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 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 
 2U. t. Ilt-J,
 
 INVENTORIES OF 
 
 CHRISTCHURCH CANTERBURY
 
 INVENTORIES OF 
 
 CHRISTCHURCH CANTERBURY 
 
 WITH HISTORICAL AND 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
 AND ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS. 
 TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED BY 
 
 J. WICKHAM LEGG, F.S.A. 
 
 AND 
 
 W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, M.A. 
 
 Mfsitmlnsitfv : 
 
 ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO., Ltd., 
 
 2, WHITEHALL GARDENS. 
 
 1902
 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 The collection of documents here printed, nearly all 
 of them for the first time, enables us to realize to some 
 extent how the ornaments of a great church were 
 acquired, augmented, and lost, in the course of centuries. 
 
 Such a collection is of the greater value and interest, 
 not only on account of the range of time covered, but 
 because so few of our great churches have preserved 
 even an isolated record of the same kind. 
 
 Although the series under notice contains only one 
 general inventory earlier than that taken at the 
 suppression of the Benedictine monastery (a very full 
 one of the ornaments, jewels, and relics of the church 
 in 1 316 which were handed over to a new sacrist five 
 years later) it is possible from other documents to show 
 what important additions were made to the list during 
 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, chiefly through 
 the liberality of divers benefactors. 
 
 Besides these, we have during the opening years of 
 the sixteenth century a series of inventories of certain 
 chapels in the church. They have fortunately been 
 preserved, with other interesting particulars, in a 
 memorandum book of one of the officers of the 
 monastery, and contain much new and valuable in- 
 formation not to be found elsewhere. 
 
 Finally all these documents converge upon the second 
 of the general inventories, that made in 1540, when 
 
 629887
 
 vi PREFACE. 
 
 the Monastery was suppressed, and the Prior and 
 Convent replaced by a Dean and Chapter of secular 
 canons. 
 
 This inventory was taken too late to include the 
 riches of the shrine of St. Thomas and other relics of 
 which the church was despoiled in 1538, but not- 
 withstanding it is a document of great interest and 
 importance. 
 
 The eight inventories of later date, written at 
 intervals from 1563 to 1761, illustrate in a remarkable 
 way the gradual loss of the ancient ornaments, and 
 their replacement by others more adapted to the changed 
 and changing order of things. 
 
 Since each of the documents printed, as well as its 
 contents, is fully described in the text, there is no need 
 of further notice of them here. It has, however, been 
 thought well to add an introductory chapter on the 
 Judaizing ; of which evidence is to be seen in the great 
 Inventory of 131 5-16. 
 
 In conclusion the Editors desire to record their 
 indebtedness to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury 
 for affording them every facility in their investigations. 
 They also owe much to the unfailing courtesy and help 
 of the late Dr. J. Brigstocke Sheppard, through whose 
 care and energy so many of the monastic records were 
 rescued from destruction in the stoneyard to which 
 they had been relegated many years ago. 
 
 Note. — The initials of the Editor are appended to 
 the document for which he is responsible.
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 It can hardly be doubted that, before the accession of 
 Constantine the Great had given peace to Christians, 
 the Church had already borrowed largely from the 
 Synagogue ; not, however, from the Temple. The 
 points in which the Church so closely resembles the 
 Synagogue, and which justify us in saying that they 
 must have been borrowed directly from the Synagogue, 
 were seen in actual use by the early Christians, who 
 transferred to the Church from the Synagogue the 
 usages to which they were accustomed. But the usages 
 of the Temple were not so directly transferred. They 
 could not long have been seen in actual use, for the 
 Temple was destroyed in the first century ; and the 
 imitation of Temple customs, introduced in the dark 
 ages or the early middle ages, must have been from 
 study, not by actual contact. They must have been 
 based upon the description of the Levitical ceremonies 
 and ornaments to be found in the Vulgate, aided by 
 works like the Epistle of St. Jerome to Fabiola, de 
 vestitu SacerdotiLm. From the beo-innino- of the 
 seventh century onwards, still greater influence in this 
 direction must have been exercised by the work of St. 
 Isidore of Sevile, de ecclesiasticis officiis. Christian cus- 
 toms and observances, even in what seem to us impossible 
 cases, are derived by St. Isidore from some source in 
 the Old Testament or in Jewish practice. The custom 
 of having a quire to lead the singing, the observance
 
 viii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of Lent, the different ranks of the clergy, the use of 
 holy oil in anointing kings and priests, are all carried 
 back to a Mosaic source. No one will hesitate to 
 acknowledge the very great share which this writer 
 had in forming the opinions held in the middle ages. 
 When the forged decretals appeared in the middle ot 
 the ninth century it will be remembered that they were 
 published under the name of St. Isidore, a circumstance 
 which is a great testimony to the regard in which his 
 writings were held. His Etymologies were widely 
 read ; and though his work on church offices does not 
 seem to have had an equally large circulation, yet its 
 authority must have been very great. 
 
 In judging of the origin of the ceremonies attributed 
 to Levitical influence some caution is needed, and a 
 superficial resemblance is not all that is wanted to show 
 a direct imitation. The eag-erness of the mediaeval 
 western ritualists to see a direct transplanting of 
 customs sometimes led them astray. They may be 
 readily excused for seeing a connexion between the 
 fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months,' 
 and the quatt7W7' tempora of the local Roman church, 
 for which Dom Germain Morin has found a pagan 
 origin.'^ But it is not so easy to overlook the ascription 
 of the Levitical colours and vestments to the Christian, 
 to which the former answer in so small a degree. 
 Other things, however, such as the j^ationa/e of the 
 bishop, the seven-branched candlestick in the quire, 
 the fringing of vestments with bells and pomegranates, 
 seem hard to explain save on the theory of direct 
 imitation. Between these two extremes, of admitted 
 
 ^ Zechariah, viii. 19. 
 
 '^ Revue Benedictine, Maredsous, 1897, Aout, 337.
 
 INTR OD UC TION. ix 
 
 impossibility and the highest degree of Hkelihood, there 
 are a number of customs which, with the known desire 
 of the mediaeval ritualists to approximate their cere- 
 monies to those of Leviticus, may not improbably be 
 due to direct imitation. 
 
 Some of these ceremonies attributed to Levitical 
 influence appeared in the Christian Church for a season, 
 and then disappeared ; such as the 7'ationale for bishops, 
 and the laree seven-branched candlestick, which have 
 just been spoken of. Others seem to have made good 
 their position, and are retained in the Roman rite to 
 this day ; such as the position of the hands of the 
 celebrant at Hanc igittir oblationein of the Gregorian 
 canon. 
 
 Some of the ceremonies attributed to Levitical 
 influence will now be discussed one by one. 
 
 The small altars, four-square, seen so often in the 
 drawings and pictures of the early middle ages,^ 
 such as may still be seen in existence around the 
 ruined apse of the abbey of Montmajour, near Aries, 
 may very likely have been suggested by the injunction 
 of Exodus xxvii. i. 
 
 In England it was forbidden by the Penitential of 
 Theodore' (668-690) to make steps before the altar, 
 just as it is forbidden in Exodus xx. 26 ; such absence 
 of steps remained in a large number of churches 
 
 ' For example in the Alcuiii Club Collections I. on English altars (^edited 
 by W. H. St. John Hope, 1899), the altars up to the fourteenth century are 
 four-square, or intended to be four-square. Such small square altars, or, to 
 speak more correctly, holy tables, seem to be still the custom of the East. 
 
 ■■* Lib. II. i. § 6 (Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, Oxford, 1871, vol. iii. 
 p. 191).
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 in England in the middle ages, a point to which 
 Mr. J. N. Comper has called attention.^ 
 
 The veils around the altar which are nowadays called 
 ridells, and which were considered so important in the 
 later middle ages that they were part of the furniture 
 of an altar in a portable "chapel," or set of ornaments 
 that a prelate carried about with him,^ may be derived 
 from the curtains of the tabernacle, spoken of in 
 Exodus xxxvi. through the curtains of the ciborium 
 of the Roman basilica, which even now in many 
 cases shows the rings for holding up the curtains still 
 remaining on the rods which join the capitals of the 
 pillars. 
 
 Part of this following of the Mosaic curtains may 
 be the Lenten veil which divided the presbytery from 
 the quire. 
 
 If the light in the church kept continually burning 
 were not derived directly from the Synagogue, it seems 
 perhaps possible that it is due to an imitation of the 
 lamp ordered in Exodus xxvii. 20, or of the fire on 
 the altar ordered in Leviticus vi. 13. It is spoken of 
 by Durandus.^ 
 
 A list of the seven-branched candlesticks formerly 
 adorning many of our great churches in England and 
 on the continent is given below* ; though unfortunately 
 most of them have disappeared. Those yet remaining, 
 of which we have one large example in the Dom at 
 Brunswick, and a smaller at Magdeburg, show that the 
 Jewish seven-branched candlestick sculptured on the 
 
 ' See his essay on the Enghsh altar and its surroundings in Some 
 Principles and Services of the Prayer Book, Rivingtons, 1899, p. 112. 
 2 Archacologia, 1890, hi. 276. See below, p. 3. 
 ^ Durandus, Rationale, I. ii. § 11. 
 ^ See below, p. 47.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 Arch of Titus has influenced their construction ; while 
 the seven-hght chandelier at Lyons, figured by Le 
 Brun Desmarettes/ shows no trace of this influence, 
 beinof a mere beam on which seven candles were 
 placed. It was, however, placed " entre le Choeur & 
 le Sanctuaire au milieu," much as the branched candle- 
 sticks were. There can be little hesitation in attributing" 
 this widespread appearance of seven-branched candle- 
 sticks to an imitation of the Mosaic candlestick 
 described in Exodus xxv. 31. 
 
 The holy water stoup at the entrance of a church 
 seems to point to the brazen laver of Exodus xxx. 18 ; 
 which is, however, connected by Innocent III. with 
 the washing of hands before the missa fidclium^ 
 a custom which we know existed as early as the 
 time of St. Cyril of Jerusalem. 
 
 It is now generally acknowledged that white was 
 the English liturgical colour for Lent in the later 
 middle ages^ ; and there is evidence of the use of 
 this same colour in France* and Spain'^ and elsewhere 
 for the same season. It seems very possible that the 
 vestes albae of the high priest on the great day of 
 atonement'' may have suggested this Lenten colour. 
 
 ' De Moleon, Voyages liturgiqiics de France^ Paris, 1718. Fig. II. facing" 
 p. 44. 
 
 - Innocent III. de sacro altaris mysten'o, II. liv. Sylvae Ducum, 1 846, p. 162. 
 
 ■■' TrcDtsaciions of St. PaiiPs Ecclesiologieal Society, 1881, i. 131 ; 1886, 
 ii. 236. 
 
 ■• Claude Villette, Les Raiso7%s de F Office et Ccremoities &^c., Paris, 161 1, 
 p. 78. " En Karesme l'£glise est tapissee de blanc." Further on (p. 107) 
 he tells us that the Lenten colour is " Le Gris, Couleur de terre, cendre, et 
 penitence." It is still in use at Lyons. 
 
 ^ Ash colour was in use at Toledo in 1550. (See Missale Mixtuin 
 secundum ordineni . . . Ecc/estae 7'o/etanae, Lugduni, i^c,o.) 
 
 •^ Leviticus xvi. 4. See J. Braun, De vestittc Sacerdottnn Hebracoriiiiiy 
 Amstelodami, 1680. p. 857.
 
 xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The four cardinal liturgical colours, white, black, 
 red, and green, are derived by the mediaeval ritualists 
 from the five Mosaic, " aurum, et hyacinthus, et pur- 
 pura, coccusque bis tinctus, et byssus."' Perhaps the 
 best known passage dealing with this point is that of 
 Innocent III,, who disposes of the difficulty of the 
 numbers by leaving out aurum? It does not seem to 
 have occurred to him that ani^uvi and byssus are 
 materials, not colours ; or that the other three names, 
 even if allowed to be colours, could convey no certain 
 ideas either in Hebrew or in Latin. 
 
 The same sort of violence has to be used with the 
 Christian vestments to force them into anything at all 
 like the Mosaic. In the work of Pseudo-Alcuin,^a writer 
 often assigned to the eleventh century, the vestments 
 for the simple priest had already become six in number : 
 the amice, the alb, the girdle, the stole, the maniple, 
 and the chasuble. To accommodate these to the 
 ornaments of the second order of the Levitical priest- 
 hood, he has to leave out the stole and the maniple, 
 admitting that nothing like these may be found in 
 the old law. But he connects the ephod with the 
 amice, an ornament of rather late introduction into 
 the church, for he says : Sjipe7^hu7ncrale quod 
 Hebraice Ephod dicitur . . . amiciu7n vocamus. 
 It may be that the amice was introduced as a 
 
 ^ See Exodus xxv. 5, and many other places. The special sanctity of 
 these things may perhaps be appraised by their appearance amongst the 
 merchandise of the apocalyptic Babylon (Apoc. xviii. 12). 
 
 - Op. cit. I. Ixiv. and xxxii. pp. 86 & 53. 
 
 ^ Alcuinus, de divinis offtciis, capitulum de singulis vestibus : in M. 
 Hittorp, de divinis catholicae ecclcsiae officiis., Parisiis, 1610. col. 272.
 
 INTK on UC TION. xiii 
 
 copying of the ephod.^ But the ephod has but small 
 resemblance to the amice : it is a sort of jacket, put 
 on last of all, by the high priest, not by the priest 
 of the second order, and not of linen but of the 
 five Levitical materials or colours. 
 
 With the alb there is more success. There is con- 
 siderable likeness in this to the tunica linea ; and 
 it seems possible that the sleeves of the old linen 
 vestment, seen in the mosaics at Rome and Ravenna 
 to be almost as wide as those of a modern surplice, 
 may have been tightened in imitation of the Jewish 
 tunica linea. The girdle of the alb evidently performs 
 much the same office as the Hebrew battezts, thouQ-h 
 not of the same length, nor the same material. 
 Long buskins, similar to those found in the tomb of 
 an Archbishop at Canterbury,'- might without extra- 
 ordinary forcing, perhaps, be allied to the feininalia 
 linea, as Pseudo-Alcuin joins bracata. But he wisely 
 leaves the chasuble alone, and makes no attempt to 
 bring it within the circle of Levitical ornaments. 
 
 Walafrid Strabo is less cautious than Pseudo-Alcuin. 
 He tells us that vestments have been added either 
 in imitation of those which the priests of the old 
 dispensation wore, or to show forth some mystical signifi- 
 
 ' It has occurred to me that if we assume, as is done in some quarters, 
 that the amice began as a covering to the head, it may be suggested that it 
 is a copy of the high priest's hnen tiara, with its lamina aurea transferred 
 mto the apparel. The objection to this opinion is the want of satisfactory 
 evidence that at its first appearance the amice was a head-dress ; though 
 in the later middle ages there is plenty of evidence that it was then a head- 
 dress, and thus worn until the more solemn parts of the service were entered 
 upon. The rubrics at vesting in different mass books also refer to the 
 amice as a head covering. 
 
 « Vetusta Momnneitta, published by the Society of Antic[uaries, 1S93, 
 vol. vii. part i. p. [6], plate IV, edited by W. H. St. John Hope.
 
 xiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 cance. Those which we use now, he says, correspond 
 in number to the old. And he gives a Hst of eight : 
 the Levitical, which correspond to the Christian, rank 
 thus : Tunica, dalmatica. SuperhumeraHs Hnea, alba. 
 Superhumerale, mappula. Rationale, orarium. Balteus, 
 cingulum. Feminalia, sandalia. Tiara, casula. Lamina, 
 pallium.^ 
 
 This is not a bad example of the lengths to 
 which a mediaeval ritualist could go when a point 
 already decided had to be defended. What relations 
 could the lamina on the tiara of the Jewish high 
 priest have to the episcopal pall ^ or the tiara to the 
 chasuble ^ The girdle may indeed represent the 
 balteit-s, and we have seen that Pseudo-Alcuin perhaps 
 detected some analogy between long buskins and the 
 feminalia. But who can see any resemblance between 
 the stole and the high priest's breast plate ? or the 
 maniple and the ephod ? 
 
 But in approaching the tunicle or dalmatic of the 
 bishop there seems indeed some ground for 
 allying it to the hyacinthine tunicle. In the early 
 mosaics at Rome and Ravenna which give us such 
 good evidence of the clerical dress, the pope or 
 bishop wears only a surplice or alb (distinguishing 
 between these by the width of the sleeves) the 
 chasuble, and the pallium. The episcopal tunicle 
 appears much later, and is attributed to Gallican 
 influence. Instances are given in the text below 
 of the episcopal tunicle being blue in colour or 
 approaching to blue" ; but, curiously enough, the 
 
 ' Walafridi, Liber de rebus ecclesiasticis, cap. xxiv. in Hittorp, op. cit. col. 
 686. 
 
 2 See below, p. 46.
 
 INTR ODUC TION. xv 
 
 instances of the use of bells as a fringe to a vest- 
 ment are not seen in tunicles. Bells are found as 
 fringes to other vestments, mainly copes, and also. 
 Dr. Bock tells us, chasubles and stoles/ 
 
 The mediaeval breastplate or 7'ationale is another 
 ornament the source of which hardly admits of any 
 other explanation than a copying of the Aaronic 
 vesture. Some of the best examples are to be found 
 in the sculpture which adorns the cathedral church 
 of Rhemes, especially the portal of the north transept 
 of that church. Most of the figures that wear archie- 
 piscopal palls wear also breastplates. In the figure 
 of St. Sixtus in the north portal the breastplate is 
 clearly hung by chains as in the Aaronic ornament. 
 The precious stones are twelve in number, but they 
 are arranged in three rows of four stones, not as in 
 the Jewish rationale in four rows of three stones. 
 
 In the representation of Italian bishops, the chasuble 
 has often at the top of the orphrey which is called the 
 "pillar," a broad piece of stuff giving the appear- 
 ance of a tau to the pillar, an appearance which may 
 be a survival of tiie mediaeval breastplate once common 
 amongst bishops." 
 
 The anointing of bishops and priests amongst the 
 Westerns at their ordination is considered by many to 
 be a copying of the anointing of Aaron at his con- 
 secration, described in Exodus xxix. 7. So also the 
 
 ' Fr. Bock, Geschichte der liturgischen Gewdnder des Mitielalters, Bonn, 
 1866, Bd. ii. SS. 116. & 298. See also Taf. xliii. 
 
 - The Greeks are said to dislike the copying of the Levitical rites by the 
 Latins : and until further evidence be offered there seems no good reason to 
 connect the leathern scapulary found in a tomb in a church at Moscow with 
 the imitation of the Jewish breastplate. (See Antiqtiite's de FEmpire de 
 Russie edites par ordre de Sa Majeste VEmpereur Nicholas I. Bachman, 
 Moscow, t. i. no. 107.)
 
 xvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 anointing of kin^rs. The touching with the cream of 
 many things used in the service of the church, from the 
 chaHce and paten to the bells in the steeple, may easily 
 have arisen from the anointing with the compound 
 oil of nearly all the vessels used in the tabernacle, 
 spoken of in Exodus xxx. 26. The anointing of a 
 new consecrated altar with cream, if not to be traced 
 back to the action at Bethel of the patriarch Jacob, 
 spoken of in Genesis xxviii. 18, may be an imitation 
 of the anointing of the ark of the testimony and the 
 table in the tabernacle ; and the anointing of the walls 
 of the church may be an imitation of the anointing of 
 the tabernacle itself. 
 
 In the Canon, at the paragraph Hanc igUnr obia- 
 tionem, the priest in the Pian edition of the Roman 
 missal is bidden to stretch his hands over the oblations 
 so that the palms may be open towards and above 
 both chalice and host, and to hold his hands in this 
 fashion until the end of the paragraph/ Less precise 
 instructions are given by John Burchardt : the celebrant 
 having recited what is before Hanc igihir oblationem 
 is to stretch his hands towards the oblations and say 
 secretly Hanc igitiir? 
 
 This is said to be an imitation of a Levitical 
 ceremony where the hand was laid upon the head of 
 the scapegoat before it was sent into the desert ; or 
 of the oblation before the man offered it.^ 
 
 The custom does not, however, seem to have appeared 
 
 ^ Missalc RomaiuDii., Parisiis, Jacob. Kerver, 1577. Ritus celebrand 
 Missam. See also B. Gavantus, Thesaurus Sacrorutn Rituum, Augustae 
 Vindelicorum, 1763, t. i. pp. 245 & 246. 
 
 - John Burckard, Ordo Misse, Romae, 1502, fo. xxvi. b. 
 
 3 Leviticus xvi. 21, cf. i. 4. iii. 2.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xvii 
 
 in the Christian Liturgy early in the middle ages. It 
 is not easy to find mention of it in the early mediaeval 
 ritualists. Micrologus speaks of the priest as bowing 
 down to the altar while Hanc igitiir is said ; and the 
 same is found in a later fragment printed by Hittorp^ ; 
 and this custom persisted even into the sixteenth 
 century" ; though by that time the Levitical practice had 
 spread widely. Judging by the English books it does 
 not appear to have come into England, the York and 
 Sarum missals at this place in the Canon merely 
 directing the priest to behold the host with great 
 veneration. 
 
 It would not be difficult to increase the list of 
 practices in the Western Church which may be 
 attributed to Levitical influences. The practice of 
 elevating the host at consecration, which began in 
 the Western Church in the twelfth and thirteenth 
 centuries, might by some be likened to the wave 
 offering of unleavened bread in Leviticus viii. 26. 
 The origin of the use of incense in the Christian 
 Church is still obscure ; but one of its sources, besides 
 the more obvious source in civil life, may be 
 Jewish custom. Enough, however, has been said to 
 show that from the dark ages onward until late in 
 the middle ages a desire to imitate Jewish ceremonies 
 was present and active in the Western Church : though 
 the post-mediaeval theologians rather reject than 
 approve the following of Jewish customs.^ 
 
 J. W. L. 
 
 * '^\zrf:Ao%\x'=,^de ecclesiasticis Observationibus, cap. xxiii. M. Hittorp, De 
 divinis Catholicae Ecclesiae officiis, Paris, 1610, col. 1177. 
 
 ^ See Missale Diocesis Coloniensis, Colonic, 1525, Signature i). leaf ii.(5. 
 
 ' Franciscus Suarez, Opera Omnia, ed. Ch. Berton, Paris, Vives, 1856. 
 t. vi. p. 505, lib. ix. c. XV. § 14. 
 
 b
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 I. Ecclesiastical Ornaments of the Chapel of the Archbishop, 
 
 1294 and 1328 1-8 
 
 II. Ecclesiastical Ornaments in the Vestry of Christchurch, 
 Canterbury, February 2nd, 1315-16. 
 Texts and Relics in Christchurch, Canterbury, Feb- 
 ruary 2nd, 1315-16... ... ... ... ... ... 9-94 
 
 III. Other Ornaments and Jewels acquired during the four- 
 
 teenth Century ... 95-100 
 
 IV. Ornaments and Jewels acquired or repaired in the time 
 
 of Thomas Chillenden, Prior, 1390-1 to 141 1 ... ... 101-114 
 
 V. Miscellaneous notes as to Jewels and Ornaments acquired 
 
 during the Fifteenth Century ... ... ... ... 11 5- 124 
 
 "V^I. Inventories of the Keeper of the Martyrdom of St. 
 
 Thomas, 1 500 and 1 503 125-137 
 
 VII. Inventory of, and other documents referring to, Archbishop 
 
 Warham's Chapel ... ... ... ... ... ... 138-147 
 
 VIII. Inventory of the Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel, 1511 148-155 
 
 IX. Inventory of the Chapel of St. Bartholomew in the Crypts 156-157 
 
 X. Inventory of a Chapel ... ... 158-159 
 
 XI. Inventories of the Chapel of Our Lady ... 160-167 
 
 XII. Inventory of Plate, Ornaments and Vestments left in the 
 Cathedral Church of Canterbury after the Suppression 
 of the Monastery, dated 10 April, 1540 (31 Henry VI 1 1.) 168-194 
 
 XIII. Inventories taken about the time of the Metropolitical 
 
 Visitation in 1563 ... 
 
 XIV. The Inventory of 1584 
 
 XV. Inventory taken about the time of the Metropolitical 
 Visitation of 1634 
 
 XVI. Introduction to the Inventory of 1662 
 
 XVII. Introduction to the Inventory of 1689 
 
 XVIII. Introduction to the Inventories of the Eighteenth Century 289-312 
 
 XIX, Allowance of Wax Candles in the Eighteenth Century ... 313-318 
 
 Glossary and Index ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 319-379 
 
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 CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA. 
 
 p. 32, line n.,for " 1177" read ^^ 11 70. 
 
 p. 103, line 30, for " Thomas " read " John." 
 
 p. 113, line 24, for " prior's chapel " read " prior's new lodging." 
 
 p. 166, line "^7. This slab may have contained the brass of John Bourchier, 
 archdeacon of Canterbury, 1479-1495. See T. Willement, Heraldic 
 Notices of Canterbury Cathedral (London, 1827), 162. 
 
 p. 168, line 10, for " 1540" read'''' 1539-40. 
 
 p. 179, line 12, etc. Since this paragraph was written it has been found 
 that the old south porch originally occupied this suggested site of 
 Arundel's chapel, which must therefore have stood between two pillars 
 of the arcade. The new porch was apparently begun on the same site 
 as the old, but afterwards removed to its present place while the nave 
 was being rebuilt. 
 
 p. 247, line 10. The following document shows what fate befell the 
 " Cathedrall-Altar-Glory-Cloth " : 
 
 1645, June 14. — Receipt by Richard Calmer of /8 iis. -zd. from Sir Robert 
 Harley, being the proceeds of the burning of the embroidery called The 
 Glory, belonging to the high altar of Canterbury Cathedral, delivered to Sir 
 Robert Harley by the appointment of Mr. John Lade, Mayor of Canterbury. 
 (MSS. of the Duke of Portland, Welbeck, Hist. MSS. Commission, 1894. 
 14th Report, Appendix, part ii. vol. iii. p. 133.)
 
 INVENTORIES 
 
 OF 
 
 CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 I. ECCLESIASTICAL ORNAMENTS OF THE 
 CHAPEL OF THE ARCHBISHOP, 
 
 1294 AND 1328. 
 
 It was customary from an early date for an archbishop 
 or bishop to have for the performance of his duties as 
 bishop a set of ornaments which he could take about with 
 him. These ornaments were collectively known as his 
 capella or "chapel," and included all the articles neces- 
 sary for the pontifical offices, and sometimes the sompter 
 horse or horses that bore them from place to place, and 
 the chests in which they were carried.^ 
 
 These ornaments were often the private property of 
 the bishop, but more generally they were borrowed from 
 the treasury of the cathedral church,^ and a formal inden- 
 ture or other deed drawn up on their receipt, which was 
 given up on their restoration.^ Such a document is 
 
 * Inventory of Henry Bowet, archbishop of York, 1423 : " Et de x.y. receptis 
 pro ij cistis parvis vocatis chapell-cofferes, ordinatis pro cariagio." Tcsta- 
 mefita Ebornceiisia^ iii. (Surtees Society 45), 76. 
 
 2 Mr. Micklethwaite points out that if the bishop were a monk, he had in 
 theory no private property, so borrowed a " chapel " from his chapter until 
 he could buy one out of the revenue he hoped to receive from his See. 
 
 3 See Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London^ 2nd S. xii. 129, 
 for a list of things lent to John Ross, bishop of Carlisle, by the prior and 
 convent of the same place, in 1325. 
 
 B
 
 2 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 entered in the same register and on the same page as 
 the Hst under notice, and enumerates certain episcopal 
 ornaments lent to Robert, a monk of Christchurch, Can- 
 terbury, consecrated bishop of Clonfert in 1296, who 
 undertook to return them within three months of a 
 demand that he would do so. The ornaments include a 
 set of vestments for the bishop, with mitre, glov^es, and 
 foot-gear, a chalice, a mass-book and a pontifical. The 
 text of the document is as follows : 
 
 Pateat universis per presentes quod nos R. miseracione divina 
 Clonfertensis episcopus recepimus ex causa mutui a venerabilibus 
 viris Priore et Conventu ecclesie Christi Cantuar' Mitram unam 
 brudatam sine gemmis casulam unam de rubeo samicto Tunicam 
 et dealmaticam \sic\ Capam chori de rubeo samicto tres albas 
 paratas cum amictis stolam et manipukim de serico consutis 
 Cyrotecas de serico Sandalia de albo samicto brudat' cum sotu- 
 laribus de viridi samicto brudat' Calicem. unum deauratum qui 
 ponderat j. marc' missale unum et librum unum qui dicitur 
 pontificale que omnia salvo et secure custodiemus et eisdem res- 
 tituemus infra tres menses postquam super hoc fuerimus requisiti. 
 In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus sibi 
 patentes Dat' Cantuar' In vigilia Assumpcionis beate Marie 
 virginis Anno Domini M°. CC°. Nonagesimo sexto.^ 
 
 Sometimes we find that special ornaments were be- 
 queathed by an archbishop or bishop for the use of his 
 successors, and these may have formed part of the chapel, 
 e.g. it is recorded that on the feast of St. Jerome, 13 15, 
 on the application of archbishop Walter (Reynolds) there 
 were lent to him by the prior and convent of Canterbury : 
 
 mitra preciosa et baculus pastoralis cedrinus quos bone 
 memorie dominus Johannes quondam Cantuariensis Archi- 
 episcopus legavit ecclesie Cant, et successoribus suis per 
 verba subscripta in testamento suo contenta ' Do et lego 
 ecclesie nostre Cantuar' et successoribus nostris Mitram 
 nostram preciosam et baculum nostrum pastoralem cedrinum 
 que omnia in ecclesia nostra predicta imperpetuum remane- 
 bunt ' Item vestimentum integrum de rubeo samicto 
 desuper cum ramunculis arborum auro breudat' | videlicet | 
 capa chori ] casula | tunica | et dalmatica pro domino Archi- 
 
 * Register \. i. 2\o b.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 3 
 
 episcopo. Et tunica et dalmatica pro diacono et subdiacono | 
 que omnia recolende memorie dominus Robertus Cantuari- 
 ensis Archiepiscopus nuper defunctus legavit ecclesie 
 Cantuar' etc.^ 
 
 A note is appended that the ornaments referred to were 
 duly restored to Richard of Dover, sacrist. 
 
 At Durham the bishop's chapel, or at any rate a 
 selection from it, seems often to have been the perquisite 
 of the prior and convent, and an interesting series of such 
 selections, ranging from William de Karilepho {ob. 1095) 
 has been printed by the Surtees Society.^ 
 
 In some few cases a bishop seems to have had more 
 than one chapel. Thus Gervase of Canterbury enume- 
 rates among the benefactions of archbishop Hubert 
 Walter " capellam quoque egregiam, quam in testa- 
 mento suo vocavit principalem^ ecclesie dedlt." Con- 
 cerning its fate he shortly adds : " Hanc rex Johannes 
 ecclesise subtraxit."^ 
 
 Abbots also appear occasionally to have had a 
 chapel ; thus an Inventory of the vestry in Westminster 
 Abbey, taken In 1388, describes inter alia: " Capella 
 autem portatills est una cum ornatu," the contents of 
 which are specified.'* 
 
 The term "chapel" was not restricted to the orna- 
 ments of bishops and abbots only. Thus Matthew Paris 
 records under the date 1242, " In recessu vero a Xantonis 
 dominus rex Angliae capellam suam a properando amisit, 
 id est, omnia ornamenta sacerdotalla preciosissima, et 
 multa alia, quae longum essent enarrare, praeter reli- 
 qulas."^ In an early list of gifts to the church of 
 Rochester, it is stated that " Wlllelmus de Ellntune, 
 ftlius Ansfrldi vicecomltis, in obitu suo dedlt capellam 
 suam, scilicet albam paratam de virldl ciclade, et stolam 
 et fanum de nigra purpura, et casulam de virldi ciclade, 
 et ampullas et thurlbulum argenteum, cum scutella 
 
 * Register I. f. 343. 
 
 ^ Wills and Inventories (Surtees Society 2), part i. i. ct seqq. 
 
 ' The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury (Rolls' Series T^^ ii. 414. 
 
 * Archccolooia Hi. 276. 
 
 * Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (Rolls' Series 57), iv. 220. 
 
 B 2
 
 4 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 argentea, et cochleari suo argenteo, et philacterium 
 partim de argento cum reliquiis, et calicem deauratum, 
 et palliola plura, et duo candelabra de esmal, quae omnia 
 sunt ad altare sanctce M arise. "^ 
 
 The earlier of the lists under notice specifies the 
 ornaments of the archbishop's chapel, delivered to Dan 
 Robert of Elham at Norwich on January 7th, 1294-5, 
 and handed over by him on March 7th following to Dan 
 J. of Wye, the archbishop's chaplain, at Lambeth. Some 
 of the ornaments, as the list shows, were those of arch- 
 bishop John of Peckham, who died on December 8tb, 
 1 292. His successor, Robert of Winchelsey, was elected 
 on February 13th, 1292-3, but was not consecrated until 
 September 12th, 1294, and various things from his pre- 
 decessor's chapel, together with others out of the vestry 
 of the prior and convent of Canterbury, were handed 
 over to Robert of Elham against the return from Rome 
 of the archbishop, who arrived in England towards the 
 end of January, 1294-5. 
 
 The chapel included the archbishop's cross, mitre, 
 crosier, gloves, and ring; three gold pall-pins; the sandals, 
 etc. ; a chalice and paten, two silver cruets for wine and 
 water, two silver candlesticks, a censer and ship of silver- 
 gilt, an ivory pyx, and a silver crismatory ; and various 
 vestments and books, together with the sompter horse 
 and his equipment, and a bell, perhaps for his neck. 
 
 On Robert of Winchelsey's death many of the orna- 
 ments in this list were replaced in the vestry at Canter- 
 bury, and are duly noted in the great inventory of 1315, 
 viz. John of Peckham's cross, mitre, crosier, and ring; 
 the vestments of archbishop Living, the chasuble of 
 Boniface, and queen Eleanor's albe. We thus learn 
 further particulars than are given in the meagre list of 
 the chapel, e.g. that the cross was a crucifix "cum ij 
 imaginibus argenteis," that the crosier was enamelled 
 with fleurs-de-lis, and that the ring contained a black 
 sapphire " cum octo granis smaragdinis," and so on. 
 
 ' John Thorpe, Regis f rum Roffcnse (London, 1769), 119.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 5 
 
 The following list has been transcribed from Register 
 I. f. 210 ^. : 
 
 Ornamenta ecclesiastica de Capella domini Archiepiscopi 
 Liberata domino Roberto de Elhama apud Northwycum vij idus 
 Januarij Anno Domini M'' CC° Nonagesimo Quarto postea vero 
 Nonas Marcij predictus R. liberavit domino J. de Wy. capellano 
 domini Archiepiscopi apud Lamhethe omnia ornamenta sub- 
 scripta et partem hujus Cyrographi : 
 
 Crux portatilis argentea. 
 
 Mitra J. Archiepiscopi.^ 
 
 Baculus argenteus ejusdem J. Archiepiscopi. 
 
 Cyrotece ejusdem. 
 
 Annulus ejusdem cum saphiro. 
 
 Tres acus ad palHum de puro auro. 
 
 Sandalia de rubeo samicto cum pertinencijs. 
 
 CaHx cum patena intus et extra deauratus. 
 
 Duo urceoH argentei ad vinum et aquam. 
 
 Duo candelabra argentea. 
 
 Thurribulum cum vase ad Thus argenteum et deauratum. 
 
 Pixis Eburnea ad oblacionem. 
 
 Crismatorium argenteum. 
 
 Casula Tunica et dahnatica Living! archiepiscopi." 
 
 Item Casula et Tunica et dalmatica de rubeo samicto 
 Bonefacij archiepiscopi. 
 
 Item Tunica et dalmatica simplices. 
 
 Item capa brudata Roberti Archiepiscopi. 
 
 Item due cappe de rubeo samicto cum tassellis. 
 
 Alba brudata Alianore Regine. 
 
 Item alba de rubeo samicto brudata cum amicto J. Archi- 
 episcopi [de perulis added]. 
 
 Item tres albe de [rubeo erased] viridi [added] samicto 
 breudate. 
 
 Stola cum manipulo Alianore Regine. 
 
 Item Stola cum manipulo brudat Randulfi. 
 
 Item Stola cum .ij. manipulis de viridi samicto breudat' 
 
 Manutergium unum cum frontett. 
 
 Item duo Manutergia ad altare. 
 
 Item manutergium unum ad manus. 
 
 Missale notatum. 
 
 Duo ordinalia. 
 
 Unum Gradale. 
 
 ' John of Peckham, archbishop from 1279 to 1292. 
 
 ^ Gervase {Actus Pojitijicioji) says that during Living's archiepiscopate 
 (1013-1020) " ecclesiam ornamentis optimis decorasset."
 
 6 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Unum Pontificale. 
 Campana ad summarium Capelle. 
 
 Item Equum Summarium ad portandam Capellam cum 
 sella tapeto et Barehid de precio .viij. li. 
 
 The second list enumerates the ecclesiastical ornaments 
 lent for the chapel of archbishop Simon of Meopham, 
 and delivered for that purpose in two red and enamelled 
 coffers, on the day of the Nativity of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary, September 8th, 1328, by an indenture 
 made between Dan Hugh of St. Margaret, then sacrist 
 of Christchurch, Canterbury, and Dan Thomas of 
 Woghope, warden or keeper of the archbishop's chapel. 
 Simon of Meopham was consecrated archbishop at 
 Avignon, on June 5th, 1328, and on his return home 
 landed at Dover on September 5th. He therefore 
 received these ornaments for his use three days after, 
 but was not enthroned at Canterbury until the following 
 January. 
 
 It will be seen on comparing the two Inventories that 
 the chapel of Simon of Meopham included almost all the 
 ornaments specified in the list of Robert of Winchelsey's 
 chapel, and that several of them were the same. They 
 are also more fully described. We are thus enabled not 
 only to identify them in the great inventory of 13 15-16, 
 but to see that in some Instances the ornament lent In 
 1328 was not the same one given out In 1294-5. It Is 
 Interesting to learn, too, by whom the various vestments 
 were worn : there being, In addition to his other ponti- 
 fical ornaments, a quire-cope, chasuble, tunicle and 
 dalmatic, with albe, amice, girdle, stole and fanon for 
 the archbishop himself ; albes and amices, a stole, and 
 fanons, and a tunicle and dalmatic for a deacon and 
 subdeacon ; and two handsome copes for the two clerks 
 of the chapel. The three golden pins that fastened the 
 archbishop's pall were jewelled, each with a central 
 balas-ruby between two emeralds and as many 
 sapphires. The chapel, as in the earlier list, included 
 the sumpter horse that carried it, with his bell and 
 equipment.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 7 
 
 The list as transcribed from Register Q. f. cxv. is as 
 follows : 
 
 Ornamenta ecclesiastica liberata ad capellam domini. S. 
 Archiepiscopi. 
 Ornamenta ecclesiastica subscripta in duabus Cistis rubeis/ 
 amalatis/ liberata fuerunt ad capellam venerabilis patris domini 
 Simonis dei gracia Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi tocius Anglie 
 pn'matis die Nativitatis beate Marie Anno Domini M^ CCC"'"/ 
 xxviij° per indenturam factam inter dominum Hugonem de 
 sancta Margareta tunc sacristam ecclesie Christi Cantuar et 
 dominum Thomam de Woghope custodem capelle dicti patris/ 
 videlicet. 
 
 Crux portatilis argentea. 
 Item .Mitra domini Johannis Archiepiscopi. 
 Item .Baculus ejusdem argenteus et operatus. 
 Item .Cirothece domini R. de Wynchelese archiepiscopi cum 
 perulis et gemmis in platis quadratis et magnis tasscllis 
 rotund is. 
 Item .Anulus pontificalis magnus cum saphiro oblongo/ et 
 
 quatuor pramis cum quatuor margaritis. 
 Item .tres acus aurei ad palleum \sic\ quilibet cum uno 
 
 rubino/ baleys et .ij. smaragdinis et .ij. saphiris. 
 Item .ij. sandalia cum galochis de rubeo samicto brudato 
 
 armis Regis Anglie. 
 Item .Calix .j. cum patena argentea et deaurata intus et 
 extra cum nodo in medio cum perulis et gemmis 
 operato ponderis .xlij.s. 
 Item .ij. urcioli argentei unde .j. deauratus et alius amalatus 
 
 ponderis .xxij.s. 
 Item .ij. Candelabra argentea cum tribus pedibus argenteis 
 
 domini R. Archiepiscopi predicti. 
 Item .Thurribulum argenteum etdeauratum ponderis .Ixxiij. 
 
 §. iiij.d. 
 Item .vas ad thus/ cum cocleari argenteo ponderis .xxij.s. 
 Item .vas argenteum ad aquam benedictam ponderis .Ixxiij.s. 
 
 iiij. d. 
 Item .aspersorium argenteum ponderis .xiij.s. iiij.d. 
 Item .pixis eburnea ad oblac. 
 
 Item.Crismatorium argenteum domini Walteri Archiepiscopi. 
 Item .Capa chori .j. Casula .j. Tunica et dalmatica pro 
 
 domino Archiepiscopo. 
 Item .tunica et dalmatica pro diacono et subdiacono de 
 rubeo samicto brudato cum arboribus aureis/ et cum 
 Aurifrigio de perulis et avibus operato.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item .ij. Cape de rubeo samicto cum .ij. tasselHs aureis pro 
 
 .ij. clericis capelle. 
 Item .Alba .j. cum amictu et cingulo brudata cum corona- 
 
 cione beate marie ex una parte et matre et filio ex 
 
 parte altera pro domino Archiepiscopo. 
 Item .Stola et manipulus cum scutis consutis et brudatis. 
 Item .Corporalia brudata cum crucifixo et coronacione 
 
 beate marie. 
 Item .ij. albe cum amictibus pro diacono et subdiacono de 
 
 serico consut. 
 Item .stola .j. et duo manipuli pro diacono et subdiacono 
 
 brudat. 
 Item .pal la altaris cum frontett de scutis brudat. 
 Item .palla .j. sine frontello. 
 Item .manutergium .j. ad manuSc 
 Item .pannus .j. ad sacrarium. 
 Item .Campana .j. ad summarium capelle. 
 Item .Eq[u]us .j. summarium cum tapeto et barehid et alio 
 
 harnas pertiiiente precij. x.li. 
 Item .magnus liber qui dicitur Pontificale domini Johannis 
 
 archiepiscopi. 
 Item .biblia domini .R. Archiepiscopi supradicti. 
 
 W. H. St. j. H.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH. CANTERBURY. 
 
 II. ECCLESIASTICAL ORNAMENTS IN THE 
 VESTRY OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTER- 
 BURY, February 2nd, 13 15-16. 
 
 TEXTS AND RELICS IN CHRISTCHURCH, 
 CANTERBURY, February 2nd, 1315-16. 
 
 Among the Cottonian Manuscripts in the British 
 Museum is a foho vokime of 244 leaves, with an added 
 leaf at the beginning marked i*. The manuscript is 
 known as Galba E. IV. It contains, in a modern 
 bindinor, two works which have nothingf to do with 
 each other: the one being a Canterbury MS., the other 
 a much earlier MS. formerly belonging to the abbey of 
 St. Edmund at Bury. 
 
 A full account of the contents of both works was 
 printed in 1802, in A Catalogue of the ]\Ianuscripts 
 in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British 
 Museniu} 
 
 The Canterbury MS. begins on leaf i, and ends on 
 the verso of leaf 186, according to the present numbering; 
 but the old numbering, in Roman numerals, only extends 
 from I to cxc (182), though the remaining four leaves are 
 part of the original book. The want of correspondence 
 between the old and new numberings, so far as they go, is 
 due to the loss of seven of the leaves, viz. those numbered 
 Lxxvi, Lxxvii, cxxi-cxxiv, and cliv. The MS. bears 
 the followinof title as a headino; to the first leaf: 
 Memoriale vndtortnn Henrici Prioris, and is practically 
 a memorandum book of divers matters touching the 
 rights and privileges, the manors and revenues, and 
 
 ' Pp. 356-359-
 
 10 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 possessions of the monastery of Christchurch, Canter- 
 bury, compiled probably for and under the direction of 
 Henry of Eastry, prior from 12S5 to 133 1. 
 
 With the contents of the volume in general we have 
 no concern, but among them are (i) an exceedingly full 
 and valuable inventory of the jewels and ornaments 
 in the vestry, and (2) a list of the texts and relics. These 
 are followed by (3) a catalogue of the books in the library,^ 
 but this does not fall within our scope. 
 
 The two inventories have been printed, with many 
 other extracts from the MS. under notice, by Dart," but 
 with divers errors and omissions. He has also divided 
 the texts from the relics, although there is no break in 
 the manuscript, and printed the latter in a separate 
 appendix without any heading or reference. 
 
 The inventory begins on leaf 112 (cxiiii) and has a 
 Latin heading which may be translated: "The eccle- 
 siastical ornaments in the vestry of Christchurch, Canter- 
 bury, on the Feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary in 
 the year of our Lord 131 5, in the time of Richard of 
 Sharsted, then sacrist, and John Spicer, subsacrist, 
 namely, in the 31st year of prior Henry. 
 
 " All the ornaments and other things within written 
 were delivered by indenture by the said brother John 
 Spicer to brothers Richard of Dover, then sacrist, 
 and W[illiam] of London, subsacrist, on the morrow 
 of All Souls in the year of Our Lord 1321, in the 
 presence of Dan Henry the prior and Denis his chap- 
 am. 
 
 This list does not therefore include all the jewels and 
 ornaments which were in the church, but only such as 
 were kept in the vestry, and formally handed over from 
 sacrist to sacrist by indenture when each man died or 
 went out of office. The vestry was and has always been 
 in the northern of the two large apsidal chapels that 
 
 1 This is printed in full in E. Edwards' Memories of Libraries (London, 
 1859), i. 122-235. 
 
 2 The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, 
 And the 07ice- Adjoining Alonastery. By the Reverend Mr. J. Dart 
 (London, 1726), Appendi.x, No. VL (pp. iv.-xviii.) and No. XIIL (pp. xlii -1).
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. ii 
 
 flank the presbytery. It formerly contained an altar 
 dedicated in honour of St. Andrew. On its north side 
 and entered only from it was the inner vestry or treasury 
 of the church, an added building of late Norman date, 
 where the muniments and more precious jewels were kept. 
 
 The jewels and ornaments that were in constant use 
 were kept near the altars at which they were required.^ 
 Those of the high altar, for example, and of the altars of 
 St. yElphege and St. Dunstan, were kept in a great 
 cupboard that stood where archbishop Bourchier's tomb 
 now is.^ The ornaments of St. Thomas's altar, that at 
 the head of the shrine, were no doubt kept in one of the 
 presses that stood in the surrounding aisle, and those of 
 the altar of the Holy Trinity ad Coronam in a cupboard 
 on the south side of the circular chapel wherein this 
 important relic was preserved. The goods of the altar 
 of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the crypt were kept in a 
 vestry formed in the ambulatory behind its reredos ; and 
 those of the minor altars in the church in the lockers in 
 the wall beside them or under the altars themselves. It 
 will also be seen from later inventories that the custos mar- 
 tirii, or keeper of the Martyrdom, had the ornaments of 
 several altars in his keeping. Many of the more precious 
 ornaments were kept in the vault under the steps behind 
 the high altar. 
 
 The inventory before us fills fourteen leaves and part 
 of a fifteenth, but four other leaves are wanting in the 
 
 * The Carthusian monks still keep their ornaments close to each altar. 
 
 ^ An agreement was made in 1480 between archbishop Bourchier and 
 the prior and convent that he might erect his tomb " in spatio quod est in 
 boriali parte chori ecclesie nostre inter duas columpnas proximas Altari 
 sancti Elphegi tebi mine Armaria sunt ad res AI tarts reponenda,^' one of 
 certain conditions laid down being " ac eciam quod in eodem spacio ac inter 
 duas columpnas, saltem unum armarium novum ordinetur in quo res altari 
 pertincntes juxta consuetudineui idonee conscrva7'i possuntP (Register S. 
 f. 302 b?) Gosthng, in his Walk in and about the City of Canferl>ujy,?id6.sio 
 his account of this agreement : " accordingly at the head of this tomb there 
 is a cupboard which might serve for that purpose, and did so in some 
 measure, till the tapestry, behind which it was concealed, was taken away 
 and the new wainscoting at the altar quite shut it up." (Edition of 1774, 
 p. 174). Gostling elsewhere (p. 175) speaks of it as " a little cuplioard, made 
 for quite another purpose" than the exhibition of relics. All traces of it 
 have now disappeared.
 
 12 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 middle of it. The various rubrics and headings which we 
 have printed in italics are written in red. 
 
 The following are the headings of the various sections, 
 to which are appended for convenience of reference the 
 numbers of the pages of the present work in which they 
 are printed : 
 
 (i) Casule [51]. 
 (iij Cappe Communes [53]. 
 (iii) Cape professionum Episco- 
 porum Suffraganeorum et 
 Abbatum [54]. 
 (iv) Cape professionum Abbatum 
 
 [57]. 
 (v) Tunice et Dalmatice [57]. 
 (vi) Albe de Serico in Vestiario 
 
 [58]- 
 (vii) Albe de Lineo panno in 
 
 V^estiario [58]. 
 (viii) Amicti [60]. 
 (ix' Stole ei Manipuli [60]. 
 (x} Ornamenta ecclesiastica in 
 Custodia quatuor Subsa- 
 cristarum [61]. 
 (xi) Nova vestimenta Oblata tem- 
 pore H. Prioris [^with 
 additions) [62]. 
 (xii) Nova vestimenta in vestiario 
 facta tempore H. Prioris 
 {with additions) [63]. 
 \Foiir leaves wanting?^ 
 (xiii) Cruces [69]. 
 (xiv) Calices et patene auree [69]. 
 (xv) Item Calices et patene argen- 
 
 tee [70]. 
 (xvi) Baculi Pastorales [70]. 
 (xvii) Mitre [70]. 
 (xviii) Cirothece [71]. 
 (xix) Sandalia [71]. 
 (xx) Anuli pontificales [71]. 
 (xxi) Jocalia Sancti Thome [71]. 
 (xxii) Item lapides ejusdem in 
 
 auro situati [71]. 
 (xxiii) Item lapides ejusdem in 
 argento [72]. 
 
 (xxiv) Thurribula [72]. 
 
 (xxv) Vasa ad Thus argentea [72]. 
 
 (xxvi) Calepungni [72]. 
 (xxvii) Vasa ad Aquam Bene- 
 
 dictam [72]. 
 (xxviii) Pelves argentee [72]. 
 
 (xxix) Ampulla argentee ad oleum 
 
 (xxx) Urcioli ad vinum et aquam 
 
 (xxxi) Candelabra argentea \y'i\. 
 (xxxii) Pixides argentee ad hostias 
 
 (xxxiii) Cuppe ad Corpus Domini 
 
 Vn\ 
 
 (xxxiv) Cuppe de Murro [73]. 
 
 (xxxv) Baculi Cantorum [74]. 
 
 (xxxvi) Pectines [74]. 
 (xxxvii) Morsus Caparum [74]. 
 (xxxviii) Curtine ad magnum altare 
 
 [74]- 
 (xxxix) Pulvinaria [74]. 
 
 (xl) Libri Pontificales [75]. 
 (xli) Libri de Ecclesiasticis 
 
 Officijs[75]. 
 (xlii) Capitularia [75]. 
 (xliii) Benedictionalia [75]. 
 (xliv) Panni de serico. et baude- 
 
 kini [75]. 
 (xlv) Vexilla pro Rogationibus 
 
 [76]. 
 (xlvi) Vestimenta Symonis de 
 
 Sancto Paulo [76]. 
 (xlvii) Vestimenta .R. de Rawe 
 et Thome de Grenevvey 
 feretrariorum '\J^\ 
 (xlviii) Vestimenta Gilbert! de 
 Bissoppestofi \J^\ 
 
 The chasubles {casule) described in section i. are fifty 
 in number. Most of them seem to have been gifts of 
 various donors, whose names they bear. The list begins
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH^ CANTERBURY, 13 
 
 with a large black chasuble/ formerly archbishop Lan- 
 franc's. This and two others that belonged to Lanfranc 
 and a fourth called Henry's (probably Lanfranc's first 
 prior), were of great magnificence, with orphreys enriched 
 with gems and pearls. Lanfranc's chasubles, and four 
 copes, also his gift, were so heavily woven or embroi- 
 dered with gold, that, as we learn from the treasurers' 
 accounts,^ it was afterwards found worth while, when 
 they were worn out, to reduce them to ashes in order to 
 recover the precious metal. Several other chasubles, 
 gifts or bequests of former archbishops, were adorned 
 with pearls, but of the greater number given in the list, 
 little else is stated than their material and colour. 
 
 Section ii. is a list of sixty-two "common copes" 
 [Cappe Comiimnes) as they were called, to distinguish 
 them from those enumerated in the two following 
 sections. That they were not all of ordinary character 
 is evident from the description of the four copes given 
 by Lanfranc that head the list. The first two of these 
 were black in colour^ and adorned with gems and gold, 
 and each had round the edge fifty-one silver-gilt bells ; 
 the morse or fastening of one was set with a great topaz 
 and four enamels. Lanfranc's other two copes were 
 also black, heavily embroidered with gold, with gold 
 "tassels." The fate of these splendid copes has been 
 mentioned above. Eighteen other copes are described 
 as aim tassellis and two pairs as sine tassellis. That 
 these " tassels " were not morses is clear from the fact 
 that one cope C2lvi tassellis mireis had also a morse of 
 ivory, and two others morses with gems. Neither were 
 they hoods, as suggested by Du Cange, since on copes 
 they are always mentioned in the plural number, and 
 
 ' At Westminster in the inventory of 1388 certain vestments that had 
 belonged to St. Dunstan were black : " Item una capa nigri colons cum 
 . .' ij. casulis sancti dunstani quasi de una secta. ^ Item due cape nigri 
 colons sancti dunstani." Archcro/ogia, Hi. 266. 
 
 - 1 37 1-2. De una Cappa venerabilis Lanfranci cremata et de diversis 
 Jocalibus fusis venditis. Cxvj. li. vj.s. viij.d. 
 
 1 172-3. De duabus Casulis venerabilis Lanfranci crematis cum aliis 
 diversis Jocalibus fusis venditis. C.\xxviij. li. xij. s.
 
 14 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 one of Lanfranc's copes is described as having two. 
 Sometimes they were embroidered and therefore of silk 
 or other stuff, sometimes of gold and adorned with gems. 
 They were also of no special shape. In the inventory 
 of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, of 1245, 
 one cope is described as cum tassellis parvis jiixta 
 aperturam sub mento glade olat is magnis glade olis^, and an- 
 other tassellis trifiLriatis C2im gladeolis pii-rpureis in limbis 
 aperturae anterioris capae} It seems therefore that, when 
 the word is used in connexion with copes, the "tassels" 
 may have been ornamental plates or buttons sewn on to 
 the orphrey, to which were attached the bands or morses 
 that held the cope together in front. It may be, too, 
 that sometimes the term was applied to the bands them- 
 selves.^ Some of the copes given in the list must have 
 been very splendid, such as that given by Edward I., of 
 red samite embroidered with the story of Joseph, probably 
 of optts Anglicanum ; and archbishop Kilwardby's, em- 
 broidered all over with gold with standing images. Two 
 given by archbishop Hubert were enriched with seed 
 pearls {perulis). Five copes given by Katherine Lovel 
 were "sewn with the arms of divers persons," and a 
 white cope was ornamented with the arms of the king of 
 Scotland. 
 
 It was one of the privileges of the church of Canter- 
 bury to receive from every suffragan bishop of the 
 southern province on his consecration, whether it took 
 place at Canterbury or elsewhere, a decent cope and 
 a profession of canonical obedience. Hence the copes 
 so given were called "profession-copes," and sections 
 
 ' Archaologia^ 1. 478. 
 
 '^ Ibid. 479.' 
 
 ' At St. Paul's a few of the richest chasubles had tassels. One, for example, 
 was of purple-red cum nobili tassello in interhiinierali breiidato Agno Dei 
 cum diiobus e small is magiiis et 7'otundis et cristallis cum Uteris intcrpositis. 
 Another had tasscllus brevis a quo iugreditpilur iiij'"' gladeoli et circumdatur 
 i Hud per tassel los perils in ciijus medio est lapis vitreus rubeus. And a third 
 is desc:ribed as aurifrigiata posteriori subhumerali texto leonibus et avibus 
 tassellis anterio7'i patvo de filo auri tracto cum perulis. A (ourlh tasselltun 
 habet breudatum ymagi7iis Petri et Paicli et Archangeli MicJiaelis^ and on a 
 fifth in tassello anteriori scribitur litteris Archidiacoftus London. {Archceo 
 logia,\. 482,483.) ■ - ■ .
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 15 
 
 ill. and iv. of the inventory are devoted to a list of 
 these Cape professionuin Episcoportun Suffraganeorzcvi et 
 Abbatiim. The abbots who gave copes seem to have 
 been those in the diocese of Canterbury only. The 
 privilege in question, though probably of earlier origin, 
 seems to have been definitely formulated and admitted 
 in the year 1072, according to the following statement of 
 the claim, drawn up in the fifteenth century, in one of the 
 registers of Christchurch, Canterbury : 
 
 Notabile valde de capis professionalibus suffraganeorum 
 
 levandis. 
 
 Notum sit omnibus tarn presentibus quam futuris per Willel- 
 mum Malmiberiensem libro tercio. Et venerabilem Cestrensem 
 libro septimo capitulo primo et ceteris capitulis de pontificibus 
 necnon per gesta Lanfranci olim Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi 
 multisque aliis locis patetevidenter quod Anno Domini Millesimo 
 septuagesimo secundo auctoritate et mandato pape Alexandri 
 secundi. sui pontificatus anno nono. ac tempore Willelmi Con- 
 questoris Regis Anglie anno quarto. Lanfrancus Cantuariensis 
 Archiepiscopus prelocutus. presuiatus sui anno primo expetiit 
 de Thoma Eboracensi Archiepiscopo. scriptam \sJc\ de obediencia 
 sua capam professionem cum adjeccione jurejurandi et accepit. 
 
 Ac eciam predictus Lanfrancus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis 
 eodem tempore ab universis Anglie episcopis^ qui prius ab aliis 
 sacrati fuerant. capas professionales. professiones et obedientiam. 
 petiitet accepit. Ouamobrem. coram Willclmo Rege primo Anglie. 
 presulibus et clero Anglie ex mandato pape memorati ventilata 
 est causa apud Wyndeshoram et in scriptis redacta et decreta 
 quia maluit pro suis successoribus laborare quam eis imposterum 
 hanc calumpniam discuciendam reservare. Unde regio edicto. 
 ac per suam prerogativam jurisdiccionem compulsi fuerunt 
 reddiderunt fecerunt legerunt et solverunt et adhuc omnes 
 eorum successores solverunt capas professionales vel pro eisdem 
 composuerunt. preter quatuor venerabiles patres. Conventrensis 
 et Lichfeldensis ecclesiarum episcopos. videlicet Robertum 
 Ricardum Johannem et Johannem. quorum secundus in ecclesia 
 Cantuariensi promisit oraculo vive vocis. in presencia Reveren- 
 
 > Although the claim is here made to jurisdiction over the bishops of all 
 England, no profession-copes seem to have been claimed from or given by 
 any bishops but those of the province of Canterbury, save in one instance to 
 be noticed presently.
 
 1 6 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 dissimi patris et domini. Domini Thome Arundell. tunc Cantuari- 
 ensis Archiepiscopi. unam capam professionalem. statum^ ejusdem 
 concernentem^ fore solvendam. Sed translatus ad sedem Ebora- 
 censem et ibidem morte preventus quod pollicitus est non 
 potuit adimplere. 
 
 Nota. Item : racione prerogative sacrosancte Cantuariensis 
 ecclesie omnes Episcopi cujuscumque fuerint condicionis provincie 
 diecesis sive regni ab Archiepiscopo consecrati solverunt et 
 imposterum solvere tenentur unam capam eorundem statui 
 competentem. In cujus rei testimonium liabetur capa reverend! 
 patris Domini Gerardi de Grauntseus Virduniensis Episcopi de 
 provincia Treverensi in Al mania qui consecratus est a reveren- 
 dissimo patre Roberto de Kyllwardby de Ordine Predicatorum 
 i\rchiepiscopo Cantuariensi apud Merton anno Domini M^ CC^ 
 LXXVIo Dominica in Ramis Palmarum presentibus Episcopis 
 Londoniensi Roffensi Bathoniensi Landavensi suffraganeis 
 Cantuariensis Ecclesie supradicte. 
 
 Nota. Memorandum eciam quod capa professionalis Domini 
 Roberti Eliensis Episcopi adjudicata fuit Capitulo per decretum 
 Domini Roberti Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi non obstante quod 
 dictus Eliensis Episcopus consecratus fuit in Curia Romana 
 anno Domini [1302].^ 
 
 In connexion with this memorandum it is interesting 
 to note that the first- profession-cope entered on the hst 
 is that of Thomas, archbishop of York, of red cloth 
 diapered, with round and black "tassels" embroidered. 
 As it is the only cope in the list received from an arch- 
 bishop of the northern province, it was probably that 
 given by Thomas of Bayeux, who held the see of York 
 from 1070 to 1 100, and is mentioned in the memorandum. 
 The cope described as the gift of Gerard, bishop of 
 Virdun, of red samite, is included in the list of Cappe 
 Communes, and that of Robert (Orford), bishop of Ely, 
 in the list under notice. The four bishops of Coventry 
 and Lichfield whose names occur in the memorandum, 
 were Robert Stretton (1360-85), Richard le Scrope 
 (1386-98), John Burghill (1398-1 4 14), and John Catterick 
 
 » Sic, for " statui." 
 2 Sic, for " competentem." 
 
 •■' Register S. f. 157^. Printed also in Litem Cantiiarienses, edited by 
 J. Brigstocke Sheppard, LL.D. (Rolls' Series 85), iii. 185, 186.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 17 
 
 (141 5-1 9), all of whom are later than the date of the 
 inventory. 
 
 The list given in section iii. contains no copes of 
 earlier gift than 1257, except that of archbishop 
 Thomas, already mentioned, and that of Ralph, bishop 
 of Hereford (1234-39), of red samite with "tassels" 
 and enamels in the middle. The third cope, that of 
 Walter, bishop of Bath and Wells, seems to be 
 mentioned again as the ninth in the list. In all sixty-two 
 are enumerated, but little else save the material and 
 colour is given, except in the last two items, which had 
 apparently just been added to the list when the inventory 
 was made. It is curious to notice that out of sixty-two, 
 twenty-five were red, and they were so far "decent" 
 that twenty-two are described as of baudekin. Of the 
 profession-copes of abbots only five are given. 
 
 From the regular way in which the profession-copes 
 are entered after 1257, it looks as if no serious effort had 
 been made before to exact their delivery. That the 
 prior and convent occasionally had some trouble in 
 obtaining them is shown by the appointment in 1362 of 
 a proctor to demand from suffragan bishops and their 
 executors the profession-cope which each was bound to 
 deliver.^ In 1363 proper acquittance was made to 
 the executors of John of Sheppey, bishop of Rochester, 
 and of Michael of Northburgh, bishop of London, for the 
 profession-copes due by those prelates, but not delivered 
 in their lifetime." 
 
 The list of tunicles and dalmatics ( Tunice et Dahna- 
 tice) given in section v, contains twenty-three pairs. 
 From the descriptions some of them must have been 
 very sumptuous. The first pair, formerly Lanfranc's, is 
 interesting from a difference of colour, the dalmatic being 
 of dark blue {inde) fretted with gold, the tunicle of black 
 embroidered with stars and g^olden beasts in circles : but 
 dark blue and black are liturgically the same. The 
 second pair was of red samite, the dalmatic embroidered 
 in gold with double-headed eagles, the tunicle with 
 
 ' See Litcrce Catitiiariefises^ ii. 430. - Ibid. 450, 451. 
 
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 i8 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 beasts and golden trees of applied work, with " tassels " 
 before and behind. Another pair is described as having 
 four rows of orphreys before and the same number 
 behind. Seven pairs had " tassels," five of them ante 
 et retro, the other two in dor so and in tergo. On one 
 pair the "tassels" were of baudekin, on another they 
 were sewn on [cons2itis\ and in a third pair, which had 
 them on the back, they were embroidered with the 
 martyrdom of St. Stephen on the dalmatic, and that of 
 St. Thomas on the tunicle.^ From a comparison with 
 fuller entries in the St. Paul's inventory of 1245 before 
 mentioned, where however tassclla are not described as 
 on any of the tunicles and dalmatics, it is probable that 
 in the Canterbury inventory the tassella were the trans- 
 verse bands of embroidery on the breast and back 
 joining the vertical orphreys. They were certainly not 
 the pendent tassels found on later vestments, which hung 
 at the ends of the laces that drew tog^ether the elongated 
 slit for the head. 
 
 The next two sections (vi. and vii.) in the inventory 
 are of interest, since they prove beyond question that 
 albes were sometimes made entirely of silk, irrespective 
 of the material of the apparels sewn upon them." The 
 first list is that of albes of silk in the vestry [Albe de 
 Serico in Vestiario), and the second that of albes of linen 
 cloth in the same place [Albe de Line p anno in Vestiario\ 
 Of the silk albes there were twenty-three, and all save 
 one, that was St. Thomas's, had embroidered apparels. 
 Fourteen were of diapered or flowered silk, two of 
 sindon, and one of white samite. Five were of plain 
 silk. Of linen albes one hundred and fifteen are 
 enumerated. According to a summary at the end of the 
 list they were divided into three classes: (i) those of 
 
 1 This pair, colon's de poimaz (whatever that may be), was probably, from 
 its ornamentation, for use on feasts of martyrs. 
 
 * An inventory of the jewels and ornaments in the cathedral church of 
 "Winchester, made in or about 1538, mentions: "Item xij albes of silke. 
 Item of linnini( albes belonging to the sextre and other Alters, 326." The 
 inventory of the Lady Chapel includes " Item xiij albes & iij of them white 
 silke. Item iij collars {i.e. amice-apparels) for y"^ iij Albes of silke garnished 
 with plate of silver & gilt & with stones." MS. C.C.C.C. cxi. 355-358.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 19 
 
 linen with embroidered apparels ; (2) those with apparels 
 sewn and woven ; and (3) common albes with apparels of 
 divers colours. Of the first class there were fifty-four, 
 of the second thirty-two, and of the third twenty-nine, 
 making a total, with the silk albes, of one hundred and 
 thirty-eight/ The albes themselves call for no special 
 comment ; it will be seen, however, that like the 
 chasubles and copes, most of them were gifts. Three 
 albes are actually described as respectively of green cloth 
 of Tharsus, of red samite embroidered with shields and 
 popinjays, and of red sindon embroidered with white 
 roses of silk in golden frets. From these and similar 
 loosely worded entries it has been asserted that albes 
 were sometimes coloured," but it is obvious that the 
 apparels are really what are being described and not 
 the albes, even when so deiiberate a statement is found 
 as : " Item. Fourteen red albes. Item. Fourteen green 
 albes with counterfeit cloth of gold. Item. Four Albes 
 called Ferial White. Item. Seven Albes called ferial 
 black," from the inventory of Peterborough.^ 
 
 The section (viii.) enumerating^ the amices (^Amicti) 
 shows that the sixty-three at Canterbury were of unusual 
 richness. One formerly belonging to St. Thomas was 
 ornamented with gems, and a second amice was 
 even more precious, while a third was decorated with 
 enamelled plates. Even the sixty in ordinary use had 
 apparels " of orphrey work ornamented with gems."^ 
 
 Of stoles and fanons (section ix.) there were twenty- 
 three pairs, i.e. sets. Several of them were adorned 
 with gold plates and gems, and embroidered with pearls. 
 
 ' The numbers are wrongly given in the summary as 53, 28, and 29, 
 respectively, which with two added items only makes 1 10 ; or with the silk 
 albes, which are also wrongly enumerated, 132. The actual totals are 115 
 and 138. 
 
 - See A. W. Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornamciit and Coslunir, 
 enlarged and revised by the Rev. Bernard .Smith, M.A., third edition 
 (London, 1868), 4, 7. 
 
 ' Symon Gunton, The History of the Church of Peterbiirgh (London, 1686), 
 59- 
 
 ^ See also note 2 on the preceding page. The embroidered amice-apparcl 
 found in the coffin of archbishop Hubert in iSgohad imitation gems U]Jon it. 
 See Vetiista Moiiumenta, vii. p. 4 and pi. i\-. 
 
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 20 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Section x. contains a list of "ecclesiastical ornaments 
 in the custody of the four subsacrists " {oi'iiatnenta 
 ecclesiastica in Cttstodia qtmtuor Szibsacristarwii). They 
 appear to be such as were in daily use at the high altar 
 and the two side altars of St. Dunstan and St. y^lphege, 
 and include sets of white vestments, of red for martyrs, 
 of green for confessors, of black for masses for the dead, 
 and sets for feasts of relics and of virgins, the colours of 
 which are not given. With the exception of the two 
 last-named, each set contained two or more copes in 
 addition to the usual chasubles, tunicles, dalmatics, stoles, 
 fanons, and mantles for carrying the paten. One cope, 
 two stoles, and four fanons were for ferial use. There 
 were also palls and frontals for the three altars, silk veils 
 for carrying the paten or relics, two wooden staves for 
 the chanters for daily use, a cloth for the massbook on 
 greater feasts, and another for daily use, fourteen old 
 copes for boys and sixty-four albes with amices for the 
 ministers, three small towels, two epistle books, an ivory 
 pix for hosts, and two books of offices for the dead. The 
 whole list is one of great interest. 
 
 The two next sections (xi. and xii.) specify a large 
 number of new vestments that were either offered or 
 made during the time of prior Henry [Nova vestimenta 
 Oblata tempore H, Pi^ioris and Nova vestimenta in 
 vestiario facta tempore H. Prioris)} Of the former there 
 were eight suits and several single vestments, including 
 a rich suit of blue cloth with golden fleurs-de-lis given 
 by Philip, king of France, who also bestowed on the 
 church another suit of red samite with orphreys of 
 France, that is blue with gold fleurs-de-lis. Two suits 
 that once belonged to archbishop Robert of Winchelsey 
 deserve notice. The one was of red samite embroidered 
 with golden trees or branches with orphreys worked with 
 pearls, and included a chasuble, a cope, a tunicle and a 
 dalmatic for the archbishop, and a second tunicle and 
 
 ' Prior Henry of Eastry is recorded to have spent : " In diversis annis. 
 Pro novis vestimentis et aliis ornamentis ecclesiasticis cum nova tabula 
 magni altaris. C. xlvij. li. xiiijs." Register K. f. ccxii. b. This nova tabula is 
 not included in the inventory under notice.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 21 
 
 dalmatic for a deacon and subdeacon/ The other suit 
 was of white diaper, and contained Hke vestments for 
 the archbishop, deacon and subdeacon, together with an 
 albe, amice, stole and fanon, and a second albe of buck- 
 ram with the amice and white apparels embroidered, the 
 price of which was 2Qs. The second list includes some 
 eighteen suits, to which a later scribe has added twelve 
 special benefactions all apparently of considerable value. 
 One alone of these contained eight complete suits. The 
 word "vestment " in both lists is used for a suit and not 
 a chasuble only, for it also generally includes one or 
 more copes, tunicles and dalmatics, as well as albes, 
 amices, stoles and fanons to match, and sometimes the 
 corporals and frontals." 
 
 It is impossible to say whether the list of new vest- 
 ments is complete, as four leaves are missing at this 
 point in the MS. What they contained we cannot tell, 
 but probably amongst other things the lists of altar 
 frontals, carpets and such like ornaments. 
 
 The remainder of the inventory is written in the original 
 hand and resumes with a list of the crosses {Cruces). 
 
 The four first named had gilt and jewelled crucifixes 
 and were for use in processions, the staves being covered 
 with silver. Two portable crosses, that is, capable of 
 being taken to pieces, were for the archbishop's use, and 
 one had a turned staff. The list also includes the great 
 silver gilt cross with two silver images, and a small gold 
 one with a relic of the true Cross, and therefore double 
 barred, both of which belonged to archbishop Peckham, 
 a spear covered with silver to carry the candle at the 
 new fire on Easter Even, and a small gold and jewelled 
 cross with relics. 
 
 Section xlv. enumerates six gold chalices and patens 
 (Calices et patene auree), of which the first was a great 
 
 » See ante, page 2, where the bequest of this suit is recorded. 
 
 - Cf. the Inventory of St. Mary's College, Warwick, 1407 : " An hole 
 vestiment of white tartaryn for lenton that is to say. iij. aubes. iij. amytes. 
 wyth the parures .a. chesible .iij. stolis .iiij. fanons .iij. girdelis .ij. auter 
 clothis wyth .a. frontel. and a towail .iij. curtyns .a. lectron cloth, anda veyle of 
 lynnen cloth." Public Record Office, Chartularyof Wanvick College^ f. ccij. b.
 
 22 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 one with gems in the knot of the chahce, given by king 
 Henry III. Another was the gift of PhiHp, king of 
 France. Three others were specially used at high mass 
 in quire, at the morrow mass, and at the altar at the 
 head of St, Thomas's shrine. The sixth chalice and 
 paten are a later addition to the list and were formerly 
 archbishop Winchelsey's ; their united value was 60 
 marks, a sum equal to at least ^1000 at the present day. 
 
 The list of silver chalices and patens {Calices et patene 
 argentee) given in the next section (xv.) enumerates 
 seven in the vestry, twenty-seven at various altars, and 
 twenty in different manors ; some being gilt and others 
 plain. Three others have been added. 
 
 The six crosiers or pastoral staves [Bacicli pastorales) 
 in section xvi. are of especial interest. The two first 
 belonged to archbishop John of Peckham ; one was of 
 cedar with nine gold angels round the boss, probably 
 " for best " ; the other of silver enamelled with fleurs-de-lis, 
 for ordinary use. The third crosier was of white ivory. 
 The fourth was St. Thomas's staff, of pearwood with a head 
 of black horn, and the fifth had a similar head adorned 
 with a i&w gems. The sixth was archbishop Baldwin's 
 crosier and was also jewelled ; it had within the crook 
 the Majesty and a figure of a bishop wrought in silver. 
 
 Sections xvi.-xix. contain the other episcopal orna- 
 ments, viz. mitres {Mitre), gloves {Cirothece\ sandals 
 [Sandalia), and pontifical rings {Anuli p onti fie ales). Of 
 mitres there were twelve, including a gold one given by 
 Henry HI. enriched with pearls "within and without" 
 and precious gems, and the best and second-best mitres 
 of archbishop Peckham. The first of these was a 
 golden one with jewels, the other of silver with a cross 
 on either horn. There were seven pair of gloves, one 
 being of linen with silver tassels and embroidered with 
 pearls. The materials of the others are not specified, but 
 five pair had silver tassels, and the first on the list, 
 formerly archbishop Winchelsey's, had square plates on 
 the backs set with pearls and gems. It is uncertain 
 whether the tasseli were silver plates or pendent tassels.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 23 
 
 The sandals, like those found in archbishop Hubert's coffin 
 in 1890/ were embroidered. Of the three pair mentioned, 
 one was white, another red, and the third blue. Since it 
 was the custom on the death of an archbishop of Canter- 
 bury for his best ring to be delivered to the king, the 
 pontifical rings in the list under notice must have been 
 the rings of lesser value of deceased archbishops which 
 were the perquisite of the prior of Canterbury.^ Two of 
 those enumerated belonged respectively to archbishop 
 John of Peckham and his successor Robert of Winchelsey. 
 The first on the list was set with an emerald and eight 
 lesser stones, but the other five, as usual, contained each 
 a sapphire, alone or encircled by smaller stones. In one 
 case the gem, a black sapphire, was set open in .iiij. 
 cramponibus ex omni parte discooperto. Winchelsey's 
 ring appears to have contained a star sapphire with six 
 small emeralds and as many small garnets. 
 
 The next three sections (xxi. xxii. and xxiii.) in the 
 inventory ought perhaps to be counted as one, containing 
 a list of the jewels of St. Thomas [Jocalia Sancti Thome) ; 
 not jewels that had belonged to him personally, but 
 more probably such as had been offered at his shrine. 
 The first group includes rings only, the second various 
 gems set in gold {lapides in auro sitttati), the third jewels 
 of lesser value set in silver {lapides in ai'gento). The 
 term lup or loup applied to the sapphires probably denotes 
 such as were uncut or set en cabochon^ Several of the 
 gems, it will be noticed, were engraved cameos or intaglios. 
 
 The sixteen following sections (xxiv.-xxxix.) include a 
 number of miscellaneous articles such as censers {thurri- 
 bula) and silver incense ships {vasa ad Tims argcntea) 
 each with its spoon, pomes {calepungni) for warming the 
 hands during mass, vessels for holy water {ziasa ad 
 aqitarn benedictani), silver basons {pelves a7gentee), silver 
 ampuls for oil {ampidle argentee ad oleiun), cruets for 
 wine and water {urcioli ad vintun ct aquam), silver 
 candlesticks (candelabra argeiitea), silver pixes for the 
 
 ' Vetusta Afonionenfa, vii. 6, and pi. iv. 
 
 » See Archaological Journal^ xi. 273, and xx. 233. ^ See Glossary.
 
 24 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 hosts (^pixides argentee ad hostias), cups for the Blessed 
 Sacrament [cuppe ad Corpus dommi), masers {cuppe de 
 iimrrd)y chanters' staves {baculi Canto7'uvi), combs {pec- 
 tines), morses or brooches of copes {juorsus Caparuni), 
 curtains for (or at) the high altar {curtine ad magnunt 
 altare), and cushions i^pulvinarid), for use at the same. 
 
 Of the censers one is described as ciwi pennis sala- 
 fitandre, whatever that may mean. 
 
 The ampuls form two sets, a greater and a lesser, for 
 the crisina, the olezmi sancttwz, and oleum infirniorum ; 
 the gilt ampul in each set was probably for the cream. 
 Of the cruets four were of crystal, ten of silver were in the 
 vestry, and forty were kept at different altars throughout 
 the church and in the almonry chapel. Two of the 
 candlesticks were portable, to be carried in solemn 
 processions. The cuppe ad Corpus doniini v/ere clearly 
 pixes for hanging the reserved Sacrament in over the 
 high altar, for the silver-gilt crown within which the pyx 
 was hung is included in the list. Three of the four 
 pyxes were of gold, and one of them seems to have had 
 a great onyx on the lid and to have contained a smaller 
 pyx, likewise of gold, set with a cameo. The use of the 
 five masers is by no means evident. Perhaps they 
 served for wine and water griven to the communicants 
 after houselling. Whether the first on the list had 
 actually belonged to St. Thomas is doubtful, and the 
 same remark applies to the first of the chanters' staves, 
 silver-gilt and adorned with gems. Perhaps both articles 
 had been offered at the shrine or were used on St. 
 Thomas's day. The two jewelled staves of St. Dunstan 
 may have had a like origin or use. The less precious 
 staves were of horn (four) or silver (five) with ivory 
 heads, perhaps in the form of a tau-cross. Two of the 
 combs deserve notice from their valuable character. 
 The first was the gift of king Henry III. and of gold 
 adorned with gems with a black cameo and squared 
 garnets. The second, although of ivory, like the other 
 six, had a silver-gilt plate on each side set with gems. 
 The morses enumerated are forty-six in number, and
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 25 
 
 excepting nine which were of copper, were of gold or 
 silver decorated with jewels or enamels. The two pairs 
 of curtains for the high altar were probably costers, those 
 of red sindon with the arms of the kin"- of Enoland beine 
 for ordinary use,^ and the white pair with red drops for 
 use in Lent. The cushions, of which there were two 
 sets of five small and four large respectively, were for the 
 ministers of the altar i^pro viinistris altaris) to kneel upon. 
 
 The four short sections (xl.-xliii.) specifying the ser- 
 vice books include three pontificals, of which one had 
 belonged to archbishop John of Peckham ; fifteen mass- 
 books, of which nine were in full and four abbreviated, 
 and the other two were used apparently at the high altar 
 and the morrow mass altar ; a grayle formerly iDelong- 
 ing to archbishop S.^ ; three porthoses according to the 
 use of Sarum^ ; a lectional of St. Furse ; four gospel- 
 books with rubrics de religttiis Ecclesie et de sonihi ; and 
 a book of offices of the dead. There were also three 
 capitularia et collcctoriuni, and five benedictionals con- 
 taining various offices. A full account of these books 
 will be given in the Glossary. 
 
 Section xliv. is a list of the silk cloths and baudekins 
 [panni de serico. et baudekini). The former were sixteen 
 in number, but their use is not clear. The first was very 
 precious and richly adorned with gold and gems, and 
 served for "the cross within the high altar" \ad C7'uceni 
 infra magmnn altare). Of the rest, which were all of 
 ordinary character, one of green and another of yellow 
 served for the hisfh altar on feasts of confessors in Lent, 
 and a third, of red samite and six ells long, was used at 
 the same altar. A black cloth with white lions which was 
 for use on Palm Sunday is of a colour rarely found in 
 England, where most dioceses had red for Passiontide.'* 
 
 ' At Durham, "the dayly ornaments that were hunge both before the 
 Altar, and above, were of red velvett, wrought with great flowers of gold in 
 imbroydered worke," etc. Rites of Du7'ham (Surtees Society 15), 6. 
 
 " Probably Stephen Langton, archbishop from 1207 to 1228. 
 
 •■' The presence of Sarum porthoses in a monastic house, instead of the 
 Benedictine breviariion, should be noticed. 
 
 * At Wells, for example, on Palm Sunday, " omnia rubea excepto una capa 
 de nigris ad opus Cayphe." (Lambeth MS. 729.)
 
 26 
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 The baudekins were one hundred and sixteen in num- 
 ber, but there is nothing to show what they were for or 
 how they were ornamented. Twenty-six were red, four- 
 teen murrey, and three green ; the colours of the rest are 
 not stated. They were probably used as hangings and 
 carpets. 
 
 The next section (xlv.) enumerates the banners borne 
 in the Rogationtide processions ( Vexilla pro Rogatioiii- 
 ■bus). The list is headed by the white silk banner of St. 
 Thomas, embroidered probably with a figure of him. 
 The other banners were all heraldic and in pairs, with 
 the arms of the king of England, of the earls of Gloucester 
 (no doubt De Clare) and of Warenne, of Hastings, and 
 of England again, since the last pair was of red samite 
 with golden leopards. 
 
 The concluding sections (xlvi.-xlviii.) of the list of 
 ornaments describe certain rich suits of vestments given 
 by various donors, but they call for no special remark. 
 
 A few words may be not out of place here on the 
 subject of the colours of the various vestments named in 
 the inventory. In the first five sections these work out 
 as follows : 
 
 — 
 
 Chasubles. 
 
 Copes. 
 
 Profession- 
 Copes. 
 
 Tunics and 
 
 Dalmatics 
 
 (pairs). 
 
 Red 
 
 21 
 
 29 
 
 -3 
 
 8 
 
 Blue 
 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 I 
 
 Black 
 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 White 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 Green 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 I 
 
 Purple 
 
 Murrey 
 
 Yellow 
 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 '\ 
 J 
 
 I 
 
 Cloth of Gold 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 — 
 
 Baudekin 
 
 - — 
 
 — 
 
 22 
 
 I 
 
 Not stated 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 "6 
 
 I 
 
 Col oris dc poiinaz 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 Diversi coloris 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 62 
 
 67 
 
 23
 
 INVENTOr 
 
 OKIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 27 
 
 1 ! 
 
 The preponderance of red Is here very noticeable^ ; 
 so also is the small proportion of white vestments. It is 
 also curious that the four richest chasubles and copes 
 and the richest pair of tunicles were black ; it is therefore 
 doubtful if they were used merely like the fifth black 
 chasuble, which was a "solemn" one pr'o defimctis. At 
 Evesham the great black chasuble was worn at high 
 mass on Christmas Day, and black was the colour for the 
 third and chief Christmas mass in many churches beyond 
 sea. The smaller black chasuble was worn at Evesham 
 on the day of St. Egwin, the founder and patron of the 
 monastery.^ To the colours of the profession-copes no 
 importance can be attached. Of the actual occasion 
 of use only one other case is noted beside that already 
 quoted, a pair of tunicles for the feast of St. Michael 
 diver si coloris, whatever that may mean. In so few 
 cases are the colours of the apparels of the albes 
 noted that the evidence they furnish is practically value- 
 less. Thus of the twenty-three silk albes, one only is 
 noted as having blue apparels, and out of one hundred 
 and fifteen linen albes only fifty-seven, or just one-half, 
 have the colour of the apparels given. Of these twenty- 
 six were red, twelve blue, ten black, eight green, and 
 •one white. 
 
 Among the suits in the custody of the four subsacrists 
 we find red for martyrs, green for confessors, black for 
 the dead,^ and special suits for feasts of relics and of 
 virgins, but the colours of these last are not given. The 
 only other instances in the inventory where the occasion 
 of use is stated are a black cloth with white lions for Palm 
 Sunday, and two cloths of green and yellow respectively 
 for the high altar for feasts of confessors during Lent.'* 
 
 » Red naturally preponderates in all medieval uses, owing to the excep- 
 tional number of feasts of martyrs. 
 
 "- H. A. Wilson, Officium Ecclesiasticum Abbatum (Henry Bradshaw 
 Society, 1893), 166. 
 
 ^ This use of these three colours, or their equivalents (such as yellow for 
 ^reen, and blue for black) is common to all medieval churches. 
 
 * "Pannus niger cum albis leonibus/rt* festo paliiianau. Pannus .j. de 
 viridi. et alius pannus de croceo ad magnum altare in .xi. pro conft's- 
 soribus."
 
 28 INVENTORIES OF CHRJSTCHURCII, C ANTE BURY. 
 
 The numerous suits under the headings vestinienta give 
 the following' results as to colours : 
 
 Red 
 
 28 
 
 Precious 
 
 I 
 
 Blue 
 
 10 
 
 Yellow... 
 
 — 
 
 Black 
 
 ... — 
 
 Tawny... 
 
 I 
 
 White 
 
 13 
 
 Not stated 
 
 2 
 
 Green 
 
 12 
 
 
 — 
 
 Purple 
 
 2 
 
 
 71 
 
 Murrey 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 Of these suits fourteen had chasubles that were doubled 
 [duplicati) or lined with another colour, perhaps so 
 as to be reversible. Thus seven red chasubles were 
 doubled respectively with blue, black, white, green (2), 
 purple, and yellow ; two white chasubles with yellow 
 and black ; four green chasubles with red (3) and white ; 
 and a purple chasuble with red. These second colours 
 have not been included in the above table, nor some 
 few other cases of single vestments enumerated among 
 the suits. 
 
 The second part of the inventory has a heading in 
 Latin, which may be translated : 
 
 " Texts and Relics in Christchurch, Canterbury, on the 
 Feast of the Purification of Blessed Mary in the year 
 of our Lord 131 5, Richard of Sharsted being then 
 sacrist and John Spicer subsacrist, namely in the 31st 
 year of Prior Henry. 
 
 All the texts and other things within written were 
 delivered by indenture by brother J[ohn] Spicer to 
 brothers R[ichard of] Dover then sacrist and W[illiam] 
 of London, subsacrist, on the morrow of All Souls in the 
 year of our Lord 132 1, in the presence of Dan H[enry] 
 the prior and Denis his chaplain." 
 
 The list of texts {Texhts), i.e. books of the Gospels, 
 with jewelled or metal covers, enumerates twenty-two, of 
 which two were sijie libro, and a third enclosed St. 
 Thomas's psalter instead of a gospel-book. Seven were 
 covered with gold, nine with silver-gilt, three with plain 
 silver and three with copper-gilt. Putting aside the
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 29 
 
 metal in which the grems were set, twelve were 
 jewelled. The first on the list is "a great text covered 
 with gold and adorned with gems, with the Majesty in 
 the midst and four golden Evangelists in the four 
 corners." This device occurs on seven texts, and that 
 of the Majesty with other accompaniments, such as four 
 angels, on five others. The Crucifix with St. Mary and 
 St. John is also found on seven. In one case the 
 device was a representation of the martyrdom of St. 
 Thomas, but this was on a wooden text " without a 
 book," i.e. the covers only, which were overlaid with 
 silver-gilt. The text that enclosed St. Thomas's psalter 
 was covered with silver-gilt set with gems round the 
 edges, with an ivory figure of our Lord in Majesty 
 holding a book, and carved figures of the four 
 Evangelists. Two other texts were ornamented with 
 ivory carvings. One of them is described as "a 
 great text which is called Doinus Dei covered with silver 
 and adorned with gems, with the Crucifix and Mary and 
 John of ivory, and a white cameo beneath the foot 
 of the Crucifix, with the four Evangelists in the four 
 corners." 
 
 Besides the texts, there are included in the list two 
 great jewels, the one an oblong onyx set in silver-gilt and 
 adorned with gems, with a sapphire and four pearls in 
 the middle, the other an oblong piece of jasper mounted 
 in silver-gilt without gems, the gift of Edmund, earl of 
 Cornwall; also "a long ivory angel in wood covered 
 with copper." The two mounted stones may have been 
 super-altars, or perhaps paxes, but the use to which the 
 angel was put is not clear. 
 
 The rest of the inventory is taken up with the list of 
 relics, in which the cathedral church of Canterbury was 
 exceptionally rich. 
 
