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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
On 24 June 1504, being the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Brother William Ingram, of the Cathedral Priory of Christ, Canterbury, paid 3d. ‘pro reparacione inferioris hostii prope claustrum vocati le red dur et pro una clave pertinente ad eundem’. Such was the first expenditure of a cautious man who had taken over the charge of Custos Martirii, which, together with the two custodes at the shrine of the Saint, and two others at the Corona and the site of the first tomb, in the Crypt, was one of the greater offices in the cult of St. Thomas of Canterbury.
page 30 note 1 So he styled himself: the title ‘Dom’ appears first in 1511, on fol. 1a of the MS. Any. further references in footnotes to the MS. will be solely by folio number.
page 30 note 2 Phillips, C. S., Canterbury Cathedral in the Middle Ages, London 1949, 4.Google Scholar
page 30 note 3 MS. book of profession dates in the Chapter Library, Canterbury.
page 30 note 4 I am heavily indebted to the work of the late Mr. W. P. Blore, on whose transcript of the MS. I have greatly relied. I am also very grateful for the constant help and advice of Mr. William Urry, present Keeper of the MSS.
page 30 note 5 The inventories are printed: (1) in James, M. R., Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover, Cambridge 1902Google Scholar (these are of the Priory books sent by Ingram to the binder); and (2) in Legg, J. W. and Hope, W. H. St. J., Inventories of Christ Church Canterbury, London 1902Google Scholar. It would be an impertinence to attempt here to cover this topic further.
page 31 note 1 Fol. 37a: ‘Nota de iuramento clericorum … in ingressu primo in officio…’
page 31 note 2 Ibid.
page 31 note 3 These and the following details come from the ‘Onus Officii per annum’, fol. 37a.
page 31 note 4 Phillips, op. cit., 6.
page 32 note 1 Conjoined with payments to conducti there were always entries for their food: ‘pro cibariis emptis’ at 2d. p.d.
page 33 note 1 Thomas Bourchier was archbishop, 1454–86.
page 33 note 2 Elizabeth Wydville? The window in the Martyrdom represents her together with Edward IV and their children.
page 33 note 3 The details of the new chantry were recorded in a Memorandum of 1507 on fol. 17a of the MS.
page 35 note 1 The Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft. It was one of the chapels reckoned high in the scale of holiness, and (in its day) attracted pilgrims and alms in proportion. This alone endorses the conclusion that payments were due regularly to the penitentiary, even if they were not paid so regularly.
page 35 note 2 This, and all the details of Arundel's property are to be found on fol. 1a of the MS.
page 36 note 1 Folkestone, though a Benedictine house, was an alien priory, and not a cell of Canterbury. Founded in 1095, it had but 4 monks from 1511 until its dissolution in 1538: Knowles, D. and Hadcock, R. N., Mediaeval Religious Houses, London 1953.Google Scholar
page 36 note 2 The details about Burton follow on from fol. 2a.
page 37 note 1 W. A. Pantin, Documents Illustrating the activities of the General and Provincial Chapters of the English Black Monks 1215–1540, ii. 110 ff., Camden Society (Third Series) XLVII, 1933.Google Scholar
page 37 note 2 Latterly he must have sub-let it to one Stephen Villers, for at Christmas 1528 he records the receipt of 4s. ‘de relicta Stephani Villers pro orto … pro duobus annis …’.
page 37 note 3 For example, in W. Somner, Antiquities of Canterbury, ed. 1703, 24.
page 38 note 1 I am indebted to Mr. William Urry for this piece of information.
page 38 note 2 For example, in 1517/18 he paid 2d, ‘for a pypyd key for the wyket domus matris mee’ (fol. 5a).
page 38 note 3 Phillips, op. cit., 12.
page 39 note 1 Bayham Abbey, a Premonstratensian house, was five miles south-east of Tunbridge Wells. It was founded c. 1200 and dissolved in 1525 for Wolsey's colleges. It had been sinking deeply into debt for a century or so, and in 1500 there were only the Abbot and 10 Canons, of whom two were absent. (Knowles and Hadcock, op. cit.).
page 39 note 2 This is the generally, but by no means unanimously, accepted date. Many, including the D.N.B., place it two years later. Matters are complicated by the great deal of coming and going of which the visit of Mountjoy, who had accompanied Henry VIII to the Field of the Cloth of Gold (D.N-B.), was merely one incident during the busy two years.
page 39 note 3 Mr. W. P. Blore, in a gloss on this entry in his transcript, is inclined to associate ‘Cn0’ with the word ‘curialitas’.
page 40 note 1 E.g. in April 1509, 20d. ‘Radulpho ex mutuo de Rectore de Newynden’ must represent a loan from die Rector to Radulph for some reason. The mutuum recurs several times.
page 41 note 1 Newenden is about 11 miles from Bayham, on the road Ingram would have followed back to Canterbury, through Tenterden and Ashford.
page 41 note 2 Moatenden, five miles south of Leeds, near Maidstone, was a Trinitarian House, founded 1224 and dissolved 1538, when there were seven inmates. (Knowles and Hadcock, op. cit.).
page 41 note 2 Canterbury Quad of Christ Church, Oxford, is virtually all that remains of the establishment maintained for this purpose.
page 42 note 1 Coklorels Bote, a symposium of techniques of roguery, was printed in 1510 by Wynkyn de Worde.
page 43 note 1 It should be mentioned that most of the lathes and boards that he purchased were more minutely specified as being tiling-lathes and ‘evysbordis’.
