Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton.

  • Worcester Cathedral Library
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inexcogitata contra personam si decanatum meum alicui Cam’1 daret idem Remundus me de sede mea statim expellere vio- lenter, et hec omnia ad impediendum nos ne eligeremus, et ad com- mouendum contra nos po[pulum] confluxerunt [circum ?] capitulum plusquam mille homines confusionem meam hinc ex. pectantes. Verumtamen suum iniquum propositum non expleuit, sed de explendo alias suo loco vnus non debuit euocari. Nec- non statim cum venit p electionem de me factam testi- ficatur coram testibus fidedignis tamen ad predictorum iniquorum ins sufficienter uocatis aduersariis nostris qui fuerant euo- candi secundum quod probari potuit tarn per .... . . quam per publica instrumenta, et interim impetrato Every line of the text is cut off at both ends, and both the beginning and end of the document are wanting ; yet we have a tolerably vivid picture of the proceed- ings. First we see an attempt on the part of the mob, aided by the treachery of some of the canons, to ‘rush ’ the election of their own candidate (‘suum indigenam deportantibus ut electum ’), ringing the bells and singing Te Deu?n, as though the election had been made. But as the majority of the chapter remained firm, the next attempt to influence them was made in the chapter itself, by an assertion that the Dean’s own election had been uncanonical, and the present proceedings of the chapter consequently invalid. a- 93. Of the two documents lately serving as fly-leaves to this book, one has been already restored to its proper place in F. 77. (See p. 177.) The other, being also detached from the volume, has now been placed among the Fragments (as no. XI. in the portfolio), but must be described under this heading. It is a sheet of vellum 11% hi. in breadth, the length being curtailed to 8 in. It contains in four columns, two on each side, a list of the Convents of the four Visitations of the Dominican Province of England, with the assignation to each of them of certain ‘ fratres ministeriales,’ made at a Provincial Chapter. The lower part of the sheet has been cut away, and the list is consequently incomplete, but is nevertheless of con- siderable interest and importance, since, as Mr. A. G. Little informs me, ‘there is no complete list extant, showing which convents belonged to each visitation. So the document throws new light on the organization of the province.’ The handwriting of the document is of the xvtli century : from the fact that the Convent of King’s Langley is assigned 1 Qu. for Carnotensem or Carnotensium ? or for neither ?