 The acquisition of the greater relics of the church 
 seems to have begun during the archiepiscopate of 
 Plegmund, who "journeyed to Rome and bought the 
 blessed martyr Blase with much money of gold and 
 silver, and he brought him with him when he returned to
 
 30 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Canterbury and placed him in Christ Church."^ The 
 place of deposit within the church is not indicated. 
 During the primacy of Odo (941-958) the greater part 
 of the relics of St. Wilfrid was said to have been removed 
 by him from Ripon, where the bishop had been buried, 
 and placed in the high altar of Christchurch, Canterbury, 
 which the primate was then rebuilding.^ It was in Odo's 
 time, too, that the church acquired in a singular manner 
 the bones of St. Audoen, archbishop of Rouen, which were 
 placed in a " precious and decent coffer made for them 
 after the fashion of those days, and most carefully wrapped 
 in divers wrappings."^ Odo and Dunstan, both of whom 
 were afterwards enshrined as saints, were buried in the 
 cathedral church in 958 and 988 respectively beneath, 
 raised tombs. '^ In 1006, on the translation of ^Iphege 
 from the see of Winchester to Canterbury, he brought 
 with him the head of St. Swithun and deposited it with 
 many other relics in a second altar that had been built 
 in front of the high altar,^ and dedicated in honour of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ.^ In a crypt beneath these altars was 
 an altar in which was enclosed the head of St. Furse,** 
 and in another and earlier crypt beneath the ancient 
 high altar in the western apse of the church was an 
 altar wherein was enclosed the head of the blessed 
 virgin Austroberta.'^ When and by whom these heads 
 were so placed is not recorded. In 1023 the bones of 
 yElphege himself, by command of king Cnut, were 
 removed from St. Paul's, where the archbishop had been 
 buried after his murder, and deposited in his own 
 
 ' "Plegemundus archiepiscopus Romam profectus est, et beatum martyrem 
 Blasium cum multa pecunia auri et argenti emit, et secum rediens Cantuariam 
 detulit, et in ecclesia Christi collocavit." The Hisiorical Works of Gervase of 
 Canterbury {^o\[%^ Series 73), ii. 350 {Actus Pontificuni). Plegmund seems to 
 have twice visited Rome : once on his election in 891, and again in 908, 
 according to Ethehverd. See Henry Savile, Reruin Anglicaruni Scfiptores 
 post Bcdani prcFcipui (Frankfort, 1601), 848. 
 
 - See Professor R. WilHs's A?rJiitectural History of Canterbury Cathedral 
 (London, 1845), 4, where the various authorities for this and other statements 
 concerning the rehcs are set forth at length. 
 
 ^ Ibid. 5. ^ Ibid. 6. 
 
 * That containing the relics of St. Wilfrid. 
 
 « Willis, II. " Ibid. 12.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 31 
 
 cathedral church.^ Besides the archbishop mentioned, 
 sixteen others, from Cuthbert {ob. 758) to Eadsin {pb. 
 1050), were buried in the baptistry or church of St. John 
 Baptist to the east of the Saxon church, and their remains 
 were subsequently transferred to shrines or places of 
 honour in the new church. 
 
 Of the arrangement of the relics in Lanfranc's church 
 only a few scanty particulars have been preserved. The 
 bones of the archbishops who had been buried in the old 
 church were removed by Lanfranc during the rebuildino- 
 and temporarily placed in wooden coffins above the lower 
 vault of the north transept of his church, whence they 
 were afterwards moved to the neighbourhood of various 
 altars.- Thus Fleogild^ and a saintly virgin Siburgis (who 
 had been buried in the old church by Dunstan) found 
 resting places to the right and left of St. Michael's altar 
 in the south transept, while Ceolnoth and y-Ethelm. and 
 Wulfhelm and ^thelnoth were placed respectively 
 behind and before the altar of St. Benedict in the north 
 transept."* The relics of St. Blase were probably 
 deposited at his altar in the upper apse of the north 
 transept. As we are without information as to the pre- 
 cise arrangements of Lanfranc's quire, it is impossible to 
 say what relics were placed there, or in the crypt below 
 it. We are, however, expressly told that every care was 
 taken of the relics of Wilfrid, ^Iphege, and Dunstan,^ 
 and the 13 15 inventory enumerates the others that have 
 been mentioned in connexion with the Saxon church. 
 
 ' Willis, 7. " See Willis, 16, etc. 
 
 •' " Ante altari Sancti Michaelis ad austrum sepultus est Feolog-ildus 
 archiepiscopus ; ad aquilonem vero, sancta virgo Siburgis, quam Sanctus 
 Dunstanus propter ejus sanctitatem in ecclesia fecit sepeliri." Gervasc, Opera 
 Historica (Rolls' Series T-^)^ i. lo. When St. Michael's chapel was rebuilt in 
 1447 the relics of St. Fleogild were removed to the beam over the screen at 
 the entrance of the chapel of the Holy Trinity ad Coroiuini. 
 
 ■* Gervase, ibid.'x. 11. The relics of Ceolnoth, /Ethelm, Wulflielm and 
 /Ethelnoth were evidently disturbed when St. Benedict's chapel was rebuilt, 
 circa 1450, and removed to the eastern part of the church, for in Warham's 
 time (see \\i\.^posf) Ceolnoth's relics rested beside Flcogild's on the beam at 
 the entry of the Trinity chapel, and those of /Ethelm and Wulflielm were 
 then on the beam before the altar of St. John Baptist and St. John Evan- 
 gelist in the south quire transept. 
 
 ^ See Willis, 15, 16, 34.
 
 32 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In the time of Anselm, who succeeded Lanfranc in 
 1093, the eastern part of the church was rebuilt on a 
 much larger scale by priors Ernulf (1096-1107) and 
 Conrad ( 1 107-1 126) and dedicated in 1130. From the 
 minute description of the new work given by Gervase^ 
 we are enabled to place many of the relics. The coffins 
 of St. Dunstan and St. yElphege were placed in shrines, 
 or rather tombs, on either side of the high altar, while on 
 the great beam above the altar were "seven chests, 
 covered with gold and silver, and filled with the relics of 
 divers saints." In the north quire transept were two 
 apses containing altars. By the northern, that of St. 
 Martin, were laid archbishops Wulfred and Living, and 
 by the southern, which was St. Stephen's altar, vEthel- 
 heard and Cuthbert. In the opposite transept, the 
 southern altar was that of St. Gregory, where Bregwin 
 and Plegmund had been placed about 1121, in conse- 
 quence of an attempt to steal Bregwin's bones ; at the 
 northern altar, that of St. John Evangelist, were de- 
 posited ^thelgar and yE^lfric, In the chapel of the 
 Holy Trinity, at the extreme east" end of the church, lay 
 the relics of Odo on the south, and Wilfrid on the north 
 of the altar, and to the west of them the bodies of arch- 
 bishops Lanfranc and (subsequently) Theobald respec- 
 tively. In the chapel of SS. Peter and Paul, in the 
 southern tower that flanked the apse, were placed the 
 remains of Anselm. The chapel of St. Andrew^, in the 
 opposite tower, was the vestry, and although, as a matter 
 of course, it contained an altar, no relics were specially 
 deposited thereat. Besides these relics in the upper 
 church there were others deposited at various altars in 
 the crypt. Under the Trinity chapel were two altars : 
 that on the north, of St. John Baptist, before which lay 
 archbishop Eadsin ; that on the south, of St. Augustine, 
 before which lay archbishop yEthelred. On the east side 
 of the central pillar that carried the vault, the body of St. 
 Thomas was first laid after his murder in 11 77. Arch- 
 
 1 This is so fully discussed by Professor Willis that it has not been thought 
 necessary to repeat his references.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 33 
 
 bishop Siric was also buried in the crypt, before the 
 altar of St. Paulinus, which was below that of St. John 
 Evangelist. 
 
 During the great fire that destroyed the quire and 
 presbytery in 1174, the reliquary chests upon the beam 
 over the high altar were cast down and broken, but their 
 scattered contents were collected and preserved by the 
 monks. The coffins of St. y^lphege and St. Dunstan 
 were afterwards taken up from their tombs, and deposited 
 for safety in similar receptacles at the altar of the 
 Holy Cross in the nave, which was temporarily used as 
 the quire altar, whence they were again translated to 
 the new presbytery on the entry into the new quire 
 on Easter Even, 1180.^ The relics of queen Ediva, 
 " who before the fire reposed under a gilded shrine 
 nearly in the middle of the southern cross," but had 
 been deposited under the same altar of the Holy Cross 
 after the fire, were at the same time removed to the 
 vestry ; they were subsequently placed on the north 
 side of St. Martin's altar, under the shrine of archbishop 
 Living. During the operations in the summer of 11 80 
 the Trinity chapel was taken down, and the bones of 
 Odo and Wilfrid temporarily placed beneath the shrines 
 of Dunstan and yElphege. Lanfranc's lead coffin was re- 
 moved to the vestry, but it was afterwards opened and the 
 decayed contents transferred into a smaller leaden coffer, 
 which was then deposited at the altar of St. Martin. 
 Theobald's body was lifted entire, in a mummified state, 
 from his stone coffin, and also removed to the vestry, 
 but later on was buried in a lead coffin before the altar 
 of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the north aisle of the nave, 
 where it was discovered in 1787.^ The two archbishops, 
 Eadsin and yEthelred, who lay to the right and left of 
 St. Thomas's coffin in the crypt beneath the Trinity 
 chapel, were taken up in their leaden coffins and buried 
 
 1 The account of the examination and condition of the relics and the 
 manner of the translation are given with great minuteness by Gervase, who 
 was an eyewitness. See Opera Hisiorica in the Rolls' edition, i. 22, 23. 
 
 * Archa'ologia., xv. 294. 
 
 D
 
 34 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 beneath the altar of St. Mary, also in the crypt, where 
 they probably still remain ; they were certainly there in 
 Warham's days. The coffin of St. Thomas was suffered 
 to remain until the body could be translated to the new 
 shrine in preparation for it, and meanwhile it was covered 
 by a wooden chapel. The translation of the saint took 
 place in 1220, when his body was finally deposited in the 
 great shrine behind the high altar. 
 
 It will be seen from the foregoing remarks that the 
 relics of Christchurch, Canterbury, may be divided into 
 four classes : 
 
 1. The greater relics, of saints and archbishops, 
 
 canonized at Rome or in popular estimation, 
 which were placed in standing shrines or 
 tombs ; 
 
 2. The lesser relics, of saints and archbishops, con- 
 
 tained in portable or moveable shrines ; 
 
 3. The relics of former archbishops and pious lay- 
 
 folk, buried or placed near altars ; 
 
 4. Miscellaneous objects enclosed in reliquaries ; 
 
 to which may be added, 
 
 5. The tombs of certain archbishops, who were 
 
 objects of popular veneration or pilgrimage. 
 
 Of the greater and lesser relics the list under notice 
 enumerates twelve, each consisting of the body {corpus) 
 of a saint, the position of which is also stated. That of 
 St. Thomas the martyr " in his shrine " heads the list, 
 and is followed by those of St. yElphege and St. 
 Dunstan, each in his shrine on either side of the high 
 altar, that of St. ^Jphege being on the north, that of St. 
 Dunstan on the south. The body of St. Odo lay in a 
 shrine ad Coronain towards the south, and that of St. 
 Wilfrid opposite to it on the north. These two shrines, 
 or tombs, as they more probably were, stood on either 
 side of the altar of the Holy Trinity, in the round chapel 
 at the extreme end of the church, where the great relic
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 35 
 
 called the Corona, or Crown of St. Thomas, was kept. 
 The site of St. Wilfrid's shrine is still marked by a step 
 beneath the window, with sunk quatrefoils on the face. 
 St. Odo's shrine stood on a similar but plain step, which 
 is also in place. The body of St. Anselm, that next on 
 the list, is described as " in a shrine at the altar of St, 
 Peter." This altar was actually dedicated in honour of 
 St. Peter and St. Paul, and the archbishop's feretriuii 
 was probably a raised tomb beside or in front of it, but 
 no traces of it are left. The remainino- six " bodies " 
 were lesser relics, consisting of mere boxes of bones 
 deposited in convenient places. That of St. yElfric lay 
 where it had been deposited nearly two centuries before, 
 at the altar of St. John Evangelist in the south quire 
 transept. The shrine of St. Blase, perhaps because it 
 was the oldest of the relics, occupied a place of honour 
 " behind the high altar." It was apparently on a beam 
 over it, for the account of Winchelsey's enthronization in 
 1294 states that during the ceremony the archbishop, 
 the prior, and the ministers of the altar " made a station 
 behind the high altar under the shrine of St. Blase, before 
 the marble chair, turned towards the east," and again that 
 " eight monks alternately sang the song Benedictus under 
 the shrine of St. Blase before the archbishop sitting in his 
 chair."^ The body of St. Audoen was probably deposited 
 in the new church at first at the altar dedicated in his 
 honour in the crypt, but in the list under notice it is 
 described as " in a new shrine in the great almery of the 
 relics " ; the place of this will be indicated presently. 
 How and when the church acquired the relics of St. 
 Salvius and St. Wulgan is not recorded. The " body " 
 of the former was "in the first shrine upon the beam 
 beyond the high altar," where also were placed three 
 
 ' " Interim vero Archiepiscopus et Prior et praedicti Ministri Altaris 
 stationcm fecerunt retro magnum altare sub feretro beati Blasii coram sede 
 marmorea versi ad oricntcm . . . Hiis peractis .viij. monachi. Cantum 
 Benedictus Coram Archiepiscopo in cathedra sedente sub feretro sancti 
 Hlasii alternatim decantaverunt." Rci^isfer Q. ft'. 26b. and 2ja. ; also 
 printed in William Somner, The Antiquities of Canterbury, 2nd edition, 
 revised and enlarged by Nicholas Battely, M.A. (fol. London, 1703), part i. 
 Appendix 57, 58.) 
 
 D 2
 
 36 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 o\\\QX feretra (see below), as well as a great ivory horn full 
 of relics that hung under the beam. The position of 
 this beam is at first sight uncertain, but there can be little 
 doubt that it crossed the church a little above, and so 
 was " beyond," the high altar. Such a beam existed in 
 the same position in Conrad's presbytery, and is thus 
 described by Gervase : " At the eastern horns of the altar 
 were two wooden columns, decently ornamented with 
 gold and silver, that sustained a great beam, the ends of 
 which beam rested upon the capitals of two of the pillars. 
 This beam, carried across the church above the altar, and 
 decorated with gold, sustained a majesty of our Lord, an 
 image of St. Dunstan and of St. ^Ifege, together with 
 seven shrines covered with gold and silver and filled with 
 the relics of many saints."^ The position of similar 
 beams is indicated by the description of the place of St. 
 Wulgan's body, " in a chest upon the beam beyond the 
 altar of St. Stephen," and of St. Swithun's body," "in a 
 chest upon the beam beyond the altar of St. Martin." 
 These altars stood in the existing small apses in the 
 north quire transept, and the relics in question rested 
 upon beams or perches above the altars, where the hooks 
 that sustained them remain. 
 
 Throughout the enumeration of the greater and lesser 
 relics it is curious that nothing further is recorded con- 
 cerning any one of the twelve, than its position in the 
 church. Reference will be made later to certain remark- 
 able omissions in the list. 
 
 Of relics of the third class, those of archbishops and 
 layfolk buried or placed near altars, no mention is made 
 in the inventory, probably because they were in fixed 
 
 • " Ad cornua altaris orientalia erant duae columpnje ligneae auro et argento 
 decenter ornatae, quse trabem magnam sustentabant, cujus trabis capita 
 duorum pilariorum capitellis insidebant. Qua; per transversum ecdesise 
 desuper altare trajecta, auro decorata, majestatem Domini, imaginem Sancti 
 Dunstani, et vSancti .'Elfegi, septem quoque scrinia auro et argento cooperta, 
 et multorum sanctorum reliquiis referta sustentabant." Gervase (Rolls' 
 Series 73), i. 13. 
 
 - The relic of St. Swithun in the Saxon church, which vElphege brought 
 from Winchester, consisted of his head only. Here the relic is called corpus^ 
 whereas the saint's body was enshrined at Winchester.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 37 
 
 tombs or not visible. Their respective places have already 
 been fully noted. 
 
 Of relics of the fourth class, miscellaneous objects 
 enclosed in reliquaries, the inventory enumerates a very 
 considerable number. First in order are three heads, of 
 St. Blase, St. Furse, and St. Austroberta, each enclosed 
 in silver-gilt. Next come eleven arms of saints, each 
 encased in an arm-shaped reliquary of silver-gilt. Then 
 follow fifty-six separate reliquaries of various kinds 
 and shapes, containing every conceivable class of relic. 
 Seven of them were in the form of crosses, of which 
 four were double-barred as containing particles of the 
 True Cross, a fifth was a St. Andrew's cross because it 
 contained relics of that saint, and a sixth was "a cross of 
 St. Peter with reversed image " enclosing some of St. 
 Peter's cross ; the other cross was a gold one full of 
 relics, given by Stephen Langton. In a crystal tube 
 was a thorn of Our Lord's crown. All these relics are 
 described as " in the great almery of relics beside the 
 high altar." From the fact that the remaining reliquaries 
 are described as " also contained in the same great 
 almery," it is probable that the cupboard was a double 
 one, and that the first mentioned relics were kept in 
 one half, and the rest in the other. 
 
 Before discussing the position of the relic cupboard a 
 few words may be said as to the second group of its 
 contents. The list of these begins with four single 
 items, namely, Aaron's rod, a "table" (probably a slab) 
 from the tomb of Blessed Mary, and the superaltar and 
 a chalice made of crystal, gold, and enamel, with a paten 
 de perle, that once belonged to St. yElphege. Next 
 come nineteen Jilacteria, or reliquaries that could be 
 hung up by cords, made of crystal, copper, silver or 
 silver-gilt, and containing various relics of saints, such 
 as teeth, bits of bone, fragments of garments, etc. In 
 two of them were relics of St. Thomas. The next on 
 the list are a small silver-gilt cup containing St. Thomas's 
 pall, and a round glass in which was some of the dust 
 of his body. Among the seven following items is an
 
 38 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 oblong crystalline stone set in silver-gilt under which 
 was some of the saint's flesh and skin. But a much 
 more important lot of relics was preserved in the next 
 reliquary, a great ivory coffer guarded by a lock. This 
 contained the simple white mitre in which St. Thomas 
 had been buried, another white mitre he was wont to 
 use on simple feasts, his gloves, his sandals, of blue 
 embroidered with gold roses, besants and crescents, 
 his buskins of black samite, his famous hairshirt, and 
 some of his bed and girdle. Two packets of other relics 
 of him, wrapped in white silk, were likewise enclosed 
 in the coffer. The next three items in the list were 
 standing "tables" of silver-gilt, containing various 
 relics. The remaining reliquaries, chiefly ivory and 
 copper boxes or caskets, need only be mentioned on 
 account of the miscellaneous curiosities preserved in 
 some of them, such as 
 
 Some of the stone upon which the Lord stood when he 
 
 ascended into Heaven. 
 Some of the Lord's table upon which he made the Supper. 
 Some of the oil of St. Mary of Sardiney, which flowed from 
 
 the breast and nipples of a certain image of the blessed 
 
 Virgin Mary. 
 Some of the prison whence the Angel of the Lord snatched 
 
 the blessed apostle Peter. 
 Some wool which St. Mary the Virgin had woven. 
 Some of the oak upon which Abraham \_sic\ climbed to see 
 
 the Lord ; and 
 Some of the clay out of which God fashioned Adam. 
 
 Last in the list come the canola, perhaps the silver 
 Eucharistic reed, of St. Blase, which was kept near his 
 shrine in an almery behind the high altar ; three shrines 
 filled with divers relics that stood on the beam beyond the 
 high altar, and a great ivory horn, also full of relics, that 
 hung beneath it; and certain relics contained " in a wooden 
 desk at the altar of the Holy Cross in the nave of the 
 church, partly covered with silver-gilt, with gems, and a 
 cross in the midst."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 39 
 
 Two most notable relics that were certainly in the 
 church when the inventory was made are not included 
 in it, viz. the Crown of St. Thomas and the Sword 
 Point. The former of these was a mitred bust which 
 had only lately been enriched with gold and silver and 
 precious stones at a cost of ^115 \2s. (or about ^3000 
 at present value) at the expense of prior Henry of 
 Eastry/ and contained the reputed crown of St. 
 Thomas's head said to have been severed at his 
 martyrdom. It was kept in a special relic cupboard 
 guarded by iron grates, on the south side of the altar 
 of the Holy Trinity, in the round chapel at the extreme 
 east end of the church. The Sword Point was preserved 
 in the "martyrdom," or north transept, and is described 
 in an inventory of the ctistos viartirii made in 1503,'^ as 
 
 Item in capsa Hgnea cuspis gladij fixus in capite sancti 
 Thome martiris cerebro et sanguine cruentala. 
 
 The omission of these relics from the inventory may 
 be on account of each being in charge of a special custos 
 or keeper, but then the shrine of St. Thomas had two 
 feretrars or guardians and yet is included in the list of 
 relics. Or the omission is merely accidental. 
 
 The great almery or relic cupboard to which reference 
 has several times been made must have been of con- 
 siderable size. It stood jtixta magmiui altar e, as des- 
 cribed in the inventory, on a raised platform, shown in 
 Hollar's plan,^ between the tombs of archbishops Chichele 
 and Bourchier, where archbishop Howley's cenotaph now 
 is. The site is absolutely fixed by the agreement for 
 Chichele's burial "on the north part of our quire, between 
 the place of the Relics, and the entry of the quire from 
 the vestibule to the hieh altar."* 
 
 t> 
 
 * " Anno m.ccc.xiij°. Pro corona sancti Thome auro et argento et lapidibus 
 preciosis ornanda, c.xv.li. xij.s." Register K. f. 220. 
 
 * Seethe Inventory, /^ij-/. 
 
 •■' PubHshed in the first edition of Roger Dodsworth and WilHam Dugdale's 
 Monasticon Attglicanu?n (London, 1655), i. 18. 
 
 * " Ad partem borialem chori nostri inter locum Rehquiarum et introitum 
 chori de vestibulo ad summum altare." Rcj^ister S. f. in.
 
 40 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 As no later list of the relics has been preserved, it 
 will be interesting to compare with the foregoing remarks 
 the positions occupied by the relics of the archbishops at 
 the beginning of the sixteenth century, from a manu- 
 script written during Warham's archiepiscopate and now 
 preserved among the Parker MSS. in the library of 
 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge •} 
 
 Cuthbert : " modo jacet in eadem ecclesia Cantuariensi in 
 
 altari sancti Stephani ex boriali parte chori." 
 Bregwyn : "modo jacet in altari sancti Gregorii ex australi 
 
 parte chori." 
 .^thelheard: "modo jacet in altari sancti Stephani ex 
 
 boriali parte chori." 
 Wulfred : " modo jacet in altari sancti Martini ex boriali 
 
 parte chori." 
 Fleogild : " sepultus est in ecclesia Christi Cantuar modo 
 
 jacet super trabem in introitu capelle Corone sancti 
 
 Thome." 
 Ceolnoth : "jacet super trabem juxta sanctum Fleogildum." 
 .^thelred : " modo jacet in criptis sub altare beate Marie 
 
 ad dextram partem." 
 ^thelm : " modo jacet super trabem ante altare sancti 
 
 Gregorii." 
 Wulfhelm, yEthelgar, Siric, and yElfric. Of each of these 
 
 archbishops it is said : " modo jacet super trabem ante 
 
 altare sanctorum Johannis Baptiste et Evangeliste ex 
 
 australi parte chori." 
 Odo : "modo jacet ad Coronam Sancti Thome in capella 
 
 sancte Trinitatis ad dexteram." 
 Dunstan : " modo jacet juxta summum altare versus austra- 
 
 lem partem." 
 .^Iphege : " modo jacet juxta summum altare versus bori- 
 
 alem partem." 
 Living : " modo jacet in altari Sancti Martini ex boriali parte 
 
 chori." 
 iEthelnoth : " sepultus est in ecclesia Christi Cantuariensis." 
 Eadsin : " modo jacet sub altare beate Marie in criptis." 
 Lanfranc: "modo jacet in altari sancti Martini ex boriali 
 
 parte chori." 
 Anselm : " modo jacet in capella apostolorum Petri et 
 
 Pauli ex australi parte chori." 
 
 ' MS. 298, ff. 99, ct seqq.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 41 
 
 It may also be interesting to quote the evidence of 
 Erasmus as to the places where the ornaments and jewels 
 were kept.^ 
 
 The first place visited by " Ogygius " was the 
 Martyrdom or north transept, where he was shown 
 a wooden altar dedicated to the Blessed Virgin {altai^e 
 ligneum divcB Virgini sacrurii). " On the altar," he says, 
 "is the point of the sword {cuspis gladii) with which the 
 head of the most excellent prelate was cleft," etc. He 
 then visited the crypt, where he says he was shown " the 
 perforated skull of the martyr ; the other parts are 
 ■covered with silver, the highest part of the skull being 
 bare is open for a kiss." No other record, however, 
 of such a relic in this place is known. From the crypt 
 " C)gygius " was conducted into the quire, where "on the 
 north side the almeries were unlocked. It is wonderful 
 to tell," he says, "how many bones were brought out 
 thence, skulls, jaw-bones, teeth, hands, fingers, and whole 
 arms." This is a most concise summary of the contents 
 as set forth in the inventory. The visitors next viewed 
 the golden tabula and other ornaments of the high altar, 
 and then the things that were kept under the altar {silB 
 
 ' The following is the Latin text of the more important passages here 
 referred to : " In ara est cuspis gladii, quo prtesectus est vertex optimi 
 praesulis, ac cerebrum confusum, videlicet quo mors esset praesentior. Hujus 
 ferri sacram rubiginem amore martyris religiose sumus exosculati. Hinc 
 digressi subimus cryptoporticum, ea habet suos mystagogos : illic primum 
 exhibetur calvaria martyris perforata ; reliqua tecta sunt argento : summa 
 cranii pars nuda patet osculo. . . . Hinc redimus in chori locum. Ad 
 latus Septemtrionale reserantur arcana : dictu mirum, quantum ossium iUinc 
 prolatum sit, calvaria, menta, dentes, manus, digiti, integra brachia, etc. 
 . . . Hinc spectavimus altaris tabulam et ornamenta, mox quae sub altari 
 fuerant recondita, opulenta omnia : diceres Midam et Croesum fuisse 
 mendicos, si spectares vim auri atque argenti. . . . Post ha;c ducimur 
 in sacrarium. Deus bone, qua; illic pompa vestium holosericarum, quae vis 
 candelabrorum aureorum ? Ibidem vidimus pedum divi Thoma;. Videbatur 
 arundo lamina argentea obvestita ; minimum erat ponderis, nihil operis, nee 
 altius quam usque ad cingulum. Me. Nulla Crux? Og. Nullam vidi. 
 Ostensum est pallium, holosericum quidem, sed crasso filo, nullo auro 
 gemmisve insigne. Aderat et sudarium, sudoris ex collo contracti, mani- 
 festasque sanguinis notas retinens. . . . Ab his igitur deducimur ad 
 superiora. Nam post altare summum rursus velut in novum templum 
 ascenditur. Illic in sacello quodam ostenditur tota facies optimi viri 
 inaurata, multisque gemmis insignita." Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquia 
 (Amsterdam, 1662), 375-377.
 
 42 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 altare) "all most sumptuous : you would say that Midas 
 and Croesus were beggars if you saw the wealth of gold 
 and silver." 
 
 It is clear from this account that the vaulted chamber 
 under the steps which led to the archbishop's throne was 
 the place where the principal jewels and ornaments were 
 kept. This chamber is entered from the north aisle of 
 the presbytery, immediately opposite the vestry. It 
 retains its ancient floor of encaustic tiles and has two 
 grated windows on the east looking into the crypt, but 
 none of the old fittings remains. From this treasury 
 " Ogygius " and his friends were led into the vestry. 
 " Good God ! what pomp was there of silk vestments ! 
 What wealth of golden candlesticks ! In the same place 
 we saw the staff [peduvi) of the blessed Thomas. It 
 seemed to be a cane covered with silver plates ; it was 
 of little weight, no workmanship, nor any higher 
 than to the girdle." " Ogygius " says he saw no cross,. 
 He was also shown the pallmm, which he asserts 
 was all of silk, though of coarse thread and unorna- 
 mented with gold or gems^ ; also a handkerchief retain- 
 ing manifest traces of sweat wiped from the neck and of 
 blood. The pall of St. Thomas, it will be remembered, 
 is included among the relics in the inventory, but there is 
 no mention of the handkerchief {sudariuiii). From the 
 vestry "Ogygius" was conducted to the "upper parts" or 
 chapel of St. Thomas. Here he first saw "in a certain 
 little chapel," the circular chapel of the Holy Trinity, the 
 o-reat relic called the Corona, which he describes as "the 
 whole face of the most holy man, gilt and ornamented 
 with many gems." Its custodian he calls assessor capitis 
 atirei. There can be no doubt, therefore, that the object 
 seen was a mitred bust of St. Thomas, which enclosed 
 what at Canterbury was always called coroiia, i.e. St. 
 Thomas's crown, but was known to the world at large,, 
 
 1 It is doubtful here whether Erasmus refers to St. Thomas's pall, which 
 was of wool and not of silk, and unadorned with gold or gems, though the pins 
 which fastened it to the chasuble might be of gold and jewelled. Perhaps 
 he refers to a cloak or cope that had belonged to the saint, the chimere of 
 to-day.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCIIUKCH, CANTERBURY. 43 
 
 from its shape, as the captU sancti TJioine, or St. 
 Thomas's head. Finally, after viewing the shrine of 
 St. Thomas, the visitors before leaving the church paid 
 a second visit to the vestry to see some other relics of 
 the saint. 
 
 Besides the relics proper, there were certain arch- 
 bishops whose saintly lives caused their tombs to be 
 regarded as places of popular veneration or pilgrimage. 
 The chief of these was archbishop Robert of Winchelsey, 
 who died in 1313. For twenty years after his death 
 offerings were made at his tomb of the average yearly 
 value of £zi'' the amounts entered in the treasurers' 
 accounts ranging as high as ^90 in 1319-20. In the 
 next year they reached £60. In five other years they 
 reached ^50. In 1329-30 the offerings for the first time 
 fell below ^20, and forty years later they sank to a few 
 pence and finally to nothing. The archbishop's tomb 
 stood against the south wall of the south quire transept, 
 but it has long been destroyed ; it is believed, on account 
 of its still being an object of popular resort. 
 
 In the Obihimnuni or Kalendar of Obits of Christ- 
 church, Canterbury, now preserved in the Lambeth 
 Palace Library,^ are many notices of gifts of vestments 
 and other ornaments which have entitled the donors to 
 be reckoned among the benefactors of the church. A 
 number of these gifts may be identified with jewels or 
 ornaments described in the inventory, and have there- 
 fore, as far as practicable, been noticed in connexion with 
 them. But there are two important lists of gifts none of 
 which can positively be identified or appears to be 
 
 • This interesting MS. (No. 20) is a thick folio volume of 250 leaves, 
 ■written on vellum, apparently about 1520. Its principal contents, besides a 
 number of miscellaneous documents, are (i) a martyrology of saints, (2) the 
 entire Rule of St. Benedict, and (3) the obitiiarium or Kalendar of Obits of 
 the archbishops, priors, monks, and benefactors of Christchurch, Canterbury, 
 and of those admitted into confraternity with the prior and convent. There 
 can be little doubt that this is the identical book which was used daily in 
 the chapter-house of the monastery until the suppression, for besides the 
 erasure throughout of St. Thomas's name, wherever it occurs, it contains an 
 added entry of the name of Sir Thomas Bullen, K.G., earl of Wiltshire, 
 who died in 1539.
 
 44 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 specified in the inventory. The first fist enumerates the 
 vestments and ornaments given by Conrad, who was 
 prior from 1 107 to 1126, and is as follows: 
 
 Cancellum quippe ecclesie quern venerabilis Ernulphus 
 antecessor ejus imperfectum reliquerat. ipse sua industria 
 magnifice consummavit. Consummatumque egregia pictura 
 decoravit. Decoratum vero preciosis ornamentis locuple- 
 tavit. Inter alia siquidem ista ecclesie sue dedit schillas duo 
 ex melioribus. tapetum peroptimum. pallia iiijo'' ex majori- 
 bus et melioribus tocius ecclesie. pallium quoque unum 
 bonumde mediocribustamen. Candelabrum mire magnitu- 
 dinis de auricalco fabricatum. habens tres hinc. et tres inde 
 ramos ex medio proprio prodeuntes stipite. unde septem 
 
 recepit cereos Cappam preciosissimam 
 
 undique exterius auro purissimo intextam. inferius et per 
 circuitum centum et quadraginta nolas argenteas sed 
 deauratas habentem. nonnullis lapidibus preclosissimis inter- 
 positis fieri fecit, pro cujus expencione centum libras dis- 
 tribuit.^ 
 
 The other list contains the gifts of prior -Wibert 
 (1153-1167): 
 
 Hie inter multa bona opera que fecit, isti ecclesie contulit 
 ornamenta Scillam unam Man[t]ellum unum. Signum 
 quoque magnum in clocario posuit. quod triginti duo hom- 
 ines ad sonandum trahunt. Duo magna tapeta. Pallium 
 magnum de melioribus ecclesie. Curtinam magnam depic- 
 tam fecit. Duas cappas. et duas casulas de pallio. Ouinque 
 albas de serico. et sextam lineam pallio paravit de auro. 
 Amictus duos, et stolas totidem de auro. Calicem magnum 
 et duo turribula argentea. quidem sed deaurata. textum 
 unum undique argenteum deauratum et ornatum. . . . 
 . . . Ad cappam faciendam quam facere proposuerat 
 ducentos aureos. et viginti libras reliquid \sic\? 
 
 Most of these gifts are of the same character as others 
 specified in the inventory, but there are two of Conrad's 
 benefactions that deserve especial notice, namely the 
 great seven-branched candlestick, and the precious cope 
 with its bordering of one hundred and forty little silver- 
 gilt bells. These ornaments, together with the rationale, 
 
 ' Lambeth MS. 20. f. 165. 
 - Lambeth MS. 20. f. 225b.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 45 
 
 the amice and siiperhumerale, the tunicle of blue, the 
 albe, the mitre, and the girdle, and perhaps the morrow 
 mass altar, with the Lenten veil and the white ornaments 
 used in Lent, are probably, as it has been pointed out in 
 the Introduction, relics of the curious imitation of the 
 vestments and ornaments of the Jewish ritual that came 
 into fashion in the eleventh century. The vestments 
 imitated are those of the high priest, which were first 
 worn by Aaron ; in the Christian Church, therefore, their 
 use was in the beginning restricted to bishops. Of most 
 of them it is unnecessary to speak, as their character and 
 history are well known. The ornament known as the 
 i^ationale, which was obviously copied from Aaron's 
 breastplate, is to be seen on many monuments and seals 
 of bishops of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the 
 form of a brooch or plate of various forms and usually 
 jewelled, but it seems to have gone out of use before the 
 beginning of the fourteenth century. The Aaronic ephod 
 appears to have been represented among the episcopal 
 ornaments by the amice and the superJmuierale. There 
 is no positive evidence that the latter, in its Aaronic 
 form, was ever worn in England, but some few bishops 
 abroad^ had such an ornament, in the form of two 
 golden ouches or roundels resting on the shoulders and 
 joined across the breast and back by an embroidered band, 
 which was usually, if not always, fringed. In this country 
 it was perhaps represented by the golden embroidery seen 
 round the opening of the neck on the chasuble said to 
 have belonged to St. Thomas of Canterbury, now 
 preserved at Sens, and by the like ornament shown on 
 the monumental effigies of bishop Roger (i 107-1 139) at 
 Salisbury, and bishops Henry Marshall (i 194-1206), 
 Simonof Apulia (12 14-1223), and Walter of Bronscombe 
 ( 1 258-9-1 280) at Exeter, and on the seals of Robert 
 Bloett, bishop of Lincoln (1093-1122-3), and of Ralph 
 
 ^ The superhumeralc was worn by the bishops of Metz, Eichstiidt, Regens- 
 burg, and Liege. See Arc/ucologia, liv. 419. Claude de Vert {Explication 
 . . . lies Ceremonies., Paris, 17 10, t. ii. p. 163) limits this privilege to the 
 Bishops of Toul and ' un seul Eveque de Grece.'
 
 46 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Flambard, bishop of Durham (1099-1128). It is 
 possible that this same ornament is identical with the 
 tasselli already mentioned as found on copes, chasubles, 
 and tunicles.^ The golden bells sewn round Aaron's 
 *' robe of the ephod " do not appear to have been hung 
 round the tunicle of blue which represented that garment ; 
 at any rate no instances seem to have been noticed in 
 this country. The little bells were however used, but 
 round the bottom edge of the cope instead, as in Conrad's 
 gift already noticed, and the two gorgeous copes, formerly 
 Lanfranc's, that are described in the inventory. The cope 
 has of course an origin quite distinct from the Aaronic 
 vestments, but the bells were doubtless suspended round 
 it as being, like the blue tunicle, a vestment worn over all 
 the rest. How strongly the Judaizing influence prevailed 
 at Canterbury is seen in the fact that among the gifts of 
 Ernulf, who was formerly prior there, to his cathedral 
 church of Rochester, was " capam principalem cum 
 skillis argenteis."^ Besides this cope with Its fringe of 
 little silver bells, he also gave divers other vestments, 
 among which was tunicam epistolaria77i violaciain, which is 
 possibly the "tunicle of blue." A blue tunicle powdered 
 with gold birds is shown on the beautiful painted effigy at 
 Exeter of bishop Walter of Bronscombe (i 258-9-1 280), 
 notwithstanding that his chasuble is white. ^ Some few 
 instances have been noticed of the attachment of bells to 
 vestments other than copes. Thus in the inventory of the 
 cathedral church of St. Paul, London, made in 1245, we 
 find that the stole and fanon of a vestment formerly dean 
 Alard's (c. 1 204-1 215) were ornamented " cum majestate, 
 [et] ymagine in extremitatibus angeli cinii campanellis 
 U7^genteis,"^ ^nd the inventory of 1295 mentions: "Una 
 Mitra breudata cum stellis, etc. ... in altero pen- 
 dulorum deficiunt tres cathenulae, cum Karolis argenteis 
 appensis ; et dedit banc mitram Fulco Bassett ; "^ also : 
 
 » See ante, pp. 13, 14, 18. - Thorpe, Registrtim Rofense^ 120. 
 
 ^ See the coloured plate of the bishop's effigy in Transactions of the Exeter 
 Diocesan A rcJiiicctural Society^ iv. pi. 1 7. 
 
 ■i Archccologia, 1. 489. * Bishop of London, 1244 to 1259.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 47 
 
 "una Mitra de dono RIcardi Episcopi' et 
 
 deficit una campanula in uno pendulorum."^ 
 
 It is worth noting that Sicard, bishop of Cremona, the 
 author of the Mitrale sive de officiis ecclesiasticis Suvnna, 
 who died in 1215, says Q)i \!vl& humerale "quod dicebatur 
 ephod, in quo erant duo lapides xii. patriarcharum 
 nomina continentes, et apud nos vocatur amictus."^ Not 
 improbably it was on this theory that the amice-apparels 
 were often jewelled, as in the inventory under notice. 
 The amice-apparel at Sens called St. Thomas's has pearls 
 at intervals, and as previously pointed out, that found in 
 archbishop Hubert's coffin had on it imitation turquoises 
 of stained bone or ivory. 
 
 A great candlestick with seven branches appears to 
 have been a not uncommon ornament in such of the great 
 cathedral and monastic churches as could afford it, or 
 were the fortunate recipients of one from some wealthy 
 donor, and fine examples are still preserved in several 
 churches abroad.^ Not one has survived in this country 
 the spoliations of the sixteenth century, but of their 
 former existence we have ample proof. The earliest 
 recorded example appears to be that at Winchester, to 
 which church king Cnut gave in 1035 "magnum can- 
 delabrum argenteum cum vi. brachiis, qualia modo in 
 
 ' Probably Richard of Gravesend, 1280-1303, but there were three other 
 bishops named Richard in the twelfth century. 
 
 2 Sir William Dugdale, T/ie History of Saint PauPs Cathedral, in London, 
 from its foundation (Ed Sir H. Ellis, London, 18 18), 315. 
 
 ^ Lib. ii. cap. v. Migne's Patrologia, t. ccxiii. col. 72. 
 
 * One at Essen, 2 m. 10 cm. high, is engraved in Didron's Reinie 
 Archeologiqiie, xi. 294, and described in xviii. 322 of the same work. It is 
 of the 1 2th century, if it be not earlier, and is obviously copied from the 
 seven-branched candlestick from the Temple at Jerusalem as figured on the 
 Arch of Titus at Rome. A very fine example of the beginning of the 13th 
 century is preserved at Milan, and a cast of it may be seen in the 
 South Kensington Museum. It is 4 m. 50 cm. high, and closely answers 
 to the description of that fonnerly at Durham. A much finer candle- 
 stick of the same type existed at St. Remi at Rheims until the Revolu- 
 tion, and only part of the foot has been preserved. A like one formerly 
 at Bourges was broken up by the Huguenots in 1562 {Reinie ArcJieo- 
 logique, ix. 90). There was once another in the cathedral church of 
 Rouen described in an inventory made between 1184 and 1192 as : " Unum 
 magnum candelabrum de cupro deauratum cum vij branchis " {Revue de 
 Part Chretien, 3"^ serie, iv. 461).
 
 48 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Ecclesiis videmuspretiosissimade aurichalco."^ Another 
 was acquired by St. Augustine's abbey at Canterbury 
 in the time of abbot Hugh de Flori, 1091-1124, who 
 " Candelabrum eciam magnum in choro sereum quod Jesse 
 vocatur in partibus emit transmarinis."^ A third, evidently 
 of similar pattern, which was gilt circa 1 200, belonged to 
 the abbey of St. Edmund at Bury. It stood in the quire,, 
 and had in front of it a tabula or painting representing 
 the Last Judgment, etc. From the record of certain 
 incriptions on it, we know that the candlestick included 
 among its ornaments the Creation of Adam and Eve 
 and the Fall.^ Of a fourth example, that at Durham, 
 where it seems in later times to have served as the 
 Paschal candlestick, a quaint description is given in 
 Rites : 
 
 Also there was a goodly monument pertaininge to the 
 Church called the Pascall, which was wont to be set upp in 
 the Quire, and there to remain, from the Thursday called 
 Maundye thursday, before Easter, untill Wednesday after 
 the Assention day, that did stand uppon a foure-square 
 thick plankeof wood against the first grees or stepp, hard 
 behind the three basons of silver that hung before the High 
 Altar. In the midst of the said greese is a nick wherein one 
 of the corners of the said planke was placed, and at every 
 corner of the planke was an iron ringe, wherunto the 
 feete of the Pascall were adjoyned, representinge the 
 pictures of foure flyinge dragons as also the pictures of the 
 four Evangelists above the tops of the dragons, underneath 
 the nethermost bosse, all supportinge the whole pascall ; and 
 [in] the four quarters have beene foure christall stones, and 
 in the four small dragons' four heads four christall stones, as 
 by the holes doth appeare. And on everye side of the 
 fourdragons there is curious antick worke, as beasts and men, 
 
 ' Wharton, Aiiglia Sacra (London, 1691), ii. 290, quoting from Cott. MS. 
 Galba A. xv. ; and the " Annales de Wintonia " printed in Anjia/es Monas- 
 tici (Rolls' Series 36), ii. 16, from Cott. MS. Domitian A. xiii. The MSS. 
 have for "magnum" " magni et," which does not make sense with the 
 context, and the word should clearly be " magnum." The number of the 
 branches has probably also been blundered by the scribes. 
 
 " CJu-o)dca Willebiii Thorn {Hist. Angl. Saipiores Decent, London, 
 1652), col. 1796. 
 
 * M. R. James, On the Abbey of St. Edmimd at Bury (Cambridge 
 Antiquarian Society, 1895), 154, 160, 197, 198.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 49 
 
 uppon horsbacks, with bucklers, bowes and shafts, and 
 knotts, with broad leaves spred uppon the knotts, very 
 finely wrought, all beinge of most fine and curious candle- 
 stick mettall [or Latten mettall glistering as the gold 
 it self, having six candlesticks or flowers of candlestick 
 mettall] comminge from it, three of everye side, wheron 
 did stand in ever}-e of the said flowers or candlestick 
 a taper of wax. And on the height of the said candle- 
 stick or Pascall of lattine was a faire large flower, beinge 
 the principall flower ; which was the seventh candlestick. 
 The Pascall in latitude did containe almost the bredth of 
 the Quire, in longitude that did extend to the height of the 
 vault, wherein did stand a long peece of wood reachinge 
 within a man's length to the uppermost vault roofe of the 
 church, wheron stood a great long square taper of wax 
 called the Pascall, a fine conveyance through the roofe of 
 the church to light the taper with all. In conclusion this 
 Pascall was estimated to bee one of the rarest monuments 
 in England.^ 
 
 It is unfortunately not recorded how or when the Dur- 
 ham candlestick was obtained. Other examples existed 
 at Lincoln, York, Salisbury, Westminster, and Hereford, 
 but no descriptions or other notices of them have survived, 
 other than in the directions for their use on great feasts. 
 They seem in every case, at any rate in early times, to 
 have stood in the presbytery before the high altar, and 
 parallel with it, so as to " containe," as at Durham, 
 " almost the bredth of the Quire." 
 
 The custom at Durham of usinof the seven-branched 
 candlestick for the paschal was exceptional, and probably 
 of comparatively late date when the significance of the 
 candlestick had been forgotten. It is unfortunate that 
 we have no other record of the Christchurch candlestick 
 than its gift by Conrad, and we are equally ignorant of 
 Its fate. It is quite possible that o\ving to its size it 
 could not be removed from the church durinof the Qreat 
 
 ' Rites of Durham (Surtees Society 15), 8, 9. When not in use, it was 
 kept in the north aisle of the quire, where there was "a paire of faire staires 
 adjoyninge to the north dore of St. Cuthbert's Feretorie, under the which 
 staires the Pascall did lye. And in the time of Lent the children of the 
 .\u".erie were enjoyned to come thither daylye to dresse, trim, and make it 
 bright against the Pascall feast.'' Ibid. 15.
 
 50 INVENTORIES OF CIIKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 fire of 1 1 74, and so perished in the conflagration. There 
 is no later mention of it. 
 
 There is yet a third Hst of benefactions which ought 
 not to be passed over, that containing the numerous gifts 
 made to his cathedral church by archbishop Hubert 
 (i 193-1205), and thus recorded by Gervase : 
 
 Dedit etiam idem archiepiscopus ecclesiai Christi sub- 
 scripta ornamenta : Ecclesiam scilicet de Halesgesto con- 
 cessit et confirmavit praeccntori ad emendandos ecclesi^ 
 libros. Praeterea dedit eidem Cantuariensi ecclesiae pallia 
 duo auro texta, casulas iii., cappas iii., dalmaticas iij., tunicas 
 iii., albas iii., stolas cum manipulis, amictus ii., calicem 
 aureum, ampullas ii. cristallinas, altare gestatorium de 
 japide calcedonio, crucem cum Jigno Domini, zonam ct 
 pecten eburneum, mitras vi., chirothecarum paria iii. omnia 
 gemmis et auro parata decenter ; praeterea mitras et 
 chirothecas sine auro, candelabra, et ampullas, et acerram 
 de argento, baccilia de argento et deaurata ; pannos ii. de 
 serico auro paratas, spindulas iii. de auro, mappulam de 
 serico, cultellum de jaspide et alium de ceraste. vas 
 cristallinum cum balsamo ; cuppam auream et aliam argen- 
 team et deauratam ; justas iii. argenteas ad crisma ; anulos 
 aureos iiii. cum lapidibus pretiosis, tapetum bonum ; biblium 
 veteris et novi Testamenti ; psalterium glossatum ; cosinos 
 quatuor ; culcitrarn i., equos iii., capellam quoque egregiam, 
 quam in testamento suo vocavit principalem, ecclesiae dedit ; 
 sic tamen ut conventus pro anima sua expendendas daret 
 ccc. marcas. Hanc rex Johannes ecclesiae subtraxit.^ 
 
 Only two chasubles and as many copes are specially 
 ascribed in the inventory to archbishop Hubert, but no 
 doubt other of his grifts are included therein. The orna- 
 ments themselves call for no special remark. 
 
 The following is the full and corrected text of the 
 inventory : 
 
 Ornamenta ecclesiastica in vestiario Eccksie [f 112 [CXIIII.] 
 Christi Cantuariensis. In festo Purificationis beate Marie Amio 
 domini. M°. CCC. xv^. tempore Ricardi de Scharstede tunc 
 sacriste. et Joliannis Spice r subsacriste. videlicet xxxj° Anno 
 .H. prioris. 
 
 ' Gervase, Acta Potiiificum (Rolls' Series T^), ii. 413, 414.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 51 
 
 Omnia ornamenta et alia infra scripta liberata fuerunt per 
 indentiiravi per dictum fratreni J. Spicer fj-atribus .R. de Dovoria 
 tunc sacriste. et. W. de Loud'. subsac7'iste in crastino Animarum. 
 Anno domini. M. CCC xxj°. in presentia domini Hejirici prioris. 
 et Dyonisij. Capellani sui. 
 
 Castile. 
 
 Casula magna Lanfranci nigra, cum aurifrigio ornato 
 gemmis et perulis aureis cum avibus et bestiis in auro 
 frectatis.^ 
 
 Item Casula ejusdem nigra cum aurifrigio ornato margaritis 
 et perulis aureis cum Capitibus in circulis aureis. 
 
 Item Casula ejusdem nigra cum aurifrigio et gemmis magnis 
 et margaritis ornato et circulis magnis aureis per totum 
 brudatis. 
 
 Item Casula Henrici nigra cum aurifrigio gemmis et mar- 
 garitis ornato cum stellis et crescentiis per totum 
 brudata.^ 
 
 Item Casula sancti Thome Rubea cum crescentiis et stellis 
 aureis. 
 
 Item Casula azi rubea cum aurifrigio et perulis ornata. 
 
 Item Casula Livingi Archiepiscopi de morre. diasperatacum 
 aurifrigio de perillis ornato. 
 
 Item Casula Baldewini Archiepiscopi de Inde cum stellis et 
 crescentiis brudata.^ 
 
 Item Casula Bonifacij. Archiepiscopi de rubeo samicto. 
 
 Item Casula Huberti Archiepiscopi Rubea ornata mar- 
 garitis. 
 
 Item Casula ejusdem purpurea ornata margaritis. 
 
 Item Casula Rubea que vocatur Magdalene. 
 
 Item Casula Thome de Blomville alba brudata. 
 
 Item Casula de rubeo samicto non brudata prima. 
 
 Item Casula de rubeo samicto non brudata secunda. 
 
 Item Casula rubea que vocatur Antioche cum avibus rubeis 
 brudata. 
 
 Item Casula subrubea de panno de Tharse. 
 
 ' The extremely sumptuous chasubles, copes, tunicles and dalmatics given 
 by Lanfranc are duly mentioned in the Kalendar of Obits, which says that 
 the archbishop " ecclesiam .... multis ac honesiis ornamentis ahjs e.\ 
 auro mundijssimo factis. ahjs auro gemmisque paratis. alijs etsi sine auro 
 ac gemmis magnifice tamen laudandis oniavit.'" Lambeth MS. 20. f. i8g(5. 
 
 - Gervase says that on Baldwin's death, which occurred in 1190, "cujus 
 vestimenta capelte Cantuariam allata sunt. Dimiserat autem in ecclesia 
 Cantuariensi casulam unam auro paratam. dalmaticam et tunicam auro 
 textam. et cappas duas." Gervase, Act. Pontif. (Rolls' Series T^-., ii. 406. 
 It is uncertain whether any of these are included in the inventory under 
 notice. 
 
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 52 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item Casula nigra solempnis pro defunctis. 
 
 Item Casula alba cum scutis. 
 
 Item Casula una de baudekino. 
 
 Item Casula una de rubeo samicto simplici sine pallio. 
 
 Item Casula una de rubeo sindone non palliata. 
 
 Item Casula una de rubeo panno de Tharse cum nucibus 
 
 pini aureis. 
 Item Casula Elianore regine de rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Item Casula Katerine Lovel consuta armis diversorum. 
 Item Casula Ade Prioris de viridi samicto. 
 Item Casula ejusdem de panno aurco. 
 Item Casula ejusdem alba diasperata. 
 Item Casula ejusdem de viridi panno diasperato. 
 Item Casula ejusdem de colore de soupe en vin. 
 Item Casula Willelmi de Berkyngg Junioris de rubeo panno 
 
 diasperato cum castellis et rosis et avibus et floribus de 
 
 lyz aureis. 
 Item Casula domini Alani Plukenet militis de panno pur- 
 
 pureo cum nucibus aureis pini. cum largo aurifrigio 
 
 ante et retro legata feretro Sancti Thome. 
 Item Casula .J. de Bocton. de samicto croceo brudato. 
 Item Casula .VV. de Bourne de panno de Inde brudato. 
 Item Casula Danielis de Sifleton de sindone de Inde. 
 Item Casula ejusdem de rubeo sindone. 
 Item Casula .W. de Geynesborgh' Episcopi Wygorniensis de 
 
 rubeo velvetto. 
 Item Casula Marcelli de la lese de Inde. 
 Item Casula Randulphi de Adesham de viridi samicto bru- 
 dato. [f. 112 b. 
 Item Casula .J. de Taneto. de rubeo sindone de tuly. cum 
 
 rosis brudato. 
 Item Casula Andree de Hardres de viridi panno. 
 Item Casula .J. de Lyndestede de rubeo sindone. 
 Item Casula ejusdem alba diasperata. 
 
 Item Casula Radulphi de Pritelwelle. de sindone de Inde. 
 Item Casula Thome de VVinchelesee. de panno croceo de 
 
 Tharse. 
 Item Casula .G. de Chileham. purpurea. 
 Item Casula ejusdem de sindone de Inde. 
 Item Casula .J. de Ringemere. de rubeo panno de Tharse 
 
 cum aquilis aureis et argenteis palliat' ambo aurifrig'. 
 Item Casula Danielis de Sutton, de rubeo samictello. palliat' 
 
 ambo aurifrig'. 
 Ttem Casula Reginald! de Taneto de panno de morre de 
 » " Alibi " in margin of MS.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. $2 
 
 Tharse cum avibus et arboribus aureis cum aurifrigiis 
 ante et retro, de ymaginibus stantibus in tabernaculis. 
 
 Cappe Cojiinmnes. 
 
 Capa Lanfranci nigra ornata gemmis et auro. cum .Lj. cam- 
 
 panellis rotundis argcnteis deauratis cum niagno topacio 
 
 et quatuor amauz in pectore. 
 Item Capa ejusdem nigra ornata gemmis et auro cum .lj. 
 
 campanellis rotundis argenteis et deauratis cum 
 
 ymaginibus in vineis aureis brudata. 
 Item Capa ejusdem nigra frectata auro cum bestiis et flori- 
 
 bus aureis et .ij. tassellis aureis. 
 Item Capa ejusdem nigra cum magnis tassellis aureis cum 
 
 nucibus pini et ramis arborum et herbarum. 
 Item Due Cape Edive Regine. de rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Item Due Cape Radulphi de Westgate de samicto rubeo 
 
 brudato de griphonibus. 
 Item Capa de Inde cum aviculis et bestiis circulates cum 
 
 duobus militibus in scapulis. 
 Item Capa de Morre fere consimilis operis. 
 Item Capa de Morre de Kocco distincto cum tassellis aureis 
 
 et morsu de Ebore. 
 Item Capa Regis .H. tercij de samicto rubeo brudato.'^ 
 Item Capa Regis .E. filij sui de rubeo samicto brudato de 
 
 historia Joseph.^ 
 Item Capa ejusdem .E. de rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Item Capa .R. de Kylwardby Archiepiscopi. brudata ubique 
 
 auro. cum ymaginibus stantibus. 
 Item Capa Huberti Archiepiscopi de Inde cum perulis. 
 Item Capa ejusdem rubea cum perulis. 
 Item Capa sancti Edmundi de morre cum tassellis gemmis 
 
 ornatis. [f. 113 [cxv.] 
 
 Item Capa sancti Aelphegi. 
 Item Capa Ade Prions de viridi samicto cum tassellis rubeo 
 
 brudatis. 
 Item Due Cape ejusdem de inde. 
 Item Cape quinque Katerine Lovel consute armis diver- 
 
 sorum. 
 Item Tres Cape ejusdem texte magnis quadrangulis. 
 Item Capa .W. de Aeyerford' de rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Item Capa de samicto rubeo brudato cum .j. Moniali et 
 
 Griphonibus. 
 
 ' These are probably the duas cappas chori Jiono^ifice de auro bncdafas 
 mentioned in the Kalendar of Obits as the king's gift. (Lambeth MS. 20. 
 i. 199.)
 
 54 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item Capa de viridi panno brudato cum angelis militibus 
 
 stellis et crescencijs. 
 Item Cape .iiijof. de samicto rubeo brudato quasi ejusdem 
 
 operis. 
 Item Capa J. de Boctoii de croceo samicto. 
 Item Capa alba de armis Regis Scotie. 
 Item Capa alba Thome de Brideport. 
 Item Capa Radulphi de Adesham de Inde cum floribus 
 
 aureis de Hz. et dorsal' de ymaginibus. 
 Item Capa Gerardi de Grandissono Episcopi Virdunensis de 
 
 samicto rubeo. 
 Item Capa una de Inde samictello cum aurifrigio albo 
 
 stricto. 
 Item Due Cape de samicto rubeo cum magnis tassellis 
 
 aureis et morsibus cum gemmis. 
 Item .vj. cape de samicto rubeo cum tassellis aureis 
 
 minoribus. 
 Item Due cape de samicto rubeo cum parvis tassellis aureis. 
 Item Due cape de samicto rubeo sine tassellis cum lato 
 
 aurifrigio veteri. 
 Item Due cape de rubeo samicto sine tassellis unde una 
 
 cum clavibus aureis et alia cum floribus brudata desuper 
 
 consut'. 
 Item Due cape de croceo panno diasperato cum largis 
 
 tassellis aureis. 
 Item Due cape de croceo samicto. cum rubeis tassellis 
 
 brudatis. 
 Item Capa una de croceo panno diasperato cum tassellis de 
 
 viridi. 
 
 Cape prof essionum Episcoponirn. Siiffraganeorum. et Abhatum. 
 
 Capa professionis Thome Eboracensis Archiepiscopi de 
 rubeo panno diasperato cum tassellis nigris rotundis 
 brudatis. 
 
 Capa Radulfi Herefordiensis Episcopi de rubeo samicto 
 cum Tassellis et amauz in medio. 
 
 Capa Walteri Batoniensis et Wellensis Episcopi de Baude- 
 kino. 
 
 Capa Johannis de Excester' Wintoniensis Episcopi de 
 Baudekino. 
 
 Capa 5Symonis Norwycensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 
 Capa Rogeri Coventrensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 
 Capa Egidii de Brideport Episcopi Saresbiriensis de Baude- 
 kino.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIJRISTCFIURCH, CANTERBURY. 55 
 
 Capa Petri Exoniensis Episcopi cum scutis bipartitibus de 
 
 Baudekino. 
 Capa Walter! Giffard Batoniensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 
 . . [f. 113^- 
 Capa Godefridi Giffard Wygorniensis Episcopi de rubeo 
 
 samicto. 
 Capa Aniani Assavensis Episcopi. 
 Capa Hugonis de Balesham Eliensis Episcopi. 
 Capa Ricardi de Gravesende Lincolniensis Episcopi de 
 
 morre cum tassellis aureis. 
 Capa Oliveri Lincolniensis Episcopi de viridi panno brudato. 
 Capa .J, de Alderby Lincolniensis Episcopi de viridi panno 
 
 brudato cum scutis. 
 Capa Henrici de Sandwyco Londinensis Episcopi. nigra 
 
 brudata cum leonibus et Griphonibus. 
 Capa Henrici de Wyngeham Londinensis Episcopi de 
 
 viridi panno brudato. 
 Capa Johannis de Chishelle Londinensis Episcopi. 
 Capa Ricardi de Gravesende Londinensis Episcopi de 
 
 samicto rubeo brudato. 
 Capa Radulfi de Baldok' Londinensis Episcopi de samicto 
 
 rubeo brudato. 
 Capa Gilberti de Segrave Londinensis Episcopi de samicto 
 
 rubeo brudato. 
 Capa Roberti Burnel Bathoniensis Episcopi de Rubeo 
 
 panno de Tuly. 
 Capa Willelmi de Marchia Bathoniensis Episcopi de morre 
 
 brudat'. 
 Capa Walteri de Heselschawe. Bathoniensis Episcopi de 
 
 rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Capa Johannis de Droknesford' Bathoniensis Episcopi tota 
 
 brudata auro. 
 Capa Thome de Cantulupo Herefordensis Episcopi de 
 
 rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Capa Ricardi de Swynefeld' Herefordensis Episcopi. de 
 
 rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Capa .J. de Puntoyce Wyntoniensis Episcopi nigra brudata. 
 Capa Henrici Wyntoniensis Episcopi. de rubeo samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Thome Bek Menevensis Episcopi de rubeo samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa David Menevensis Episcopi de panno aureo de 
 
 Tharse. 
 Capa Rogeri Noivvycensis Episcopi de Lide brudat' cum 
 
 Garbis Avene.
 
 56 LYVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Capa .W. de Middeltoil Norwicensis Episcopi de rubeo 
 
 samicto brudato cum Jesse. 
 Capa Radulfi Norwycensis Episcopi de rubeo samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Johannis de Ely Norwycensis Episcopi de viridipanno 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa .W. Scamel Saresbiriensis Episcopi de Inde brudat' 
 
 floribus de lyz. 
 Capa .W. de la Cornere Saresbiriensis Episcopi de viridi 
 
 panno brudato. 
 Capa .N. de Longespeye Saresbiriensis Episcopi de Inde 
 
 brudat'. 
 Capa Henrici de Brandeston Saresbiriensis Episcopi de 
 
 Baudekino. 
 Capa Roberti de Wicchampton Saresbiriensis Episcopi de 
 
 Baudekino. 
 Capa Symonis Saresbiriensis Episcopi de samicto rubeo 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Rogeri de Mortivallo Saresbiriensis Episcopi de rubeo 
 
 samicto brudato. 
 Capa .J. de Kyrkeby Eliensis Episcopi brudata per totum 
 
 auro. 
 Capa .W. de Luda Eliensis Episcopi. de rubeo samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Roberti Eliensis Episcopi de Rubeo samicto brudato. 
 Capa Johannis de Ketene Elyensis Episcopi de Inde samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Gilberti Cicestrensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 Capa J. de Langeton Cicestrensis Episcopi de samicto rubeo 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Thome de Burton Exoniensis Episcopi de viridi 
 
 brudato cum scutis. 
 Capa .W. de Stapelton Exoniensis Episcopi de samicto 
 
 rubeo brudato. 
 Capa .W. de Langeton Coventrensis Episcopi de viridi 
 
 panno de Tharse brudato. 
 Capa .J. de Monemewe Landavensis Episcopi de Baude- 
 kino. 
 Capa W. Reginaldi Wygorniensis Episcopi de rubeo samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa .J. Roffensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 Capa W. de Mertofi Rofensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 Capa Thome de Ingestorp Roffensis Episcopide Baudekino. 
 Capa Thome de Woldham Roffensis Episcopi de Baude- 
 kino. [f. 114 [cxvi.]
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 57 
 
 Capa Leulini Assaviensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 
 Capa David Assaviensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 
 Capa Aniani Bangoriensis Episcopi de Baudekino. 
 
 Capa Johannis de Hothum Elyensis Episcopi de rubeo 
 
 samicto brudato cum ymaginibus. 
 Capa .J. de Cendale Wyntoniensis Episcopi tota brudata 
 
 auro cum ymaginibus et angelis de serico brudatis. 
 
 Cape p7-ofessionuni Abbatiim. 
 
 Capa Osvvaldi Abbatis de Feversham de rubeo samicto 
 
 brudato. 
 Capa Galfridi Abbatis de Feversham de Baudekino. 
 Capa dementis Abbatis de Feversham de Baudekino. 
 Capa .W. de Cantuar Abbatis de Langedofi de Baudekino. 
 Capa Roberti de Moningeham. Abbatis sancte Radegundis. 
 
 de Baudekino. 
 
 Timice et Dahnatice. 
 
 Par unum Lanfranci. unde dalmatica de Inde frectat' auro. 
 
 et tunica nigra cum stellis. et bestijs aureis in circuH 
 
 {sic) brudata. 
 Item Par unum de rubeo samicto brudato. unde dalmatica 
 
 Aquihs cum duobus capitibus aureis. et tunica cum 
 
 bestiis. et arboribus aureis desuper consutis cum tasselHs 
 
 ante et retro. 
 Item Par unum de Panno de Tharse coloris de pounaz cum 
 
 stelhs et crescenciis aureis cum Tassellis in dorso de 
 
 martirio Sancti Stephani brudatis super Dalmaticam. 
 
 et martirium Sancti Thome brudatum super tunicam. 
 Item Par unum de Albo panno de Antioche diasperatum. 
 
 unde Dalmatica cum paruris aureis de ymaginibus. et 
 
 tunica cum aurifrigio in collo cum gemmis et perulis. 
 Item par unum de Albo panno de Antioche diasperatum. 
 
 cum quatuor radijs de aurifrigiis ante et quatuor retro. 
 Item Par unum Sancti Edmundi de samicto de morre cum 
 
 tassellis ante et retro consutis. 
 Item Par unum Katherine Lovel consutum. 
 Item Par unum de Purpureo de Inde cum aurifrigiis de 
 
 ymaginibus in dorso sedentibus. et ante stantibus. 
 Item Par unum Livingi archiepiscopi de samicto de morre 
 
 cum Tassellis ante et retro. 
 Item Par unum Ade Prioris de sindone de morre de Tripe. 
 Item Par unum ejusdem de sindone de purpureo amplici. 
 Item Par unum ejusdem de rubeo samicto. [f. 114 b.
 
 5S INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHUA'CII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item Par unum ejusdem de viridi paiino cum tassellis in 
 
 tergo. 
 Item Par unum de samicto rubeo cum tassellis ante et 
 
 retro. 
 Item Par unum simplex de rubeo samicto. 
 Item Par unum .J. de Boctofi de croceo samicto cum 
 
 tassellis de Baudekino ante et retro. 
 Item Par unum de Baudekino. de floribus de liz. 
 Item Par unum de rubeo panno strangulatum auro. unde 
 
 dalmatica diasperata. 
 Item Par unum pro festo Sancti Michaelis diversi coloris. 
 Item Par unum de rubeo panno de Genne diasperatum cum 
 
 stragulis et stellis aureis. 
 Item Par unum .W. de Geynesbergh. Episcopi Wygorni- 
 
 ensis de rubeo velvetto cum albo aurifrigio. 
 Item Par unum de rubeo samicto. unde tunica cum Paruris 
 
 ante et retro. 
 Item Tunica de Inde de Gangi. 
 Item Dalmatica de Inde de panno de Tharse cum Gallis et 
 
 equitibus de auro frectatis. 
 
 A /be de Semico In Vestiario. 
 
 Albe .xiiij. de panno diaspcrato cum paruris brudatis. 
 Item Alba una de albo samicto cum paruris brudatis. 
 Item Alba una Symonis de Sancto Paulo de sindone. cum 
 
 paruris brudatis de hystoria Sancti Thome. 
 Item Alba Stephani de Ikham de sindone cum paruris de 
 
 indico samicto brudatis aquilis et leonibus. 
 Item quinque Albe de serico piano cum paruris Brudatis. 
 Item Alba Sancti Thome de serico. 
 
 Summa Albarum de serico .xxiij. 
 
 A Ibe de L ineo panno in vestiario. 
 
 Albe .X. cum paruris nigris brudatis unde una cum 
 
 ymaginibus stantibus in tabernaculis. 
 Item Albe sex cum paruris de Inde samicto brudato. 
 Item Albe sex cum paruris de viridi panno diasperato 
 
 brudato. 
 Item Alba Elianore Regine cum paruris albis brudatis. cum 
 
 ymaginibus stantibus. 
 Item Alba .S. de Ikham cum paruris de samicto rubeo 
 
 brudato. 
 Item Albe .xij. cum paruris de samicto rubeo brudato. 
 Item Albe .v. cum paruris de rubeo sindone brudato.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 59 
 
 Item Alba Johannis de Wokkingg cum paruris de hysteria 
 
 Sancti Thome brudatis. 
 Item Alba Thome de Stureye cum paruris de Inde velvetto 
 
 cum magnis rosis brudatis. 
 Item Alba ejusdem cum paruris de Inde velvetto cum scutis 
 
 et floribus de liz brudatis. 
 Item Alba Johannis de Taneto cum paruris de rubea sindone 
 
 de tripe brudatis cum rosis. 
 Item Alba Andree de Hardr' cum paruris de viridi brudatis 
 
 scutis. [f. 115 [cxvii.] 
 
 Item Alba de viridi panno de Tharse cum quercubus et 
 
 glandibus brudato. 
 Item Alba .G. de Chileham cum paruris de Inde samicto 
 
 brudatis floribus de liz. 
 Item Albe .viij. Katerine Lovel consute. 
 Item Alba .W. de Cherringg consuta cum scutis et nigris 
 
 litteris. 
 Item Alba .M. de Clive consuta cum scutis et litteris nigris. 
 Item Alba .R. de Pritelwelle de rubeo samicto brudato 
 
 cum scutis et papejays. 
 Item Alba ejusdem consuta cum scutis. 
 Item Alba .R. Poucyn cum paruris de rubea syndone 
 
 strictis brudatis rosis in frectis. 
 Item Alba ejusdem de rubea sindone brudata albis rosis de 
 
 serico in frectis aureis. 
 Item Alba ejusdem consuta de losenges cum armis regis 
 
 Anglie et de LeyburH. 
 Item Alba ejusdem consuta cum scutis et cum litteris 
 
 brudata. 
 Item Alba .J. de Welles cum capitibus regum et Episco- 
 
 porum in circulis brudatis de cingnis^ argenteis. 
 Item due Albe ejusdem consute cum scutis. 
 Item Alba Stephani de Worthe cum paruris de Inde 
 
 brudatis rosis et floribus de liz. 
 Item Alba ejusdem consuta cum aquilis et Griphonibus 
 
 aureis. 
 Item Alba R. de Adesham consuta cum scutis. 
 Item Alba Thome Brian consuta de armis de Northwode et 
 
 Ponyngg in quadrangulis. 
 Item Alba .J. de Wy consuta cum scutis. 
 Item Albe .iiij. cum paruris de samicto rubeo. unde .ij. cum 
 
 aurifrigiis in medio. 
 Item una Alba consuta. 
 
 ' sic for " cignis."
 
 6o INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item una Alba cum paruris textis. 
 
 Item due Albe cum paruris de samicto de Inde cum magnis 
 
 floribus desupcr consutis. 
 Item Albe .xviij. cum paruris de panno serico. 
 Item Albe tres Danielis de Siffletofi consute cum scutis. 
 Item Alba ejusdem consuta cum quadrangulis. 
 Item Alba J. de Lyndestede consuta de losenges et alba 
 
 frectura. 
 Item Alba Eudonis de Bocton consuta cum scutis. 
 Item Albe .vij. cum paruris de div'ersis colonbus. 
 Item Alba Ricardi de Sharstede brudata cum una aquila 
 
 aurea et alia argentea. 
 Item Alba ejusdem consuta stricta cum scutis. 
 ^Item Alba Ricardi de Clive consuta et brudata de diversis 
 
 scutis. 
 ^Item Alba ejusdem consuta de diversis armis in losengis 
 
 cum frectis purpureis cum stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 
 operis. 
 
 Summa Albarum de lino cum paruris brudatis, 
 
 Summa Albarum cum Paruris consutis et textis. 
 
 xxviij. 
 Summa Albarum communium cum paruris diver- 
 
 sorum colorum. xxix. 
 Summa Omnium Albarum in vestiario cum Albis 
 
 de serico. C.xxxij. 
 
 Amicti. [f. 115 b. 
 
 Amictus Sancti Thome gemmis ornatus. 
 Amictus unus auro egregius gemmis ornatus. 
 Amicti de aurifrigio gemmis ornati .l.x. cum colar'. 
 Amictus .8. de Sancto Paulo amalatus. 
 
 Stole et Manipidi. 
 
 Par unum brudatum cum ymaginibus stantibus cum platis 
 
 auri perulis et gemmis in pendicijs. 
 Item Par unum de rubeo samicto brudatum cum platis auri 
 
 perulis et gemmis. 
 Item tria paria de rubeo samicto non brudata cum perulis 
 
 et gemmis in pendicijs. 
 Item par unum de Morre cum perulis et gemmis in 
 
 pendicijs. 
 Item par unum de aurifrigio cum perulis in pendiciis. 
 
 ' These two items are a later addition bv the same hand.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 6i 
 
 Item .ix. paria diversorum colorum brudata. 
 Item .iiij. paria consuta. 
 
 Item par unum de albo aurifrigio cum angelis in pendicijs. 
 Item par unum de aurifrigio veteri cum ymaginibus stanti- 
 bus. 
 Item par unum Textum. 
 
 Ornamenta ecclesiastica in Ciistodia qiiatiior Sichsao'istarum. 
 
 Casule Albe .ij. Tunice .ij. et dalmatice .ij. Et mantella .j. 
 
 ejusdem coloris. 
 Item pro martyribus. Casule iij. Tunice .ij. Dalmatice .ij. 
 
 Mantelle .ij. rubce. 
 Item pro Confessoribus. Casule .iij. Tunica .j. Dalmatica .j. 
 
 et mantelle .ij. de viridi. 
 Item pro Reliquijs Casula una. Tunica .j. Dalmatica .j. 
 
 Mantelle .ij. 
 Item pro virginibus. Casula .j. Tunica .j. Dalmatica .j. 
 Item pro defunctis. Casule .ij. Mantelle .ij. nigre. 
 Item Mantelle .iij. ad patenam portandam. Cape albe .iij. 
 
 Cape rubee ,ij. cape virides .iij. Capa ferialis .j. Cape 
 
 nigre .iiij. Cape veteres puerorum de diversis coloribus 
 
 .xiij. Stole albe .iij. cum .iiij. manipulis albis. Stole 
 
 rubee .iiij. cum .iij. manipulis rubeis. Stole virides .ij. 
 
 cum tribus manipulis viridibus. 
 Item Stola et Manipulum .W.^ Lovel consuta. 
 Item Stole .ij. manipuli .iij. pro reliquijs. 
 Item Stole .ij. Manipuli .iij. pro virginibus. 
 Item Stole .iij. cum quatuor manipulis. pro defunctis. 
 Item Stole feriales .ij. cum .iiij. manipulis. 
 Summa stolarum .xix. 
 Summa manipulorum .xxv. 
 Item pallia magni altaris .iiij. cum frontellis. unde una de 
 
 panno operato. 
 Item pallia .v. ad idem sine frontellis unde .ij. pallia cum 
 
 rosis. 
 Item pallia pro altaribus Sanctorum Dunstani et Aelphegi 
 
 .vj. unde .iiij. cum frontellis. et.ij. palliis operatis. 
 Item manutergia parva .iij. 
 
 Item panni de serico .iiij. pro patena et reliquijs portanda 
 Item pannus .j. consutus pro missali in festis majoribus. 
 Item alius pannus consutus cotidianus pro eodem. 
 Item baculi Cantorum lignei cotidiani .ij. 
 Item Albe. Lxiiij. cum Amictibus. unde sex Albe sine paruris.
 
 62 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item libri epistolar' .ij, [f. ii6 [cxviii.] 
 
 Item Pixis .j. de Ebore ad hostias. 
 Item libri .ij. de exequijs mortuomm. 
 
 Nova vestinienta Obi a fa tempore. H. Pj-ioris. 
 
 Vestimentum .J. de Peccham. Archiepi.scopi. videlicet. Casula 
 
 .j. Tunica .j. et Dalmatica .j. de panno rubeo aurato. 
 Item vestimentum .R. de Winchelesee Archiepiscopi precio- 
 
 sum. videlicet Casula .j. Capa.j, Tunica .j. et Dalmatica. 
 
 .j diasperata auro cum ymaginibus brudatis et operatis 
 
 cum perulis.^ 
 Item tres Albe ejusdcm cum paruris ejusdem operis et 
 
 colons. 
 Item tres Stole at tres manipuli ejusdem operis et coloris. 
 Item Alba ejusdem brudata cum scutis et perulis cum stola 
 
 et manipulo ejusdem operis. 
 Item Alba ejusdem cum paruris brudatis cum Griffonibus 
 
 et pavonibus et nigris litteris brudatis. cum amictu de 
 
 perulis. 
 Item Stola et Manipulum ejusdem cum perulis. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem de rubeo samicto brudato cum 
 
 arboribus aureis. videlicet Casula .j. Capa .j. Tunice .ij 
 
 et Dalmatice .ij. cum aurifrigiis de perulis operatis. 
 \^In a different hand : Item Vestimenta ejusdem infra.] 
 Item Vestimentum Philippi Regis Francie de panno de Inde 
 
 cum floribus de liz. videlicet Casule palliate .iiij. Capa 
 
 cum Tunica et dalmatica ejusdem panni et operis. cum 
 
 aurifrigiis viridibus brudatis et cum quinque albis. cum 
 
 paruris ejusdem panni et operis. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem de rubeo samicto non brudato. 
 
 videlicet Casula palliata .iij. Cape. Tunica et Dalmatica. 
 
 cum aurifrigiis de Inde cum floribus de liz aureis. Et 
 
 cum tribus Albis cum paruris ejusdem panni brudatis 
 
 cum floribus de liz. 
 
 • Archbishop Robert of Winchelsey's will, dated 7th May, 1313, contains 
 the following bequests to his cathedral church : " Item preciosum vesti- 
 mentum nostrum quod fieri fecimus de opere breudato et diasperato auro et 
 perulis cum omnibus apparamentis suis videlicet capa chori / casula / tunica 
 et dalmatica pro nobis ac tunica et dalmatica pro diacono et subdiacono 
 albis. amictis. stolis. manipulis. ac corrigiis omnibus ejusdem secte. &c. quod 
 dedimus et tradidimus ecclesie nostre predictein eadem ecclesia ad nostram 
 memoriam ad cultus divini honorem volumus perpetuo rcmanere." Carta 
 Aiitiqiccc^ W. 218. Either this suit or one described a little further on in the 
 inventory is that for which the archbishop is remembered in the Kalendar 
 of Obits : " Casulam. tunicam et dalmaticam et capam chori preciosissimam." 
 Lambeth MS. 20. f. 186.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 63 
 
 Item vestimentum Comitisse Hereford' de rubeo panno 
 velvetto. videlicet Casula palliata. Tunica et Dalmatica 
 cum aurifrigijs de armis Regis Anglie et Comitis Here- 
 fordie operatis. Et cum tribus albis cum paruris ejusdem 
 panni. 
 
 Item Casula Roberti Comitis Bolonie de samicto rubeo 
 palHato cum aurifrigiis diversorum armorum. 
 
 Item Casula Antelini de Pisano de panno aureo cum auri- 
 frigiis de Inde ante et retro, brudatis de ymaginibus 
 stantibus in tabernaculis. 
 
 Item Capa Ricardi de Rokeslee de rubeo panno velvetto cum 
 aurifrigio albo. 
 
 Item Casula Alba diasperata et palliata largo aurifrigio cum 
 tunica alba diasperata et frectata quadrangulis aureis. 
 
 Item Dalmatica alba diasperata cum floribus aureis domini 
 R. de Winchesee [^sic] Archiepi'scopi. 
 
 \_Added in another hand : 
 
 Item vestimentum. R. de Winchelese archiepiscopi. 
 
 J, vestimentum magnum diasperatum silicet \_S2c\ Casulam 
 
 tunicamdalmaticam et unam albam paratam cum amictu 
 
 stola et manipulo precij .x.li. 
 Item .j. Capam albamdiasperatam cum aurifrigenode perulis 
 
 precij .C. sol'. 
 Item tunicam et dalmaticam albas diasperatas precij .xl. 
 
 sol'. 
 Item .j. albam de Bokerammo cum amictu et paruris albis 
 
 brudatis precij .xx. sol']. 
 
 Nova vestimenta in vestiario facta tempore H. Prioris} 
 
 Vestimentum ejusdem H. de rubeo samicto brudato de armis 
 regis Anglie. videlicet Casula. Capa cum tunica et dal- 
 matica ejusdem panni et operis. 
 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem .H. de Albo panno de Tharse. 
 de opere de Turkye. videlicet Casula palliata. cum 
 duabus dalmaticis et .j. tunica cum aurifrigiis de armis 
 Regis Anglie et Francie. 
 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem .H. de panno de Inde samicto 
 brudato stellis et crescencijs. videlicet Capa cum auri- 
 
 ' The first three items in this Hst are probably part of the gifts of prior 
 Henry of Eastr)' described in the Kaiendar of Obits : " Ornamentisquoque 
 ecclesiasticis. videlicet Cappis. casulis. tunicis. dalmaticis diversi colons, et 
 albis et anulis pontificalibus preciosis ecclesiam decoiavit. et nobiliter 
 ditavit." Lambeth MS. 20. f. 1781^.
 
 64 INJ'E.VTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 frigio/ de armis Regis Anglie cum tunica et [f. Ii6 b. 
 
 dalmatica ejusdem panni et operis. 
 Item Vestimentum de rubeo panno aureo. videlicet Casula 
 
 cum aurifrigiis ante et retro de armis Regis Anglie. et 
 
 Francie. et aliorum cum tunica et duabus dalmaticis 
 
 ejusdem panni et coloris. 
 Item Vestimentum de rubeo panno de Antioche cum avibus 
 
 de Inde et capitibus aureis. videlicet Casula cum auri- 
 
 frigio albo palliato cum tunica et dalmatica ejusdem 
 
 panni et operis. cum tassellis ante et retro brudatis. 
 Item Vestimentum de Inde panno de Antioche cum avibus 
 
 aureis. videlicet casula cum aurifrigio ante et retro de 
 
 vexillis diversorum armorum. 
 Item Capa ejusdem panni cum tunica et dalmatica ejusdem 
 
 operis et coloris. 
 Item Vestimentum de panno rubeo Antioche cum avibus 
 
 et bestiisviridibus et capitibus et pedibus aureis. videlicet 
 
 Casula palliata albo aurifrigio cum duabus dalmaticis et 
 
 .j. tunica ejusdem panni et operis. 
 Item Capa de albo samicto brudata cum magnis avibus 
 
 aureis cum aurifrigio diversi coloris. Qui quidem 
 
 pannus vocabatur Duredent. 
 Item Due Cape de panno albo de Antioche cum avibus 
 
 et bestijs rubeis. et capitibus et pedibus aureis cum auri- 
 frigiis rubeis. 
 Item Vestimentum .R. de Rawe. et .W. de Lydeber'. 
 
 feretrariorum de samicto rubeo brudato de ymaginibus 
 
 stantibus in tabernaculis. videlicet Casula. Capa cum 
 
 tunica et dalmatica auro diasperatis cum aurifrigiis 
 
 ejusdem operis et coloris. 
 Item Vestimentum VValteri de Northwico de panno albo de 
 
 Antioche diasperato. videlicet Casula palliata cum 
 
 tunica et dalmatica ejusdem panni et operis cum tasselis 
 
 rubeis ante et retro. 
 Item Tunica et dalmatica de nigro panno aureo de opere de 
 
 Turkye. 
 Item Vestimentum .W. de Lideber' de viridi velvetto. 
 
 videlicet Casula palliata cum aurifrigio albo. cum tunica 
 
 et dalmatica. ejusdem panni et coloris. 
 Item Vestimentum Waited de Chilindenii de rubeo samic- 
 
 tello. videlicet Casula. Tunica. Dalmatica. ejusdem 
 
 panni et coloris. cum .j. alba de largis paruris consuta 
 
 de scutis. 
 Item Vestimentum Alexandri de Sandwico. videlicet Casula 
 
 alba diasperata et palliata lato aurifrigio. cum alba.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 65 
 
 amictu. stola. et manipulo. et corporalibus omnibus 
 brudatis. et uno cingulo de serico rubeo piano. 
 
 Item Casula alba diasperata et palliata stricto aurifrigio cum 
 alba et amictu stola et manipulo de albo panno de 
 Tharse et corporalibus consutis cum cingulo de rubeo 
 serico piano. 
 
 Item Casula rubeo de Antioche operata de avibus et bestijs 
 et palliata aurifrigio cum alba amictu stola et manipulo 
 et corporalibus omnibus brudatis opere circulari cum 
 cingulo de rubeo serico brudato. 
 
 Item Casula rubea de Tharse cum besancijs aureis et alba 
 amictu stola et manipulo et corporalibus omnibus 
 consutis et brudatis. cum cingulo de rubeo serico brudato. 
 
 Item Casula rubea de catsamit palliata. cum alba, amictu. 
 stola. et manipulo. et corporalibus rubeis omnibus 
 brudatis. et cingulo de serico mixto. 
 
 Item Casula viridis de Tharse palliata. cum alba, amictu 
 stola. et manipulo. omnibus de viridi brudatis. et corpor- 
 alibus consutis cum cingulo de rubeo serico piano. 
 
 Item Casula de Inde palliata. cum alba, amictu. stola. et 
 manipulo. omnibus de inde brudatis. et corporalibus 
 consutis cum cingulo de serico mixto. 
 
 Item Alba ejusdem Alexandri. una cum amictu de rubeo 
 serico stricto. 
 
 Item pallium altaris cum frontallo brudato cum scutis. 
 
 Item pallium altaris cum frontallo rubeo brudato de vineis. 
 
 Item pallium altaris cum frontallo de inde brudato. de vineis 
 et scutis. 
 
 Item pallium ejusdem altaris Alexandri cum frontallo con- 
 suto de scutis. 
 
 Vestimentum Thome de Greneweye. Casula .j. tunica et 
 dalmatica. cum capa chori et tribus albis de rubeo 
 panno de Antioche diasperato de pavonibus et arboribus 
 de auro. Aurifrigium Casule album, cum ymaginibus 
 operatum cum stola et duobus manipulis ejusdem panni. 
 
 \In a larger and apparently different hand .•] 
 
 Vestimenta Johannis de Westgate. videlicet, [f. 117. 
 
 [cxix]. ' 
 
 Casula alba cum pallio consuta et brudata diversis armis et 
 
 alba de eodem panno cum ramis et diversis armis. Stola 
 
 et manipulo de eadem secta cum corporalibus brudatis. 
 Item Casula ejusdem de rubeo sindone de tuly cum alba 
 
 de ymaginibus brudat'. stola et manipulo de eadem 
 
 secta.
 
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 jtem Casula ejusdem de indico sindone cum alba stola et 
 iTianipulo de panno de tarse brudat'. 
 
 Vestimenta Thome de Middletoii. videlicet. 
 
 Casula alba fretta de albo. cum pallio albo de simplici 
 aurifrigio cum alba et amictu ejusdem panni brudat'. 
 Scutis ramis et Iblijs de serico cum stola et manipulo 
 textis de auro et serico cum cingulo de viridi serico. 
 
 Item alba ejusdem cum amictu de panno aurino albo. 
 
 Vestimenta Henrici de Monyngehim. 
 
 Alba una cum paruris de viridi panno de Tarse brudatis cum 
 aquilis et leonibus aureis frectat' albo serico. 
 
 Item Alba una cum parure [sic] de rubeo samicto brudato 
 cum leonibus aureis et floribus de liz argenteis. 
 
 Vestimenta Bertrami de Eastria. 
 
 Casula dupplicata de viridi et indico sindone palliata intus 
 et extra cum albo aurifrigio stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 secte. 
 
 Item alba cum paruris albis de carse [sic] cum parvis avibus. 
 
 Vestiment' Reginaldi de Taneto. 
 
 Casula ejusdem de panno de Morre de carse \sic\ cum 
 avibus et arboribus aureis cum aurifrigio/ ante [f. 117 b. 
 et retro de ymaginibus stantibus in tabernaculis cum 
 alba et amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem panni cum 
 corporalibus brudatis cum crucifixo. 
 
 Vestimenta Johannis de Gore. 
 
 Casula viridis palliata cum avibus deauratis de panno de 
 Antioche cum albaet amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 panni cum .j. frontali. 
 
 Item casula alba diasperata cum capitibus avium deauratis 
 et aurifrigio largo de scutis brudato cum albaet amictu 
 stola et manipulo ejusdem panni cum .j. frontali. 
 
 Item casula rubea de paimo de antioche cum animalibus 
 deauratis et aurifrigio largo de scutis cum alba et 
 amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem panni. 
 
 Item Casula duplicata et palliata extra de rubeo panno de 
 tarse et intra de nigro panno serico de Tripe cum stola 
 et manipulo ejusdem panni. 
 
 Item Casula duplicata et palliata extra de viridi panno de 
 Tarse et intra de rubeo sindone.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 67 
 
 Vestimenta Stephani de Faveresham. 
 
 Casula alba de Griphonibus et floribus aureis et aurifrigio in 
 dorso de armis regis Anglie cum alba et amictu stola et 
 manipulo ejusdem pani \sic\. 
 
 Item casula rubea palliata cum stellis aureis et crescentijs 
 argenteis cum alba et amictu ejusdem operis et stola et 
 manipulo rubeis brudatis et frectatis. 
 
