggc et Thome Mathewe, confratrum mconim predicto- rum, huiusmodi eleccionem modo, more et forma premissis factam et celebratam, clero et populo in memorata ecclesia conuentunli in multitudine congrogatis in vidgari meo mox publicani, tunc ibidem. Deinde post premissa modo et forma prcscriptis gesta et peracta, nobis Johanne Hamelyne, Kicardo Brigge et Thoma Mathewe ad et in donium capitularem nostram antedictam, vna cum prcfatis directore notario et testibus redeuntilnis et ibidem cn])itulniiter congrogatis, capitulumque et conuentum facientibus, ego Joliannes Hamelyne canonicus et confrater antedictus de assensu et consensu expressis dictorum Ricardi Brigge et Tliome Mathewe canonicorum ct confratrum nieorum eundeiii Ricardum Brigge ordinaui feci et constitui mcum vcrum et legitimnin priK'uraiorem, dedi([ue ct con- cessi eidem procuratori meo potestatem generalem et inandalum M 2 104 HFlGISTTil'M lilCAltni KOX, speciale ino uie ul iiuiniue iiieo ac sui ipsius uouiiiie liuiusiuudi eleccionem sic vt preniittitur factaiu et celebratam eidem Thome Birde electo iiitimaiidi et iiotiKcaiidi, ipsumque Thomam Birde vti dicte eleccioui de se facte suos prebeat assensum et consen- sum atque eidem eleccioui realiler conseuciat rogandi et requi- rendi, necnon huiusmodi suum consensum nomine raeo et suis petendi et obtiuendi ; conseqiientcniue codem tercio die Septem- bris prefalus Kicardus Brigge procurator, vt prefertur, constitutiis, ac procuracionis huiusmodi onus in se assumens, ad piescriiitum Thomam Birde electum in quadam alta camera iuxta capellam Beate Marie jirioratus sepedicti situata, personaliter existentem, circa lioram decimam eiusdem diei vna cum notario et testibus premissis personaliter accessit, ac ipsum Thomam Birde electum in presencia dicti notarii et testium vt huiusmodi eleccioui de se facte et celebrate consentiret, iustanter requisiuit et rogauit. Cui quideui Ricardo Brigge, prefatum electum sic requircnti et roganti, ipse respondit quod non erat tunc prouisus quid in tam ardua re duceret faciendum, asserens se velle in ea parte ad temjms de- liberare ad dandum ei finale responsum. Deinde ciira horam vndecimam eiusdem diei idem Ricardus Brigge procurator nomine procuratorio quo supra ac sui ipsius nomine vna cum notario et testibus suprascriptis ad eandem Thomam Birde electum in dicta camera existentem, iterum personaliter accessit, ac ipsum electum modo ct forma quibus supra in presencia dicti notarii et testium requisiuit et rogauit, quatenus eleccioni huiusmodi de se facte et celebrate sine vlteriori dilacione consentiret, suosque preberet as- sensum pariter et consensum. Vnde dictus Thomas Birde electus sic ut J remittitur requisilus et rogatus, eleccioni liuiusmodi con- sensit et consensum prebiut in scriptis sub eo qui sequitur teuore verborum : — In Dei nomine, amen. Ego Thomas Birde canonicus et conlrater prioratus de Taunton, ordinis Saucti Augustini, Batlio- BATIIOX. KT WELL. EPISCOI'L 105 niensis et Wcllcnsis diucesis, ilicLum ordincm yaiicli Aiigusliui ill eodeni prioratu expresse professus, in pi'iorein prioratus Sancti Nicholai de Bevliche canonice electus, sepius et instant cr ad con- senciendum eloccinni de me facte et celelirate requisitus, in lionore Sancte et indiuidue Trinitatis ac gloriose Virgiuis Marie necnon Eeati Nicholai, in quorum honore fundatur prioratus antedictus, eleccioni de me facte et celebrate consencio et consensum mcum prclieo in liiis scriptis. Quo omnia et singula ]iaternitiiti vestre reuerende vestrove vicario