The book of the foundation of St. Bartholomew's church in London : sometime belonging to the priory of the same in west Smithfield / ed. from the original manuscript by Norman Moore.

  • St. Bartholomew's Church.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The book of the foundation of St. Bartholomew's church in London : sometime belonging to the priory of the same in west Smithfield / ed. from the original manuscript by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CAPITULUM XI. OF THE RIOTTVS AND ASSEMYLVNGES OF THE ADVERSARIE PARTYS, AND OF THE PRYVYLEGYS OF THE CHIRCHE. Thus procedynge the tyme, clerkis to leve undir regular ynsti- tucion, iu the same place in breif tyme were vuyd to gidir: Rayer optenynge cure and office of the priorhede, and myny- strynge to them necessaries nat of certeyn rentys but plente- ously of oblacions of feithfull peple; and nat longe aftyr that drede that he drade come to hym, and that he dredyd happid hym. He was to summe the odur of lyif yn to lyif, to othir the odur of deith yn to deith. Summe seid he was a deseyver, for cause that yn the nette of the grete ffyscher evil fischis were medillid^ with goode aforne the houre of the laste dissever- awnce, his howsehokle peple were made hys enemyes, and so roys a3enste hym wyckid men, and wykydnes lyid to hym self.^ Therforewith prikkyng envye many privatly, many also opynly, a3enste the servant of God cesid nat to gruge, and in derogacion to the place and prelate of the same browghtyn many sclawnders with thretnynges, the goodes that they myght they withdrewe and toke a wey : constreyned hym with wykkidnes, made wery * hym with injuries, provoked hym with despitis, bygilid hym with symulate frendschippis; and summe of them brake owte in to so bolde a wodnesse/ that they drewe among them self a contracte of wikkid consperacion, what day i sette and place the servant of God they myght thorowgh wylys and sutilte draw to ther cowncell wyth a deceyte, and hym so ther- ])resent to plukke from the stappis^ of his lyif; and so his, remembraunce they wolde had doyn awey from this worlde. But ther is no wysdom, ther is no kunnyng^ ther is no cowncell, a3enste God, in whom he cast his thowght, and with the apostle put his strengith. He therfore that was his hoope was his myght, and for hym he discunfyit his ennemyes, therfore whan the day abydde comme, whiche was deputed to the inno- centis deith, oone of them partner of so grete a wykkidnesse, secrete to hym self abhorryng so grete a synne, aforyn the houre * medillic/, admixti. 3 n,gfy^ weary. * et insurrexerunt contra eum viri iniqui * wodmsse, madness, sed mentita est iniquitas sibi. stappis, steps {vestigia).