 Item casula ejusdem viridis palliata exterius et interius alba 
 palliata cum alba et amictu et paruris viridibus cum 
 aquilis aureis brudatis cum stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 panni. 
 
 Item alba ejusdem cum amictu brudata cum diversis capiti- 
 bus et avibus brudatis. 
 
 Item alba cum amictu brudata cum quinque capitibus in 
 quinque Rundellis brudatis. Et ista alba est ad altare 
 beate Marie in navi ecclesie. Item ymago eburnca 
 stans in tabernaculo cum cruce eburnea super taberna- 
 culum. S. de Faversham. 
 
 Vestimenta Nicolai de Bourne. [f. 118 [cxx.] 
 
 Casula de Inde de pano \sic\ de Antioche cum avibus aureis 
 et floribus et arboribus argenteis cum albo aurifrigio 
 ante et retro cum alba et amictu stola et manipulo 
 consutis de diversis scutis et frontal' de panno predictc. 
 Et est ad altare beate Marie in navi ecclesie. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum cum casula de panno viridi de 
 velvetto cum aurifrigio ante et retro operate avibus et 
 perulis cum alba et amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 operis et cingulo cerico cum frontale de opere predict! 
 aurifrigii. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula de panno 
 de tarce diasperato et palliato cum alba et amictu ejus- 
 dem panni brudato stola et manipulo de panno de 
 Antioche et cingulo de serico. 
 
 Vestimenta Willelmi de Ledebur'. 
 
 Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula viridi de velvetto 
 cum dorsario brudato de armis regis Anglie et Francie 
 et aliorum cum alba brudata de historia natalis et 
 passionis domini et amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 secte cum corporalibus brudatis. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula rubea 
 diasperata cum foliis et floribus indici coloris cum alba 
 amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem secte brudat' cum 
 
 F 2
 
 6S INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 grifonibus et agno argenteo in medio et corporalibus de 
 serico consutis. 
 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem integrum cum casula de morre 
 diasperata cum grifonibus et aquilis cum capitibus et 
 pedibus deauratis cum alba amictu stola et manipulo ac 
 corporalibus ejusdem panni. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula dupplici. 
 ex parte una rubei coloris et ex altera de colore de 
 plunket cum alba amictu stola et manipulo et corpora- 
 libus brudatis de armis Regum Anglie et aliorum. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula de panno 
 albo aurino cum alba amictu stola manipulo et cor- 
 poralibus ejusdem secte. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula de panno 
 de Tarce viridis coloris diasperat' cum foliis vinearum 
 cum alba amictu brudata cum aquilis aureis et rosis 
 rubeis et stola et manipulo de velvetto cum rosis aureis 
 brudat' sine corporalibus. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula dupplici 
 de panno de camboca. ex parte una coloris subrubei 
 et ex altera crocei coloris cum alba et amictu de serico 
 consutis diversis armis et stola et manipulo de auri- 
 frigio texto et corporalibus brudatis ex parte una 
 ymagine crucifixi. [f. Ii8 b. 
 
 Item Vestimentum integrum ejusdem cum casula dupplici 
 de sindone rubei coloris ex parte unaet purpurei coloris 
 ex altera cum alba amictu stola et manipulo consutis 
 diversis armis cum corporalibus. 
 
 Item Alba ejusdem cum paruris et amictu de viridi velvetto 
 brudato cum rosis aureis. 
 
 Vestimenta .W. de Northwico. 
 
 Vestimentum de velvetto de purpureo cum alba et amictu 
 
 stola et manipulo ejusdem panni. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem Indici coloris cum columbellis 
 
 aureis cum alba et amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem 
 
 panni. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem viridis coloris de Tarce cum 
 
 alba et amictu stola et manipulo consutis cum scutis. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem glauci coloris cum alba et 
 
 amictu stola et manipulo ejusdem panni. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem cum casula exterius rubea et 
 
 interius alba cum alba et amictu stola et manipulo 
 
 brudatis cum scutis.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 69 
 
 Vestimenta Johannis de Winchelese, 
 
 Vestimentum integrum cum Casula cluppHcata interius 
 rubea et exterius viridis cum stola et amictu brudatis 
 cum stantibus ymaginibus. et stola et manipulo bru- 
 datis de scutis. 
 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem cum casula dupplicata interius 
 rubea et exterius de inde cum alba et amictu brudatis 
 cum ymaginibus sancte Marie et Johannis baptiste et 
 diversis animalibus. 
 
 Item Alba ejusdem cum amictu. brudatis cum griffonibus. 
 
 Item Alba ejusdem cum amictu cum paruris et panno de 
 Turkic. 
 
 Vestimenta Johannis de Sandwico. 
 Vestimentum cum casula duplicata et pallionata ex una 
 
 parte alba et ex alia parte crocea cum alba et amictu 
 
 albis et brudatis cum rubeis rosis de serico et frectatis. 
 Item Vestimentum ejusdem cum casula dupplicata et 
 
 pallionata et ex una parte rubea et ex altera viridis 
 
 cum alba et amictu stola et manij^ulo de rubeo panno 
 
 brudat' auro et argento de scutis. 
 
 [Four leaves are here wanting.] 
 [The original hand here resumes :] 
 
 Cruces. [f. ii9[cxxv.] 
 
 Item .iiij. Cruces ad processionem cum patibulis deauratis et 
 
 gemmis ornatis cum baculis argento coopertis. 
 Item .ij. Cruces portatiles pro domino Archiepiscopo unde 
 
 unus baculus tornatilis. 
 Item Crux Johannis Archiepiscopi argentea deaurata cum 
 
 duabus ymaginibus argenteis. 
 Item Crux ejusdem parva de auro cum ligno dominico et 
 
 dupplici patibulo. 
 Item Hasta .j. cooperta argento ad portandum cereum ad 
 
 novum ignem. 
 Item parva crux aurea Symonis de Sancto Paulo cum 
 
 reliquijs et cum .iiij. rubinis et .j. margarita in medio. 
 
 Caliccs et patem auree. 
 Calix magnus aureus Regis Henrici tercij cum gemmis in 
 
 nodo pedis. 
 Item Calix aureus ad Magnam Missam in choro. 
 Item Calix aureus minor ad Missam Matutinalem. 
 Item Calix aureus ad feretrum cum viridi amal' in nodo 
 
 pedis. 
 Item Calix aureus Philippi Regis francie.
 
 ^o INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 [Item Calix aureus cum patena domini .R. de Winchelese 
 ponderis Ix.s. Et valet Ix. Marcas. added in paler ink.] 
 
 Item Calices et patene argent ee. 
 Calices argenti in vestiario .vij. unde .iiij. deaurati. et .] non 
 
 deauratus. 
 Item Calices ad diversa altaria infra portas cum Elemosinar' 
 
 .xxvij. unde .xxiij. deaurati. Et .iiij. non deaurati. 
 Item Calices in diversis maneriis .xx. 
 [Item Calix cum patena deaurat' de dono domine de 
 
 Chompaine ponderis xxv.s. 
 Item Calix .R. de Clive cum patena intus deauratus 
 
 ponderis .xviij. solidorum. 
 Item Calix. W.de Northwico intus deauratus cum patena pon- 
 deris .ix. solidorum. added later in different coloured ink.] 
 Bacilli Pastorales. 
 Baculus cedrinus cum .ix. angelis aureis .J. Archiepiscopi. 
 Item Baculus ejusdem argenteus anelatus cum floribus de Liz. 
 Item Baculus albus eburneus. 
 Item Baculus Sancti Thome de Piro cum capite de nigro 
 
 cornu. 
 Item Baculus de lynde cum capite de nigro cornu et paucis 
 
 gemmis ornatus. 
 Item Baculus .B. Archiepiscopi gemmis ornatus cum 
 magestate et Episcopo argent' in capite. 
 
 Mitre. [f. 119 b 
 
 Mitra aurea cum perulis infra et extra et gemmis preciosis 
 
 .H. Regis tercij. 
 Item Mitra aurea .J. de Pcccham Archiepiscopi cum gemmis 
 preciosis.^ 
 1 This was probably the mitre made for archbishop Peckham in 1288, at 
 the enormous cost of ^173 4^. xd.., in accordance with the following" warrant : 
 "Anno eodem (1288) ij. Kal. Aprilis, emanavit litera sub sigillo privato 
 domini in hac forma : Universis presentes literas inspecturis. Frater 
 Johannes, permissione divina Cantuariensis ecclesiai minister humilis, totius 
 Anglia,' primas, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit universitas vestra 
 C|uod dominum Petrus de Geldeford, thesaurarius garderobti; nostrse, solvit 
 et libera vit de praicepto nostro speciali per visum fratris Henrici de Kynges- 
 toa, diversis locis et temporibus, centum sexaginta tresdecim libras, 
 quatuor solidos, unum denarium sterlingorum, pro auro, lapidibus, opere et 
 aliis necessariis cujusdam novas mitrse quam fieri fecimus London per visum 
 et ordinationem ejusdem fratris Henrici. Quam quidem pecuniam dicto 
 domino Petro in proximo compoto suo volumus allocari. In cujus rei 
 testimonium sigillum nostrum prajsentibus est appensum. Datum apud 
 Ottelord ii. Kal Aprilis anno Domini millesimo ducentesimo octogesimo 
 o tavo, ordinationis nostrae decimo." Rci(. Peckham^ f 132. Printed in 
 Ri'gistrum Epistolarum Fr'itiis Jo/iaiinis Peckham Archiepiscopi Can- 
 tuariensis (Rolls' Series 77), iii. 957.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 71 
 
 Item Mitra ejusdem argentea cum duabus crucibus super 
 
 cornua. 
 Item Mitre .iiij. brudate et gemmis ornate. 
 Item Mitre .iij. cum perulis ornate sine gemmis. 
 Item Mitre due simplices de Bokram, 
 
 Cirothcce. 
 Cirothece .R. de Winchelesee cum perulis et gemmis in 
 
 plata quad rata. 
 Item Par unum cum tasselis argenteis et parvis lapidibus. 
 Item .iiij. paria cum tasselis argenteis. 
 Item Par unum de lino cum tasselis argenteis et perulis. 
 
 Sandalia. 
 Tria paria brudata unde unum par album R. Archiepiscopi 
 Aliud rubeum. et tercium de Inde. 
 
 Anitli pontificaks. 
 
 Unus Anulus quadratus magnus cum smaragdine oblongo. 
 
 et quatuor pramis. et quatuor gernettis. 
 Item Anulus magnus cum saphiro. et quatuor pramis. cum 
 
 quatuor margaritis. 
 Item Anulus magnus cum saphiro oblongo. 
 Item Anulus cum saphiro nigro in .iiij. cramponibus ex 
 
 omni parte discooperto. 
 Item Anulus Johannis Archiepiscopi cum saphiro nigro 
 
 cum .viij. granis smaragdinis. 
 Item Anulus .R. de Winchelesee archiepiscopi cum saphiro 
 
 aquoso oblongo cum .vj. granis smaragdinis et sex 
 
 parvis Gernettis. 
 
 Jocalia Sancti TJiovie. 
 
 Anulus pontificalis magnus cum rubino rotundo in medio. 
 Item Anulus magnus cum saphiro nigro qui vocatur lup. 
 Item Anulus minor cum saphiro nigro qui vocatur lup. 
 Item Anulus cum parvo saphiro nigro qui vocatur lup. 
 Item Anulus cum saphiro quadrato aquoso. 
 Item Anulus cum lapide oblongo qui vocatur Turkoyse. 
 Item Anulus .j. cum viridi cornelino sculpto rotundo. 
 Item Anulus .j. parvus cum smaragdine triangulato. 
 
 [f. 120 [cxxvi.] 
 Item Anulus .j. cum calcedonio oblongo. 
 
 Item lapides ejusdem in aura situati. 
 
 Sapphirus .j. oblongus qui vocatur loup. 
 Item Onichinus .j. oblongus.
 
 72 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item Crapodinus .j. in auro. 
 
 Item Cornelinus .j, sculptus et oblongus in auro. 
 
 Item Crux aurea cum tribus Gernettis .iiij. perulis et [.ij. 
 
 written over erasurf\ granis saphiri. 
 Item firmacula tria parva. vetera. unde .ij. cum parvis gemmis, 
 
 et .j. cum nigro saphiro. 
 
 Itevi lapides ejiisdem in argcnto. 
 
 Lapis .j. in forma piri. 
 Item Jaspis .j. rotundus. 
 Item .j. peridot oblongus. 
 Item .j. prama rotunda in argento deaurato. 
 Item Crapodinus .j. in argento. 
 Item .j. Camau cum medietate hominis. 
 Item lapis .j. niger quadratus. 
 Item .j. Anulus argenteus cum gernettis. 
 Item OS album rotundum in argento. 
 
 Item Lapis .R. de Weynchepe oblongus cum cornelino 
 rubeo et capite hominis. 
 
 TJiurribula. 
 
 Duo Thurribula magna argentea deaurata. 
 
 Item Thurribula .ix. argentea et deaurata. unde .j. cum 
 pennis salamandre. Et .j. ad tumbam sancti Thome. Et 
 .j. ad altare sancte Marie in navi Ecclesie. 
 
 Vasa ad TJuis argentea. 
 
 Duo batelli. unde .j. deauratus. cum .ij. coclearibus. 
 
 Item .ij. Ciphi cum duobus coclearibus. 
 
 [Item batellus .j. cum cocliari quem habuit dominus .R. 
 
 Archiepiscopus. ponderis .xxj. solidorum added in same 
 
 hand.^ 
 
 Calepungni. 
 Tres calepungni de cupro deaurato. 
 
 Vasa ad Aquani Bcnedictavi. 
 
 Tria vasa argentea cum duobus aspersoriis. 
 
 [Item unum vas cum aspersorio argenteo quod habuit .R 
 
 Archiepiscopus. ponderis .iiij. li. xx. den', added in same 
 
 ha}id.'\ 
 
 Pelves argentee. 
 
 Quatuor pelves argentee. unde .iij. cum leonibus in fundo. 
 Item .j. parva pelvis.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 73 
 
 [Item .ij. pelves domini .H. de Rondale cum scutis in fundo 
 ponderis. viij. Ij. iij. s. iv. d. added in same JiandT^ 
 
 Avipidle argentee ad oleum. 
 
 Tres ampulle Maiores. unde .j. deaurata. 
 Item .iij. ampulle minores. unde .j. deaurata. 
 
 Ureioli ad vinum et aquam. [f. 120 b. 
 
 Ouatuor ureioli de cristallo. 
 
 Item .X. ureioli argentei in vestiario. 
 
 Item ad diversa altaria .xl. cum Elemosin' 
 
 Item .ij. ureioli parvi -S. de sancto Paulo. 
 
 Item .ij. ureioli domini .R. Archiepiscopi quorum j. deau- 
 
 ratus. 
 [Item ureioli .ij. W. de Northwico argentei ponderis .ix. solid, 
 
 added apparently m same hajid.^ 
 
 Candelabra argentea. 
 
 Quatuor Candelabra longa argentea deaurata. et de diversis 
 
 operibus operata. 
 Item .ij. Candelabra minora deaurata et operata. portatilia. 
 
 ad processiones solempnes. 
 Item .iiij. Candelabra in parte deaurata. 
 
 Pixides argentee ad hostias. 
 Tres pixides ad hostias. unde .j. parva cuppa, deaurata. 
 
 Ciippe ad Corpus domini. 
 
 Cuppa .j. de auro amalata bogonis de clare. 
 
 Item Cuppa .j. aurea cumi lapide onichino. cum pixide aurea 
 
 in fundo. cum .j. Camau. 
 Item Cuppa aurea curta Ludowici Regis Francie. 
 Item Cuppa argentea deaurata cum cistula aurea in fundo. 
 Item Corona argentea deaurata circa Cuppas. 
 
 Cnppe de Mnrro. 
 
 Cuppa sancti Thome, intra argentea et deaurata cum 
 
 pede operato. 
 Item Cuppa sine pede intra argentea et deaurata. cum 
 
 cristallo super pomellum. 
 Item Cooperculum Cuppe argentee et deaurate. cum 
 
 pomello argenteo et deaurato. 
 Item vetus Ciphus de Murro fractus et corruptus cum curto 
 
 pede argenteo.
 
 74 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item .ij. Ciplii parvi de Murro veteres sine pedibus circulis 
 et castonibus. 
 
 Baaili Cajitorum. 
 
 Baculus sancti Thome argentcus ct deauratus et gemmis 
 
 ornatus. 
 Item baculus sancti Dunstani minor argenteus cum gemmis 
 
 et capite eburneo. 
 Item baculus ejusdem major in parte argenteus et gemmis 
 
 ornatus cum dentc Sancti Andree. 
 Item .iiij. baculi de cornu cum capitibus eburneis. 
 Item quinque baculi argentei cum capitibus eburneis. 
 
 Pectines. 
 
 Pecten .j. aureus .H. Regis .tercij. gemmis ornatus cum 
 
 nigro Camau. ct gernettis quadratis. 
 Item [pecten written 07>er] .j. eburneus cum lamine argenteo 
 
 et deaurato cum gemmis ex utraque parte. 
 Item .vj. pectines eburnei. 
 
 Morsus Capa7'2nn. [f. 121 [cxxvii. 
 
 Morsus Johannis de Cendale Wyntoniensis Episcopi amal- 
 
 atus cum crucifixo deaurato et scuto in pede. 
 Morsus .j. quadratus de auro cum Gemmis et saphiro in 
 
 medio. 
 Item .xxviij. Morsi argentei cum Gemmis. 
 Item .iij. Morsi Regis francie amalati cum ymaginibus 
 
 argenteis et deauratis. 
 Item .iij. Morsi ejusdem amalati. quilibet cum Crucifixo a 
 
 dextris. ct Annunciatione a sinistris amalat'. 
 Item Morsus domini Walteri Wygornensis Episcopi amal- 
 
 atus cum duabus ymaginibus argenteis deauratis. 
 Item .ix. Morsi de Cupro. 
 
 Ciirtine ad magnum altare. 
 
 Due Curtine de rubeo sindone cum armis Regis Anglie. 
 Item .ij. Curtine Albe cum rubeis laqueis. 
 
 Pulvina7'ia. 
 
 Quinque parva pulvinaria unde .j. R. Archiepiscopi de 
 rubeo sindone brudato. et quatuor consuta. 
 
 Item quatuor pulvinaria magna .R. Archiepiscopi consuta 
 de serico pro ministris altaris. •
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 75 
 
 Libri Fontificalcs. 
 
 Pontificale magnum J. Archiepiscopi. 
 
 Item pontificale vetus unum. 
 
 Item .j. pontificale de rubeo corio bullito. 
 
 Libri dc Ecdcsiasticis Officijs. 
 
 Novem Missalia plenaria. 
 
 Item novum Missale magnum cum coopertorio de serico 
 
 consuto. 
 Item missale cotidianum in chore. 
 Item .iiij. Missalia abbreviata. 
 Item Gradale .S. Archiepiscopi. 
 Item .iij. portiforia secundum usum Sarum. 
 Item lectionale de sancto Furseo. 
 Item .iiij. Evangelia cum rubricis de reliquijs Ecclesie et de 
 
 sonitu. 
 Item commendatio anime cum exequijs mortuorum. 
 
 Cafitu'aria. 
 
 Capitularium et collectarium in chore. 
 Item Capitularium et collectarium novum. 
 Item Capitularium et collectarium vetus. 
 
 Benedictionalia. 
 
 Benedictionale pro pucris confirmandis et vestimentis bene- 
 
 dicendis. 
 Item benedictionale vestlmentorum cum exequijs mortuorum 
 
 .W. de Bourne. 
 Item benedictionale pro consecratione altaris et Cimiterij. 
 Item benedictionale cum Capitulis et Collectis de Sanctis. 
 Item Liber pro Rastura Noviciorum cum Hystoria sancti 
 
 Thome. 
 
 Panni de serico. et baiidekini. [f. I2i b^^ 
 
 Pannus .j. preciosus de auro cum gemmis ad crucem intra 
 magnum altare. 
 
 Item pannus niger cum albis leonibus pro festo palmarum. 
 
 Item pannus unus rubeus aurinus. qui continet .ix. ulnas. 
 
 Item pannus unus rubeus aurinus qui continet .vij. ulnas. 
 
 Item .ij. panni de rubeo velvetto cum besancijs aureis. 
 quorum uterque continet .vj. ulnas et dj. 
 
 Item .j. pannus albus de Tharse operatus aureus qui con- 
 tinet .viij. ulnas.
 
 76 /.NVENTOKIES OF CHRISTCHUh'CH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item pannus .j. rubeus de Tharse sine auro operatus de 
 
 mensura unius baudekini. 
 Item pannus .j. de viridi. et alius pannus de croceo ad 
 
 magnum altare in .xl^. pro confessoribus. 
 Item pannus .j. de rubeo samicto pro magno altare. qui 
 
 continet .vj. ulnas. 
 Item quinque panni de puro serico operat'. 
 Item .xix. panni baudekini novi de serico puro. 
 Item .ij. baudekini de serico puro. 
 Item .xlvij. panni novi baudekini de serico mixto. Unde 
 
 .xxvj. panni rubei. Et .xiiij. panni de morre. Et .iij. 
 
 panni virides. 
 Item .vj. baudekini novi de serico mixto. 
 Item .xlij. baudekini usitati. unde .xxix. panni veteres. 
 
 Vexilla pro Rogationibus. 
 
 Vexillum sancti Thome de panno albo de serico brudato 
 
 Item .ij. vexilla de armis Regis Anglie. 
 
 Item .ij. vexilla de armis Comitis Glovernie. 
 
 Item .ij. vexilla de armis Comitis Warrenie. 
 
 Item .ij. vexilla de armis de Hastinggis. 
 
 Item .ij. vexilla de rubeo Samicto cum leopardis aureis. 
 
 Vesthnenta. Synionis de Sancto Paulo. 
 
 Casula de samicto Indico palliata cum albo aurifrigio et 
 alba cum paruris ejusdem panni et colons cum amictu 
 brudato capitibus leopardorum aureis. et floribus de liz. 
 in circulis quadrangulis. et stola et manipulo de auri- 
 frigio aurino. 
 
 Item Casula de panno de Tharse de Tuly palliata cum auri- 
 frigio aureo. Et alba cum paruris ejusdem panni et 
 coloris. et amictu stola et manipulo frectatis. et brudatis 
 cum rosis aureis. 
 
 Item Casula de panno de Tharse tanee. cum aurifrigio 
 consuto cum scutis de diversis armis ante et retro. Et 
 alba cum paruris consutis cum scutis de diversis armis. 
 
 Item Casula de panno de 1 harse indico plunket cum auri- 
 frigio ante et retro brudato stellis et crescencijs aureis. 
 Et alba cum paruris de panno de Tharse purpre. 
 amictu. stola. et manipulo ejusdem secte brudatis cum 
 stellis et crescencijs aureis ad modum aurifrigii predicti. 
 
 Item Casula de sindone indico. Et alba cum paruris brudatis 
 de diversis armis.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 77 
 
 Item Alba cum paruris et amictu frectat' et brudat' de 
 
 diversis armis sine Casula. 
 Item Casula de albo panno de Tharse de nak palliat' cum 
 
 aurifrigio de diversis armis. Et alba cum paruris. amictu. 
 
 stola et manipulo ejusdem panni et coloris. operatis et 
 
 ornatis perulis et platis argenteis deauratis. 
 
 Vestiinenta .R. de Rawe et Thome de Grenewey 
 feretrariorimi [f. 122 [cxxviii.]. 
 
 Casula .j. de panno rubeo de antioche cum pavonibus. et 
 arboribus. et minutis floribus aureis. cum aurifrigio 
 largo et albo brudato ymaginibus cum tunica et 
 dalmatica ejusdem panni. 
 
 Vestimenta Gilherti de Bissoppestoil. 
 
 Casula rubea de antioche cum avibus in Capite et pedibus 
 deauratis cum aurifrigio ante et retro. 
 
 Item alba cum amictu de eadem secta cum stola et mani- 
 pulo. et corporalibus et cingulo de samicto brudato. 
 
 Item casula de panno mixto de viridi et rubeo cum vineis 
 cum magno pallio de aurifrigio cum stola et manipulo 
 de scutis brudatis et cingulo de viridi serico et corporali 
 cum crucifixo et assumpcione brudato et cum alba et 
 amictu de secta Casule. 
 
 Item Casula. alba, de sindone de Tripe et de sindone nigro 
 dupplicata cum pallio ex utraque parte, et cum cor- 
 porali de aurifrigio. Et cum alba et amictu albi coloris. 
 
 Item Casula de purpure et rubeo sindone dupplicata cum 
 pallio cum alba et amictu de rubeo sindone brudato 
 cum ymaginibus aureis et corporali de panno de Tharse 
 viridi. 
 
 Item alba consuta et brudata de auro cum amictu de serico. 
 et cingulo de rubeo serico texto. 
 
 Item Alba de panno de antioche. de rubeo et viridi mixto 
 cum amictu de secta. 
 
 Item Amicti .ij. cum scutis brudati. 
 
 Item .j. rubeus de panno de antioche. 
 
 Item Palle altaris cum frontellis .iij. Unde .j. frontellus albus 
 de panno aureo. 
 
 Item secundus mixtus viridis et rubei coloris. 
 
 Item tercius de losenges consutus et brudatus. 
 
 Item Palle altaris .ij. sine frontellis. 
 
 Item .j. tersorium ad sacrarium.
 
 78 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Textus et Reliquie in Ecclesia Cliristi CantJiariensi in fcsto 
 purificationis beate Marie. Anno Domini .M" 'CCC". Quinto 
 decimo. Ricardo de Scharstede tunc sacrista. Johanne Spicer tunc 
 subsacrista. videlicet, xxxj". Anno. Hcnrici Pi'ioris. 
 
 Onines Textus et alia infrascripta liberata fuerii^it per Inden- 
 tiirani. Per fratreni .J. Spicer fratribus R. Dovor tunc sacriste. et 
 .W. de London subsacriste in crastino aniviaruni. Anno Domini 
 M". ceo. XXJ". in presencia domini. H. Prioris. et Dyonisii 
 Cape Hani sui. 
 
 Textus. 
 
 Textus magnus auro coopertus et gemmis ornatus cum 
 magestate in medio et .iiij. Evangelistis aureis in 
 quatuor angulis. 
 
 Item Textus auro coopertus et gemmis ornatus cum mages- 
 tate in medio, et .iiij. angelis eburneis. 
 
 Item Textus in medio auro coopertus et gemmis ornatus 
 cum magestate eburnea in medio, et .iiij. evangelistis 
 argcnteis et deauratis in .iiij. angulis. 
 
 Item Textus in medio auro coopertus cum Crucifixo 
 argenteo et deaurato et duabus ymaginibus a dextris et 
 sinistris. 
 
 Item Textus in medio auro coopertus et magestate et 
 duobus Angelis. et angelo et Maria argenteis et deaur- 
 atis. 
 
 Item Textus in medio auro coopertus cum magestate et 
 duobus angelis, et angelo et Maria argenteis et deaur- 
 atis stantibus in tabernaculis cum .iiij. platis auri oblon- 
 gis. et .iiij. platis auri rotundis in circumferencia. 
 
 Item Textus sine libro in medio auro coopertus et gemmis 
 ornatus cum crucifixo eburneo et Maria et Johanne 
 eburneis et auro fibulatus. 
 
 Item Textus magnus qui dicitur. domus dei. argento cooper- 
 tus et gemmis ornatus cum Crucifixo et maria et 
 Johanne eburneis et alba camau sub pede crucifixi. 
 cum .iiij. evangelistis in .iiij. angulis. 
 
 Item Textus Edmundi Comitis Cornubie. argento deaurato 
 coopertus et gemmis ornatus. cum crucifixo maria et 
 Johanne argenteis et deauratis. 
 
 Item Textus argenteus de auro coopertus cum magestate in 
 medio tenente crucem in manu. [f. 122 b. 
 
 Item Textus argento deaurato coopertus. cum Crucifixo 
 maria et Johanne. luna et Stellis argenteis deauratis. 
 
 Item .ij. Textus minores ejusdem operis argento deaurato 
 cooperti et gemmis ornati. unde unus cum magestate in
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 79 
 
 medio, et quatuor evangelistis in .iiij. angulis. Et alius 
 cum ymagine argentea et deaurata stante in medio, 
 cum .iiij. Capitibus argenteis in iiij. angulis. 
 
 Item Textus magnus argento non deaurato coopertus 
 gemmis ornatus cum magestate in medio et quatuor 
 evangelistis cum .iiij. angelis in quatuor angulis argenteis 
 et deauratis. 
 
 Item Textus cum psalterio Sancti Thome argento deaurato 
 coopertus gemmis ornatus in circumferentia cum mages- 
 tate eburnea tenente librum in medio, et .iiij. evange- 
 listis sculptis. 
 
 Item Textus argento deaurato coopertus cum Crucifixo 
 maria et Johanne protractis. 
 
 Item Textus parvus argento non deaurato coopertus cum 
 crucifixo maria et Johanne protractis. 
 
 Item Textus Cupro deaurato coopertus gemmis ornatus 
 cum magestate stante tenente lanceam cum vexillo in 
 dextra manu. 
 
 Item Textus Cupro deaurato coopertus cum magestate in 
 medio et tribus ymaginibus in tabernaculis et duobus 
 angelis argenteis et deauratis cum .iiij. evangelistis in 
 quatuor angulis de cupro deaurato. 
 
 Item lapis Onichinus quadratus argento deaurato et 
 gemmis ornatus cum saphiro et .iiij. margaritis in 
 medio. 
 
 Item lapis Jaspidis quadratus Edmundi Comitis Cornubie 
 argento deaurato sine gemmis ornatus. 
 
 Item Textus ligneus sine libro. argento deaurato coopertus 
 et gemmis ornatus. cum Annunciacione Oblatione in 
 templo et aliis ymaginibus de nativitate Christi argenteis 
 et deauratis. 
 
 Item Angelus longus eburneus in ligno coopertus de cupro. 
 
 Item Textus ligneus sine libro coopertus argento deaurato 
 cum martyrio sancti Thome. 
 
 Item Textus ligneus coopertus cupro deaurato cum 
 magestate quatuor angelis et quatuor evangelistis 
 deauratis. 
 
 Reliqiiie. 
 
 Corpus sancti Thome Martyris In feretro suo. 
 
 Corpus sancti Aelphegi In feretro suo juxta magnum 
 
 altare. 
 Corpus sancti Dunstani In feretro suo juxta magnum 
 
 altare versus austrum.
 
 8o 
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Corpus sancti 
 
 Odonis 
 
 Wilfridi 
 
 Anselmi 
 Aelfrici 
 
 Blasij 
 Audoeni 
 
 Salvij 
 
 Wlgani 
 
 Swithuni 
 
 In feretro ad coronam versus 
 
 austrum. 
 In feretro ad coronam versus 
 
 aquilonem. 
 In feretro ad altare sancti Petri 
 Ad adtare \sic\ sancti Johannis 
 
 evangeliste. 
 In feretro retro magnum altare. 
 In Novo feretro in magno ar- 
 
 mariolo reliquiarum. 
 In primo feretro super trabem 
 
 ultra magnum altare. 
 In cista super trabem ultra 
 
 altare sancti Stephani, 
 In cista super trabem ultra 
 
 altare sancti Martini. 
 
 In magno armariolo reliqiiiarmn jtixta magnum 
 
 altare continentur. [f 123 [cxxix.] 
 
 Caput sancti Blasij In capite argenteo et deaurato. 
 
 Caput sancti Fursei In capite argenteo et deaurato et 
 
 amaliato. 
 Caput sancte Austroberte In capite argenteo amaliato et 
 
 deaurato. 
 
 Bi'achia sanctorum. 
 
 Brachia sancti Symeonis senis 
 
 Brachium sancti Blasij 
 
 Item Brachium sancti Bartholo- 
 
 mei^ 
 Item Brachium sancti Georgii 
 
 Item Brachium sancti Wlstani 
 
 Item Brachium sancti Ricardi 
 
 Episcopi Cicestrencis 
 Item Brachium sancti Ronani 
 
 Episcopi 
 Item Brachium sancti Gregorii 
 
 pape 
 
 In brachiis 
 
 rat is. 
 In brachio 
 
 rato. 
 In brachio 
 
 rato. 
 In brachio 
 
 rato. 
 In brachio 
 
 rato. 
 In brachio 
 
 rato. 
 In brachio 
 
 rato. 
 
 argenteis et deau- 
 argenteo et deau- 
 argenteo et deau- 
 argenteo et deau- 
 argenteo et deau- 
 argenteo et deau- 
 argenteo et deau- 
 
 1 The Kalendar of Obits has : "ij idus Nov. Item Obierunt .... 
 Cnuth rex AngHe qui dedit ecclesie Christi Cantuariensis brachium sancti 
 Bartholomei," &c. Lambeth MS. 20. f. 238. According to Eadmer, this 
 rehc was the gift of queen Emma, " disponente Domino suo Cnud Rege 
 Anglorum." Historia Novonwi (fol. London, 1633) hb. ii. p. 50.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 8i 
 
 Item Brachium sancti Hugonis In brachio argenteo et deau- 
 
 Episcopi Lincolniensis rato. 
 
 Item Brachium sancte Mil- In brachio argenteo et in parte 
 
 drithe virginis deaurato. 
 
 Item Brachium sancte Edburge. In brachio argenteo et in parte 
 
 deaurato. 
 
 /// Cnice longa argentea et deaurata aim dupplici patibulo 
 et pede de cupro deaurato continentur. 
 
 De Hgno dominico. De presepio domini. 
 
 De cunabulo domini. De sepulcro domini. 
 
 De sudario domini. De virga Moysy . 
 
 In Cruce aiirea StepJiani AixJiiepiscopi cum ruhhio in capite. 
 et. if. smaragdis in lateribus continentur. 
 
 De Hgno dominico in medio Item de reliquijs sancti Ouin- 
 
 Crucis. tini. 
 Item Os de sancto benigno. Item de Sanctis Marco et Mar- 
 Item Dens sancti Blasij. celliano. 
 Item Os sancti Juliani. Item Os hominis Dei. 
 Item De baculo sancti PauH Item Os sancti Stephani pape. 
 
 ApostoH. 
 
 In Cruce argentea et deaurata cum dupplici patibulo. et 
 .xij. pramis cum aliis gemmis continetur. 
 
 De hgno dominico. 
 
 In Cruce sancti A ndree aigentea et deaurata 
 cum gemmis continentur. 
 
 De cruce sancti Andree Apostoli. 
 Item Os ejusdem ApostoH. 
 
 In cruce sancti Petri cum ymagine ever s a aigentea et [f. 123 b. 
 deaurata continetur. 
 
 De Cruce sancti Petri. 
 
 In Cruce argentea cum dupplici patibido ex una parte deaurata 
 et alia tion continentur. 
 
 De ligno Dominico. Item De sepulcro Domini. 
 
 Item de sancto Jacobo. Item De sancto Pancratio. 
 
 Item de sancta Ositha virgine. Item De sancta Brigida. 
 
 Item de sancto Andrea. Item De sancta Fide.
 
 82 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHUKCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In pa}"va Criice cum dupplici patibulo argentea et deaurata sine 
 gcnnnis aim agno in tergo continetur. 
 
 De ligno Dominico. 
 
 In fistida cristallina continetur. 
 Spina de Corona domini. 
 
 Item ift eodem armariolo inagno continentur. 
 
 Virga Aaron. 
 
 Item Tabula de sepulcro beate Marie. 
 Item Superaltare sancti Aelphegi. 
 
 Item Calix ejusdem de cristallo auro et amalato. cum patena de 
 perle. 
 
 Item in filacterio cristallino magno argenteo et deawato cum 
 gemmis continentur. 
 
 De Capillis beate Marie. Item de velo ejusdem. 
 
 Item in filacterio de Ctipro deaurato cum cristallo quadrato 
 continentur. 
 
 De sanguine beati Edmundi Regis et martyris. 
 Item de Camisia ejusdem. 
 Item de Caligis ejusdem. 
 Item de pulvinari ejusdem. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato cum cristallo rotundo et 
 vinea scidpta continentur. 
 
 De Ossibus sancti Laurencii. Item de Craticula ejusdem. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato cum gemmis. cum alabaustro 
 niagdaleil continentur. 
 
 De Capillis ejusdem. Item de zona ejusdem. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato cujn gemmis cum longo 
 cristallo continentur 
 
 Dens et os beati Benedicti. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato cum gemmis. et in pede 
 Capita deaurata in orbicidis cristallo longo rotundo cofitinentur. 
 
 Dens et digitus sancti Stephani. Item de ossibus ejusdem. 
 Item de lapidibus quibus fuit lapidatus.
 
 INVENTORIES GF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 83 
 
 Item in parvo filacterio argenteo cum parvo en's f alio [f. 124 [cxxx.] 
 
 pemlente cum dicta filacterio conti)ietur. 
 De sanguine sancti Stephani. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato. et in pede capita argentea et 
 deavrata in orbicuUs c?im gemmis et cum cristallo longo 
 quadrato cum pomcUo cristallino continentur. 
 
 De Ossibus sancti Vincencij. 
 
 Item in filacterio de c?ipro deaurato sine gemmis ctem longo 
 cristallo rotundo co7itinentur. 
 
 De Capite sancti Johannis Item os ejusdem. 
 
 baptiste. Item os Menne martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Blasii. Item os sancti Pantaleonis. 
 
 Item iti filacterio argenteo et deaurato cum pomello cristallino. cum 
 longo cristallo jvtundo et cristallo in medio pedis continetur. 
 
 De Ossibus sanctorum Innocentium. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato parvo cum gemmis et 
 cristallo parvo oblongo continetur. 
 De Ossibus sancti Nicholai. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato cum cristallo parvo oblongo 
 
 continetur. 
 De vestimentis beate Marie virginis. 
 
 Item i)i filacterio parvo argenteo non deaurato cum pai'vo cristallo 
 
 cum vinea contine^itur. 
 De Carne beati Thome martyris resoluta. 
 Item de Carne sancti Nicholai. 
 
 Item in filacterio argeiiteo et deaurato cum gemmis cum a-istallo 
 
 longo continetur. 
 Digitus et Dens sancti Albani. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo deaurato cum gemmis cum cristallo 
 oblongo continentur. 
 De Capillis sancti Edmundi confessoris. 
 Et de vestimentis ejusdem. 
 
 Item in filacterio parvo argenteo non deaurato cum pan^o cristallo 
 
 continentur. 
 Dens sancti Edmundi confessoris. 
 Item de CapilHs ejusdem. 
 Item de vestimentis ejusdem. 
 
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 84 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item in jilacterio argenteo non deaurato cum cristallo sexangulato 
 
 continentur. 
 
 Dens sancte Mildride virginis. 
 
 Item de costa sancti Johannis Baptiste. 
 
 Item in filacterio argenteo et deaurato cum gemmis cum [f. 124/;. 
 cristallo rotundo oblongo continentur. 
 
 De casula sancti Thome martyris. 
 Item de sandalijs ejusdem. 
 
 Item in Jilacterio argenteo et deaurato sine gemmis cum cristallo 
 rotundo continentur. 
 
 De sanguine sancti Edmundi Item de Camisia ejusdem. 
 
 martyris. Item de pulvinari ejusdem. 
 
 I rem de Caligis ejusdem. Item os de sancta Edburga. 
 Item OS de sancta Mildrida. 
 
 Item in parva Cuppa argentea et deaurata continetur. 
 Pallium sancti Thome martyris. 
 
 Item in vitro rotundo continetur. 
 De pulvere corporis ejusdem martyris. 
 
 Item in parvo feretro quadrato argenteo et deaurato cum gemmis. 
 
 stante super platam rotundam de cupro deaurato continetur. 
 De Brachio sancti Jeronimi. 
 
 Item in Tabula lignea. ex una parte deargentea et deaurata cum 
 gemmis continetur. 
 
 De Ossibus sancte Cordube. una de .xj. milia virginum. 
 
 Item in Cuppa parva argentea deaurata continentur. 
 Os sancti Martini. Et de Clamide ejusdem. 
 
 Item in parvo cristallo oblongo sine argento continetur. 
 De Oleo sancti Demetrij. 
 
 Item sub lapide cristallino oblongo in argento deaurato continetur. 
 De Carne et cute sancti Thome martyris. 
 
 In cistula eburnea quadrata cum serura de Cupro continentur. 
 
 Maxiile sanctorum Cosme et Item de Ossibus sancti Petri 
 
 Damiani cum .ix. dentibus. apostoli. 
 
 Item de Barba ejusdem. Item de Cruce ejusdem.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 85 
 
 Item de vestimentisbeateMarie. Item de vestimentis sancti 
 
 Item de pulvere Capitis sancti Johannis baptiste. 
 
 Fursei. Item de sancto Ypolito martyre. 
 
 Item de sanguine sancti Pauli Item de sancto Stephano mar- 
 
 Apostoli. tyre. 
 
 Item de presepe Domini. Item de lecto beate marie. 
 
 Item de sancta Agnete. Item de sancta Juliana. 
 Item de sancta Praxede. 
 
 Item de ligno domini. Item os sancti Wandregisili. 
 
 Item in parva pixide eburnea rotunda continentm\ [f. 125 [cxxxi.] 
 
 Lapis de quo lapidatus fuit sanctus Stephanus. 
 Item, de sancto Jacobo apostolo. 
 
 Item in scrinio magno eluirneo rotiindo in capite oblongo aim 
 sej'ura de Cupro continentnr. 
 
 Mitra alba cum aurifrigio sancti Thome martyris in quo fuit 
 
 sepultus.^ 
 Item alia mitra alba ejusdem qua utebatur in festis simplicibus. 
 Item Cirothece ejusdem cum tribus aurifrigijs ornate. 
 Item Sandalia ejusdem de inde brudata cum rosis besancijs et 
 
 crescencijs auratis cum subtalaribus de nigro samicto brudato. 
 Item Cilicium ejusdem. 
 Item de lecto et cingulo ejusdem. 
 
 Item in eodem scrinio in alba pa)ino diasperato involvuntur et 
 
 continentnr. 
 
 De pulvere Corporis beati Thome martyris. 
 
 Item de Capa et alijs vestimentis ejusdem. 
 
 Item de coopertorio ejusdem. 
 
 Item de cuculla ejusdem. 
 
 Item de ligatura cilicij ejusdem. 
 
 Item de carne et sanguine ejusdem resoluto. 
 
 Item de zona ejusdem. 
 
 Item de capillis ejusdem. 
 
 Item de pulvinari ejusdem. 
 
 ' Gervase says that St. Thomas was buried in a marble tomb in the 
 crypt the day after his murder " et ut verum fatear, quod oculis meis \idi et 
 manibus attrectavi, habet ad carnem cilicium, deinde staminium, desuper 
 cucullam nigram, deinde albam in qua sacratus est ; tunicam quoque et 
 dahiiaticam, casulam, palhum, et mitram. Inferius vero, fcmoraha habet 
 cilicina, desuper hnea, cahgas laneas, et sandaHa." Gervase, Acta Ponfipcum 
 (Rolls' Series 7;^), ii. 396. These vestments were probably taken out of the 
 coffin when the saint's remains were translated to the new shrine in 1220. 
 The pall and mitre seem to have been kept entire as relics, while portions of 
 the others will be found among the contents of the various reliquaries.
 
 86 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item in eodeni scrinio in alio panno serico involvuntnr et 
 continentur. 
 
 De casula sancti Thome. Item de Dalmatica ejusdem. 
 
 Item de Tunica ejusdem. Item de stamina ejusdem. 
 
 Item de Capa pluviali ejusdem. Itemde Panno intincto.sanguine 
 Item de Cuculla ejusdem. ejusdem. 
 
 Item flagellum ejusdem de Item de pallio Capitis ejusdem. 
 ligut factum. 
 
 In prima Tabula stante argentea et deanrata cum valvis et 
 gemmis ornata continentur. 
 
 Dens sancti Laurencij martyris. 
 
 Et de ossibus ejusdem. 
 
 Item De Cilicio beati Thome martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti dementis pape et martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Urbani pape et martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Fehcis pape. 
 
 Item OS sancti Sebastiani martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Georgii martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Nicholai. 
 
 Item de sancto Benedicto. 
 
 Item OS sancti Eugenij pape. 
 
 Item de ossibus Innocentium, 
 
 Item in secunda Tabula stajite argentea et deaurata cum valvis et 
 annunciacione et olla. et in tergo cum magestate continentur. 
 
 Os sancti Georgij. Item os sancti Salvij. 
 
 Item OS sancti Stephani pape. Item os sancte Mildride. 
 
 Item in tertia tabula stante argentea et deaurata cum A nnuncia- 
 cione in valvis et Critcifixo in tcrgo continentur. 
 
 De ligno domini. Item de sudario Item os sancti 
 
 ejusdem. Thome apostoli. 
 
 Item OS sancti Item os sancti Item de mensa 
 
 FhiHppi apostoH. Jacobi apostoli. domini. 
 
 Item OS sancti Stephani mar- Item de sanguine beati Thome 
 
 tyris. martyris. [f. 125 b. 
 
 Item OS Magdalene. Item os sancte Margarete. 
 
 Item de Capillis sancte Cecilie. 
 
 Item in vase cristallifio longo cum fistula et pcde argenteo et 
 deaurato cum coopet'torio rotundo operato .iiij. gemmis continentur. 
 
 De oleo sancte Katerine virginis. 
 Item de corpore sancte Osithe virginis.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 87 
 
 Item de petra super quam dominus stetit quando ascendit 
 in celum. 
 
 In primo scrbiio eburneo contincntur. 
 
 De sudario aurato sancte Marie virginis. 
 Item de sancto Ciriaco martyris. 
 Item de Brachio sancti Paulini Episcopi. 
 Item de sancta Modewenna virgine. 
 
 In secundo scrinio eburneo coniinentur. 
 
 De sepulchro domini. 
 
 Item de sepulchro beate Marie virginis. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Stephano prothomartyre. Et de Capillis 
 
 ejusdem. 
 Item OS de sancto Georgio martyre. 
 Item de sancto Theodoro martyre. 
 Item de pulvere sancti Ignacij martyris. 
 Item OS cujusdam Innocentis. 
 Item de Cruce Disme boni latronis. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Wlgani confessoris. 
 Item de costa beate Edburge virginis. 
 
 hi tercio scrinio eburneo continentur. 
 
 De ossibus sancti Damiani martj^ris. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Eustachio martyre. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Nereo martyre. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Vitale martyre. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Innocentio martyre. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Ciriaci martyris. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Sebastiani martyris. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Agapito martyre. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Theodori martyris. 
 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Bonifacij martyris. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Demetrio martyre. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Abgaro martyre. 
 
 Item de ossibus sanctorum martyrum Grisandis et Darie. 
 
 Item OS de Capite beati Amphibali martyris. 
 
 Item Reliquie liominis dei martyris. cujus invente sunt cum 
 
 corpore sancti Sebastiani martyris. 
 Item Os sancti Pantaleonis martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Silvestri pape et confessoris. 
 Item OS de sancto Juliano episcopo et confessore. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Donati episcopi et confessoris.
 
 88 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item de Dcnte sancti Francisci. et de capilHs ejusdem. 
 
 Item OS sancti Fortunati Episcopi et confessoris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Johannis Crisostomi. 
 
 Item de sepulcro sancti Lazari. 
 
 Item dens sancti Nicandris. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancte Agathe virginis. 
 
 Item OS sancte Secundine virginis. 
 
 Item Reliquie sancte Cristine virginis. 
 
 Item de sepulcro sancte Sabe. 
 
 Item de spongia sancte Praxedis virginis. tincta liquore 
 
 plurimorum martyrum. 
 Item Nummus perforatus lancea sancti Mauricij martyris. 
 
 In quarto scrinio eburneo continentiir. [f. 126 [cxxxii.] 
 
 De ossibus sanctorum martyrum qui cum beato Frisco 
 martyrizati fuerunt. in territorio Antisiodorensi. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Hyrenei Lugdunensis Episcopi. et 
 martyris. et de sociis ejus. 
 
 Item OS sancti Flaviani martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Dari martyris. 
 
 Item OS sancti Potentiani martyris. 
 ' Item de oleo sancte Marie de Sardiney. quod fluit de 
 pectore et de mamillis cujusdam ymaginis beate Marie 
 virginis. 
 
 Item OS de capite beati Nictarij, Pictavensis Episcopi. et 
 confessoris primi. 
 
 Item OS beati Liberij ejusdem Civitatis Episcopi et con- 
 fessoris tercij. 
 
 Item OS beati Sereni confessoris. 
 
 Item OS beati Mariani presbyteri et confessoris. 
 
 Item OS beate Julite matris beati Cirici martyris. 
 
 Item de ossibus .xj. milia virginum. 
 
 Item de capite et de capillis beate Trocie virginis. 
 
 In quinto scrinio eburneo continentiir. 
 
 De mensa domini. Et de quadragena Christi. 
 
 Item de carne et sanguine et alie Reliquie multe de beato 
 
 Thoma martyre. 
 Item dens venerabilis Odonis Abbatis de Bello. 
 
 /// sexto scrinio eburneo continentur. 
 
 De ossibus que fuerunt in altare sancti Petri apostoli. 
 Item OS sancti Pauli apostoli.
 
 INVENTORIES OE CHRISTCHURCH CANTERBURY. 89 
 
 Item OS de sancto Barnabe apostolo. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Clemente papa et martyre. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Cremete martyre. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Urbano papa et martyre. 
 
 Item OS sancti Tiburcij martyris. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Facundino martyre. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Cornelij pape ct martyris. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Cipriani martyris. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Adrian! martyris. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Mauro episcopo et confessore. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Mauri abbatis et confessoris. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Macarij confessoris. 
 
 Item de sanguine ficto et vestimentis beate Eufemie 
 
 virginis et martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancte Justine virginis et martyris. 
 
 In feretro cum Crucijixo eburneo continentur. 
 
 De ossibus sanctorum Cosme et Damiani martyrum. 
 
 Item OS sancti Wandregisili abbatis et confessoris. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Augustini episcopi et confessoris. ct 
 
 doctoris magni. 
 Item OS beati Leonis pape et confessoris. 
 Item OS sancti Sampsonis Episcopi cum uno dente ejusdem. 
 Item de pulvere sancti Discipuli. 
 Item OS sancti Albini confessoris. 
 Item OS sancti Honorati. 
 Item de ossibus sanctorum Remigij et German! epis- 
 
 coporum. 
 Item de ossibus sanctorum Machuti. Wlfranni. et Mar- 
 
 tiniani. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Anastasij martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancte Margarete virginis. 
 Item de ossibus sancte Agnetis virginis et martyris. 
 Item OS sancte Oportune virginis. 
 Item OS sancte Amalburge virginis. 
 Item OS sancte Satildis Regine. 
 Item OS sancte Keyneburge virginis. 
 Item de Capillis sancte Alburge virginis. et Berkyng' 
 
 Ecclesie Abbatisse. 
 Item de Capillis sancte Barbare virginis. 
 Item de vestimentis sancte Aldegunde virginis. 
 Item .iij. digit! et duo dentes cum alijs ossibus sancti 
 
 Albani prothomartyris Anglie. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Ciriaci levite et martyris cum tribus 
 
 Dentibus.
 
 90 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHLRCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item de ossibus sanctorum Gervasij et Prothasij martyrum. 
 Item de pulvere sancti Pancracij martyris. [f. 126^. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Adriani martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Cristofori martyris. 
 Item de pulvere sanctorum Crispini et Crispiniani mar- 
 tyrum. 
 Item OS sancti Pantaleonis martyris. 
 
 Item de pulvere et de vestimentis sancti Lamberti martyris. 
 Item OS sancti Sixti pape. 
 Item de Barba et vestimentis sancti Cuthberti episcopi et 
 
 confessoris. 
 Item de pulvere sancti Appollinaris martyris. 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Gregorii pape cum uno dente 
 
 ejusdem. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Stephani pape. 
 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Wyngunaloci Abbatis et confessoris. 
 Item de pulvere sancti Mcdardi confessoris. 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Sebastiani martyris. 
 Item costa beati Appollinaris martyris. cum uno dente 
 
 ejusdem. 
 Item OS sancti Firmini martyris et Episcopi. 
 Item OS sancti Quintini martyris. 
 Item de sepulchro domini. 
 Item de presepe domini. 
 Item de Columpna ad quam ligatus erat dominus quando 
 
 flagellatus erat a pessimis judeis. 
 Item de lapide super quem angelus sedebat. super monu- 
 
 mentum. 
 Item de lapide ubi Christus stetit quando ascendit in celum. 
 Item de virga Moysi que fronduerat. 
 Item de Petra super quam dominus stetit in galilea. 
 Item de Gessemani. 
 Item de mensa ubi cenavit dominus cum discipulis suis. 
 
 quando lavit pedes eorum. 
 Item de Palma olive. 
 Item de Carcere unde angelus domini eripuit beatum 
 
 Petrum apostolum. 
 Item de vestimento quod sancta Maria mater domini fecit. 
 Item de pallio quod est super sepulcrum domini. 
 Item de pilis et vestimentis sancte Anne matris sancte 
 
 Marie, 
 Item de vestimentis sancti Elye et sancte Marie, et Marthe 
 
 sororum. et sancte Saphie virgin's 
 Item de lana quam texuerat sancta Maria virgo. 
 Item de pulvere sancte Benedicte virginis.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 91 
 
 hi priino scrinio de Cupro continentiir. 
 
 Os sancti WIstani Episcopi et confessoris. 
 Item de Capillis beati Anselmi Archiepiscopi. 
 Item OS de sancta Prisca virginis. 
 
 In secundo scrinio de Ciipro contiiientiir. 
 
 Reliquie de sancto Jacobo apostolo. 
 
 Item, de baculo sancti Pauli apostoli. 
 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Thome aposLoli. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Luce Evangeliste. 
 
 Item de sancto Taddeo apostolo. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Philippi apostoli. 
 
 Item de sancto Matheo apostolo et Evangelista. 
 
 In tertio scrinio de Cupro continentiir. 
 
 De ligno domini. 
 
 Item de sancto Andrea. 
 
 Item de sanguine sancti Gervasii. 
 
 Item Reliquie sancti Grisantis et Dalrie. 
 
 Item de Joseph de Arimathia. 
 
 Item de Elyseo et Abdia. 
 
 Item de sancto Pancratio. 
 
 Item de sancto Jacobo. 
 
 Item reliquie sancte Fidis virginis. 
 
 Item de sancta Brigida. 
 
 Item de sancto Mauricio sociisque ejus. 
 
 Item de sancto Bertino. 
 
 Item de sancto Johanne baptista. [f. 127 [cxxxiii.] 
 
 Item reliquie sanctorum Johannis et Pauli. 
 
 Item de sancti Eustachii mart}Tis. 
 
 /;/ quarto scrinio de Cupro continentiir. 
 
 De pulvere combusti corporis sancti Johannis baptiste. 
 
 Item due particuie de ligno domini. 
 
 Item quoddam os sancti Jacobi fratris sancti Johannis 
 
 Evangeliste. 
 Item de lapide super quern comedit Dominus postquam 
 
 vocavit discipulos suos de navibus. 
 Item de quercu super quam ascenderat Abraham ut videret 
 
 dominum.^ 
 
 • " De ylice mambre " was included among the relics of Reading Abbey 
 in the 13th century. 
 
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 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item de feretro sancte Marie. 
 
 Item de lapide super quern transfiguratus est. 
 
 Item de sepulcro domini. 
 
 Item de limo terre unde plasmavit deus Adam. 
 
 Item de .xj. milia virginum que Jacent apud Coloniam. 
 
 Item OS de sancta Fide. 
 
 In pixide magna alba de ligno continentur. 
 
 De sepulcro domini. 
 
 Item de mensa domini super quam fecit cenam. 
 
 Item de loco ubi orabat patrem. 
 
 Item de fossa ubi crux domini fixa fuit 
 
 Item de lecto beate Marie virginis. 
 
 Item de cunabulo christi. 
 
 Item de sede ubi mater domini sedit in die purificationis 
 
 sue. 
 Item OS beati Jeronimi presbyteri et confessoris. Et de 
 
 stola ejusdem. Et de vestimentis ejusdem. 
 Item de ossibus Innocentium, 
 Item de ossibus sancti Bartholomei apostoli. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Blasii episcopi et martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti dementis pape. et martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Vincentii martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Georgii martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Mauricii martyris. et de sociis suis. 
 Item de tybia sancti Damiani martyris. 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Ignacii martyris. 
 Item de Ossibus sancti Gregorii pajDC. Et sancti Benedicti 
 
 Abbatis simul. 
 Item de pulvere sancti Johannis baptiste et de cilicio et de 
 
 vestimentis ejusdem. cum aliis reliquiis ejusdem. 
 Item de Crinibus beate Elizabeth matris ejusdem. 
 Item de craticula beati Laurencii martyris. 
 Item Magna pars de ligno domini. 
 
 Item de Barba beati Petri apostoli et de mensa ejusdem. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Ypoliti martyris. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Romani martyris. 
 Item OS de sancto Martino. Et de clamide ejusdem. 
 Item de ossibus sancti Silvestri Episcopi et confessoris. 
 Item de Barba sancti Antonii. 
 Item OS beati Pauli primi heremite. 
 Item de Capite sancti Juliani Cenomanensis Episcopi et 
 
 confesjoris et de Tunica ejusdem.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 93 
 
 In Arviariolo retro Magnum altare continentur. 
 Canola sancti Blasii. 
 
 In majori cornu eburneo pendente sub trabe ultra magnum 
 altare continentur. 
 
 Os de sancto Blasio. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Bartholomeo. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Martino. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Stephano prothomartyrc. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Patricio. 
 
 Item OS de sancto Thoma apostolo. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Andrea apostoH. [f. 127^. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Egidii. 
 
 Item de sancto Sereno. 
 
 Item de sancta Columba. 
 
 Item de sancta Edburga. 
 
 Item de capillis sancte Agathe. 
 
 Item de rupe super quam stetit Crux domini. 
 
 Item de sepulcro beate Marie matris Domini. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Nicholai. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancte Katerine. 
 
 Item de sancta Agnete. 
 
 Item de sancto Justo. 
 
 Item de Capillis sancte Celicie \_sic\. 
 
 Item de rupe Golgatha. 
 
 In lectrmo ligneo ad altare Sancte Crucis in Navi Ecclesie. in 
 parte cooperto argento deaurato cum gemmis cum Cruce in medio 
 continentur. 
 
 Crux argentea deaurata cum gemmis et cum ligno dominico 
 
 in medio, et cum reliquiis de sancto Thoma martyre. 
 Item de digito sancti Andrea. 
 Item OS sancti Stephani. 
 Item de Carne sancti VVIstani. 
 
 hi primo feretro super trabem ultra magnum altare continentur. 
 
 Brachium sancti Wlfadi martyris. 
 
 Item Brachium sancti Ruffiniani martyris. et aliud os 
 
 magnum de dorso ejusdem martyris. 
 Item OS de capite sancti Ccadde Episcopi ct confessoris ct 
 
 de vestimentis ejusdem.
 
 94 TNVEVTORFES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In seciindo fcretro continentur. 
 
 De Hgno domini pars una. 
 
 Item de sepulcro domini. 
 
 Item de sancto Kalixto pape et martyre. 
 
 Item de presepe domini. 
 
 Item de ossibus sancti Jacobi apostoli fratris domini. 
 
 Item de sancta Kathcrina virgine et martyre. 
 
 In tercio fereiro continentur. 
 
 Vexillum Christi. 
 
 Item de beata virg-ine Maria. 
 
 Item de sancto Martino Episcopo et confessore. 
 
 Item de sepulcro Domini. 
 
 Item de beato Petro apostolo. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 95 
 
 III.— OTHER ORNAMENTS AND JEWELS 
 ACOUIRED DURING THE FOUR- 
 TEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 After the great inventory of 13 15-16 no early list 
 of additions to the ornaments of the church has come 
 down to us, with the exception of one to be noticed in 
 the next section, of ornaments and jewels acquired or 
 repaired in the time of prior Chillenden, 1390-1 to 141 1. 
 There are nevertheless several benefactions of import- 
 ance which deserve notice. 
 
 First in point of date are certain gifts made by arch- 
 bishop Simon of Islip (1349-1366) by deed dated 
 January 7th, 1361-2,^ of which the following were for 
 the use of his cathedral church : 
 
 Vestimentum nostrum novum auro contextum de quatuor 
 
 garniamentis videlicet casula capa dalmatica et tunica. 
 Item unam albam cum amictu et paruris aureis novis et 
 
 melioribus quas habemus. 
 Item unam aliam capam meliorem et preciosorem quam 
 
 habemus. 
 Item duas pulcras tabulas argenteas et bene dcauratas. 
 Item unum jocale aureum pulcium in quo reponitur sacra 
 
 eucaristia. 
 
 The two silver-gilt tables are again referred to in the 
 archbishop's will, which is quoted in the Kalendar of 
 Obits, whence we learn that they were bequeathed to 
 the high altar, and had been bought by the archbishop 
 from the executors of Dan Robert of Chigwell : 
 
 Item lego majori altari ecclesie mee duas pulcras tabulas 
 argenteas et bene deauratas. quas emi de executoribus 
 domini Roberti de Chykewett.- 
 
 ' Carta A7itiqiia' A. 1 5. 
 2 Lambeth MS. 20. f. iZzb.
 
 96 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 William of Edington, bishop of Winchester, 1346- 
 1366, is credited in the Kalendar of Obits with the 
 following gifts to Christchurch, Canterbury : 
 
 Item dedit prefate ecclesie quinque cappas unam casulam 
 et tres tunicas rubeas cum ajDpendicijs et pertinencijs 
 suis.^ 
 
 In 1376, Edward, prince of Wales, the eldest son of 
 Edward III. (now commonly known as the "Black 
 Prince "), bequeathed a number of valuable ornaments to 
 the cathedral church wherein he was buried. To the 
 high altar he left : a vestment (i.e. suit) of green velvet 
 embroidered with gold, with all that belonged to it ; two 
 basons of gold ; a chalice of gold with his arms on the 
 foot, and the paten thereto ; two cruets of gold ; an 
 image of the Holy Trinity " to put upon the said altar" ; 
 and his best cross, of silver-gilt and enamelled. To the 
 altar of Our Lady of the Undercroft, in the crypt, before 
 which he desired to be buried, he left : a whole white 
 suit diapered with a blue vine ; a frontal which had been 
 given him by the bishop of Exeter, having the Assump- 
 tion of Our Lady in the midst and other imagery ; and 
 a tabernacle of the same subject, the gift of the said 
 bishop ; also two great twisted silver candlesticks, two 
 basons with his arms, a great gilt and enam.elled chalice 
 with the arms of Warrenne, and two cruets wrought in 
 the form of angels. He further bequeathed to the church 
 his salle or " hailing," consisting of a dosser, eight pieces 
 for costers, and two bankers^ of ostrich feathers of black 
 tapestry,'^ with a red border with swans with ladies' 
 
 > Lambeth MS. 20. f. 230*^. 
 
 2 A " hall " or " hailing " was a set of hangings, often of tapestry, where- 
 with to cover the lower parts of the walls of a hall or great chamber. The 
 hanging behind the dais at the upper end was called a dosser ; those at the 
 sides were the costers ; and those that covered the benches or principal 
 seats were called bankers. 
 
 ^ As is well known the prince's shield " for peace " was sable^ i/iree ostrich 
 feathers argent. Beautiful enamelled escutcheons bearing these arms are 
 placed on his tomb. It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that the ostrich 
 feathers are not derived from John, king of Bohemia, but from the prince's 
 mother, queen Philippa of Hainault, whose badge they were. Se&Archcco- 
 logia, xxxi. 355.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY, 97 
 
 heads. Of these, the dosser was to be cut up, and as 
 much as was needed was to make an upper and a nether 
 frontal for the high altar. The rest of it and the two 
 bankers were to be converted into (i) frontals for : (a) 
 the altar " where my lord St. Thomas lies," that at the 
 head of his shrine ; (b) the altar " where the head is," 
 that in the round chapel of the Holy Trinity where the 
 coj'ona or caput sancti ThonicE was kept and exhibited ; 
 (c) the altar "where the sword-point is," in the north 
 transept ; and (2), if there was enough, into hangings 
 round his tomb, which was directed to be immediately 
 before the altar of Our Lady of the Undercroft. The 
 eight costers were to be hung in the quire above the 
 length of the stalls, in memory of the prince, on the 
 feast of the Trinity and all principal feasts, on the feasts 
 and day of St. Thomas, on all the feasts of Our Lady, 
 and on the anniversary of the prince's death. ^ 
 
 He also gave to the altar of " Our Lady Undercroft,'' 
 at which he had founded a chantry of two chaplains, his 
 massbook and his porthos, which he had caused to be 
 illuminated in divers places with his arms and " nos bages 
 dez plumes dostruce " ; also two "single vestments," that 
 is a set for a priest only, consisting of albe, amice, 
 chasuble, stole, and fanon, " with decent towels to each of 
 the said vestments." 
 
 The prince's gifts are thus summarized in the Kalendar 
 of Obits : 
 
 Legavit summo altari ejusdem ecclesie. ununi viride vesti- 
 mentum de auro brudatum integrum de velveto. Item 
 unum calicem cum patena de auro cum armis suis. Item 
 duos urceolos aureos. Item unam ymaginem argen- 
 team et deauratam de sancta Trinitate. Item aulam 
 suam de pennis de ostrech. et tapestria nigra, et rubia 
 bordura cum signis. capita dominarum habente \sic\r 
 
 ' The inventory of 1 540 (see /^j-/, p. 191) mentions among the " Ornaments 
 for the Quyre," " one olde hanging of vj pecf of ostriche fethers to laye on the 
 grounde on pahne sondaye." These were probably the remains of the eight 
 costers bequeathed by the Prince of Wales in 1376. 
 
 - Lambeth MS. 20. f 193. 
 
 H
 
 98 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 The following text of the bequests, as given in the 
 prince's will, dated June 7th, 1376, has been carefully 
 collated with the only known copy of it in archbishop 
 Simon of Sudbury's register •} 
 
 Item nous donnons et devisoms al haut autier de la dite 
 eglise nostre vestement de velvet vert enbroudez dor avec 
 tout ce qe apperptient au dit vestement. Item deux 
 bacyns dor un chalix avec le patyn dor noz armez graves 
 sur le pie | et deux cruetz dor et un ymage de la Trinite a 
 mettre sur le dit autier et notre grande croix dargent 
 suzorrez et enamellez cest assavoir la meliour croix qe 
 nous avons dargent. Toutes lesqueles chosez nous donnons 
 et devisons au dit autier a y servir perpetulement sainz 
 jammes le mettre en autre oeps pur nul mischiefs. 
 
 Item nous donnons et devisons al autier de notre dame 
 en la chappelle surdite notre blank vestiment tout entier 
 diapree dune vine dazure et auxi le frontel qe levesqe 
 dexcestre nous donna qest de lassumpcion de notre dame 
 en mylieu severee dor et dautre ymagerie et un tabernacle 
 de lassumpcioun de notre dame qe le dit evcsqe nous 
 donna | auxi et deux grandez chandelabres dargent qe sont 
 tortillez et deux bacyns de noz armez et un grand chalix 
 suzorre et enameillez des armes de Garrenne ove deux 
 cruetz tailler come deux angeles pur servir a mesme lautier 
 perpetuelement sainz jamez le mettre en autre oeps pur 
 nul meschief. 
 
 Item nous donnons et devisons notre sale des plumes dos- 
 truce de tapicerie noiret la bordure rouge ove cignes ovetestez 
 de dames | cest assavoir un dossier et huyt pieces pur lez 
 costers et deux banqueres a la dit esglise de Canterbirs. 
 Et volons qe le dossier soit taillez ensi come mielz sera 
 avis a noz executours pur servir devant et entour le haut 
 autier j et ce qe ne busoignera a servir illec j duremenantdu 
 dit dossier et auxi les ditz banqueres volons qe soit 
 departiz a servir devant lautier la ou monseignour saint 
 Thomas gist | et a lautier la ou la teste est | et a lautier la 
 ou la poynte de lespie est et entour notre corps en la dite 
 chappelle de notre dame Undercrofte si avant come il purra 
 suffiere. Et voloms qe les costres de la dit Sale soient pur 
 pendre en le quer tout du long paramont les estallez et en 
 ceste manere ordenons a servir et estre user en memorial de 
 
 ' Fol. 91. The will is printed in full in Stanley's il/^'Wf'^r/Vz/j- of Canterbury 
 (nth edition, London, 1887), 168-175, and in all the earlier editions.
 
 INVENTORIES 01 CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 99 
 
 nous a la feste de la Trinite et a toutz lez principalez festes 
 de Ian | et a lez festes et jour de monseignour saint Thomas 
 et a toutez les Testes de notre dame et les jours auxi de 
 notre anniversaire perpetuelement tant come ils purront 
 durer saintz jamez estre mys en autre oeps. 
 
 Item nous donnons et devisons a notre chapelle de ceste 
 notre dite dame undercrofte en la quele nous avoms fondes 
 une chanterie de deux chapellayns a chanter pur nous per- 
 petuelement notre missal et notre portehors | lesquelx nous 
 mesmes avons fait faire et enlimyner de noz armures et 
 diversez lieux et auxi de nos bages dez plumes dostruce | 
 et ycelx missal et portehors ordenons a servir perpetuelement 
 en la dite chappelle sainz james le mettre en autre oeps 
 pur nul meschief et de toutez cestes choses chargeons les 
 armes des Priour et Convent dela dite eglise | si come ils 
 vorront respondre devant Dieu. 
 
 Item nous donnons et devisons a la dite chappelle deux 
 vestementz sengles | cest assavoir | aube | amyt | chesyble j 
 estole et fanon avec towailles covenables a chacum des 
 ditz vestementz a servir auxi en la dite chapelle perpetu- 
 element. 
 
 By deed dated 22nd ¥^hYu?iYy [Cat he dj'n sane ti Petri), 
 1395, the lady Joan de Mohun, lady of Dunster, made a 
 solemn agreement with Thomas the prior, and the con- 
 vent of Christchurch, Canterbury, for the proper keeping 
 of her obit, and that she should be buried "in tumba 
 quam dicta domina sumptibus suis et expensis construi 
 fecerat prope altare beate Marie dicte ecclesie Cant, in 
 Criptis que tmde?'' eroft vulgariter nuncupatur. Et quod 
 corpus dicte domine Johanne. a dicta tumba cum ibidem 
 humatum fuerit. non amovebitur.^ nee nomen illius tumbe 
 mutabitur. sed honorifice custodietur." These conditions 
 v\^ere agreed to in consideration of the sum of 350 marks 
 sterling, to be paid by the lady Joan to the prior and 
 convent. 
 
 et pro uno lecto albo et rubeo de Camaka. coopertorio 
 inde duplicate cum blodio serico. cum chiefciel et celura 
 
 ' Does this imply that another tomb in the church had been moved, and 
 was it the tomb of Edward, prince of Wales? His will strictly enjoins 
 that he be buried immediately in front of the altar beside which lady Joan de 
 Mohun's tomb still stands, yet his tomb is now to the south of the site of 
 the shrine in the chapel of St. Thomas. 
 
 li 2
 
 100 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 unius secte. et tribus curtinis de sendal de gene, et uno 
 travers rubeo de sendal de tripe, et quatuor cusshy- 
 nis de secta dicti lecti unde valor estimative viginti 
 librarum. et vestimento palleato rubeo et nigro velvet, et 
 Camaka duplicate cum viridi sendal. videlicet, quantum 
 pertinet ad unum Capellanum. Diaconum. et Subdiaconum 
 de una et eadem secta. et duabus capis dictis. qiiercopis de 
 veste aurea. valor estimative viginti librarum. et uno 
 missali. precij centum solidorum. et uno calice. precij 
 quadraginta solidorum," etc.^ 
 
 Other benefactions made about the same time will be 
 noticed in the next section. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H. 
 
 ' Lambeth MS. 20. f. 228. Also in Register A. f. ccxxkj.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. loi 
 
 IV.— ORNAMENTS AND JEWELS ACQUIRED 
 OR REPAIRED IN THE TIME OF 
 THOMAS CHILLENDEN, PRIOR, 1390-1 
 TO 1411. 
 
 One of the greatest benefactors to the monastery of 
 Christchurch, Canterbury, was Thomas Chillenden, who 
 held the office of prior from the 16th February, 1 390-1, 
 to the 15th August, 141 1. During his priorate not only 
 were considerable additions made to the ornaments and 
 jewels, but the nave of the church was rebuilt and many 
 of the monastic buildings enlarged and reconstructed. 
 Chillenden's works are thus summarized in the Kalendar 
 of Obits ■} 
 
 Qui ope et auxilio revereiidissimi in Christo patris ac 
 domini. domini Thome Arundell Dei gracia Cantuariensis 
 Archiepiscopi tocius Anglie primatis et apostolice sedis 
 legati- Navem istius ecclesie cum capella beate Marie 
 virginis in eadem scita opereque decenti fabricata totaliter 
 renovavit. Claustrum quoque domum capitularem. magnum 
 dormitorium cum nova via versus ecclesiam. et subtus domum 
 rasture de novo fieri fecit. Majus vero altare cum duobus 
 altaribus sanctorum Dunstani. et Elphegi. opere argenteo 
 aureo ac ligno subtiliter inciso. decenter ornavit. Tria eciam 
 altaria. duo ex parte boreali. sanctorum Stephani. et Martini. 
 Et tercium ex parte australi. sancti Johannis evvangeliste. 
 laudabili pictura. et opere ligneo strenue decoravit. Vesti- 
 arium ornamentis ecclesiasticis. videlicet cappis. casulis. 
 tunicis. dalmaticis diversi coloris. Turribulis. Candelabris. ac 
 anulis pontificalibus. ceterisque jocalibus preciosis egregie 
 preditavit. Preciosos insuper quamplures libros diversarum 
 
 » Lambeth M.S. 20. f. 210^. ^ "Ligati" in MS.
 
 102 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 facultatum huic ecclesic contulit. Privilegiaquoque insignia 
 videlicet usum baculi pastoralis cum sandaliis et solempni 
 benediccione post horas precipuas et processiones. prioribus 
 hujus ecclesie in suorum archiepiscoporum absenciis ac 
 ultimam exempcionem Capituli generalis. a sanctissimo 
 patre domino Urbano papa, sua industria personaliter 
 impetravit, etc. etc.^ 
 
 [A list follows of the works carried out by Chillenden in 
 the curia or outer court, and elsewhere.] 
 
 Among the compotus rolls of this prior that have been 
 preserved is that covering his last year of office from 
 Michaelmas 1410 to Michaelmas 141 1. It ends with 
 the single word " Verte," and on the reverse is entered 
 a long list of all the good works carried out by Chillenden 
 during his priorate, either by himself or by his assis- 
 tance or direction. The list is divided into two main 
 heads of (i) the ornaments and jewels of the church 
 that were acquired or mended while Chillenden was 
 prior, and (2) of the new works and repairs carried out 
 
 ■' Pope Alexander III. (1159-1181) by an undated bull grants to A. the 
 prior [Alan, 1179-1 186-7] and the chapter of Canterbury the privilege of 
 wearing the tunic and dalmatic at mass on the feasts of St. Gregory, St. 
 Benedict, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Andrew, if within 
 Advent, and on the feast of St. /Elphege, if it fall in Lent. By bull of pope 
 Innocent III. dated x kal. Maii. anno pontif. 8^ (22nd April 1206), the prior 
 received the privilege, at the prayer of the archbishop, " utendi cirothecis et 
 dalmatica necnon mantello in mensa." Honorius III. by bull dated vii. id. 
 Jan. anno pontif 5° (lyth January 1 220-1) grants to the prior and convent 
 that the prior and his successors may have " usum mitre in precipuis sollemp- 
 nitatibus sinodis processionibus et ecclesie vestre festivitatibus auctoritate 
 presencium pro ipsius preciosi martiris \i.e. St. Thomas] reverencia." By a 
 later bull in the same year, dated ii. id. Maii, anno pontiff. 5°. the pope grants 
 the prior the privilege of using the ring. By bull dated iij. id. Dec. anno 
 pontif. i°(iith December 1378) pope Urban VI. granted to the prior, in addi- 
 tion to the mitre, tunic, dalmatic, gloves and ring, the privilege of using the 
 crosier and sandals, and of giving the blessing after mass and in other divine 
 offices, and at table. This bull is headed : " De baculo pastoral! per Thomam 
 Chyllyndene || Ista bulla fuit impetrata et concessa a domino Urbano [papa] 
 vjto. anno Domini Millesimo CCC'"°. lxxviij°. et tempore Regis Ricardi 
 secundi anno ij° expensis Prions et Capituli ecclesie Christi Cantuariensis 
 tempore domini Simonis de Sudbury Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis et legum 
 doctoris ac venerabilis fratris domini Johannis Vynch de Wynchelse Prioris 
 dicte ecclesie et fratris Thome Chillyngdene monachi dicte ecclesie et bacal- 
 larij in decretis procuratoris dicte ecclesie Cantuariensis in Romana curia 
 tunc existente." The respective bulls are entered in Register A. f. xxvj.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCIIURCII, CANTERBURY. 103 
 
 during the same period on the church and monastic 
 buildings.^ 
 
 With the exception of a few entries touching the 
 furniture of the church, the second of these sections does 
 not concern us, but the hst of jewels and ornaments 
 has a special interest, since no general inventories of the 
 fifteenth century have come down to us. It is, there- 
 fore, only from such accidental records as that entered 
 on the prior's coiupotus roll, and occasional items in the 
 accounts and obituary notices, that we can learn how, 
 when, and what additions were made to the ornaments 
 and jewels of the church. 
 
 The first sub-section of the list under notice enumerates 
 the various vestments and altar hangings acquired 
 during Chillenden's priorate. Besides single copes and 
 chasubles and suits, several large groups are included, 
 such as a set of thirty-nine white copes of cloth of gold, 
 a red suit with twenty-two albes, and "a great suit of 
 copes of green colour, namely ninety-six copes, with five 
 chasubles, six tunicles, two dalmatics, seventy-six albes, 
 stoles, and fanons, and all the gear of the high altar and 
 of St. i^lphege and St. Dunstan, of the same suit." Such 
 a set can only have been obtained for the use of the 
 whole convent on some special feast or feasts. Other 
 entries refer to a complete set of ornaments for the 
 altar of St. Thomas (that at the head of the shrine) and 
 the altar ad Coronavi in the round chapel of the Holy 
 Trinity. 
 
 Some of these ornaments no doubt formed part of the 
 munificent gift of Thomas of Buckingham, bishop of 
 Lincoln, who resigned his see in 1397, and retired to 
 Canterbury, where he died the following loth March, 
 I397~8- His gifts to the church are thus described in 
 the Kalendar of Obits : 
 
 ^ Most of these have been dealt with in his Anhiteciiiral History of the 
 conventual buildings of t/ie Monastery of Christ Chu7rh in Cante?-bury 
 (London, 1869), by the late Professor Willis, who has also printed in 
 Appendix No. VI. (p. 187) another copy of the list of benefactions above 
 referred to, preserved among the Carter Antiqucc (C. 166).
 
 I04 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Et de bonis dicti domini episcopi per disposicioncm 
 Thome Chyllynden prions tunc cxecutoris dicti dompni 
 adquesita sunt ad ecclesiam Cantuariensem ornamcnta et 
 vestimenta ad valorem ducentarum quadragintarum librarum. 
 videlicet unum vestimentum nigrum cum toto apparatu. et 
 sex cappis. et unum vestimentum album cum toto apparatu. 
 et triginta una capis unius secte. et unus baculus pastoraiis 
 argenteus cum capite deaurato. duo urseoli. et unus calix 
 argenti et deaurati. et vigintti \sic\ libre circa emendacionem 
 mitre domini Johannis Stratforde quondam archiepiscopi 
 Cantuariensis.^ 
 
 Another benefactor was archbishop William Courtenay 
 (1381-1396), whose will contains, inter alia, the following 
 bequests : 
 
 Item lego ecclesie mee metropolitane pulcherimam et 
 optimam capam meam rubiam cum perles debrauditam. 
 
 Item lego eidem ecclesie mee viride vestimentum meum 
 aureum cum cervis albis intextis cum aurifragio et 
 archangelis et toto apparatu videlicet septem capis. 
 
 Item lego eidem ecclesie mee melius vestimentum meum 
 album de auro cum cervis sive rubijs bestijs diasperatis 
 cum vij capis ejusdem secte." 
 
 These vestments cannot positively be identified in 
 Chillenden's list, but they are probably included under a 
 general heading of vestimentinu. Most of them will be 
 found in the inventory of 1540. The green vestment 
 perhaps formed part of the "great suit of copes " of that 
 colour, to which archbishop Thomas Arundel gave 
 twenty-one.'^ 
 
 The jewels enumerated in the second sub-section call 
 for no special remark. The crosier, cruets and chalice 
 given by bishop John of Buckingham are, however, 
 duly entered, as well as Stratford's mitre to the repair of 
 which he subscribed. It is interesting to notice also that 
 two of the eight mitres mentioned were new ones made 
 of old or broken silver found in the vestry. The last 
 item refers to the holder for the candle hallowed by the 
 
 ' Lambeth MS. 20. ff. x-jib. and 172. 
 
 - Register G. f. 259^^. 
 
 =* Ste post, page no, note 1.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 105 
 
 prior on the feast of the Purification at the blessing of 
 candles before mass, and perhaps carried in the procession 
 by one of the sacrists. At W'estminster a inagnus cereus 
 was called Alariale} At Salisbury, according to the 
 Processionale of 1508, one of the candles was reserved 
 for the blessing of the fonts at Easter and Pentecost.- 
 The following is the list of the ornaments and jewels : 
 
 Ornainenta Ecclcsie CJiristi Cantuariensis et Jocalia qiiedm)i 
 nova adquisita et qiiedain antiqua reparata tempore Thome 
 CJiillynden Prioris? 
 
 Ornamenta. 
 In primis una capa preciosa de velveto blodio cum j mose 
 
 de Perre^ et broudata cum archangelis aureis.' 
 Item iij Cape bone de auro et pulverizate cum velveto 
 
 rubeo 
 Item unum vestimentum integrum videlicet albis et curtinis 
 
 cum alijs adquisitis et iij Cape de velveto nigro pulver- 
 
 izat' cum floribus Delycc cum toto apparatu ad tria 
 
 altaria" de eadem secta. 
 Item xxxix cape'' albe de panno aureo cum uno vestimento 
 
 simplici et v albis de eadem secta. 
 Item una Casula cum palleo et frontello de panno aureo 
 
 albo et ridelHs de serico albo ad altare beate Marie 
 
 virginis in Navi ecclesie.'^ 
 Item unum vestimentum rubeum de panno aureo cum ij 
 
 Capis et xxij albis de eadem secta. 
 Item j magnus pannus cum toto apparatu ad cooperiendum 
 
 summum altare et altaria Sanctorum Elphegi et Dun- 
 
 stani depictus cum historia xl"i<^.''' 
 
 ' Missale ad ttsiun Ecclesie \Vcstino7tasteriensis (Henry Bradshaw 
 Society), fasc. ii. col. 620, note. 
 
 - " Unus sacristarum in superpelliceo post thuribularium ante subdiaconum 
 deferat cereum cum aliis benedicendum usui benedictionis fontium in vigiliis 
 Paschae et Pentecostes specialiter reservandum." Proccssiojiatc ad tisuni 
 tjisi^nis ac praclara Ecclesice Sariini. Ed. Henderson (Leeds, 1882), 143. 
 
 ^ The items are here set forth separately, instead of continuously as on 
 the roll. 
 
 ■* i.e. a morse or clasp adorned with small pearls. 
 
 ■' This was probably for use on the feast of St. Michael and All Angels. 
 
 '^ That is, the high altar, and the side altars of St. /Elphege and St. 
 Dunstan. This suit is probably that given by bishop John of Buckingham. 
 
 " These probably include bishop John of Buckingham's thirty-one copes 
 of a suit. 
 
 " The chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary at this time occupied its former 
 position in the first two bays of the north aisle of the nave. 
 
 " This cloth was evidently used to cover the three altars during Lent.
 
 io6 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item ij Cape blodij coloris quondam Henrici Northwych. 
 Item V Cape quarum ij cum leonibus ct coronis aureis ij 
 
 cum quercubus aureis ct una cum leonibus aureis. 
 Item una Capa rubea cum rosisaquilis et leonibus coronatis. 
 
 Orfreys de passione Christi et Morsus de Trinitate et 
 
 literis T.C.i 
 Item unum vestimcntum rubcum de attaby cum ij Capis 
 
 quinque albis stolis et manipulis ad serviend quando 
 
 sermoni fit de sancto Thoma. 
 Item unum vestimentum rubeum vocatum Salesbury per 
 
 dominum Priorem reparatum cum novem Capis octo 
 
 albis stolis et manipulis. 
 Item j vestimentum nigrum de serico cum fluctubus marinis 
 
 rubeis. vj Cape ix albe ct j pannus cum frontello ad 
 
 majus altare de eadem secta. xx- 
 
 Item una magna secta Caparum viridis Coloris. videlicet iiij 
 
 xvj Cape cum v Casulis vj tuniculis ij Dalmaticis 
 
 Ixxvj albis stolis et manipulis et toto apparatu summi 
 
 altaris Elphegi et Dunstani de eadem secta. 
 Item in Capella Prions apparatus tocius altaris de eadem 
 
 secta. 
 Item apparatus altaris Sancti Thome- de eadem secta. 
 Item ad Coronam apparatus altaris' de eadem secta. 
 Et unus pannus remanens in vestiario de eadem secta. 
 
 Jocalia, 
 
 Item iiij pelves argentee et deaurate. 
 
 Item iiij pelves argentee. 
 
 Item ij Candelabra argentea et deaurata, 
 
 Item viij turribula argentea et deaurata. 
 
 Item ij Turribula argentea pro juvenibus 
 
 Item ij naves pro incenso imponendo. 
 
 Item unum magnum Pontificale* de auro cum j saphiro 
 
 vocato Citheryn. 
 Item ij anuli cum ij saphiris. 
 Item iij Anuli cum Paritotis. 
 Item unus anulus cum uno lapide coloris de Aumbr', 
 
 ' For Thomas Chillenden. 
 
 - That at the head of St. Thomas's shrine. 
 
 ^ This was the ahar in the round chapel of the Holy Trinity at the 
 extreme east end of the church, where the relic called the Corona was 
 kept. 
 
 ■* This was of course a gold pontifical ring, and not the service book 
 so-called.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 107 
 
 Item ij anuli cum capitibus cle lapid Israel.-^ 
 
 Item una zonade serico nigro apparata cum stipis argenteis 
 et deauratis quondam Guidonis Mone Episcopi. 
 
 Item Baculus pastoralis Johannis Bokyngham Episcopi 
 Lincolniensis. 
 
 Item unus magnus Calix pro summo altari et ij urciole 
 argentee et deaurate cum armis dicti Johannis Bokyng- 
 ham. 
 
 Item unus alius caHx pro missa Capitulari. 
 
 Item ij magne Cruces cum baculis. 
 
 Item due parve Cruces cum bacuHs pro processionibus. 
 
 Item ij amicte de damasco. 
 
 Item unum par cirotecarum. 
 
 Item viij mitre unde iiij auri precioseuna Johannis Stratford 
 nuper archiepiscopi Cantuariensis^ Secunda Johannis 
 Peckham nuper archiepiscopi cantuariensis tercia domini 
 Thome Arundett nuper Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis 
 quarta Walter Rayne nuper Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis 
 de novo cum magnis sumptibus reparate. Et ij mitre 
 argentee et deaurate de novo facte cum antiqua materia 
 inventa in vestiario. 
 
 Item unum instrumentum argenteum et deauratum ad 
 imponendam ceram benedicendam in die Purificacionis 
 beate Marie virginis. 
 
 This list is followed by another entitled : " Nova 
 opera Reparaciones et adquisita tempore Thome Chil- 
 ly nden Prions," of which the following refer to the 
 church : 
 
 Navis ecclesie Christi Cantuariensis cum apparatu gradus et 
 Pulpiti ibidem cum stacione Crucis et nova capella 
 beate Virginis Marie in eadem navi. 
 
 Item novum altare cum tabula argentea et deaurata cum 
 apparatu altarium Sanctorum Elphegi et Dunstani et 
 una ymagine beate Virginis cum iiijo'' angelis argenteis 
 
 ^ i.e. cameos. 
 
 - Archbishop Stratford's will, dated in 1347 {Cartce Antiquce, W. 219) 
 contains the following entrj' touching this mitre : " Item lego Priori et 
 Conventui ecclesie de Cantuaf. mitram mcam novam meliorem. Et si forsan 
 velint eam accomodare successoribus meis hoc facere possint sub bona et 
 competenti caucione set intencionis mee est quod dicta mitra remaneat jure 
 domini penes Priorem et Conventum predictos ita quod de ca facere possint 
 quidquid voluerint ad honorem et utilitatem dicte ecclesie nostre Cantuaf.' 
 Also : " Item lego dictis Priori et Conventui ecclesie Cantuaf. capam 
 novam de velvetto purpureo cum ymaginibus aureis et margaritis multis."
 
 io8 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 et deauratis ct cipho auri precioso cum gemmis^ in 
 
 manu virginis pro corpore Christi imponendo. ascen- 
 
 dendo et descendendo quando placet. 
 Item iiij altaria undo ij ex parte chori et duo ex altera de 
 
 novo depicta. 
 Item dealbacio tocius ecclesie cum nova camera prioris 
 
 sacristaria et capella subtus Sancti Andree. 
 Item j camera privata et plumbata juxta vestiarium. 
 Item Pavimentum ex parte chori boriali de novo factum. 
 