Iniiusniodi generali presenciuni tenoro intimamus et notificanius, huniiUlcr supplicantes et deuote quateuus hoc deeretum eleceionis nostre sigillo nostro communi sigillatuni ac signo et subscripcione notarii publici infra.scri]>ti consignatum acceptantes, dictam elcccioneni et memorati electi nostri personam auctoritate vestra onbnaria et pontificali approbare et confirmare, ceteraque vestro officio huiusmodi in hac parte incumbencia pera- gere dignemini graciosecum fauore intuitu caritatis, vt Deo auctore dictus electus nobis et prioratui nostro antedicto velut pastor ido- neus preesse valcat utiliter el jirodesse, nosque suVi illius rcgimine possimus omnipotent! Deo salubriter militare. Acta fuerunt hec omnia ct singula protit supra scribuntur et rnoitantur sub anno Domini, Tndiecione, jiontificatu mensi die et locis sujirascriptis, presentilms time il)idem noiiiscuni notario cl tcslilius supranomi- natis, ad premissa per nos I'ogatis et speeialilcr nvjuisitis. Supplicacio siue peticio pro consensu Prioris de Taunton'. Venerabili ac circumspecto viro doinpno Jolianni Trowse, priori prioratus de Taunton', salutem in onniium Saluatore. Cum nuper domus siue prioratus Sancti Nicholai de I'.erliehe, Bath- oniensis et Wcllcnsis diocesis. psr libera'n ri!signacionem ilomiiii 1G6 REfJISTRUM RICARDl FOX", Koberti Wynde \ltinu prioris idusdeiu, fuerit et est paterno solacio destitiitiis, DOS igitur doiiipiii Johannes Hanielyne supprior, Eicardus Brigge et Thomas Mathewe cauonici et coufratres domus sine prioratus de ]\ulichu pvedicta, vnaninii consensu con- siderantes ne domus sine prioratus prcdictus diutina vacacione deploret incommoda, eligimus in nouum gubernatorem et priorem tercio die mensis Septendjris Anno Domini millesinio cccc"'° nonagesimo ij''" dompnum Thomam Birde canouicum et confratrem vestri prioratus de Taunton' predicta. Qua propter nos prudicti Johannes Hamelyne, Eicardus Brigge, et Thomas JMathewe, petimus ac humiliter rogamus vt predicto dompno Thome vestram licenciam pariter et consensum huiusmodi eleccioni nostre de se facte prebeatis. In cuius rei testimonium sigiUum nostrum com- mune presentibus- apposuimus. Datum iij die mensis Septembris, anno Domini supradicto. Datum quoad sigilli uostri connuunis autedicti appensionem in domo nostra capitulari premissa, iiij'° die prescripti mensis Septembris, Anno Domini suprascripto. Subscriptio Notarii. Et ego Eobertus Williamson clericus Eboraccnsis diocesis publicus auctoritate apostolica notarius, scriba in dicto eleccionis negocio et agendorum in eodem assumjitus, premissis omnibus et singulis dum sicut pxemittitur in dicto iij° die Septembris anno Domini, indiccione, pontificatu, mense Septemljris, die et locis superius descriptis agebantur et fiebant, vna cum prenominatis testibus presens personaliter interfui, eaque omnia et singula sic fieri vidi et audiui, pvesensque decretum manu mea propria scriptuui pulilicaui et iu banc publicam formain redegi. Signoque et nomine meis solitis et consuetis, vna cum appensione sigilli communis prioratus antedicti, signaui rogatus et requisitus in fidem et testimonium omnium premissorum. i BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 167 Sentencia Confirmacionis. Eicardus Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctor, cauonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Welleusis, ac rcuerendi in Cliristo patris ut douiiui domiui Ricardi pcrmissione diuiiia BalLioniensis et "Welleusis episcopi, ipso reuerendo patre extra suam diocesem in remotis