Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vol. XIII. Eentals and surveys of Church lands, certificates of institutions to livings, subscriptions of Clergy to the Articles of the Church, etc.; tempp. Edw. IV.—Charles II. Paper; fif. 31. With book-plate of arms of the Kev. Osmund Beauvoir, D.D. (pb. 1789). xvmth cent. Folio. 125. “ Statutes for the government of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury,” made by Archbishop Laud, and confirmed by Charles I. by letters-patent dated Westminster, 3 Jan. 1636[7]. At the end is a letter from Laud to the Dean and Chapter; Lam- beth, 26 Jan. 1636 [7]. Copies. Paper; ff. 14. xvmth cent. With book-plate arms of the Kev. Osmund Beauvoir, D.D. (c/. Eobinson’s Sist. of Sachney, 1842, vol. i. p. 177); and below, in Astle’s writing, “ Thos: Astle bought, March 14th, 1800.” Folio. 126. “ Liber Taxacionum : ex antiquissimo libro communiter vereque vocato Doome-Booke Ecclesiae Cathedral! Sanctse Trinitatis Nor- wicensis pertinente, transcripta, necnon alia, quoad Lynne Eegis com. Norff., ex aliis libris (eandem Ecclesiam Cathedralem con- cernentibus) fideliter et memoriae ergo collecta, per Tho. Searle, Notarium publicum.” Apparently extracted from the “ Norwich Domesday Book ” (see Historical MSS. Commission, 1st Keport, 1870, App. p. 87, and cf. No. 9635 of the MSS. of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich [1691-1707], Catalogi Manuscriptorum Anglise, 1697, vol. ii. p. 373). The volume begins (f. 3) with copies of statutes of (a) Bishop Everard {ob. 1149), instructing all Deans, etc., of the Diocese to warn their parishioners to visit the mother church of Norwich once yearly, and to have collections made in each parish and paid to the Sacrist of the Cathedral; and (b) of Bishop William de Eawlee [1239-1242], enjoining all parish chaplains to visit the mother church “ with solemn procession ” once yearly, and to see that their parishioners do the same. Following these (f. 3 b) is a list of the fifty-seven churches of the Deanery of Lynn, with the taxation of all tithable goods and ecclesiastical values arranged under parishes. Under Walpole St. Peter’s (f. 6) John de Brews and John de Langetone are mentioned. They were respectively Eectors of St. Andrew’s and of St. Peter’s, Walpole, in temp. Edw. I. (cf. Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, 1808, vol. ix. pp. 117, 119; Add. MS. 23,021, ff. 62, 63). The values also of these rectories as given by Blomefield for temp. Edw. I. agree with those in the MS. Under Hillington (f. 17) the names of Ealph Sursy and John Blome appear. The above-quoted authority gives them as Ealph Cyrezy and John Blomes, Eectors of the two moieties of Hillington in temp. Edw. I. At the end
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