 The story of the rebuilding of the nave through 
 Chillenden's exertions has been well told by Professor 
 Willis in his Architectural Histoiy. He was not, however, 
 then aware that to Chillenden we owe the reconstruction 
 of the great flight of steps leading from the nave up to 
 the quire, and the magnificent pulpitum or screen with 
 images of kings still standing on the top of the steps. 
 The chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary had since 
 Lanfranc's days occupied the first two bays of the north 
 aisle of the nave, where it was replaced by Chillenden 
 after the rebuilding. It is uncertain what is exactly 
 meant by the Stacio Crucis. It may of course refer to the 
 setting up again of the great Rood, with its attendant 
 images, that surmounted the screen (now removed) 
 at the east end of the nave against which stood the 
 altar of the Holy Cross. But it may also refer to the 
 lines cut in the nave floor to mark the places of the con- 
 vent in processions when they made a station before 
 the Cross. These are described by Gostling as " two 
 parallel lines cut in the pavement, about eight feet 
 asunder, but in several places interrupted by gravestones, 
 or the removing some of the paving slabs from their 
 first places. These were designed to show what room 
 should be kept clear for public processions. In Drake's 
 plan of the old body of York Minster, we find many 
 circular stones placed in order, that the members of that 
 cathedral might know where each should take his stand- 
 
 ' Possibly this is the jocalc aureioii pidc7-itm in quo rcponiiii?' sacra 
 eucarisiia given by archbishop Simon of Islip in 1 361-2. See ante, p. 95.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 109 
 
 ing before they began their walk."^ Besides the York 
 examples quoted by Gosthng, other rows of circular 
 stones existed at Lincoln and Wells, while at Fountains 
 Abbey similar rows of square slabs, each incised with a 
 circle, still remain in place under the turf. 
 
 The "new altar" mentioned in the list of Chillen- 
 den's works was probably part of some important 
 reconstruction of the hio-h altar and its surroundings that 
 was carried out at the end of the fourteenth century and 
 towards the building of which John of Buckingham, 
 bishop of Lincoln (1363-1397), gave the sum of £10} 
 The Kalendar of Obits also states that part of the 
 magnificent donation of over .:^ 1,000 sterling by king 
 Richard IL was given ad fahdcam sitvimi altaris:' 
 These gifts were probably spent upon the building of the 
 stone reredos, which was no doubt a low wall, like that 
 still standing in Westminster abbey church, extending 
 across the presbytery, and enriched with tabernacle 
 work and imagery on both sides. Against it stood the 
 three altars, viz. the high altar and those of St. yElphege 
 and St. Dunstan, with doors between leading to the 
 space behind and to the steps up to the archbishop's 
 marble chair. We learn from another source that before 
 1395. archbishop Courtenay had bestowed upon the 
 church "a precious image of the Holy Trinity, with six 
 apostles of silver, and nobly gilt, for the table of the 
 high altar" of the estimated value of ^340,^ and arch- 
 
 ' William Gostling, A Walk in and about tJic City of CantcrbtDy (second 
 edition, Canterbury, 1 777), 203. The lines in the floor are not mentioned in the 
 first edition of 1774. They disappeared when the nave was repaved in 1787-8. 
 
 - Among the bequests in the draft of bishop John of Buckingham's will, 
 preserved at Canterbury among the Carta; Antiques (W. 220), is : " Item 
 lego fabrice ecclesie Cant, viginti libras et fabrice summi altaris ejusdem 
 ecclesie viginti libras." 
 
 ■' According to the Kalendar of Obits, Richard II. : " Dedit eciam ad 
 fabricam summi altaris et navis ecclesie diversis vicibus ultra jocalia oblata 
 per eum [ad feretrum sancti Thome erased in J/5.] et beate marie in criptis 
 ultra mille libras sterlingorum." Lambeth MS. 20. f. 170. 
 
 * " Item unam ymaginem Sancte Trinitatis preciosiorem cum sex apostolis 
 argenteis et nobiliter deauratis ad tabulam summi altaris ecclesie sue 
 Cantuariensis donavit. Que quidem ymagines ad valorem cccxl. librarum 
 apreciantur in presenti." Register S. f. 23. According to the Kalendar of 
 Obits this image weighed 160 pounds. Lambeth MS. 20. f. 206.
 
 no INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 bishop Arundel, besides a gold chalice and two gold 
 cruets of the value of 200 marks, added " the three 
 silver basons hanging before the high altar."^ Chillen- 
 den's share is stated in the Kalendar of Obits to have 
 been that " he decently ornamented the high altar together 
 with the two altars of St. Dunstan and St. yElphege 
 with work of silver and gold, and wood curiously carved," 
 which aofrees with the statement under notice that he 
 gave " a new altar with a table of silver and gilt " (to 
 which archbishop Courtenay added the images described) 
 "with the furniture of the altars of St. yElphege and St. 
 Dunstan." 
 
 The Kalendar of Obits says nothing of the curious and 
 unusual arrangement for hanging the pyx described in the 
 list under notice as "an image of the Blessed Virgin with 
 four angels silver and gilt and with a precious cup of 
 gold with gems in the hand of the Virgin for putting in 
 the body of Christ, ascending and descending at 
 pleasure."^ 
 
 The four altars outside the quire which were newly 
 decorated with paintings by Chillenden are described in 
 the Kalendar of Obits as only three in number : " also the 
 two altars on the north side of St. Stephen and St. Martin 
 {i.e. in the north quire transept), and a third on the 
 south side of St. John Evangelist {i.e. in the south quire 
 
 ■ Arundel's gifts are thus recorded in the Kalendar of Obits : " Contulitque 
 dominus archiepiscopus huic ecclesie multa merito laudanda. videhcet unum 
 vestimentum viride. cum xx" et una cappis unius secte. aliamque cappam 
 de aureo panno solempni. unam metram \sic\ auream diversis gemmis et 
 lapidibus preciosis ornatam. unum baculum pastoralem magnum argenteum 
 et totaliter deauratum. unum calicem aureum ad majus altare cum duobus 
 urceolijs de auro valoris ducentarum marcarum. aliumque calicem aureum 
 [ad feretrum beati Thome erased^ quadraginta libras valentem. cum aliis 
 diversis jocalibus. tria baccilia argentea ante summum altare pendencia. 
 quinque campanas. in sonitu dulcissimas. arrundell ryng vulgariter nuncu- 
 patas. duo quoque dedit missalia quamplures libros preciosos cum alijs 
 ornamentis ecclesiasticis." Lambeth MS. 20. f. 166. 
 
 - This arrangement was evidently in the mind of John Almyngham of 
 Walberswick, Suffolk, when he bequeathed ^^lo to his parish church in 1500, 
 to be spent upon " a canope over the hygh awter, welle done with oure lady 
 and iiij. aungelys and the Holy Ghost goyng upp and downe with a 
 chyme (? cheyne)." See John Nichols, Ilhistrations of the manners and 
 cxpences of antient times in England in the i^th, ibth, and ijth ce?ituries 
 (London, 1797), 187.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. in 
 
 transept) with laudable painting and woodwork he care- 
 fully decorated." This work was done at the beginning 
 of Chillenden's priorate, as appears from the following 
 entry in the sacrist's accounts for 1392-3 : 
 
 Carbon lingna^ vitrum et colores Ixxixs. iiijd, 
 
 Et tantum hoc anno propter picturam mensure beate 
 marie virginis Et tabulam inferiorem ad altare sancti 
 Stephani Et ij tabulas parvas superiores ad altare sancti 
 Martini. 
 
 The existence of this viensura beate juai'ie virginis iu 
 the church does not appear to have been noted hitherto, 
 and it is as difficult to say what was its precise character 
 as to indicate its position. The earliest reference to it 
 which we have met with is in the will, dated 1362, of 
 Edmund Stablegate, citizen of Canterbury, who desires 
 to be buried in Navi ecclesie Christi Cantuariensis prope 
 fineni versus West. He directs that four tapers each of 
 twenty-eight pounds weight shall burn round his body 
 on the day of his burial, and afterwards to burn, one 
 before the image of Our Lady in the church of St. 
 yElphege, another before the image of Our Lady in 
 the crypts of the cathedral church, a third before Our 
 Lady of Queningate, while the fourth was ad arcien- 
 dam coram mensura beate Marie in ecclesia Christi 
 Canttiariensis} Besides the reference to this already 
 given from the payments in the sacrist's accounts for 
 1392-3, there are in the same record the following items 
 among the receipts which show that it was painted by 
 subscription : 
 
 Item de Waltero et Johanna Waldrede et aliis diver- 
 sis ad picturam mensure beate Marie virginis ... vjs. 
 Item de aHjs specialibus amicis ... ... ... xls. 
 
 Of the " measure of Our Lord " a number of examples 
 have been noted. Didron mentions one formerly in the 
 church of St. Denis in France, " une colonne de jaspe 
 
 ' Sic for " ligna." 
 
 - Reg. Whittlesey., f. 121/;.
 
 112 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIi'RCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 que Ion tient estre la mesure de la hauteur de nostre 
 Seigneur Jesus-Christ."^ This was destroyed in 1793. 
 Another, in the cathedral church of St. John Lateran at 
 Rome is thus described in Voyage Archcologiqzie au xv' 
 siecle alleiJtagne et italic, printed by Didron r 
 
 Pour sortir hors de lad. eglise et du mesure pourpris, a la 
 main gaulche, yaung huis a III ou HIT degres, et puis une 
 salle, en laquelle y a ung grand marbre, sur I II I colonnes, 
 quy sont dud. marbre, et samble assez estre ung autel ; 
 mais on diet que c'est la haulteur de Nostre-Seigneur Jesu- 
 crist, et vaon dessoubz, en allant a procession. 
 
 A more recent account gives the following description 
 of it : 
 
 La taille de Notre-Seigneur est indiquee dans le cloitre de 
 Saint-Jean-de-Latran par une tablette que supportent 
 quatre colonnes : or, cette tablette donne jusqu'au sol i 
 metre 85 centimetres, mesure identique a celle que j'ai vuc 
 a Grotta-Ferrata (Etats Pontificaux), qui y ajoute 46 centi- 
 metres pour les epaules." 
 
 No corresponding ineiisiire beate Marie virginis seem 
 to have been noted ; we can therefore only suppose that 
 the painted object at Canterbury which denoted her height 
 was a pillar or shaft of some kind. It will be noticed 
 that the entry in the accounts already quoted associates 
 the mensitra with the altars of St. Stephen and St. 
 Martin. Between the places of these altars in the north 
 quire transept, at the foot of the vaulting shaft there, 
 the marble step has been cut away to make room for 
 
 • Annales ArcheoJogiqucs, v. 207. 
 
 2 Ibid. xxii. 91. 
 
 ^ Iconographie du cJiemin de la Croix in Didron's Annales Archcologiqiies., 
 xxiii. 237. For further references see a paper by Mr. W. de Gray Birch in 
 Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 2nd S. xi. 470-472, " On 
 two Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in the British Museum," and another by the 
 Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, D.D., F.S.A., " On a magical roll preserved in 
 the British Museum " in Journal of the British Archcsological Association, 
 xlviii. 38-54, where descriptions are quoted of the measure of Our Lord 
 (jnensura Domini nost?-i Jesu Christi) in Cott. MS. Titus D. xxvi. and Harley 
 Roll, 43. A. 14. The latter is accompanied by a drawing of a cross, 5 inches 
 in length with the memorandum : " This cross xv tymys metyn ys y'= lenght 
 of oure lord Iliu criste." Since 5 X 15 = 75, the height of our Lord, 
 according to this, was 6 feet 3 inches.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 113 
 
 some object that stood against the shaft. This object 
 was an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as we learn 
 from the followinof curious note : 
 
 Anno Domini MoCCCCo Ixvijo circa festum Epiphanie 
 Domini emanavit magna aqua in criptis et ad Tumbam 
 beati Thome martiris et in alijs capellis ibidem et duravit 
 per .iiijoi" septimanas. ita quod conventus non potuerunt 
 transire ad ilium locum ad processionem Sed transierunt 
 ad ymaginem beate Marie virginis versus dormitorium que 
 est inter altaria Sanctorum Martini et Stephani tamen 
 cerei in criptis erant illuminati tempore processionis Et 
 eodem modo in vigilia purificacionis beate Marie et in die 
 post X]^'^. vesperas Dominus Prior cum conventu steterunt 
 ibidem tamen Missa fuit ibidem omni die et Salve.^ 
 
 It is possible that the pedestal on which this image 
 stood formed the inensiu^a in question. 
 
 To those who regard the whitewashing of churches 
 as an invention cf the "churchwarden" era, and who 
 consequently in their ignorance ruin many an old 
 building by denuding it of its whitewash and plaster, it 
 will perhaps come as a shock to read that one of Chil- 
 lenden's great works by which he is to be remembered 
 was " the whitewashing of the whole church, the 
 prior's chapel, the sacristy, and beneath the chapel of 
 St. Andrew." Some interestino- items touching the 
 work occur in the sacrist's accounts. Thus in those for 
 1 39 1 -2, among the receipts, we find : 
 
 Item de domino Priore vjs viijd pro vaut chori reperand 
 \sic\ et dealband. 
 
 as well as three other like sums "pro eodem." While 
 among the payments is the entry : 
 
 Item Albacione Chori Ecclesie xij Y\. xijs. viijd. 
 
 In the receipts of the following year we again find : 
 
 Item de Domino Priore ad Dealbacioncm chori vjs viijd. 
 
 ^ CCCC. Parker MS. 417, fif. 81/' and 82. For a description of this 
 interesting manuscript %zz post, pp. 115, 116.
 
 114 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 and further sums of 12^., 135. 4</., 3^. 4^^., 6^. 8^., 3^. ^d., 
 105., and 6s-. 8^^. Also among the payments : 
 
 Item pro Dealbacione chori hoc anno vj W. vijs vjd. 
 
 It thus appears that a sum of _£i9, equivalent at 
 least to ^400 at the present time, was spent in two years 
 in whitewashing the quire alone ; what then must the 
 whitewashing of the whole church have cost ? 
 
 We have further evidence of the use of whitewash 
 at Canterbury in the treasurers' accounts for 1236, 
 where a payment is entered; "In dealbacione claustri 
 xxvijs. jd." and in that for 1237: " Pictor et colores 
 cum dealbacione claustri xxiijs. ijd. ob." A later 
 instance is found in the sacrist's roll for 1469-70 : "In 
 lathamis conductis pro albacione capituli, xljd." 
 
 The pavement on the north side of the quire attributed 
 to Chillenden in the last of the items quoted is that still 
 to be seen in the north quire aisle and north quire 
 transept. It consists of square slabs of Purbeck marble 
 set diamondwise, with other slabs laid longitudinally 
 in narrow bands at the sides and down the centre. 
 Except where it has been destroyed for the gratings 
 over the hot water pipes, this interesting pavement is 
 uninjured. It is in marked contrast to the old pavement 
 on the opposite side of the church, which is a medley of 
 slabs of all sizes and divers materials. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCIIURCII, CANTERBURY. ii; 
 
 V. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AS TO 
 
 JEWELS AND ORNAMENTS ACQUIRED 
 
 DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 It has already been mentioned in treating of the orna- 
 ments, etc. acquired in the time of prior Thomas 
 Chillenden that no oreneral inventories of the fifteenth 
 century have come down to us. There are nevertheless 
 a number of memoranda and entries in the accounts, in 
 wills, and elsewhere, of considerable interest and impor- 
 tance which ought not to be passed over, especially since 
 many of the ornaments to which they refer are not to be 
 identified in the later inventories. 
 
 Among the Carta: Antiqucr is an imperfect list of the 
 gifts and benefits of Henry Chichele, archbishop from 
 1414 to 1443. It enumerates, besides sundry silver 
 vessels for use in the monastery : 
 
 iinum vestimentum integrum solempne et prcciosum de 
 albo velveto, cum floribus saracenorum splcndide puh'eri- 
 zatum ; una cum duabus cappis et albis cjusdem secta; et 
 coloris^ 
 
 In the great inventory of 1 540"^ are included two copes and 
 "a vestment decon and subdeacon," of white velvet " w' 
 burres enbroudered," and " ij stoles and iij phanons " of 
 the same material with burrs of gold, which are very 
 likely those given by archbishop Chichele. 
 
 Among the Parker MSS. in the library of Corpus 
 Christi College, Cambridge, is a small quarto volume 
 
 ' Cart. Antiq. L. i8o. Printed in Litcrcc Canluariciiscs ^Rolls' Series 85), 
 iii. 171. 
 ' SeeposI 
 
 I 2
 
 ii6 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 entitled : Liber fratris Johannis Stone monachi ecclesie 
 Chi'isti Ca7ituariensis quern ex suo magno labore com- 
 posuit Anno Domini Millesiino CCCC"'° Ixvij" Mona- 
 chatiLS sui anno quinqiiagcsiiiio. This MS. is an ex- 
 tremely curious and interesting memorandum book of 
 most miscellaneous character, and contains a large num- 
 ber of entries that throw considerable light upon the 
 topography and dates of different parts of the church and 
 monastic buildings. It ought to be printed in full. 
 Stone's own work does not bes^in until the eitjhth leaf, 
 but is preceded by the following interesting note, which 
 is written in a different hand : 
 
 f. 4.] In memoriam rei futuram Anno gracie Millesimo 
 quadringentesimo decimo octavo videlicet in die sancte 
 Lucie virginis feria ij^- contingit quod frater Johannes Stone 
 monachus sancte Cantuar Ecclesie receptus et acceptatus 
 fuit ad habitum monachalem tempore domini Johannis 
 Wodennisbeg' tunc Prions qui subsequenter vixit in 
 religione per 1 annos cum sancti spiritus gratia assistente 
 ut speratur qui eciam ne traderentur perpetue oblivioni 
 dona et expensas que vel quas ad di versa opera et orna- 
 menta ad domus dei decorem noscitur dedisse hie curavit 
 seriosius inserere et in spem annotare. 
 
 Inprimis ad feretra sanctorum Dunstani et 
 
 Elphegi vjs viijd. 
 
 Item confratri nostro domino Johanni Langdon. vjs viijd 
 
 Item ad ostriam faciendam vjs viijd. 
 
 Item in tribus frontellis pro tribus altaribus in 
 choro de velveto blodij colons cum auri- 
 frigiis de Archangelis xxxiij. in eisdem .x 
 marc. In honore sancti Dunstani 
 
 f 4/7.] Item pro panno pro altaribus sanctorum Dunstani et 
 
 Elphegi 
 
 In primis pro auro .j. pond, de venisia xl.s. 
 
 Item pro labore servientis viij.d. 
 
 Item pro quinque ulnis de satin viridis coloris xxxvs. 
 
 Item pro labore servientis versus Londoii xx.d. 
 
 Item pro Cerico diversi coloris xvjd. 
 
 Item pro Cerico diversi coloris .j. unce & d'i. xxd 
 
 Item pro Auro ij pipis xld 
 
 Item pro cerico diversi coloris xvjd.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 117 
 
 Item pro Auro .j. Scanne xxd 
 
 Item pro Cerico diversi colons xvjd 
 
 Summa iiij li. viijs. ijd. 
 
 Item pro quatuor ulnis de bokeram viridis et 
 
 rubei coloris ijs. iiijd 
 
 Item pro Riban vjd 
 
 Item pro Auro xxd 
 
 Summa .iiij.s. viijd. 
 
 f. 5.] Expense pro frontellis pro tribus altaribus 
 
 In primis pro auro .xxij. pipis xxxs. xd. 
 
 Item pro duabus ulnis et di de felveto viridis 
 
 coloris xxxijs. vijd. 
 
 Item in frenge Rubei coloris pro tribus altari- 
 bus .xij.s. xj.d. 
 
 Item pro bokeram xxd.ofe. 
 
 Item pro cerico diversi coloris v.s. iiij.d. 
 
 Item dedi seculari pro labore suo xij.d. 
 
 Summa .iiij. li. iiij. s. iiij.d.ob. 
 
 Expense pro magno panno pro summo altarc 
 In primis pro viij ulnis de satin viridis coloris lij.s. 
 
 Item pro Auro .xxx. Scainis lijs. viij.d. 
 
 Item pro Cerico diversi coloris viijs. v.d. 
 
 Item Johanni Brayfelde pro factura et garn- 
 
 escyng xxv.s. xd. 
 
 Item pro .ix. ulnis de Bokeram coloris viridis v.s. iij.d. 
 
 Summa .vj. ti iiij.s. iij.d. ^ 
 Item pro Tapeto viridis coloris cum signis .xxv.s. viij.d 
 
 Summa patet. 
 
 f. ^b?\ Curtine 
 
 Item pro Curtinis. In primis pro panno de 
 cerico viridis coloris cum signis de pictura 
 .x. ulnis xvj.s. viij.d. 
 
 Item pro Auro et factura iiij. marc. 
 
 Item pro frengis Rubei coloris ij.s. 
 
 Item pro Riban rubei coloris xiiij.d. 
 
 Item pro Ringlis .j.d. 
 
 Item pro Riban rubei coloris .ij. pec. xij.d. 
 
 Summa vij. marc xixd. 
 
 ' From these items it will be seen that the green velvet cost 13^. an ell, 
 the green satin (:is. bd. and ^s., and the buckram for the linings /</. and 8^. 
 The Venice gold cost ^os. a pound. The other charges for gold shew that 
 it cost IJ, %d. a pipe or skein.
 
 iiS INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIUIiCFE CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item pro Bokeram viridis ct Blodij coloris pro 
 
 sex cappis^ xx.s. 
 
 Item pro factura quinque capparum iij.s. iiij.d 
 
 Summa xxiijs. iiij.d 
 
 Item pro vitro in Claustro v.s. 
 
 Item ad novum opus martirij vj.s. viij.d. 
 
 Summa xj.s. viij.d. 
 
 Item ad fontem in navi ecclesie v.s. 
 
 Item pro Tapeto Blodij coloris cum aquila in 
 
 medio xxxij.s. 
 
 Summa patet xxxvij.s. 
 
 Item in jDrima Camera in firmaria pro Camino et 
 
 pro nova fenestra xx.s. 
 
 These interesting^ items include the makinof in all of 
 the follovv^ing vestments, etc. : 
 
 (i) frontals for each of the three altars in the quire, 
 viz. the high altar and the altars of St. Dunstan 
 and St. ^Iphege, of blue velvet embroidered 
 with gold archangels (to the number of thirty- 
 three) at a cost of lo marks ; 
 
 (2) a set of frontals for the three altars, of green 
 
 satin and velvet with red fringe, embroidered 
 with gold, and lined with green and red 
 buckram ; 
 
 (3) a carpet or tapet of green with swans ; 
 
 (4) a set of curtains of green silk cloth painted with 
 
 gold swans, and fringed with red ; and 
 
 (5) a carpet or tapet of blue with an eagle in the 
 
 midst. 
 
 These green and blue frontals are identical with those 
 mentioned in the Inventory of 1540." 
 
 Of the subsequent entries in the manuscript under 
 notice only one need here be quoted. It records the 
 death in 14 19, of Thomas Selmiston, doubtless a monk, 
 concerning whom Stone says : 
 
 ' Probably for lining or relining six copes. 
 - See/(?.f/, pp. 1 89, 190.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 119 
 
 Erat enim in arte brudataria artifex curiosissi- 
 mus in toto regno non habens sibi similem. 
 quod evidenter apparet in casula aurea 
 vestimenti .T. Heme. Et in vestimento 
 Ricardi Ruton et in multis aliis locis in 
 vestiario. (f. io<5.) 
 
 The exercise of the art of embroidery was not un- 
 common in monasteries, and many instances of such 
 handiwork of the monks might be quoted. Even abbots 
 did not consider it beneath their dignity to practise the 
 art, for John Wigmore, abbot of St. Peter's abbey, 
 Gloucester, from 1329 to 1337, gave to his monastery a 
 suit of vestments de viridi samyt C2tin volucribus deauratis 
 pro festo Peritecostes qiiain propriis inanibns iex2iit et 
 fecit. ^ 
 
 The Sacrists' Accounts contain a number of entries 
 relating to the gift, repair, or making of vestments and 
 other ornaments, of which the following are the most 
 interesting : 
 
 1412-13 
 
 In meremio Carpentaria sarratura cum lattis 
 emptis Et in reparacione de magno cas'?^ 
 pro cereo paschali cum uno disco et pynctura 
 diversorum vexillorum cum pertinenciis xlvijs ixd. 
 
 1413. Easter to Michaelmas. 
 
 Item in canvase pro ij altaribus domini principis 
 sub cripto et emendacione aliarum neces- 
 sariarum ibidem. iijs. vd 
 
 1432-3 
 
 Item pro uno vestimento de velfedo viridis coloris 
 
 . videlicet casula tunica dalmatica cum j 
 
 capa ejusdem secte pulverizat' cum floribus 
 
 de luys iiij ti xvs. 
 
 Item alia capa blodii coloris pulverizat' cum 
 
 floribus de luys iiij ti vjs. 
 
 Item, pro quatuor candelabris circa feretra 
 
 Sanctorum Dunstani et Elphegi xxvjs viijd 
 
 ^ Historia ct Car/ithirii/m iiwiiastcrii Sancti Petri Gloucestrice^ ed. \V. H. 
 Hart (Rolls' Series 2)l))i •• 45-
 
 120 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 1436-7 
 
 In cirotecis pontificalibus iijs iiijd 
 
 Item solut. pro nigra casula de novo facta pul- 
 verizata cum flourdelyzs pro exequiis 
 mortuorum Ixvjs viijd. 
 
 1462-3 
 
 Item in uno magno Calice aureo reparato viijs. 
 
 1464-5 
 
 In panno lineo empto pro Pendilijs in superior! 
 choro ex utraque parte et pro lira et 
 factura ejusdem xxxviijs xjd 
 
 1468-9 
 
 Received : 
 
 De xs. ex dono cujusdam devoti viri pro albis 
 faciendis 
 
 1472-3 
 
 In iij paribus urceolorum emptis cum factura 
 
 earundem xxvjs. 
 
 Item in iij ulnis de panno de Satyn emptis xxxvijs vjd 
 
 1473-4 
 
 In reparacione ij librorum Evangeliorum iijs iiijd 
 
 1493-4 
 
 Pro tribus tapetis^ rubei colons emptis continen- 
 tibus Ixvj virgatas pro qualibet virgata iijs 
 iiijd xj lit3. 
 
 Pro cariagio cum factura filo et canvas emptis 
 
 ad easdem xiijs iiijd 
 
 Johanni Sawnder proligacione duorum librorum 
 missalium quorum unus servit altari Sancte 
 \_sic\ Gregorij et alter capelle beate Marie 
 prope Martirium. iiijs viijd. 
 
 The Kalendar of Obits" also contains notices of various 
 gifts and bequests of ornaments during the fifteenth and 
 sixteenth centuries. 
 
 ' These may be the "iij tappeltf for the high aulter of red tapestrie " 
 mentioned in the Inventory of 1540. 
 '' Lambeth MS. 20.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 121 
 
 Among them are the gift of a golden censer to the 
 high altar by Amyas Tatresale, 1416,^ and of a mitre and 
 crosier by Richard Martin, suffragan bishop,^ probably 
 bishop of Waterford and Lismore 1472-1475, Joan 
 Frevyll, apparently about 1520, also gave tres Cappas 
 de riibio tessiUo in pectorali habentes Jestis ciun coronal 
 
 Of Thomas Bourchier, archbishop from 1454 to i486, 
 it is recorded : 
 
 Qui contulit huic ecclesie pulcherimum \sic\ ymaginem 
 de sancta Trinitate de auro et gemmis ornatam. atque 
 viginti septem'* cappis de rubio tessuto. cum toto apparatu 
 pro sacerdote diacono et subdiacono unius secte.' 
 
 Of these gifts we fortunately obtain further particulars 
 from the archbishop's will : 
 
 Item do et lego priori et capitulo ecclesie mee Christi 
 Cantuar. et eorum successoribus ob honorem sancte Trini- 
 tatis sanctorum Alphegi et gloriosi Thome martiris unam 
 ymaginem sancte Trinitatis de puro auro cum le dyademe 
 et xj balassis x saphiris et xliiij gemmis nuncupatis /^r/;'^'. 
 unum vestimentum integrum de panno aureo rubeo vocato 
 rede tissue pyerlcd v'ldeWcet unam capsulam'^ duas dalmaticas 
 cum toto apparatu et unam Cappam ejusdem secte cum 
 gemmis preciosis in le orfres infixis et garneizatis et xxvj 
 Capas de rubio tissue cum orfres complet ad serviendum 
 Deo in eadem ecclesia pro perpetuo/ 
 
 Whether this golden image of the Holy Trinity was 
 given to the high altar or to St. Thomas's shrine does 
 not appear. The vestments with the jewelled orphreys 
 cannot positively be identified in the great inventory of 
 1540 f probably their richness led to their being reserved 
 for "the king's use." But the same inventory mentions 
 " viij copes of red golde velvet baudekyn tysshew w*'' 
 orpheras enbroudered" and " xvj copes of the same silke 
 
 ' Lambeth MS. f. 230/;. 
 
 - Ibid. f. 240. 
 
 •■* Ibid. 20, f. I go. 
 
 ■* The archbishop's will gives the number of copes as twenty-six. 
 
 ■'' Lambeth MS. 20, f. 176^. 
 
 " Sic for " casulam." 
 
 ' Register K. f. -^7. 
 
 * See/cj'/, p. 168.
 
 122 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 w' orpheras of the same " which may be the survivors 
 of Bourchier's twenty-six copes of red tissue. 
 
 Of John Morton, archbishop from i486 to 1500, the 
 Kalendar of Obits has the followino; interesting record : 
 
 Tanto enim amore matrcm suam sanctissimam Cantuar- 
 iensem videlicet ecclesiam amplexus est. ut earn munere 
 amplissimo Cappis videlicet octoginta albi coloris ditissimis 
 ornatissimisquc cum omnibus alijs ad presbiterum. diaco- 
 num. subdiaconumque pertinentibus. suo nomine armis 
 proprijs ex omni parte auro purissimo desupcr textis. 
 litterisque decentissimis. banc sentenciam suavissimam. 5Bco 
 
 Sit grnciarum nccio componcntibus: ad Dei laudem suique 
 
 memoriam relinqueret donatam. Pallium eciam funerale 
 ex nigro bisso pulcherimum corporibus defunctorum depu- 
 tatum. auro purissimo undique circumseptum. magna ex 
 sua munificencia contulit.^ 
 
 When the inventory of 1 540 was taken there survived 
 fifty^ copes " of white gokle baudekyn w^*^ golde of 
 Moreton's gifte w*^ Orpheras of velvet golde baudekyn," 
 " one vestment deacon and subdeacon of white golde 
 baudekyn w' orpheras cloth of golde tysshew of More- 
 tons gifte," and " iij stoles and ij phanons of Moretons 
 riche " ; also "one riche hersecloth of blacke and white 
 golde baudekyn w*'' a frynge of redde and grene silke 
 and golde," probably that given by Morton. 
 
 But by far the longest entry in the Kalendar of Obits 
 is that recording the gifts and good works of Thomas 
 Goldston, the second prior of that name, who held office 
 from 1494-5 to 15 17. Besides his great work in con- 
 nexion with the rebuilding of the central tower, ''aiigyll 
 stepyll vulgariter nuncupatam," he is credited with the 
 following : 
 
 In choro eciam libros nonnullos ad Dei honorem et 
 ecclesie. perpulcra litteratura ac satis polita exarari fecit. 
 Magnum videlicet gradale quod quidem aureis Uteris flori- 
 bus et armis. decenti pictura inauratis pulcerime ornavit. 
 Missale quoque perpulcrum ad usum sacerdotum summe 
 
 ' Lambeth MS. 20, f. 218/;. 
 
 - Perhaps no more than fifty were actually gi\-en.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCII, CANTERBURY. 123 
 
 misse inserviencium. cum nonnullis alijs libris ad usum 
 fratrum Deo serviencium satis comode assignavit. 
 
 Feretrum eciam sanctissimi Audoeni in quo eiusdem 
 reliquie reverenter sunt recondite, de opere ligneo deccnter 
 inciso. ac deaurato fieri fecit.^ 
 
 Nee illud silendum est. quod ad omncm ambiguitatis 
 scrupulum circa sanctissimi ac divi patris nostri Dunstani 
 reliquias penitus tollcndum. auctoritate revercndissimi patris 
 domini Willelmi Warham tunc archiepiscopi sollempne 
 scrutinium fieri fecit.- presente dicto domino archiepiscopo 
 cum nonnullis alijs venerabilibus viris ecclesiasticis sibi in 
 eodem scrutineo \sic\ honorabiliter coassistentibus. In 
 cujus rei argumentum porciunculam quandam calve vener- 
 andi capitis sanctissimi patronis nostri Dunstani. dominus 
 archiepiscopus dicto priori manu propria contradidit. ut earn, 
 reverenter in quadam massa argentea ac honorifice rccon- 
 deret. Ouam quidem massam argenteam in formam capitis 
 dictus prior decenter ac satis artificiose fabricari fecit, in 
 quo eandem porciunculam capitis honorifice ac reverenter 
 fecit collocari. ipsumque inter reliquias ecclesie ut decuit 
 voluit conservari. Quod quidem ab omnibus caput sancti 
 Dunstani vulgariter nuncupatur.'' 
 
 Analogium quoque sive aquilam eneam proprijs impensis 
 procurari fecit. 
 
 Tres eciam pannos pulcherimos opcre de arysse subtiliter 
 intextos ortum virginis cum vita et obitu ejusdem clare et 
 splendide configurantes. in parte chori australi ccrtis tem- 
 poribus anni fecit appendi. 
 
 Vestiarium quoque varijs ac diversis ornamcntis ecclesi- 
 asticis videlicet Casulis. Dalmaticis. Tunicis. et Cappis. 
 diversi coloris. ornando egregie instauravit. Duas precipue 
 cappas satis preciosas cum archangelis aureis sparsius 
 insutis. necnon et alias duas cappas cum floribus liliorum 
 aureis de velveto. et blodij coloris satis formosas atque 
 decentes. Casulam eciam cum duabus tunicis et decem 
 cappis unius secte ac blodij coloris de panno aureo. vestiario 
 
 ' In 13 1 5 this was kept in the great rehc cupboard in the presbytery (p. So). 
 
 - This scrutiny was made on 22nd April 1508 on account of the claim of 
 the Abbey of Glastonbury to possess the actual relics of St. Dunstan. An 
 account of the Canterbury scrutiny and part of the correspondence with 
 Glastonbury has been printed by Wharton in Af!i(/ia Sacra., ii. 227, etc. 
 The full text will be found in MS. E. 27 and in Rcgts/er R. fit". 183-188-!^; 
 both in possession of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. 
 
 ^ It is possible that the head enclosed in silver which Erasmus says was 
 shewn to him in the crypt was this new relic of St. Dunstan. It was 
 certainly not a relic of St. Thomas.
 
 124 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 assignare decrevit. Et ad honorem virginis Marie in 
 solempni commemoracione ejusdem quando celebratur de 
 ea. Casulam. cum duabus Tunicis. ac totidem Cappis. albi 
 colons de le Damaske devote ac satis laudabiliter disposuit. 
 Ad funera eciam fratrum debite curanda in solempni missa 
 de requie \_sic\ quando celebratur pro eis duas casulas cum 
 iiijoi" tunicis et duabus cappis de velveto et nigro coloris ad 
 eadem funera solempniter curanda cum antiqua apparitura 
 decenter ac honorifice reparavit. Capellam quoque prioris 
 diversis ornamentis viz. casulis. curtinis. ac tapetis diversi 
 coloris honeste decoravit.^ 
 
 It will be seen from this record that, besides the service- 
 books and relics noted in the first part of it, the church 
 was indebted to prior Thomas Goldston II. for the 
 following ornaments : 
 
 ( I ) a brass eagle desk ; 
 
 {2) three Arras hangings with the story of the 
 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, for the adornment of the 
 
 quire ; 
 
 (3) two precious copes with golden archangels, and 
 
 two other rich copes of blue velvet with gold 
 fleurs-de-lis ; 
 
 (4) a chasuble, a pair of tunicles, and ten copes of a 
 
 suit, of blue cloth of gold ; 
 
 (5) a chasuble, two tunicles, and as many copes of 
 
 white damask for feasts of our Lady ; 
 
 (6) the repair of two chasubles, four tunicles, and 
 
 two copes of black velvet, with old apparels, for 
 masses of the dead ; and 
 
 (7) divers ornaments for use in the prior's chajDel. 
 
 Most, if not all, of the ornaments in question, except 
 those for the prior's chapel, may be identified in the 
 inventory of 1540, but to avoid needless repetition it will 
 be better to defer the notice of the fact until that docu- 
 ment be under consideration. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H. 
 
 ' Lambeth MS. 20, f. 220, etc.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHVKCH, CANTERBURY. 125 
 
 VI. INVENTORIES OF THE KEEPER OF 
 THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. THOMAS, 
 
 1500 AND 1503. 
 
 Among the manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of 
 Canterbury is a long and narrow book of 150 leaves, 
 numbered on the back fc. 11. • It is written on paper. 
 
 and appears to be the memorandum book of a monk 
 of Christchurch, Canterbury, one William Ingram, who 
 held the office of pcnitenciarius from 151 1 to 1532. 
 The greater part of the volume is filled with various 
 accounts and memoranda relating to his office, but it also 
 contains a number of interesting inventories of earlier 
 date, made while Ingram was ciistos Martirii or Keeper 
 of the Martyrdom. These are not arranged in chrono- 
 logical order, and it is clear from later entries incorporated 
 in them that they have been transcribed from some other 
 record, now lost. 
 
 The Martyrdom was the name given in after years to 
 that part of the north transept where St. Thomas met 
 with his death in 1 1 70, and was in charge of a special 
 officer called ciistos Martirii. But the name of the 
 Martyrdom was subsequently extended to the whole 
 area of the transept. The site of the murder can be 
 absolutely fixed by the flat walP to which archdeacon 
 Chapman's monument is now attached, between the 
 passage to the crypt and the Lady Chapel, which occupies 
 the site of the old apsidal chapel of St. Benedict.'- At 
 
 • The description by Gervase of this part of the church is also positive on 
 this point : " Inter hoc spacium {i.e., the way to the crypt) et pra^dictam 
 porticum murus est sohdus, ante quern gloriosus ille martyrum consors et 
 apostolorum conviva, sanctus vidcHcet Thomas, gladiis furentium corpore 
 quidem occubuit, etc." Opera Historica (Rolls' Series 73), i. 11. 
 
 - This chapel was pulled down and rebuilt by prior Thomas Goldston I. 
 between 1448 and 1455. The altar in it was hallowed on October iSth in 
 the latter year in honour of the Assumption of Our Lady and St. Benedict, 
 and the chapel was first used on the following December 21st. (C.C.C.C.j. 
 Parker MS. 417, f. 54.) ^ct post, pp. 162, 163.
 
 126 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 the time of the archbishop's murder the northern part of 
 the transept was divided into two stories by a stone vault, 
 which was carried on the south side by two arches resting 
 on a central pillar and eastern and western responds. 
 Beneath the easternmost arch the archbishop was slain. 
 Gervase tells us that the pillar and the vault resting on 
 it "in process of time were taken down out of respect for 
 the martyr, that an altar elevated on the place of martyr- 
 dom might be seen at a greater distance."^ This altar 
 apparently was " elevated " on a platform of two steps in 
 front of the wall in question, and this platform remained 
 intact through all the subsequent alterations to this part 
 of the church, for since its removal in the i6th century 
 the Norman plinth of Lanfranc's time and the scar left 
 by the cutting away of the respond have become visible. 
 The unfinished south end" of the two steps at the entrance 
 of the Lady Chapel seems to show that the platform of 
 the Martyrdom altar returned westwards in continuation 
 of them, as far as the grave slabs of priors William Selling 
 and Thomas Goldston 11.^ Its southern limit is fixed by 
 
 ' " Pilarius autem ille qui in medio crucis hujus steterat et fornix ei innitens, 
 processu temporis, ob reverentiam martyris demolita sunt, ut altare in loco 
 niartyrii elevatum, ampliori spalio cerneretur." Gervase, Opera Tfistorica 
 (Rolls' Series 73), i. n. It is clear from this that there was no altar here 
 until after St. Thomas's death. The numerous representations of the martyr- 
 dom which shew the archbishop being slain before or at an altar, and in mass 
 vestments, are historically inaccurate. 
 
 ^ On the floor at the end of these steps are the remains of the fastening of 
 an iron grate, and the hole of another such fastening exists at the corner of 
 the passage to the crypt, also at the floor level. The lost grate does not 
 seem to have had anything to do with the Martyrdom altar, but to have 
 been placed in front of archdeacon Chapman's monument. 
 
 •■' Prior Selling, according to C.C.C.C. MS. 298, i. 118, was buried "ad 
 martirium sancti Thome coram altari" and prior Thomas Goldston II. "ad 
 martirium sancti Thome martiris juxta predecessorem sui." Prior Selling's 
 slab is still in place, but that of prior Goldston has been destroyed, with the 
 exception of its western end, to make way for a more recent memorial. Next 
 to Selling's slab is that of archbishop Dean, beyond which lies the large slab 
 of archbishop Stafford and to the north that of prior Fynch. All these are 
 recorded {/oc. cit.) to have been buried "ad martirium." Archbishop Dean 
 in his will desires to be buried " in illo loco quo beatus martir Thomas olim 
 dicte ecclesie Archiepiscopus gladijs impiorum occubuit ubi inibi ccm- 
 venientius fieri possit " under a marble stone with his effigy in brass. He 
 also directs that for twenty years after his death mass shall be said daily 
 for him "apud altare martirii sancti Thome martiris." {^Register Q. ff. ib'^b. 
 etc.)
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 127 
 
 the passage to the crypt. This would give 8 feet 
 4f inches as the length of the lower step and 7 feet as 
 its projection westwards. The upper step would then be 
 ■6 feet io| inches long, and 5 feet 6 inches wide. (See 
 plan on p. 147.) Erasmus says that the altar he saw 
 here was a wooden one, sacred to the Virgin. 
 
 William Ingram has preserved two inventories of the 
 goods pertaining to the Martyrdom altar while he was 
 €ustos Martii'ii. The first of these was taken on May 
 19th, 1500, the other on July 6th 1503. While enumera- 
 ting practically the same ornaments, the two inventories 
 differ considerably in detail, the later being much fuller 
 than the earlier. 
 
 The text of the first inventory is as follows : 
 
 Inventorium sive supervisio rerum contentarum in officio 
 custodis Martirij sancti Thome facta xix° die mensis maij anno 
 domini M^ CCCCCo In presencia venerabilis patris dompni 
 Ricardi Copton supprioris et sacre pagine professoris per manus 
 Jacobi Oxne ultimi officiarij ibidem ad Thomam Byrry nunc 
 officiarium in eodem officio et in anno supradicto. 
 
 Inprimis unum vestimentum rubeum integrum cum damilis 
 aureis et volucribus intextis cum aurifrigerio ante et 
 retro et diversis Imaginibus cum martirio sancti Thome. 
 
 Item vestimentum rubeum integrum Thome Gore de panno 
 aureo cum aquilis aureis intextis. 
 
 Item vestimentum album integrum cum foliis deliciarum 
 aurifrigiatum cum auro et blodio mixto colore et 
 habet aurifrigiaturam ante et retro cum coronis inbru- 
 datis. 
 
 Item vestimentum rubeum integrum cum coronis aureis 
 cujus alba deest per t.b.-^ 
 
 Item tres albe una viridis alia cum diversis armis Tercia de 
 panno aureo. 
 
 Item pannus de rubeo velveto cum ymagine et martirio 
 sancti Thome. 
 
 Item pannus albus purpureus cum ymagine beate Marie. 
 
 Item iiijot" pariapannorum lineorum ad altare sancti Thome 
 cum frontellis diversis quorum una est de velveto 
 rubeo Alia alba de panno vocato le damask ex dono 
 dompni Galfridi Glastynbyre et brudata ex exspensis 
 dompni Johannis Sandv/ych cumi j & s in circulo et le 
 
 ' T.B. no doubt stand for Thomas Byrry.
 
 128 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 sonebemys per circuito intexto Tercia rubea cum 
 nodis aureis brudata Ouarta de operc textrino divers- 
 orum colorum cum scriptura inbrudata continente hec 
 
 verba (J^ratc pro omuibus i)«ius loci benrfactoribus. 
 
 fltem unum par palliorum sine frontella ad altare deest per 
 
 t.b.1 
 Item iiij° tuelle superpositi cuspidi gladij et alijs reliquijs 
 
 cum ea contentis cum frontellis una de velveto rubeo 
 
 Alia de panno vocato le damask albo Tercia rubea 
 
 cum stellis tribus brudatis de auro. Ouarta de opere 
 
 textrino diversorum colorum cum armis que quasi 
 
 vetustate consumitur. 
 Item due curtine de rubeo serico. 
 Item pannus lineus depictus cum Imagine crucifixi et 
 
 Imaginibus beate Marie et sancti Johannis et duabus 
 
 curtinis ejusdem picture ex donodompni Thome Chart. 
 Item due curtine de albo serico ex dono dompni J. S.^ 
 Item duo tapeta de albo cum floribus et radicibus le tuftis 
 
 voc[a]tis et aquilis in medio. 
 Item vij^*-'"" corporalia cum suis tecis diversorum operum 
 
 quorum unum deest cum teca. 
 Item unus calix argenteus intus deauratus habens in pede 
 
 Imaginem Christi sedentis in sepulchro et in patena 
 
 vernaculum deauratum. 
 Item una pax de ebore cum clausuris argenteis. 
 Item duo Missalia quorum unum signaculum argenteum et 
 
 registrum ejusdem metalli 2° folio primi dico doiiiinunt 
 
 clirisiuiiv' Alterius 2° folio cedamus. 
 Item duo parea \_sic\ urceolorum de stanno. 
 titem una pelvis parva de eodem metallo deest. 
 Item duo anuli aurei unus beati Thome et alter sancti 
 
 Edmundi archiepiscopi cum duabus saphiris vocatis le 
 
 lupes. 
 Item reliquie particulares scilicet de sancto Thoma et 
 
 aliorum sanctorum ut patent in capsa ubi cuspis est in 
 
 custode. 
 Item una teca de cupro cum paucis lapidibus. 
 Item suppellicium"* unum bonum aliud vetus. 
 Item manutergium unum bonum aliud antiquum. 
 
 t The five items marked thus do not appear in the later inventory. 
 » " deest" in margin. 
 
 2 Probably the John Sandwich mentioned above. 
 
 =• Cf. Dko cnini Christum Jcsiiin in the epistle for the second Sunday in 
 Advent. 
 
 * Sic for " superpeliicium."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 129 
 
 Item iiijo"" pulvinaria vetera et lacerata. 
 
 Item duo candelabra de cupro ad altare. 
 
 fltem tria coopertoria unum de panno canubio aliud anti- 
 quum tercium de le red bokeram. 
 
 fltem duo coopertoria superposita cuspidi gladij unum anti- 
 quum et unum de bokeram. 
 
 Item duo textus cupri et illuminati. 
 
 fltem unum par bilanciarum cum iiijo"" stateris.' 
 
 Item una pax parva cum Imagine crucifixi. 
 
 Item una terebra stans ad pedes sancti Thome tenens tres 
 cereos. 
 
 Item unum candelabrum cum duplici naso prodeunte de 
 stipite.^ 
 
 Item unum missale olim pertinens ad tumbam'' 2° fo 
 
 After this last item is the following memorandum : 
 
 Testantur omnes banc scripturam inspicientes dompnum 
 Ricardum London custodem martirij sancti thome ex licencia 
 speciali venerabilis patris domini Thome Goldston hujus ecclesie 
 prions dignissimi ac sacre pagine professoris e[x]imij vendidisse 
 unum jocale aureum et rotum habens in pictura Imaginem 
 sancti Georgij cum xx^' perulis videlicet a agnus dei ad persol- 
 venda debita dicti officij Anno Domini M^ CCCC° nonagesim.o 
 vjo die mensis frebruarij \stc\. 
 
 The second inventory is arranged somewhat differently 
 from the first, the various ornaments being classified 
 under headings instead of being run together in one list. 
 The text is as follows : 
 
 Inventorium sive supervisio rerum contentarum in officio 
 custodis Martirij sancti Thome martiris ac Cantuariensis archi- 
 episcopi facta vjo die mensis Julij Anno Domini M^ CCCCC iij 
 et Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi xix^ In presencia dompni 
 Ricardi Copton supprioris et sacre pagine professoris et dompni 
 Johannis Wykham capellani ejus Willelmo Inggram tunc per 
 obitum Thome Byrry officiario existente in eodem officio. 
 
 t The five items marked thus do not appear in the later inventory. 
 
 ' "deest" in margin. 
 
 '-■ Between this item, which ends a page, and the next, which begins a page, 
 a leaf has been cut out of the manuscript. A comparison, however, of the 
 two inventories shews that nothing is omitted and the page must therefore 
 have been lost before the inventory was written. 
 
 ■ That is, to the altar of the tomb of St Thomas, in the eastern part of the 
 crypt. This entry is left unfinished. 
 
 K
 
 I30 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 De vestimentis. 
 
 In primis unum vesti'mcntum rubium Integrum cum 
 damilis aureis ct volucribus intextis cum aurifrigerio 
 ante et retro aliqualiter cum blodio Intexto et cum 
 diversis Imaginibus et cum martirio sancti Thome. 
 
 Item eidem vestimento una sto[la] unum manipulum et 
 una alba de rubeo panno cerico cum Imaginibus 
 brudatis. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum rubeum de panno aureo cum 
 aquilis aureis intextis cum aurifrigerio de panno cerico 
 albo cum foliis et stellis de auro brudatis cum stola 
 manipulo et alba de eodem panno aureo ex dono 
 Thome Gore. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum vetus rubij coloris de panno cerico 
 cum coronis de auro brudatis cum aurifrigerio ante de 
 albo opere textrino cum stola et manipulo alterius 
 operis cujus alba deest. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum album vetus de panno cerico cum 
 folicijs deliciarum brudatis de auro et blodio mixto 
 cum aurifrigerio de panno cerico rubij coloris cum 
 coronis aureis brudatis cum stola et manipulo et alba 
 quasi totaliter dilacerata. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum de velveto purpureo cum auri- 
 frigerio de panno aureo vocata le red tyssii cum stola 
 et manipulo et alba de eodem panno velveti quondam 
 dompni Thome Chart monachi hujus ecclesie ex dono 
 domini Thome Goldston prioris et sacre pagine pro- 
 fessoris [et d \V Ingram added]. 
 
 Item una alba viridis coloris. 
 
 Item una alba rubea cum armis brudata. 
 
 Item una alba de serico glauco cum nodis. 
 
 Item pannus de velveto purpureo cum Imagine. 
 
 Item alius pannus albus purpureus cum Imagine beate 
 Marie. 
 
 4tem unum vestimentum de velveto purpurij coloris bru- 
 datum ex dorso cum duabus archangelis et vj floribus 
 cum aurifrigerio brudato cum crucifixo et spiritu 
 sancto et cum sancto Johanne sub pcde et propheta et 
 ex parte ante cum duabus floribus et duobus le flow- 
 redelyce et cum aurifrigerio brudato cum duabus 
 prophetis et cum sancto Thadea /cum alba ejusdem 
 panni cum vj floribus brudatis cum amicta cum tribus 
 
 ' This entry is added in another coloured ink by the same hand as the 
 rest of the inventory.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 131 
 
 floribus et cum duabus floribus in manipuHs cum stola 
 et manipulo ejusdem panni piano ex dono venerabilis 
 patris ac domini domini Thome Goldston prions ac 
 sacre pagine professoris ad usum altaris sancti Thome 
 martiris pro missa in ferijs tercijs et pro secularib.s 
 sacerdotibus honestis et discretis ibidem celebraturis 
 tempore domini VV. Inggram. 
 
 De frontallis et tuelh's. 
 
 Item frons cum tuella de velvet© rubio piano. 
 
 Item alia frons cum tuella de cerico albo vocato le damask 
 
 ex dono dompni Galfridi Glastynbery Et brudata cum 
 
 solis aureis et in medio litteris ^ ex exspensis dompni 
 
 Johannis Sandwych. 
 Item alia frons cum tuella de cerico rubeo et cum nodis 
 
 aureis brudata. 
 Item alia frons cum tuella de panno vocato le bord ali- 
 
 zander et cum scriptura C^ratC pro omnt'bus IjUJllS loci 
 
 tcnffactortbus. 
 
 Item iiijoi" tuella linea eisdem frontibus. 
 
 Item alia frons de la saten burges rubij coloris cum x le 
 flowredelys de auro brudato cum scriptura pcv fratrciU 
 l^icnrUum ^tonc et ^oli trco |)onor rt gloria cum duabus 
 tuellis de le napre continentis in longitudine iiijc" 
 virgas et ex latitudine unius virge ex dono predicti 
 confratris Anno domini M" CCCCCvjo In die trans-' 
 lacionis sancti Thome eo Anno feria tercia. 
 
 Item frontatt cuspidis gladij. 
 
 Item una frontella de velveto rubio. 
 
 Item alia frons de cerico albo scilicet damasce^ 
 
 Item alia de velveto vetusta et cum tribus stellis brudata. 
 
 Item alia cum diversis armis intexta et vetusta. 
 
 De curtenis. 
 
 Item due curtene de serico rubeo. 
 
 Item alie due curtene de serico albo cum litteris nigris cis 
 
 infusis ex dono domini Johannis Sandwych. 
 Item unus pannus rubeus depictus cum Imagine crucifi.xi 
 
 et cum Imaginibus beate marie et sancti Johannis ct 
 
 cum duabus curtenis ejusdem picture e.x dono dompni 
 
 Thome Chart.
 
 132 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 De corporalibus. 
 
 Item unum corporale de Ic laund cum coopertorio cum 
 
 armis ex una parte et floribus ex altera parte intextis. 
 Item unum corporale de panno lineo cujus teca martirio 
 
 sancti Thome ex una parte est brudata. 
 Item unum corporale de panno lineo cujus una pars est 
 
 cum Imagine et auro brudata alia pars de cerico rubeo. 
 Item unum corporale de panno lineo cum teca de panno 
 
 aureo albo. 
 Item unum corporale de le lawnd cum teca sua ex opere 
 
 saresino blodio. 
 Item unum corporale de panno lineo cujus teca ex una 
 
 parte cum imagine crucifixi est brudata. 
 
 De Missalibus. 
 
 ftem unum missale cum signaculo argenteo et cum regis- 
 terio ejusdem metalli 2° folio dico douiinum cJiristiun de 
 percamino. 
 
 Item aliud Missale de percamino 2° folio cedainus. 
 
 Item unum Missale pulcrum de percamino cum capitalibus 
 cum auro sculptis 2° folio gat ininistros ex dono fratris 
 Walteri Coliweston pro secularibus sacerdotibus. 
 
 Item unum missale de paupiro \sic\ le pryntyd ex dono 
 magistri Willelmi ffairher legum doctoris principalis 
 hospicij sancti Hugonis Cantribigie pro secularibus 
 sacerdotibus. 
 
 De tapetis et de pulvinarijs. 
 
 Item duo tapeta de albo quasi devasta cum floribus et 
 radicibus le Tuftys vocatis et aquilis in medio. 
 
 Item unum pulvinarium coopertum cum le bord alizandyr 
 et cum le flockys stuffyd. 
 
 Item aliud coopertum cum cerico rubio vetus et cum le 
 floxis stuffyd. 
 
 Item aliud coopertum. 
 
 De Manitergijs. 
 
 Item unum manitergium de panno lineo cum le ij semys. 
 Item unum manitergium de panno lineo in medio le soyd. 
 Item suppellicium unum bonum aliud laceratum.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 133 
 
 De calicibus et alijs Jocalibus. 
 
 Item unus calix argenteus et intus deauratus habens in 
 pede Imaginem Christi sedentis in sepulcro et in patena 
 vernaculum deauratum ponderanc' xv unciarum et 
 dimidii uncie. 
 
 Item una pix dc ebore cum clausuris argenteis. 
 
 Item una teca de cupro cum cera et clave et cum paucis 
 lapidibus scilicet cristallis parvi precij. 
 
 Item duo parea urceolorum de stamno. 
 
 Item duo candelabra de cupro deaurato. 
 
 Item duo textus cuprij illuminati unus cum Imagine cruci- 
 fixi alter cum Imagine Salvatoris. 
 
 Item una tabula pro pacis osculo de ebore cum Imagine 
 crucifixi. 
 
 Item una terebra erea stans ad pedes sancti Thome martiris. 
 
 Item unum candelabrum ereum cum duplici naso produ- 
 cente de stipite. 
 
 ^Item unus calix de argento intus et exterius deaurato cum 
 nodo amellato cum litteris insculpto U|)CSUS et cruci- 
 fixo cum Maria et Johanne insculpt' in pede et mar- 
 tirium sancti Thome martiris in patena amellatum pon- 
 derant' xxj unciarum dimidii quarterij ex dono dompni 
 Ricardi Copton supprioris ac sacri pagini \sic\ pro- 
 fessoris eximij Anno gracie M^ CCCCCo ix^ et Anno 
 Regni Regis Henrici viiji primo videlicet ad usum magni 
 altaris specialiter pro missis ibidem in ferijs tercijs 
 celebrandis- et pro secularibus sacerdotibus cum evene- 
 rint in illo altare missam celebraturis ex sumptibus 
 Margarete Kyngston nuper sororis hospitalis sancti 
 Jacobi. 
 
 De reliquijs. 
 
 Item duo annuli aurei unus beati Thome et alter sancti 
 Edmundi archiepiscopi cum duabus saphiris vocatis le 
 lupes magne et mire virtutis pro oculis egrorum relc- 
 vandis. 
 
 Item in capsa lignea cuspis gladij fixus in capite sancti 
 Thome martiris cercbro et sanguine cruentata Item 
 sub berillo de le pomcl cuspidis gladij de cerebro 
 predicti martiris. 
 
 ' This entry has been added and is in a differently coloured ink, but is by 
 the same hand as the rest of the inventory. 
 
 - In the medieval English massbooks votive masses were assigned to 
 certain days of the week, and at Canterbury it would seem from this and 
 other entries that the votive mass of St. Thomas was said on a Tuesday.
 
 134 INVENTORIES OF CIIKISrCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item sub bcrilla subtus Particula crucis domini nostri Jhesu 
 Christi Item de spongea ejusdem domini nostri Jhesu 
 Christi Item de vestimentis gloriosissime virginis Marie. 
 
 Item de carne et sanguine predicti martiris. 
 
 Item de cilicio ejusdem et de crinibus capitis et de cuculla 
 cum alijs diversis reliquijs. 
 
 Item in magna berilla supra cuspidem gladij reliquie sancti 
 Thome apostoli et fanone cum sanguine involute circa 
 collum ejus Item de sancto Stephano et de sancto 
 Laurencio Item de sancta Maria Jacobe^ et Salome. 
 Item de sancto Marcello papa Item de Sanctis Sebesti- 
 ani^ hermetis et Anastasij et de aliis Sanctis quorum 
 nomina ignorantur. 
 
 I \sic\. 
 
 From these inventories it appears that the altar was 
 known as that of St. Thomas. Above it was fixed, pro- 
 bably on a bracket or in a niche, and beneath a canopy, 
 an image of the martyred archbishop, before which was 
 a herse or candleholder that held three tapers. For the 
 altar itself were two copper-gilt candlesticks, and there 
 was also a brass candlestick "with a double nozzle pro- 
 ceeding from the stem." No cross or crucifix is men- 
 tioned. The other "jewels" included a silver chalice 
 and paten, two pairs of cruets of pewter or tin, an ivory 
 pyx, a pax of the same material, two texts, and a copper 
 case or coffer set with crystals, probably to keep the 
 relics in or to receive offerings. The second chalice 
 of the later inventory, though in charge of the keeper 
 of the Martyrdom, was given in 1509 " for the use of the 
 high altar." The pair of balances mentioned in the 
 inventory of 1 500 may have been for weighing valuables 
 or broken silver offered at the Martyrdom altar, such 
 as the jewels noted above as sold in 1496, 
 
 Of furniture for the altar there seems to have been 
 ofood store ; there beino^ six suits of vestments, all of red 
 or purple save one white set, with frontals to match, and 
 two sets of curtains or costers for the sides of the altar, 
 one of red, the other white with black letters. There 
 were also divers corporals and their cases, towels, carpets, 
 cushions for the massbook, etc. 
 
 » Sic.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 135 
 
 The chief attraction of the altar was of course the 
 rehcs preserved at it. First on the Hst are two gold 
 rings set with sapphires, formerly belonging to or worn 
 by St. Thomas and St. Edmund the archbishop, "of 
 great and wonderful virtue for relieving the eyes of sick 
 persons." The other relics were kept together. Fore- 
 most among them, in a wooden case, was the cuspis 
 gladij or point of Richard the Breton's sword, which was 
 shivered on the pavement by the force of the last blow 
 struck at St. Thomas, tain cuspidem quavi giadii sui 
 capiLliuii reliquit ecclesicE says Benedict.' The pommel 
 of the hilt here referred to is mentioned in the next item, 
 and was probably kept with it. The other relics call for 
 no special remark, save that those of the saints were 
 fixed over the sword-point under a great beryl or crystal. 
 This sword-point seems usually to have stood upon or 
 over the altar, and had a special set of coverings, which 
 are enumerated in the inventories, that were withdrawn 
 on such occasions as the relic was displayed. 
 
 Among Ingram's accounts are a few entries which 
 refer to this altar and its adjuncts : 
 
 1504 
 
 pro clave et le whyt tynning virge feree ante Imagi- 
 
 nem sancti Thome ... ... ... ... iijd. 
 
 pro emendacione cerarum et le hasp pertinent, case 
 
 reliquiarum ... ... ... ... ... iijd. 
 
 pro mutacione le wardis trium cerarum et pro duabus 
 
 clavibus et tres le plates pro le key holys pro 
 
 cistis prope reliquiis ... ... ... ... viijd. 
 
 1505 
 
 pro nova clave et reparacione le haspis pro capsa 
 
 reliquiarum modo 2^ vice... ... ... ... iijd. 
 
 1506 
 
 pro duabus clavis pro capsa reliquiarum et pro clave 
 
 pro ostio rubeo ante reliquias ... ... ... vjd. 
 
 pro clave pro cera virge ferree ante Imaginem sancti 
 
 Thome ijd. 
 
 ' Materials for tJic History of Thomas Bcckct, Arc/ibis hop of Canterbury. 
 Edited by J. C. Robertson (Rolls' Series 67), ii. 13.
 
 136 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 1509 
 
 pro una virga ferrea pro le tabcrnakyl ymaginis sancti 
 
 Thome ... ... ... ... ... ... iiijd. 
 
 Why the iron rod or bar before St. Thomas's image 
 should have been furnished with a lock and key it is 
 difficult to say. 
 
 The "red door" above mentioned is referred to in a 
 payment made the previous year " pro reparacione cere 
 inferioris hostii prope claustrum vocati le red dur et pro 
 una nova clave pertinenti ad eundem." It was ofjposite 
 the cloister door, and therefore " before the relics " at the 
 Martyrdom altar, in a stone wall or partition built in 
 1381-2/ in connexion with prior Chillenden's rearrange- 
 ment of the great flight of steps, to enclose a lobby and 
 staircase on the west side of the transept by which the 
 monks could go from the cloister to the quire without 
 mixing with pilgrims visiting the Martyrdom. (See 
 plan, p. 147.) Somner quotes these "Verses, on each 
 leaf of the door one, yet legible in part, importing that 
 St. Thomas was martyred within this place : 
 
 Est sacer intra locus, venerabilis, atque beatus, 
 Presul ubi sanctus Thomas est Martyrizatus."- 
 
 Gostling also gives the same inscription.^ 
 The part of the wall protecting the steps remains, but 
 originally it extended further to beyond the red door and 
 
 ' 1381-2, " In partem pro novo Muro faciendo juxta martirio. xxiijs. iiijd." 
 Treasurers' Accounts. An older barrier, also containing a door into the 
 Martyrdom, must have occupied the same position, as appears by the 
 following note of another historical event that took place in this part of the 
 church in 1298 : " Quinto Idus Septembris dominus Robertus Cantuariensis 
 Archiepiscopus celebiavit sponsalia inter dominum Edwardum Regem 
 Anglie et Margaretam sororem Regis Francie in ostio Ecclesie versus 
 Claustrum juxta Hostium martirij sancti Thome. Et subsequenter celebravit 
 missam sponsalium ad altare feretri sancti Thome." {Register Q. f. xxix.) 
 
 - William Somner, T/ie Antiquities of Catitcrbury. The second edition, 
 revised and enlarged by Nicholas Battely (London, 1703) part i. 91. It is 
 not quite clear whether the inscription read across the two leaves of the 
 door as it is printed above, or whether it was arranged thus : 
 Est sacer intra locus I Presul ubi sanctus 
 
 venerabilis atque beatus | Thomas est martyrizatus. 
 
 ^ William Gostling, A Walk in imd aroiuui the City of Canterbury (London, 
 1774), 120.
 
 iNVENTOKlES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 137 
 
 then turned obliquely to join the staircase turret in the 
 angle, as shewn in Dart's plan. ** A grave," says Gostling, 
 "was dug here, in the year 1734, so near this partition, 
 that the foundation of it gave way ; to prevent mischief 
 therefore, it was taken down, and the way laid open to it."' 
 The place of the door is still indicated by the bolt holes 
 in the pavement. 
 
 Before quitting the Martyrdom it will be interesting to 
 note the account given by Erasmus of what he saw in it : 
 "There," he says, "is shewn a wooden altar sacred to 
 the Holy Virgin, insignificant, and not worth visiting, 
 save as a monument of antiquity, putting to shame the 
 luxury in these times. There the holy man is said to 
 have uttered a last farewell to the Virgin, when death 
 was nigh at hand. On the altar is the point of the sword 
 with which the head of the most excellent prelate was 
 cleft and his brain mixed together in order that his death 
 might be more speedy. The sacred rust of this sword, 
 from love of the martyr, we religiously kissed."'" 
 
 It is reasonable to suppose that the Martyrdom altar 
 was protected in some way, either by a screen or an iron 
 grate. No definite record of such has, however, yet 
 been noticed. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H. 
 
 ^ William (Jostling, A Walk in and around the City of Canterbury i London, 
 1774), 120. 
 
 - The Latin text is as follows : " Illic ostenditur altare liyneum diva" 
 Virgini sacrum, pusillum, nee ulla re visendum, nisi monumento vetustatis, 
 luxum hisce temporibus exprobante. Illic vir plus dicitur extrcmum vale 
 dixisse Virgini, cum mors immineret. In ara est cuspis gladii, quo pntsectus 
 est vertex optimi pra;sulis, ac cerebrum confusum, videlicet quo mors asset 
 prjEsentior. Hujus ferri sacram rubiginem amore martyris religiose sumus 
 exosculati." D. Erasmus, Colloquia (Amsterdam, 1662), 375.
 
 138 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 VII. liNVENTORY OF AND OTHER DOCU- 
 MENTS REFERRING TO ARCHBISHOP 
 WARHAM'S CHAPEL. 
 
 By a formal deed, dated in their chapter house the 6th 
 day of April, 1507, Thomas (Goldston II) the prior and 
 the convent of Christchurch, Canterbury, granted to 
 William Warham, archbishop of Canterbury (1504- 
 1532), "who, on account of the very pious affection and 
 singular devotion which he always had and has towards his 
 aforesaid church and the holy martyr Thomas, patron of 
 the same church, desired to be buried therein," a place of 
 sepulture which 
 
 juxta Capellam beate Marie virginis ex parte boreali dicte 
 ecclesie sue Metropolitice fundatam et prope locum sive 
 altare ubi praefatus divus Thomas suum passus est martirium 
 animo deliberato devote eligerit et assignaverit. Ac quan- 
 dam Capellam oratorium et altare in Salvatoris nostri Jhesu 
 Christi sueque beatissime matris virginis Marie honore 
 dedicat. Et tumulum sepulchrum sive monumentum ad dicti 
 sui cadaveris sepulturam de novo ibidem erexerit construx- 
 erit et edificaverit. 
 
 The prior and convent accordingly promise to undertake 
 for themselves and their successors for ever that neither 
 they nor their said successors shall at any time amove or 
 transfer, or allow to be moved, transferred, taken away 
 or demolished 
 
 capellam oratorium sive altare tumulum sepulcrum aut 
 monumentum predicta nee aliqua eorundem aut alicujus 
 partem sive imagines ibidem exsculptas cum lapidibus 
 quadratis neque clausuram ferream vel aliquam ejus 
 partem.^ 
 
 ' Register T. f. 58/^ Printed also in Liicrce Cantica7'icnsis (Rolls' Series 
 85), iii- y:>l-
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 139 
 
 From Ingram's memorandum book^ we learn that the 
 stone altar in Warham's chapel had been dedicated on 
 30th March 1 507, a week before the deed just cited, by 
 the prior of Dover, John Thornton, who was then acting 
 as the archbishop's suffragan bishop, in honour of Our 
 Saviour and All Saints and to the memory of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary. On the 4th April following, which was 
 Easter Day and the feast of St. Ambrose, the arch- 
 bishop's chantry was begun at the same altar, and in the 
 same year, Ingram adds, the building of the chapel was 
 finished. A second memorandum states that the stone 
 altar above referred to was removed from its original 
 place to within the said oratory and a new slab laid upon 
 it on 19th August of the same year, and by the aforesaid 
 suffragan was hallowed a second time to the memory of 
 the Blessed Virgin Mary and in honour of St. Margaret," 
 on the 4th September following. 
 
 The text of Ingram's memoranda is as follows : 
 
 Memorandum Anno Domini M° CCCCCVIJo iijo kalend' 
 Aprilis videlicet feria tercia dedicatum fuit illud altare 
 lapideum novum in officio Martirij sancti Thome Can- 
 tuariensis archiepiscopi In honore sancti Salvatoris et 
 omnium sanctorum et ad memoriam beate Marie virginis 
 per venerabilem patrem et dominum dominum'' 
 
 sacre theologie doctorem et priorem ecclesie sancti 
 Martini Dovorie ac suffraganium reverendissimo in Christo 
 patri ac domino domino Willelmo Warham Cantuariensis 
 ecclesie archiepiscopo tunc temporis existenti. 
 
 Et eodem anno videlicet pridie nonas Aprilis que fuit dies 
 dominice resurrexionis et dies sancti Ambrosij incipiebat 
 cantaria predicti in Christo patris ac domini domini Wil- 
 lelmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi ad eundem \sic\ altare per 
 confratrem Jacobum Burton tunc officium granatorij geren- 
 tem Qui quidem celebrans cotidie per septimanam rccipict 
 — xxd. 
 
 Et eodem anno illud edificium sepulture sue fuit completum. 
 
 1 MS. Qw. penes Dec. et Cap. Cantiiar. See ante, p. 125. 
 
 - .•X new dedication was not unusual on the removal of an altar or rebuild- 
 ing of a chapel. 
 
 ^ A blank space has been left for the prior's name. Dan John Thornton 
 was the prior of Dover and suffragan bishop for whose name the space 
 has been left.
 
 I40 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTER BURY. 
 
 Memorandum eciam quod illud altare lapideum fuit interius in 
 illo oratorio remotum cum novo lapide desuper posito 
 xiiij" kalendis Septembris Anno supradicto Et per venera- 
 bilem patrem ac dominum predictum suffragannium secunda 
 vice dedicatum. Ad memoriam beate virginis Marie et ad 
 ■ honorem sancte Margarete virginis et martiris videlicet ij'^ 
 nonas Septembris anno supradicto. 
 
 Then follow lOg leaves with the names of those who 
 celebrated in the chapel weekly for the next few 
 years. 
 Further on in the manuscript, and immediately after 
 
 the second of the inventories of the ornaments of the 
 
 Martyrdom altar, is the following : 
 
 Inventorium in oratorio domini archiepiscopi. 
 
 Item unum frontallum de blodio le saten burges cum armis 
 
 domini archiepiscopi et viij flowrdelyce de auro bru- 
 
 dat'. 
 Item unum pendens de cerico blodio cum xiij flowrdelyse 
 
 de auro brudat' per dominum Thomam Ykham precen- 
 
 torem. 
 Item duo tuelle de la napre pro altari. 
 Item duo curtene de cerico blodio. 
 
 Item unum frons de panno aureo vetus cum tuella linea. 
 Item unum pendens de panno aureo cum tuella de le 
 
 canvas. 
 Item duo virge ferree pro curtenis. 
 Item una parva campana. 
 Item una virga pro tuella. 
 Item tres ciste cum ceris et clavibus. 
 
 The Inventory is without date, but it must have been 
 made shortly after the completion of the chapel. It 
 enumerates two sets, each including a frontal for beneath 
 and a hanging for above, of hangings for the altar : one 
 of blue silk with gold fleurs-de-lis, and a pair of curtains 
 or costers to match ; the other of cloth of gold. Each 
 set had its corre.sponding "towels" of linen. The only 
 other articles of furniture mentioned are a sacring bell, 
 and three chests or coffers with locks and keys, for hold- 
 ing the gear of the chapel. No chalice or other plate is 
 mentioned.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 141 
 
 In the great inventory of 1540' is the following 
 inventory of the goods then in the chapel, which it is 
 interesting to compare with that made by William 
 Ingram : 
 
 Warhams Item one Chalice gilte poz • xvoz q'' di 
 
 Chapell Item one vestment w^'^ albc garnisshed of white 
 
 damaske 
 Item one other vestment with albe garnisshed of ciym.syn 
 
 velvet w^*" floures of golde with orpheras enbroudered' 
 Item iiij aulter clothes of white damaske w^*^ floures of 
 
 Venice golde 
 Item ij aulter clothes of grene damaske with garters 
 Item one aulter cloth for beneth of blew satein of briges 
 
 with ffloures of venyce golde 
 Item one vestment Avith albe garnisshed of red baudek\-n 
 
 with orpheras of golde broudered 
 Item ij- masse bokes" [whereof one of relygious usethother]^ 
 
 of Sar' use. 
 Item ij aulter clothes of plaine lynen ij diap'" and ij Towellf 
 Item iij peire Curteins whereof one peire chaungeable 
 
 Sarcenet one paire white Sarcenet one paire white 
 
 cloth 
 Item one Cofer and one Image of busshop v/arreh'ini and ij 
 
 tables of the hedde of Jtius in oyle colour 
 
 This list, it will be seen, enumerates three suits of 
 vestments, one of white, and two of red, seven altar 
 clothes {i.e. frontals or hangings) of silk or damask and 
 four linen clothes, and three pairs of curtains. Also a 
 gilt chalice, a mass-book, one coffer (instead of three), an 
 image of the founder, and " ij tables." The onlv 
 survivor of the ornaments in the former list is the blue 
 satin -of- Bruges -altar frontal with fleurs-de-lis of Venice 
 gold. As the archbishop's chantry priests were seculars 
 the massbook was of Sarum Use. The two tables of 
 " the hedde of Jhesus " perhaps represented the Vernicle. 
 but they may also have been examples of the painted 
 alabaster tablets called " St. John's Heads," with the 
 
 ' See post, p. 192. 
 
 - Altered to "j." 
 
 ^ The last letter has been crossed out. 
 
 ■" .Struck through.
 
 142 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 head of St. John Baptist in a charger accompanied by 
 various accessories.^ 
 
 Among the accounts in Ingram's memorandum book 
 are several that can hardly refer to the fittings and 
 furniture of any other than Warham's chapel : 
 
 1504 (Midsummer to Michaelmas) 
 
 Item pro cera et una clave et una par le cros char- 
 nollis pro cista novi altaris prope hostium 
 capelle beate virginis viijd. 
 
 Item pro duabus virgis ferreis cum rosis le whyt 
 tynnyd pro curtenis ad eundem \sic\ altare 
 pertinentibus viijM. 
 
 Item pro cera et clave pro cista sive le aumbre 
 novi altaris ex parte prope Imaginem sancti 
 Clementis. vd. 
 
 1507 (Lady Day to Midsummer) 
 
 Item pro uno le bar pro novo altare ijd. 
 
 1509-10 (Christmas to Lady Day) 
 
 Item pro cera et pro le clasp pro cista in oratorio 
 
 domini archiepiscopi iiijd. 
 
 As William Warham was translated from London to 
 Canterbury on 29th November 1503, received the tem- 
 poralities on 24th January 1503-4, and was enthroned on 
 9th March following, these entries, if they all refer to his 
 chapel, would seem to shew that the altar was set up 
 shortly after the archbishop's arrival at Canterbury, and 
 followed by the erection of the chapel and monument ; 
 the altar being first transferred to the new monument 
 and afterwards to the chapel beyond. The chapel and 
 monument, as we have seen, were not completed until 
 three years later, which is in no wise an unreasonably 
 long time. 
 
 On the archbishop's death, on 23rd August 1532, he 
 was buried in his chapel, according to the direction in 
 his will, which was drawn up on 25th November 1530 : 
 
 ' See Archaologia, Hi. 669-708, "' On the sculptured alabaster tablets 
 called Saint John's Heads."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 143 
 
 Corporis mei fetidum cadaver in sacello quod juxta locum 
 martiris divi Thomai in ecclesia mea Cantuariensi de novo 
 construxi absque omni pompa humari volo.^ 
 
 Among other bequests are the following : 
 
 Item lego sacello meo in quo Deo volente corpus meum 
 sepelietur duo paria vestimentorum meorum optimorum, 
 duos calices meos optimos, duas phiolas meas optimas argen- 
 teas et deauratas vulgariter nuncupatas crwyttes? 
 
 The two pairs {i.e. suits) of vestments and one of the 
 chalices may be among the contents of the chapel given 
 in the inventory of 1540, but the other ornaments are 
 certainly not included. 
 
 Although Warham's Chapel has practically disappeared 
 there are sufficient remains and traces of it left to enable 
 its plan and arrangements to be made out with consider- 
 able certainty. 
 
 The archbishop's monument now consists of a high 
 tomb, upon which is laid his effigy in stone, placed 
 centrally within a wide and deep recess, 1 1 feet 5 inches 
 long and 2 feet 5 inches deep, in the north wall of the 
 north transept. The recess has panelled walls and a 
 groined ceiling and in front of it is a rich triple canopy 
 with flanking niches for images. In each end of the 
 recess are two panels, and above them a bracket and 
 shallow niche for an image, and at the back are six panels 
 each surmounted by a like bracket and niche. The tomb 
 has six panels on the side, each containing a shield, and 
 two panels with shields at each end. The whole stands 
 upon a step 6 inches high. 
 
 A comparison of the present state of the monument 
 with that represented in Dart's excellent plate^ will show 
 that drastic and destructive alterations have been made 
 to it, apparently at the beginning of the present century, 
 when the whole was " restored " by the Dean and 
 Chapter. Before that time the tomb stood in the western 
 part of the recess with only its east end and south side 
 
 ' Wills from Doctor.^ Coininoiis fCamden Society 83:. 21. 
 
 - Ibid. 23. 
 
 ' Oi). cit. p. 166.
 
 144 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 free, and the latter had but five shields instead of six as 
 now. There was thus left between the tomb and the 
 east end of the recess an interval of at least 4 feet. Of 
 the six panels at the back only the three westernmost 
 are ancient, the place of the others being orginally filled 
 by a blocked arch or doorway which must have been 
 
 5 feet wide. Dart's view shews two other features : 
 (i) the projecting- bowl of a drain in the east wall of the 
 recess, of which only the base of the corbel and the drain 
 hole now remain ; and (2) a perforated panel, which is 
 happily intact, immediately to the west of the door. 
 
 The arch or doorway in question originally opened 
 into the space between the transept and the chapter- 
 house. This space is about 25 feet long, with an average 
 width of 9 feet, its sides not being parallel, and is entered 
 from the cloister by a doorway in its west end. It was 
 at one time roofed in. In its north v/all are three wide 
 and shallow fourteenth century recesses with segmental 
 heads, ^ which were probably made to contain bookcases 
 for the use of the monks in cloister. But when the 
 new library was built by archbishop Chichele and prior 
 Thomas Goldston I. over the prior's chapel the use of 
 these supplemental bookcases passed away and the place 
 probably afterwards served other purposes. The south 
 wall, which for some height up is part of Lanfranc's 
 transept, originally had a midway buttress, but this has 
 been cut down and the scar plastered over. To the 
 east of it there is now in the wall a four-centred recess, 
 10 feet 4 inches wide, 16 inches deep and 12 feet high 
 to the apex of the arch, at the back of archbishop 
 Warham's tomb. The recess, which has once been 
 completely bricked up and even now is only partially 
 opened out, is divided vertically into tw^o divisions : one, 
 
 6 feet wide, also bricked up, in which was the door or 
 archway above referred to ; the other 4 feet 4 inches 
 wide, forms a brickwork backing, with ashlar edge, to the 
 
 > These were walled up by direction of Sir A. W. Blomfield, architect, in 
 July, 1896, with the intention of strengthening the chapter-house wall, though 
 this did not there show signs of weakness.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 145 
 
 three panels on the other side. About 8 inches west of 
 the recess is the chase (now filled up with bricks) for a 
 wall lo inches thick that crossed to the chapter-house 
 wall and so enclosed on that side archbishop Warham's 
 chapel. On the east the great transept buttress projects 
 4 feet 6 inches, leaving an interval of 3 feet \\\ inches 
 between it and the chapter-house ; this was also closed by 
 a wall. The chapel thus formed was 1 1 feet long and 
 from 8^ to 9 feet wide. It no doubt received most of its 
 light through the archway between it and the transept ; 
 this was fully 5 feet wide and was probably filled with an 
 iron grate, part of which formed the door. The space 
 to the west of the chapel might however have been 
 laid open to the sky by the removal of its roof, so as to 
 allow of a window in the west wall. There was perhaps 
 a smaller window on the east looking into the little 
 •court outside the western half of the Lady Chapel, On 
 the western face of the buttress on the east side of the 
 chapel are some interesting remains. The first of these 
 IS a shallow recessed panel 2 feet i \\ inches high, with 
 mouldings along the end and top, for holding the upper 
 frontal of the altar. The panel was at least 4 feet long, 
 but its southern end is covered up by brickwork. Above 
 the panel is a projecting moulded cornice. Both this 
 and the panel are carried across the jamb of the four- 
 •centred arch of the recess already referred to, but over 
 so much as is actually wrought in the buttress are two 
 shallow niches (like those within the transept), each 
 4 feet high, with projecting brackets for images. Above 
 the niches is a cornice with Tudor flowers. There are 
 no signs on the chapel side of the arch or doorway 
 shewn by Dart, but the little traceried panel, which on 
 the transept side is about 9 inches square, is represented 
 in the chapel by a square opening about 15 inches wide, 
 now bricked up. From this it is easy to calculate the 
 relative levels of transept and chapel, inasmuch as the 
 centre of the panel is 5 feet \\ inches above the tran- 
 sept floor. The chapel floor appears to have been 
 3 inches higher, or 3 feet 8i inches below the bottom 
 
 L
 
 146 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCIl, CANTERBURY. 
 
 edge of the panel over the altar. This must have stood 
 upon one step, but no traces of it or the altar are now 
 visible. The floor of the chapel has long been destroyed, 
 so also have its end walls and roof. The latter was of 
 wood covered with lead. Under and westward of the 
 site of the altar is apparently the brick vault in which the 
 archbishop was buried. Of the iron grate that no doubt 
 protected the tomb and chapel on the transept side, the 
 clattsui^a ferrea of the agreement made in 1507, there are 
 now no traces. 
 
 The accompanying plan of the north transept and its 
 surroundings will help to make the above description 
 clear. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 147 
 
 L 2
 
 148 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 VIII. INVENTORY OF THE CHAPEL OF ST. 
 MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, 1511. 
 
 The first inventory in William Ingram's memorandum 
 book, though not the earliest in date, is that of the 
 chapel of St. Michael, drawn up on 7th June, 151 1. It 
 enumerates the vestments and altar hano-inos used in the 
 chapel, and the few ornaments that were required when 
 mass was said, viz. a gilt chalice and paten, a pair of 
 eight-sided cruets of tin or pewter, a pax of the same 
 metal, a pair of latten candlesticks for the altar, and a 
 sacring bell. Also two mass-books and the needful 
 corporals and "towels." No cross is mentioned. The 
 inventory tells us nothing as to the fittings of the chapel, 
 except the rods at the sides of the altar for the costers or 
 ridels. The text of the inventory is as follows : 
 
 Inventorium capelle sancti Michaelis archangeli per me 
 fratrem Willelmum Inggram penitenciarium Anno Domini 
 Millesimo C.C.C.C.C. xjo vijo Idus Junij. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum de panno aureo rubij colon's cum 
 aurifrigerio brudato cum ymagine crucifixi in dorso et 
 cum alijs storijs ante et retro brudatis. Item una alba 
 ex eodem panno aureo. 
 
 Item aliud vestimentum de eodem panno aureo cum 
 aurifrigerio de panno aureo albi colons cum alba 
 ejusdem panni cum stola et manipulo de velveto rubeo. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum de panno nigro vetus videlicet le 
 blak saten figre vetus cum aurifrigerio ante et retro de 
 stellis albis sive viridis intextis cum stola et manipulo 
 et cum alba cum grifonibus de auro et nodis rubij ac 
 viridis coloris intextis. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum de panno ccrico purpurij colons 
 cum zonis et floribus brudatis cum aurifrigerio ante et 
 retro de velveto purpurei coloris cum floribus et cum 
 iiijor rowndels cum folijs brudatis cum stola et mani- 
 pulo et alba ejusdem panni cum duabus floribus et 
 iiijoi* zonis in panulis in amicta cum una flore et duabus 
 zonis.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 149 
 
 Item unum corporale de le laundc cum coopertorio brudato 
 cum ymagine crucifixi ex ima parte et vernaculum \sic\ 
 sancti salvatoris ex altera parte. 
 
 Item unum corporale cum teca cum iiijo'' armis ex una 
 parte et iiijo"" ex altera. 
 
 Item aliud de lynyn clo]? cum coopertorio de cerico glauco 
 cum duabus floribus brudatis. 
 
 Item unum missale 2° folio Qui regis} 
 
 Item aliud tacione diversiis 2° fo. 
 
 Item unus calix deauratus intus et exterius cum scriptura 
 (SDallCem SalutartS acciptnm et in pede cum cmcifixo 
 amellato cum patena cum (Slori?. tlbl liommc qui natUS 
 cst^ trc birginc cum pi" pondus xxiij unc'. 
 
 Item unum pannum pendens ante altare cum armis Christi 
 in medio et cum duabus mitris videlicet notic' domini 
 Thome Goldston prions et aomini Willelmi Sell}mg 
 hujus ecclesie dudum prioris viridis ac albi colons ex 
 dono dompni Johannis Sarisbyry penitenciarij modo 
 renovatum per dominum Willelmum penitenciarium 
 anno domini 1513° Inde sot iij'. 
 
 Item aliud pendens super altare depictum cum ymagine 
 sancte Marie et Bernardini in medio cum alijs diversis 
 Sanctis per dominum Johannem Sarisberye. 
 
 Item alterum pendens rubij coloris videlicet cloth de gold 
 in operacione cum salutacione angelica et cum sancto 
 Jacobo et sancto Laurencio ex dono domini "Willelmi 
 Thornden. 
 
 Item aliud pendens depictum cum ymagine crucifixi in 
 medio cum ymaginibus sancte Marie sancti Johannis 
 sancti Benedicti sancti Leonardi cum arboribus et 
 floribus per me dominum W. Ingram de novo repar- 
 atum anno videlicet ut supra Inde pictor iijs 4d 
 
 Item unus pannus albi coloris cum ymagine [crucifixi Marie 
 et sancti Johannis].^ 
 
 Item aliud pendens super altare albi coloris cum ymaginibus 
 sancte crucis Marie et Johannis. 
 
 Item aliud pendens ante altare albi coloris le whyt damask 
 cum coronacio[ne] sancte marie in medio cum sancta 
 Barbara. 
 
 Item aliud pendens ante altare de panno cerico rubij coloris 
 videlicet cloth of gold cum tuella. 
 
 ' (2ui regis is the beginning of the office psahn for the second Sunday in 
 Advent (Ps. Ixxix. i), and it also occurs several times in other parts of the 
 Advent masses. 
 
 - Sic in MS. ••< Sic for " patre." 
 
 * The words in brackets are erased.
 
 150 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item unum frons de albo cerico vetus brudatum cum Ic 
 
 coper gold per me fratrem W. Ingram penitenciarium 
 
 cum le frenge purpurei colons cum' 
 Item aliud frons de velveto purpurei coloris cum stellis dc 
 
 auro et di stellis de le coper silver brudatis per me 
 
 fratrem Willelmum Inggram cum tuella de le napre. 
 Item aliud frons de le bord alizander blodij coloris cum 
 
 tuella de lynyn. 
 Item due tuelle de le napre. 
 Item una tuella parva pro manibus. 
 Item unum par urciolorum de stanno viij squar' 
 Item due curtine de cerico nigri coloris veterata sive lace- 
 
 rata. 
 Item alie due curtene purpurei colons veteres per fratrem 
 
 Willelmum Inggram. 
 Item due virge pro curtenis per eundem fratrem W. 
 