ageute, vicarins in spiritualibus generalis, venerabili ct religiose viro Thome Birde canonico et confratri jirioratus Taunton' ordinis Sancti Augustini, P.athonieusis et Welleusis diocesis, electo in priorem prioratus de Berliche, eiusdem diocesis salutem in Auctore salutis. Examiuata per nos nuper et discussa eleccione de persona vestra iu dicto prioratu facta et celebrata, ipsiuscj^ue processu et decreto plenius rimatis ac deliberate receusitis. Quia coucurreuti- bus et obseruatis omnibus et singulis in hac parte de iure requisitis, dictam eleccionem canonicam ac de persona vestra habili et idouea rite et legitime celebralam fuissc ct esse inueuiraus, eandem idcirco eleccionem et personam vestram auctoritate officii uostri huius- modi duxinius coufirmandam et confirmauimus. Ac vos in priorcui eiusdem prefecimus, necnon regimen et administracionem spiri- tualium et tcmporalium i]isius prioratus cum pertinenciis suis vniucrsis persone vestre comniisiunis, iuribus et consuetudinibus dicti reuerendi patris episcopalibus ecclesiaruinque suarum Catlie- dralium Bathoniensis et Wellensis dignitate in omnibus semper saluis. In cuius roi testimonium sigillum officii nostri huiusmodi prcsentibus apponi fecimus. Datum vj'° die raeusis Septembris Anno Domini supradicto, et translacionis dicti reuerendi patris anno j". luramentum canonice obediencie. In Dei nomiue, amen. Ego Thomas Birde, canonicus cL con- frater prioratus Taunton', ordinis Sancti Augustini, Bathoniensis et Welleusis diocesis, in dicto prioratu cxprcssc ])rofessus, ac iu 168 EEGISTRUM RICARDI FOX, pi'ioi'cm piiDratus de licrliche electus et coiitirmatus, omiiem et omuimodam siiljieccioiiein et obeilienciam iuxta cauouuni et sanc- torum patriim instituta in hac parte deliitas, reuerendo in Christo patri et domino domino liicardo Dei gracia liathoniensi et Wellensi episcopo suisque successoribus Batboniensis et Wellensis ecclesia- rum episcopis canonice intrantibus, uecnon eorum offioiariis in licitis et canonieis mandatis quibuscunque perpetuo me fideliter exbibiturnm, iuraqne ordinaciones et consuetudines dicti prioratus obseruatur\im et obseruari facturum iuxta posse meuni promitto. Sic me Deus adinuet et hec Sancta Dei eiinangelia. In quorum fidem et testimonium propria manu niea hie subscribe. Et fecit signum. crucis in hiinc modnm, + Litera intendencie. Iticnnhis Nykke, etc., vt supra, religio,sis viris suppriovi et conuentui prioratus de Berliche ordinis Sancti Angxistini Batho- niensis et Wellensis diocesis, salutem in Auctore salutis. Cum nos eleccionem nuper in prioratii predicto de fratre Thoma iam pridem canonico et confratre prioratus Taiintun' ordinis et diocesis antedictoruin, in priorem eiusdem prioratus de Berliche electo factam canonicam fuisse et esse iudicialiter decreuerimus, eamque confirmanerimus, necnon administracionem spiritualium et temporalium prioratus huiusmodi prefato Thome Birde electo tt continnato commiserimns auctoritate et vigore officii nostri memorati, iusticia id poscente. Vobis igitnr et cuilibet vestruni in virtute obediencie precipimus et maudanuis quatenus eidem Thome Birde, vt prefertur, electo et confirmato, obedienciam facialis, ac sic quililet vestruni faciat ; necnon eidem vti priori vestro in omnibus licitis et canonieis mandatis intendatis et pareatis sicut decet, ac sic quilibet vestruni intendat, et pareat cum eflectu. Datum die et anno supradictis, etc. BATHOX. ET WELI,. El'lSfori. 