 Ingram. 
 Item una pax cum crucifixo de stanno. 
 Item duo candelabra pro altare de laten ponderanc' 
 
 per fratrem Willelmum Ingram. 
 Item unum tintinnabulum parvum. 
 
 The chapel of St. Michael is that on the east side of 
 the south transept, a position it has occupied since the 
 days of Lanfranc. The small apsidal chapel of his work 
 was taken down during the reconstruction of the tran- 
 sept in the reigns of Henry V. and Henry VI. and 
 replaced by the present building, the altar in which was 
 hallowed by William Wellys, bishop of Rochester, on 
 1 8th December (xv. kal. Jan.) 1439.^ The chapel was 
 originally separated from the transept by a stone screen, 
 but this has long been taken away and replaced by iron 
 railings with a gate. 
 
 The new chapel is a good example of the Perpen- 
 dicular style then in vogue, and has a rich lierne vault 
 adorned with shields and other heraldic bosses. The 
 central boss bears the arms of Clarence impaling Hol- 
 land, for Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas, earl of 
 Kent, who died in 1439, and her second husband, 
 Thomas, duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV., who died 
 
 ' The entry is incomplete. 
 
 - John Stone, Parker MS. 417. CCCC. f. 23.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 151 
 
 in 1 42 1. The principal boss to the east bears the arms 
 of the Duke of Clarence himself, and that to the west 
 the arms of Margaret Holland's first husband, John 
 Beaufort, earl of Somerset, who died i6th March 1408-9. 
 In the centre of the chapel stands the Purbeck marble 
 tomb with splendid alabaster effigies of Margaret Holland 
 and her two husbands. Although no record of the fact 
 seems to exist, it is very probable from the arms on the 
 vaulting that the chapel of St. Michael was rebuilt at the 
 Duchess of Clarence's expense. 
 
 John Stone, the Canterbury monk, has the following 
 note under the year 1439: 
 
 In hoc anno penultimo die mensis Decembris Obijt 
 domina Margareta ducissa Clarencie in Monasterio dc 
 Bermondsey . prope London. Et sepulta est cum maritis 
 suis duobus. scilicet. T[homa]. duce de Clarencia et 
 J[ohanne]. Bewford comite de Somersette in ecclesia Christi 
 Cantuariensi. ex parte australi in capella sancti Michaelis. 
 
 Isti supradicti domini sepulti fuerunt ad fferetrum Sancti 
 Thome ex parte Boriali.^ 
 
 That the two husbands had previously been buried 
 near the shrine of St. Thomas seems to have hitherto 
 escaped notice. John Stone's statement is however 
 borne out by several interesting documents. The burial 
 of the Earl of Somerset is thus recorded in the Kalendar 
 of Obits : 
 
 xvij kt Aprilis. Item obiit indite mcmorie dominus Johannes 
 Bewforde comes de Somersctt fratris illustrissimi principis. 
 et domini. domini Henrici quarti dei gracia regis anglie. 
 specialissimus frater noster. qui sepultus fuit in parte boriali 
 [ad feretrum beati Thome.]- in die cene Anno domini . 
 millesimo . quadringentesimo nono.'' 
 
 The Duke of Clarence was laid to rest near the shrine, 
 perhaps in the same grave as his kinsman, in accordance 
 with the direction in his will, dated loth July 1417, that 
 
 ' Ibid. f. 24. -• Erased in MS. 
 
 •' Lambeth MS. 20. f. 173/;. According to this entry tlie Earl of Somerset 
 died i6th March 1408-9, and was buried on .Maundy Thursday (4th .Aprill, 
 1409.
 
 152 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISrCIIURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 he be buried in the cathedral church of Canterbury ad 
 pedes altc viemorie domini et patris met} Since the 
 grave and tomb of Henry IV. already occupied the arch 
 north of the shrine, the two husbands of Margaret Holland 
 must have been buried beneath the next arch to the east, 
 at the king's feet, where dean Wotton's tomb now is. 
 Their subsequent exhumation and burial in St. Michael's 
 chapel were carried out by order of Henry VI., as appears 
 by the following curious document entered in one of the 
 Christchurch Registers : 
 
 Dominus Rex Henricus q estinavit 
 
 P sub signeto suo Anglice scripta 
 
 pro exhumacione ossium domini Thome quondam Ducis 
 Clarencie et Domini Bewford Comitis Somerset 
 
 in capella sancti Michaelis recondend. Anno Domini Mil- 
 lesimo CCCC'"° Tricesimo nono sub forma que sequitur 
 
 By the King 
 
 Trusty & welbeloved in god we grete yow wele And for 
 asmuche as we be enformed that our Aunte the Duchesse of 
 Clarence ordeyned in hire lyve for the lyeng of the bodies 
 of our Oncle the duk of Clarence & of our Cosyn therl of 
 Somersete hire husband f in a certayn Chapelle ordeyned 
 therfor with in Christescherche wher hit is avised the said 
 bodyes to be entered in al goodly haste We therfor pray yow 
 hertly that at the reverence of us at such tyme as ye shal 
 have by them that have interesse to serve unto yow [on 
 struck tJirougli\ in this behalf warnyng & praier for exhu- 
 macon of the said bodies ye wil doo your diligence to see 
 that the said bodies be exhumed & in the place therfore 
 disposed entered after thentent & ordinaunce of our said 
 Aunte as our ful trust is in yow. In which thing ye shal 
 mowe doo ve grete plesaunce pleas' Yeven undre our signet 
 at thabbey of Redyng the xxvij day of lanuer. 
 
 To oure Right trusty & welbeloved in god the priore 
 and Convent of Cristeschirche of Canntirbury. 
 Originale istius litere habetur superius in Cancellaria nostra 
 in vase ubi ponuntur litere officiac' Domini Archiepiscopi.^ 
 
 ' J. Nichols, A CoUectioji of all the Wills^ noxv k?w%v}i to be extant, of the 
 K7?igs a?2d (2tiee7Js of Eni^land, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and every 
 /iranc/i of the Blood Royal, etc. (London, 1780), 230. 
 
 - Register S. f. 135. This document is printed, but not very correctly, in, 
 Litcrce Cajititarienses (Rolls' Series 85), iii. 170.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 153 
 
 Either during the rebuilding of the chapel or in pre- 
 paring for the graves and tomb of the Duchess of 
 Clarence and her husbands it became necessary to move 
 the remains of archbishop Stephen Langton, who had 
 been buried in a stone coffin with a marble lid in the 
 midst of the old chapel before the altar. ^ The coffin was 
 accordingly taken up and placed under the altar of the 
 new chapel, above ground, where it still remains. This 
 explains the statement in the i6th century list of the 
 archbishops and priors (already referred to), that Stephen 
 Langton sepultiis est in ecclesia . . . Z7i capella 
 sancti Michaelis sub a/tare^" 
 
 As the altar was but of usual width and the coffin a 
 full-sized one, the difficulty of placing it east and west 
 without projecting beyond the front of the altar was 
 surmounted by piercing the east wall, thrusting the coffin 
 through it until its head was flush with the altar, and 
 building a covering for its foot outside the wall. Inas- 
 much as the altar was hallowed on December i8th, 
 before the death of the duchess Margaret on the 30th 
 of the same month, and the bodies of her two husbands 
 were not moved until after the 27th January following, 
 it is possible that the singular position of Stephen 
 Langton's coffin may have been an afterthought subse- 
 quent to the erection of the altar.*' 
 
 ' " Puys kaunt honurablement en cele eglise fust mys en tare devaunl 
 lauter seint Michel." Harl. MS. 636, f. 204//. 
 
 ■' C.C.C.C. MS. 298. pp. 106, 107. 
 
 ' The coffin may of course have been removed first to another place 
 and finally deposited under the altar to make way for other persons who were 
 afterwards buried in the chapel. Thus Stone has under date 1431 (f. \()b-): 
 " Dominus Thomas Bewford comes [pla/i/c\ in ordinacione sancti Dunstani 
 sepultus fuerat in Cimiterio monachorum prope tumbam Sancti Thome 
 martiris. postea sepultus est in capella Sancti Michaelis Archanyeli,"' and in 
 1453 he notes (f. 48/^) the burial in the same chapel of Isabella, daughter of 
 Edmund, duke of Somerset, who had died on the vigil of All Saints. Among 
 the interments in the old chapel may be noted that of prior Richard of Oxen- 
 den (1331-1338) on the north side and that of prior Robert Hathbrand his 
 -successor (1338-1370) on the south side (Corpus MS. 298, p. 1 18). Professor 
 Willis, not being aware of the documentary history above quoted, thought 
 that Langton's coffin had " been originally outside the wall, in the churchyard ; 
 and thus the new wall, when the chapel was rebuilt and enlarged in the four- 
 teenth [sic] century, was made to stride over the coffin by means of an arch." 
 T/ic Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral (London, 1845), 129.
 
 154 JNI'ENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 The altar itself was raised upon three steps. The 
 lowest, which is still in place, is 5 inches high and 18 
 inches wide, and crosses the chapel at a distance of 
 8 feet 7 inches from the east wall. It does not extend 
 quite to the side walls, but abuts against a return of the 
 second step which forms a bench on either side the 
 chapel. This second step is 6 inches high, and was 
 I 3 inches wide. The third or uppermost step has been 
 removed, with the exception of the portion beneath 
 vStephen Langton's coffin, but its extent can be recovered 
 from the traces of it on the wall and floor. From these 
 we find it was 7^ inches high, 13 feet long, and 6 feet 
 wide. The size of the altar can also be obtained from 
 the mark of it on the wall. It was 2 feet 10 inches high, 
 and its slab was 6 feet 6 inches long, and 4 inches thick. 
 The edge was vertical for 2\ inches, but the lower part 
 was chamfered so that the slab projected i-^ inches 
 over the block or supports of the altar. As Langton's 
 coffin stands out from the wall 3 feet /^\ inches it will be 
 seen that if the end of it were flush with the front of the 
 altar, the slab must have been 3 feet 6 inches wide. 
 The extreme height of the coffin is 2 feet 4 inches, so 
 that there was an interval of just 2 inches between the 
 lid and the under surface of the altar slab ; its length is 
 about 6 feet 8 inches. The condition of the surface 
 of the coffin shews that it was not intended to be seen, 
 but the ])()lished marble lid must have been always 
 visible, slightly raised above the pavement. It is 
 charged throughout with a staff surmounted by a large 
 cross not unlike a cross pattee. 
 
 Above the line of the altar slab the wall is quite plain 
 for a height of 3 feet 7 inches. This space was originally 
 7 feet 1 1 inches wide, and flanked by two recesses or 
 niches, each containing a corbel or bracket supported by 
 a .shaft. These are still intact, and in the southern one 
 the bracket is hollowed out for a drain. The symmetry 
 of the arrangement has unfortunately been destroyed by 
 the insertion of a third niche, copied from the others, to 
 hold a memorial tablet dated 1836. Above the wall and
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 155 
 
 its flankinor niches is a rich embattled cornice with a 
 running scroll of vine-leaves and branches beautifully 
 worked in relief. In the lower edo^e of this is fixed a 
 series of small iron hooks from which were hung super 
 altare the several hangings referred to in the inventory. 
 The side walls of the chapel have the remains of a 
 similar series of hooks. 
 
 On each side of the altar, in the broad hollow of the 
 window jamb, is a large niche for an image, and above 
 them a series of angels holding shields. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H.
 
 iq6 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCIL CANTERBURY. 
 
 IX. INVENTORY OF THE CHAPEL OF ST, 
 BARTHOLOMEW IN THE CRYPTS. 
 
 The inventory of the chapel of St. Michael in William 
 Ingram's memorandum book is followed after an interval 
 of two blank leaves by an " inventory of the chapel of 
 St. Bartholomew in the crypts." It is not dated, but is 
 so similar in form to the preceding- inventory that it is 
 probably about the same date, circa 1 5 1 1 . 
 
 Where the altar of St. Bartholomew was situated is 
 not known, nor in fact is there any other record of its 
 existence than the inventory under notice. Possibly a 
 change, of which we have no note, was made in the 
 dedication of one of the many altars in the crypt. 
 
 As the church possessed a notable relic of St. Bartho- 
 lomew in the arm given by Cnut or his queen Emma,^ 
 an altar might in later times have been set up at which 
 this relic was kept. 
 
 The inventory enumerates but twelve items. Of these^ 
 two relate to suits of vestments, of red and purple respec- 
 tively. Six relate to the altar furniture, and four to 
 ornaments used at mass. The latter included two cruets,, 
 a massbook, and two corporals with their cases. A 
 chalice and candlesticks must have been borrowed from 
 another altar when wanted. 
 
 The text of the inventory is as follows : 
 
 Inventorium capelle sancti Bartholomei in criptis. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum de panno aureo rubij coloris cum 
 aurifn'gerio blodij coloris de panno aureo cum alba 
 ejusdem panni cum stola et manipulo cum armis 
 brudatis et cum alba et amisia ejusdem panni. 
 
 Item aliud vestimentum de panno aureo purpurei coloris 
 cum arboribus et volucribus intexto cum aurifrigerio 
 de panno albo de le dammask cum jhus in auro brudato 
 
 ' See ante, p. So, note.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 157 
 
 et per Henricum Holden cum alba et amisia ejusdem 
 
 secte et stola et manipulo. 
 Item unum pendile de opere textrino blodij colons cum 
 
 scriptura de litteris rubijs In nomint i^U ^It IflUS tiCO 
 
 per T. Lee cum tuella veteri sive lacerata. 
 Item unum frons de opere textrino blodij coloris cum rosis 
 
 et stellis brudatis cum tuella de le napre lacerata. 
 Item alia tuella de le napre lacerata. 
 Item alia tuella cum le seme in medio cum cruce in medio 
 
 de cerico rubeo de panno lineo. 
 Item iiijo'' vestes cum crucibus pictis cum plumbo rubij 
 
 coloris cum rosis et stellis. 
 Item j curtena pro altare picta. 
 
 Item duo urcioli cum uno cooperculo le rownd cowntyrfete. 
 Item unum missale vetus 2° fo pro spe salutis et incohuni- 
 
 tatis} 
 Item unum corporale de panno line \sic\ cum coopertorio 
 
 cum sex armis ex una parte et sex ex altera cum auro 
 
 et argento intexto. 
 Item aliud de panno lineo cum coopertorio ex glauco 
 
 cerico. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H. 
 
 > Tht words pro spe salutis ct incoluiiiiiaiis which are said to beg^in the 
 second leaf of the massbook are from the Canon of the Mass. In the older 
 massbooks the Canon was written on the first leaves of the book, and the 
 statement in this case that it was " missale vetus '"' is thus borne out by the 
 note.
 
 158 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 X. INVENTORY OF A CHAPEL. 
 
 Besides the registers and other bound volumes belong- 
 ing to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury there are 
 preserved in the Chapter Library a number of scrap- 
 books containing miscellaneous documents. These were 
 collected together from all kinds of sources by the dili- 
 gence and care of the late Dr. J. Brigstocke Sheppard^ 
 and temporarily placed in these scrap-books until the 
 opportunity should arise for identifying a document or 
 restoring it to its place in a series. 
 
 Among these miscellanea is a loose leaf of paper from 
 some lost book, measuring 7f by 5f inches, on which is 
 written, in an early sixteenth century hand, the following' 
 inventory : 
 
 Item unum vestimcntum viridis coloris. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum blodij coloris. 
 
 Item unum vestimentum viridis coloris de velveto. 
 
 Item 2^ corporalia cum tecis 
 
 Item unum vestimentum vetus. 
 
 Item j pendent peyntyd w' sent hew & oj^"" ij bishopes. 
 
 Item j corpoas \sic\ w' a case \^ tosyd blew sylk w' half 
 
 monys \^ to]?'" syd broder' w' ij ymages. 
 Item a no})'' corporas w' a case w' armes on both sydys. 
 Item a fronte whyt bustian fryngyd w' cades whit & grene. 
 Item a noJ>'' of grene sylk w^ Images brodyrd. 
 Item a vestement of grene velvet vetus w^ a orfer of wevyng 
 
 werk whit & gold. 
 Item stole of wevyng werk. 
 
 Item j aube of gren velvet & am}'s lackyng Y amet c\o\. 
 Item aliud vestimentum de panno aureo blodij coloris cum 
 
 aurifrigerco de panno aureo rubij coloris. 
 Item una alba ejusdem panni cum manipulo. 
 Item unum vestimentum de cerio^ viridis coloris cum auri- 
 
 frigerio de panno aureo cum angelis intexto. 
 Item una alba de cerio^ viridis coloris & in medio blodij cum 
 
 Stella brudat. una maniput
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 159- 
 
 Item aliud vestimeiitum vetus de panno cerico rubij coloris 
 
 cum aurifrigerio de panno aureo nodis intexto. 
 Item una auba de velvete in medio de panno cerio^ [cum 
 
 struck out\ rubij coloris cum Imaginibus brudato. 
 Item tres tuelle una vetus. 
 
 Item unum missale in 2° folio mis aspergatiis rubij. 
 Item unum ordinale in 2° folio in audientia auaristi. 
 Item unum pendens de panno cerico viridis coloris. 
 Item unum pro altare de canvas. 
 Item una tabula pro pacis osculo cum ymagine beate 
 
 virginis. 
 Item unum pendens cum )-magine crucifixi. 
 (In verso.) Item unus calix deauratus cum crucifixo in 
 
 pede [cum struck out] & ma- & altero & episcopo & 
 
 ij)C sculpt in patena pond xviij unc. 
 Item duo urcioli de stamno rotundi. 
 
 Liber le print sermonum sancti vincencij 2^ folio tcui sibi. 
 Missale le print 2° folio sancta viaria. 
 Ordinale de camino script ut Icteinnr. 
 Peca in print 2° folio autem super veni. 
 
 This was an inventory probably of one of the minor 
 altars in the church, but unfortunately there is nothing- 
 by which it can be identified, and the document is without 
 heading". It is written in a curious mixture of Latin and 
 English, and with little regard to order. Whichever 
 the altar was, it was fairly furnished with ornaments. 
 Curiously enough the vestments, with the exception of 
 a red suit and an old chasuble of which the colour is not 
 given, are entirely blue or green. The altar had a frontal 
 of white bustian and another of green silk. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H. 
 
 ' Stc for " cerico. 
 - Sic.
 
 i6o INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIUKCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 XI. INVENTORIES OF THE CHAPEL OF 
 OUR LADY. 
 
 In the ancient Saxon cathedral church of Canterbury 
 the altar of the Blessed Viroin seems to have been 
 originally the high altar. It was placed in the western 
 apse of the church and had behind it, against the wall, 
 the stone chair of the archbishop. 
 
 In the new church built by archbishop Lanfranc the 
 altar of the Blessed Virgin occupied a comparatively 
 subordinate position, at the east end of the north aisle 
 of the nave, where the two first bays formed the Lady 
 Chapel. The principal altar in the nave was of course 
 that of the Holy Cross, beneath the Rood, and as this 
 was essentially a public altar, the altar of Our Lady was 
 no doubt placed near it in order to be more easy of access 
 to lay folk. 
 
 The exact position of the Lady Chapel can readily be 
 fixed. Gervase states that archbishop Richard, on his 
 death in 1184, was buried in oratorio smictce Mar ice} 
 Somner mentions the same fact and says : " I have it 
 from the Church records verified by the leaden Inscription 
 and pontifical Relicks, to wit, his Cope, Crosier, and 
 Chalice lately found in digging Dr. Anians Grave, by 
 Sir John Boys his Monument on the North side of the 
 Body, toward the upper end."'- This monument still 
 remains against the north wall of the second bay of the 
 north aisle, and it is therefore clear that the Lady Chapel 
 occupied at least two bays. Gervase further records [a) 
 the raising of the coffin of archbishop Theobald, who had 
 been buried in 1161 in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, 
 and [b) his subsequent reinterment ante a/tare Sanctce 
 Mari^ in navi ecclesicc in area plunibea... Ttmiba quoque 
 
 ' The Historical Works of Gen>ase of Canterbury (Rolls' Series 'j'^j^ \. 30S. 
 ^ Op. cit. 92. Thomas Anian, D.D., was prebendary 1614-1632.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. i6i 
 
 juarmorca, sicut ante fnej'at, super einii coniposita est} 
 The marble tomb had long disappeared, but during the 
 repaying of the nave in 1787 the archbishop's lead coffin 
 was found " at the east end of the north aisle," with an 
 inscribed leaden plate with his name, etc. which proved 
 its identity.^ 
 
 During the last quarter of the fifteenth century 
 Lanfranc's nave was taken down and rebuilt under 
 archbishops Simon of Sudbury (i 375-1 381), William 
 Courtenay( 1 381-1396), and Thomas Fitzalan of Arundel 
 (1397-1398 and 1399-1413-14). The ruling spirit seems 
 to have been Thomas Chillenden the prior, of whom it is 
 said in the Kalendar of Obits that by the aid of arch- 
 bishop Arundel Navein istms ecclesie ctini capella beate 
 Marie virginis in eadem scita opereqne decenti fabricata 
 tot a liter 7^enovavit} 
 
 The list of Chillenden's benefactions, already referred 
 to,^ also includes nova capella beate Virginis Marie in 
 eadem navi. 
 
 We have here two positive statements that the Lady 
 Chapel was again set up in the nave by Chillenden,^ and 
 it was certainly there in 141 2, as we learn from the 
 Sacrist's accounts. The altar of the Holy Cross was 
 also re-erected in its old place, and its existence there is 
 recorded as late as 1532-3 ; that it remained until the 
 Suppression is proved by the mention in the inventory 
 of 1540 of a vestment of crimson velvet, etc. "for the 
 crosse aulter." 
 
 After 141 2 we have not met with any further notice of 
 the Lady Chapel in the nave. This is, however, to be 
 accounted for by the later history of the chapel itself. 
 
 • Op. at. i. 26. 
 
 - Arc/iacologia, xv. 294. 
 
 ^ Lambeth MS. 20, f. 210/;. 
 
 ^ See ante, p. loi. Somner says {Op. cit. 92) : " That old Chajicl was not 
 heard of since the present body of the Church was built." lie has however 
 overlooked the record above quoted. 
 
 <lomina Amabilia [gobi nobilis mulier qui {sic) loritien ovcj- an i'rasia\'\ dedit 
 ad fabricam ;/(?7't' Capelle bcatc Marie virij^inis in Na7>i Ecclesie. quatuordccini 
 libras benefactrix nostra." Lambeth MS. 20. f. 247^^. 
 
 M
 
 i62 /XrEXTORIES OF CHRIsrCHURCIT, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Under date 1448 John Stone has the following' note: 
 
 Item hoc anno viz. V^ Iclus Septembris feria ij^ litcra 
 dominicalis F. positus est primus lapis ad martirium sancti 
 Thome a venerabili patre domino Johanni \_sic\ Stafford. 
 Cantuaricnsis archiepiscopi \sic\} 
 
 By viai'tiriuin here is no doubt meant the north 
 transept. This had recently been reconstructed in con- 
 tinuation of the works of the new nave, and although it 
 had not yet been vaulted," it had advanced far beyond 
 the stage of laying its first stone. We have here there- 
 fore the record of the beoinnino: of some other new v/ork. 
 This is mentioned again by Stone in 1449, in which year 
 he records the burial by the prior and convent of Sir 
 Henry Gray, lord of Powys,^ in novo opere jnxta luarti- 
 ritini sancti TJioine} 
 
 That this "new work" was a chapel of Our Lady 
 appears by another entry, for which we are also indebted 
 to John Stone, who states that archbishop John Stafford 
 on his death in 1452 was buried juxta niartiriuni sancti 
 Thome viartiris ante novani capellain beate Marie 
 virginis,^ 
 
 Three other entries given by Stone not only complete 
 the history of the chapel, but explain several other points : 
 
 (i) 1455- Hoc Anno xv^ Kal. Novembris dominus Ricardus 
 
 Episcopus Roffensis consecravit altare in nova capella sancte 
 Marie juxta Martirium Sancti Thome in honore Assump- 
 cionis beate Marie et sancti Benedicti. 
 
 (ii) Item hoc anno xijo Kal. Januarij dominica iiij-'^ adventus 
 Domini viz. in die sancti Thome Monachi intraverunt novam 
 capcllam sancte Marie et sancti Benedicti juxta martirium 
 sancti Thome." 
 
 ' C.C.C.C. Parker MS. 417. f. 38. 
 
 - The armorial bosses of the vault show that this was not put on until after 
 1476, inasmuch as one of them bears the arms of John Russell, bishop of 
 Rochester 1476 to 1480. Several other bosses point to a date later than 
 1460. See Thomas Willement's Heraldic Notices of Canferbury Cathedral 
 (London, 1827), 21-27. 
 
 ' Henry Gray, 2nd earl of Tankerville and lord of Powys, who died 15th 
 January, 1449-50. 
 
 ^ Op. cit. f 41. 
 
 5 Ibid. A large marble slab with the casement of the archbishop's brass 
 still marks the place of his burial as described by Stone. 
 
 « C.C.C.C. Parker MS. 417, f 54.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 163 
 
 (lii) In 1468 Prior Thomas Goldston I. died, and was 
 buried 
 
 in nova capella beate Marie quam erexit juxta martirium 
 sancti Thome martiris prope hostium quod ducit ad claus- 
 trum in monumento suo novo quod exciderat de petra ubi 
 nondum quisquam positus fuerat.^ 
 
 Concerning prior Thomas Goldston the Kalendar of 
 Obits says : 
 
 Edificavit enim in boriali parte hujus ecclesie. capellam 
 in honorem beate virginis marie, in qua et sepultus est : 
 Ouam videlicet capellam.. cum testitudine lapidea valde 
 artificiosa. coopertura et plumbo. fenestris vitreatis. et alijs 
 omnibus ad earn pertinentibus. complevit. Atrij quoque 
 ejusdem capelle. parietes cum coopertura de plumbo absque 
 testudine construxit." 
 
 We learn from these entries that the old apsidal chapel 
 of St. Benedict was taken down, and the first stone of 
 a new chapel laid on 9th September, 1448. In January, 
 1449-50, the walls were carried up sufficiently high for 
 lord Powys to be buried in the chapel, and before the 
 end of 1455 the whole was finished and the altar dedicated 
 in honour of the Assumption of Our Lady and St. 
 Benedict. The old dedication however was soon for- 
 gotten, and henceforth the chapel appears as that of Our 
 Lady.^ It was first used on the 4th Sunday in Advent, 
 being the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, 1455. 
 
 Two inventories of the goods and ornaments of the 
 Lady Chapel have come down to us. 
 
 The first is preserved among the miscellaneous 
 documents before referred to. It is written on parch- 
 ment and has at the bottom a pendent tag without trace 
 of a seal. It is not dated, but as it is written throughout 
 
 > Ibid., f. 83^. The concluding words of this entry, taken as they are 
 from the Gospel narrative, " In monumento suo novo quod exciderat in 
 petra" (Matt, xxvii. 60), and " In quo nondum quisquam positus fucrat " 
 (Luke xxiii. 53), border strongly upon profanity. 
 
 - Lambeth MS. 20, f 208. 
 
 •■' In the Sacrist's Account lor 1392-3 mention is made of an image of tlie 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, in St. Benedict's chapel, before which a light was 
 burned all night. The presence of this image may have suggested the 
 association of Our Lady with St. Benedict when the chapel was rebuilt. 
 
 M 2
 
 i64 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 in English it cannot be much eadier than 1530/ The 
 text of it is as follows : 
 
 Thys ys an Invyntory off suche bokys & other stuff w'in 
 C" lady chapeft In c'stf churche. 
 
 It' iiij vestymentf w' all thyngs to the same. 
 
 It' a pendant & a ffreng w' an awter clothe to the Awf 
 
 ffbr the p'ncypaft dayes. 
 It' a pendant w^ ij awter clothys ffor the fferyall dayes & 
 
 the Kurtens therto. 
 It' a payer off Kurtens off whyt sylk. 
 It' the hangyng off the chapell ffor bothe the sydf. 
 It' a carpett ffor the auter & a bell. 
 It' the myssall ffor the auter w^ vij grayles .ij. sawters & an 
 
 olde sawter .ij. small myssallf w^ an olde s'vyce boke.- 
 It' the great black boke w' the vytatory boke. 
 It' iiij querys off the sequens & the v bokf off v partf w^ a 
 
 boke off the base part. 
 It' the boke of iiij ptf vv' ij queres off the mens & off the 
 
 basse thereto. 
 It' iij small querys off thorns mann. 
 It' mr hawtf boke w' an olde vytatory boke. 
 It' the boke that the masse off ij tenors ys In [& ij sawt' 
 
 crased\. 
 It' ij laten canstyckf for awter [of ffor the awt' erased\ 
 
 In the time of da John olph' chawnf & John wood m'' off 
 the chyldern. In c'stf church. 
 
 The second list forms part of the long inventory made 
 in 1540, and presently to be noticed, of the plate, 
 ornaments, and vestments left in the church after the 
 suppression of the monastery. It is here printed separ- 
 ately for comparison with the other little inventory, to 
 which it both supplies details and adds further informa- 
 tion : 
 
 1 Thomas Mann, Dan John Olpher (? Ohver) and John Wood, who are 
 mentioned in the inventory, are not signatories to the Acknowledgement 
 of Supremacy in 1534, nor are they among the monks who received pensions 
 in 1540. 
 
 - One of these massbooks was bound in 1493-4, as appears by the Sacrist's 
 Account for that year : " lohanni Saundyr pro ligacione duorum hbrorum 
 missahum quorum unus servit altare sancte \_sic\ Gregorij et alter capelle beate 
 Marie prope Martirium. iiijs. viijd."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHTIRCH, CANTERBURY. 165 
 
 Our Ladie Item one vestment of white damaske complete \v"i 
 Chapell floures of golde 
 
 Item one vestment of white silke mixte w^h golde 
 
 Item one vestment of golde baudekyn white w' orpheras of 
 
 blew and floure de Lyces 
 Item one vestment of white golde baudekyn w^ garters on 
 
 hit 
 Item one vestment of white satein of briges for ev'y daie 
 Item one corpas case of blew velvet myxte with golde 
 Item one hanging of white fustyan for ev'y daie. the frengc 
 
 of white damaske enbroudered w'h golde 
 Item ij aulter clothes one diapo^ the other plainc cloth 
 Teem one hanging for the aulter of white damaske enbrou- 
 dered w^h Lyons of gold and a frenge of the same 
 Item one peire of white curteins of white silke 
 Item one peire curteins for the feryall daies lynen^ 
 Item one hanging for above ov' the aulter of olde white 
 
 baudekyn w^ roses golde 
 Item ij peire organs and one large deske 
 Item one hanging lampe copper and guylte 
 Item ij pecf of tapestry with angellf for the quyre there 
 
 As befitted a chapel of Our Lady, all the ornaments 
 used at or upon its altar were v^hite ; the five suits of 
 vestments, the hangings, and the side curtains, both 
 festal and ferial. The blue velvet corporas case was the 
 only exception. The earlier list alone mentions two 
 latten candlesticks for the altar. Neither inventory 
 specifies chalice and paten, cruets, pax, or any other 
 necessary plate ; perhaps they were borrowed at need 
 from another altar. 
 
 The lar^e number of music books oriven in the first 
 list is explained by the fact that the chapel was fitted up 
 as a quire. 
 
 The chapel is a handsome structure, of two bays, with 
 a rich fan vault. It is entered from the transept by a 
 lofty arch, which is closed by a stone screen of beautiful 
 design and workmanship, with heavily grated traceried 
 openings. The stalls occupied the western bay, and 
 to accommodate these and their canopies the richly 
 
 » At Durham at either end of the High Altar " was a wande of iron 
 fastened in the wall, wheron did hang curtaincs or hangings of white silke 
 dayly." Rites of Dur/ia/n (Surtecs Society 15), 6.
 
 i66 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISrCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 ornamented jambs of the window arches, which come 
 down to the floor, have been ruthlessly cut away. 
 Above the stalls went " the hangyng off the chapel ffor 
 bothe thesydf" which the second list describes as " ij 
 pecf of tapestry with angellf for the quyre there." 
 The chapel was further furnished with two pairs of 
 oroans and "one laro^e desk" for the chanters. On 
 the north side near the east end is a small doorway, now 
 blocked, which led into the narrow space between the 
 chapel and the chapter house. The eastern half of this 
 formed the atrmm or vestry mentioned in the Kalendar 
 of Obits. Part of its east wall remains, with traces of 
 the little window there. The vestry had, as stated above, 
 a wooden roof only, covered with lead. The floor of the 
 chapel is composed of large square tiles, originally black 
 and yellow alternately, but is now much patched and dis- 
 turbed, and nothing satisfactory as to the arrangements 
 of the chapel can be made out from it. In the western 
 part of the easternmost bay is a row of four grave slabs. 
 The first to the south is of Purbeck marble, and much 
 decayed, but retains the rivets and a large patch of pitch 
 that mark the place of a central figure in brass, with four 
 shields and a marginal inscription. The next slab is a 
 modern one laid down in 1 746. The third is a decayed 
 one of Purbeck marble with the casement of the brass of 
 a mitred figure with a crosier, beneath a triple canopy, 
 and with marginal inscription. The fourth, that nearest 
 to the north, is a greatly decayed and broken slab of 
 Bethersden marble ; the rivets shew that it was once 
 inlaid with a brass figure with canopy and marginal 
 inscription. Of these slabs there can be little doubt that 
 the third covers the grave of prior Thomas Goldston I. 
 who built the chapel, and was buried in it in 1468. 
 The fourth probably marks the grave of Sir Henry 
 Gray, lord of Powys, who was buried in the chapel in 
 1449-50, while it was in building. Whom the first 
 commemorates is not at present known. 
 
 To the east of the grave slabs the floor has been laid 
 with tiles like the rest of the chapel, and all traces of the
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 167 
 
 altar platform obliterated. The mark of the lowest step 
 is, however, fortunately left on the north wall, from which 
 it appears to have been 6 inches high and to have 
 extended across the chapel at a distance of 8 feet 
 8 inches from the east wall. The second step can in 
 like manner be shewn to have been 1 1 feet 5 inches 
 long, and 7 inches high, but its projection eastward may 
 only be conjectured as about 7 feet. An examination of 
 the east wall, which is partly, but fortunately not entirely, 
 hidden by later monuments, shews that there was a third 
 step, also 7 inches high, but its limits cannot be fixed. 
 On this stood the altar, which was 7 feet 6 inches long, 
 and 3 feet 2 inches high. From a chase which was 
 begun for it on the north its slab seems to have been 
 4^ inches thick. Above the altar slab was a plain wall 
 surface like that in St. Michael's chapel, 3 feet 8 inches 
 high, and as long as the altar. It was usually covered 
 by the "hanging for above over the aulter" mentioned in 
 the inventory. The place of the altar is flanked by two 
 traceried panels, in each of which, at a height of 6 feet 
 7 inches from the present floor (or 5 feet from the altar 
 step), and about 7 inches from the altar end, is a small 
 iron loop for the rods of the side curtains. The panels 
 and altar space are surmounted by a rich embattled 
 cornice at the base of the window, with demi-angels 
 holding scrolls inscribed ^nnctiis ^anctus, with small 
 shields between, and on each side is a large canopied 
 niche for an image. In the middle of each bay of the 
 vault is a hole from which to suspend a lamp or candle- 
 holder. The easternmost has smaller holes at a distance 
 from it of about 45 inches on the north, west, and south. 
 From it was suspended the " hanging lampe copper and 
 guylte " mentioned in the inventory. This no doubt 
 bore the taper which the sacrist's account for 1493-4 
 mentions as burning continually in capclla bcatc Marie 
 prope luartiriiiui sancii Tlionie. 
 
 The probable arrangement of the chapel as described 
 above is shewn in the plan of the north transept and its 
 surroundings on page 147. 
 
 W. H. St. J. H.
 
 iCS INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 XII. INVENTORY OF PLATE, ORNAMENTS, 
 AND VESTMENTS LEFT IN THE 
 CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTER- 
 BURY AFTER THE SUPPRESSION OF 
 THE MONASTERY. DATED ioth April 
 1540 (31 HENRY VIII.). 
 
 The monastery of Christchurch, Canterbury, was the 
 last of the great reHgious houses to be suppressed by 
 Henry VIII. A Commission dated 20th March 31 
 Henry VIH. (1540) was directed to Thomas Cranmer, 
 the archbishop, Sir Richard Rich, chancellor of the 
 Court of Augmentations, Sir Christopher Hales, master 
 of the Rolls, and six others, empowering them to receive 
 the surrender of the prior and convent, to take an inven- 
 tory of all the goods, plate, jewels, etc. of the monastery, 
 and to convey to the master of the Jewel House at the 
 Tower all the valuables and treasure they should receive. 
 The actual deed of surrender has not come to light, but 
 an undated list made at the time gives the names of fifty- 
 three monks, including the prior " of the late Monastery 
 of Chryst-Church in Canterborn," and a second list con- 
 tains the names of twenty-five of these " late Religious 
 Persons of the House of Christ-Church in Canterbury, 
 which ben appointed to depart the same House with the 
 Yearly Pensions assigned and allotted to every of them 
 the IVth Day of April, Anno XXXI. Hen. VIII."i 
 The remaining twenty-eight monks became members 
 
 ' In 1534 the Acknowledgement of Supremacy was signed by the prior 
 and sixty-nine other monks. Forty-five of these received rewards or 
 pensions in 1 540. See Seveiith Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public 
 Records (London, 1846), Appendix II. 282. Also Battely's edition of 
 Somners Antiquities of Canterbury (London 1703), 2nd Part, 117, 118, and 
 Appendix XXI\Mj. p. 51 and XXU'.c. p. 52.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 169 
 
 of the new collegiate foundation which replaced the 
 prior and convent, six being appointed prebendaries, nine 
 " peticanons,"^ nine scholars, and two choristers. Six 
 other prebendaries, not monks, were also appointed, and 
 the total number of twelve formed, with their head, 
 Nicholas Wotton, the new Dean and Chapter. The 
 College was subsequently formally incorporated by letters 
 patent dated 8th April 32 Henry VIII. (1541). 
 
 Whether or no any inventory of the plate, ornaments 
 and goods of the church and monastery, other than that 
 under notice, was taken does not appear. At any rate 
 no such document has yet come to light. The great 
 shrine of St. Thomas had been destroyed under the 
 direction of Wriothesley and Pollard early in September 
 1538,^ and its enormous riches swept into the royal 
 treasury. No list of these, unfortunately, has been 
 preserved. No doubt the other memorials of St. 
 Thomas, the corona or caputs the cuspis gladii, and the 
 tiLmba in the crypt, shared the fate of the shrine at the 
 same time. In the absence of any inventory or other 
 record it is impossible to say what happened to the other 
 shrines, of St. yElphege, St. Dunstan, and St. Blase, or 
 to the many relics of the Saxon archbishops. 
 
 From the famous "scrutiny" of St. Dunstan's shrine 
 made in 1508^ it seems to have been a marble tomb 
 covering the coffin of the archbishop, which lay, and 
 probably still lies, beneath the level of the pavement. 
 The fellow shrine of St. y^ilphege no doubt exactly 
 resembled it, and each had an altar attached thereto. 
 These tombs were in all probability undisturbed in 153S, 
 for their altars were certainly in existence when the 
 inventory under notice was made in 1540. 
 
 The shrine of St. Blase, which was a mere coffer with 
 his bones, and the divers shrines of the Saxon arch- 
 bishops placed on the perches above or before the 
 
 ' Two of these appear in the Hst of those "appointed to depart." 
 
 - Letters and Papers^ Foreit^n and Domestic^ of the 7rii^^n of Henry ^Hf- 
 
 Arranged and catalogued by James Gairdner (London, 1893). xiii. part ii. 
 
 nos. 303, 317, and 430. 
 •■' See ante, p. 123, note 2.
 
 170 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 various altars, may have remained until the Suppression, 
 but it is more likely that they were despoiled, together 
 with the contents of the great relic cupboard, with the 
 shrine and other memorials of St. Thomas in 1538. 
 
 All the altars, except of course that attached to the 
 shrine of St. Thomas, w^hich was removed with it, and 
 the one in the Martyrdom, seem to have been left alone. 
 
 The inventory under notice is one of great interest 
 and importance. As the heading tells us, it is an 
 *Tnventarye of Plate Ornamentf vestmentf and other 
 utensiles . . . apointed and lefte to remayne " in 
 the church by the royal commissioners appointed to take 
 the surrender of the monastery " to his graces use " and 
 committed to the charge of four of the newly appointed 
 prebendaries who had succeeded the Benedictine convent, 
 "to be saufely kepte and ordered there untill the kingf 
 highnes plesure be further declared and knowen in that 
 bihalf." 
 
 It is written on an indented roll of parchment, 10 inches 
 wide and 1 1 feet 3f inches long, composed of five mem- 
 branes sewn together, which measure respectively 27, 
 28J, 28J, 28J, and 29! inches in length. The inventory 
 is written on one side only, in a clear and distinct hand, 
 and is very free from alterations and erasures. Affixed 
 to the back of the heading is a draft of the heading itself 
 written on paper, and entitled: " The tytle of an Inven- 
 tarie of the ornamtf &c of Cant Church taken by the 
 Comyssiorfs at the Dissolucon." It seems from this 
 that the inventory before us is the only one that was 
 taken. 
 
 There is also preserved a paper copy of this inventory, 
 of eight leaves, written in a neat early seventeenth 
 century hand, with marginal references from (i) the 
 original and (ii) some other copy. These references, 
 which are distinguished by C for " Copy " and O for 
 " Original," have been duly noticed in our transcript of 
 the original. The copy does not include the original 
 heading, nor the signatures of the commissioners. It 
 also does not strictly follow the original spelling and
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 171 
 
 there are several deviations from the order in which the 
 items occur. 
 
 Both the original inventory and the copy are in the 
 possession of the Dean and Chapter. 
 
 The inventory is written throughout in English. Like 
 the one of 13 15-16 it is divided into sections, but these 
 are grouped under two main headings as follows : 
 
 I. Plate and Jewels [181]. 
 II. The Vestry stuff [183]. 
 (i) Copes [183]. 
 (ii) Vestments [i86]. 
 (iii) Vestments in the South 
 
 Aisle [188]. 
 (iiii) Albes [i88]. 
 (v) Stoles and fanons [189]. 
 (vi) Fronts and pendants for 
 altars, and statecloths 
 [189]. 
 (vii) Altar cloths [190]. 
 
 (viii) Cushions [190]. 
 
 (ix) Carpetsfor the church [191]. 
 
 (x) Canopies and banner- 
 cloths [191]. 
 
 (xi) Curtains [191]. 
 
 (xii) Sandals [191]. 
 
 (xiii) Ornaments for the Quire 
 
 [191]. 
 (xiv) Warham's Chapel [192]. 
 (xv) The Lady Chapel [193]. 
 (xvi) Arundel's Chapel [193]. 
 (xvii) Buckingham's Chapel [194]. 
 
 For convenience of reference the numbers are here 
 appended of the pages of the present work in which they 
 are printed. 
 
 The section dealing with the plate is a somewhat short 
 one as compared with the long list of the earlier inven- 
 tory, and possibly a large number of things which ought 
 to have appeared in it, especially those of gold, were 
 reserved "for the king's use"; it is nevertheless of 
 considerable interest. The first three items shew that 
 the splendid pyx and the magnificent silver-gilt table 
 of the high altar obtained when Chillenden was prior 
 (1390-1 — 1411)^ still retained their places. The other 
 items specify the mitres, crosses, censers, basons, chalices 
 and patens, cruets, candlesticks, etc. many of which are 
 probably identical with those in use in 13 15-16. Thus 
 the " ij crewettf of byrell garnisshed in the toppe with 
 sylver gilte " are doubtless two of the quatuor urcioli 
 de cristallo ; the " ij Sensers called the principall sen- 
 sers gilte w* white chenes " may be the d?iO Tlinrrihula 
 magna argentea deaurata ; and the " iij faire pottC for 
 halowed oyle the one of them gylte " correspond with 
 
 ' See aiitc^ pp. 107, 109.
 
 172 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 the tres ampiille Maiores. tinde .j. dcaurata. Many other- 
 possible identifications are evident on comparison. 
 
 On the whole it will be seen that the church was left 
 fairly well supplied with plate. 
 
 The same remark also applies with regard to the copes 
 and vestments. Of copes no fewer than two hundred 
 and sixty-two are enumerated, including sets of fifty, 
 forty-five, twenty-eight, sixteen and fifteen. This is 
 more than double the number, one hundred and twenty- 
 nine, in 131 5-16. 
 
 Of suits of vestments, that is for priest, deacon, and 
 subdeacon, over thirty are specified, and twenty-seven 
 chasubles with their albes, etc. are described as being in 
 the south aisle, that is of the quire, probably in a press 
 there. 
 
 Of albes there were one hundred and thirty-two^ 
 The first twelve were of an elaborate character, most 
 of them being of silk or sarcenet with richly embroidered 
 apparels, and with amices of equally splendid work. 
 The remainder are grouped according to the colour 
 of their apparels ; the amices worn with them are 
 doubtless included under the title of albe. The last 
 entry, which describes the quotidian albes {i.e. those in 
 daily use) as being kept " in thinner and utter vestry," is. 
 of interest as shewing that the ancient chapel of St. 
 Andrew and the treasury beyond or within it continued 
 to be used as the outer and the inner vestry respectively.. 
 
 It is evident from the mention in the list of fronts 
 and pendants for altars that the high altar was still 
 flanked by " the side aulters " of St. ^Iphege and St. 
 Dunstan, and we shall find later that the " nether fronts'" 
 of copper gilt belonging to them were also retained. 
 
 In the same way we learn from the list of altar cloths, 
 which describes four as "in the North He " and the like 
 number as "in the South He," that the altars in the quire 
 transepts, namely of St. Martin and St. Stephen, St. 
 John and St. Gregory were undisturbed. 
 
 The lists of cushions and carpets call for no special 
 remark. It may, however, be noticed that the prior's.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 173 
 
 seat, which was the first of the returned stalls on the 
 north side next the quire door, had a tapestry carpet. 
 The last item of the next sub-section is a canopy of 
 baudekyn and gold " to hange over the busshope." It 
 is uncertain whether this was a canopy for the arch- 
 bishop's seat at the east end of the southern row of 
 stalls, or for his own stall, which was and still is the first 
 of the returned stalls on the right of the quire door. 
 
 The subsection " Curteyns," though it only contains 
 three items, mentions two points of interest. Seven 
 pairs of curtains were "in the grete vestuary." This 
 place, as already noted, was the chapel of St. Andrew, 
 on the north side of the presbytery. The " vaute " 
 wherein lay the rich sarcenet curtains was the vaulted 
 chamber beneath the steps leading up from the old place 
 of the high altar to the archbishop's stone chair behind 
 and above it. 
 
 The interesting list of " hoses & showes " which are 
 included under the title " Sendallf " should be compared 
 with that in the inventory of 1 315-16, This has under 
 the heading Sandalia, three embroidered pairs, of which 
 one was white, another red, and the third blue, a descrip- 
 tion which agrees closely with three out of four items 
 here noted. 
 
 The list of " Ornamentf for the Ouyre " is perhaps the 
 most interesting section of the inventory. It enumerates, 
 though not in order, (i) clivers sets of hangings, (2) 
 carpets, {3) the Lent cloths, and (4) various pieces of 
 furniture, such as candlesticks, desks, etc. 
 
 The sets of hangings, which were four in number, 
 were probably for suspension over the stalls on either 
 side the quire. Three were apparently embroidered : one 
 with the story of St. /Elphege, the second with "old 
 Imagerie of the passyon of Christe," the third likewise 
 with "imagerie." The fourth set is described as "one 
 faire new hanging of riche tapestrie " consisting of six 
 pieces, with the story of Christ and Our Lady. Three 
 of these were clearly the ires pannos pulcherimos ope7'e 
 de arysse subtiliter intcxtos ortuin virginis cum vita ct
 
 174 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 obitzL ejitsdem dare et splendide configurantes given by 
 prior Thomas Goldston to hang on the south side of the 
 quire. The other three no doubt shewed forth the story 
 of Christ, and were the gift of Richard Dering, cellarer^ 
 in 151 1, as we learn from the description of them given 
 by Somner, in whose time (1640) all six pieces of tapestry 
 were still in use : 
 
 To begin with the Hangings setting forth the whole story 
 both of our Saviour's Life and Death. They were given, 
 one part of them by Prior Goldstonc, and the other by 
 Richard Dering the Church-Cellarer, in Henry VIII. days. 
 Witness these several Memorials legible in the bordure 
 of the Hangings. [Footnote] On the South-side, Thomas 
 Goldstone Jnijus ecclesicB Prior sacr(Bque TJieologicB Professor 
 me fieri fecit. Anno Doni. Millesinw quingentesimo undecinio. 
 On the North-side, Richardns Dering hujns ecclesicB Coni- 
 monacJms & Celerariiis vie fieri fecit. Amio Doni. Millesinw 
 quingentesimo nndecimo. ^ 
 
 The first of the carpets specified, an old hanging "of 
 vj pecf of ostriche fethers to laye on the grounde on 
 palme sondaye," no doubt once formed part of the eight 
 costers bequeathed by Edward, prince of Wales, in 1376, 
 of black tapestry with ostrich feathers. It is possible 
 that this " old hanging " was now used in place of the 
 panmis niger ami albis leonihis pro fcsto palniarum of 
 the inventory of 1315-16. 
 
 The other two carpets were figured with the story of 
 Esther, As they are described as " all broken " they 
 must have been of some antiquity, or sore worn. 
 
 The Lent stuff included twenty cloths to cover images, 
 a great cloth stained for the high altar and a painted 
 Judas Cloth, the rood cloth, and a cloth to draw before 
 the high altar. Of these the "grete Lynen cloth steyned 
 for the high aulter " is probably identical with the 
 magnus pannus ciun toto apparatu ad cooperiendum su7?7- 
 17121711 altare et altaria Sancto^^um Elphegi et Dtmstani 
 depichLS cum historia xl""^ which is entered among prior 
 Chillenden's acquisitions. The cloth " to drawe before 
 
 ' op. clt. 93.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 175 
 
 the hio-h aulter " was the Lenten veil. This was hunf>- 
 across the presbytery in Hne with the western face of 
 the eastern pillars of the crossing. The iron socket for 
 the pulley, with the outline of a castle, still remains in 
 the pillar on the south side, where the canopy of arch- 
 bishop Kemp's tomb has prevented it being taken out ; 
 a newly inserted stone marks the place of the other 
 socket on the north side. The rood cloth, as its name 
 implies, was used during Lent to veil " the grete Rode 
 covered with Sylver " which is also mentioned in the list 
 before us. This rood, which can hardly be identical 
 with the great rood at the east end of the nave, in all 
 probability stood upon the beam ultra inagmuii altarc 
 described in the inventory of 1 315-16, as the depository 
 of various reliquaries. Such a rood surmounted the high 
 altar of Westminster Abbey, and is depicted in the well- 
 known obit-roll of abbot John Islip {ob. 1522) in the 
 possession of the Society of Antiquaries.' The "Judas 
 cloth " was probably that used to cover the cross upon 
 the altar during Lent. 
 
 Although the places of the "grete hanging basein of 
 copper and gylt " and the " iij hanging baseins of Latein 
 w* cheynes " are not specified, it is reasonable to suppose 
 that they were hung in a group before the high altar in 
 the same way as those described in Rites of Durham : 
 
 Before the High Altar, within the Quire above mentioned, 
 were three marvcilous faire silver Basins hung in chaines of 
 silver ; one of them did hange in the south side of the 
 Quire, above the stepps that go upp to the High Altar, the 
 second on the north side opposite to the first, the third, in 
 the midst, betweene them both, and just before the High 
 Altar. Theise three silver basons had lattin basons within 
 them, havinge pricks for serges, or great \A'ax candles, to 
 stand on, the lattin basons beinge to receive the drops of 
 the candles, which did burne continually, both day and 
 night, in token that the House was alwayes watchinge to 
 God. 
 
 There was also another silver bason, which did hang in 
 silver chains before the Sacrament of the foresaid Higli 
 
 ' See Vciusta Rlonitincntix, \ol. iv. pi. xviii.
 
 J76 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Altar, but ncrcr to the High Altar than the other three, as 
 almost dependinge or hanginge over the priests back, which 
 was only lighted in time of masse and ther after extin- 
 guished.' 
 
 Among archbishop Arundel's gifts at Canterbury were 
 ti'ia baccilia argentea ante stimiinun altare penciencia} 
 These are not mentioned in the inventory under notice, 
 but if argentea is equivalent to argentata, the silver 
 plating may have been worn off and the tria baccilia 
 argcjitea have become " iij baseins of Latein." 
 
 Of the various candlesticks, the " grete candelsticke of 
 copper and gilte " was probably that on which stood the 
 " grete pascall maste," mentioned lower down in the list. 
 The Sacrist's account for 1508-9 has a memorandum 
 (juod per estiniacioneni remanct super le Sedebrasse Trey- 
 brasse et snper alia Candelabra in ecclesia. Ivj libras 
 cere. These may be the names of the branched candle- 
 sticks in the inventory. The " deske of latein grete and 
 large " must be identical with the analogitim sive aqidlam 
 eneani given by prior Thomas Goldston II. It perhaps 
 stood at the north end of the high altar to sing the Gospel 
 from. The other "large deske" would be for the chanters 
 or rulers of the choir, and stand between the stalls. 
 
 The four remaining sections of the inventory enume- 
 rate the ornaments belonging to four chapels in the 
 church : that of archbishop Warham, the chapel of Our 
 Lady, archbishop Arundel's chapel, and " Buckingham's 
 Chapell." 
 
 The goods of the four altars in the chapels in the 
 quire transepts appear to be included in the general 
 contents of the inventory, as are perhaps those of the 
 altar of the Holy Cross in the nave. The inventory 
 however says nothing of the altars in the crypt nor 
 of the ornaments of St. Michael's chapel, of the chapel 
 of St. Peter and St. Paul (otherwise of St. Anselm), or 
 of the altar of the Holy Trinity in the round chapel at 
 the east end of the church. As however these last were 
 
 ' Rites of Durham (Surtees Society 15), 12. 
 - See atite^ p. 109. note 2.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 177 
 
 not chantry altars it is possible that their ornaments are 
 included in the general inventory. But in addition to 
 the chapels which are mentioned we should certainly 
 have expected two others. One of these is the charming 
 little chapel which still remains to the north of and oppo- 
 site to the tomb of king Henry IV. and queen Joan, 
 wherein an altar was dedicated in 1439 in honour of 
 Edward the Confessor.^ The other was built in 1447 
 by dame Joan Brenchley, widow of Sir William Brench- 
 ley, Justice of the Common Pleas, who had licence to 
 found a chantry at the altar of St. John Baptist, and in 
 a chapel 
 
 infra corpus ejusdem (ecclesie) in muro lateris sui australis 
 sub quarta fenestra versus orientem predictum altare sancti 
 Johannis Baptiste canonice erigere et illud ibidem per 
 spacium inter duas posituras sive Butteracias in longitudine 
 et interiorem partem muri illius ac exteriorem partem posi- 
 turarum sive butteraciarum predictam in latitudine cum 
 quadam capella in honore sancti Johannis Baptiste fun- 
 danda decenier includere.- 
 
 This altar was dedicated, according to Stone, in 1448, in 
 honour of the Holy Trinity, the blessed Virgin Mary 
 and St. John Baptist.^ The chapel was pulled down at 
 the end of the last century. 
 
 The history and ornaments of " Warhams Chapell " 
 and of " Our Ladie Chapell " have already been noticed 
 in connexion with earlier documents referring to these 
 chapels.* 
 
 Of Arundel's chapel we know but little. Among the 
 muniments of the Dean and Chapter is the foundation 
 deed, dated 12th December 141 1, of archbishop Thomas 
 
 ' 1439. " Item hoc anno primo die mensis Alarcij dominus Episcopus 
 Roffensis dedicavit altare in honore sancti Edwardi regis et confessoris in 
 capella que est ex parte Boriali ad fferetrum Sancti Thome." C.C.C.C. 
 Parker MS. 417. f. 24. 
 
 "^ Register' S. f. 171. The deed is also printed in full in Litcriv Ciuitiiari- 
 ^'/zj^j- (Rolls' Series 85), iii. 193-195. 
 
 ■' 1448. " In hoc anno in die sanctorum Innocentium Episcopus Roffensis 
 consecravit altare in capella domini Willelmi Brenchysle militis in na\i 
 ecclesie ex parte australi in honore sancte Trinitatis sancte Marie et Sancti 
 lohannis Baptiste." C.C.C.C. Parker MS. 417. f. z^b. 
 
 ■• See aitic, pp. 141, 165. 
 
 N
 
 178 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Arundel of a chantry of two secular chaplains founded 
 by him in oratorio nostra in navi S2ve m corpore nostre 
 .sancte metropolitane Cantnariensis ecc/esie. The royal 
 licence, which is recited in the document, describes the 
 chantry as founded in quadani capella dicte ecclesie 
 Christi Cantnariensis per prefatuni arcIdepiscoptLm de 
 novo constructa} The archbishop's will, dated 12th 
 February 141 3-14, a week before his death, commends 
 his soul to God and the Blessed Virgin, and to SS. 
 Gregory, Augustine, Dunstan, Thomas, Blase and 
 ^Iphege, and directs his body to be buried 
 
 In monimento [sic] meo novo, quod ad hoc licet indig- 
 nissime construi. et fieri feci, in navi sancte Cantuariensis 
 ecclesie infra Cantariam meam perpetuam. duorum capella- 
 norum inibi ordinatam. Et volo quod cxecutores mei perfi- 
 ciant et compleant ipsam cantariam meam et ordinacioneni 
 ejusdem cicius quam poterunt post mortem meam. Si 
 contingat me decedere antequam per me perfecta fuerit et 
 completa.- 
 
 It is clear from these documents that archbishop 
 Arundel's chapel was in the nave, that it was begun by 
 him in or before 141 1, but left unfinished at the time of 
 his death, and that he was buried within it. This last 
 fact is borne out by the i6th century list of arch- 
 bishops and priors which states that Arundel was buried 
 in navi ecclesie in capella ab eo fnndata^ Where the 
 chapel actually stood is uncertain. Leland mentions 
 among the " high Tumbes of Bishops " that " be in the 
 Body of the Chirche " : " Arundel under a Filler on the 
 North Side, King Henry the 4. and he helpid to build 
 up a good part of the Body of the Chirch."* Somner 
 writing in 1640 says of Arundel and his chapel : 
 
 He lieth buried (as his Table will shew) on the North-side 
 of the Body of CJirist-CJmrcJi, where doubtless he sometime 
 
 ' Register S. ff. ']'], etc. The deed is printed in Litera Cajituarienscs 
 (Rolls' Series 85), iii. 123-131. 
 
 ' Rci^isler G. f. 281. 
 
 ■' C.C.C.C. MS. 298. p. no. 
 
 * The Itinerary of Jolm Leland the Antiquary (Ed. T. Hearne, O.xford, 
 1744), vi. 4- 5-
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 179 
 
 had a far better Monument than now remains of him. For 
 his Will appoints out his Burial thus : in his Momcjuent, 
 built by him in his Chapel, in the Nave of tJie Church, &c. 
 But Chantery and Monument are both gone, a bare Grave- 
 stone levelled with the floor, with the Brass all shamefully 
 torn away being only left ; whereas you may know there 
 sometime stood a Chapel . . . wherein both the Arch- 
 bishop lay fairly intombed, and his two Chanterists did 
 daily celebrate. . . . The Chapel (as I learn from the 
 report of the Chantery-Priest thereof) was taken down, and 
 sold away by Hen. VIII. his Commissioners.^ 
 
 An examination of the buttresses flanking the third 
 window from the south porch will shew that they are 
 arranged differently from those right and left of them, 
 and inside the church the window jambs are carried down 
 to the floor as if there had once been an entrance below 
 the window. Despite Leland's statement it is possible 
 that Arundel's chapel was built outside this window, 
 between the buttresses, with a stone screen between it 
 and the church. As the archbishop was a great bene- 
 factor to the new nave, provision for his chapel might 
 have been made while the work was in progress, which 
 would account for the differences in the buttresses. 
 
 The inventory of the chapel mentions a " table " or 
 reredos of ivory, five suits of vestments, three frontals 
 and a diaper cloth for the altar, a corporas case, and a 
 massbook of parchment with silver clasps. A chalice 
 and other necessary articles were no doubt borrowed 
 from some other chapel or altar. 
 
 The last chapel mentioned in the inventory is that of 
 John of Buckingham, formerly dean of Lichfield and 
 archdeacon of Buckingham, who was consecrated bishop 
 of Lincoln on 25th June 1363. In 1397 the pope wished 
 to translate him to Lichfield, but he preferred to resign, 
 and retired to Canterbury, where he died on loth March 
 1397-8, after a sojourn of twenty-four weeks. By his 
 will, which is dated 9th February 1397-8 in quodani 
 
 ' William Somner, The Antiquii/es of Cantcj-bury (Ed. N. Battely, 
 London, 1703), part i. 136. 
 
 N 2
 
 i8o INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 inanso wlgaritir Meistr Omers nuncti-pato, bishop John 
 of Buckingham desires to be buried 
 
 in navi ecclesie Cantuariensis in loco illo deorsum ubi 
 dominus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis qui pro tempore 
 fuerit vel in ejus absencia Prior ejusdem ecclesie in pro- 
 cessionibus generalibus stacionem fuerit consuetam.^ 
 
 In accordance with the bishop's wishes a chantry was 
 subsequently founded by his executors, by deed dated 
 1 2th December 1433, 
 
 in quadam capella juxta tumbam ejusdem patris defuncti et 
 ubi corpus ejusdem jacet humatum.- 
 
 The chapel is spoken of elsewhere in the document as in 
 navi ecclesie Cathedralis. 
 
 Bishop Buckingham's monumental slab with the 
 remains of his brass was in existence when Somner 
 wrote in 1640, and it seems to have lain undisturbed, 
 until the repaying of the nave in the last century, in the 
 middle of the seventh bay,'^ nearly in line with the proces- 
 sion door from the cloister ; in the place in fact where the 
 archbishop might have stood in the Sunday procession 
 durinsf the station before the Rood, as directed in the 
 bishop's will. 
 
 As the endowments both of Arundel's and Bucking- 
 ham's chantries were swept away at the suppression of 
 the monastery, their chapels no doubt met with the same 
 fate, and so have left no traces of their existence. The 
 contents of Buckingham's chapel were meagre enough, 
 consisting merely of a chalice and two old vestments. 
 
 The Canterbury copy of the Inventory is signed by 
 six of the commissioners: " T. Cantuariensis," i.e. the 
 
 • Ca7'i. Antiq. W. 220. A similar direction occurs in the will of William 
 of Edington, bishop of Winchester, 1346- 1366, who desires to be buried 
 " in ecclesia mea Cathedrali Wynton in navi dicta ecclesie ubi Monachi 
 ejusdem diebus dominicis et fcstivis stare solent in processione." Reg. 
 Langham, f. won. 
 C 
 " Cart. An tig. — . 
 144 
 
 ^ Its place is thus shewn in a plan of the nave with drawings of the various 
 monumental slabs, made previous to the repaving, now in the Chapter 
 Library.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. i8i 
 
 archbishop, Thomas Cranmer, Sir Richard Rich, Sir 
 Christopher Hales, Anthony St. Leger, John ap Rice 
 and WiUiam Cavendish. 
 The full text is as follows : 
 
 Christf church of Inventaiye of Plate Ornamentf vestmentf and 
 Cannterburye other utensiles aswell of the Church as of the 
 house of Christfchurch aforesaid apointed and lefte to remayne 
 there by the most rev-'ende father in god Thomas archbusshop of 
 Cannterburye S'' George Cobham knight Lorde Cobham S"" 
 Richard Riche knight Clv^uncello'' of the kingf highnes Courtc 
 of the Augmentacon of the revenue off his graces Crowne and 
 other the kingC highnes cofhissioners apointed to take surrendre of 
 the said house to his graces use and comitted to the charge of 
 Richard Thorneden and Richard Champyon Doctors of Dyvinitie 
 Arthur Seintleger and Richard Parkehurst prebendaries of the 
 said church to be saufely kepte and ordered there untill the 
 kingf highnes plesure be further declared and knowen in that 
 bihalf as by this Inventarie indented wherof the one parte 
 remayneth with the said Cornissioners and the other parte with 
 the said p^bendaries doth hereafter pticulerlie appere taken the 
 x^^ daye of Aprile in the xxxj^^^ yere of the reigne of o'' Sovaigne 
 Lorde king henry the viij^h 
 
 Plate and Jewell f 
 
 ^first one Image of our Ladie iiij Aungellf and the holy 
 ghoste for the Sacrament of S}lver and gylt 
 
 Ttem one Pyxe of golde 
 
 Ttem the high aulter of Sylver pcell gilt 
 
 Item ij myters- sett w^h perles . and garnisshed w'^ borders 
 egges and ovvches of Sylver and gilt sett w'^ counterfett 
 stones with labellf" likewise garnisshed lacking ij 
 knoppes 
 
 ^Item one faire crosse w''^ a Crucyfixe mary~^ 
 & John of Sylver and gilte w'^ jjij I 
 
 Ev^ungelistf and a fote sylver and gilte 
 
 poz 
 ^Item ij other crossez of sylver gilt & enameled 
 
 w' a crucyfyxe only 
 4tem one holy water stocke w' a sprynkell of 
 
 sylver white po} 
 
 Ixvij 05 
 Ixxv 05 
 
 ' All the items in the inventory marked thus have " C. Lack" written 
 against them in the margin of the copy. 
 ■- The copy has " C Lack j " in margin. 
 ^ " lace " in the copy.
 
 iS2 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 ^Item ij other Crossez w^^' crucyfyxcs only and 
 iiij crossc staves plated w'^ sylver 
 
 Item ij basenis gylt for the high aulter po} Ix 05 
 
 4tem iiij candelstickc garnisshed over w*"l 
 
 sylver w^i^ boltc of yron going thorough > vij<^xij 05 
 ev'y of them po} in hole w^^^ the Iron J 
 
 ^Item ij small church basenis white . a belli ....^.^. ... 
 and a boxe for singyng brede white P05 J J J :> 
 
 Item ij Sensers called the principall sensers"! p 
 
 gilte w' white cheynes J 
 
 ^Item an other Senser called a cofnon Senser^i 
 
 w^^ ij Shippes for ffrankyncense pcell > Ixxxx 05 
 gilte P03 J 
 
 Item ij crewettf gilte the one lacking a Cover 
 P05 
 
 ^Item ix other small crewettf white whereof ij 
 only have covers 
 
 Item iiij chalices w^h iiij paxes gilte for side 
 altares po} 
 
 Item one grete Chalice gylt w^ the Trynitie "1 
 
 with patent Crucyfixe Mary and John in > xlij 03 di 
 the ffote enameled po} J 
 
 ^Item one chalice gylt w^^ \\^q. Images of seint^ 
 
 Peter and Poule graven in the patent and > xxiij 03 di 
 div's other Images graven on the fote P03J 
 
 ^Item one small Chalice w* the Trynitie^ 
 
 enameled in the patent and Crucyfixe I ^ ,••• 
 
 Mary and John enameled in the ffote. j ' - J ' 
 
 with Jhus also graven in the ffote P05 J 
 
 ^Item one Chalice gilt with saint Johns heade^ 
 
 in the patent the Crucyfixe and ij Monkes >■ xx 03 di 
 in the ffote P03 J 
 
 ^Item one chalice gilte w^'^ saint Johns headel 
 
 in the patent w^h Crucyfyxe Mary and > xxiij 05 
 John in the ffote P03 J 
 
 litem ij candlestickes white w'^ yron in theml ^ • 
 
 P03 J vj Oj 
 
 ^Item [one sconce w^^]- a sticke to bere the") 
 
 Candell on candelm^^s day and one salte > [xliiij 03]^ 
 Saler for holy water po3 J 
 
 ' All the items in the inventory marked thus have " C. Lack" written 
 against them in the margin of the copy. 
 
 2 The copy has " C. Lack j. crosse iij staves " in margin 
 
 •■' The copy has in the margin : " C Lack j. shipp and the senc." 
 
 * Struck through.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 183 
 
 ^Item iij faire pottf for halowed oyle the one 
 
 of them gylte po} 
 ^Item ij crewettf of byrell garnisshed in the 
 
 toppe w'h sylver gilte 
 Item vij pontificall ringes of base golde w^h 
 
 base stones 
 Item iij Recto'' staves of Sylver plated upon 
 
 wood 
 Item vj other Rectof staves of sylver plated 
 
 upon woode 
 Item one small crismatorie of sylver pcell gilt 
 
 P05 vj 03 
 
 Utem one Crosyer w' the staffe of Sylver and"! 
 
 gylte and iij bokes plated upon with > Ixxxvj 03 
 
 sylver P05 J 
 
 ^Item one Crosyer of Sylver with the staffe garnisshed in 
 
 the toppe and in the myddes w'^ sylver 
 'Item one other Crosyer garnisshed thorough w^^ sylver md 
 
 gilt 
 ^Item ix corse- girdellf garnisshed w'h sylver 
 Utem one myter slightlie garnisshed w'^ sylver w'^ counter- 
 
 fett stones used for good fifrydaye 
 ^[Item iiij crosse staves plated over w^^ sylver] 
 Item one Crismatorie pcell gilte of the gifte of John 
 
 Clement 
 ^[Item one faire cheyer plated upon w^^ sylver pccll gilt 
 
 and garnisshed w^h red tysshewe.] 
 
 The Vestry stuffe 
 
 Copes, ^ffirst 1 Copes of white golde baudekyn w^^ golde oi" 
 Moretons gifte w' Orpheras of velvet golde baudekyn 
 ^Item ij Copes of crymsyn golde baudekyn very riche with 
 
 orpheras enbroudered 
 Item one cope of redde golde baudekyn with white hindcs 
 
 mene riche 
 Item one cope of blew velvet w"^ roses and rundellf 
 enbroudered olde 
 
 ' All the items in the inventory marked thus have " C. Lack " written 
 against them in the margin of the copy. 
 
 - " Crosse " in copy. 
 
 ■• Struck through, and in the margin is written in both original and copy : 
 " vacat quia sup\" In the copy the words are preceded by " O.C'.'' 
 
 ■* Added later, but subsequently struck through, and in the margin is 
 written in both original and copy : " vacat quia delib'ata fuit p litf ThesaurariJ 
 augmentacoh ad usum dni Rf." The copy has " O.C." before the entry.
 
 i84 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item iiij Copes of riche golde baudekyn with trewloves 
 
 white garnisshed w^^ honysocles of perle 
 Item one Cope of Hght blew velvet povvdred w' griffons of 
 
 golde very oldc 
 Item one cope of black velvet w' red orpheras poudred w' 
 
 floures of venice golde 
 Item iiij Copes of blew silke poudred w^h floures golde olde 
 'Item iij olde copes of Stolewo^ke w'^ armes 
 Item one Cope of blew damaske w^ griffons enbroudered of 
 
 Venice golde 
 ^Item one mene cope of blacke velvet w'h floures de lyces of 
 
 Venice golde 
 ^Item iiij Copes of olde white damaske enbroudered w' 
 
 angellf of venice golde 
 Item one Coope of grene copper baudekyn 
 Item ij Copes of white velvet w'^ burres enbroudered 
 ^Item one cope of red velvet of vyne leves of golde 
 ^Item one cope of olde white damaske w^^ gresse of venys 
 
 golde 
 4tem iiij Copes of white satein baudekyn w^h redde hindes 
 4tem one Cope of olde blew silke w^h armes and floures 
 
 enbroudered 
 'Item one cope of mene riche golde baudekyn w^h white 
 
 hartc 
 Item one white cope enbroudered w^^ Jesse 
 'Item ij Copes of blew velvet enbroudered w^h angellf golde 
 ^Item ij very good copes of blew velvet w* ffloures of golde 
 
 enbroudered 
 Item one riche Cope of golde baudekyn called king Henrys 
 
 Cope 
 -Item vj Copes of nedle wo^ke whereof ij orpheras set w^h 
 
 olde perle 
 Item one Cope of riche redde baudekyn 
 Item ij Copes of blew velvet enbroudered w' floure de lyces 
 Item one Cope of red velvet w' crosselettes of venyce golde 
 "Item one cope of redde velvet golde baudekyn w'h orpheras 
 
 set w^^i olde perle 
 Item viij copes of red golde velvet baudekyn tysshew w^^ 
 
 orpheras enbroudered 
 Item xvj copes of the same silke w' orpheras of the same 
 Item XV olde copes of redde vv'^' ned]ewo'"ke of golde 
 
 ' All the items in the inventory marked thus have " C. Lack " written 
 against them in the margin of the copy. 
 - " C. dubm." in margin of copy. 
 ' " M' K " written in the margin, but erased.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 185 
 
 -Item iij olde copes of velvet enbroudercd w^'^ floures of 
 
 golde 
 Item one mcne cope of redde velvet w^ii wylde fiRoures of 
 
 golde 
 "Item one cope of red golde baudek}'n w^'^ orpheras 
 
 enbroudered 
 Item one oldc cope of redde velvet wt^ sterres and Images 
 
 enbroudered 
 Item one good cope of redde velvet with Egels 
 Item one olde cope of purple velvet with a water floure of 
 
 Venice golde w'^ orpheras enbroudered 
 Item one cope of good velvet tysshewe 
 Item one cope of white damaske w''^ good orpheras 
 
 enbroudered poudered with ffloures of venyce golde 
 Item one good cope of white velvet w' good orpheras 
 
 poudered w^ angell^ 
 Item one cope of golde ledder baudekyn 
 Item one Cope of redde silke with Lyons of golde 
 ^Item one course cope of olde blew silke enbroudered 
 Item one cope of white damaske enbroudered w^^ columbyns 
 *[Item one cope of grene copper baudekyn] 
 Item one cope of grene velvet and satein enbroudercd w*'^ 
 
 floures de lyces 
 Utem one cope of grene silke w^'^ holmeleves and orpheras 
 
 enbroudered 
 Item ij olde copes of redde and blacke silke 
 Item one cope of blew velvet w^h orpheras enbroudered and 
 
 floures of golde 
 ^Item V copes of co'se blew baudekyn golde w'^ orpheras of 
 
 red baudekyn 
 Item v good copes of blew baudekyn with broudered 
 
 orpheras with white horses and trees of golde 
 ^Item one cope of blew silke w'^ floures de lyces of golde 
 Item iiij copes of blew golde baudekyn w^'^ white orpheras 
 
 enbroudered w^h angellf 
 4tem ij Copes of blew baudekyn golde w''' fcs^untf and 
 
 haukt" & orpheras enbroudered 
 Item iiij Copes of blew damaske and satein 
 
 ' All the items in the copy marked thus have " C. Lack" written against 
 them in the margin. 
 
 2 " M' Dartnoll " in margin of inventory and copy. The latter has also 
 " O.C" 
 
 ^ "M" North" in margin of inventory and copy. Tlie copy has also 
 " O.C." 
 
 * This item is struck through, and " geven to Knolton " is written against 
 it in both the inventory and the copy. In the copy is also written " O.C."
 
 1 86 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item vj copes of grcne baudckyn w' riche orpheras w'- 
 
 crownes and white hartcs 
 Item one cope of blew velvet tysshew newe w*''^ orpheras 
 
 enbroudered 
 ^[Item xxviij copes of white'' baudekyn w*'^ roses golde some 
 
 good some bad] 
 ^Item xlvj copes of grene baudekyn with leves and braunches 
 
 all of one sute w^^ orpheras of copper baudekyn 
 
 Vestmentf. •'Item one vestment deacon and subdeacon of white 
 
 golde baudekyn w^ orpheras cloth of golde tysshew of 
 
 Moretons gifte 
 ^Item one vestment deacon and subd^ of crymsyn golde 
 
 baudekyn w^'^ orpheras enbroudered 
 ^Item vestment deacon and subdeacon of blew velvet w^ 
 
 roses & rundellf enbroudered 
 Item one vestment decon & subdecon olde of blew velvet 
 
 ^yth griffons 
 ^Item vestment decon and subdecon of riche golde baudekyn 
 
 with trew loves white garnisshed w^ honysocles of perle 
 Item a vestment decon and subdecon of light blew velvet 
 
 poudred w^ olde griffons 
 Item vestment decon and subdecon of black velvet with 
 
 red orpheras and powdered w'^ flloures of golde 
 Item vestment decon and subd of blew silke powdred w^'^ 
 
 floure de lyce golde 
 Item one vestment decon and subdeacon of stolewoi"ke w^ 
 
 armes whereof the vestment and one deacon very riche 
 Item one vestment decon and subdeacon of blew damaske 
 
 w' crriffons enbroudered 
 Item vestment decon and subdeacon of black velvet w^'^ 
 
 floure de lyces of golde 
 Item vestment decon and subdeacon of olde white damaske 
 
 enbroudered w''^ angellf 
 Item vestment decon and subdeacon of grene copper 
 
 baudekyn 
 
 ' All the items in the copy marked thus hav-e " C. Lack " written against 
 them in the margin. 
 
 - This item is struck through, and against it is written in the margin : 
 " geven awey by M'" Chaunc to divs churches." In the copy, where the note 
 also occurs, the word "parish" is inserted before "churches," and the entry 
 is preceded by " O.C." 
 
 ■■' This word is written over an erasure. 
 
 ^ Besides " C. Lack" in the margin the copy has: " C. Thcr lackyth 
 XXX vestim'* and tunicles as inany." 
 
 '" This word was left incomplete owing to a hole in the parchment.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 187 
 
 Item one vestment decon and subdeacon of white velvet \v' 
 
 burres enbroudered 
 Item one vestment decon and siibd of redde velvet w^ vync 
 
 branches 
 Item vestment decon and subd mene fjood of blewe eolde 
 
 baudekyn 
 Item vestment decon and subd mene riche of olde white 
 
 damaske with gresse of venice golde 
 ^Item vestment decon and subdecon white satein baudekyn 
 
 w'h redde hindes 
 -Item vestment decon and subd of olde blew silke w' armes 
 
 and floures 
 Item one vestment of olde white silke w' trees enbroudered 
 
 of Venice golde 
 •''Item vestm'^ decon and subd of mene riche golde 
 
 baudekyn w'^ white hartf 
 ^Item vestment decon and subd of golde ledder baudekyn 
 Item vestm' decon and subd of red silke w^ lyons of golde 
 Item vestm' decon & subd of olde blew silke enbroudered 
 Item vestm^ decon and subd of white damaske w^ columbyns 
 
 enbroudered 
 Item vestm^ decon and subd of red baudekyn w'h lyons and 
 
 floures 
 Item decon and subdecon of white baudekyn w' birdes eyes 
 Item one decon of red rayed baudekyn w^ golde 
 Item vestment deconand subdeaconof grenecopper baudekyn 
 Item vestm' decon & subd of grene velvet and satein 
 
 broudered w^ floures de lyce 
 ■''Item vestm' decon and subd of grene silke w' holmeleves 
 
 & faire orpheras 
 Item vestment decon and subd of olde blacke and red silke 
 Item vestment decon and subd of white silke broudered w'^ 
 
 fisshes 
 ''Item vestment decon and subd of white silke broudered w^'' 
 
 Jesse 
 
 ' Both the inventory and the copy have in the margin : " my lordes g-^ce 
 hath the vestmet." The word " hath " only occurs in the copy, where the 
 entr>' is also preceded by " O.C." 
 
 '- An erased added entry in the margin. 
 
 ■' Both inventory and copy have in the margin : " my lordes g'ce the 
 vestmet." The copy has also " O.C." 
 
 '■ Both inventory and copy have in the margin : " my lordes g 'cc the 
 vestmet the rest ys gon." The copy has also " O.C'."' 
 
 ■' Misplaced in the copy and described as " In the copy, but not in the 
 originall." 
 
 ■^ The inventory has "for ledes" in the margin, and the copy : "O.C. 
 fifor Leeds.'
 
 iSS INVENTORIES OF CIIKIS7CIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 The South lie. Item ij vcstmcntf w''^ albcs garnisshcd of white 
 
 silke w' orpheras enbroudered 
 Item iiij vestment(-' w''^ albes garnisshed cCse branched 
 
 wo'stcde 
 Item iiij vestmentf w^'' albcs garnisshed of red and blew 
 
 satein briges w'h floures of goldc 
 Item iiij vcstmentf of Satein figuric w''' orpheras enbroudered 
 
 Yvth swannes of venycc goldc and albcs to the same 
 Item iiij vcstmcntc w'^ albcs garnisshed of russet velvet 
 
 figuric w^'^ fflourcs of goldc and orpheras enbroudered 
 Item iiij vestment^ w'^ albcs garnisshed of white and grene 
 
 baudekyn enbroudered w^^ fflourcs of venycc goldc 
 Item iiij vestmentf of redde copper baudekyn w'^ albcs 
 
 garnisshed 
 Item one vestment of crymsyn velvet with floures of goldc 
 
 with albe garnisshed for the crosse aultcr 
 
 Albes. Utem one albe w^^ armes of stole wof'kc garnisshed w^ii 
 
 pcrle 
 Item one albe of white sarcenet garnisshed w* blew silke w 
 
 egellf & lyons riche nedlewCke w' the hed of Roses and 
 
 floure de lyces of goldsmithes wo'"ke silver and gilt 
 Item one other riche albe of fine nedlewo'"ke garnisshed w''^ 
 
 pcrle. very riche the albe white satein 
 Item one other riche albe of lynen cloth garnisshed w^ 
 
 goldc enbroudcrye w'^ Roses of perle very riche 
 Item one albe of white Caffa silke garnisshed w'^ nedle wo^^kc 
 
 of venycc goldc the hedde w'^ broches of copper and 
 
 gilt 
 Item one albe of white silke Caffa w'^out a hedde the 
 
 garnisshing of blew silke w''^ Egellf and Lyons of 
 
 venycc goldc 
 Item one albe of white silke Caffa w'^^out hed garnisshed w'^i 
 
 red silke with griffcttf and Lyons of Venice goldc 
 Item one albe of white silke Cafta w^h garnisshing of redde 
 
 enbroudered w'^ venice goldc and silke w^'^out a hedde 
 Item one albe of Sarcenet garnisshed w'^^ red silke with 
 
 tygres and Egels of venyce gold w'^'out an hedde 
 Item one albe of Caffa w'^out hedde garnisshed w'h riche 
 
 nedlcwo''ke 
 Item one albe of white caffa w' byrdes garnisshed w' fine 
 
 ncdlcwo'ke 
 Item one albe of fync lyncn w' hed and garnisshing of fine 
 
 nedlcwo'kc 
 
 ' The copy has in the margin : "O.C. There lacketh x albs."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 189 
 
 Item xxxj riche albes of blew enbroudered 
 
 Item xxvj albes garnisshed w^h redde whereof some en- 
 broudered and some of nedlewo'"ke riche 
 
 Item xiij white albes enbroudered & vj meaner albes white 
 
 Item xiij more of meane nedlewo^ke 
 
 Item xvij albes garnisshed w'*i brouderie of grene velvet and 
 silke 
 
 Item XX albes quotidians in thinner and utter vestry 
 
 Stoles and Item iij stoles and ij phanons of Moretons riche 
 Phanons Item xiij Stoles and ix phanons of riche nedle wo^ke 
 
 Item ij stoles and iij phanons of white velvet w' burres of 
 golde 
 
 Item xxxij course stoles and liij phanons of div's sortes 
 
 Item one pectorall w^h a pellicane of perle 
 
 fifrontes and Item one riche fronte w'^'out a frenge for the hige 
 
 Pend^untf for aulter of crymsy n velvet all richely enbroudered 
 
 alts and ^^tii [the storye of Thomas Beketj^ in venych 
 
 golde 
 
 Item ij frontes for the side aulters of the same 
 
 Item one riche hersecloth of blacke and white golde 
 
 baudekyn w'h a frynge of redde and grene silke and 
 
 golde 
 Item ij pend^untf for the high aulter whereof one of grene 
 
 sattein w' Swannes and the other of blew satein w^^ 
 
 Images enbroudered 
 Item one pend-'^unt for the same highe aulter of enbroudery 
 
 w'h copper golde 
 Item one of redde velvet enbroudered riche [of Thomas 
 
 Bekett]"' 
 Item vj pend=^untC for the high and side aulters of blewe 
 
 satein w^'^ hartes of golde brouderye and iij frynges of 
 
 the same werke 
 Item ij riche pend=^untf of white velvet enbroudered for the 
 
 side aulters 
 Item ij pend^untf for the same aulters of golde baudekyn 
 Item ij pend^untf more for the same aulters of wliitc golde 
 
 baudekyn 
 Item ij pendauntf more for the same aulters of blew satein 
 
 with Images embroudercd of venyce golde 
 
 ' Struck through. 
 
 - Struck through, and " deficit " written in margin of both inventory and 
 copy. The latter has also " O.C"
 
 I90 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item ij pend^'^untf more for the said aultcrs of grene satein 
 
 with Swannes of venyce golde 
 Item viij corpase cases \v' corpases 
 Item vj redde baudekyn of golde stateclothes 
 Item vj clothes of grene of the same sorte 
 Item vj stateclothes of s}'lke baudekyn 
 
 Aulter clothes Item ij aulter clothes of Lynen w^h frynges the one 
 
 cloth of sylvcr the other tysshew 
 Item one Lynen aulter cloth w^^ fringe of red sylke broudere 
 Item one Lynen aulter cloth diapoi" w'^out frenge 
 'Item ix lynen aulter clothes for the high aulter w'^ fringes 
 
 of divs sorte 
 -Item xij lynen aulter clothes w''^ fringes broudered of divs 
 
 sortf for the side al?s 
 Item ij aulter clothes and one deske clothe wrought w^h 
 
 nedle upon lynen cloth 
 Item in the North He iiij aulter clothes and one coving 
 
 dof'nix w^i^ ij frynges of olde silke enbroudered 
 Item in the South He iiij lynen aulter clothes w' ij frenge 
 
 olde silke 
 Item iiij aulter clothes of red and blew satein briges \\^^ 
 
 floures of golde and frenge to the same 
 Item iiij fronte aulter clothes of Russett velvet w^h floures of 
 
 golde 
 Item one aulter cloth of Satein of Briges for benethe the 
 
 high aulter w'^ frenge of the same w^h sonnes en- 
 broudered 
 
 Cusshyons Item vj cosshions of redde silke [iiij of them]'' brou- 
 dered 
 Item iiij cosshions of white silke broudered 
 Item ij cosshions of olde golde Arres 
 
 Item vj white cosshions of verdure w^^ armes of Christchurch 
 Item one cosshyon of verdure of bocking 
 Item ij cosshions of Carpetwo'"ke 
 Item ij cosshions of golde leder 
 
 Item one cosshion of small verdure and vj of do'nix 
 Item iiij cosshions of olde baudekyn w'^ popyngayes 
 Item ij cosshions of verdure and iij of Carpetwo^ke 
 
 1 Both inventory and copy have in the margin : " my lord hath on," which 
 
 is followed in the original by " & vij (?) other " erased, and preceded 
 
 in the copy by " O." 
 
 ■ Both versions add in the margin : " whereof vj lackyth." The copy has 
 also " O." 
 
 ■' Written over in another hand.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 191 
 
 Carpettf Item ij carpettf of red verdures 
 
 for the Item ij carpettf of white verdures 
 church T, ••• ..^^ r 11 1 
 
 Item iij carpettf 01 blew verdures 
 
 Item iij tappettt;" for the high aulter of red tapestric 
 
 Item iij white tapcttf of tapestrie for the high aulter 
 
 Item one olde carpett of tapestrie used for the p'o''s seta 
 
 Item one carpet of turkej^woi^ke for before the high aulter 
 
 Canopies Item one Canopie of red golde baudekyn w^h red 
 
 and frencre 
 
 clothes Item one Canopie of white caffa w' a crossc red and a 
 frynge of red silke 
 Item one crosse cloth of grene sarcenet gilt 
 Item one crosse cloth white sarcenet [of Thomas Bekett]^ 
 Item xviij banarde clothes of sarcenet gilt 
 Item ij banarde clothes and one stremer of lynen 
 Item one Canopie of silke baudekyn & golde to hange o\' 
 the busshop 
 
 Curteyns Item vij peire of Curteins of silke of divs sortcs in the 
 
 grete vestuary 
 Item in the vautc ij peire of riche curteins of sarcenet 
 
 peinted whereof one peire white the other redde 
 Item in the Ouyre ij olde co'teyns of purple Sarsenet 
 
 Sendallf Item one peire hoses and showes of blew silke finely 
 
 wrought w' golde 
 Item hoses and showes of red velvet 
 Item hoses and showes of white damaske 
 Item hoses and showes of red caffa w'^ Lyons golde 
 Item one peire hoses and ij peire of showes of stolewcrke 
 
 w^h armes 
 
 Ornamentf [Item one hole hanging of Imagerie of the story of 
 n ^' ^Iphey for the hole quyre 
 
 ■ Item one olde hanging of vj pecf of ostriche fcthcrs 
 to laye on the grounde on palme sondaye 
 Item ij grete fote carpettf of Imagerie all broken of the 
 storye of hester]^ 
 
 ' Struck through. 
 
 2 Ail struck through and "for given by Mr Chauncello''" added in the 
 
 margin. The copy has : " ^; Q^eT^" }by M-- ChancelK."
 