169 Et ego Robeitus Williamson clericus Eboracensis iliocesis sacra auctoritate apostolica notarius publicus, premissis Fratris Tlionio Birde eleccioiiis approbacioni et eiusdem confirmacioni ceterisipie premissis omnibus et singulis ilum sicut premittitur sub anno Domini preilicto, ludiccionc .\°, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris I't doniini i^ostri doniini Alexandri diuina pronidenria Tape sexti anni) prime, niensis et loco predictis, vna cum prenominatis testibus jnesens persoualiter interfni, eaque omnia et singula sic fieri vidi et audiui. Ideo hoc presens publicum instrumentum me aliunde prepedito, per alium scriptum exinde confeci publicaui et in banc publicam formam redegi, signo et nomine mcis solitis et cousuetis, de mandato dicti vicarii generalis siguani, in lidem et testimonium omnium et siugulorum premissorum. Litera testimonialis super confirmacione. Vninersis Sancte Matris eeclesic filiis iiresentes literas testimo- niales inspecturis, visuris et audituris, Ilicardns Nykke, etc., ut supra, salutem in Eo qui est omnium vera salus. Ad vniuersitatis vestre noticiara deducimus et deduci volumus per presentes, quod nos Ricardus antedictus sexto die mensis Septembris Anno Doniini millesimo cccc""" nonagesimo ijJ" rite et legitime procedens, ac seruatis per nos de iure in hac parte sernandis, ad confirmacionem eleccionis de domino Thoma Dirde nuper canonico et confratre domus sine prioratus de Taunton' ordinis Sancti Augustini Batlio- niensis et Weliensis diocesis, et in eodem prioratu expresse pro- fesso, in priorem domus sine prioratus de Berlich ordinis et diocesis predictorum, ipso eodem prioratu per priuacionem domini Eoberti Wynde vltimi et inmedieati prioris eiusdem vacante ac prioris solacio destitnto, canonice electo facte et celebrate, per sentenciam nostrara didinitiuani in scriptis latam processiunis sub eo (pii sequitur tenorc verVwrum : — In Dei nonnne. Amen. Examiuata 170 EEGISTRUM EICARDI FOX, per uos nuper et discussa eleccione, etc., ut supra. In quorum onuuuin et siuguloruiii fidem et testimonium has literas nostras testimoniales sigillo officii nostri ac signo et subscripcione probi viri Magistri Pioberti Williamson notarii i^ublici, scribe in hac parte assumpti, communiri fecimus. Datum die mense anno et loco supra scriptis, preseutibus tunc ibidem dominis Johanne Edyngton', vicario vicarie perpetue ecclesie parochialis de Uuluerton, et Johanne Brodrybbe rectore ecclesie parochialis de Skilgate, testibus ad premissa vocatis personaliter rogatis et requisitis. Prouisio siue prefeccio Abbatis Glaston'. Ricardus permissione diuina Bathoniensis et Wellensis epis- copus dilecto in Christo filio fratri Eicardo Beere, monacho monas- terii Beate Marie Glaston', ordinis Sancti Benedicti, nostre Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, ordinem Sancti Benedicti in eodem monasterio expresse professo, salutem graciam et bene- diccionem. Cum vacante iam dudum dicto monasterio Beate Marie Glaston', nostre diocesis, per mortem bone luemorie fratris Johannis Selwode, vltimi abbatis et pastoris eiusdem ipsiusque corpore ecclesiastice tradito sepulture, ius et auctoritas eidem monasterio sic vacanti jirouidendi, pretextu nullitatis necnon cassaciouis et annullacionis eleccionis de persona fratris Thome Wasyn, regia primitus licencia petita et obtenta, nuper de facto facte et celebrate, ad nos Eicardum Episcopum antedictum iure nobis hac vice deuoluto pertineat et deuoluatur. Nos propterua Eicardus Batliouiensis et Wellensis episcopus antedictus, periculis que ex diutinis vacacionibus prouenire solent ecclesiis viduatis obuiare, et prefati monasterii Beate Marie Glaston' quod primum et jirecipuum esse dinoscitur inter omnia monasteria et loca reli- giosa nostre diocesis, indempnitati prouidere volentes, eidem monasterio de futuro abbate, iure nobis hac vice, vt prefertur, pro- BATHON. ET WKLL. EPISCOPI. 