 192 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item XX Lynen clothes to veyle Images^ 
 
 Item one grete Lynen cloth steyncd for the high aulter and 
 
 the Judas cloth painted for the Lent 
 Item the rode cloth for the Lent and one other to drawe 
 
 before the high aulter 
 [Item one grete hanging basein of copper and gylt]^ 
 Item ij candelstick(;' of Latein w^'^ iij branches 
 Item in the South He iij Latein candelstickf wi'^ iij branches 
 Item iiij grete candelstickf latein for the herse 
 Item one grete candelsticke of copper and gilte 
 Item one other lesser of copper and gilte 
 Item ij grete candlestick^ of latein 
 Item iij grete candlestickes of Iron w''^ bollf of Latein & 
 
 iiij small candlestick^ 
 Item ij yron deskes small 
 Item one large deske 
 Item one deske of latein grete and large 
 Item iij hanging baseins of Latein w' cheynes 
 Item vj stoles of yron 
 Item one faire new hanging of riche tapestrie cont' vj peces 
 
 of the Story of Christ and o"" Lady 
 Item one hole hanging for the said Ouere of olde Imagerie 
 
 of the passyon of Christe 
 Item the grete Rode coved w'^ Sylver 
 Item in the quyre ij peire of organs 
 Item one grete pascall maste 
 Item the nether frontf of the high and ij side aulters of 
 
 copper and gilte 
 Item viij pecf of silke hangingf enbroudered w^'^ Imagerie 
 
 for the quyre. 
 
 Warhams Item one Chalice gilte poz xv oz q'' di 
 
 Chapell Item one vestment w''^ albe garnisshed of white 
 damaske 
 "Item one other vestment with albe garnisshed of crymsyn 
 
 velvet w^i^ floures of golde with orpheras enbroudered 
 Item iiij aulter clothes of white damaske w^^^ floures of 
 
 Venice golde 
 Item ij aulter clothes of grene damaske with garters 
 
 ' This word added. 
 
 ■■^ Struck through and " stolen " added in margin of both versions, in the 
 copy with the prefix "O.C." 
 
 •' The original has in the margin : " it lackyth," but the copy : " O. 
 It lacketh. C. Lacketh one of them."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 193 
 
 Item one aulter cloth for beneth of blew satein of briges 
 
 with ffloures of vcnyce golde 
 Item one vestment with albe garnisshed of red baudekyn 
 
 with orpheras of golde broudered 
 Item ij' masse bokes"' [whereof one of relygious use thother]"^ 
 
 of Sar' use. 
 Item ij aulter clothes of plaine lynen ij diap'' and ij Towellf 
 Item iij peire Curteins whereof one peire chaungeable 
 
 Sarcenet one paire white Sarcenet one paire white cloth 
 Item one Cofer and one Image of busshop warreh^m and ij 
 
 tables of the hedde of Jhus in oyle colour 
 
 Owx Ladie *Item one vestment of white damaske complete w'^^ 
 Chapell floures of golde 
 
 ^Item one vestment of white silke mixte w^h golde 
 
 Item one vestment of golde baudekyn white w' orpheras of 
 
 blew and floure de Lyces 
 Item one vestment of white golde baudekyn w^ garters on 
 
 hit 
 Item one vestment of white satein of briges for ev'y daic 
 Item one corpas case of blew velvet myxte with golde 
 Item one hanging of white fustyan for evy daie . the frcnge 
 
 of white damaske enbroudered w'^ golde 
 Item ij aulter clothes one diapoi" the other plaine cloth 
 Item one hanging for the aulter of white damaske enbrou- 
 dered w'l^ Lyons of gold and a frenge of the same 
 Item one peire of white curteins of white silke 
 Item one peire curteins for the feryall dales lynen 
 Item one han<^incf for aboue ox" the aulter of olde white 
 
 baudekyn w"^ roses golde 
 Item ij peire organs and one large deske 
 Item one hanging lampe copper and guylte 
 Item ij pecc of tapestry with angelic for the quyre tlicrc 
 
 Arundellf Item one table of Ivorye 
 
 Chapell Item one vestment of grenc baudekyn w''^ branches of 
 holme leves w"^ orpheras of copper baudekyn and albe 
 ■'Item one vestment of white baudekyn w^'^ golde floures and 
 orpheras of copper baudekyn w^^^ albe 
 
 ' Altered to j. 
 
 ■^ The last letter has been crossed out. 
 
 ^ Struck through. 
 
 ^ In both inventory and copy these are bracketed at the end and " thes 
 lacke " written in. In the copy "O.C." is prefi.xed as well. 
 
 ■' The original and the copy have in the margin : " given by M' Selinger.' 
 In the copy " O." is prefixed, and " Vacat. for" wrongly added. 
 
 O
 
 194 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item one aulter cloth of diapo'' 
 
 Item one ffronte of olde grene baiidek}-n for the aulter 
 
 Item one masseboke parchement with elapses sylver 
 
 Item one vestment w^h albe of black damaske with orpheras 
 
 enbroudered olde 
 Item one vestment with albc all over broudered with venyce 
 
 golde with red orpheras 
 Item one vestment w' albe of white damaske w' red orpheras 
 
 enbroudered 
 Item ij frontes for the aulter of blacke damaske w^h one 
 
 fringe enbroudered 
 Item a Cor^as case^ 
 
 Buckinghams Item one Chalice po} 
 
 Chapell Item ij olde vestment(;' w'h albes whereof one of 
 
 grene copper baudekyn the other of blew co'"sc 
 baudekyn 
 
 T. Cantuarien 
 Rychard Ryche 
 p Cristoferu Hales 
 Antony Sentleger 
 Joannes ap Rice 
 Willm. Cavendyssh 
 
 W. H. St. J. H. 
 
 ' In the original all these items are bracketed together in the margin 
 and the note added : "Vacat for All this stuff is delivered to M' Selinger." 
 In the copy "O.C." is prefixed and the words "Vacat. for" wrongly placed 
 in the line above.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANIERBURY. 195 
 
 XIII. INVENTORIES TAKEN ABOUT THE 
 TIME OE THE METROPOLITICAL 
 VISITATION IN 1563. 
 
 After the taking of the inventory of 1540, the goods 
 
 of the church of Canterbury were hardly allowed a 
 
 moment to remain unmolested. The clause " until 
 
 the kinges highnes plesure be further declared and 
 
 knowen in that bihalf "^ was no mere lawyer's superfluity 
 
 of words, but it gave a real power to the king of taking 
 
 from the church of Canterbury whatever moved his 
 
 fancy. Accordingly, in the margin of the inventory of 
 
 1540, " one faire cheyer "■^ is marked as delivered to the 
 
 Treasurer of the Auafnientations for the use of the kinsf. 
 
 . . . ^ 
 
 Now in the Bodleian Library there is preserved a list of 
 
 some of the goods taken from suppressed monasteries, 
 
 and delivered to the king, about the year 1 540. Among 
 
 them are goods from Christchurch, Canterbury, and 
 
 there can be little doubt that the "one faire cheyer " just 
 
 mentioned is the same chair as that given over to the 
 
 king on the 27th day of x'\pril, 1540, the same month as 
 
 that in which the inventory of Christchurch was taken. 
 
 In the Bodleian manuscript it is described as follows : 
 
 a Chair of woode couered w' crymsen veluet. and the 
 pomells and handells therof garnished with siluer, parcell 
 of suche stuffe as came frome Canterberye." 
 
 Some other items marked in the inventory of 1540 as 
 lacking may be traced with more or less certainty 
 
 ' See above, p. i8i. 
 
 ^ See above, p. 183, note 4. 
 
 •■' A List of Diverse Pieces of Gold Plate lohich accrued to the Kiiia; 
 (Bodleian Library, Mus^eo 57, printed in Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicaniiiii^ 
 London, 18 17, vol. i. p. 67.) 
 
 O 2
 
 196 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 amongst these goods of suppressed religious houses 
 delivered to the king. The " ij myters sett w*'^ perles "^ 
 may be identified with " two Myters garnished with 
 siluer and gilte and sett with dyuerse counterfett stones 
 and perles." If the weight corresponded, the "ij candle- 
 stickes white w^'' yron in them cvi oz." might be 
 identified with " a peir of churche Candellsticks of siluer 
 parcell gilte. over and besids twoo bolts of yron in theym 
 weinge xlvi oz, poiz a hundred twentie and seven 
 unces," delivei-ed the 26th day of February, 1539-40. 
 The "chalice gilte," weighing 26 oz. from Christ- 
 church, Canterbury, delivered on the 27th day of April, 
 1540, may be one of the two chalices and patens 
 weighing 23 oz. and noted as lacking in the inventory.^ 
 Also " a sconnse with an handle of siluer," delivered the 
 same day, may be the "one sconce w^'' a sticke to here 
 the Candell on Candlemas day." 
 
 Besides these scattered items, there exists in the Public 
 Record Office the following inventory of other plunder 
 delivered to the Treasurer of the Augmentations : 
 
 Cristchirche of /Certain Juelles of golde garnysshed w^ perleand 
 
 Cdnnterbury. |^ precious stones and certen ornamentes delyvered 
 
 by Mr. [Treasorer stnick out] Northe Treasorer of thaugmenta- 
 
 cions vnto the kinges mat"^s ovven handes whiche cam from the 
 
 said Late monasterye that is to saye 
 
 Firstan J [o^stj'uck 024t] oraCrosseof golde" 
 Item a Bocle of golde w^ ij emaraudes 
 Item another broken pece of golde 
 Item one owche of golde w' iij Jacintes poz 
 
 Item a grete Bocle w* a rowe of perles ^ 
 Item an owche w' iiij emaraudes and | 
 
 other smale stones, and one other \ 
 
 owche \\^ iij poynted dyamondes [ 
 
 xij perles and iij gametes poz | 
 
 Item iij smalle taches J 
 
 Item ix Ringes of golde w' stones poz ij oz di 
 
 Item one faire combe of golde set w^ precious stones 
 
 viij oz di 
 
 ' See above, p. 181. 
 2 See above, p. 182. 
 
 > iii oz q=irt di qt't
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 107 
 
 [Item one staff of Thomas Becketes sett w' perle and stone 
 
 struck out] 
 Item X coopes of white golde bawdekyn w^ the armes of 
 
 More ton 
 Item one coope of golde bawdekyn w' red rooses 
 Item one riche aulter clothe of white velvet w' bothe endes 
 
 of red velvet richelye embrowdered 
 Item iiij beds of albes whereof iij of golde and one of Silver 
 Item the garnyture of a vestment of golde 
 
 Witnesse Nh Bristow [notarial mark]^ 
 
 Some of the items in this list can be identified with 
 items in the inventory of 1540. One is the "staff of 
 Thomas Becketes," which was delivered to the king on 
 April the 27th, 1540. This entry, however, has been 
 struck out. But the "one faire combe of ^olde set w* 
 
 o 
 
 precious stones," and weighing eight ounces and a half, 
 can without much hesitation be identified with the 
 " Combe of golde garnishede with small turquases and 
 other course stones, weingre with the stones eigrht unces 
 di." delivered to the king before the 26th of June, 
 1540." The ten copes of gold no doubt belong to the 
 set of fifty of Cardinal Morton's gift. The " one coope 
 of golde bawdekyn w* red rooses " is most likely that 
 described in the inventory as " one cope of red golde 
 baudekyn w'^ orpheras embroudered," against which is 
 written "Mr. North," the name of the Treasurer of 
 the Augmentations. 
 
 In the inventory of 1540 there are in the margin of 
 many items of plate and jewels the words : ' C Lack.' 
 which have been added after the making of the in- 
 ventory. The appearance of these notes may be 
 explained by the following orders from the Privy 
 Council : 
 
 1547. xxiii Octobris. 
 Whereas it was signified to the Lord Protectour's Grace and 
 Counsayle that the Vice Deane and Chaptre of Christ's Churchc 
 in Canturbury, after this last Visitacion, had taken downe and 
 
 ' Public Record Office, Exch. Q.R. Church Goods \^. (Kent.) Nicholas 
 Bristow witnesses a similar note of accounts from Westminster in the same 
 manuscript, and is there described as "his hyhncs Clerc." 
 
 ■ Dugdale, op. cit. i. 63.
 
 198 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 owt of the CliLirche there cciten juellcs of gold and sylver, 
 intending to have convertfed the same into mone}-, order was 
 given to Sir Anthony Aucher, knight, b)- his Graces letters, to 
 repayre thider to have understanding of the same. Wherupon 
 the same Sir Anthony went thider accordingly, and having 
 inquired and learned that they had taken owt of the Church a 
 pix of gold and a crucifix of sylver, the same crucifix being 
 already converted in to money and the pix remaining yet intier 
 and wholl, he brought to the Lordes Protectour's Grace and of 
 the rest of the Counsayle the sayd pix, being accompanyed of 
 M"" Ponett one of the sayd Chaptre ; which Ponet being by his 
 Grace and their Lordships examined the cause of their intent of 
 taking out of the Church the sayd pix and crucifix, made answer 
 to have made money of them to have bene employed uppon 
 reparacion of their hous. Whereupon order and charge was 
 given to him to receive the sayd pix again, being garnisshed with 
 perles and stones countrefaicted, and wayeng xxxvj oz. di., and 
 not only to kepe the same in their hous without altering it, 
 conve}-eng it awaye, selling or disposing it to any other use then 
 to remane there intier, safe, and holl,as it was then in forme and 
 being afore his Grace and their Lordships ; but also that they 
 shuld kepe the money being made of the sayd crucifix in as safe 
 maner as the sayd pix, not converting the same to any use, 
 
 which money amounteth to after the rate of oz., 
 
 every once being sold to for 
 
 In whiche thinges the sayd Ponet promised in the name of 
 the sayd Vice Dean and Chaptre to so observe and obey 
 accordingly.^ 
 
 1547. [1547-48] xvj January. 
 To the Deane and Prebendaries of Canterbury, to deliver 
 the silver table that stoode upon their High Aulter, by 
 indenture contayninge y^ weighte of the same, to Sir 
 Anthony Aucher.- 
 
 1547- [1547-48] xxix. January. 
 To Mr. Aucher, to receaveof the Chapter of Christe Church in 
 Canterbury all such juelles and plate of gould and silver as they 
 have by our late Soveraigne Lordes permission in their posses- 
 syon to their churches use, and forthwith to deliver the same by 
 bill endented to the offyceres of the Minte there, expressinge the 
 several! poyz and valewe of the same therin."' 
 
 ' Acts of the Privy Council of England^ New Series, vol. ii. (a.d. 1547- 
 50.) Edited by J. R. Dasent, London, Stationery Office, 1890, p. 139. 
 2 op. cit. p. 539. 
 ^ op. cit. p. 542.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, . CANTERBURY. 199 
 
 The interval between the inventory of 1540 and that 
 of 1563 was full of political and religious changes, but 
 we have little documentary evidence of these changes 
 in inventories of Christchurch, Canterbury.' It is not 
 until the time of the metropolitical visitation of Dr. 
 Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1563, 
 that lists are taken of the ornaments left in the church. 
 Of these there are five lists, all clearly proceeding from 
 one source, and all dealing with the ornaments found 
 in Christchurch, Canterbury, about the time of this 
 metropolitical visitation. These lists of goods hav^e 
 been marked respectively A, B, C, D, and E, for 
 convenience of reference. They all come from Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 These documents may be described as follows : 
 
 A is the document which has been printed at length 
 first of all. It would seem to be one of the first of the 
 rough copies of the inventory from which the others 
 have been directly or indirectly copied. It is of paper» 
 an indenture 5 feet long and 6^ inches broad ; formed 
 of four leaves, nearly equal in length, each about 
 15 inches long, and sewn together. It has no 
 heading. The inventory covers the recto and is con- 
 tinued on to the ve7^so, while the surface of the verso 
 unoccupied by the inventory is taken up with a rough 
 draft of certain answers to visitation articles, which 
 for present purposes have been neglected. 
 
 Those items which can with some amount of certainty 
 be traced in the inventory of 1540 we have marked by an 
 obelus prefixed to them. 
 
 B has been collated with A, of which it seems to be a 
 fair copy, and the variations are noted at the foot of the 
 page. It is a paper roll exactly 3 yards in length 
 and 6|- inches in breadth, made up of eight leaves, 
 
 ' The archbishop of Canterbury writes to Cecil on August I2th, 1567, 
 that not a tenth of the plate and ornaments was left which were there at 
 the time of Dr. Wotton's coming. {Correspondence of M. Parker, Parker 
 Soc. 1853. p. 303. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, 1 547-1 580. 
 London, 185G. p. 297.) Dr. Wotton, it will be remembered, was the first 
 dean after the suppression of the convent.
 
 200 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 each between 14 and 15 inches long, except the last, 
 which is only 5 inches long'. They are sewn together. 
 On the verso of the first leaf is written in a modern 
 hand: '' Vestments, etc. found in the ist year of Eliz''. 
 This is the fair copy of which the first part of the roll is 
 the draft." Across the end of this is written in an 
 eighteenth century hand : " An inventory of vestm*', 
 etc." 
 
 C is a fragment ; it is of paper and gives only the 
 beginning of the inventory, not more than the first 
 thirty items. It is 15 inches long and 6J broad. On 
 vei'-so is written in a modern hand : '' Inventory of plate, 
 etc. no date." C has been collated with A, and the 
 variants oiven in the footnotes. 
 
 D appears to be an official document. It is intro- 
 duced with a statement that it is an inventory of all 
 such ornaments as remain in the custody of the 
 Treasurer of Christchurch. D has been collated with 
 A, and the variants given at the foot of the page ; and it 
 has also been printed separately, as its interest and 
 importance seem to justify such special treatment. It is 
 a paper indenture, and is a long roll like B, composed 
 of five leaves sewn together, exactly 3 yards in length 
 and 7I inches in breadth. Each leaf is a little under 
 22 inches in lenp;th. The head and maroin of the 
 first leaf are much torn. On the verso is written in a 
 modern hand : " Part of an inventory of the church 
 vestments." In the margin and elsewhere another hand 
 has gone over D, and marked it with circlets, dots, and 
 numbers. These last would appear to correspond with 
 the numbers which the Treasurer of the day found 
 actually in his custody. These numbers often agree 
 with those oiven in a fraoment which has been marked 
 E, and the circlets and dots often mark items which 
 are to be found in the diminished inventory given 
 by E. 
 
 E is a fragment apparently of an inventory later 
 than D, It is one leaf only out of the middle of an 
 inventory, written on paper 1 4 inches long and 8 broad.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 201 
 
 It is much torn, and has been backed with modern paper. 
 Such of it as remains is here printed. 
 
 Passing on to compare the inventory of the metropo- 
 litical visitation with that taken in 1540, we find a 
 diminution of the goods of the church on almost every 
 point. The five chalices of 1563 represent eight in the 
 inventory of 1540^ ; and, of these five, only three 
 survive to the last of the visitation inventories, because 
 two had been made into a communion cup, with a cover 
 of silver. 
 
 It is quite possible that this change may have been 
 made in consequence of an answer made by one George 
 Gardyner, a prebendary of the church, to the articles of 
 this metropolitical visitation. It was inquired "whether 
 your divine service be used, and your sacraments 
 ministred, in maner and forme prescribed by the Quenes 
 Majesties Injunctions, and none other way," and 
 again " whether you have necessary ornaments and 
 books of your church."^ George Gardyner replies'^ to the 
 first in the affirmative, "saving that the communion, as he 
 saith, is ministred in a chalice, contrary, as he saith, to 
 the Advertisments of the Ouene."^ Later on he 
 suggests that " their chalice [be] turned into a decent 
 communion cupp." The "decent communion cupp"does 
 not appear in the first drafts of the inventory of the 
 
 ' See above, p. 182, and below, p. 232, where the three remaining chahces 
 seem to have been made into standing pots. 
 
 ^ John Strype, L7je and Acts of Mattlieiv Parker (Oxford, Clarendon 
 Press), 1 82 1, vol. iii. pp. 155 and 158. 
 
 ■' Strype, op. cjt. pp. 159 and 161. 
 
 ^ The Injunctions of Queen Elizabeth, published in her first year, do not 
 say anything about turning the chalice into a decent communion cup (H. 
 Gee and W. J. Hardy, Documents illustrative of Englisli Churi.Ii History, 
 London, 1896, p. 417). But the title of No. xxviii. ot Archbishoj) Parkers 
 Articles drawn out by certain., and ivct'C exhibited to be admitted by authojity, 
 but not so allowed, is " Chalices to be altered to Decent Cups." According to 
 Strype, these articles are of the year 1562 {Annals of the Refor?nation, 
 Oxford, 1824, vol. i. part i. p. 507, and part ii. p. 564). In 1564 amongst 
 variations of ceremonial it is noted : " Some with chalice ; some with a 
 Communion cup ; others with a common cup." (Strype, Life and Ads of 
 Matthew Parker., Oxford, 1821, vol. i. p. 302.)
 
 202 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 metropoHtical visitation, A and B, but it is added to the 
 later lists, C and D. 
 
 The " ij crewettes gilte, the one lacking a Cover, "^ in 
 1540 are probably represented by the '' ij cruettes of 
 sylver and gylte without covers " of 1563. The censers 
 of silver of A, interlined in this inventory, and not 
 appearing again, are most likely " the principall sensers 
 gilte with white cheynes " of 1 540.^ The nine girdles 
 remind us of the " ix corse grirdelles "^ that are noted as 
 lacking in the list of 1540. Both items were garnished 
 with silver, and are the same in number. 
 
 The next items cannot so well be identified. The 
 banner of " my Lord Cardinal's gift " (if that be Cardinal 
 Pole) would be new, and some of these other neigh- 
 bouring items may be new also. In 1540 twenty 
 pendants remained.* The pectoral set with pearl is 
 no doubt the "one pectorall with a pellicane of perl" 
 in 1540.^ The "one riche hersecloth of blacke and 
 white golde baudekyn " of 1 540 also remains.^ There 
 is an increase of the corporas cases from eight in 1540''' 
 to twelve in 1563, though there were only seven corporas 
 cloths in 1563. 
 
 The cushions in 1563 seem more in number than 
 in 1540, being forty-eight in the later date and thirty- 
 nine in the earlier. The Lenten cloths of 1540^ are 
 some of them reproduced in 1563; amongst them are 
 the veil, the stained cloth for the high altar, the cross 
 cloth, and cloths to draw over the high altar. They 
 were sold in 1570.'' 
 
 Of curtains in 1540 there seem to have been nine pairs, 
 while in 1563 there were eleven. The curtains in 1540 
 
 ' See above, p. 182. 
 - See above, p. 182. 
 ^ See above, p. 183. 
 * See p. 189. 
 '" See p. 189. 
 
 " See p. 189, also p. 122. It may have been Cardinal Morton's gift. 
 ' See p. 190. If we add the corporas case in the Arundel Chapel there 
 would be nine. 
 
 ** See p. 193, first lines. 
 " See below, p. 235.
 
 INVENTORIES 01 CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 203 
 
 are very shortly described, so that it is not easy to 
 identify all with those of 1563, of which the two first items 
 of " goodnestones gyfte " and " deringes " seem to corre- 
 spond with the gift of Prior Thomas Goldston and 
 Richard Dering.^ They are specially marked in D, as if 
 they had been taken care of. The marks "M. S. " on the 
 two pairs of curtains, red and white, are most likely the 
 initials of the donor. 
 
 The copes in the inventory of 1363 are all conveniently 
 classed under their colours, not, as in 1540, put together 
 without any arrangement. The inventory is thus easier 
 to follow. 
 
 Of the white copes, which in 1540 were close upon 
 one hundred, only fifteen remain ; and of the fifty 
 copes remaining in 1 540, reduced by ten immediately 
 after,- of Cardinal Morton's original gift of eighty,^ there 
 remain in the first rough draft of 1563 ten, which seem 
 to have fallen to four soon after the writing of the last 
 draft. The copes with Jesse,* archangels,^ "burres,"^ 
 and columbines," can all be recognised in the inventory 
 of 1540. 
 
 In 1540 there were over fifty green copes, while in 
 1563 only eight remain. Like the white, these can all 
 be traced in the inventory of 1540.^ 
 
 There was much the same number, fifty, of red copes 
 in 154c, and seventeen remain in 1563. These are not 
 so easy to identify with those described in 1540. The 
 last item, " with lyons and orpheras needlewourke," is 
 probably that of 1540, "with Lyons of golde," and the 
 last but one, "with starres and byrdes," that with "sterres 
 
 ' See above, pp. 173 and 174. 
 
 - See above, p. 197. 
 
 •■' See above, p. 122. Cardinal Morton seems to have been a giver of 
 white copes to churches. At Cranbrook, Kent, in 1509 there were "It. 
 ii whyte copys. an awbe ii tewnyklys. white brawderd with tiflowrys of my 
 lord Cardylnall Mortymer's gefte." {Ecclesiologist, 1868, vol. xxix. p. 149.) 
 
 ^ See above, p. 184. 
 
 ' See above, p. 185. 
 
 * See above, p. 184. 
 
 ' See above, p. 185. 
 
 ' See above, pp. 184, 185, 186.
 
 204 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH , CANTERBURY. 
 
 and Images embroudered."^ There is another with 
 vines and orphreys embroidered, most likely the same 
 as that of " vyne leves of trolde."- The first item, two 
 copes ot cloth of gold with pomegranates and roses and 
 pearl, may be the " i j copes of crymsyn golde baudekyn 
 very riche with orpheras embroudered."^ For the other 
 items amongst the red copes there do not seem 
 grounds for hazardino; an identification. 
 
 Of the blue copes, thirty-seven in number in 1540, 
 there survived no less than twenty in 1563. Of these, 
 five items can be identified with a good approach to 
 likelihood. 
 
 In 1540 there were at least forty " vestments," but in 
 1563 only eight chasubles survived. Each chasuble has 
 its match in a pair of tunicles in the following section. 
 The first item, the chasuble of cloth of gold, set with 
 pearl, has its match among the tunicles, which are said-to 
 be red cloth of gold, also with pomegranates and roses, 
 and so on throuo-h the rest. All the four or five lituro-ical 
 colours, white, red, green, blue, and black, are represented. 
 
 In the later inventory, to which we assign the symbol 
 D, we find four more chasubles, two of which, the chasuble 
 with hinds and that made of blue velvet with circles and 
 roses, can be made to match with the tunicles. As there 
 are only ten tunicles, the remaining two chasubles in D 
 must have been without tunicles. There is mention of 
 the green cope of copper gold that in A and B is being 
 made into a chasuble. 
 
 Six of these "vestments" of 1540 can be identified 
 with those of 1563. The first item of 1563 corresponds 
 with the second item of 1 540 ; the blue chasuble with 
 circles of gold and roses of D corresponds with the third 
 item of 1540, that with griffins to the fourth item. 
 The white velvet chasuble with burrs and the green 
 velvet chasuble with fleurs-de-lys are also to be found in 
 1540. 
 
 In 1540 there were fifty-two albs "quotidians" and 
 
 ' See above, p. 185. ^ gee above, p. 184. '■' See above, p. 183.
 
 INVENTORTES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 205 
 
 "mean"; in 1563 there were thirty-five albs without 
 apparels. Of the apparelled albs in 1540 there were 
 thirty-one rich albs of blue set down in this way without 
 further description ■} in 1563 there were eleven of blue, 
 with a description of each of the items. So with the red 
 apparels: in 1540 there are thirty-six albs " g-arnisshed 
 with redde," all set down under one head ; in 1563 there 
 are ten, severally enumerated. In 1540 there were 
 seventeen albs with green velvet and silk, in 1563 only 
 three apparelled with green. The white apparels are 
 treated at length in both years. Only seven white 
 remained in 1563. For the choristers there remained 
 nine albs " apparellyd perfectlye." 
 
 After the albs in 1563 comes a sort of general inven- 
 tory of those items that had been omitted under their 
 proper heads, or could not be conveniently classed else- 
 where. There are two pyx cloths and one pyx, a 
 number of candlesticks, two pairs of laten censers and 
 two ships, a holy water stock, pewter pots for the holy 
 oils, and cloths of silk for these pots or amples. The 
 colours for these cloths correspond with those given in a 
 Rouen mass-book written in the thirteenth century.^ 
 
 In D there is, at this part, mention of "foure stoles of 
 leron for the rectors of y^ quier," which were six in 1540.^ 
 For these there are corresponding sets of cushions, 
 of red silk, of white, of blue arras, and gold leather.^ 
 
 Of these different inventories it has been said that A 
 appears to be the first rough list of everything contained 
 in the church, while D is an official list from which 
 certain ornaments contained in A have been excluded. 
 Can we discover in the ornaments omitted in D any 
 governing principle which determined their exclusion .■' 
 Was it simply that the ornaments in question had disap- 
 peared from the church, or was it that they were there, 
 but deliberately rejected ? Of deliberate rejection we 
 
 ' See above, p. 189. 
 
 - " In sacrario ties ampijlht" oleo plena preparentur. una albo. altera 
 rubeo. tercia uiridi pallio operiantur '"' (British Aluseum MS. 10,048. fo. 43^). 
 ^ See above, p. 192. 
 ' See below, pp. 212 & 223.
 
 2o6 INVENTORIES OP CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 have a very remarkable instance in the ornaments given 
 by Cardinal Pole which are set out only in D in a section 
 by themselves, and the metal ornaments are nearly all 
 marked " defased."' They are of the same kind as other 
 ornaments which are retained. The candlesticks, the 
 crosses, the censer, the mitre, the crosier, the holy water- 
 pot, the chrismatory, marked as defaced, may all find 
 their fellows in other parts of D, but these.are apparently 
 left whole and fit for use ; such are a " crose the staff 
 thereof wrethed with sylver,"^ the candlesticks " coper 
 and gilte," with the " sensers of latten," the " amples for 
 oyle," the " holly water stopp of latten," and the mitre 
 of the gift of " my Lord of Dover. "^ The reason for thus 
 defacinof does not lie on the surface. 
 
 It may perhaps be thought that a paragraph of an 
 Act of Parliament of 1559 may throw light upon this 
 rejection. It runs as follows : 
 
 Provided alwaies, and bee it enacted, That suche Orna- 
 mentes of the Churche and of the Ministers thereof shall 
 bee reteyned and bee in use as was in the Churche of 
 Englande by aucthorite of Parliament in the seconde yere 
 of the Reigne of King Edwarde the Syxthe, untill other 
 order shalbe therin taken by thaucthorite of the Quenes 
 Matie withe the advise of her Commissioners appointed and 
 aucthorised under the Create Scale of Englande for Eccle- 
 siastical Causes, or of the Metropolytan of this Realme.^ 
 
 It may be suggested that as these ornaments given by 
 Cardinal Pole must be after the second year of King 
 Edward VI. they are therefore rendered illegal. But 
 the wording of the Act is "such ornaments," that is, 
 ornaments of the same kind as those in the second year 
 of King Edward, and thus the ornaments given by 
 Cardinal Pole would not be excluded. Besides, the 
 pontifical rings and the silken ornaments, such as gloves, 
 copes, vestments, and tunicles, given by the same 
 Cardinal, remain. 
 
 > See below, p. 230. - See below, p. 222. 
 
 ^ See below, p. 229. 
 
 " The Statictes of the Realm, 1 819, vol. iv. p. 358. (i" Eliz. c. 2. i^ xiii. 
 
 1558-59.)
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISJCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 207 
 
 Nor does it seem that the ornaments left out in D 
 were those which, having been in use in the second year 
 of Edward VI. yet were not in use according to the 
 service book of EHzabeth, Such may be said indeed of 
 "the vanes and reedes for palme sundaye,"^ which are 
 omitted in D, if such were connected with the blessino- of 
 palms on Palm Sunday and the procession therewith ; 
 for such seryice had disappeared from the book of 
 Elizabeth, and the using- of palms had been also one 
 of the first things to be forbidden by Somerset in his 
 onslaught on ceremonies in the reign of Edward VI. viz. 
 on January 28, 1548.^ Nor would other ornaments 
 omitted, "a towell of white lynnen clothe to carry the 
 pascall " nor " a Heade for the herse of copper and gilte 
 to carry the iij lyghtes to the her vppon ester euyn "^ 
 be needed for the service in the new book. There is 
 no blessing of the paschal candle even in the first book 
 of Edward VI. but " iij beralle stones,"* used no doubt 
 for lighting the new fire on Easter Even, are left 
 in D. 
 
 It seems strange to leave the beryl stones, which could 
 be put to no use, and reject the white linen, which could 
 be put to many other uses, in the church. In the same 
 way there is omitted ''one pyxe clothe of lynnen clothe 
 wroughte lyke a kail w' a border of golde and knoppes 
 guylted,"'^ which might have been turned into a fair linen 
 cloth if not made of network, as was sometimes the 
 case ; yet it is rejected, with "a pyxe for the sacrament 
 copper and guilte,"*" which might have been used as a 
 paten or vessel in which to distribute the consecrated 
 bread to the communicants ; yet "a monstrant of latten 
 to carry the sacrement in vppon Festyvall Dayes "'^ is 
 retained. Nor is it easy to see why "the holly water 
 stopp of latten " has been retained in D.^ 
 
 More easy to explain is the retention of " iii pewter 
 
 ' See below, p. 213. 
 
 ^ Peter Heylin, Ecclesia Restaiirata, London, 1661, p. 55. 
 
 ^ See below, p. 220. ^ See below, pp. 211 & 223. 
 
 * See below, p. 219. " See below, p. 219. 
 
 ■ See below, p. 229. * See below, p. 229.
 
 2o8 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCFIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 pottes otherwise amples for oyle "^ and a " pynne of syluer 
 to mynister balme vppon maundey thursday,"- because in 
 the first book of Edward VI. two kinds of oil, that for the 
 sick, and the cream, were retained, and thus the "amples" 
 to hold the oils, and the pin for mixing the balm with 
 olive oil to make cream, might be considered as ordered 
 by the Act of Parliament to be retained. Holy oil or 
 cream is still used in the consecration of the English 
 sovereigns.^ 
 
 Also retained were " ij payre of sensors of latten and j 
 ship of latten."^ Censers and ships may well have been 
 retained for the purification of the air within a great 
 church, and there is abundance of evidence to show that 
 as incense was intended in the first place to sweeten the 
 air of a building, so it was retained in the sixteenth and 
 seventeenth centuries for this same end.' 
 
 Most surprising, perhaps, of all is the survival of a 
 
 • See below, pp. 220 & 229. 
 
 - See below, pp. 211 & 223. 
 
 ^ Christopher Wordsworth, The Manner of the Coronation of King 
 Charles I. Henry Bradshaw Society, 1892, pp. i & xxi. n. 
 
 < See below, pp. 219 & 229. 
 
 5 For instances of post- Reformation use of incense, see Hicrurgia 
 Ans^licana (London, Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society, 1848. 
 p. 180), and it would not be a hard matter to enlarge the list. The 
 Treasurer's accounts at Canterbury (for 1675-6. p. 67. under Officium 
 Sacristae) have an entry : For incense at Christmas. Dom Claude de 
 Vert {Explication . . . des Ceremonies de TEglise, Paris, 17 13. t. iii. p. 72. 
 t. iv. p. 49.) brings forward a number of authorities to show that incense is 
 mainly intended to purify and perfume the places in which it is used. The 
 dirt and filth of oriental countries and of the middle ages must not be 
 forgotten. He quotes St. Thomas, {Sununa, pars iii. quaest. 83. Artie, v. 
 ad §2.) Cardinal Bellarmine, (Z>t' Sacramento Eiicliaristiae, lib. vi. cap. 15.) 
 and Gavanti {Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituiem, pars ii. lib. iv. //. 4. Aug. 
 Vindel. 1763. t. i. p. 184.) and he supports his opinion by pointing out that 
 at Lyons and Vienne, where the ceremonies are very ancient, it is not the 
 Blessed Sacrament that is censed when it is carried abroad, but the road 
 along which it is taken. So in the procession from Westminster Hall to 
 the Abbey Church at the coronation of the King of England, the herb- 
 woman, scattering sweet herbs and flowers, walked at the head of the 
 procession, while the groom of the vestry, burning incense, came later on 
 with the choir in surplices and copes, and continued to purify the way until 
 the choir doors were reached. (F. Sandford, History of the Coronation of . . . 
 James II. In the Savoy, 1687. pp. 70 & 80.) Abbe Duchesne tells us that 
 at Rome the portable censer was used only for processions up to the ninth 
 century. The road which the procession was to follow was in this way 
 made sweet, (L. Duchesne, Origines du Ciilte chtrtien., Paris, 1889. p. 155. 
 ;/. I.) a precaution not unnecessary even in the streets of modern Rome.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH CANTERBURY. 209 
 
 " deske clothe with letters of nedleworke and Thomas 
 beckettes armes in it."' 
 
 The following reply of the chapter of Canterbury 
 may throw some light upon the way in which the orna- 
 ments of the church were used about the time of the 
 taking of the inventory. 
 
 Christe Church f The Certificat of the Vice Deane of the 
 Cant. ( Cathedral! and MetropoHticall churche of 
 
 Christe in Canterburyc, and the prebendaries of the same 
 churche here present, aftre due consultacion had apon the Copye 
 of a lettre directed from the moost Reuerend father in g-od 
 Matthue Lorde Archebisshopp of Canter' vnto yo" his graces 
 Commissarye conteyning the Quenes hieghnes pleasr? and com- 
 maundement for special! regard to be had to the Clergie within 
 his Province for their conformitie in doctrine, and vniformitie 
 in rites and ceremonyes of the churche, and for their private 
 maners, vsages, and iDehavioures according to the teno'' of the 
 said Lettres doo make o"" certificat for the state of our Churche 
 touching the premisses in maner and fourme following 
 
 ffirst wee doo certifie, that there is no doctrine taught or 
 defended by vs, or any of vs, nor by any preacher of our 
 churche, to our knouleadge, other than that whiche is 
 approved by the worde of God. and set furthe w'^in this 
 Realme by publique autority. 
 
 The Comunion prayer daily through the yeare though 
 there be no Comunion, is songe at the comunion table 
 standing northe and southe, wheare the high aulter did 
 stande. The Mynyster when there is no comunion vseth a 
 surples onlye, standing on the est side of the table w* his 
 face towardes the people./ 
 
 The holie Comunyon is mynistred ordinarylie y^ fyrste 
 Sondaie of euerie moneth, thorough the yeare, at what 
 tyme the Table is sett Easte and weaste. The preiste 
 which mynistrcth. the pystoler and the Gospyler at that 
 time weare Coapes, and non are suffred then to tarrie 
 wi'^in that Chauncell but the Communycantes. 
 
 ffor the mynistringe of the Communyon we vse (Breade)^ 
 appoynted by the Queues highnes Iniunctions/ 
 
 The Euenynge Praicr in winter is Betwenc Three and 
 fifoure, in Sommer betwene fouer and ffyue of the clocke in 
 thafternoone/. 
 
 ' See below, pp. 220 & 229. 
 
 ^ It is written thus within brackets in the original.
 
 2IO INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 At which Praiers ; Mi" Deane (when he is here) and 
 euery of the Prebendaries are presente euery daie once 
 at the Leaste Appcrryled in the Quyer And when they 
 Preache with Surples and Silke Hoodes./ 
 
 The Preachers beinge at home come to the Common 
 Praier on Sondaies and hoHe daies wearinge Surplyses & 
 Hoodes. 
 
 The Petycannons, the Laye Clerkes and Oueristories 
 weare Surplyses in the Ouier dayHe/. 
 
 The Scholemaister for Grammer, the vssher and the 
 quenes highnes schollers comme to the Oueire on Sondaies 
 and holhedaies in SurpHses. 
 
 ThirdHe we Certefie, that towchinge the manners vsages 
 and Behauiours, for our selues for y^ Preachers, and other 
 Inferiour mynisters with in our Churche we knowe non that 
 lyucth vnorderhe, or to vse him selfe otherwise then is by 
 order prescribed and permitted , By the quenes highnes 
 Iniunctions/. 
 
 Thomas willowghbye 
 
 Willmus Darrell 
 
 Johannes Buttler. 
 
 Thomas Beacon 
 
 Theodor Newton 
 
 Henry Goodricke 
 
 Andrew Peerson^ 
 
 The following is the text of A : 
 
 ^jf prste v^ Chalices w^ their patentes ^whereof one principall 
 and the other smaller of Sylver and gylt.'* 
 ^* litem ij cruettes of sylver and gylte w^out covers.*' 
 
 ' Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS. 122. p. 323. The transcript 
 has been made by Mr. Alfred Rogers. 
 
 - Imprimis one communyon cupp with a couer of Syluer an guyltd made 
 of twoo chalyces : prefixed by C to inveiitory, but D begins with it., as part of 
 the text. 
 
 3 Altered to iv in A. and to iij in C. In A // has been struck through 
 again apparently by same hand. //? D : iij. 
 
 ' « — « struck through ift A. and one communyon cupp with a couer and 
 guylt : adds C interlined. 
 
 ' These letters are found in margin of \ only, added in atiother hand. 
 
 t The items marked with an obelus may be found in the inventory of 
 1540. 
 
 « Item ij Sencers of Sylver : adds A interlined in other hand.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 211 
 
 t^tem Ix girdells w^ buckells and pendcntes of sylver and 
 
 gylte.i_ 
 Item a white crosse clothe oldc another grene olde. 
 Item iiij^ banner clothes'^ whereof ij blewe and ij grene. 
 "•Item ij banner clothes of lynnen steyned. 
 Item Saint Thomas banner of my lorde cardinalls gyfte.* 
 Item a streamer. 
 
 Item xiij banner'' clothes of sarcenet steyned. 
 Item xiiij pendauntes for the Sepulture. 
 Item a croyse the staffe thereof wrethed w' sylver and gylte 
 
 and the hedde sylver and gylte. 
 Item an other croyse coveryd w' white for good frydaye. 
 Item a pynne'^ of Sylver "to minister balme vppon 
 
 maundie thursdaye. 
 Item a red boxe w^ a glasse of balme. 
 Item a pectorall of Ivorie. 
 fltem an other^ pectorall sette wythe perle. 
 Item iij berall stones.' 
 Item a Canapie of red ^clothe of golde. 
 Item an other canapie of white sylke w^ a red crosse. 
 Item iiij canapie staues paynted. 
 titem a herse clothe of black clothe of goldc ^"fringed wythe 
 
 Venyce golde and sylke.^'^ 
 Item xij" .clothes ^^of golde of the best sorte syxe red and vj 
 
 grene'^ 
 Item vj clothes of gold"' of the meane sorte. 
 Item xij'^ corporass in cases ^•'whereof vij"^ have clothes.'-^ 
 
 t The items marked with an obelus may be found in the inventorv of 
 1 540. 
 
 ' — ' struck through in A. 1 1 tern ij lytle basens of Sylver to washe at the 
 aulter : adds in other hand A interlined^ last five ivords struck out. 
 
 - Altered to vjj in A />/ otJicr hand. 
 
 ^ and ij wh[ereof] lynnen cloth steynyd : adds in other hand .\ interlined. 
 
 * — ■* struck through in A. 
 
 * et : written over in B. 
 
 * to : adds D. 
 
 ' — ■ struck out in A. 
 
 " one other : D. 
 
 " the : adds D struck through. 
 
 io_io struck out in A. 
 
 " //z A. xii is altered into \iij. t>y other Juind. 
 
 '- — '- struck out in A : and there is written 07'er in other hand : for the 
 fronte of the aulter of bawdekyn iiij redde iiij grene. 
 
 '^ In A. struck out : above it is luritten in other hand : bawdekyn. 
 
 '^ In A struck out : above it %uritten in other hand first vij, then vj. In 
 C struck out : above is written x. In D. x. 
 
 15 — IS struck out in A. 
 
 " In C : V written abo7'e. In D. v. In C at end of line is written : there 
 lackyng ij cases and ij clothes. 
 
 P 2
 
 212 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item V tcxte cusshions.^ 
 
 'Item ij other Icsse cusshions. 
 
 Item one greate pryncipeill- cusshion of red Damaske and 
 
 satten. 
 ''Item an other pryncipall cusshion of red satten and raye 
 
 sylke.'^ 
 Item an other pryncipall cusshion of blewe worsted. 
 Item iiij Rector cusshions of redde sylke embrothered. 
 Item iiij white Rector^ cusshions embrodered with 
 
 deringes. 
 Item iiij Rector cusshyons of blewe aras/' 
 Item vij Cusshions of white aras of bockinge. 
 Item iiij Rector cusshyons of golden lether 
 Item iiij other" cusshions of lynen whyte. 
 Item a bygger cusshion of the same sorte 
 Item a cusshion of tapsterye worcke. 
 fltem a cusshion of grene Dornex. 
 fltem vj cusshions of Dornexe. 
 f^Item ^ij carpet" cusshions of m & S.*^ 
 Item'" lente ^'clothes of lynen^' stayned for the '-'highe 
 
 aulter Saint Dunstans ^•* Alphege aulters.'- 
 ^*Item the vayle.^^ 
 Item the crosse clothe. 
 Item a canapie for the founte. 
 fltem viij^^smalle tapettes^^ for the Rectors whereof ij red ij 
 
 white ij grene ij blewe. 
 
 ' — ' struck out in A, and at end of line tvritten in other Jiand : xxxvij 
 cusshions of all sortes. 
 
 2 — -i. This and the foUoiuing 1 5 itons struck out in A by two diagonal 
 lities crossing each other. 
 
 * — ^ o)nit D. but it appears belo2v as 12"' item from this place. 
 
 ■* rector : om. B. 
 
 ' Here C ends. 
 
 " Written in A by same hand abox'e line. 
 
 f The items marked with an obelus may be found in the inventory of 
 1 540. 
 
 ' To this item D adds : Item J other greate prmcipall cusshen of red satten 
 & ray silke : omitted abo7'e. 
 
 * — « struck out in A. and diagonal lines end at thi'i entry, 
 
 3 om. B. 
 
 '" vj : added above line in A. and E. in other ha/ui^ itt text in D, 
 
 " — " colothes of lynned : D, sic. 
 
 12 — 12 struck out in A. Aulters : written above line in other hand. In D : 
 late is inserted before highe Aulter. 
 
 '^ and : add D. 
 
 u — H struck through : B. Omit D. 
 
 " struck out in A ; frst \] then viij written above in other hand. In B ajtd 
 D : viii. 
 
 '« Inserted in different hand in A. B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 213 
 
 Item iiij aulter clothes^ of Diaper for the - highe aulter. 
 Item ^ij clothes to Dravve ouer the highe aulter one for lente 
 
 the other owte of lente.^ 
 Item a Chisible of red satten ''orpheras w^ golde.* 
 Item iij aulter clothes of white lynen embrodered \v^ 
 
 white thredde. 
 Item ij albs w^ apparells of lynnen. 
 Item a tynicle of fustian. 
 Item iij stooles iij fanells and a white girdell. 
 •'Item vanes and reedcs for palme sundaye xxviij of the 
 
 best sorte and xxxix of the lesse sorte.^ 
 Item vj gilte lether crownes.^ 
 
 23. Curteynes.' 
 
 Ffirste a pay re of **red sarcenet of ^ divers stories of maister 
 
 goodnestones gyfte. 
 Item a paire of white sarcenet of Diuers stories w* Derynges. 
 Item a paire of blewe sarcenet wythe Archaungells. 
 Item a paire of grene Diaper silk withe swannes. 
 Item a paire of red sarcenet with crownes and m S. 
 Item a paire of blewe and redde sarcenet w^ the kynges 
 
 armes. 
 Item a paire of red sarcenet stayned. 
 Item a paire of blacke sarcenet rayed. 
 
 ' where of iij of diaper : lurittcn above line in B. The words are in text 
 of\:). 
 
 - late : added oi'cr line in D. 
 
 ^ — ^ one cloth to drawe over the late highe alter for lent : D. 
 
 ■* — ^ struck out in A. 
 
 ^ — * struck out in A. After tJiis item Y) has : 
 
 Item twoo syluer Bassons lately belonging to Canterburye Colledg [and 
 struck out and in interlined^ Oxford in M' Ueanes custodye 
 Then in different hand in much torn margin a?ui below text D has : 
 
 toLielles . . . ayed made for the conssecrac' of 
 the Busshopps .... one aulter cloth of lawne and another lyke a 
 nett. 
 
 iiij tovvelles for thaulter 
 iiij shorte alter cloths 
 
 a lecture of laten with the picture of an eagle 
 
 iij hangynges for the quire one arras the other of oldc arras and sylke 
 iiij pendants of arras wrought with gold and ij frontes of the same lor . 
 a myter and a pontyficall of coper 
 a Canapye of Sylke frynged 
 • This item omitted by U. 
 
 " In A the items of Cicr tains struck out by tioo diaj^onal cross lines and 
 before the first item is inserted in other hand : 33. ltem\iij Curtens of Dy\ers 
 ffasshyons. 
 * — ' om. B.
 
 214 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item a paire of olde blcwc sarcenet \v' archaungells. 
 Item an olde^ paire of white- sarcenet steyned w^ m S. 
 Item a paire of blewe sarcenet w^ hartcs of golde standinge 
 
 in a ffoorde. 
 Item twoe courteynes of white sarcenet.'' 
 
 C White copes.* 
 
 fltem of my lorde ^nortons suyte x^ copes. 
 
 fltem a white cope called the Jesse w^ orpheras embrodred. 
 Item a cope of white velvet w^ Archaungells and orpheras 
 
 embrodered. 
 fltem ij copes of white velvet vv' burres and orpheras 
 
 embrodred. 
 titem a cope of white Damaskew' columbines and orpheras 
 
 embrodred.** 
 
 ^. Grene copes.' 
 
 fltem'* a cope of copper gold w' orpheras embrodred "made 
 
 into a vestement by.'-* 
 fltem vj copes of grene sylke w' roo buckes and orpheras 
 
 embrodred with Archaungells. 
 fltem a cope of flowre de luyces & orpheras of nedle- 
 
 worke.^'^ 
 
 OB. Redde Copes.^^ 
 
 Item^- ij copes of clothe of golde w^ pome garnettes and 
 roses with orpheras embrodred w' perle. 
 
 ' struck Old itt D. 
 
 - olde [blewe struck out^ s white : D. 
 
 ^ These last tiuo items are omitted by D and in margin there is : iiij of 
 Sylke of dyvers colours. 
 
 ^ hi A on each side <7/"White copes interlined in other hand : C. in m' parke- 
 herst are added Item xx [xxj struck out] (White copes) of Sylke and veluet ; 
 and the items beloiu are struck out by crossed diagonal lines. 
 
 t The items marked with an obelus may be found in the inventory of 
 1540. 
 
 '- — ^ Mortons suyte tenne : D. 
 
 « M to ent' M' Parkhurst copes : adds D /;/ anotJicr hand. 
 
 ' In A on eacJi side ^Grene copes tliere is interlined in otJier hand .■ JB . I tem 
 xj [altered to x] (Grene copes) of [grene : struck out] Sylke ; and the items 
 below are struck out. 
 
 " a vestment : adds B in margin in other hand. 
 
 '•'— • alteryd into a vestment : interlined ifi B. D. omits item 
 
 "* /;/ margin D : iij copes of grene sylke ; above in line ivith ty copes there 
 is writte?i 3 /;/ ;;/. 
 
 " In Aon each side <^y^Redde Copes tJiere is interlined in other Jiand: iQ. Item 
 xvj (Redde Copes) of clothe of [golde : struck out] tyssewe sylke and velvet : 
 and the items below are struck out. 
 
 '- /;/ margin D : the archebusshoppes grace hath one of theym.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 215 
 
 Item a cope of raye golde with orpheras embrodred. 
 
 Item ij copes of tisshewe.^ 
 
 Item a cope called the Duke of orleaunes goune \v' 
 orpheras embrodred sette wythe pearl e. 
 
 Item a cope^ w^ bawdkyn w' hindes and orpheras em- 
 brodred.'' 
 
 Item ij copes of veluet with vynes and orpheras nedle- 
 wourke. 
 
 Item ij copes * one crymsyn and the other purple veluet 
 with orpheras embrodryd. 
 
 Item a cope of Jesse wnth orpheras embrodryd. 
 
 titem a cope of satten with Images and braunches withe 
 vine trees and orpheras embrodred withe nedlewourke. 
 
 Item ij copes of satten w^ Images in tabernacles and 
 orpheras nedlewourke.' 
 
 fltem a cope of red veluet with starres and byrdes and 
 orpheras embrodred. 
 
 litem a cope of satten w"^ lyons and orpheras nedle- 
 wourke.^ 
 
 ^. Blewe Copes.' 
 
 Item a cope of clothe of tisshewe w' orpheras embrodred. 
 fltem ij copes w' orpheras of white veluete embrothered 
 
 withe archaungells.^ 
 Item one cope w' orpheras of baudeken. 
 Item a cope of the same clothe w' orpheras of redde satten 
 
 w* garters. 
 Item a cope w^ horses and trees embrodrede. 
 Item'-' a cope of blewe veluete w^ circles of golde and red 
 
 roses wythe orpheras embrodred.^" 
 
 ' In margin D : the archebusshoppes grace hath theym bothe. 
 
 - a vestment : in margin of B. alteryd and transposyd into a vestment : 
 adds B. 
 
 •' This item omitted in D. See note 5 on p. 216. 
 
 ^ the : adds D. 
 
 t The items marked with an obehis may be found in the in\'entory of 
 1 540. 
 
 • TJds item is omitted /lere in D but it appeal's at end of section as last 
 item. 
 
 ''' Here D inserts item omitted. 
 
 ' In A on each side of Blewe Copes there is interlined in other hand: Jf. Item 
 xix (Blewe Copes) of velvet and sylke, a?id the items behnu are struck out. 
 
 ** Item a cope of clothe of tyssewe w' orpheras embrodred. 
 
 Item ij copes w' orpheras of white \eluet embrodred w' archaungells : 
 repeats B, and it is struck out. 
 
 " a vestment : added in nuiroln of B in differe7it hand. 
 
 '» transposyd into a vestment : B adds in different hand. U omits the 
 ufiole item. See note 5 on p. 216.
 
 2i6 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 titem ii copes \m'^ fesauntes and the orpberas embrodred. 
 
 fltem a cope of veluet embrodred vv' gryffyns and the^ 
 orpberas neldeworke. 
 
 Item a cope w'^ the Image of o' ladye and flowers em- 
 brodred. 
 
 Item ij copes of satten w^ scutchens of saint george and 
 the orpheras white veluet withe archaungells em- 
 brodred. 
 
 Item ij copes of damaske withe Images embrodred and 
 orpheras embrodred. 
 
 Item ij copes of veluet withe flouredeluyces embrodred 
 and orpheras embrodred. 
 
 Item ij copes of veluet withe floures embrodred and the 
 orpharas embrodred called bredgars. 
 
 Item one of blew veluet w' orpharas of Images embrodred 
 w^ golde.^ 
 
 CEr. Chesibles.^ 
 
 fFirste a chesible of clothe of golde w' pomegarnetes and roses 
 and the orpheras embrodred ■* sette w' pearle.''' ^ 
 litem one of grene velvet w' flourdeluyces=^ and orpheras 
 
 enibrodryd. 
 Item one of blewe Damaske of goldestones gefte with.'' 
 fltem one of white veluet called the burrs.^ 
 fltem one of blewe veluet embrothred with gryffons.^ 
 fltem one of blacke veluet w' flouere de luyces.^ 
 Item ij Chesibles of blewe satten w' a red orpheras^ and^ 
 waiter'' flowres.'^ ^ 
 
 + The items marked with an obelus may be found in the inventory of 
 1540. 
 
 ' om. D. 
 
 - This item struck out in D. 
 
 •' In A ojt each side of Chesibles the7-e is interlined in other hand : (§, Item 
 viij (Chesibles) of Sylke veluet and satten, and the items below are struck 
 out. 
 
 * and : adds D. 
 
 = Item a chisible of coper oroide with orpheras embrodred 
 Item a chisible of bawdekyn with hindes and orpheras embrodered : 
 adds D. uiJiich arc the items omitted under the headings of copes altered into 
 vestmetits. 
 
 ^ In A these words have been rendered nearly illegible by colouring matttf 
 spilt oveY them. 
 
 " so in A. B. but D omits : with. 
 
 ' water : D. 
 
 ' Item a chisible of blewe velvet with cyrcles of golde and red roses : adds 
 D. and in margin in other hand is written : one chesyble of Redde sattyn.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 217 
 
 T^. Tunycles.^ 
 
 Firste- a paire of blevve veluet w^ gryffons. 
 
 Item a paire of red clothe'^ of golde w^ pomegarnetts and 
 
 Roses and the orpheras embrodred. 
 Item a paire of blewe damaske of goldstones^ gyfte-i with 
 
 orpheras of tyssew. 
 Item a pair of red velvvet w^ vynes. 
 Item a paire of white veluet w^ burres. 
 Item a paire of blacke veluet w' flouredeluyces. 
 Item a paire of red bawdekyn w' hindes and runnynge 
 
 orpheras. 
 Item a paire of grene veluet w"^ flouredeluces. 
 Item a paire of grene called the birdes. 
 Item a paire of blewe veluet w^ circles and roses. 
 
 Albes." 
 
 ti 
 
 Item 'xxxv'^ albes without apparells.' 
 
 ''Albes and Amises of blewe apparellyd." 
 
 Imprimis one of damaske with pcllycanes of golde em- 
 
 brodryd. 
 Item another of damaske Embrodred with Roses of golde. 
 
 Item ij of blewe veluett Embrodred with Rowndells "or 
 
 circles of^^ golde. 
 Item ij of courser blewe veluet wythe floucrs of golde sette 
 
 owte lyke the sonne beames. 
 Item ij of Satten Embrodryd w^ tonns'" of golde ^^ and water 
 
 flowers callyd coptons, 
 
 ' In A. oil each side ^/Tunycles there is interlined in other hand : '^, Item 
 xij (Tunycles) to the same of lykeand velvet, and the items below are struck 
 out. 
 
 - first : adds D. again. 
 
 ^ In h. the paper on which this word should be written is destroyed. 
 
 "^ In A these wof'ds have been rendered nearly illegible by colouring matter 
 spilt over them. 
 
 * D. omits this and the item. 
 
 * — * struck out in A and ittto'lined in other hand: xxviii albes with 
 Apparells of Sylke and velvet of Dyuerse Colors and dyuershe other 
 apparelle not here particularly rehershd. 
 
 •^ xxix : B. 
 
 ' These items, and of the red, white, and green albes struck out in A. 
 Parelles for : prefixed in B in other hand. 
 
 " struck out in B. but retained in D. 
 
 '■'— » om. B. '" tones : B. 
 
 " called: added and struck out : B.
 
 2i8 INVENTORIES OF CIIKISTCIIUKCII, CANTER BUKV. 
 
 Item iij of Satten Redde & blewe embrodrcd wythe water 
 flowers of goldc. 
 
 ^Albes & Amiscs of Redde apparell)'d.- 
 Item one Albe of redde Rased veluet embrodred w' flowers 
 
 of golde and^ spanged* lackynge the sleucs'' and 
 
 Amises. 
 Item one of damaskc embrodred with lyllye potte and 
 
 fawcons'' of golde lackynge apparells for the handes. 
 Item one of Crymsyn velvet embrodred w^ flouredelyce of 
 
 golde perfect/ 
 Item one of Redde velvet w^ A payne*^ in the middes of 
 
 the apparells of lyons and chequer worcke of golde. 
 Item one of Rasyd crymsen velvet embrodred w^ Gryffons 
 
 of golde perfecte. 
 Item one of Rasyd Crymsen veluet embrodred w^ flowers of 
 
 golde 
 Item one of redde velvet embrodred w' the Images of Saint 
 
 laurence and Saint Stephen the Amise whereof ys 
 
 embrodryd w^ the name of william Hull in letters of 
 
 golde. 
 Item ij'-' of Bawdekyn embrodryd w' white hindes perfect. 
 Item one of olde redde damaske w^ flyinge dragons of sylk 
 
 woven. 
 
 ^**Albes and Amises of white apparellyd.'" 
 Item one whereof the grounde is white sylke nedleworke 
 
 embrodryd w' dyvers Images of golde lackynge the 
 
 Amys and parelles^^ for the handes. 
 Item ij of white damaske Embrodryd w^ water flowers of 
 
 golde per fratrem Thomam Bredgare. 
 Item one apparellyd w' olde white damaske embrodryd w' 
 
 braunches of golde and redde flowers. 
 Item iij apparelled w' white damaske embrodred w^ bestes 
 
 of golde lyke lyons. ^^ 
 
 ' parelles for : zn other hand in B. 
 
 - struck out in B. 
 
 ■* oiii. B. ^ spangled : D. 
 
 ■■* B. Jias staues struck out and sleues written over, 
 
 '■ B has flowrs struck out and fawcons written over. 
 
 ^ end of recto of A., which continues on verso. 
 
 " B Jias pynne struck out and payne written over. 
 
 » j: D. 
 
 10 — 10 jji /\^ of (i„(i apparelled arc struck out and apperyllyd w' written over. 
 In B. Parells ior is prefixed in other hand <i;«(^/ apparylled \v^ struck out and 
 oi written over. Albes and amyses apparrelled vv"* white : D. 
 
 " apparrell : D. 
 
 '^ a space left before this word in A. added in other hand in B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 219 
 
 Albcs and Amises apparellyd wythe Grcnc. 
 
 Item ij^ of grene damaske embrodred wythe Beastes of 
 
 golde theyr homes lyke a sawe. 
 Item one of grene Satten embrodryd w)'the flowcrdelyccs of 
 
 golde and sylke. 
 
 Albes for the" 
 
 Item ix" apparellyd perfectly e for the same.^ 
 
 Item ij Chesybles one of redde and white sarcenet and 
 
 thother of redde and blewe for a busshoppe. 
 Item one pyxe clothe of lynnen clothe wroughte lyke a kail 
 
 w^ a border of golde and knoppes guylted. 
 Item another"' of white fryngyd w^ redde sylke and knoppes 
 
 guylted. 
 Item ij paire of pontificall gloves. 
 Item vj perfect parrells for the choristers'' Albes and 
 
 diuerse other parcelles' for the same purpose not 
 
 perfect. 
 Item a pyxe for the sacrament copper and guilte.* 
 Item ij crosses coper & guylte and staues parte coper and 
 
 guylte. 
 Item a fote for the crosse coper and guylte.'' 
 Item ij candelstykes coper and guylte. 
 Item vj'° Candelstyckes of latten. 
 
 Item ij Smalle candelstyckes w' braunches of latten." 
 Item ij paire of Sensors of latten and one'-shippe of- latten 
 
 and'" another of copper. 
 
 ' j : D. 
 
 * Choristers : add B. D. I?i A on each side of Albes for the i/ieir js i>iter- 
 liiied : Iteni ix (Albes for the) choristers apparellyd w' dyuerse other 
 Apparelles of Sylke and velvet not here specially mencyoned. 
 
 ■' /;/ B. ix has \iij luriifcn over //, a/id D has \-iij ivriffeii luialtercd. 
 
 •• This item and four following struck out in A. TJie six items ichich 
 Jollow are omitted in D. 
 
 '" struck out in A and A pyxe clothe interlined. 
 
 '■ added in A and B in different hand in space left for the word. The item 
 struck out in A. 
 
 ' B. has percells. 
 
 * D resuiiu's at next item. 
 " D omits this item. 
 
 >" struck out in A and altered to viij. Struck out in B and altered to xj. 
 In D. xj unaltered. 
 
 '' This item struck out in A. The two last words illegible in Kfrom some 
 colouting nuitter being spilt over them. 
 
 \2^vi Jlliiiost illegible in A. 
 
 " Item : D.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item a holy water stope of latten. 
 
 Item iij pewter pottes otherwyse ^ Amples -for oyle and 
 
 creame.- 
 Item iij towells or clothes of sylke to carrye the amples 
 
 •'whereof ij white and grene streykyd and frynged and 
 
 the thirde Redde sarcenet frynged w^ redd sylke;'' 
 Item a towell of white lynnen clothe *wToghte w' beastes 
 
 and flowers of nedlewourke to carrye the pascall.'* 
 Item a Heade for the herse of copper and gilte to carrye 
 
 the iij lyghtes to the fier vppon estereuyn.^ 
 Item ®ix newe® towells 'and ij olde' for the aulter. 
 Item a lawne for the herse. 
 Item ii aulter clothes one of lawne and the other of '^ lyke 
 
 a nette for the highe aulter. 
 Item a deske clothe wythe letters of nedleworke ^and ^^'Saint 
 
 Thomas^" armes in yf' 
 Item iij paire of Sandalles compleate blewe redde & white. 
 Item a monstraunte of lattyn" ^^to carrye the sacramentc 
 
 Inne vpon festivall daies.^^ 
 Item v'^ shorte aulter clothes for the syde^'' aulters. 
 Item iij pewler bassens w^ brydges and spones in the 
 
 custodie of the sexten. 
 Item an Iron Candlestycke for the rectors. 
 Item a lectron of latten w^ a pycture of an eagle.^^ 
 
 ' callyd : written above A. 
 
 * — '•' struck out in A. creame : added in A in other hand; and omitted by 
 B and D. 
 
 3 — " Struck out in A. TJiis aitd tivo following items ojnitted by D. 
 
 •* — * struck out in A a/id for to carrye the pascall written over. 
 
 '• D resumes with the next item. 
 
 ' struck out in A. and x] written over in other hand. D. reads v, and in 
 nuirgin 4 is writtcjt. 
 
 '• — ' In A struck out and over it wjittcji in other hand old and new, which 
 has also added s to aulter. 
 
 ' of : struck out in A, om. B. 
 
 ' — " struck out in A. 
 
 io_io Thomas beckettes : D. 
 
 '' B has lattey altered into latten. 
 
 '* — '- struck out in A. 
 
 " Written in differc7it hand in space left for it : A. B. iiij : D. 
 
 1* short : B. 
 
 '* Here the following three items are inserted by D : 
 
 Item a lectrone and foure stoles of leron for the rectors of the quier 
 Item iij hanginges for the quier wherof one of fayr clothe of arres and 
 
 the other of olde arras and sylke 
 Item ij payre of pontyficall gloves
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 221 
 
 Gyven by mai.ster parkhurst.^ 
 
 Imprimis iij copes of white damaske w' orpheras embrodred 
 
 and water flowers embrodred also.^ 
 Item a vestement and ij Tunycles of white damaske Lyke- 
 
 wyse embrodred. 
 Item a vestement of white damaske w' orpheras embrodred-' 
 
 w^ the picture of christe in golde and ij Tunycles 
 
 lykewyse^ embrodred. 
 Item one cope of white damaske w' orpheras embrodrj'd 
 
 wythe the Kinges armes in the backe and Arch- 
 
 aungells of golde. 
 Item ij other of white damaske ^wythe orpheras^ Embro- 
 
 dryd \s^ lyllye pottes and the splayed Eagle of 
 
 golde.*^ 
 Item iij copes of grene sylke w^ oken leaves besydes other 
 
 iij geven by m^" Sentliger and aulteryd into pen- 
 
 dauntes. 
 Item a vestement of white satten w' a grene crosse. 
 Item an olde vestement of blewe sylke.'' 
 Item xxiiij^ stoles of dyuerse facions." 
 
 Item anolde vestement of blackc worstede. 
 
 Item a crosse of leade. 
 
 Item a mytre and a pontificall of golde^" of the gyfte of m}- 
 
 lorde of dovor trynnytie'^ besette w^ broches of Syluer 
 
 and counterfette stones. 
 Item another olde mytre embrodred.*- 
 
 ' This line ajid the following eight items omitted by D. /;/ tliis place but 
 added after : Tapetts as : Ornamentes geven by M"' Parhurst. 
 
 ■■* This and the followitig eight items struck through in A. 
 
 ' repeated in B. 
 
 ^ omitted in B. lycke : D. 
 
 .'. — 5 (ji p^ these words i7tterlined. 
 
 "'' Here D. inserts : Ornamentes geven by ]\r selenger. There is a space 
 left in A. B. 
 
 ' Here D begins the list of Ornaments gi^'en by Cardinal Pole. See below. 
 
 * In A. iiij is struck out : B. reads : xxiiii. unaltered. 
 
 '■' and xviij ffanelles : adds A. Item xxij fFannells : add B. D. ; in B. 
 fannells is 7i'ritten in other hand. 
 
 '"> coper : D. and a pontificall of golde : struck out in A. but at end of 
 item is added in another hand : Item a pontyficall Rynge of Coper. 
 
 " struck out in A. and B. B has A before trynytie which is struck out and 
 the mytre interlined. 
 
 '^ Before embrodred is in A. a ivord which cannot noiv be 7'ead.
 
 222 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIUKCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item' iiij pcndauntes of arras wroghte withe golde and ij 
 frountes for the same of the gyfte of S"" Anthonie 
 Sentlygr knyghte -sometime made by one herteforde 
 a monck of this house - 
 
 The following is the text of D : 
 
 In tj^l's InucntonjC Indented iscontayned all suche Ornamentes 
 Stuffe and other Implementes rcmayning in the Vestrie of the 
 said Churche in the charge and costodye of Theodore Newton 
 Treasorer there. The one parte of whiche Indenture ys 
 delyuered to the moste reuerend ffathcr in god Mathewe by 
 godes permyssion Archebusshop of Canterburye at his visita- 
 cion of the said churche holden and kepte in the montthes of 
 July and Auguste .^nno liBomini 1563. 
 
 Ju primi'S one communyon cupp w^h ^ cover of syluer an 
 
 gilte made of twoo chalyces 
 Item iij chalyces w'^ their pattentes whereof one princypall 
 
 and the other Smaller of syluer and gilte 
 Item two crewettes of Syluer and gilte w^^ out covers 
 + 
 . Item ix girdelles v/^h buckelles and pendauntes of syluer 
 and gilte 
 -f 
 . Item a white crosse clothe olde an other grene olde 
 + 
 Item iiij banner clothes whereof ij blewe anto [sic) ii grene 
 
 + 
 Item ij banner clothes of lynnen Stayned 
 + 
 . Item S^ Thomas Banner of my lorde cardenalles gifte 
 
 4- 
 . Item a Streamer 
 + 
 Item xiij'"" banner clothes of Sarcenett stayned 
 
 + 
 Item xiiij pendauntes for the sepulture 
 
 Item a crose the stafife thereof wrethed w^^ syluer and 
 gilte and the hedd syluer and gilte 
 j- 
 
 ' This Hem struck out in A. See abo\e, p. 119. for a suit of vestments 
 made by an abbot with his own hands. 
 
 ^ — ^ omit D. Here in D follow the paragraphs on the Tapettes, the 
 Ornaments given by Mr. Parkhurst and Mr. Sehnger, and the late Lord 
 Cardinal Pole. In A. there is : Item the hangynges for the queere On the 
 verso of A is also a rough draft of visitation articles written up side down to 
 the last part of the Inventory.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 223 
 
 . Item a nother crosse covered w^'^ Avhite for goodfryday 
 Item a pynne to {sic) of syluer to mynister balme vppon 
 
 maundey thursday 
 [Ite^]m a redd boxe w'^ aglasse of balme 
 [Ite^]m a pectorell of Iverye 
 Item one other pectorell sett w^h pearle 
 
 + 
 Item iij beralle stones 
 
 % 
 Item a canopie of redd the \struck tJiroiigJi\ clothe of golde 
 
 Item^ a nother cannopie of white sylke w^h a redd cros 
 
 Item^ four cannopie staues paynted 
 
 Item^ a heres clothe of blacke clothe of golde fringed [\v]th 
 Venis golde and silke 
 
 r. Item xij clothes of golde of the beast sorte vj red and vj 
 _ grene 
 
 ''" 
 
 \. Item vj clothes of golde of the meane sorte 
 
 + 
 . Item X corporaces in cases whereof v have clothes 
 O • Item v text cussheans 
 O . Item too other lesse cussheans 
 O . Item j other greate principall \intcrlincd\ cusshen of red 
 
 damaske and satten 
 O . Item j other princypall cusshen of blewe worsted 
 O . Item iiij rector cusshens of red sylke embrodered 
 O . Item iiij white rector cusshyns embrodered w^^ deringes 
 O . Item iiij rector cusshens of blewe arras 
 O • Item vij cusshyns of white arras of bockinge 
 
 .3. 
 03* Item iiij rector cusshens of golden lether 
 
 3 
 03. Item iiij other cusshens of lynnen white 
 O . Item a bigger cusshen of the same sorte 
 O . Item a cusshyn of tapstery woorke 
 O . Item a cusshen of grene Dornex 
 O . Item vj cusshens of Dornex 
 O . Item ij carpett cusshens of m and S 
 
 » The margin of these items has been torn away.
 
 224 INVENTORIES OF C/IRIS'f CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 O . Item j other greate principall cusshen of red sattcn & ray 
 silke 
 + 
 . Item vj lent colothes of lynned stayned for the late \inter- 
 lined^ highe Aulter and S^ Dunstones and Alphege 
 aulters 
 + 
 . Item the crosse clothe 
 O . Item a canopie for the founte 
 
 07\ Item viij smalle tappettes for the Rectors whereof twoo 
 redd twoo white two grene and ij blewe 
 . Item iiij aulter clothes whereof iij dyaper for the late \i)iier- 
 lined\ highe aulter 
 
 + 
 . Item one cloth to drawe over the late \interlined\ highe 
 alter for lent 
 
 + 
 . Item a chisible of redd satten orpheras w^h golde 
 02. Item iij aulter clothes of white lynnen embrodered w^'^ whit 
 threde- 
 
 + 
 . Item ij albes w^h apparrelles of lynnen 
 
 + 
 Item a Tunycle of fustian 
 
 + 
 Item iij Stooles iij fannelles and a white girdell 
 
 + 
 Item vj gilte lether crownes 
 . Item twoo syluer Bassons lately belonging to Canterburye 
 Colledg and \struck out ivitJi in interlined^ Oxford in 
 M"" Deanes custodye 
 
 ' Struck out. 
 
 - Written in margin., ichich is viitch torn away : 
 . . . . touelles 
 . . . ayed made for 
 the consecrac' of 
 the Busshopps 
 one aulter cloth of 
 lawne and another 
 lyke a nett 
 
 iiij towelles for thaulter 
 iiij shorte alter clothes 
 a lecture of latenwith the 
 picture of an eagle 
 
 iij hangynges for the quire one arras the other of olde arras and sylke 
 iiij pendants of arras wrought with gold and ij frontes of the same for aulters 
 a myter and a pontyficall of coper 
 a Canapye of Sylke frynged
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 22: 
 
 ©urtannes 
 
 jpltSte a payre of red sarcenet of dyuers stories of master 
 Goodnestones gifte 
 
 I 
 Or'^ . Item a payre of white sarcenet of dyvers stones vv''^ 
 deringes 
 I 
 Or^ . Item a payre of blewe sarcenet w'h Archaungelles 
 Item a payre of grene dyaper sylke w'h Swannes 
 Item a payre of red sarcnet vv^'^ crownes and m S 
 Item a payre of blewe and red sarcenet w'^ \^q kinges armes 
 O . Item a payre of red sarcenet Stayned 
 Item a payre of blacke sarcenet rayed 
 Item a payre of olde blewe sarcnet w'h archaungelles 
 Item a payre of olde blewe s [struck out] white sarcnet 
 stayned w'^ m S^ 
 
 212E|)ine copes 
 
 04r^ Etfm of my lorde Mortons suyte tenne copes 4r<l 
 
 O . Item a white cope called the Jesse w^h orpheras em- 
 
 brodered 
 Item a cope of white velvet w'^ archaungelles and Orpheras 
 
 embrodered 
 O . Item too copes of white velvet w'^^ burres and orpheras 
 
 embrodered 
 O . Item a cope of white Damaske w'^ colombynes and 
 
 Orpheras embrodered' 
 
 Grene copes 
 
 3 o 3rd Item vj copes of grene silke w^^ ;^oo buckes Orpheras 
 
 embrodered w'^ archaungelles 3r<i 
 O . Item a cope of flower de lucis and orpheras of nedeleworke* 
 
 i^fU copes 
 I 
 O Item ij copes of clothe of golde w^h pomegarnettes and 
 roses w^h orpheras embrodered w^h pearle^ 
 
 ' The items within these brackets are added in a hand very hke that 
 which has added the items in the margin. 
 - In margin : iiij of Sylke of dyvers colours 
 ' Added in ani>the>' hand : m. to ent' M"". Parkhurst copes 
 i?t margin which is torn .• . . . of whyte 
 
 * In margin: iij copes of grene sylke 
 
 * In margin : the archebusshoppes grace hath one of theym. 
 
 Q
 
 226 INVENTORIES OF CHRIS7CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 O . Item a cope of Rayc golde vv'h orpheras embrodered 
 O . Item ij copes of Tyssue^ 
 
 Item the cope called the Duke of Orlyans goune [Item 
 struck tkroug/i\ w^^ Orpheras embrodered and sett w'^ 
 pearle 
 
 • Item ij copes of veluet vv'^ vynes and orpheras embrodered 
 
 1 o ir'i Item ij copes the one Crymsyn [interlined'] and the 
 
 other purpule veluet vv^^ Orpheras embrodered 
 Item a cope of lesse w'^ orpheras embrodered 
 . Item a cope of satten w'^ Images and braunches w^^ vyne 
 trees and Orpheras embrodered w"^ nedeleworke 
 Item a cope of rede veluet w^h sterres and birdes and 
 Orpheras embroderede 
 O . Item a cope of satten w^h lyons and orpheras nedeleworke 
 O . Item ij copes of satten vv^^ Imagery in tabernacles and 
 Orpheras nedeleworke 
 
 33lttoc copes 
 
 O . JtClTl a cope of clothe of Tyssue w^^ Orpheras embrodered 
 O . Item ij copes w'h orpheras of white veluet embrodered w*^ 
 
 archaungelles 
 O • Item j cope [of struck out and w^ interlined'] Orpheras of 
 
 Bawdekyn 
 O . Item a cope of the same clothe w^^ orpheras of red satten 
 
 wth garters 
 O . Item a cope w^^ horses and trees embrodered 
 
 Item ij copes w'^ phesauntes and the orpheras embrodereds 
 O . Item a cope of velvet embrodered w^ gryffons and orpheras 
 
 nedeleworke 
 O . Item a cope w^^ the Image of o^" ladey and flowers 
 
 embrodered 
 O . Item ij copes of Satten w^^ scuchins of S' george and the 
 
 Orpheras whyte weluet w'^ archaungelles embrodered 
 O . Item ij copes of Damaske \v^^ Images embrodered and 
 
 Orpheras embrodered 
 Item ij copes of velvet w'h Flower de lucys embrodered and 
 
 Orpheras embrodered 
 Item ij copes of veluet w^h flowers embrodered and the 
 
 Orpheras embrodered called bredgers 
 Item j of blewe welvet w'^ orpheras of Images embrodered 
 
 w'h golde' 
 
 ' In margin : the archebusshoppes grace hath theym bothe 
 * This item struck through.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 227 
 
 jl^irste a chesible of cloth of golde w^'^ pome grancttes and 
 rose and the orpheras embrodered and sett w'^^ pearle 
 Item a chiseble of coper golde w* orpheras embrodered 
 Item a chisible of bawdekyn 'w'^ hindes and orpheras em- 
 brodered 
 Item j of grene velvet w'^ flower de lucis and orpheras 
 
 embrodered 
 Item one of blewe Damaske of goldestones gifte 
 O . Item j of white velvet called the burres 
 O . Item j of blewe velvet embrodered w^^ gryffons 
 Item j of black velvet w'^ flower de lucis 
 Item ij chisibles of blewe satten w^^ and orpheras w'^* water 
 flowers 
 
 . Item a chisible of blewe velvet w* cyrcles of golde and red 
 
 roses^ 
 
 jpirstC first a payre of blewe velvet w'h griffons 
 
 Item a payre of red clothe of golde w^^ pomegranettes 
 and roses and orpheras embrodered 
 2 o ir^ Item a payre of blewe Damaske of goldstons gifte w^'^ 
 orpheras of Tysshewe 
 
 1 o ird Item a payre of red velvet w^'' vynes 
 
 I O ir^ Item a payre of whitt velvet w^ burres 
 
 Item a payre of blacke veluet v/^'^ flower delucis 
 
 1 o ir^ Item a payre of red bawkekyn w' hindes and runnyngc 
 orpheras 
 
 I o ird Item apayre of grene v/elvet w^ flower de lucys 
 
 I o ir^ Item a payre of grene called the birdes 
 
 Item a payre of blewe welvet w^^ circles and roses. 
 
 ^Ibcs anlr anuiscs 
 
 of blewe apparrelled 
 
 Enptunis j of Damaske w*h pellycans of gold embrodered 
 Item an other of Damaske embrodered w^'i Ryscs {sic) of 
 
 golde 
 Item ij of blewe welvet embrodered w' roundellcs or circles 
 
 of gold 
 Item ij of corser blewe velvet w' flowers of gold sett out 
 
 licke the sonne beames 
 
 ' In tnargin : one chesyljle of Redde sattyn 
 
 () 2
 
 228 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item ij of Satten embrodered w' tonnes of gold and Water- 
 flowers called coptons 
 
 Item iij of Satten red and blewe embrodered w^ wat [ers 
 interlined\ flowers of gold 
 
 gtlbcs anil nmijscs 
 
 of red apparrelled 
 
 JtClU j albe of red rased velvet embrodered w'^ flowers of golde 
 
 and spangled lackinge the sieves and amyses 
 Item j of Damaske embrodered w^h lyUie pottes and 
 
 fawkyns of golde lackinge apparrelles for the handes 
 Item j of crymsone velvet embrodered w^ flower de lyces 
 
 of gold perfect 
 Item j of red welvet w^ a pane in the myddes of y*^ 
 
 apparrelles of lyons and chequier worke of golde 
 Item j of rased cr^-nsone velvet embrodered w^h white 
 
 griffons of golde perfecte 
 Item j of rased crynsone velvet embrodered w^ flowers of 
 
 golde 
 Item j of red welvet embrodered w^ the Image of S^ 
 
 laurence and S^ Stphens {sic) y^ amyse whereof is im- 
 
 brodered w^ y^ name of william hull in letters of golde 
 Item j of bawdekyn embrodered w'^^ white hindes perfecte 
 Item j of olde red Damaske w^ flyinge Dragons of silke 
 
 woven 
 
 ^Ibcs antr ampscs 
 
 apparrelled w''^ white 
 
 Item j whereof the grounde is white silke nedeleworke em- 
 brodered w^ dyuers Images of golde lackinge the amyse 
 and apparrell for the handes 
 
 Item ij of white Damaske embrodered w^'^ waterflowers of 
 golde per fratrem Thomam bredger 
 
 Item j apparelled w' olde w^hite Damaske embrodered w' 
 braunches of golde and red flowers 
 
 Item iij apparrelled w* white Damaske embrodered w^^ 
 beastes of gold lycke lyons 
 
 ^Ibcs antr amriscs 
 
 apparrelled w'^^ grene 
 
 Jtcni j of grene Damaske embrodered w'^ beastes of gold their 
 homes licke a sawe 
 Item j of grene satten embrodered w^ flower De lucis of 
 gold and silke
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 229 
 
 ^Ibcs for tte 
 
 choristers 
 
 Itttn viij apparrelled perfectly for the same 
 
 Item ij crosses copper and gilte and stave parte coper and 
 
 gilte 
 Item ij candelstickes coper and gilte 
 Item xj candelstickes of latten 
 Item ij smale candelstickes w' braunches of latten 
 Item ij payre of sensors of latten and j ship of latten 
 Item an other of copper 
 Item an holly water stopp of latten 
 Item iij pewter pottes otherwise amples for oyle 
 4rd Item v newe towelles and ij olde for the aulter 
 
 . Item a lawne for the heres 
 rd . Item ij aulter clothes j of lawne and y^ other licke anett for 
 ye highe alter 
 . Item a deske clothe w^h letters of nedleworke and Thomas 
 
 beckettes armes in it 
 . Item iij payre of sandals compleate blewe red and white 
 Item a monstrant of latten to carrie the sacrement in vppon 
 Festyvall Dayes 
 . Item iiij shorte alter clothes for the side aulters 
 Item iij pewter basons w^^ brdges {sic) and spones in y^ 
 costody of the Sexton 
 . Item an leron candelsticke for the rectors 
 . Item a lectrone of latten w^h g. picture of an egle 
 . Item a lectrone and foure stoles of leron for the rectors of 
 
 ye quier. 
 . Item iij hanginges for the quicr wherof one of fayr clothe 
 
 of arres and the other of olde arras and sylke 
 . Item ij payre of pontyficall gloves 
 Item xxiiijt' stoles of Dyuers facions 
 Item xxijti Fannelles 
 . Item an olde vestment of blacke worsted 
 
 Item a crosse of leade 
 . Item a myter and a pontyfycall of coper of the gifte of my 
 lorde of Dover the myter besett w^ bruches of sylucr 
 and conterfett stones 
 . Item an other olde myter embrodered 
 w . Item iiij pendauntes of arras wrought w^h gold and ij 
 frountes of the same of the gifte of S"" anthony 
 Selenorer knight
 
 230 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 ^apcttrs 
 
 . ilnpvimis j great red Tapett 
 . Item ij other red of a lesser sorte 
 . Item ij greate blewe Tappettes 
 . Item j greate white Tappett 
 Item ij pendauntes of red sylke 
 
 ©rnamcntcs 
 
 geven by m»' Parhurst^ 
 
 . -Inprimis iij copes^ of white Damaske w* orpheras em- 
 
 brodered and water flowers embrodered also 
 w Item a vestment and too Tunycles of white Damaske licke- 
 
 wise embrodred 
 Item a vestm^ of white Damaske w^ orpheras embrodered 
 
 w* the picture of christ in gold and ij Tunycles licke 
 
 embrodered 
 Item j cope of white Damaske w* orpheras embrodered w^'^ 
 
 the kinges armes in the backe and archaungelles of 
 
 golde 
 Item ij other of white Damaske w"^ orpheras embrodered 
 
 w* lyllie pottes and the sprede egle of golde 
 
 Ovnamentcs' 
 
 geven by m'' selenger 
 
 . Itcnx iij copes of grene silke w^ oken leves besides other iij 
 geven by m*" Selenger and altered into v pendauntes 
 Item a vestment of white sattene w* agreat crosse 
 Item an olde vestmende of blewe silke 
 
 ^rnamcntes gyven by the Late L. Cardinall Poole. 
 
 jpfiVStC a pajirc of candelstickes of syluer and gillt wayinge 
 ccxxvij ounz defased. 
 Item a greate crosse of syluer and gilte waying cxliij ounz 
 
 j quarter Defased. 
 Item one sensor w^h a shipp and a spone of Syluer parcell 
 guylt wayinge cvj ounz defased. 
 O . Item a myter of syluer and gilte sett w^'^ pearle and stone 
 wayinge iiij^"^ xvij ounz et di. defased.'^ 
 
 1 ? ent' abo. added. 
 
 - entryd above : ?V; f;uzrg/n. 
 
 ^ in coi cista sub tribus scris. [t'n w.]
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 231 
 
 Item a crosers Staffe of syluer and guylte w^h g. staffe in 
 
 hit wayinge iiij'^^vii ounces Defased. 
 Item a crosse \\^^ a staffe for a crosse bearer of syluer 
 
 parcell guylte wayinge cxlvj ounces di. defased. 
 O . Item j payre of gloves of knyte crymson silke embrodered 
 
 w'h gold and Tasselles also. 
 O . Item a nother payre of gloves of white knitte silke embro- 
 dered w''^ golde and crymson [veluet struck aut] silke. 
 Item ij pontyficall ringes of golde sett w^h stones of 
 
 Saphore the borders vvherof are sett with Turkeyes 
 
 Rubyes and pearles. 
 O . Item a payre of buskyns and a payre of Shoes of clothe of 
 
 golde and a payre of shoes and a payre of buskyns of 
 
 white Taffate. 
 Item a holy water pott w'h ^ sprynckell of syluer parcell 
 
 gilte waying Ixj ounces defased. 
 Item a crismatorye of syluer gilte wayinge x ounces de- 
 fased. 
 Item^ a vestment w'^ deacon and Subdeacon of cloth of 
 
 golde braunched w'^ white syluer and the crosse of 
 
 purple clothe of Tyssue w''^ ij albes for y^ deacon and 
 
 subdeacon and other furnyture for y^ same. 
 Item j cope correspondent to the said vestmentes all 
 
 whiche vestmentes and copes are lyned w'^ Crymson 
 
 sarcenett. 
 O . Item a payre of Tunycles of crymsone Taffata w'^ a crosse 
 
 and borders of purple Taffata and lyned w"^ crymsone 
 
 sarcynett. 
 O . Item an other payr of Tunycles of white Taffata layed w^^' 
 
 lace and fringe and fringe \iinderlined'\ of golde. 
 O . Item a fyne camerike clothe edged w'^ golde to take the 
 
 myter of Tharchebusshopes hedd et cetera. 
 
 On verso 
 
 ij basins of Syluer. 
 
 Item a standyng cup w'h a couer silver gilt. 
 Item a standyng cup w' a couer parcell gilt. " 
 Item a salte w''^ a couer parsell [gilt]. 
 Item -a loinge blacke standing nute with a couer all gilt. 
 Item a lesser standing nut garnisshe wyth sylver all guylt. 
 Item a maser garnyshed with sylver and gilte wythoute a 
 couer. 
 
 ' The vestment remaineth onely : iii margin. 
 * Delivered Mr. . . . in tnartiin.
 
 232 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Item xviij siluer spones in the custodye of M^" Deane. 
 Item ij standing pott made of iij Chalyses and other the 
 churche plate. 
 
 On verso of B. folio 6 there is written : 
 
 Imprimis one greate redde tappett. 
 Item ij others redde of a lesser sorte. 
 Item ij greate blew tappettes. 
 Item one greate whyte tapett.^ 
 Item one in m^ Wylloughbye's hande. 
 Item an aultr clothe w' a frounte. 
 