171 iiiiluiiili legitime deuoluto, matura prehabita delibcracione, et solum Deum (lictii[uc monasterii et pei'soiiarum in co sub religi- oiiis iugo Altissiiiio lamulanciiim statum et vtilitatem oculis nostris prepoueiites, tc fratrem Ricardum Beere, monaclmm et con- fratrem dicti monasterii, ordinem Sancti Benedicti in eodem expresse professum, morum grauitate et scientia preditum, in ordine sacerdotali etate(iue sufficieuti et legitima eonstitutum, deque et ex ligitimo luatvimonio procreatum, in spiritualibus et temporalibus plurimuni circumspectum, potentem et valeutem iura et libertates eiusdem monasterii tueri et defendere, in abbatem et pastoi'em dicti monasterii nominnuimus et preficimus, et eidem monasterio ac personis eiusdem iure nobis vt premittitur hac vice devoluto, auctoritate nostra ordinaria de te et persona tua proui- demus; curam, regimen et administracionem onniiuni et singu- lorum spiritualium et temporalium dicti monasterii tibi in Domino committentes, et committimus, iuribus nostris episcopalibus ccclesi- arumiiiie nostrnrnm Catliedralium Bathoniensis et Wellensis 'diguitate in omnibus semper saluis. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum fecimus hiis apponi. Datum sub sigillo nostro xij° die mensis Nouembris Anno Domini uiillesimo cccc'"" nona- gesimo tercio, et uostre translacionis anno ij''". luraraentum canonice obediencie. In Dei nomine, amen. Ego llicardus Beere, ilonasterii Beate Marie Glaston', ordinis Sancti Benedicti, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesis, monaclnis ct confrater, expresse professus in eodem, in Abbatem dicti Monasterii ligitime nominatus, prefectus, ac auctori- tate ordinaria pontificali et diocesana reuerendi in Cliristo patris et domini domini Kicardi Dei gracia Bathoniensis et Wellensis epi- scopi, rite et ligitime coufirmatus, institutus ac more antecessorum meorum benedictus, omnem et omnimodaui subieccionem, reucr- 172 EEGISTRL'M RICAUDI FOX, enciamque et obedienciain iuxta sacras canones sanctorumque patrum constitucioues suu decreta aut alias qualitercuiique rite et canouice debitas seu consuetas, dicto reuerendo in Cliristo patri et domino, suis successoribus Batlioniensis et Welleusis ecclesiavum episcopis canonice iutrantibus, atque eonini ofliciariis et niinistris ([uibuscuuqiie perpetuo me fidcliter exliibiturum promitto, eroque ab hac bora in antea dicto reuerendo patri et successoribus suis liuiusmodi deuotus fidelis et obediens, in omnibus et singulis mandatis licitis et canonicis. Sic me Deus adiuuet et bee Sancta Dei euuangelia. In quorum omnium fidem et testimonium propria manu bic subscribe faciens + Piicardus Bere. Lectum fuit presens iuramentum per eundem dompnum Eicardum Bere in ecclesia parochial! Sancti Aldelmi de Dultyng xix° die mensis Januarii, Anno Domini millesimo cccc"" nouagesimo iij". Pre- seutibus tunc ibidem veiierabilibus viris, priore ecclesie Cathedra- lis Bathoniensis, doinpno Johanne Wynscombe Monaclio Glaston', necnoii Magistris J. Soper, Johanne Spekyngton', et multis aliis. Mandatura ad inducendum et installandum. Piicardus, etc., vt supra, dilecto in Christo filio Archidiacono Wellensi seu eius officiali salutem, graciam et benedicciouem. Cum