 The following is the text of the fragmentary inventory 
 that we have named E. : 
 
 Curtegnes 
 
 JpgrSt one of whyte sarcenet with Stories 
 
 Item one of Blewe sarcenet with Archangelles 
 Item a payre of Redd sarcenett stayned 
 Item foure Curteines of \_paper torn Silk] diuerse colors of 
 Mr Anthonie Seintleger's gifte. 
 
 "m^xxt OTopcs 
 
 Item [of my Lord paper torn and rubbed^ Mortons suyte 
 foure Copes 
 
 [Item a white much riibbed'\ Cope called the Jesse w^ 
 orpheras embrodered 
 
 [Item two much rubbed^ Copes of white veluett w^ Burres 
 and orpheras embrodered 
 
 Item a Cope of whyte Damaske w' colombynes and 
 orpheras embrodered 
 
 [Item three : rubbed^ Copes of whyte Damaske w'^ orpheras 
 and water flowers embrodered of the gyfte of m"" Park- 
 hurst 
 
 CGrcnc ®opcs 
 
 Ittin three Copes of grene sylke withe Roo Buckes and 
 orpheras embrodered with Archangelles 
 
 [Item A, much rtibbed'\ Cope of Flowrdeluices and Orpheras 
 of nedlewoorke 
 
 Item three : rubbed\ Copes of grene sylke w' oken leaves 
 
 ' In D this paragraph comes immediately after the item at the end of the 
 inventory given by Sir Anthony Sentleger, knight, and it ends with this 
 item, to which is also added : 
 
 Item ij pendauntes of red sylke
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 233 
 
 iaetr ©opES 
 
 Item one Cope of clothe of golde w^ Pomegarnettes and 
 Roses w' orpheras embrodered w^ pearle in the L. 
 Archebusshoppe his kepinge 
 Item A Cope of Raye golde w^ orpheras embrodered 
 Item two copes of Tissue in the custodie of the saide. L. 
 
 Archebusshoppe 
 Item two copes of veluett w^ Vynes and orpheras [em- 
 brodered rubbed '\ 
 Item one Cope of crymsen veluet w' orpheras embrodered 
 Item A Cope of sattene w^ ymages and [braunches with : 
 ricbbed\ vyne trees and orpheras embrodered w' [nedle 
 woorke : rubbed^ 
 Item A cope of satten w' lyons and orpheras nedleworke 
 Item two copes of Saten w' Imagerie in tabernacles and 
 orpheras nedleworke 
 
 ^Ich) ©OpES 
 JtCltt A cope of clothe of Tissue w' orpheras embrodred 
 
 J. W. L.
 
 234 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 XIV. THE INVENTORY OF 1584. 
 
 This inventory was made at the appointment of Dr. 
 Richard Rogers, bishop of Dover, to be dean of Canter- 
 bury, and it shows the great waste that had taken place 
 in the church ornaments between the metropoHtical 
 visitation of Dr. Matthew Parker and the coming into 
 the deanery of the bishop of Dover. The chapter, 
 it appears, were in want of funds to pay the inferior 
 ministers of the church, or even to purchase armour, and 
 there are records in 1567 and 1570 of the sale of church 
 ornaments by vote of the chapter. For the following 
 transcript from the chapter minutes we are indebted to 
 Mr. Francis W. Cross, who has called attention to the 
 interest of these documents, which suffered severely in a 
 fire in the seventeenth century. The edge of the docu- 
 ment from which Mr. Cross' transcript has been made 
 has been burnt, and the burnt place is marked by the 
 runners at the beginning of each line.^ 
 
 xxvijo die maij anno dni 1567. 
 
 Agreid where there remayneth in the vestrye 
 
 Tresory howse of this church dyuerse 
 
 ments plate and other Jewells now not 
 
 full to be vsed in or abowte the Servyce of 
 
 the same churche. And where the said 
 
 by reason of lacke of payment of and 
 
 of the revenues of the said churche at 
 
 and tymes vsuall The officers there are 
 
 mes destitute of money to Supplye thordinary 
 
 uartely payments to the poore and inferio' mynisters 
 
 same churche That for the churches better 
 
 ture to haue money ready to discharge 
 
 rdinary and quarterly payments and 
 
 plye other necessary charges of reparacons 
 
 1 Francis W. Cross, ArchcBological Journal 1896, vol. liii. p. 234 : "the 
 early minute books of the dean and chapter of Canterbury."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 235 
 
 he said churche is bounde to doe and kepe 
 
 plate shall be by weight delyuyd to m"' 
 
 nt now is to be conveyd to london and 
 
 shall make sale there of to the best 
 
 of the churche And that the money there of 
 
 shall be lade into that chest where oure 
 
 eale lyeth red\-e to supplyc as nede shall 
 
 thordinary and quarterly payments alone 
 
 whych shall be allwayes redylyueryd to be 
 
 the foresaid chest as money shall come 
 
 rer or officers of the said churche.^ 
 
 A few years after more went. 
 
 Nov' 1570. 
 
 Itm yt is agreid that the vestments and other vestrye 
 stuffe remaynyng in the vestrye shall be viewed and solde, 
 reseruyng some of the Coapes, and the money that shall 
 arryse of the same to be bestowed in bycng of necessary 
 armo'.^ 
 
 In margin is : for copes to be solde. 
 
 The northern rising in 1569 doubtless caused the 
 privy council to give commandment to the clergy to 
 provide armour " according to such order and rates as 
 were used in the time of the late King Philip and Queen 
 Mary."=^ 
 
 It was also agreed : 
 
 That m"' Receyvo"" and m"' Tresorer shall make sale of the 
 lente clothes remaynyng in the vestrye to m"^ pyereson at such 
 pryses as they shall thynke theym resonably worthe.* 
 
 Something had been designed earlier ; for we find on 
 
 ' Acta Capitidi, vol. i. fo. 65. 
 
 - Ibid. vol. ii. fo. 14. [7.] 
 ibid. vol. ii. fo. yci. [23.] 
 
 ' John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthe^u Parke)-., Book III. ch. xxi. 
 Oxford ; 182 1. vol. i. p. 542. 
 
 ^ The abbot and convent of Westminster did in the time of the Black 
 Death sell jewels and other goods of their church to the value of more than 
 three hundred pounds (Richard Widmore, History of the Church of St. 
 Peter., Westminster., London, 1751, p. 134.) But their necessity was very 
 likely greater than that of the dean and chapter uf Canterbury in 1 570.
 
 236 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 a burnt leaf, probably recording the doings of the chapter 
 in July 1565, the following minute^ : 
 
 Item yt ys Agrede that 
 
 and other vesselles and vten 
 
 vsed in this churche and n 
 
 the vestry shall be by M^ 
 
 wy th thad vise and conscn 
 
 and one or twoo more of the 
 
 and vveyed and bestowed 
 
 of a comunion Cupp and 
 
 for the better furniture of th 
 
 ^Deane will Agree thereunto^ 
 
 Item yt is Agreed that all 
 
 Albes Amyses w' theyre 
 
 phanelles Candlestyckes 
 
 remanyng in the vestrye 
 
 wt thassent of M«" Vic 
 
 and My Pierson or the in 
 
 solde and comittyd to th 
 
 to be imployed . and . . 
 
 required yf M^" Dean , 
 
 This minute, partly burnt as it is, records the intention 
 of the chapter to make away with certain ornaments 
 remaining to the church, if the Dean would give his 
 consent. 
 
 It is said that inventories were to be made in 1570 by 
 the dean, vice dean, and treasurer.^ If such were made, 
 and have survived to our times, they are not known to 
 us at present. The archbishop's Injunctions direct, in 
 the XV'*^ Item, 
 
 that the Dean and Prebendaries do restore to the church 
 such goods and ornaments, as they have of their private 
 authority taken away from the said church.* 
 
 Embezzlement, however, went on. In 1573. the 
 archbishop visited his church again, and grave dis- 
 orders came to light. Thomas Willoughby, the oldest 
 prebendary, was suspended. Another prebendary con- 
 fessed that he swore oaths and struck at his fellow pre- 
 bendaries. Also the dean allowed 
 
 ' Ibid. vol. i. fo. 49 [57.] '-- interlined. 
 
 ' John Strype, op. at. Book iv. ch. iii. vol. ii. p. 22. ■* Ibid. p. 24.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 237 
 
 " that he made away the copes of the church : which he 
 confessed, because it had been agreed by the. Chapter, that 
 all the copes should be made away, and that he had two of 
 them, and paid fifteen pounds for the same."^ 
 
 The chapter decree concerning the copes cannot have 
 been fully carried out as it stated immediately before 
 that : 
 
 " They had still remaining a great many old copes, which 
 were to be disposed of as the Archbishop thought best." 
 
 But in 1584, notwithstanding- the order of "reserving 
 some of the coapes," not one is kept of the pood 
 stock left by the archbishop in 1563. There are some 
 few of the ornaments of 1563 to be recognised. The 
 " two lyvery pottes of Silver double gilte " may be the 
 " ij cruettes of sylver and gylt without covers " of 1563,- 
 or more likely the " ij standing potts made of iij Chalyses 
 and other the churche plate. "^ The "two bazens of Sylver 
 parcel gylt " are very likely those from Canterbury 
 College ; the communion cup is doubtless that of 1563. 
 The linen cloths for the communion table may possibly 
 be those " aulter clothes of Diaper," or the " ix newe " 
 in 1563-^ 
 
 " iiij iron stooles " remain, and are very likely the 
 " foure stoles of Iron for the rectors of the quier" of 
 1563, and the " eagle of brasse " the " lectrone of latten, 
 with a picture of an egle," of 1563 given by prior 
 Thomas Goldston 11.^ The font has become "a Bazon 
 of brasse for Christenynge with a foot of Iron." 
 Formerly there was a font of silver at Canterbury, 
 which was sent for when a child of the king was 
 to be baptized, as the following direction shows : 
 
 Hoiv tJie ChurcJie shalbe arraied agamste the Christeninge. 
 Then must the fonte of Siluer that is at Canterbury be sent 
 
 ' John Strype, op. cit. Book iv. ch. xxxi. vol. ii. p. 301. There were cope 
 chests surviving in 1799, though not put to the use for which they were 
 made. (Edward Hasted, History . . . of Kent., Canterbury, 1799. '^'ol- i\' 
 p. 528.) 
 
 ' See above, p. 221. 
 
 ' See above, p. 231. 
 
 * See above, pp. 176 and 192.
 
 238 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 for, or els a newe fonte made of purpose, to be kepte in 
 suche place as shall please the kinge, to serue to like vse 
 herafter. Or els his highness pleasure wolde be knowne, 
 whether he will hauc it done in a fonte of stone, as it hathe 
 bene somtimes seene.^ 
 
 This font may have been sent for to the king's court 
 and retained by him. For there appears among King 
 Henry VIII.'s jewels, under the " HoHwater Stockes of 
 Siluer gilte parcell gilte and white w' a fonte parcell gilte," 
 the followinof as the first item : 
 
 Item a fonte chased with men beastes and Fowles half 
 gilte with a couer gilte poiz togethers CCiiij^"^ j oz.^ 
 
 This may be the Canterbury font, but no font appears 
 among the goods of the church up to the time of this 
 inventory ; or it may be one of the silver fonts made on 
 purpose at the baptism of one of the king's children. 
 
 The children of the king of Scots were baptized in 
 a brazen font, which was brought from Edinburgh by 
 Sir Richard Lee in 1543, and given to the church of 
 St. Alban in Hertfordshire,^ where it remained until the 
 civil wars.* 
 
 Amongst the " Lynnynge clothes for y^ Communion 
 table" is "one Clothe wrought w'^ oylett wholes," an 
 attempt at ornamentation ; and very curious also are 
 the " iiij olde wyping Clothes " which may have some 
 relation to the modern ' purificator.' 
 
 There are some more relics of the mediaeval stuffs in 
 the " Clothes of sylke for the Communion table," crimson 
 and green, and " spangd with gold birdes " ; the carpets 
 and cushions and the " hanginges of Arras roonde about 
 the Chore ' are also, no doubt, some of those described 
 
 ' See Harleian MS. 6079, fo. 27, in the British Museum ; it is quoted in 
 I. Leland, De Rebus Britannicis^ CoUecta/iea, London, 1770, vol. iv. p. 180. 
 The handwriting of this manuscript is of the late sixteenth century, if not 
 later ; but the text deals with the arrangements of the household of 
 Henry VII. or Henry VIII. 
 
 - MS. cxxix. Soc. Antiq. Lond. fo. 42. 
 
 2 John Weever, Aticieni Funeral Monuments.^ Lond. Thomas Harper, 
 1631. p. 569. 
 
 * H. I. B. Nicholson, Abbey of Saint Alban., London, 1851. p. 42.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHA'ISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 239 
 
 in 1563. The " li whit ones [cushions] with blacke 
 Crosses " were no doubt for use in Lent. Also the " iij 
 olde ones of gilt lether " are the " iiij rector cusshens 
 of golden lether" of 1563, which in the last inventory 
 had already dropped to three. The cushions marked as 
 " vj w' benedida sit sancta Trinitas" must have been 
 mediaeval ; for Benedida sit sancta Trinitas is the be- 
 ginning of an anthem in honour of the holy Trinity, 
 the office of the mass De Trinitate. 
 
 Amongst the " Clothes of sylke for the Communion 
 table " the variations of colour, crimson, green, white, 
 and "strickd with murrye " suggest the question if these 
 were varied according to the church season. 
 
 "A low deske in the myddest of the Chore" must 
 have been to sing the Litany at, and we find in [634 also 
 "a kneeleing deske in the midst of the Quire," no doubt 
 for the same purpose. 
 
 There are two forms delivered to the " strano-ers." 
 who may very likely have been the French congregation. 
 
 Of the books, it may be noted that there are " ij bookes 
 of martrs," most probably Foxe's. 
 
 The retention of the name ' chapter house ' may be 
 noticed, because in the later inventories it is usually 
 called 'sermon house,' by which name it went, as Gost- 
 ling tells us, in 1777. This writer asserts that it was 
 fitted up as a sermon house with pulpit, pews, and o-al- 
 leries in the time of Henry VI I L^ but the very little 
 furniture contained in it in 1584 throws some doubt upon 
 his statement. And further in 1570 the visitation was 
 held and the Eucharist celebrated in the chapter house. ^ 
 Sermons were preached in it up to the eve of the great 
 rebellion, discontinued, and then resumed.^ In Kino- 
 James II.'s time, early morning prayers began to be 
 said here, and continued certainly until 1777. The 
 
 ' William Gostling, A Walk in and about the City oj Canttrbiin\ 
 Canterbury, 1777. Sec. ed. p. 197. 
 
 - John Strype, Life a7id Acts of Matthew Parker, Oxford, 1821. vol. ii. 
 p. 21. 
 
 ' Richard Culmer, Cathedrall Newes from Canterbury, Lend. 1644. pp. 2 
 and 18.
 
 240 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 archbishop's visitation was also held, and the meetings 
 of the chapter begun, in this place. ^ 
 
 This inventory is written on a paper roll, indented 
 6 inches wide and a little under 47 inches long. There 
 are three sheets of paper sewn together, 15^, 16, and 
 16 inches long respectively. It is at Canterbury. 
 
 Notey'thesparticulers An Inventary of vtisensellf {sic) Rema- 
 
 followinge were only nynge in the Revestry & elsewhere aboute 
 
 fir^r/yTm; Lo'. ^h^ temple of this Church takxn the xxiijth 
 
 of Dov' into the of novenib'' an^ xxviijo RR. Llizabethe by 
 
 Roome of the Deanery M^ Jo. Bunge Rec' and Jo. Wynf" treasurer 
 
 of this Church an° of this Church. 
 
 1584. 
 
 Plate of Imprimis two lyvery pottf of Sylv'" double gilte 
 Sylver [at weighinge 
 
 rny L:]- Item two bazens of Sylv^ parcell gylt weighing 
 
 Item one Communion Cuppe w'^ ^ Cov^of Silv"" Double gilt 
 weighinge 
 
 Lynnynge Item one Clothe wrought w'^ oylett wholes, 
 
 clothes for jtem iij Clothes of Diaper. 
 
 y- Com- J Clothe of holland. 
 
 munion , .... , , • ^i i 
 
 table Item nij olde wypmg Clothes. 
 
 Canopyes Item one Canopy of Satten whit & green. 
 
 Item a Canopy of Caffay spangd w' birdes & flowres of 
 
 golde. 
 Item a Canopy for my Lo. Archbisshop his seat of Reed 
 
 Caffay spangd w^^ birdes of golde. 
 An heerse Clothe of blacke Caffay spangd with Golde 
 
 havinge a whit Crosse thorow the myddest. 
 
 Clothes of Item v Clothes of Crymzon Caffay spangd w'^ gold 
 
 munion Item v of green Caffay w^'^ gold birdes. 
 table Item iij Clothes of grenysh silke w' gold flowres. 
 
 An old blewe Clothe of silke for the pulpitt & a Cushion. 
 One old Clothe of whit silke w'h branches. 
 One old silke Clothe strickd w* murrye. 
 
 Tapettes Item iiij Clothes of tepestry woorke. 
 Item iij Carpettes wherof one is Reed. 
 Item ij Carpettes one blewe thother whit w' floures. 
 Item one lytle Carpett of whit. 
 One olde Carpett in thupper Closett. 
 
 ' William Gostling, op. cit. p. 199. - added in another ha7td.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 241 
 
 (f- 2.) . 
 
 Cussions Item iiij Reed Cussions of Satten w^h starres 
 Item iiij of whit Satten w''^ y^ Deare & Ringge. 
 iiij blcwe ones spangd w^h golde. 
 vj w'h benedicta sit s^-"- trinitas. 
 ij of mockador green &. murrey, 
 ij thrimmed ones w^h spred egles in the myddest. 
 iij olde ones of gylt lether. 
 iij thrimmed ones of check'" worke. 
 one of Carpett worke. 
 ij whit ones w^'^ blacke Crosses, 
 one olde one of whit sylke. 
 one lytle one for the Communion table. 
 V old ones of Darnex. 
 
 Chayers 
 [one at my L:'] Item v Chayers of Clothe of tysshuc. 
 
 iiij iron stooles. 
 
 An Iron deske. 
 [atmyL:'] A Deske of wodd. 
 
 iiij whit Canop}' staves. 
 
 ij longe Reed staues for tharchbisshop his seat. 
 
 Books of Item one bible in Englyshe in follio Cov"" gilt. 
 ^^'^rT ^°^ \o\-\<t at mt" wynters^] Item iij other great bibles in 
 folho.- 
 [one at m^" Bungeys one other M'" Costes^] Item v 
 bibles in 40." 
 One Communion booke Cov'' green vellett. 
 [one w"' iij other Communion bookes. 
 
 Mr Hill p^ number of olde bookes taken oute of the lyberary 
 Chaumer:] thinventary wherof 
 
 X old bookes }■' Came from M'" Sympson Custody 
 
 ij bookes of martrs one in the body of the Church thother 
 
 aboue in the north yle. 
 A great bible in follio lyinge in the north ile aboue b)' the 
 
 Chore, 
 .ij bearers standinge in the Revestry. 
 •iiij longe Chestes in the Revestry. 
 
 In the Item one Communion Table. 
 Chore jjjj foi-mes. 
 
 A tapett under the Communion table. 
 
 ' added in another haiid. 
 
 ■ " one at M' W'ynters " in inar^in. 
 
 ■' "one at M' Bungeys one other M' Costes (.') " in margin 
 
 R
 
 242 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 An Eagle of brasse. 
 
 A lytle paire of orgayncs & a great'' paire aboue 
 
 Hanginges of Arras roonde about the Chore, 
 
 A longe sette of Redd aboue the grates. 
 
 A Deske before Mr Deanes seate. 
 
 vj Deskes of wainescott befor the prebcndes seates. 
 
 (f; 3.) 
 
 Item iiij Deskes before the Choresters. 
 
 Item a low deske in the myddest of the Chore, 
 
 ij formes for the Choresters. 
 
 A [ij wood inte7-linecr\ longe settle [of w altered to\ in 
 
 thupper end of the south yle by the Chore. 
 A lytle Canopy over Mr Dean seat. 
 
 In the Item ij Cubberdes of wanescott w^h fallinge leaues 
 
 nol-tr^e ^° shutte. 
 
 y e jj Q|-|-^gj. Cubberdes of wanescott vsed by y^ peti 
 
 canons. 
 
 [dd to M^ ffrench] ^ t^^le of the Conversion of St Paule. 
 
 Item a longe forme. 
 
 Item a table, a long settle & Chare of wanescott for the 
 
 Commissioners. 
 
 In the Item an olde pulpett. 
 
 body of the y seates for Mr Dean & the prebend to knele at 
 
 Church - , r iU i.1 J 
 
 J-.. , m tyme oi mornynge prayer on the south syd 
 
 dd °oThe . & ij formes. 
 
 strangers] ix seates & iij formes on the north syde. 
 
 A lytle deske for the mynyster to kneele at in prayer, 
 A Bazon of brasse for Cristenynge with a foote of Iron to 
 stand vpon. 
 
 [M' Isackes] A grave stone of marble by the west dore, 
 
 [not found] A longe lather. 
 
 In the ^ Table. 
 
 Chapter • r 
 
 house '^'^VJ formes, 
 
 [Added in another hand :] 
 
 M^ that the particulers of this Inventorye above mentioned 
 were acknowledged to Remayne as they are above sette downe 
 by the Sexton and Vestrer before Mr Hill Treasorer and 
 Thomas Cockes Chapter Clerke the firste Daye of December 
 1586 RR Eliz, 290, 
 
 J. W. L.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 243 
 
 XV. INVENTORY TAKEN ABOUT THE 
 TIME OF THE METROPOLITICAL 
 VISITATION OF 1634. 
 
 As the inventory of 1563 was no doubt caused by the 
 metropohtical visitation of Dr. Matthew Parker, so it 
 seems likely that the inventory of 1634 was caused by 
 the metropolitical visitation of Dr. William Laud, who 
 succeeded Dr. George Abbot as archbishop in 1633.^ 
 Chancres in the furniture of Christchurch bes^an at 
 once ; and a bitter enemy of the Chapter of Canterbury 
 took care to note the changes : 
 
 A Religious and well-affected Alderman of Canterbury, 
 gave mee lately a Transcript of a passage written with his 
 owne hand, in a spare leafe in his great Bible, which passage 
 I have often read, its this: CJirist-tide, 1633. ivas the first 
 day of the High Altar, and Candlestickcs on it, and Candles 
 in them, and other dressings very brave, in CJirist-CJiurch, 
 Canterbury? 
 
 A more friendly pen records of the archbishop : 
 
 He began first with Canterbury his own Cathedral, where 
 he found the Table placed at the East end of the Choire by 
 the Dean and Chapter, and Adoration used toward it by 
 their appointment ; as was attested upon Oath by Dr. 
 Blechinden, one of the Prebends of that Church at the time 
 of his trial. Which having found in so good order, he 
 recommended to them the providing of Candlesticks, Basons, 
 Carpet, and other Furniture for the adorning of the Altar, 
 and the more solemn celebrating of the blessed Sacrament.'' 
 
 Though the treasurer's account books at Christchurch 
 for this period have generally not been preserved, yet 
 
 ' For the articles of this visitation see Fourth Report of the Royal Com- 
 mission on Historical Manuscripts, London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1874. 
 part I. p. 124. 
 
 " Richard Cuhner, Cathedral t Neices from Canterbury, London, Ricli. 
 Cotes, for P'ulk Clifton, 1644, p. 8. 
 
 ^ P. Heylyn, Cyprianus Anf^licus, Part ii. Lib. iv. A.D. 1635. London. 
 A. Seile, 1668. p. 291. 
 
 R 2
 
 244 1N]'ENT0RIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 the book for 1633 has survived. It is disappointing, 
 therefore, to find in it nothing of the expenses of the 
 office of sacrist, nor anything that shows an outlay for 
 altar plate at this time. But the chapter itself acknow- 
 ledges to the archbishop extraordinary expenses in the 
 year before the 8th of July, 1634. This is part of its 
 reply : 
 
 5'y. We have obeyed Your Graces directions in pulling 
 down the exorbitant Seates within our Quire, whereby the 
 Church is very much beautified. Lastly, wee most humbly 
 beseech Your Grace to take notice, that many and most 
 necessary have beene the occasions of extraordinary 
 expences this Yeare, for ornaments of the altar &c. 
 Christ Church Canterb : 
 8. July 1634. 
 
 This is signed by eight of the prebendaries,^ 
 A further description of the aclditions to the furniture 
 made about this time at Canterbury is given by Neal : 
 
 To make the Adoration more significant, the Altars in 
 Cathedrals were adorned with the most pompous Furni- 
 ture, and all the vessels had a solemn Consecration. The 
 Cathedral of Caiito-lniry was furnished, according, to Bishop 
 Andrczvss Model, who took it from the Roman Missal, with 
 two Candlesticks and Tapers, a Basin for Oblations, a 
 Cnsliion for the Service Book, a Silver gilt Canister for the 
 Wafers, like a Wicker Basket, lin'd with Cambrick Lace, 
 the Tonne on a Cradle ; a Chalice with the Image of Christ 
 and the Lost Sheep, and of the Wise Men and Star, 
 engraven on the Sides and on the Cover. The Chalice was 
 cover'd with a linen Napkin, called the Aire, embroidered 
 with coloured Silk ; two Patins, the Tricanale being a 
 round Ball with a screw Cover, out of which issued three 
 Pipes, for the Water of Mixture ; a Credentia, or side 
 Table, with a Basin and Ewer on Napkins, and a Towel, 
 to wash before the Consecration ; three kneeling Stools 
 covered and stufif'd, the Foot Pace with three Ascents, 
 covered A\ith a Turkey Carpet ; three Chairs used at 
 Ordinations, and the Septum or Rail with two Ascents. 
 Upon some Altars there was a Pot, called the Incense Pot, 
 and a Knife to cut the Sacramental Bread.- 
 
 ' William Prynne, Cantcrlntrics Doane, London, 1646. p. 79. 
 - Daniel Neal, History of the Puritans, vol. ii. chap. v. King Charles 
 1633. London, 1733. p. 259.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 245 
 
 Neal's very circumstantial description of the furniture 
 at Canterbury is not so trustworthy as at first it appears 
 to be. It follows too closely the inventory of the furni- 
 ture in Bishop Andrewes' chapel/ in the items which are 
 particular to that chapel, and which are not to be found 
 in the inventory of Christchurch printed below. There 
 is a general resemblance in the possession of candlesticks 
 and basons, cushions, hangings, desks, and service books ; 
 but the ornaments so noteworthy in the chapel of Bishop 
 Andrewes, the silver and gilt canister for wafers, the air 
 for coverino- the chalice, a name borrowed from the 
 Easterns, the tricanale with its three pipes, the credence 
 and the bason and ewer, the censer and ship, are all 
 absent in this Canterbury Inventory. The 'three chairs 
 used at Ordinations ' might by an ingenious person be 
 held to be the ' three iron Chaires ' which have come 
 down from 1540; and also at Canterbury the Holy 
 Table stood upon a ' foot pace with three Ascents ' 
 within altar rails,' but these features are accidents, not 
 imitations by design. It seems as likely that the chapter 
 at Canterbury furnished their Church 'according to 
 Bishop Andrews's Model " as it is that Bishop Andrewes 
 took his "from the Roman Missal." 
 
 About this time the chapter appear to have bought 
 an embroidered purple velvet cloth to go behind the 
 altar' ; aided therein by a bequest to the chapter made by 
 the duchess dowager of Lennox of a hundred pounds 
 sterling. And Dr. Warner, bishop of Rochester, about 
 
 ' William Prynne, Canlerburies Dooine, London 1646. p. 122. {sic for 
 134). Prynne's great learning is shown by his statement that this is 
 " Furniture directly borrowed from the Roman Ccrciiioniall., Missal? (sic) 
 and PoiiiificaU^ nowhere to be found but in Popish Chappels and Churches." 
 
 - Richard Culmer, op. cit. p. 19. On August 26th, 1642. Colonel Sandys' 
 zealous troopers "hewed the Altar-railcs all to pieces, and threw their Altar 
 over., and over, and over., downe the three Altar-steps.'' 
 
 ^ Antidoiiiin Ciihneriamnn, or Animadversions upon a late Pamp/i/et 
 cntitulcd Cathedral Newes from Canterlniry., Oxford, H. Hall, 1644. 4° p. 25. 
 Apparently there was one before, for this writer speaks of '*the back-cloth 
 upon the Screene, or Traverse being much discoloured, with age"; the 
 prebendaries had purchased a new purple velvet cloth and repaired the 
 decayed gold upon "the goodly piece of carved Tabernacle- worke " of 
 the screen.
 
 246 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 the same time gave a new marble font, with a cover of 
 wood. The Puritan excitement caused by these gifts 
 may best be told in the language of the godly them- 
 selves, in a petition presented by certain citizens of 
 Canterbury to the house of commons in 1 640 : of which 
 some sections are here given. 
 
 2. TJie Pettie Canons, and Singingmen there, sing their 
 Cathedrall-Service in Prick-song after the Romish fashion, 
 channting the Lords Prayer, and other Prayers in an nnfit 
 manner, in the Chancell, or Quire of that Cathedrall ; at 
 the East end whereof they have placed an Altar {as they call 
 it) dressed after the Romish fashion, with Candlesticks, and 
 Tapers, &c. for which Altar they have lately provided a most 
 Idolatrous costly Glory-Cloth or Back-Cloth ; towards 
 zvJiich Altar they crouch, and duck tlwee times at their going 
 up to it, to readc there part of their Service apart from the 
 Assembly} 
 
 4. Whereas neare that CatJiedrall titer e is a large, wari)ie, 
 and wel-seated Sermon-house, luhere [time out of mind) 
 Sermons have beene made upon Lords dayes and Festivall 
 dayes ; Of late there hath beene a Pulpit set up in the Quire 
 of that Cathedrall, tvhich is a very cold and inconvenient 
 place, and there onely tJie Sermon is preached on those dayes, 
 and Jienid in with their Qtdre Service, that all that ivill 
 partake of the Sermon, should of necessitic partake of their 
 Cathedrall-Ceremonious-Altar-Service, ivhereby fna?iy are 
 driven aivay from hearing the Word of God, as also for 
 want of seats, that roome not being capable of halfe that 
 Ajiditory, zvhich might, and did heare in the Sermon-LIouse? 
 
 6. In that Cathedrall there hath been lately erected a 
 Superstitious Font, witli three Ascents to it, paled about with 
 high guilded, and painted iron bars, Jiaving under the cover 
 of it, a carved Image of the Holy Ghost, in the forme of a 
 Dove, and round about it are placed carved Images of the 
 twelve Apostles, and foure Evangelists, and of Angels, and 
 over it a Carved Image of Christ ; so that none can looke up 
 in prayer there, but lice shall behold those tempting Images in 
 the place of Divine Worship ; against the Law of God, and 
 the Doctrine of the Cluirch of England. And all this is 
 
 ' Richard Culmer, Cathedrall Newes from Canterbury, London, Rich. 
 Cotes for Fulk CHfton, 1644. p. 2. 
 ^ Culmer, op. at. p. 2.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 247 
 
 done at the costs of Doctor [Warner] . . . Lord Bishop of 
 Rochester &c. A nd that Font zvas consecrated by the Lord 
 Bishop of Oxford.^ 
 
 In the marg-in of this section there is : 
 
 consecrated by a Lord Bishop, who went round about it 
 reading in a Booke, and went up the three steps, and put 
 his head into the Font. 
 
 Culmer proceeds to comment on the superstitious 
 Back cloth as follows : 
 
 Their CatJiedrall- Altar-Glory-Cloth, before mentioned, was 
 lately found out, where they had laid it in that Cathedral!, 
 and is now in the hands of the Honorable Coniinittte, \sic\ 
 of Parliament for demolishing of Idolatrous monuments. 
 That Glory, which is the shame of their Cathedral!, is made 
 of very rich Imbroydery of Gold and Silver, the name 
 fehovah on the top in Gold upon a cloth of Silver, and 
 below it a semicircle of Gold, and from thence glorious rayes 
 and clonds, and gleames and points of rayes, direct and 
 zuaved, streame dozvneivards upon the Altar, as \i fehovah 
 {God himselfe) were there present in glory, in that Cathe- 
 dral! at the Altar ; and all this to draw the people to looke 
 and worship towards the Altar, and thereby to usher in the 
 breaden god of Rome, and Idolatry. The large patterne of 
 that superstitious Glory (being made of papers pasted 
 together, wch is now kept with the Glory) hath written on 
 it, thus ; Is not this circle too large ? if so, it may best bee 
 molded {as tvee conceive) by inlarging the golden circle at the 
 extremities of it, and by inlarging it imvard. What thinke 
 yon of working the rayes without clonds ? If you can conceive 
 it fitting, it ivill much lessen the charge : our feare is, the 
 Clouds ivill not bee zvell ivrought, and then the rayes ivill show 
 far better zvithout them. W. B. This was written on the 
 patterne at London by a Cathedrall Doctor of Canterbury ^ 
 Z.S, fohn Rowell, the Imbroidcrer that made that Glory, ha.th. 
 lately testified upon his examination taken before the truely 
 religious Sir Robert Harley, who, being in the Chaire of that 
 Committee, hath (beside that Glory) such Idolatrous Popish 
 Pictures, and other Popish trinkets taken out of the Kings 
 Chappell, and from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and 
 else-where, that a true Protestant would be astonished to 
 behold tliem, they are so abominable ; but they are all 
 
 ' Culmer, op. cit. p. 3.
 
 248 JNVENTOKIES OF CH RJSTCHURCH, CANTEF.BURY. 
 
 appointed to the fire. And the said John Roivel tcstihcth 
 that after the patterne was so written on, at Lojidon, it was 
 carried to the Cathedrall at Cantcrlniry, and there the 
 Prebendai'ies met and consulted about the Glory, and then 
 the patterne was written on there, in an answer to the 
 forrher writing, thus : Wee conceive this Ovall-forme would 
 doe better in a semicircle, a.nd extend the Glory more on either 
 side : These Clonds 'well shadowed, and zvell wrought, and 
 pierced with raies will be most proper. We conceive also, that 
 the Field shoidd be more Azure, then Silver, tvJiich luill soone 
 tarnisJi. And the Imbroiderer further testifieth, that all 
 the Prebendaries did approve of the making of that Glory 
 for the Altar} 
 
 Attention may now be paid to the inventory itself. 
 
 This first inventory of the seventeenth century shows 
 a more complete break with the mediaeval inventories 
 than the kist of the sixteenth. Little remains of the 
 relics of the mediaeval stuffs, canopies, carpets, and 
 cushions, that were in existence even in 1584. There 
 are to be noted indeed six pieces of arras, three " peices 
 of hanQ;inores at the hic^h altar," the brass eaole, three 
 out of the four iron chairs or stools for the rectors, and a 
 desk of iron. The only cope remaining in the vestry is 
 " a Scarlett cope lyned with miniver left unto the Church 
 by Dr. Clarck." Apparently this is that ' Richard 
 Clarke, doctor in divinity ' who, in the answer to the 
 articles of the metropolitical visitation of 1634, is 
 described as living in the precincts, but no member of 
 the cathedral church." He was, however, one of the six 
 preachers in 1602 and he died in the year of the metro- 
 political visitation.'' It may be noticed that seven of the 
 prebendaries present ' the want of copes ' in their answer 
 to the visitation articles.^ 
 
 "v, Chayers of clothe of tysshue " may have supplied 
 the "three chaires of old copes" in the dean's great 
 
 ' Culmer, op. cit. p. 6. 
 
 - Fourth Report of tJic Royal Commission on Historical JManiiscritls, 
 London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1874. part I. p. 126. 
 
 3 See Dictiojjary of Natio7ial Biography, London, 1887. sub voce 
 Clerke, Richard. 
 
 ^ Fourth Report, &^c., p. 127.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANIERBURY. 249 
 
 chamber, especially as one seems to have been trans- 
 planted already In 1584. 
 
 Of the plate in the stillltories and undercroft, the two 
 flagons, the two cups with their covers, the two silver 
 basons, and the two great candlesticks w^ould seem to be 
 new, so also the silver chalice double gilt with two 
 plates added to the inventory. According to Mr. Scott 
 Robertson's account, none of these of 1634 can be found 
 at the present moment at Canterbury, as none of the 
 plate there is earlier than 1636.^ It seems likely, 
 however, that the two great candlesticks may be those 
 described in this in\'entory, and that the chalice added 
 to the inventory is the chalice given in 1636 by 
 Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel and Surrey. It can 
 be identified in the inventory of 1689 by its motto, 
 Concordia nun candore, and it served afterwards, in 1745 
 and later, for the communion of the sick. It is happily 
 preserved to this day in the Treasury. It is very likely 
 also that the two silver basons parcel gilt may be those 
 still in the Treasury, as the w^eight corresponds. But 
 the weight of the other pieces of the plate, the two 
 flaofons double eilt and the two cups with covers, does 
 not correspond with those now preserved ; and it may 
 be feared that those of 1634 have disappeared with the 
 plate in the Deanery. 
 
 The chapter had determined In June 1585 that a 
 certain amount of plate should be bought for the Dean's 
 household use, and this very likely Is the plate that 
 appears in the inventory of 1634. 
 
 Capitulum generale . . . xxv. Junii 1585. 
 
 ^ * *• * * 
 
 In w.] Plate to be bought 
 
 That it is decreed that there shalbe one hundreth markes 
 bestowed at 
 
 discression of my Lo of Dover o>" Dean & the Rcc & 
 treasurer in -sylver- p 
 
 ' Scott Robertson, Archcvologia Cantiana, 1887, vol. xvii. p. 315. The 
 candlesticks and chalice are figured. 
 - — - interlined.
 
 250 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 for thusc of the churchc & that the said playet so bought 
 
 shall Re 
 
 in the custody of my Lo of Dover o"' Dean for his 
 
 necessarie vses 
 
 often as need shall require & that the forme shalbe 
 
 delyvered unto 
 
 by Indenture & Receaved of hym agayne at his depar- 
 ture 'by the same' atte 
 
 as the statute of the church requireth in that behalf- 
 It may be noted that the two great candlesticks are 
 not kept on the altar, but with the communion plate ; 
 probably they were set on the altar only at communion 
 time, or when the candles in them were to be lighted. 
 It was not the mediaeval custom to keep the candlesticks 
 on the altar when they were not used. In the I slip 
 roll, the altars at Westminster Abbey are without 
 candlesticks f and in the more conservative churches of 
 France this continued to be the custom even into the 
 middle of the last century/ 
 
 At York it may be noted that the candlesticks in 1634 
 were likewise kept with the communion plate and the 
 bible and common prayer book covered with crimson 
 velvet and embossed with silver double gilt,^ which 
 apparently took the place of the ancient textus. 
 
 At Dulwich College, however, in this very year, 
 archbishop Laud admonished that the candlesticks 
 and bason should be placed again on the altar, the 
 master confessing he had taken them away and was 
 keeping them in his chamber. The archbishop, it may 
 be noticed, was dealing with people whose next step 
 
 ' — ' interlined. 
 
 - Ada Capiiidi, 1 581-1607. fo. 41. The edge of this leaf has been 
 slightly burnt away and the lost words are indicated by runners. 
 
 ■' Veins fa Monianenta., London, Soc. Antiq. 181 5, vol. iv. plates xviii. & 
 xix. 
 
 * De Moleon, [Le Brun des Marettes] Voyages Litiirgiqiies de Frattce, 
 Paris, 1718, fig. I. p. 40; Morel de Voleine, De rinfiiience de la Liturgie 
 Cat Jiolique sur r Architecture., Lyon, 1861, p. 15. 
 
 ^ British Museum, Lansdowne M.S. 213. fo. 319.^. In " a Relation of a 
 short Survey of 26. Counties, briefly describing the Citties and their 
 
 Scytuations, and the Corporate Towns and Castles therein on 
 
 Monday August ii*K 1634 .... by a Captaine, a Lieutenant, and an 
 Ancient."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 251 
 
 might very probably be to embezzle the ornaments, 
 unless they were kept in public view.^ 
 
 There were two " communion tables," one new, the 
 other old ; the latter had a silk carpet, the expression 
 used in the canons of 1603 for the frontal." And there 
 were others: "a new purple velvet cloth with gold fringe 
 for the communion table and one with a less fringe," 
 also "three carpettes of red silke and golde, one for the 
 communion table and two other for Mr. Deane and 
 Vicedeane's seat on solemne dayes." Thus altogether 
 there were three carpets for the holy table, besides the 
 one on the old. The new purple one was probably made 
 of one suit with the back cloth of purple which excited 
 so much indignation in the puritan mind. 
 
 There are " three peices of hanginges at the high 
 altar," probably some arras or tapestry, such as may be 
 found in later inventories. The expression "high altar" 
 in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has more 
 than one meaning. It may of course mean the chief 
 holy table in a church, which sense it bears in the 
 coronation service of King Charles 11.^ Somner de- 
 clares at Canterbury: " This Altar was and is called the 
 high Altar."* It m.ay also mean the area in which the 
 holy table stands, very much as the Eastern Churches 
 use the expression.^ Mr. Micklethwaite remembers that 
 thirty-five years ago the vergers of Westminster abbey 
 used the term in this sense. The ' high altar ' was the 
 space enclosed by the rails eastward of the quire. Or it 
 
 ■ William Young, The Htsfory of Diihoich Colh\i^c, London, T. B. 
 Bumpus, 1889, vol. i. p. io8. 
 
 - See No. Ixxxii. " covered in time of Divine service with a Carpet of Silk 
 or other decent stuff." 
 
 ■' Sir Edward Walker, A Circimistantial Account of the . . . Coronation 
 of ... . King diaries tJie Second^ London, 1820, p. 116. See also Francis 
 Sandford, History of the Coronation of . . . /antes II. In the Savoy, 1687. 
 Ground-Plot of . . . St. Peter in Westminster. 
 
 ^ William Somner, Antiquities of Canterbtery, London, 1640. p. 170. 
 See also second edition, p. 94, where the same words are repeated by 
 Battely. 
 
 ^ F. E. ^r\g\\\.\\-\:xn.. Liturgies Eastern and IVestern, Oxford, 1896, p. 587 ; 
 (i. Morosow, Darstellitng des Gottesdienstes der Orthodox-KatholiscJien 
 Kirchc., Berlin, 1893, p. 6.
 
 252 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 iiiciy indeed signify the wall behind the altar. It clearly 
 meant this at Wells in the eighteenth century. There it 
 is said : " The high altar was full of niches with images of 
 apostles and saints therein finely painted, which, after the 
 Reformation, were all broken, and the whole plastered 
 up as a plain wall."^ The Captain, Lieutenant, and 
 Ancient, who sallied forth from Norwich in 1634 to 
 view twenty six counties of England, use the ex- 
 pression ' high altar ' ; but it is not always clear what 
 they mean. At York they find " the Pulpit standing in 
 the midst between the Quire, high Altar, Archbishop's 
 seat, and Organ" and at Durham there was "a fayre and 
 rich Communion Table, which cost 200''. standing at 
 the high Altar, of blacke branch'd Marble, supported 
 with 6. fayre Columns of Touchstone, all built at the 
 Charg of Dr. Hunt the reverend dean : And to adorne 
 it 2. double gilt Candlestickes."^ 
 
 The word is in not unfrequent use before the great 
 Rebellion. James I. goes to St. Paul's on Mid-Lent 
 Sunday in 1620; and the dean and chapter in rich copes 
 " with solemne sincrinor brousfht the kino" into the Ouire, 
 through which he went into his traverse which was set up 
 for that purpose on the South side of the high Altar. "'^ 
 The use of the expression to signify the holy table is 
 denounced in 1629 by a committee of the house of 
 commons.'^ 
 
 ' C. M. Church, Chapters in the Early History of the Church of JVei/s, 
 London, 1894, Appendix W, p. 421, from an MS. notebook of a priest 
 vicar after 1758. 
 
 - These travellers speak of the 'high altar' not only in nearly all the 
 cathedral but in the lesser churches that they visited ; as at Malmesbury and 
 Arundel. (Lansdowne MS. 213. fif. 341. & 359. An abstract of their journal 
 is printed in Geiitletnaiis Magazine^ November, 1858. p. 479.) Lord 
 Scudamore also gave in 1626 "one large Dainaskc Cloth to cover the High- 
 Altar" to the church of Home Lacy. (Matthew Gibson, A Vieiv . . . of 
 . . . Door, Home-Lacy, and Hcnipstcd, Lond. 1727. p. 128. See also 
 G. H. Ross-Lewin, Lord Sciidaniore, Beverley, 1898. p. 6.) 
 
 ■' John Stow, Annates, cont. by Edmund Howes, London, Meighen, 1631, 
 
 P- '033. 
 
 * CJee and Hardy, Documents illustrative of English Church Histoty, 
 London, 1896, No. xcii. p. 524 : "setting it at the upper end of the chancel, 
 north and south, in imitation of the high altar, by which they also call it, 
 and adorn it with candlesticks."
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 253 
 
 " A pulpett Cloth of blacke silke and gold with 
 frindoe " would have been suitable for Lent or funerals. 
 " One Canopie of w^hite and greene satin," most likely 
 for the archbishop's throne, can be traced downwards as 
 late as i 761. There was also " a canopie of red satten " 
 to hang over the archbishop's seat. This seat was most 
 likely that in the choir ; for one of the military travellers 
 noticed in 1635 the ancient throne between the Trinity 
 chapel and the high altar, the " Chaire, couered with 
 sky-colour'd veluet, in which all the Archbishops are 
 install'd, and inthroniz'd."^ 
 
 As in 1585, there are among the communion cloths 
 three of diaper and one of holland. 
 
 The 27th of March, for which there were six service 
 books, was the anniversary of the accession of King 
 Charles I, and another generation may need to be 
 reminded that the 5th of November is the anniversary of 
 the Gunpowder Plot, which in 1634 was fresh in all men's 
 minds. While in the choir properly horrified at the plot, 
 the authorities at Canterbury seem to have been inclined 
 to imitate it in another part of their church by keeping 
 " a barrell of gunpowder and half a dozen pounds of 
 bulletts " in the Dark House. The military stores " in 
 the armorie " may be the proceeds of the sale of the 
 copes and other ornaments voted by the chapter in 
 1570.- The seizure of these arms in 1642 was the begin- 
 ning of great trouble to the church. 
 
 The organ in the sermon house is not mentioned 
 amongst the furniture there, having been spoken of at 
 the same time as the quire organ. The lieutenant in 
 1635 describes it thus, " I then was desirous to see the 
 Chapter House, into w''^ I was kindly conducted, this 
 they make their Preaching Place, or Church, y^ roofe 
 whereof is seal'd w^'*" Irish wood, neat, & richly gilt, the 
 windows correspondent, fayre & rich, & a neat small 
 Organ in her ; the hansome, and neat Seats for the 
 
 ' Lansdowne MS. 213. fo. 352. also GcJttlcinaiis Magazine., No\-einber, 
 1S58. p. 485. 
 
 - See below, p. 258.
 
 254 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY 
 
 Bishop, and the rest of the Churchmen, thel Mayo"", & 
 Aldermen, Knights and Gentlemen, doe adorne, & 
 beautify it much."^ 
 
 Of the books in the library, notwithstanding the 
 opinion that many had been lost in the great rebellion, 
 nearly all can be identified at the present moment. 
 About six or eight manuscripts and printed books only 
 are missing. 
 
 Two copies of this inventory exist, which have been 
 marked respectively A and B. A has been chosen to be 
 printed, as it appears to be the earlier. Some of the 
 items which are interlined in A appear in the text of 
 B ; some portions of B also have been lost. 
 
 Both appear to be written by the same hand. 
 
 A is an indented roll, written on vellum of two 
 membranes, \2\ inches long by 6f inches broad, sewn 
 together. The membranes are respectively 20^ and 
 22I inches long. 
 
 B is also an indented roll, written on vellum of two 
 membranes, sewn together, 44f inches long by 6f inches 
 broad. The membranes are respectively 22^ and 
 2 2:1; inches long. They come from Canterbury. 
 
 15cdcsia djvisti 
 (iDantuar: 
 
 1634. 
 
 ^n Inbcntarg Indented and made of ail the goodes Utensells 
 hanginges plate and other Implementesand Materialls belonging 
 to the said Church in y^ custody of Mi" Deane and the Sacrist 
 taken by M^" Casaubon Bachelor in Divinitie one of the Pre- 
 bendaries^ and Treasorer of the same Church in the presence 
 of Matthew Marriner Sacrist and Isaac Haynes Subsacrist the 
 the \sic\ xviijt'^ day of ^November Anno" Doin 1634 
 
 JmprtmtS In yc Quire and Vestye^ : 
 
 Eleaven service bookes for the Deane and Prebendes use 
 and 24 service books to the use of 24 of the Quire vV-'h 
 are in their owne custodie and 2 books more for the 
 use of the boyes. 
 
 ' Lansd. 213. fo. 354. 2 Prebends : B. 
 
 ^ — 3 wanting in B. torn out. ^ \"estry : B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 255 
 
 One dozen of new Turkey worke Cushions. 
 
 Cushons besides, kneeling and sitting, twenty eight. 
 
 Two other Cushions at the Deske. 
 
 Six peices of aras hanging. 
 
 A Curtaine rod at Mi" Deane's seate. 
 
 A brasse Eagle and the Bible 
 
 two peices of hangings^ a little peice before the Vicedeanes 
 
 and Prebendes seate. 
 Two new Cloathes of figuretta for Mr. Deane and Vice- 
 deanes seates. 
 2 sconces there. 
 
 Ten deskes for singing men and Choristers. 
 Two Cushions w^h weare 1630 in 'W^ Fotherbye's pue and 
 
 five in Mj's Bargraud's. 
 Three Deskes now standing in the two lies of the Quire. 
 Three peices of hanginges at the high altar. 
 'J he footecloth there. 
 A new communion Table and a new kneeling deske and an 
 
 other old one 
 The old communion table and a silke carpet. 
 Three kneeleing Stooles" [6 lurittai over betiveeii lines] 
 
 foormes. 
 A service booke w'^ a Cushion and ^ kneeling Cushion. 
 A Cupboord for the service bookes ioyned to a^ kneeleing 
 
 deske in the midst of the Quire 
 2 foorms and 10 long woodden Candlestickes for the Quire 
 
 and 8 more for y^ use of the prebendes. 
 Three Carpettes of red silke and gold one for the communion 
 
 table and two other for Mr. Deane and Vicedeanes seat 
 
 on solemne dayes. 
 Fowre Cushions of red sattin. 
 4 Cushions of white damaske. 
 foure Cushions of white silke two long ones whereof one in 
 
 the Knightes pewe in the sermonhouse. 
 A pulpett Cloth of blacke silke and gold w''^ frindge. 
 Three tapestrie Cushions one Chaire of Cloth of golde. 
 Two old Carpetts to lay on the formes Two other to lay on 
 
 the grounde. 
 One deske of Iron 
 one Canopie of white and greenc satin wi'> a cloth to wrap 
 
 it in 
 Six guilded staues w^'^ knopps for the Canopie (whereof one 
 
 broken) 
 
 ' and : add. B. '■' Six : add. B. 
 
 "■ a : add. B. ■• the : B.
 
 256 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 A Canopie ^of red satten and two^ postes of wood to support 
 it w'^^ 4 Iron ^pinns for the seate for y^'^ Lo. Arch-bishop 
 to hang over.^ 
 
 [A new purple veluct cloth w^'^ gold fringe for the com- 
 munion table and one' other w' a less fringe luritten 
 betzvcen lines in A.] 
 
 a new Cushion of the same veluet 
 
 a new bible and "* service booke both covered w^'^ the same 
 veluet w^'"* bosses and Clapses {sic) of silver guilt and 
 a yallow cotten Cloth to wrap them in 
 
 Also a Scarlett Cope lyned w^ii miniuer left unto' the Church 
 by D'' Clarck. 
 
 4 books of anthem'"' written and 6 bookes of services prict 
 
 Communion Table Cloathes 
 
 '' One of needle worke, one of networke 
 three old ones of Diaper and one of holland 
 
 Three iron Chaires a forme and 2 beeres 
 
 A pulpet to remoue w^''' a paire of staires to it 
 
 one written booke of some of the Church statutes in 
 
 English 
 eight bookes for fastes also'' 
 6 bookes for the fift of November and six more for the 27 
 
 of March 
 foure '" great [long zvritteii over betiveen lines in A] Chestes 
 
 \\hereof one w^h two new^^ lockes 
 a great organ in the quire and another in the sermon house 
 a paire of old organ bcllowes in the vestry 
 A frame of two stalls 
 a forme and foure plankes in the North Church lie under 
 
 the Organs and in y^^ South side 5 boordes under 3 
 
 seates. 
 
 Item" in the prechers Chappell 
 
 ^- two tables a Chaire a Cushion and a carpet a wainscot settle 
 and a'-' chaire fastned to the Table and another veluet 
 Cushion. 
 
 1—' B deficient. 
 
 2 A new purple : add. B but co77tc.xt torn atvay icntil fringe for the com- 
 munion table. 
 
 ■' an : 4. ^ a : add B. 
 
 • Item : prcf. B. '' w"' B. 
 
 " In B ivritten over between lines. 
 
 onto ; B. 
 
 
 '■ anthems : B. 
 
 •■' om. B. 
 
 11 
 
 ' long" : add. B. 
 
 
 1- Item : 
 
 add. B.
 
 INVENTORIES UF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 257 
 
 Item^ in the sermon house 
 
 "^12 Cushions w''^ the Church armes 
 
 4 old psalmebookes and six new ones 
 
 3 Cushions more of an other fashion 
 
 a pulpett Cloth and Cushion 
 
 two Iron sconces 
 
 8 woodden candlestickes to the use of the prebendes 
 
 a little deske in the Organ loft 
 
 a veluet Cushion before Mr. Deanes seate 
 
 2 Cushions in his seate 
 
 3 long seates trimed w^'^ greene Cottens 
 twenty two formes 
 
 a Cushion in the Deanes wiues seate 
 
 and two old torne psalmebooks for the Ouire-men. 
 
 Item^ in the Auditt house 
 
 ^ a table and ^ Carpet 
 
 two formes corded w'^ greene,* 
 
 an Iron Chaire, 
 
 the Deane's Chaire and '^ [2 zvritten over betzveen lines in 
 
 A.] Cushions 
 2 Chests where''of one is called my lordes" Chest 
 an^ old trunke, Mr. Hoses box, 
 a paire of andirons 
 a fire shouell 
 a forke tonges bellowes 
 two brasse Candlestickes 
 one Chamberpot 
 2 leaden standishes 
 a loose window leafe of deale boordes, 
 
 Item^ in the darke house 
 
 ^ a frame for a herse 
 
 two greate Cables 
 
 2 greate^ ropes 
 
 2 tressells 
 
 a large beere 
 
 and^ an old Iron deske 
 
 ' om. B. - Item : add. B. ' a : addV>. 
 
 •• gre : rest ofwofdin B torn auniy a7id wantms: until Deane's Cliaire. 
 
 5 2 : B. 
 
 « — "^ B deficient : before Chest is bury his : [? Canterbury.] 
 
 ■ one : B. 
 
 S
 
 258 INVENTORIES OE CHRISTCUURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 one booke of parchment of Christnings and burialls 
 and two bunches of Churcli keyes 
 a frame to keepe lockctts for the use of the ghizier 
 ^ 3 old planckcs ioyned together 
 
 ^ and a barrel! of gunpowder and half a dozen poundes of 
 bullettes. 
 
 In ye black Chappell and in y^ Kings Lodginges above it. 
 
 ^ Item two paire of tressells'- and a cradle w^^^ furniture'^ 
 [for ye glazier addcd7\ 
 
 In the armorie. 
 
 Item eleaven white armes 
 
 8 footemens armes black 
 
 2 black armors for horsemen 
 
 one smale musket vv^i^ arest 
 
 19 pikes 
 
 10 horsmens staues 
 
 17 headpeices 
 
 eight sculls with red Capps 
 
 two sculls w'l^out capps 
 
 13 swordes 
 
 17 daggers 
 
 12 caleevers 
 
 2 pewternolls 
 8 browne bills 
 
 7 bowes 
 two pistolls 
 
 12 Jackets for * [light ivritten over and bctivccii lines 
 in A.] horsemen 
 
 8 sheaues of arrowcs 
 five beltes 
 
 3 flaskettes and 2 touchboxes 
 2 rowles of match 
 
 a cutlers vice and a beame and a forme. 
 
 •^A pistoll and a** pewternoll at M"'^ sympsons' 
 
 23 crosses to hang armor on 
 
 a graven'' headpeice and a holberd 
 
 one musket and 2 restes** 
 
 and 4 cases of pewternolls. 
 
 ' III B. tJiCsc items have a cross in tJie margin. 
 
 * tresses : B. ^ a table for y*" Glasier to work on : add B. in later hand. 
 
 * light : add. B. ^ — ^ struck throiii^h B. 
 
 " a : wantinq in 15. ' greene : B. « added in margin B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 259 
 
 In ye Byn of y^ bellfree. 
 
 Item a great Copper bason a mattock a shouelF [a ivritten 
 over and betiveen lines in A.] crowe an Iron frame for 
 the basen a splicing pin and a spud. 
 
 In Bellharry Steeple Vault. 
 
 Item a great Iron shiver a great Cable a great frame to hoise 
 up tymber and- a gin pole w^'i other lumber. 
 
 In the Flummery. 
 
 Item an old paire of bellowes to fyne ashes w^h a "'frame 
 a^ mould to cast leade in two pans w''^ a ladle an Iron 
 
 beame and scales 
 an Iron Cradle 
 
 3 stone weights w'h ringes and three wthout rings* 
 3 small leaden weights of 14 pound, 
 a leaden bason 
 an Iron forke 
 a frame w'^ tressells for a carpenter 
 
 2 paire of Iron bitches to draw up leade 
 two long rafters of old t}Mnbcr 
 
 a wodden horse broken 
 
 1 1 iuices to lay wood vppon and a shortc ladder 
 
 three strikes 
 
 two lockes w^'i keys 
 
 3 colls 
 one tubb 
 
 4 greate new^ benches and 3 lesser new benches for y^ 
 
 Carpenters vse 
 a grindstone and a frame for it. 
 
 In y^ Stillitorics & vndercroft. 
 
 Item one Carte 8 ladders one old Dore plated w'l^ Iron. 
 Item I plate for y*^ communion table 
 
 ' a crowe : add. B. - oin. B. 
 
 ■'' — ^ B. torn away. 
 
 * of a hundred forty and one pound : in B struck out., and there is written 
 over between lines instead of in text : with rings & three without rings : three 
 small leaden weights of fourteene pounds. 
 
 * Written over in B between lines. 
 
 S 2
 
 26o INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 2 flaggons double guilt one weighing 46 ounces & the 
 
 other 45 ounces and a halfe 
 two Cupp-s double guilt w^'^ Covers the one weighing 25 
 
 ounces and^ three quarters The other 23 ounces and^ 
 
 one quarter. 
 Two siluer basons parsell guilt y'' one weighing 20 ounces 
 
 one quarter and the other 19 ounces 3 quarters 
 2 greate Candlestickes and a greate siluer bason all guilt 
 
 not yet weighed. 
 All w''^ the premisses- are committed to the charge & 
 
 Custody of the sacrist in wittness whereof he hath 
 
 subscribed his hand, 
 [a silver chalice double guilt and two plates of silver double 
 
 guilt and a case to put them in : added in A. /// later 
 
 hand, but not in B.] 
 
 In^ plate & goodes in y^ Deanerie. 
 
 Item one white beare boule weighing ten ounces 
 
 one bason and E,wre parsell guilt 80 ounces. Di : 
 
 Two smale flagons w'^ couers one weighing 21 ounces 3 
 
 qrs and the other weighing 21 ounces. 
 One great guilt salt w^h a cover weighing 38 ounces 
 One little guilt bowle with a cover weighing^ 9 oz. 3 .qrs 
 
 Di: 
 A siluer Chafing dishc weighing 24 ounces. 
 
 [The beare bowl new (?) 10 ounces and 6 d weight and guilt 
 
 cup 12 ounces 12 dweights new i case 22 ounces 2 d.weights 
 
 & 12 graines the other 22 ounces less 3 dweights : added in 
 inai-gin.^ 
 
 ^Goodes in y^ Deanery. 
 
 Item^ w'h ye plate there to be answered by M"" Deane or 
 his assignes viz : one greate bible w''^ Bishop Parkers 
 armes vppon it and one carved standing deske. 
 
 In the Hall. 
 
 Item 24 [water zvritten over between lines\ buckettes 
 
 one long table and forme 
 
 The winscot and hanginges 
 
 an oyster boord w''^ a supporter of Iron. 
 
 1 om. B. 
 
 - those excepted are in y'^ Auditt House : ivrittai over between Irites in B. 
 
 ' Item : prcf. B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISrCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 261 
 
 In y^ Parlour. 
 
 Item winscott dornix hanginges and the painted clothes 
 aboue y^ hanginges. 
 
 In the great Chamber. 
 
 Item a long Table 
 
 three Chaires of old Copes 
 
 the wainscot 
 
 a Chest of Vialls 
 
 an Organ 
 
 the pictures of ^ Bp. Grindall Parker Cramner ^ Mountegue 
 
 Leicester Cecill Hatton Hunsden Mountioy Williams 
 
 Walsingham Howard Wells 
 A picture of Christ in Arras cloth 
 the Coates of armes of Whitgiftes and Deane Nevill 
 Picktures of Richard the 3. Henry 4 of France King James 
 
 of Scotland Christ and Nichodemus 
 A table of verces in letters of gold 
 the pictures of 7 Bishops & of 3 Deanes viz. Godwin 
 
 Rogers Nevill 
 A Map of England another of the taking of Cales a third 
 
 of the holy land and a'' fourth of the death and 
 
 pedigree of kings 
 an antient picture 
 two changeable pictures Judas betraying Christ Cain and 
 
 Abell 
 A perspcctiue* picture 
 a ship 
 a table w^^^ letters of golde beginning Abyssus &c. 
 
 In y<^ Gallery* y^ Wainscot a drum and two sticks. 
 
 In y« Buttery one Bin and stalls for bcare. 
 
 In ye Kitchen one dresser boord a long table and shelues. 
 
 In ye washhouse one leaden Cesterne 
 
 one long woodden trough old dressers and 2 coopes 
 
 and in y^ scullery one long leaden cesterne. 
 
 ' Queene Elizabeth : written over liiie B. 
 
 « Whitgwifte : written over Ii)ie B. ^ the . B. 
 
 * prospective : B. * Item : add. B.
 
 262 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In y-' Larder one Leaden powdering tubb 
 a hanging range for meat. 
 
 In y*-' Stillhouse. 
 
 Item^ one great presse and the the wainscot there wainscot 
 in two other Chambers over y^ buttery wainscot in the 
 Chamber over the Porters Lodge the best Chamber & 
 next to it bordered w' wainscot. 
 
 In ye Bakehouse and Pewterhouse. 
 
 Item^ shelues and boordes and^ at the Stable one Cesterne 
 of lead. 
 
 [a thick line drawn across] 
 
 A Note of y^ materials etc. belonging to y^ Church \in margin?^ 
 
 ^Inprimis 23 boordes great and smale in the vndercroft 
 3 more and a planke in the storehouse next the plummery 
 18 square peices greate and smale in the undercroft 
 16 sheetes of the same sawen stuffe 6 square peices more 
 
 in the storehouse next the plummery 
 a quantitie of Leade Lathes and some other smale peices 
 
 in the plummery 
 13 slobs in the plummery 
 3 short plankes there and one boorde and a peice of halfe 
 
 ynch boorde. 
 7 long peices of eaues boords in the storehouse next the 
 
 plummery 
 Lathes in y^ plummery 42 bundles 
 The pan couered w'^ Leade 
 and 3 outlettes at the end of the mould 
 and 2 pound weight of sodder 
 halfe an hundred of smale 4 foote payles 
 
 5 old slabs of tymber 
 all in the plummery 
 
 6 slabs w"iout neere the sawpit 
 
 two peices of the great oake and 4 lesse peices left of the 
 frame tymber. 
 
 ' om. B. 
 
 ' A note of y* tymber & other materials : written between lines. B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 263 
 
 One yard of deepe gold fringe 
 
 one )'ard and allmost a halfe of lesse frindg being remnant 
 
 of the new veluett alter Carpett frenges. 
 Item a remnant of lyning to wrap these Lace remnantes in. 
 
 Item some store of Organ mettle mencioned in y^ Organist 
 his bill Aprill 21. 1634 to serve against y^ next occasion 
 
 In the undercroft and stillitories divers stones in severall 
 
 places 
 two peices of Cant, tymber tymber boordes and other things 
 
 fitt for a stage \zvritten over between lijies\ 
 17 paveing tyles 
 some few others of a lesse size 
 divers peices of old tymber being remnantes of the former 
 
 old frame of the bells that was taken downe lonee a^oe. 
 
 Item in the Darkehouse divers sortes of free stones 
 
 two peeces of bell mettle 
 
 and 17 new deale boordes and divers nev.' peices of tymber. 
 
 Item in the black Chappell and y*^ Chamber aboue it 
 some Tarras diuers little peices of coullered glasse and two 
 
 peices of old timber 
 some remnants of old Leade about 100 wei"-ht 
 
 o 
 
 and spare stones since "Dr. Molins' house was repaired left 
 in M"' Casubons valtes and some ^before Air. Tunstalls." 
 
 Item two pieces of lead left since the worke about the shaft 
 hath been ended weighing about 100 weight more or 
 lesse. 
 
 Item sundry timber peices of the late frame of y*^ bells \^ is 
 now taken downe some yet standing in the Church and 
 other elswhere to be sett up afterwards in convenient 
 places. 
 
 GTataloguS librorum^ qui sunt in Bibliotheca Ecclesiae 
 Cantuariensis. 
 
 A Register of the Benefactors in parchment fol. 
 A great English Bible in great fol. 
 Augustini Opera Basil : vol. 7. fol. 
 Auerrois Commentar' vol. 12. 4to. 
 
 • some : add. B. '^ — -' indistinct in B. 
 ' — ■' lesser at IVr Timstall's dore : B. 
 
 * The catalogue of the books is on the verso both of A and B.
 
 264 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Chrysostomi Opera Etoniae vol. 8. fol. 
 
 leronymi Opera paris. vol. 3. fol. 
 
 Mencluci Comment, super Canon, general, io 
 
 Titlemanni Elucidatio in psalmos paris. fol. 
 
 Functij Chronologia et commentar. Witeborg. fol. 
 
 Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca Bodleiana 4to. 
 
 Zanchij Opera vol. 3. fol. 
 
 Clichtouij Elucidatorium Eccles. ad officium ccclesie per- 
 
 tinens planius opponendo fol. 
 Antonij Sadeelis disputaces Theolog. 4°. 
 King historia autore lacobo Sobio fol. 
 Platina de vitis Pontificum Editio verissima fol. 
 Alexandri Alensis Opera Colonia; Agrip. 8. 1. 2. foi. 
 Hadriani Sarauia^ tractatus Theol.^ Londini. fol. 
 Mirabilis liber prophetian- Reuelationesque demonstrans 4°. 
 Hen: Ainsworth coment. in Pentateuch, psalmos et Cant: 
 
 Canti: London, fol. 
 Bibliotheca Patrum vol. 16. fol. 
 Concilia generalia vol. 5. fol. 
 Biblia greca Francofurt. fol. 
 
 Arise Montani Biblia interlineria Edit. Plantino fol. 
 Apendix theatri Ortelij Maiori fol. 
 
 Liranus in Biblia cum glossa ordinar. edit. pans. vol. 5. 
 Ambrosii Opera Edit paris.' Vol. 2. 
 *Bernardi Opera Edit Basil. Vol. i." 
 Camdeni Britania lat. optimse editionis. 
 Gregorii opera vol. i. Edit. Basil. 
 Mesue Arabis Opera Medica vol.^ 
 Aristotelis Ethica et Politica 4°. vol. i.* 
 Arise Montani Biblia 8. vol. vocata Biblia hispani.'^ 
 
 Catalogus librorum Manuscriptor. 
 
 Solatium fidelis animae. Item Biblia vulg: siue Hieron. uno 
 
 vol. 
 i^gidius de Regimine principum. 
 Sententiae de Taneto liber incipit Cupientes' aliquid. et® 
 
 penuria et tenuitate mea^" etc. 
 
 ' editorum : add. B. In A a space is left. ''■ stc. 
 
 » Basil : B. "— ^ om. B. = i : add. B. 
 
 « out. B. 
 
 ' Hispaniae : B 
 
 S: Bernardi Opera: vol: I: fol. add B. 
 • cupiente : B. » de : B. 
 
 10 Written over between lines : B.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 265 
 
 Joh: Scoto super summam incipit Saniaritanus ille pijssimus 
 
 etc. 
 Eiusdem tomus 2dus incipit utrum Paradisus terrestris etc. 
 Eiusdem tomus 3 incipit utrum homini pro statu isto etc. 
 Stephani moralia in losuam &c. 
 Eiusdem moralia in Esaiam &c. 
 Eiusdem IVIor. in minores proph. 
 Hugo do sancto Claro in 4 tib sententiarum incipit. luxta 
 
 sanctorum traditionem &c. 
 Parv. decretal, cum comment, incipit licet lectura dimu. 
 
 Host. &c. 
 Item. Alia parv. decretal, cum comment, incipit Gregorius 
 
 Episcopus &c. 
 Othonis Opera. 
 Wallensis in Exodum &c. 
 Item ^interpret 
 
 Nominum Heb: uno vol. 
 luil de Northwick super Esaiam 
 Rich[ardus] de media villa in sufiias incipit in nova signa 
 
 etc. 
 Questiones Juris incipit Prima nota quod ubi aliquis &c. fol. 
 Liber decretal, de vita et honestate Monach. fol. 
 Rob. Grosthead. Correctiones totius Bibl. &c. 
 Liber luridicus de contradictorijs &c. 
 yElphegi liber summarum. 
 Tabula speculi Historialis. 
 Liber liturgicus qui incipit sanctificamini &c. 
 lohes Hispani casus decretales 
 Pars Oculi Sacerdotum. 
 
 \_Endoi'sed in later hand.'] 
 
 Inventory of the Goods of the Church in the hands of 
 the Dean and Sacrist 1634 
 
 J. W. L. 
 
 ' Remigii : B. 
 In margin : maser ij basens of silver a standing cupp. The margin is 
 torn, and only these ixjords can be read. The entry is struck out by diagonal 
 lines.
 
 266 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 XVI. 
 INTRODUCTION TO INVENTORY OF 1662. 
 
 With the making of the inventory of 1634 the first 
 muttering-s of the storm of the great rebelHon can be 
 heard ; and before another inventory of the goods of 
 Christchurch, Canterbury, can be drawn out, the greater 
 part of the furniture set clown in the former inventory 
 will have been destroyed. 
 
 The beginnings of this destruction were in August, 
 1 642, and we are told of the deeds done by the troopers 
 under Colonel Edwin Sandys^ in a letter by the Sub-dean 
 of Canterbury, Dr. Paske, intended to be laid before 
 Parliament. The followingr extract from the letter oives 
 Its pith : 
 
 Colonell Saudis arriving here with his troops on Friday 
 night .... Serjeant-Major 6b<r/'a///^came to me, and, 
 in the name of the Parliament, demanded to see the Armes 
 of the Church, and tiic Store-powder of the County, which 
 I presently shewed him, when he possessed himselfe of the 
 Keyes .... When the Souldiers entiing the Church 
 and Quire, Giant-like began a fight with God himselfe, 
 overthrew the Communion Table, toare the Velvet Cloth 
 from before it, defaced the goodly Skreen or Tabernacle 
 worke, violated the Monuments of the dead, spoiled the 
 Organs, brake downe the ancient Railes and Seates, with 
 the brazen Eagle that did support the Bible, forced open 
 the Cupboords of the Singing men, rent some of their 
 Surplices, Gownes, and Bibles, and carryed away others, 
 mangled all our Service-bookes, and Books of Common- 
 prayer, bestrowing the whole Pavement with the Leaves 
 
 ' This is his name in White Kennett's Life of Mr. Somner, p. 93, prefixed 
 to W'ilham Somner's Treatise of the Roman Torts and Forts, Oxford, 1693, 
 ed. l)y James IJrome.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 267 
 
 thereof .... they further exercised their maHce 
 upon the Arras hangings in the Quire, representing the 
 whole Story of our Saviour.^ 
 
 It will be seen that the cause of the entrance of the 
 soldiers into the church was the presence of arms and 
 ammunition which the inventory of 1634 tells us were in 
 the charge of the Chapter. An attempt is made by 
 Culmer to answer this letter, and to put a favourable 
 construction upon these doings of the troopers ; but the 
 apology will only be accepted by a Puritan. It is after 
 this sort : 
 
 On the 26. of August, 1642. Some zealous Troopers, 
 after they had (by command) taken powder and ammuni- 
 tion out of that Malignant Cathedrall, they fought (it 
 seemes) with the Cathedrall Gods, named in that printed 
 letter : namely Altars, Images, Service-booke, Pricke-soug 
 booke, Surplisse, and Organs; for they hewed the Altar- 
 railes all to pieces, and threw their Altar over, and over, 
 and over, downe the three Altar-steps, and left it lying with 
 the heeles upward : they slasht some Images, Crucifixes, 
 and Pricke-song bookes, and one greesie service-book, and 
 a ragged smock of the whore of Rome, called a Surplisse, 
 and began to play the tune of the zealous sonldier, on the 
 Organs or case of whistles which never were in tune since.- 
 
 After this, the Chapter naturally tried to hide their 
 plate, hangings, and painted windows from the zealous 
 troopers. Some of these, as the back cloth of the altar, 
 were found. " Blew Dick "^ tells us with olee of 
 
 & 
 
 ' See abo\'e, p. 174. T/w Copy of a letter sent to an Jionoiirablc Lord, by 
 Doctor Paske, Siibcicane of Canterbury. London, printed September 9, 1642. 
 4°. pp. 4 and 5. It is dated Christ-Church Cant. Aug. 30. 1642. It is said 
 to have appeared also in Mercitrius Riisticus 1648. The "honourable 
 Lord" was the Earl of Holland. {Antidotuni Citltnerianum, Oxford, 
 H. Hall, 4°. 1644. p. 2 in ni.) 
 
 - Richard Culmer, Cathedrall A'e^ocs from Canterbury, London, 1644. 
 p. 19. In 1635 the Lieutenant from Norwich heard "the fayre organ, sweet, 
 and tunable, and a deep and ravishing consort of Quiristers, and a snowy 
 croud of the Kings Schoilers, which were fifty in number." (British 
 Museum, MS. Lansdowne 213. fo. 352. also Gentleman's A/agacine, 
 November, 1858. p. 485.) 
 
 =' White Kennett {op. cit. p. 15) says " by the instigation oi R/ehard Culmer 
 call'd in contempt ' Blew Dick' . . . this stately Cathedral was storm'd 
 and pillag'd." White Kennett attributes to Somner the saving of most of 
 the treasures, writings, and ornaments (see p. 93.)
 
 268 INVENTORIES OE CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 the (now discovered) rich silver Basin and Ewer, and other 
 sumptuous common Plate of that Cathedrall Corporation, 
 used at Cathedrall Feasts : and the Altar-Basin, and 
 Candlesticks (if they be not conveyed to Oxford) will 
 helpe that worke.' 
 
 The rich silver basin and ewer no doubt correspond 
 to the *' one bason and Ewre parsell guilt 80 ounces Di " 
 which were in the deanery^ with the flagons, salt, and 
 bowl, described in the inventory of 1634. These doubt- 
 less disappeared quickly. But part of the altar plate 
 was more successfully hidden : 
 
 And as for their Altar-trinkets, their silver Basin and 
 Candlesticks, the Prelates had hid them from the Troopers, 
 but afterwards sold them to a Merchant in Canterbury, for 
 feare they should be seized on for the publique defence of 
 the Kingdome. But when they heard that a sack posset 
 was eaten out of their Cathedrall Altar-Basin, they were 
 much offended that a consecrated Basin should be so 
 prophaned, and thereupon bought againe their Basin and 
 Candlesticks, which, some affirme, had tallow-candles in 
 them while the sack posset was in eating.^ 
 
 The Arundel chalice and two plates, if not the altar 
 candlesticks, have come down to our times. 
 
 Whether the font were destroyed at this time seems 
 uncertain. At Candlemas, 1642, they had begun to pull 
 down the images of the twelve apostles, the four evange- 
 lists, the dove within the cover, and our Lord. Culmer 
 in the following passage speaks of 1641, which is old 
 style : 
 
 On their Candlemas day at night 1641. Those con- 
 secrated Images about their new Cathedral Font were all 
 demolished, and taken away, they knew not how, nor by 
 whom that purification was observed, without Candles : But 
 a few days after, some of those Idols were found in that 
 Cathedral, in a Pidpit^ wJiere a Sennon had not bin preached 
 neer 20. years before. . . . they could not endure the 
 pulling down of those 18. Idols 0/ wood and stone.* 
 
 ' Richard Culmer, op. cit. p. 12. 
 - See above p. 259. 
 2 Culmer, op. cit. p. 20. 
 ^ Culmer, op. cit. p. 17.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 269 
 
 Of this profane act the chapter seem to have com- 
 plained to the King as he passed through to Dover with 
 the Queen : 
 
 they carryed him to the Font and shewed him the 
 lamentable condition and ruine of their new consecrated 
 Font, and where those Images had stood about it. 
 
 Whether the font were completely destroyed by the 
 troopers under Colonel Sandys, or during the " more 
 orderly and thorough Reformation " which began on 
 December 13th, 1643, ^^ not known. But it was 
 destroved durino^ the troubles of the ercat rebellion. 
 William Somner then piously ''enquired with great 
 diligence for all the scatter'd pieces, bought them up at 
 his own charge, kept them safe till the King's return, 
 and then delivered them to that worthy Bishop ; who 
 reedified his Font, and made it a greater beauty of 
 holyness ; giving to Mr. Somner the just honour, to 
 have a daughter of his own first baptized in it."' 
 
 There is evidence of Somner's good acts preserved at 
 Canterbury. 
 
 f"Item to him w^h he had payd for 
 I bringing the font bowle & 
 
 + Willm. Somner<( other materials of stone & 
 
 I yron from y^ town into y^ 
 
 [_ church ... ... ...£o 10 O" 
 
 The font remained in its place in the second bay 
 of the north side of the nave until the time of the 
 paving of the nave in 1789, when the font was moved 
 into the lavatory, which Gostling imagined to be the 
 baptistery.^ There it remained until 1896, when it was 
 brought back again to its old place. 
 
 When the chapter returned to their church at the 
 King's happy restoration in 1660, they found occasion 
 
 * White Kennett, op. cit. p. 94. 
 
 ■^ Treasurer's Accmciit Book., 1662-3, fo. 61. 
 
 ^ William Gostling, ^4 Walk in and about .... Canterbury., Canterbury, 
 1777, sec. ed. pp. 185 and 39S. See also edition of 1825, p. 205 n., which 
 gives date of removal of font as 1787. See Edward Hasted, History of . . . 
 Kent, Canterbury, 1799, vol. iv. p. 520.
 
 270 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCIIURCH, CANTERBUKY. 
 
 for a large expenditure. In a paper which they drew up 
 at the time, but which they do not appear to have 
 published, they state that they found 
 
 the Quire stripped and robbed of her faire and goodly 
 hangings, her Organ and Organ-loft : the Communion 
 table, of the best and chiefest of her furniture and 
 ornaments, with the raile before it, and the skreen of 
 Tabernacle-worke, richly overlayd with gold, behind it. 
 . . our very Common Seale, our Registers and 
 other books, together with our Records and evidences of all 
 sorts seized and distracted ; many of them irrecoverably 
 lost, and the rest not retrived without much trouble and 
 
 cost to carry on the work of perfecting the 
 
 furniture of our Quire with an Organ, and of our Cc^mmu- 
 nion table with Plate and other necessary utensils and 
 ornaments which partly by contract, partly by the estimate 
 of judicious persons we find cannot cost us lesse than 
 iJi,ooo OS. od} 
 
 Accordingly we find sums expended upon refurnishing 
 the church and quire in the year following the restora- 
 tion. The amount spent upon the linen seems consider- 
 able even for those days ; the damask and diaper must 
 have been handsome and large, for no doubt the ancient 
 custom was followed of enveloping the whole of the 
 Lord's table in linen at the time of the celebration of 
 the Eucharist. They can be identified in the inventory 
 of the communion cloathes, "two thereof damaske, one 
 dyaper." The purple covered kneeling stools round the 
 communion table are no doubt those for which 4 yards of 
 kersey were bought. The two large flagons and the 
 two chalices, now preserved in the Treasury, were 
 probably bought with part of the ^132 laid out upon 
 plate. They appear first of all in the inventory ; the 
 third of the silver chalices gilt, being probably the 
 Arundel chalice that had happily survived the storm, 
 together with two small silver plates. The hangings for 
 the choir were expensive, and they appear towards the 
 end of the inventory as fair hangings about the 
 
 ' Archcpologia Caniiana, 1876, vol. x. p. 95. The document is said to be 
 in the handwriting of Somner.
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 19 
 
 7 
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 271 
 
 communion table and behind the Dean's and Prebends' 
 seats. The " common prayer book to be kept as a 
 record " with " the great seale to it " is beyond all doubt 
 the sealed book still in the library. 
 
 Officium Sacristae.^ 
 
 For diaper for a table cloth for the Communion £ s. d. 
 table 180 
 
 XXX 
 
 For damask linncn for two table cloths for the 
 Communiontable 
 
 XXX 
 
 For the worke about the Three table cloths 
 
 XXX 
 
 For setting- matts in the sermon house per bill 
 
 XXX 
 
 Payd Mr. John Tresser for 4 yards of dyed~| 
 
 purple carsey at 4-r. a yard for the com- > o 16 o 
 munion stooles ... ... ... j 
 
 XXX 
 
 For 14 woodden candlesticks for the Quire ... o 4 o 
 In the next year the following items appear : 
 
 Aug. 7. 
 Pa}-d to Mr. Deane w^'^ he had layd out for y^' Church. 
 
 £ s. d. £ s. d. 
 
 + for plate for ys Comunion table 132 o o' 
 
 + for hangings for y*-" choire ... 52 5 o 
 
 4- Crimson damaske ... ... 800 
 
 4- Fringe... ... ... ... 17 8 o 
 
 + Sarsnet ... .. ... 018 6 
 
 + The Cotnon prayer book to 
 
 be kept as a record ... 2 00 
 
 + The great seale to it ... 700 
 
 -»- Tapers ... ... ... o 10 8 
 
 + Boxes chords & carriage ... i i 3 J 
 
 In all two hundred twenty one pounds, three shillings, 
 and five pence, as appeareth by y^ seuerall bills. ^ 
 
 ' Treasurer^ s Accounts ffoiu Nov. 29, 1660, to No7'. 29, 1661, p. 87. 
 - Computus Thesaurarii pro anno incJioato ad festum D. Caiharinae 1662 
 ei terniinato ad idem festum 1663, p. 52. (Treasury, Canterbury.) 
 
 >- 221 3 5
 
 272 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 To speak of the inventory Itself more at length : 
 No altar candlesticks are mentioned among the plate ; 
 this in itself hardly decides that the present candlesticks 
 were new after 1662, as it may be that they were not 
 brought out from their hiding place until after the 
 making of the inventory. They were certainly in use 
 in 1667, for there is in the Treasurer's account book that 
 year under Officmvi Sacristae (p. 74) : 
 
 June 7. For soddering and guilding again one 
 
 of our candlesticks ... ... ... ... £\ 'io o 
 
 The new brass Eagle also is not entered. It bears 
 an inscription : Giilicluius Burivnghcs Londini me fecit 
 anno Domini 1663, and in the Account books there are 
 these entries for that year : 
 
 For the Carryage of y*^ Brazen Eagle from 
 
 Feuersham to Canterbury per bill at 2 ... ;^o 9 6 
 To Mr. Deane for the Eagle a remainder Feb. 18 14 14 o^ 
 
 The reading FeversJiam may be disputed ; there was 
 water carriage from London to Feversham, and thence 
 the eagle might be carried by land to Canterbury. 
 
 Later on there are entries for cleaning the eagle : 
 
 Dec. 27. To Dan. Wood for y'^ scouring of y^ 
 
 Eagle ^050* 
 
 In Dart's engraving of the choir the eagle is shown^ ; 
 and it is in the inventory of 1752, but not in that of 1761 ; 
 and we know that in 1772 the eagle had been removed 
 into the library^ ; but it now stands again in the choir. 
 
 In the meantime until the new eagle could come from 
 London the chapter had to be content with " One deske 
 in the middle of the Quier with a greate Bible upon it." 
 
 The " One other kneelino- deske in the middle of the 
 
 ^5 
 
 1 Cojiiputiis TJiesaurarii pro anno inch onto ad fcstwn D. Catharinae 1663 
 ct terminato ad idem festian 1664, p. 65. 
 
 = Treasurer's Accounts, 1688, fo. 49 b. 
 
 ^ See p. 31. of J. Dart's History and Antiquities . . . of Caitterbiiry, 
 London, 1726. 
 
 ^ An Historical Description of the Cathedral and Mctropolitical Church of 
 Christ, Canterbury, Canterbury, 1772, p. 80.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 273 
 
 Ouier with two kneeling Cushens " is no doubt for the 
 Litany ; and the two cushions show that it was still sung 
 by two clerks according to the mediaeval custom. " The 
 Deske where the Litany was usually sung " (an entry 
 which is found later on) was covered with a purple cloth. 
 Many other things had purple covers, kneeling stools 
 and cushions at the Dean's and Prebends' stalls with 
 hangings, and there were four purple velvet cushions 
 and a new velvet purple cloth for the pulpit in the 
 sermon house. 
 
 This must be the cloth to which the following entry 
 refers : 
 
 July 22. By order of Mr. Dean and Chapter to 
 
 him y* brought y^ pulpit cloth and Cushion ^o 10 o^ 
 
 and later 
 
 + Oct. 17 to Mr. Trusser by bill for y^ purple 
 
 cloth ouer y^ Desk ... ... ... ...^211 o- 
 
 The " One greate Sattin Canopy coulered greene and 
 White with a greate silke fringe of the same couler " 
 continues in successive inventories up to 1761. 
 
 The " One piece of Hanging partely wrought with 
 gold like Birds " may be a piece of mediaeval stuff that 
 has survived the destructive processes of the rebellion. 
 
 The " Two new common prayer books for the Com- 
 munion table" may very likely be those bought by 
 Mr. Dean : 
 
 Nov. 24. to Mr. Deane for two Common prayer 
 
 books i^i 12 o'' 
 
 From their price it would seem that they were well 
 bound. The " eight new service Bookes with other 
 five " may have been some of these : 
 
 Sept. 18. To Mr. Deane for Common Prayer 
 
 bookes &c. as by Bill ... ... ... ^i 15 
 
 ' Account Book for 1661-2, p. 50. (Treasury, Canterbury.) 
 * Account Book for 1662-3, p. 61. 
 •' Computus., 1662-3, P- 61. 
 ■• Idem. 1661-2, p. 52. 
 
 T
 
 274 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 The " two silver Rodds for the Vergerers " are in use 
 to this day. 
 
 The armoury has now only the frame for the armour. 
 The chapter probably felt that in 1642 they had enough 
 of military engines in their keeping. 
 
 No vestments of any kind are entered in this inventory, 
 though we know that material for surplices was bought. 
 
 payd also for 40 ells of Holland bought of 
 Mr. Beane at 3^-. 2d. the ell for 4 new 
 surplices ... ... ... ... ... £6 6 8^ 
 
 This inventory is written on one membrane i8f 
 inches long by yf inches wide ; the paragraph " In the 
 Preachers Chappell " has been cut across and somie part 
 of the inventory is here lost. It is continued on the 
 verso, not however in the same hand. After the last 
 signature of William Jordan there is written vertically 
 close to the left edge: "Inventory of the Church Goods, 
 1662." It is to be found at Canterbury. 
 
 The making of this inventory is duly recorded in the 
 Chapter books : 
 
 + Oct. 17. for drawing y^ inuentory and 
 
 engrossing it in a payr of indentures ,.. £0 12 6 
 
 In the margin is written : Willni. Jordan Junio'"." 
 
 ECCLESIA 
 CIIRISTl CaNTUAR 
 
 1662. 
 