uos, vacante iam dudum dicto IMonasterio Beate Jtarie Glaston' per mortem bone memorie domini Johannis Selwode vltimi abbatis et pastoris eiusdem, ipsiusque corpore ecclesiastics tradito sepulture, ius et auctoritas eidem monasterio sic vacanti prouidendi, [pretextu] nullitatis necnon cassacionis et anullaciouis eleccionis de persona patris Thome Wasyn, regia primitus licencia petita et obtcnta, nupcr de facto facte et celeljrate, ad nos Piicardum episcopum antedictum iure nobis liac vice deuoluto pertineat et deuoluatur. Nos propterea, Eicardus Bathoniensis et Wellensis episc()])us antedictus, periculis que ex diutinis vacacionibus pro- BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOPL 173 iieuire suleiit occk-siis viduntis olniiare, et prefiiti Monasterii Beato Marie Glaston', quod iiiinuun ct precipuum esse dinoscitur inter omnia nionasteria et loca rcligiosa nostre diocesis, indempuitati prouidere volentes, eidoni monastcrio de future abliatc, iure nobis liac vice, vt prefcrtur, prouidendi legitime deuoluto, matura pre- liabita deliberacioue et solum Deum dictique Monasterii et per- sonarum in eo sub religionis iugo Altissimo famulancium statum et vtilitatem oeulis nostris preponentes, domjinum Ricardum r)ero monachum et conlVatreni dicti monasterii ordinem Sancti P.enedicti in eodem expresse professum, niorum grauitate et scientia pre- ditum, in ordine sacerdotali etateque sutficienti, et legitima con- stitutiim, deque et ex ligitimo matrimonio procreatuni, iu spiritu- alibus et teniporalibus plurimum circumspectum, potentem et valeutem iura et libertates eiusdem Monasterii tueri et defendere, in abbatem et pastorem dicti monasterii nomiuauerimus et pre- ficei'inius, ct eidem monastcrio ac persouis eiusdem iure nobis vt preinittitur hac vice deuoluto, auctoritate nostra ordinaria de se et persona sua prouiderimus, curam regimen et administracionem omnium et singulorum spiritualibus et temporalium dicti ^lonas- terii sibi in Domino eomniittentes, iuribus et consuetudinibus nostris episcopalibus ecclesiarumque nostrarum Catliedralium Bathoniensis et Wellensis dignitate in omnibus semper saluis. Vobis igitur committimns et mandamus firmiter iniungentes quatenus prefatum dompnunr Eicardum Bere sic xt prefertur nominatum prefectum et institutum in realem et corporalem possessionem dicti monasterii iuriumque et pertineneiorum suomra vniuersorum inducatis ac iliidcm installetis, inducive et installari faciatis iuxta moreni solitum hactenus ibi vsitatum, ac sic induc- tum et installatum defendatis. Neeuon cetera alia vestro in liac parte officio incumbencia peragatis. Et quid feceritis in prcmissis, nos cum per partem dicti fratris Eicardi Becre fucritis 174 HEGISTRUM KTCAIiDl FOX, BATHON. ET WELL. EPISCOn. debite requisiti, autentice certificetis litoris vestris patent ilms habentibus banc tenorem. Datum sub sigillo nostra .\ij° (be niensis Noucnibris Anno Domini millesimo cccc"'" uonagesiuio tercio et nostre trauslacionis anno ii"*". Installatus fuit predictus dompnus Kicardus Beere in ecclesia Beate IMarie Glaston', per veuerabileni virum Slagistrum Eicar- dum Nykke, vtriusque iuris doctorem, officialem doinini Arcbi- diaconi Wellensis, xx'"" die mensis Januaiii, Anno Domini supradicto, cunctis fratribus sibi promittentibus obedienciam, etc. One Hundred Copies of the Segistet- Printed. No. 3/ llAniUSON AND SONS, TRINTEES IN ORDINAET TO HER MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN'S LANB. '^1 ir r VW ••^^ :m u. I < Tt.1 :^ ■.. % 3 I J v PI' I ' : ".'I