 ^n Inbcntarji Indented and made the eight day of January 
 Anno domini One thousand six hundred sixty and two of all 
 the Goods, Utensells, Hangings, Plate and other Implem's 
 and materialls belonging to the said Church in the custody of 
 Mr. William Jordan Sacrist, taken by Doctor Belke Doctor in 
 divinitie one of the Prebends and Treasurer of the same Church 
 in the presence of the said William Jordan Sacrist and James 
 Hudson subsacrist : 
 
 ' Computus Thesaiirarii pro anno incJwato ad f est tun D. Catharmac 1663 
 et terminate ad idem festitm 1664, p. 49. Officium Sacristae. 
 " Account Book, 1662-3, fo. 61.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 275 
 
 In prfmiS. In the vestry : 
 
 Two greate silver Flaggons double guilt, 
 
 Three silver Chalices guilt two of them with Covers, 
 
 Two small silver Plates, 
 
 Two small silver Basons, 
 
 Fowre Communion Table cloathes, two thereof dammaske 
 
 one dyaper and one old wrought one 
 Two dammaske Napkins 
 
 Two small cloathes one dammaske thother dyaper, 
 One greate sattin Canopy coulered greene and White with 
 
 a greate silke fringe of the same couler, 
 Fowre new purple velvet Cushens, 
 Fowre old kneeling Cushens 
 
 One pecce of Hanging partely wrought with gold like Birds, 
 One old woven Chayre, 
 One removeing Pulpett with an assent upto it and a 
 
 cloath about it with a fringe 
 Fowreteene old Bucketts [removed viij Mr. Deanes Hall 
 
 written over betzveen lines\ 
 Fowre greate Chests with two old Carpets lying over the 
 
 same Chests and another small peece of the same. 
 One new Hare Trunck locked 
 Two silver Rodds for the [J/6", deficient at end of line'] 
 
 Vergerers 
 Fifteene old Iron Barrs, 
 
 One pewter Chamber \_MS. deficient at end of line] Baskett 
 And one shovle : 
 
 In the Ouier 
 
 Item One Communion Table and an old Cloath, 
 
 Two kneeling purple cloath stooles to the same, 
 
 Twenty singing Bookes for the use of the Ouier 
 
 Eight new service Bookes for the use of the Deane and 
 
 Prebends 
 five new service Bookes more for the use of the Ouier, 
 One Deske in the middle of the Ouier with a greate Bible 
 
 upon it. 
 One other kneeling Deske in the middle of the Ouier with 
 
 two kneeling Cushens, 
 Eight new purple Cloath Cushens lying before the Deane 
 
 and Prebends with hanging Cloath of each side of the 
 
 same with a fringe, 
 
 T 2
 
 276 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Twenty two new greene Cushens for the Kings Scollers 
 One old Cupbood to put Candles in, 
 And three long foormes : 
 
 In the sermon howse : 
 
 Item One Pulpett with a new velvett purple Cloath wrought 
 
 with a greate fringe and a greate Cushen of the same, 
 Seaven Cushens in the Deane and Prebends seats. 
 And three Psalme bookes there, 
 Thirteene long foormes, 
 One old Curtaine and rod before the sermon howse doore 
 
 In the Rownd place 
 
 Item One old Table 
 and one foorme 
 
 In the sowth He of the Quier 
 
 Item five long foormes, 
 and a greate red Lather, 
 and an old broken Pulpett : 
 
 In the Armory 
 Item Twenty six Deale Boords, with the frame for Armor 
 
 In the North He 
 Item Three long foormes and an old Box 
 
 In the Darke house 
 
 Item Two payre of shivers with Ropes to them. 
 
 Two long matts to kneele on before the Communion Table, 
 
 Fowre long foormes 
 
 and some old Lumber : 
 
 In the Place by the sowth doore 
 
 Item A Cradle for the Glasiers use 
 and two old Beers : 
 
 In the sowth He in the Body of the Church 
 Item Two greate long Benches :
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 277 
 
 In the Preachers Chappell : 
 
 Item One Table and Carpett, 
 Three Cushens, 
 One Chayre, 
 Two 
 
 [Here the roll is cut across and ends abruptly. It is endorsed 
 the first line being cut in half, and therefore the reading is more 
 or less conjectural.] 
 
 Item A faire Hanging with a gold fringe over the Commu- 
 nion Table, 
 alsoe another upon the Communion Table 
 Alsoe another round about the Communion Table, 
 One large Carpett before the Communion table. 
 Two Matts at each end of the Communion table, 
 Fowre new peeces of Hangings behinde the Deane and 
 
 prebends seats, 
 A purple Cloath with a silke fringe upon the Deske where 
 the Letany is usually sung : 
 
 In the undercraft. 
 
 Item Ten long scaffolling poles : 
 
 Will : Jordan. 
 
 In the Vestry. 
 Mourning for y^ Pulpit, and for the Arcbishops [sic) seat. 
 
 In the Choire. 
 Two new common prayer books for the Communion table. 
 
 In the dark house. 
 Four chests full of glass, and a fift neer halfe full. 
 
 In the Plumbery. 
 
 Of lead ashes two or three bushells. 
 
 Will : Jordan. 
 
 J. W. L.
 
 278 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 XVII. INTRODUCTION TO THE INVEN- 
 TORY OF 1689. 
 
 This inventory of 1689 has a great resemblance to 
 that of 1662 as well as to those of the eighteenth century 
 that have come down to us. Most of the items of 1662 
 can be recognised in all these. Of the more important 
 additions in 1689 to the inventory of 1662 these may be 
 noticed. 
 
 "One Bible with plate covers double gilt with a case," 
 will be the Bible which now lies upon the High Altar at 
 the foot of the Cross. This was the gift of Dr. Turner, 
 when Dean, of whom it is said, " he dedicated to the 
 Holy Table in this Cathedral a costly Folio Bible with 
 covers of beaten silver double gilt."^ The covers are 
 bound together by two clasps of plate. On both covers 
 are enofraved the arms of Christchurch ; above which 
 on the upper cover is : ' Verbum Domini manet m 
 ^eternum, i.Petr. i. 25.' On the lower: ' Omnis 
 scriptura divinitus inspirata, 2. Tim. iii. 16.' The 
 corners have cherubs' heads engraved in them. The 
 version is that of King James 1. and it contains the 
 deutero-canonical books. The edition was printed at 
 Cambridge by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, William 
 Marshall engraving the title page. The date is given 
 on the title page of the new testament as 1638. 
 
 This bible, bound in precious metal, is placed in the 
 inventory among the vestry stuff that would be set on 
 the altar during a celebration of the Eucharist, much in 
 the same way that the mediaeval texhts was set on the 
 altar. This practice survived in many cathedral churches 
 until lately, when the restorer, not taking the pains to 
 understand its history, abolished the custom. Both 
 
 ' Henry John Todd, Some accottnt of the Deans of Canterbury., Canter- 
 bury, 1793. p. 128.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 279 
 
 candlesticks and bible are now always on the altar of 
 Christchurch. 
 
 In connexion with Dr. Turner's bible may be noted 
 among the " Bookes belonging to the church " two 
 prayer books which are " at the Altar," and described as 
 " bound in Turky leather with gilt leaves the one redd 
 the other blew," These continue in the eigrhteenth 
 century inventories, noted amongst the furniture of the 
 quire as Dr. Finch's gift. In the manuscript book of 
 benefactors they are described as follows : 
 
 The Hon. Dr. Leopold Finch gave two large Common Prayer 
 Books in folio of the Oxford print Curiously bound w^ii lye on 
 the top of the Altar.' 
 
 One of these books may apparently be seen on the 
 south side of the altar in Dart's plate of \']26'.- 
 
 " A faire frame with the comandements written in 
 gold over the Communion Table " is not in the inventory 
 of 1662, which had " a faire Hanging with a gold fringe 
 over the Communion Table." The frame with the 
 commandments may be a substitute for this fair hang- 
 ing ; or for this " One eilded Sun with three carved and 
 gilded cherubs " which in 1689 lay in Henry IV.'s chapel. 
 This gilded sun was taken down in 1680 by Dr. John 
 Tillotson, who, in 1672, succeeded Dr. Turner as Dean. 
 It is likely to have been put up by Dr. Turner, or with 
 his approval, and it may possibly have been intended to 
 replace the cloth of purple with rays, destroyed in 1642 
 in the beginnings of the rebellion, at the instigation of 
 ' Blue Dick.'^ Dr. Tillotson's sympathies would have 
 been with those who thought it undesirable to keep the 
 sun on the reredos if it were an offence to the weak 
 consciences of the Puritans ; and it appears that he did 
 not escape censure from Churchmen for his act. In the 
 
 • Y. II. 6. in the chapter library. 
 
 ' J. 'Da.rt, Nis/ojy and Aniiqi/itics of /he Cathedral Church of Canici'biiry, 
 London, 1726. pi. 31. 
 
 ' See above, pp. 247 and 266.
 
 28o INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 langfuaofe of the Puritans it would have been "sinful 
 compliance " had his action been in favour of anything 
 prelatical. 
 
 This removal took place in 1680: for Dr. Tillotson 
 writes on October 19th excusing himself to Robert 
 Nelson, the sturdy churchman, as to a report which he 
 tells him has been spread to the Dean's disadvantage. 
 
 " We only took down the sun over the skreen behind the 
 communion table, which was done with so little noise, that 
 several days pass'd before it was taken notice of to be remov'd ; 
 and nothing done besides, not so much as the table stirr'd out 
 of its place. I have often heard the same, which you write, but 
 have no great reason to be troubled, when I consider how 
 undeserved a share of good report I have had the fortune to 
 meet withal."^ 
 
 This sun remained near King Henry's tomb till the 
 end of the eighteenth century. Hasted speaks of it 
 there as " ^ large sun or glory, gilded, having in the 
 middle the letters I.H.S. set up on high, supported by 
 cherubiuis with expanded wings, painted and gilt, over 
 the screen of the altar. ... it now lies in the small 
 chapel on the side of King Henry IV.'s tomb."- 
 
 " One large gilt branch kept now in the vestry to bee 
 hung in a rope by the Eagle in winter time " may be 
 seen very plainly hanging over the Eagle in Dart's 
 plate.^ It is commonly said to have been the gift of Sir 
 Anthony Aucher, and it bears the arms of Christchurch 
 on one side of the globe that supports the sconces, and 
 the arms of Aucher, impaling Hewitt, on the other. 
 The Aucher shield bears the red hand of a baronet. 
 The baronetcy was created in 1666; the branch must 
 therefore have been made sometime between 1666 and 
 
 ' Thomas Birch, Life of the most revere7id Dr. John Tillotson., Lord 
 ArchbisJiop of Canterbury, London, 1752, p. 80. The removal may have 
 been about July, for on the 27th he writes to Robert Nelson, " sorry that 
 anything of mine should occasion so much talk and noise." (p. 70). 
 
 - Edward Hasted, History . . . of Kent, Canterbury 1799. Vol. i v. 
 p. 526. note z. See also Gostling, A walk in . . . Canterbury, Canter- 
 bury, first ed. 1774. p. 164. 
 
 =' Dart, loc. cit
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 281 
 
 1685, in which year it is spoken of in the accounts, and 
 a sum paid from the chapter to Richard Addison who 
 made it. 
 
 Nov. 19 to Dr. Beueridge which he had payd to To {sic) 
 Richard Addison who made the Branch as by bill. 5. 14. o. 
 
 and a Httle later on^ we have : 
 
 Feb. 5, 1685, payd to y'' Brasier for taking down and wrap- 
 ping up y" Branch to be layd up. 00. 2. 06. 
 
 After Candlemas, which falls on the second of Feb- 
 ruary, artificial light was no longer needed for evensong, 
 and the branch was taken down, having apparently been 
 hung up on All Saints' day. A like entry is found 
 nearly every year in the account books.'"^ 
 
 It has two rows of sconces, each row having 12 
 sconces. Gervase tells us that in his time there hung in 
 the middle of the quire a corona which held twenty-four 
 candles, just the same number as this branch.' 
 
 This branch now hangs in the library. In recent 
 times it used to hang in St. Andrew's Chapel. 
 
 Gostling speaks of it as hanging in the choir, next to 
 the prebendal stalls.* It is hard to understand why it 
 should have been taken away. 
 
 " The picture of King Charles the first over the doore 
 between the Deans and vice-deanes stalls " is also new 
 in 1689. It continues in the inventories in the same 
 place as long as we have information. The presence of 
 the portrait is doubtless due to the piety of Dr. Turner. 
 But it also is now cast out of the quire and hangs in the 
 library. The composition has evidently been much 
 influenced by the frontispiece to Eikon Basilike. The 
 veneration of King Charles continued after the death of 
 Dr. Turner, while Dr. Tillotson was clean, for we find 
 in the chapter accounts for 1679-80, p. '^%. 
 
 ^ Account Book of \(:>Zt^.{o. ^T. 
 - Account Book 0/168^-6. fo. 43. 
 
 * Historical JVorks of Get vase of Cantcrbi/?y, Rolls Series, edited by W. 
 Stubbs, 1879. vol. i. p. 13. 
 
 * Gostling, op. cit. first ed. p. 189.
 
 282 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 May 12. To Thomas Burnley for putting up the mourning 
 the 30th of Jan. about the pulpit and taking it down with hooks 
 and nails as by bill o. 3. o. 
 
 The indifference of the inventory maker to historical 
 considerations is well shown in the description of St. 
 Augustine's chair, one of the most precious relics now 
 left at Canterbury. "One stone chair" is the laconic 
 note. This is the first mention of the chair in the inven- 
 tories. It is marked among ' the upper monuments,' 
 and the succeeding inventories note it in the same place. 
 Gostling^ notes ' the patriarchal chair ' standing between 
 ' the altar and chapel of the Holy Trinity.' At the 
 enthronization of Archbishop Tenison in 1695 Battely 
 who " was present at that joyful solemnity " says that 
 the Archbishop was " inthronized by Mr. Archdeacon in 
 a Stone-Chair, which is placed upon an ascent behind 
 the Communion-Table, (called by the Ancients, The 
 Patriarchal Chair)F' It is shown in this place in Dart's 
 plan.^ 
 
 The armoury seems now to have passed altogether 
 from its original use, though the frame for the armour 
 remains. There is no great change in its contents so 
 long as we have information, but the two surplices have 
 disappeared in 1735. Gostling says it formerly had 
 racks for abundance of pikes : later on it became the 
 singing school and vestry of the choristers.'* 
 
 The re-appearance of the name Martyrdom as part ot 
 the church may be noticed, and chapter house and 
 sermon house are both spoken of. 
 
 This inventory is written on one piece of vellum 
 indented, 22^ inches by 8^ inches, endorsed in a hand 
 almost contemporary " Inventory of the goods of the 
 Church, 1689." The document is at Canterbury. 
 
 ' Gostling, op. cit. first ed. p. 170. 
 
 ~ William Somner's Antiquities of Cantcrliitry, edited by Nicolas Bat- 
 teley, London, 1703. Part ii. Ch. viii. p. 86. 
 ^ J. Dart, op. cit. pi. 2i3- 
 * Gostling, op. cit. first ed. p. 150.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 283 
 
 ECCLESIA \ An Inventary Indented and made the third day 
 Christi [-of November 1689 of all the goods and utensiles 
 
 CANTr 1689. j hangings plate and other Implements and 
 Materialls belonging to y^^ said Church taken by Simion 
 Deuorax Clarke the sacrist for y^ yeare ensueing. 
 
 In the Vestry, 
 
 Inprimis two greate siluer Flaggons double guilt with 
 
 cases, 
 One siluer challice gilt with the motto concordia cum 
 
 candore, 
 Two small siluer Basons 
 
 Two greate silver Candlestickes gilt with cases, 
 One faire silver Bason with a case. 
 Two standing silver cupps with gilt covers and cases. 
 Two silver patins gilt with cases. 
 One Bible with plate covers double gilt with a case. 
 Fowre Communion Table-clothes two whereof damaske, one 
 
 Diaper, and one wrought one. 
 Two damaske Napkins, 
 
 Two small clothes one damaske and the other diaper. 
 One greate sattin Canopy coloured greene and white with a 
 
 greate silke fringe of the same colours. 
 Two old fringe purple clothes, 
 Three old starr cushions fower veluett purple cushions two 
 
 whereof for the communion Table one for the Deane 
 
 in the sermon house and one for the pulpet in the 
 
 sermon house, 
 Two peeces of hangings wrought about with gold like birds, 
 One old wouen chaire, 
 One fringe cloth to bee about the pulpitt. 
 One haire Trunke conteyning in it a faire veluett purple 
 
 cloth wrough, with a greate fringe and cushion for the 
 
 pulpitt on festiualls, 
 One old standing deske, 
 fine greate chests with two old carpetts lying on two of 
 
 them, in one of them three small violls in another two 
 
 sackbutts and three cornetts. 
 Two siluer rodds for the vergerers. 
 One pewter chamber pott. 
 One greate brasse Bason, 
 The Maiors cushion in the sermon house
 
 284 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANIERBURy. 
 
 The furniture for the Archbishopps seate, 
 
 One purple pendant vallance with a deepe fring another of 
 
 the same hanging before the seate, 
 a large satten cushion flowed with gold with fewer gold 
 
 Tassel Is to lay upon y*^ seate, 
 one watered curtaine, 
 a large purple veluitt cushion with fower silk purple 
 
 Tassells to sitt on, 
 two cushions more of purple sattin flowed with gold one 
 
 long the other square, 
 fower gilded supporters for the canopy 
 and two Lanternes for the use of the vesterers. 
 
 In the Quire 
 
 One communion Table with a veluet cloth, 
 
 [fower peeces of Tapestry written over between lines] 
 
 two knewling purple stooles, 
 
 a faire frame w^^ ye comandements written in gold ouer the 
 
 communion Table 
 a faire damaske and purple veluet hanging with a gold and 
 
 silk fring vpon the frame, 
 another of the same round about the communion Table, 
 One large Carpett before the communion Table 
 Eight largue kneeling foote paces couered with purple cloth 
 
 used on communion dales, 
 One knewling stoole with purple cloth in the Archbishopps 
 
 seate, 
 One faire Eagle of brasse with stepps to it, 
 One Lettany deske with a fringe purple cloth about it, 
 Eight purple cloth cushions lying before the Deane and 
 
 prebends, 
 Twelue cushions in the prebends seates, one of which is 
 
 purple in the Deanes seate the rest wrought with ye 
 
 church armes in the middle of them, 
 twelue wooden candlestickes with brasse sconces for the vse 
 
 of the Deane and prebends, 
 sixteene w^ooden candlestickes for the use of the Quire, 
 one old cubbard to put candles in. 
 Two deskes for the Senior Minor cannons, 
 the picture of king Charles the first ouer the doore betweene 
 
 the Deans and vicedeanes stalls. 
 One greate clocke and one quarter clocke, 
 One large gilt branch kept now in the vestry to bee hung in 
 
 a rope by the Eagle in winter time :
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 285 
 
 A double sett of Mr. Tallis bookes bound, 
 
 Nine of Mr. Tonakins bookes bound, 
 
 one sett of Mr. Amners bookes bound, 
 
 one set of Mr. Smyths white paper bookes, 
 
 a double sett of Mr. Bryan's paper bookes, 
 
 a double sett of Mr. Battens parchment bookes 
 
 In the upper Monuments 
 
 Three Monumentall Tables 
 One stone chair 
 
 In Henry the Fourth's Chappell 
 One gilded sun with three earned and gilded cherubs 
 
 In the south Isle 
 
 Twenty formes 
 
 two pulpitts 
 
 one old chest 
 
 one high cubbard 
 
 3 \over erasure] Monumentall Tables 
 
 In the north Isle 
 
 One long forme, 
 
 one old box 
 
 two Monumentall Tables, 
 
 one seate with two stalls 
 
 Martyrdome 
 Two Monumentall Tables 
 
 Sermon house 
 
 One pulpitt with a branchd cloth about it with a fring 
 
 seauen old cushions for the Deane and prebends, 
 
 Two old buck cushions 
 
 one old buck cushion for the pulpitt 
 
 one old curtaine and rodd before the sermon house doorej 
 
 The kings armes ouer the Deanes seate 
 
 Sermon house clossett 
 
 Three cushions, 
 one high forme 
 one low forme
 
 286 INVENTORIES OF CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Preachers chappell 
 
 Two old peeces of hangings 
 
 one old Cupboard 
 
 one cushion 
 
 one long wainscott settle, 
 
 one seate with two stalls 
 
 Armory 
 
 Three moueable Cupboards 
 
 one large kneeling footpace, 
 
 the frame for the Armor 
 
 one Cupboard to putt bookes in, 
 
 one Table 
 
 one chaire, 
 
 one Carpett, 
 
 two surplices for y^ Quire 
 
 In the Rope roome 
 
 Two pairs of Shivers one paire whereof is with brasse wheeles 
 
 a long cradle roap 
 
 [a large cable roap mterlined.'] 
 
 a lesser Cable roap, 
 
 a guide line, 
 
 Two long roaps to draw up materialls 
 
 a small hook 
 
 a little grapple 
 
 a large paire of pinchers, 
 
 a little ladder for y^ Glazier 
 
 In the place by the south doore 
 fower Biers and old bench by the dore 
 
 South Isle of the Body 
 
 Two long benches 
 
 one bench by the Quire dore 
 
 one old seate by the west doore : 
 
 In the Flummery 
 
 Ten half hundred weights, 
 
 two large stone weights, 
 
 three quarter of a hundred weights.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 287 
 
 one fowerteene pound and two seauen pound weights, 
 
 a large paire of scales and new rope and beame, 
 
 a pott to melt lead, 
 
 Thirty eight deales and two oaken boords, 
 
 a long ladder, 
 
 a large mould to cast lead 
 
 two piggs of lead, and some old lead. 
 
 Create Stillatory 
 
 one ringe Tubb, 
 
 one wheele barrow, 
 
 two pailes 
 
 one mortar tubb, 
 
 one Carte with fower wheeles to carry stones, 
 
 Ei^ht scaffold boords. 
 
 In the vndercroft 
 
 a large cradle, 
 
 a small cradle, 
 
 three old scaffolding poles, 
 
 three Cinpoles, 
 
 a load of plaine tyles, 
 
 two hundred paueing tiles, 
 
 six old Tressells, 
 
 a box for morter, 
 
 some old freestone ; 
 
 six ladders whereof but two serviceable, 
 
 Two long large Lathers under under {sic) the falling gate 
 
 a ring and two old pailes 
 
 a Mattocke, 
 
 two old wheelebarrowes, 
 
 an Iron crow 
 
 Twelue old scaffoldinsr boords. 
 
 Glaziery 
 
 A stock of plaine glasse upon seaven shelues 
 
 some old painted glasse, 
 
 three workeing Tables, 
 
 a large vice to draw lead, 
 
 a small vice to cast lead, 
 
 one dealc boord
 
 288 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Bookes belonging to the church 
 
 At the Altar two common prayer bookes bound in Turky 
 leather with gilt Icaues the one redd the other blew, 
 
 One common prayer booke the fellow whereof Dr. Baryg- 
 raues widdow had, 
 
 One greate Bible lately taken from the Eagle 
 
 one other in the Chapter house 
 
 Ten common prayer bookes for the Deane and prebends 
 
 six for the vse of the Minor cannons, 
 
 fifteene for the vse of the Clerks and substitutes 
 
 and seaven for the vse of the choristers, 
 
 One New Bible upon the Eagle 
 
 In the Timber Yard 
 
 a small stocke of tymber 
 
 a little Cart, 
 
 a working bench, 
 
 two Rowles for the sawpitt, 
 
 a long Timber chaine, 
 
 a paire of shevers, 
 
 and Roap and a Jack for vnloading Tymber 
 
 In the Archdeacons vault a mast of a shipp in two pieces 
 
 Joh : Sharp Decan. 
 Leopold. Wm Finch Tho. Belk 
 
 Jo : Max : L Angle. 
 Tho: Nixon Cha : Elstob 
 
 J. W. L.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 289 
 
 XVIII. INTRODUCTION TO THE INVEN- 
 TORIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH 
 CENTURY. 
 
 The inventories of the eighteenth century that have 
 come down to us are so alike that it will be best to 
 present them together under one introduction. Very 
 likely a fresh inventory was prepared for each St. 
 Katharine's audit. In 1700-01 we have : 
 
 March 23. Given to Mr. Stevens for writing an inventory of 
 Ch: Goods, w^'^ was p^ him by Mr. Cumberland 00.05.00.^ 
 
 And in a following year 1 701-2 
 
 Dec. 15. Payd for writing y^ new inventory 0.5.0.'^ 
 
 Again in the accounts for 1726-27 there is : 
 
 Oct. II. To Mr. Henstridge Sacrist for writing an Invent'T 
 of the Movables of the Church 00.05.00.^ 
 
 These inventories cannot be discovered at Canterbury 
 at this moment. But for those years, such as 1735 and 
 1745, of which the inventories have come down to us, 
 there are no charges entered for the making, as appear 
 in the earlier years. 
 
 There are preserved at Canterbury four inventories of 
 this century, of 1735, 1745, 1752, and 1761. That of 1735 
 is written on one piece of vellum not indented, 30^ inches 
 long by 12^^ broad. Differing from the earlier inven- 
 tories, those of 1745, 1752, and 1761 are written on 
 foolscap paper, 1 2 J inches by 8^, and on several leaves. 
 These three are now kept tied together. Of the 
 
 > Account Book^ Carolus Elstob Thesaur. 1700-1701 officium sacristae. 
 * ibid. Thos. Belk Treasurer, St. Cath. 1701. 2. 
 ' ibid. 1726-27, p. i^i- 
 
 U
 
 290 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 inventory of 1761. the central leaf has probably been 
 lost, as the inventory of the vestry, instead of passing 
 into the inventory of quire and other parts of the church, 
 is followed only by the inventory of the engine room 
 and orlazinCT room. 
 
 A benefaction which is long noticed in the inventories 
 is the velvet furniture given by Queen Mary II. As she 
 died in 1694 this gift must have been added to the 
 church's goods soon after the taking of the inventory of 
 1689. It was noted in 1703, thus : 
 
 The most Illustrious Queen Mary II. of ever blessed 
 Memory, who honour'd this Church with her Royal Presence 
 provided the Altar, as also the Archbishop's Throne, the stalls 
 of the Dean and Vicedean, and the Pulpit, in this Church, with 
 new and rich Furniture, such as became the piety and bounty of 
 the best of Queens to give, and such as are now a fair Ornament 
 to this Church.^ 
 
 A few more details are given of this gift of Queen 
 Mary's in a manuscript in the chapter library which 
 deals with Dr. Hooper. At the present moment this 
 manuscript cannot be found, and we therefore quote Mr. 
 George Smith's extract made some few years ago. 
 
 " Some time after this, the Queen sent for Dr. Hooper, and 
 carried him into her drawing-room, and showed him some pieces 
 of silver stuff and purple flowered velvets, which her Majesty 
 told him, if he approved of, she intended to give to the Cathedral 
 at Canterbury, as she had observed the furniture to be dirty 
 when she was there ; that as there was not enough of the figured 
 velvet, she had sent into Holland to match it, but could not. 
 Her majesty sent down a page of her back stairs, who under- 
 stood those things to see it done. The altar was furnished with 
 a pane of the figured velvet, and a pane of gold stuff, flowered 
 with silver, and the Archbishop's throne with plain velvet. The 
 figure for both was a ruffted one, of gold, silver, and purple, 
 which alone cost ^^500."^ 
 
 The church plate in 1761 continues much the same as 
 in 1689, with the addition of a " Strainer " which makes 
 
 1 William Somner, Antiquities of Catiterbiiry, London, 1703. Part I. p. 
 94. sec. ed. by Nicolas Battely, by whom this notice is inserted. 
 
 * G. S. [George Smith] Chronological History of Canterbury Cathedral^ 
 Canterbury, 1883. p. 330.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 291 
 
 its first appearance in 1 745. This strainer is very likely 
 the perforated spoon, still preserved in the Treasury, 
 and the date of its making is probably not far removed 
 from that at which it makes its first appearance in the 
 inventory. 
 
 In 1708 the church plate had to be mended •} 
 
 Nov. 22. Payd to Mr. Nilmes, by the hands of Mr. Wni. 
 Harris, for gilding and mending the two Chalices & Caet. 
 
 07.0.0. 
 
 Less than 50 years after this the chalices and patens 
 undergo more severe reparation : Mr. M. Beazeley has 
 been kind enough to transcribe for us the following 
 entry : 
 
 St. Kath : 1756. 
 
 Plate to be"! Also It is Agreed and Decreed that the two 
 New Guilt J Chalices now in use at the Alter shall have New 
 feet putt to them And that they with the Flagons and the large 
 Bason shall be New Guilt And that the two old Paten's (now 
 become useless) shall be sold together with the ffeet which shall 
 be cutt off from the two Chalisses And the Money they shall 
 produce shall be applyed towards defraying these alterations- 
 There was weighed on May 11. 1898 some of the 
 older plate described in the eighteenth century inven- 
 tories, and still in the Treasury. One fiagon was found 
 to weigh 62-^ oz. ; its fellow 60^. One chalice with 
 paten 28 oz. 15 dwt. : with paten 2 1 oz. 18 dwt. Its 
 fellow, with paten 29 oz. 4 dwt. : without, 22 oz. 10 dwt. : 
 all Troy weight. It will be seen that they do not corre- 
 spond with the weights given in the Inventory of 1634 
 on p. 260, and judging from the vessels themselves they 
 are much later. The two lesser alms dishes, marked 
 20 J oz. and I9f oz. that survive still, were, however, 
 probably made in prae- Reformation times, about 1500. 
 If we may trust the position given to the plate in the 
 inventory of 1634 it was kept in some secure place in the 
 
 ' Treasurer's accounts., 1708. p. 20. Officium Sacristae. 
 * Acta Capiticli., 1746-1760. p. 121. 
 
 U 2
 
 292 INVENTORIES OF CHRISl^CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 undercroft. From 1662 up to 1761 the plate was kept in 
 the Vestry, that is the Treasury, which is the place of 
 keeping to this day. 
 
 In 1735 "two large Branches of Candles" appear, 
 instead of one ; and this increase is doubtless caused 
 by the addition of Dr. Tenison's branch to that given by 
 Sir Anthony Aucher. It has been said that both 
 formerly hung in the quire. That given by Dr. Tenison 
 still hangs in the presbytery. It is said by Gostling 
 to bear the arms of Tenison and this inscription : " The 
 gift of Dr. Edward Tenison, archdeacon of Carmarthen 
 Anno Dom. MDCCXXVI.''^ It has 24 sconces like 
 its fellow ; but it cannot be closely inspected. 
 
 To the inventory of 1 745. Dr. Shuckford's branch is 
 added apparently after completion. It is then noted as 
 hanging in the north Aisle (p. 302). At the present day 
 it hangs in the Treasury. It has eight sconces and 
 bears this inscription : S. Shuckford S. T. P. D.D. 
 D.O. 1747. 
 
 In 1735, the piece of silk "wrought with dogs Chaind 
 to Trees " may very possibly be a remnant of some 
 mediaeval stuff. 
 
 The Preacher's Hood is first mentioned in 1735. It 
 was bought in 1724. as this entry shows r 
 
 To Michelbourn for a Preacher's Hood 1.19.0. 
 
 In 1745, another entry." 
 
 Feb. 8. To Plumley for mending y^ Preacher's Hood — 2.6. 
 
 The " Iron Grate with Tongs, Poker, Shovel and 
 Bellows" were all bought in 1739, and cost £6. 15. 6.^ 
 and the "Pewter Bason for washing hands" in 1742. 
 It cost IS. 6dJ' 
 
 1 W. Gostling, A Walk in . . . Canterbury, Canterbury, 1774. first 
 ed. p. 190. 
 
 " Treasurer'' s accounts, 1724-25. Officium Sacristae, p. 69. 
 
 ' Ibid. 1745. fo. £^^.b. 
 
 * Treasurer's accotints for 1739-40, Nov. 28. fo. 48.^. 
 
 » Ibid. 1742-3. p. 60.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 293 
 
 In 1745 and 1752 the minor canons' vestry and singing 
 men's vestry seemed to have adjoined. Gostling tells 
 us that St. Anselm's chapel was " now divided into two 
 rooms, one a vestry for the minor canons, the other for 
 the lay clerks."^ It has been recently fitted up as a 
 morning chapel. 
 
 The survival of the churching veil is recorded in 1735 ; 
 only in 1745 to be followed immediately by a note of 
 the base uses to which it had been turned. 
 
 ECCLESIA \ 
 
 Christi V[i'/'^^ added in later hand\ 
 
 Cantuar. J 
 
 An Inventory made the Four and Twentieth day of November 
 Anno Domini: 1735 of all the Goods and Utensils Hangings 
 Plate and other Implements and Materials belonging to the said 
 Church taken by James Henstridge Sacrist for the year past 
 
 In the Vestry 
 
 Imprimis Two Great Silver Flaggons double Guilt with 
 
 Cases, 
 One Silver Calice Gilt with this [Motto Concordia cum 
 
 Candore added betzveen the /hies] 
 Two Small Silver Basons, 
 
 Two Great Silver Candlesticks, Gilt with Cases, 
 One Fair Silver Bason Gilt with [t/ie lower part of these last 
 
 tivo zvords lost and a follozvmg zvord entirely lost from 
 
 destruction of 3IS.] 
 Two Standing Silver Cups with [Jialf a line here lost in 
 
 MS.] gilt with Cases. 
 One Bible with a plate Cover double Gilt, with a Case 
 Three Communion Table Cloths two damask one diaper, 
 a Churching Cloth of Course diaper. 
 Two damask and One Holland Napkin ; 
 One Dusting Cloth. 
 
 a Large Green and White Sattin Canopy 
 a Long Pad of purple Stuff. 
 Three large Velvet Cushions, one Velvet on both Sides with 
 
 Gold Tassels, 
 
 ' Gostling, op. cit. first ed. p. 151.
 
 294 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Two Large and and \sic\ One Small purple Silk Cushions, 
 
 Flowered with Gold and Silk. 
 One with Three Tassels of Gold and Silk 
 Six Vallents of purple Velvet with Gold and purple Fringe 
 a Large Square-Velvet Cloth of the same Colour and Fringe 
 a Narrow Vallents with a purple Fringe and Gold Caul 
 
 sowd to a peice of Blew Linnen. 
 a long and deep Velvet Cloth Fringed at the Side and 
 
 Bottom 
 and a Gold Caul 
 a Stool for the Throne 
 a long peice of Silk Wrought with dogs Chaind to Trees 
 
 and Fringed Round 
 a purple Velvet pulpit Cloth with deep purple Fringe, 
 Two purple Velvet Cushions with Silk backs 
 an Old purple Velvet Cushion with Three Gold Tassells 
 Six Ordinary Cushions of purple Stuff, and One Brown 
 
 Stuff One 
 a large Common prayer-book for the Arch-bishop in a 
 
 Leathern Case 
 Four pieces of Tapestry belonging to the Old Alter 
 A Pertian Carpet and Turkey Carpet, 
 Two Cases for Cushions 
 
 and a Case for the Alter Cloth of Linsey Woolsey, 
 Four Large and Three Small Stuff Cushions for the Mayor 
 
 and Aldermen's Seats, 
 Some old Musical Instruments. 
 a Box with Two Silver Rods for the Virgerers. 
 Three large Chests and One Smaller for Presses for 
 
 Surplices 
 a Wooden Chair and Stuff Cushion, 
 Ten Brass Candle Sticks for the Prebends 
 The Preachers Hood, 
 
 In the Quire 
 
 The Altar Hanging and Table Cloth of Crimson Velvet 
 Laced with Gold and Two Cushions [suitable writteti 
 over betweeji lines] with Four Gold Tassels each, 
 
 Two Large Common Prayer Books (Dr. Finches Gift) with 
 Ribbons and Gold Fringe over the Table 
 
 Two New Second Service Books with Ribbons and Gold 
 Fringe upon the Table, 
 
 Two kneeling [Stools %vritte7t over between lines] and 
 Cushions Coverd with Crimson Stuff:
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 295 
 
 a very large New Turkey Carpet & Two Small Carpets 
 Two Formes to kneel against at the Communion Covered 
 
 with Crimson Stuffs 
 Six kneeling peices Covered with purple Cloth for the 
 
 Communion 
 Two New Velvet Cushions for the Dean and Vice Dean 
 
 with Gold Tassels 
 Eight others the Under Side Silk for the Rest of the Stalls 
 the Old pulpit Cushion of Velvet in the Deans Seat 
 
 gelwen \sic : ? eleven] Stuff Ones in the other Stalls 
 a pair of Crimson Damask and a pair of Crimson Stuff 
 
 Curtains at the Dean and Vice Deans Stall 
 a Stuff Cushion in the Mayors Seat and another on the 
 
 Desk before it. 
 an Eagle of Brass with Wooden Steps to it. and a Large 
 
 New Bible Upon it : 
 Two large Branches for Candles, 
 One Great Clock and one Quarter Clock 
 Ten Brass Candlesticks for the Use of the Dean and 
 
 Prebendaries, 
 Eighteen Brass Ones for the Use of the Quire 
 The picture of King Charles the First over the Quire Door 
 In a Chest behind the Deans Seat the pulpit Cloth and 
 
 Cushion. 
 In the Deans Lady's Seat One long Crimson Cushion & 
 
 One of the same Size and Colour on the Desk before it. 
 In the prebends wives Seats Ten Cushions Coverd with 
 
 blew stuff. 
 
 Books belonging to the Quire 
 
 Item Ten Common Prayer Books for y'^ Use of the Dean 
 
 and Canons 
 Six Common prayer Books for the Minor Canons, others 
 
 amongst the Lay Clarks & the Boys very Old & 
 
 Imperfect. 
 Eight Common prayer Books in the prebends wives Seats, 
 of the Musical Books for the Service and Anthems. Ten 
 
 large Folios. One small one ; \word in MS. destroyed 
 
 ending in " en "] ; all New Bound Six large Singing 
 
 Books the rest being Old and Imperfect are [laid?] up 
 
 in the Minor Canons Vestry 
 With the Organist Four Old Organ Books and Three New 
 
 Ones 
 Two Common prayer Books
 
 296 INVENTORIES OF CHKISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Dr. Aldriches Score book 
 
 & Two Volumes of Dr. Crofts Anthems. 
 
 In the Upper Monuments & Isles of y^^ Eand 
 
 Item Three Monumental Tables the Writings whereon are 
 
 almost Obliterated 
 One Stone Chair. 
 
 In King Henry the Fourth's Chapel, 
 One Gilded Sun with Three Carved Gilded Cherubs. 
 
 In the South Isle. 
 
 Thirty Formes 
 One Pulpit, 
 One Old Chest, 
 One High Cupboard. 
 
 In the North Isle ; 
 
 One Long Forme, 
 
 One Old Box, 
 
 & One Seat with Two Stalls. 
 
 In the Sermon House &c. 
 
 Item One Pulpit with a Branch Cloth about it with a 
 
 Fringe, 
 A Cushions \_sic\ in the Deans Seat 
 the Kings Arms over the Deans Seat. 
 One Common Prayer Book, 
 a large Bible 
 Sixteen Brass Sconces 
 & Two Surplices for the Use of Morning prayers One whereof 
 
 is New the other very Old and worn Out. 
 
 In the Closset adjoyning the Sermon House. | 
 
 One High Forme 
 & One low Forme. 
 
 In the preachers Chapel, 
 
 One Old Cupboard. 
 
 One Long Wainscott Settle 
 
 & One Seat with Two Stalls.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 297 
 
 In the Armory 
 
 Item Three Moveable Cupboards 
 
 the Frame of the Armor 
 
 (One Cupboard to put books in 
 
 One Table 
 
 One Carpet.) In the Minor Canons Vestry 
 
 In the Ropa-room 
 
 Item Two pair of Shivers, One pair whereof is with Brass 
 
 Wheels. 
 a long Cradle Rope 
 a lesser Cradle Rope. 
 a Guide Line. 
 
 Two long Ropes to draw up Materials 
 a small Hook, 
 a little Grapple 
 a little ladder for the Glasier 
 a Large Cable Rope. 
 
 In the Body and Flummery &c. 
 
 \Place destroyed in MS, Item one ?] long Forme, 
 One Old Seat by the West Door [Place destroyed'] 
 
 plummery 
 
 One large Stone Weight, 
 
 One Quarter of a Hundred Weight 
 
 a large pair of Scales and Beame, 
 
 a pot to Melt Lead in 
 
 a Large Mould to Cast Lead. 
 
 in the Stillatory. 
 
 One Ringe Tubb, 
 Two Weel barrows. 
 Two pailes 
 and One Mortar Tubb. 
 
 In the Glazing Room 
 
 Item One Vice to draw Lead 
 
 Two pair of Moulds 
 
 One Long & One Short Ladder
 
 298 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 a Hammer • 
 
 and Two Working Tables. 
 
 In the Timber Yard 
 
 Item a Stock of Timber, 
 
 A little Cart, 
 
 A Working Bench 
 
 Two Rowls for the Saw Pitt 
 
 & a Jack for Unloding Timber. 
 
 In the Under Croft 
 
 Denique. One Large Cradle, 
 
 One Small Cradle. 
 
 Six Tressells. 
 
 a Mortar Box 
 
 Six Ladders 
 
 One Iron Crow. 
 
 Three long Sparrs, 
 
 some Scaffold Boards. 
 
 Under the Falling Gate. 
 
 Two Long Ladders. 
 
 In the Conduit 
 A Fire Inline. 
 
 [fo. I. 
 
 cSmstI^Cant :} ^^^"45 ^dded in later hand:\ 
 
 An Inventory made the 25th day of November 1745 of all 
 the Goods, Utensils, Hangings, Plate & other Implements & 
 Materials belonging to the said Church, taken by Tho : Lamprey 
 Sacrist for the Year past. 
 
 In the Vestry 
 
 Imprimis Two large Silver Flaggons, 
 
 Two Chalices & Covers, 
 
 a Strainer, 
 
 Two Patins, 
 
 Two Basons for receiving the Alms,
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 299 
 
 One large Dish for the Offerings, 
 
 two large Candlesticks for the Altar, 
 
 One Chalice for ye Communion of y^ Sick w'h this Motto 
 
 Concordia [cum ivritten over erasure of &] Candore, 
 All these are of Silver & gilt. 
 A Folio Bible in Plate Covering. 
 Three Communion Table Cloths, two of them Damask & 
 
 one Diaper. 
 [A smaller Huckaback Cloth formerly us'd at the Churching 
 
 of Women struck through and over it between li?ies 
 
 ivritten, cut in pieces for dusting Cloths.] 
 One Holland Napkin. 
 Two Damask Napkins. 
 Two large Chests. 
 A small Chest. 
 A hair Trunk. 
 
 Two old Carpets, formerly laid before the Altar. 
 One large Sattin Canopy. 
 One Fringe Cloth to be put about the Pulpit. 
 A fair Velvet purple Cloth with a great Fringe and Cushion 
 
 for the Pulpit on Festivals. 
 A Wooden Case with two Silver Rods for the Virgerers. 
 One piece of Hangings wrought about with Figures. 
 Two large and one small flower'd Damask Cushions. 
 A large Velvet Cushion. 
 Six old Velvet Cushions. 
 Five large and 3 smaller Cushions for the seats of y^ 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 An old Serge Curtain. 
 An old Wooden Chair. 
 Six Chairs w^h Leather Seats. 
 Two \}inderlined ; over is zvritten One] Forms covered w^'^ 
 
 green Cloth. 
 A Folding Table. 
 
 An Iron Grate w^h Tongs, Poker, Shovel and Bellows. 
 A Wood Bill. 
 A small looking Glass. 
 Two {struck througJi\ Brushes. 
 Two [struck througJi ajid one ivritten over] Towels & a 
 
 Pewter Bason for washing hands. 
 Four Presses for Surplices. 
 
 For The Arch Bishop's Throne 
 
 Item. A Purple Velvet Canopy with Gold & Silver Fringe ; 
 Two Silk Curtains ; A Velvet Cushion on the Throne.
 
 300 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 A Velvet hanging Pendant before the Throne. Six 
 narrow Pieces of Velvet to hang about the Throne, all 
 edged with Gold and Silk Fringe. A purple Cloth 
 Seat to sit on. All given by Queen Mary. 
 A large Rul'd Common Prayer book bound in Red Turkey 
 Leather. 
 
 In the Choir [fo. il?. 
 
 Item One Communion Table with a Red Velvet Covering. 
 
 A Large Carpet before the Altar. 
 
 Two Forms covered w^^ Rgj^ Cheney. 
 
 Eight Red Cheney Quilted Cushions to lay before y^ Rails 
 
 of y^ Altar on Sacrament Days. 
 A fair Velvet hanging Empaniel'd & Edged with Cloth of 
 
 Gold over the Communion Table. 
 Two Velvet Cushions w^^ Tassels lying upon y^ Table. 
 Two kneeling Stools covered w'^ Red Cheney. 
 Two large Common Prayer books standing over y*^ Table, 
 
 given by Dr. Finch. 
 Two other Common Prayer books, wherein is only the 
 
 Second Service bound in Red Covers, lying upon y^ 
 
 Cushions. 
 One fair Eagle of Brass w^^^ steps to it. 
 A large Bible upon it. [written overin another /iand,pnnted 
 
 by Baskett 17 1/.] 
 Two Velvet Cushions before y^ Dean's & Vice Dean's 
 
 Stalls. 
 Two Red Damask Curtains & two red Serge Curtains. 
 Eight Velvet Cushions for y*^ Prebendary's Stalls. 
 A purple Velvet Cushion for y^ Deans Seat [2 Do in y^ 
 
 opposite Seat written over betzueen linesi\ 
 Another for y^ Vice Dean's Seat. 
 Eight blew Cushions for y^ Prebendary's Seats. 
 A Red velvet Cushion in y^ Dean's Lady's Seat. 
 Eight Red Cheney Curtains w^h Rods &c. 
 Red Cushions in y^ Seats of the Mayor & Aldermen. 
 [16 ivritten over betzueen lines] Blew Cushions in the Preben- 
 dary's Wives Seats [&c. zvritten over between lines.] 
 Ten Brass Candlesticks for y^ Seats of the Dean & 
 
 Prebendaries. 
 [27 zvritten over betzveen lines] Eighteen Sjinderlined] brass 
 
 Candlesticks for the use of the Choir, [many of them 
 
 not fit for use. zvritten over betzveen lines.] 
 The Picture of King Charles the first over the Choir door.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 301 
 
 Two large brass Branches. 
 
 One Great Clock, One Quarter Clock. 
 
 Books belonging to the Choir. 
 
 Item Ten Common Prayer books for y^ Use of y^ Dean & 
 
 Prebendaries. 
 Six for the use of the Minor Canons. 
 Several old & imperfect one's in the [tody or tidy written 
 
 above betzueen lines] Seats about the Choir. 
 Twenty [18 some Torn & unbound to be put in Mr. Rayl- 
 
 ton's custody zuritten above between lines?[ Writing of 
 
 Mr. Bernard's & Tomkins's Books bound for the use 
 
 of the Choir. 
 Five new Square black books. Mr. Knott's [zuritten above 
 
 between lifies.] 
 Twelve [underlined ; 7 written above between lines] of those 
 
 called Dr. Aldrich's books bound. 
 Three of Mr. Smith's books. 
 Four of Mr. Knott's blackbooks. 
 A Tenor book of Verse & full Services and Anthems. 
 
 [fo. 2. 
 Five short Folio Books, wrote mostly by Mr. Raylton. 
 Four Service & Anthem books for y^ use of y"^ Choristers, 
 
 two on each Side. 
 
 In the Organ loft. 
 
 Tomkins's Organ book printed. 
 
 Dr. Croft's 2 Vols, of Anthems printed. 
 
 Three old Organ books. 
 
 One large book of Services & Anthems. 
 
 One Service book. 
 
 One Anthem book. 
 
 Dr. Aldrich's book in score [MY. struck through] 
 
 Five Anthems of Dr. Green in Score. 
 
 One of Mr. Purcell's in Score. 
 
 One large new Organ book bound. 
 
 In the Upper Monuments & Isles of the Church. 
 
 Item Three Monumental Tables in Frames [one gone 
 
 written over betzveen lines] 
 One Stone Chair [& Cushion zvritten over between lines] 
 Four pieces of Tapestry.
 
 302 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In the South Isle, 
 
 Twenty Seven Forms. 
 
 One Moveable Pulpit. 
 
 One old Chest. 
 
 One high Cupboard & a Chest made out of it. 
 
 One Seat w^h two Stalls. 
 
 Thirty hve Large paving Stones. 
 
 Old Altar Rails. 
 
 [2 Window Frames luritten over betzveen linesi\ 
 
 In the Minor Canon's Vestry 
 
 Six Presses for Surplices. 
 
 A press for books. 
 
 A Square Table Covered w^^^ Tapestry. 
 
 A large [new oaken zvritten over betiueen lines] Chest for 
 
 Candles. 
 A box for Wax Candles. 
 [A new Oaken Box for y^ Overseer's Papers written over 
 
 between lines."] 
 A Stool. 
 
 i 
 
 In the Singing mens vestry 
 
 Presses for their Surplices, 
 A Table, 
 A Form. 
 
 In the North Isle 
 
 one Form. 
 
 [A Brass Branch, given by Dr. Shuckford, added.] 
 
 In the Sermon House &c. 
 
 Item. One Pulpit. 
 
 A Cushion in the Dean's Seat. 
 
 One old Curtain & Rod before the Door. 
 
 The King's Arms over the Dean's Seat. 
 
 A Large Bible. 
 
 A Common prayer book for the Reader. 
 
 Several old Common prayer books. 
 
 Sixteen \iinderlined and 14 written over] brass Sconces, 
 
 One \21nderlined and 2 writteti over] Surplices open before.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 303 
 
 In the Closet in ye Sermon house, 
 One high Form and one low form. 
 
 In the Dean's Chappel 
 One Wainscot Settle. 
 
 In the Armory- 
 Item. Two Moveable Cupboards. 
 The Frame of y^ Armor. 
 One [long written above between lines] Table. 
 [2 Oaken Forms added.] 
 
 In the Rope Room 
 
 Item. Two pair of ^Shivers, one pair whereof is w^i^ brass 
 
 wheels. 
 A long Cradle Rope. 
 A guide Line. 
 A small Hook. 
 A large Cable Rope. [fo. 2b. 
 
 [In the Rope Room 
 
 Item Two pair of Shivers, one pair whereof is w^h Brass 
 wheels, struck otit.] 
 
 In the Body & Flummery. 
 
 [Two Bench Seats given by Captn. Pudner. 
 
 15 Glass Sconces given by D° added.] 
 
 [Item. One Form. 
 
 One old Seat by the West door, struck througli] 
 
 Three Biers [all out of Repair, written over between lines.] 
 
 In the Flummery, 
 
 One large Stone Weight. 
 
 A large pair of Scales & Beams. 
 
 A Ladder \inidcrlincd and Two Ladders written over]. 
 
 A pot to melt Lead in. 
 
 A Large Mould to cast Lead. 
 
 Two Fire Engines [& Bucketts in y^ Dark Entry. 
 
 Two large Fire Hooks under y^ Falling Gate added]
 
 304 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In the Glazing Room 
 
 Item. A Quantity of small pieces of Glass. 
 
 A large Vice to draw Lead. 
 
 A small vice to melt Lead. 
 
 A Ladder [miderlined. The Ladder worn out addea.'] 
 
 In the Timber Yard 
 
 Item A Stock of Timber. 
 
 A little Cart. 
 
 A working Bench. 
 
 Rowles for y^ Sawpit. 
 
 A Jack for Unloading Timber. 
 
 Twelve Trussels. 
 
 [An old Watch House struck through^ 
 
 In the Undercroft &c 
 
 One large Cradle 
 
 one small Cradle 
 
 Six Tressels, 
 
 A Mortar box, 
 
 Some old Freestone, 
 
 Six Ladders, 
 
 Two long Ladders w^h us'd to hang under the Falling Gate. 
 
 One Mattock, 
 
 One Iron Crow. 
 
 Some Scaffold boards. 
 
 Two Wheelbarrows. 
 
 Two very long & several other Scaffolding Poles. 
 
 Tho : Lamprey Sacrist 
 
 [Endorsed'\ 
 25 Nov: 1745 
 
 Inventory of the Church-Goods & Implements. 
 
 [Added ill later hand'\ 
 
 An Inventory of the Goods of the Church made by Thomas 
 Lamprey Sacrist 
 
 1745-
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 305 
 
 1752. 
 
 [p. I. 
 EcCLESiA 1 An Inventory of all the Goods, Utensils, 
 
 Christi Cant : J Hangings, Plate & other Implements & 
 Materials belonging to y^ said Church taken by Tho : Lamprey 
 Sacrist for the Year past, and deliver'd to the Dean & Chapter at 
 their Nov'" : Audit. 1752. 
 
 In the Vestry 
 
 Two large Silver Flaggons ; 
 
 Two Chalices w^'^ Covers ; 
 
 A Strainer ; 
 
 Two Patins ; 
 
 Two Basons for receiving the Alms ; 
 
 One large Dish for the Offerings ; 
 
 Two large Candlesticks for the Altar ; 
 
 One Chalice for the Communion of the Sick w^'^ this 
 
 Motto Concordia cum Candore ; 
 N.B. All these are of Silver, and Gilt. 
 A Folio Bible in Plate Covering. 
 Three Communion Table Cloths ; two of them Damask, 
 
 & one Diaper. 
 One Holland Napkin, and two Damask Napkins 
 Two large Chests, [c? note on opposite leaf : N.B. In one of 
 
 these Chests are contain'd only 2 Brass Sackbuts. 
 
 not us'd for a great Number of years past, the body 
 
 of an old Bass Viol w^'out Strings, & such like 
 
 Trumpery.] 
 A small Chest. 
 A hair Trunk. 
 An Oaken Box. 
 [Two Carpets ; one much torn & useless ; ye other not 
 
 us'd. sti'itek t]irougli\ 
 A large Canopy, of green & white Sattin. 
 Four gilded Staffs. 
 A Pulpit Cloth Fring'd. 
 A fair Velvet purple Cloth w^h a great Fringe & Cushion 
 
 for the Pulpit on Festivals. 
 One Piece of Hangings, wrought about with Figures. 
 Three flower'd Damask Cushions ; two of them large, & 
 
 one Small. 
 A large Velvet Cushion. 
 
 Six old Velvet Cushions. [3 only in the Vestry added] 
 
 X
 
 306 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Two long Purple Velvet Cushions. 
 
 Five large & 3 Smaller Cushions for y^-" Seats of y^ Ma}'or 
 
 & Aldermen. 
 [An old Serge Curtain, struck throitg/i] 
 A Wooden Case w^'^ two Silver Rods for the Virgercrs. 
 A Wooden Chair. 
 
 Six Chairs cover'd w'^ black Leather. 
 
 Two Forms covered w^'i green Cloth, [one worn out addcd^^ 
 A folding Table. 
 Four Presses for Surplices. [p. 2. 
 
 An Iron Grate, with Tongs, Poker, Shovel & Bellows ; 
 
 A Sifter & two Coal boxes. 
 
 A Wood bill ; 
 
 A Brush ; 
 
 A small looking Glass ; 
 
 A pewter bason 
 
 [& Towel, struck throtigh'] 
 
 For the Archbishop's Throne. 
 
 A purple Velvet Canopy, with Gold & Silver PVinge. 
 
 Two Silk Curtains. 
 
 A Velvet Cushion on the Throne. 
 
 A Velvet hanging Pendant before the Throne. 
 
 Six narrow Pieces of Velvet to hang ab^ the Throne, all 
 
 Edg'd with Gold & Silver Fringe. 
 A Purple Cloth Seat to sit on. 
 All these given by Queen Mary, 
 A large Rul'd Common Prayer book, bound in Red Turkey 
 
 Leather. 
 
 In the Choir. 
 
 A Communion Table w''^ a Red Velvet Covering. 
 
 A fair Velvet Hanging Empaniel'd & Edg'd w'h Cloth of 
 
 Gold over the Communion Table. 
 A Large Carpet before the Altar, [another small one added.'] 
 Two Forms covered w^^ Red Cheney. 
 Eight Red Cheney Quilted Cushions to lay before the Rails 
 
 of the Altar. 
 Two Velvet Cushions w^h Tassels, lying on the Communion 
 
 Table. 
 Two large Common Prayer books, plac'd over y*-' Table, 
 
 given by Dr. Finch. 
 Two other thin Common Prayer books, containing only the 
 
 2^ Service, in Red Covers.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 307 
 
 Two kneeling Stools, covered w'h Red Cheney. 
 
 One Fair Eagle of Brass, w'^ Steps to it. 
 
 A Large Bible upon it, printed by Baskett. 17 17. 
 
 Two Velvet Cushions before the Dean's & Vice Dean's 
 
 Stalls. 
 Two Red Damask Curtains, & two Red Serge Curtains 
 
 at y^^ Stall doors. 
 Eight Velvet Cushions for the Prebendaries Stalls. 
 A Purple Velvet Cushion for y- Dean's Seat. 
 Another D^. for y^ Vice Dean's. 
 Eight blew Cushions for the Prebendaries Seats. 
 A Red Velvet Cushion for the Dean's Lady's Seat. 
 Two Smaller D^ in the Opposite Seat. 
 Eight Red Cheney Curtains w'h Rods. 
 Sixteen blew Cushions in the Prebendaries Wives' Seats etc, 
 
 [18 added.'] [p. 3 
 
 Ten brass Candlesticks for the Seats of the Dean & 
 
 Prebendaries. 
 Twenty Seven others for the use of the choir \_(i note on 
 
 opposite leaf: !Many of them not fit for use.] 
 The Picture of Kg Charles L' over the Choir Door. 
 Two large brass Branches, \y^^ 12 Sockets each. 
 One crreat Clock. One O'' Clock. 
 
 Books belonging to the Choir. 
 
 Ten Common Prayer bojks for the use of the Dean and 
 
 Prebendaries. 
 Si.x Do for the use of the Minor Canons. [Note on opposite 
 
 leaf: About Ten D^. in the Prebendarie's Wives 
 
 Seats. 1 2. in later hand.] 
 Several old and imperfect ones in the Seats about the 
 
 Choir. 
 Eighteen of Mr. Bernard's & Tomkins's Printed Books, for 
 
 ye use of the Choir. \_Note on opposite leaf: Some of 
 
 them Torn & Unbound ; & now put into y^ Custody 
 
 of Mr. Railton, who has promis'd to be Answerable 
 
 for them.] 
 Seven of those called Dr Aldrich's Books bound. 
 Nine of Mr. Knott's Books. 
 Three of Mr. Smith's. 
 
 A Tenor book of Verse & full Services & Anthems. 
 Five short Folio Books, wrote mostly by Mr. Railton. 
 Four Service & Anthem books for the Choristers two on 
 
 each side. 
 
 X 2
 
 3o8 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 In the Organ loft. 
 
 Tomkins's Organ book, printed. 
 
 Dr. Croft's 2 Vol^ : of Anthems printed. 
 
 Three old Organ books. 
 
 One large book of Services and Anthems. 
 
 One Service book. 
 
 One Anthem book. 
 
 Dr. Aldrich's book in Score. 
 
 Five Anthems of Dr. Green in Score, 
 
 One of Mr. Purcel's in Score. 
 
 One large new Organ book bound. 
 
 In yc Upper Monuments, & Isles of the Church, 
 
 One Stone Chair & Cushion. 
 Four pieces of Tapestry. [3 added'\ 
 
 [Three Monumental Tables in Frames. N.R, one of 
 them gone, struck out.'\ 
 
 In the South Isle. 
 
 A moveable Pulpit. 
 Thirty Forms 
 An Oaken Chest. 
 Another old Chest. 
 
 [P 4. 
 
 In the Minor Canon's Vestry. 
 
 Six Presses for Surplices. 
 
 A Press for Books. 
 
 A Square Table, Cover'd w^'i old Tapestr}-. 
 
 A new Large Oaken Chest for Candles. 
 
 A new Oaken Box, for the Overseer's Papers. 
 
 A Small Chest for Wax Candles. 
 
 An old Stool. 
 
 In the Singing Men's Vestr}-. 
 
 Presses for their Surplices. 
 
 A Square Table. 
 
 A Form. 
 
 A seat wth two Stalls. 
 
 Old Altar Rails.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANIERBUR\. 309 
 
 In the North Isle. ■ 
 
 A Brass Branch, given by Dr. Shuckford. 
 
 A Form. 
 
 A long Chest, vv''^ cushions in it in the Coal Room. 
 
 In the Sermon House. 
 
 A Pulpit. 
 
 A Cushion in the Dean's Seat. 
 
 The King's Arms over the Dean's Seat. 
 
 An old Curtain & Rod before the Door. 
 
 A Large Bible. 
 
 Several old Common Prayer Books. 
 
 Two Surplices. 
 
 Two Forms in the Closet over the Sermon House. 
 
 One Wainscot Settle in the Dean's Chappel. 
 
 In the Armory. 
 
 The Frame of the Armor. 
 One long Table. 
 Two Moveable Cupboards. 
 IVo Oaken Forms. 
 
 In the Body of the Church. 
 
 Two Bench Seats given by Captain Pudner. 
 Fifteen Glass Lamps or Sconces, given by D'^. 
 
 In the Glazing Room 
 
 A Quantity of small pieces of Glass. 
 A large Vice to draw Lead. 
 A small Vice to melt Lead. 
 The Ladder gone. 
 
 In the lower North Isle, near y^ Cloyster Door. 
 Three Biers, all of them out of Repair. 
 
 Lp. 5. 
 
 In the Rope Room 
 
 Two pair of Shivers, One pair whereof is w^'"" Brass Wheels. 
 Two Cable or Cradle Ropes. 
 A guide Rope. 
 Two Collar Rooes.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CIIRISI CHURCH, CANIERBURY. 
 
 Two Block Ropes. 
 
 [Two pair of Blocks, struck out?[ 
 
 In the Under Croft 
 
 Three Cradles. 
 
 One broadstale Ladder. [2 added in pencil^ 
 
 Ten roundstale Ladders. [13 added in pcnci/'\ 
 
 Two Barro\\'s. 
 
 One Handbarrow and one Basket. 
 
 One Mattock & one Crow. 
 
 A Stone Carriage. 
 
 Ten Trus.sels. 
 
 Several Scaffolding Poles, Boards & other StiifT. 
 
 In the Timber Yard 
 
 One Timber Jack. 
 
 A Carriage of a Cart. \^s/nick tlirougJi in pencil^ 
 
 One Working Bench & Shop. 
 
 Two Working Trussels. 
 
 Two Sawpit Rolls. 
 
 Si.xteen Oken Timber Batts. 
 
 In the Plummery. 
 
 A Large Pair of Scales & Beams. 
 A Large Stone weight of loo^^'. 
 Two Ladders. 
 
 A large Mould for y^ Casting of Lead. 
 A Pot to melt Lead in. 
 
 In the Engine Room in the dark Entry. 
 
 One large Perpetual Engine. 
 
 One Smaller Single Barrel Engine. 
 
 One Suction Pipe. Three Delivering Pipes. These 3 
 
 [iinderlined^^ 30 foot long. 
 Forty five Bucketts. 
 Two large Fire Hooks under the Falling-Gate. 
 
 In Nevil's Chappel 
 
 Two Shovels. 
 One Mattock. 
 Two Burying Ropes
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 311 
 
 3i Lanthorns. [2 added in pencil^ 
 
 Four Registring Books, in the Custody of the Sacrist. 
 
 \Endorsed\ An Inventory of the Goods of the Church. 
 1752. 
 
 EclLESIA I An Inventory of all the Goods, Utensils, 
 
 Chkisti Cant.^ Hangings Plate & other Implements be- 
 longing to the Said Church taken by lohn Airson Sacrist for 
 the Vear past, and delivered to the Dean & Chapter at their 
 Nov. Audit 1 76 1. 
 
 In the Vestry 
 
 Two large Silver Flaggons 
 
 Two Chalices with Covers 
 
 a Strainer 
 
 two Patins 
 
 two Basons for collecting the Alms 
 
 one large Dish for y^ Offerings 
 
 two large Candlesticks for the Altar 
 
 One Chalice for the Communion of the Sick with this 
 
 Motto Concordia cum Candore. 
 N.B. All these are of Silver & gilt. 
 A P'olio Bible in Plate Covering 
 two Communion Table cloths 
 two Napkins 
 Two large Chests — in one of them are contained two [large 
 
 struck througJi\ brass Sackbuts, the Body of an old 
 
 Bass Viol w^ithout strings &c 
 a small Chest 
 a hair Trunk 
 an oaken Box. 
 
 A large Canopy of green & white Sattin 
 four gilded Staffs 
 A Pulpit Cloth fring'd 
 A fair Velvet purple Cloth with a great Fringe & Cushion 
 
 for y'' Pulpit on Festivals 
 A piece of Hangings wrought about with P'igurcs 
 three flower'd Damask Cushions ; two of them large & 
 
 one small 
 A large Velvet Cushion 
 si.x old Cushions
 
 312 INVENTORIES OF CllRlSTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 two long Purple Velvet Cushions 
 
 five large & three smaller Cushions for y^ Scats of the 
 
 Mayor & Aldermen 
 A Wooden Case with two Silver Rods for the Virgerers 
 A Wooden Chair 
 .six Chairs [with struck //iroitgii] covered with black 
 
 Leather 
 two Forms covered with green Cloth one much worn 
 a folding Table 
 four Presses for Surplices 
 
 an Iron Grate with Tongs, Poker, Shovel and Bellows ; 
 A Sifter & two Coal boxes 
 a wood Bill 
 a Brush 
 
 a small looking Glass 
 a Pewter Bason. 
 
 \Hcye tzvo or three leaves are ivantiiig.'] 
 
 In the Engine Room in the dark Entry 
 
 One large perpetual Engine 
 
 One smaller single Barrel Engine 
 
 One Suction Pipe 
 
 Three delivering Pipes 
 
 Forty five Buckets 
 
 Two large Fire Hooks under the Falling Gate 
 
 In the Glazing Room 
 
 A Quantity of small pieces of Glass. 
 
 A large Vice to draw Lead. 
 
 A smaller Vice. 
 
 Four Registring Books in the Custody of the Sacrist 
 
 \^Endorsed'\ Inventory of the Goods of the Church. 176 1. 
 
 J. W. L.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCII, CANTERBURY. 
 
 XIX. ALLOWANCE OF WAX CANDLES IN 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 This is an account of the numbers of candles used in 
 Christchurch in 1780. which may correspond in some 
 degree with the mediaeval assize of candles, printed in 
 Somner's Antiqiiities of Cantei''bury} 
 
 In the Treasurer's accounts of the eighteenth century 
 there are here and there to be found notes of the 
 chandler's bills of which one is here printed as a speci- 
 men. In 1722. the chandler is changed to Mrs. Barrett 
 at The Three Kings without Temple Bar. It seems then 
 to have been desirable, if not necessary, to buy the 
 candles in London, and that such things as wax candles 
 were not made, or were not to be had, in Canterbury 
 itself. 
 
 -Bought of Mr. Prince wax chandler in the Poultry : — 
 
 6 large white tapers 21 pounds for y*" Altar 
 A Case and Cord for them 
 
 Seven dozen & \ yellow Tapers 22^ per pound 
 "A Case and Cord for them 
 24 pounds small white tapers 
 A box and Cord 
 
 The carriage came to 
 
 14. 3. S. 
 
 Soon after this particular specimen of the chandler's 
 accounts, appears one of the first statements in full how 
 the candles in the quire were to be distributed. A like 
 
 ^ William Somner, Antiquities of Caiitcflu/ry, London, 1703. ed. by 
 Nicolas Battel)', Appendix, No. xix. p. 45. 
 
 ^ Treasure)'' s Accoitnt Book, 1709-10. p 44. Officium Sacristae. 
 ' — ^ struck tJirouk^h and t lie figures altered. 
 
 1. 14. 
 
 
 
 I. 
 
 8 
 
 '• 5- 
 
 
 
 0. 
 
 0^ 
 
 I. 16. 
 
 
 
 )• 3- 
 
 
 
 4 

 
 314 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCIIUKCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 document may be found in the Treasurer's accounts for 
 1 7 14, 1726, 1735, 1736, 1738, and several other years; 
 but the first in time has been chosen for printing- and for 
 comparison with that of i 780, the last known to us. 
 
 ^.\x\ Ace' of the distribution of Wax Candles made by Mr. 
 Henstridge Sacrist in the year 171 3. 
 
 f~To the Prebendaries as follow : 
 I To Mr. Dean 2I' The Vice Dean 2i'"l 
 White Wax <( The Receiver 21' The Treasurer 2'' i Pounds 
 I To the rest of the Praebendaries i'' [ 17 
 [_each, in all J 
 
 See p. 7. 
 
 To Mr. Gostling, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kilburn, ~j 
 
 Mr. D'Evereux & Mr. Cumberland as Minor > 10 
 
 Canons J 
 
 To Himself as Minor Canon 2''") . ,, c, 
 
 c • ^ ^ ^m all 8 
 
 more as Sacrist 6 J 
 
 To Mr. Henstridge Sen as Lay Clerk I'i 1 • n 
 
 more as Organist 4 J 
 
 To the Singing Boys 2 
 
 To the rest of y*" Lay Clerks (besides Mr. Hen- 
 stridge Sen) 1 1 
 To the Substitutes 6 
 To the School Master i 
 To the Usher i 
 To the Auditor i 
 To the Wood Reeve i 
 To me Praebendaries Stalls & for the Ladies"^ 
 the first night of lighting Candles 2^^, & after- 
 wards the Candles left after one days burning 
 , are in succession remov'd to the Ladies, & a 
 pound allowed each day in the room of those 
 remov'd _ V 27 
 There can be no more in any one year between ' 
 the first day of November & the 2nd day of 
 February (including All Saints being the first 
 day & Candlemas day being last day of lighting 
 Candles) than 26 Sundays and Holy days 
 allowed for these J 
 
 Tjrasttrcr's Accou77t Book, 1713. fo. 44.
 
 
 76 
 
 
 I. 
 
 10. 
 
 4 
 
 o. 
 
 17- 
 
 6 
 
 O c f white wax 1 ^^ ,, 
 ; ^ of -^ ,, y Candles 
 
 J [^yellow wax j 
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRIST CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 Allowed to supply the Candles for the Ends"! 
 which idle people may sometimes take out of > 
 the Candlesticks after service is over 
 
 Remain to be accounted for the use ot^ the Church 
 
 Yellow Wax Candles 14'" at 2s. 2d. a pound 
 White wax small Candles 7 at 2. 6. a pound 
 
 See this acc'^^^ for inter Reccptiones Extraord. 2: 17: 10. 
 
 In the earlier part of the Account Book for this year 
 referred to above vi^e find : 
 
 ^Next year there need'^ not to be provided more than 
 17'n r r white wax 
 
 For notwithstanding the Sacrist and Organist had large 
 allowances this year for their Perquisites, yet this quantit)- of 
 Wax Candles was all that the occasions of the Church required. 
 ^See after p. 44* 
 
 In some twenty years there appears to have been an 
 attempt at some form of peculation by the Sacrist of 
 which the following extracts from the Treasurer's 
 accounts give the story : 
 
 N.B. Mr. Henstridge, the last year's Sacrist, having put up, 
 Small Wax Candles of ten in the pound in y^" Prebend'>=' Stalls 
 instead of those of 6 in the pound, had thereby saved to himself 
 17 pounds, which he claimed as his Perquisite, beside the 2^^ 
 allowed as the Sacrist's Fee & 2IIJ as Min''. Can : But this not 
 being allowed by the ^Dean &' Prebend^^s he return'd by their 
 (3rder 16^, which with 13^^ left by him in the new Sacrist's 
 hands made 29^. Twenty pound of which being expended last 
 Winter there*^ there remained in my hands 9^ often in the pound 
 for the use of the Church. It having likewise been observed 
 that 2 pair of the large Wax Tapers on the Communion Table 
 were sufficient, viz i Pair to Christmas, & i to Candlemas, 
 instead of 3 pair which are usually bought, but not 2 thirds of 
 
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 2 p. 7. 
 
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 * — ■* added in another Jtnnd. 
 
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 " a word blotted out Jtere.
 
 3i6 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 them consumed ; it was ordered by the prebendarys present that 
 one of the 3 pair bought the last Winter^ should be kept entire 
 for the use of this & not be just lighted & then go for a Perquisite 
 to the vesterers, as it seems, has been the Practice, & by which 
 the Church loses twenty shillings, that being the price of a pair 
 of Tapers weighing 8^ of white wax at 2s 6d pr pound. 
 
 To prevent such management for the future, it is thought 
 proper that the Wax Candles and Tapers remain in the Treasurers 
 own Custody, or he- take a particular Ace' of the Sacrist 
 concerning their Distribution' 
 
 The statement of the rules for the dehvery of candles 
 in 1780 is written on one piece of vellum ig\ inches 
 by 13I-, and is as follows : 
 
 The Allowance of Wax Candles for lighting the Church to be 
 
 the same as Usual, viz : 
 
 Two large Tapers for the Altar of Four pounds each 
 
 of Sixes One pound and Four Candles every Sunday for 
 lighting the Prebends Stalls which after burning once 
 are to be moved the nexf* Sunday to the Ladies Seats 
 
 of Tens for the Ladies Seats the first Sunday of Lighting one 
 Pound 
 
 of Sixes Four Pounds per Week for lighting the Preb^. Stalls 
 and Ladies Seats on the Six Week-days ; Two pound' 
 to be lighted every night, and each Candle to burn 
 Three Times 
 
 of Sixes On Christmas day (Except when it falls on Sunday) 
 Two pounds for lighting the Stalls & the Pulpit The 
 Ladies Seats to be furnished on Christmas day with 
 the Sixes that were lighted in the Stalls the preceeding 
 Sunday 
 
 of Sixes To the Organist for the Winter Five pounds 
 
 The Total amount this Year (there being but 13 
 Sundays of lighting) is 91 pound and 4 Candles 
 
 ' It appeared afterwards that there were 2 pair of Large Tapers in 
 Reserve: in niargin. 
 - Interlined. 
 
 ^ Treasurer s Account Book^ 1735-6. p. 63. 
 ^ Interl:7ied.
 
 INVENTORIES OF CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY. 317 
 
 The Allowance of Tallcw Candles for lighting the Church on 
 Sundays to be the same as usual viz. 
 
 To the Vcsterers 
 of Sixes To furnish the Branches in the' Choir Eight Pounds 
 of Tens For the Seats in the Choir Five Pounds 
 of Sixteens For the Lower End of the Choir back Stairs &c. 
 
 Two Pounds 
 of Eights For Dr. Shuckfords Branch One Pound 
 
 To the Bellringcrs 
 of Tens To light the Nave & Isles on Sundays T\\'o Pounds 
 
 The Weekl}/- allowance to be as follows 
 To the Vesterers 
 of Tens Nine pounds per Week for lighting the Choir on the 
 Six Week days (Three pounds to be lighted each 
 night and to burn Twice) 
 Candles to be provided for lighting the Choir on the odd 
 Week Days that shall happen before the first, & after the last 
 Sunday of Lighting, in the same proportion as Specified above, 
 so that the Sixes & Tens may burn twice if the Number of Days 
 will admit of it, 
 
 "^[Tfee -M-ffiet -Gaftei-is Seats ate to fee fifH:isiie4 ««• Weefc- 
 
 4ay& ^itb *eH# Ga»eHee eaeh- ^ght eat e£ 4ie Si^ee 
 
 tbat were lig}ite4 tlie ppeeeed^Hrg Sttitday: ift tfee Giieit.] 
 
 Dr, Shuckfords Branch is to be furnished on Weekday's with 
 
 two, or four Candles each night, as may be needful!, 
 
 out of the Sixes that were lighted the preceeding Sunday 
 
 in the Choir. 
 
 [$fe Si*teefi& fo fee aJlew'd] the Bellringer [iw Ifgfefiftg 
 
 the Nave a«fcl isies feefere %be sg"^ e# ^ev''. «eF aftei^ 
 
 tfee tast Sttfiday ef iigfe^wg. ©«t ke] is to Supply 
 
 the Sconces on the Steps leading to the Choir with 
 
 Three Tens, on every Week day out of those that were 
 
 lighted the preceding Sunday in the Nave & Isles. 
 
 [-Aftei^ tfee W^ ef -Ne-v-eaibeF] and^ in addition to the 
 
 Two pounds of Tens, the Bellringer is to be allowed 
 
 "^ An astciisk placed in front of the sqttare brackets, ichich arc in the 
 manuscript ; all within the square brack:ts is struck through. 
 
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 3i8 INVENTORIES OF CHRIS! CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 
 
 three pounds of Sixtecns jjcr Week for lighting the 
 
 Nave & Isles on Week days, Eight of which are 
 
 requir'd to be lighted every night. 
 The Organ-blower is to be allow'd one Dozen of Sixteens, 
 
 for the Winter, to light the Organ Loft ; Two Candles 
 
 to be lighted every Night. 
 On Christmas Day (except when it falls on a Sunday) To 
 
 the Vesterers 
 
 Of Sixes ^Of Sixes^ to Furnish the Branches in the Choir 
 
 Eight Pounds, 
 of Tens for the Seats in the Choir Five pounds 
 of Sixteens For the Lower end of the Choir back stairs &c 
 
 Two pounds 
 of Eights For Dr. Shuckford's Branch One pound 
 
 On Christmas Day (except when it falls on Sunday) To 
 the Bellringer 
 
 of Tens To light the Nave & isles two Pounds 
 
 on Christmas Day. Of Sixteens to the Ringers One pound 
 of Sixteens To the Mason One pound 
 
 To the Virgers for the use of the Vestry & lighting the isles 
 
 & back Stairs during the time of Audit 
 Of Sixes Thirteen pounds 
 of Tens Thirteen pounds 
 
 To the Bellringers 
 
 For accidental uses from Candlemas to All Saints of 
 Sixteens Six pounds 
 
 N.B. The above Regulation is Ordered by the Dean and 
 Chapter to take place on Saturday December the 23*^1 1780 
 
 \Endo^■sed^^ 
 
 The Chapter's Regulation in respect to Candles used in the 
 Church 1780. 
 
 J. \V. L. 
 
 ' — ' Struck tlirousrJi.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Aaron, rod of, as a relic, 37, 82 ; vestments of, 45. 
 
 Abbot, chapel of an, 3. 
 
 Abbot, George, abp. (161 1-33), 343. 
 
 Abdias, relic of, 91. 
 
 Abel, picture of, 261. 
 
 Abgarus, St., bone of, 87. 
 
 Abraham, oak climbed by, 38, 91. 
 
 Acerra, an incense ship, 50. 
 
 Acus, 5. See Pin. 
 
 Adam, clay of which he \\as made, 38, 92. 
 
 Adam, prior (1263-73), chasuble of, 52 ; cope, 53 ; dalmatics and tunicles, 
 
 57, 58- . 
 Addison, Richard, 281. 
 
 Adesham, Randulph de, albe, 59 ; chasuble, 52 ; cope, 54. 
 Adrian, St., bones of, 89, 90. 
 
 .Elfric, abp. (996-1006), tomb of, 32, 35, 40 ; body of, 80. 
 /Elphege, St., abp. (1006-11), ti, 30, in, 121 ; chalice and paten, 82 ; cope 
 
 of, 53 ; image of, 36 ; relics of, 37 ; shrine of, 31, 32, 33, 4°, 79, 116, 
 
 119, 169 ; superaltar of, 82 ; translation of, 30. 
 ^Iphege, St., church of, at Canterbury. 
 ^'Ereics^ erei/s, brazen or of brass, 48, 133. 
 /Ethelgar, abp. (988-9), tomb of, 32, 40. 
 yEthelheard, abp. (793-803), tomb of, 40. 
 -'4Ithelm, abp. (923-c. 927), relics of, 31 a?id n^ 40. 
 yEthelnoth, abp. (1020-38), relics of, 31 and n, 40. 
 ^thelred, abp. ('870-889), tomb of, 32, 2,3^ 40. 
 Aeyerford, W. de, cope of, 53. 
 Agapitus, St., bone of, 87. 
 Agatha, St., bones of, 88 ; hairs of, 93. 
 Agnes, St., bones of, 89 ; relics of, 85, 93. 
 Air, aire, a chalice veil, 244, 245. 
 Airson, John, sacrist (in 1761), 311. 
 
 A/abaustrinn, the alabaster box of St. Mary Magdalene, 82. 
 Alan, prior (i 179-1 186-7), 102;/. 
 Alard, dean of St. Paul's (c. 1204-16), 46. 
 Alba, aiiba. See Albe. 
 Alban, St.,. teeth and fingers of, 83.
 
 320 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Albe, alba, aube, niiba, the long white linen or silk vestment reaching to 
 the feet worn under the other mass vestments ; apparelled, 2, 8, 45, 
 59,60, 61, 172, 188, 189, 213, 2I7«, 224 ; apparels for, 219 ; choristers, 
 205, 219 and 71, 228 ; colour of, 19, 27 ; common, 60 ; gift for making, 
 120 ; not apparelled, 61, 203, 217 ; of linen cloth, 58. 
 Silken, 18, 58, 188 ; Ikham, Stephen de, 58, 188 ; St. Paul, Simon de, 
 
 58 ; Thomas, St., 18, 58 ; Wibert, prior, 44. 
 Sold by Dean and Chapter, 236. 
 Total number of, 1315-16, 19;/, 60. 
 With coloured apparels ; 
 
 Black, 19, 58; in Arundel's chapel, 194; Buckingham, John de, 
 104 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 106. 
 
 Blue, 58, 59, 60, 65, 189, 205,217, 227, 228 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 
 67 ; in Buckingham's chapel, 194 ; Chileham, G. de, 59 ; 
 Norwich, W. de, 68 ; Philip, king of France, 62 ; St. Paul, 
 Simon de, 76 ; Stureye, Thomas de, 59 ; Westgate, John de, 
 66 ; Worthe, Stephen de, 59. 
 
 Cloth of gold, 188 ; in Arundel's chapel, 194 ; Bishopston, Gilbert 
 de, 77 ; Islip, Simon de, 95 ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; in 
 Martyrdom, 127 ; Middleton, Thomas of, 66 ; Pole, Cardinal, 
 231. 
 
 Green, 3, 5, 19, 58, 59, 65, 158, 189, 205, 219, 228; m 
 Arundel's chapel, 193 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; in Bucking- 
 ham's chapel, 194 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 103, 106 ; Feversham, 
 Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Hardres, Andrew de, 59 ; 
 Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Lovel, Katharine, 59 ; in Martyrdom, 
 127, 130 ; Moningham, Henry de, 66 ; Norwich, W. de, 
 68. 
 
 Murrey ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Thanet, Reginald de, 66. 
 
 Purple ; in St. Bartholomew's chapel, 157 ; Chart, Thomas, 130; 
 in St. Michael's chapel, 148 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; St. Paul, 
 Simon de, 76. 
 
 Red, 5, 19, 58, 59, 65, 188, 189, 205, 218, 228 ; in Arundel's chapel, 
 194; in St. Bartholomew's chapel, 156; Bishopston, Gilbert 
 de, 77 ; of Chillenden's time, 103, 105, 106 ; Feversham, 
 Stephen de, 67; Gore, John de, 66; Gore, Thomas, 130; 
 Greneweye, Thomas de, 65 ; Hereford, Countess of, 63 ; at 
 Holy Cross altar, 188 ; Ikham, Simon de, 58 ; Lidebur, William 
 de, 67 ; in Martyrdom, 130 ; in St. Michael's chapel, 148 ; 
 Moningham, Henry de, 66 ; Poucyn, R., 59 ; Pritelwelle, R. 
 de, 59 ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; Sandwich, John de, 69 ; 
 Thanet, John de, 59 ; in Warham's chapel, 141, 192, 193 ; 
 Westgate, John de, 65. 
 
 Red and blue, 188, 218, 228. 
 
 Red and green ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77. 
 
 Russet, 188 ; St. Paul, Simon de, 76 ; Sharsted, Richard, 60. 
 
 White, 19, 2in, 63, 65, 188, 189, 205, 218, 228 ; in ArundeFs 
 chapel, 193, 194 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77 ; Chichele, 
 115; Eastry, Bertram de, 66; Eleanor, Queen, 4, 5, 58; 
 Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; Gore. John de, 66 ; in Martyr- 
 dom, 130; Middletan, Thomas de, 66; Morton, J. (at Cran- 
 brook), 203;? ; St. Paul, Simon de, 58, 77 ; Sandwich, Alexander 
 de, 64 ; Sandwich, John de, 69 ; Westgate, John de, 65. 
 
 White and green, 188; Wibert, prior, 44; Winchelsey, John of., 
 69 ; Woking, John de, 59 ; Worthe, Stephen de, 59.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 321 
 
 Albe — co}iti)iued. 
 
 With shields : Adesham, R. de, 59 ; Bocton, Eudo de, 60 ; Brian, 
 Thomas, 59 ; Charing, W. de, 59 ; Chillenden, Walter de, 64 ; 
 Clive, AI. de, 59 ; Clive, Richard de, 60 ; Hardres, Andrew de, 59 ; 
 Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Lyndestede, J. de, 60 ; in Martyrdom, 
 127 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; Poucyn, R., 59 ; Pritelwelle, R. de, 59 ; 
 St. Paul, Simon de, 76, 77 ; Sifleton, Daniel de, 60 ; Stureye, 
 Thomas de, 59 ; Welles, J. de, 59 ; Winchelsey, Robert of, 62 j 
 Wye, J. de, 59 ; Walter, Hubert, 50 ; Welles, J. de, 59. 
 Albinus, St., bone of, 89. 
 
 Alburga (or Ethelburga), St., first abbess of Barking, hairs of, 8g. 
 Aldus, white, 51, etc. 
 Aldegunda, St., relics of clothes of, 89. 
 Alderby, John de, bp. of Lincoln (1300-19-20), 55. 
 Aldrich, Dr., composer (1647-1710J, 296, 301, 307, 308. 
 Alexander II. pope (1061-73), 15. 
 Alexander III. pope (i 159-81), 102;;. 
 Almery, a cupboard or locker, ^^7. 
 Almyngham, John, of W^alberswick, no;/. 
 
 Altar, of yElphege, St., 11,20,61, loi, 103, 105, 106, 107,109, no, 116, n8, 169, 
 
 172, 212, 224 ; Andrew, St., 11 ; Anselm, St., see SS. Peter and Paul ; 
 
 Audoen, St., 35 ; Augustine, St., 32 ; Bartholomew in crypts, St., 156 ; 
 
 Benedict, St., 31 ; benedictional for blessing, 75; Brenchley, Dame Joan, 
 
 75 ami ft ; in crypt below ancient high altar, 30 ; Dunstan, St., 1 1, 20, 61, 
 
 loi, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, no, n6, n8, 169, 172, 212, 224; Edward 
 
 the Confessor, 177 and n ; Edward prince of Wales, ng ; fronts 
 
 for the three, copper-gilt, 192 ; furniture, of Chillenden's time, 106 ; 
 
 Gregory, St., 32, 120, 172 ; Holy Cross, 2)3, 38, 160, 161, 176 ; Holy 
 
 Trinity ad Coroitam, n, 34, 39, 97, 98, 103, 106, 176 ; John Baptist, 
 
 St., 31;?, 177 ; John Baptist, St., in crypt, 32 ; John Evangelist, St., 
 
 3i«, 32, 35, loi, no, 172 ; Martin, St., 32, i2>, 36, loi, no, ni, n2, 
 
 172 ; Martyrdom, 126 ; Martyrdom destroyed, 170 ; Mary the Virgin, 
 
 St., 4, IT), 41, 67, 72, 105/?, 106, 120, 137, 160, 167 ; Mary of the 
 
 Undercroft, n, 34, 96, 97,98,99; Michael, St., 31 and n, 1^2 ^^"<i 
 
 n, 154, 176; Morrow Mass, 45 ; Our Lord, 30; Paulinus, St., 33 ; 
 
 Peter and Paul, SS., 35, 176 ; Peter, St., bones formerly on, 88 ; 
 
 portable, 50; in quire transepts, 176 ; Stephen, St., 32, 36, loi, no, 
 
 in, n2, 172; Sword Point, 97, 98; Thomas, St., n, 97, 98, 103, 
 
 106 ; Thomas, St., destroyed, 170. 
 
 High, n, 20, 30, 34, 35, 61, 96, loi, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, \\T, n8, 160, 
 
 212, 224, 241, 243, 246, 250, 252;/, 255, 273, 275, 277, 279, 284, 
 
 300, 306 ; bowing to, 246 ; candlesticks restored to, 243 ; at 
 
 Durham, 252 ; meaning of term, 251, 252 ; meaning of term at 
 
 Wells, 252 ; meaning of term at Westminster, 252 ; overthrown 
 
 245«, 266, 267 ; at St. Paul's, 252 ; restored, 270 ; at York, 252. 
 
 See also Communion Table. 
 
 Altar-cloths, a term used here for any covering of an altar, whether of linen, 
 
 satin, velvet, or other material, and whether upon, above, or beneath 
 
 an altar, 21;?, 127, 131, 140, 141, 193, 148, 150, 157, 159, 164, 165, 
 
 179, 190, 193, 194, 213,213;;, 220, 224, 224;;, 229,237,240,253,255, 
 
 270, 271, 275, 283, 293, 294, 299, 305, 2,11 ; case for, 294. 
 
 Altar-rails, 244, 245 aiid ;;, 266, 267, 302, 308. 
 
 Altare gestatorium. See Superaltar. 
 
 Altars, the side ; those of St. /Elphege and St. Dunstan on either side of 
 the high altar, 189. 
 
 Y
 
 322 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Ainalatus, anelaius, enamelled, 7, 70, 74, etc. 
 Amalburga, St., bone of, 89. 
 Amaux, enamels, 54. 
 Amet cloth, 158. See Amice. 
 
 Amice, amys, amyte, amet cloth, amicta, amicius, amista, hed, the first of 
 
 the mass vestments which was put on, 2, 8, 19, 45, 47, 60, 61, 63, 65, 
 
 158, 172, 188. 
 
 Apparels for, 18;/, 47 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 
 
 107 ; Edward, Prince of Wales, 97,99 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; 
 
 Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; St. Paul, Simon de, 
 
 60, 76, 77 ; sold by Dean and Chapter, 236 ; Thomas, St., 19, 60 ; 
 
 Walter, Hubert, 50 ; Wibert, prior, 44 ; Winchelsey, John de, 69 ; 
 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 62 a?id n. 
 
 Blue, 65, 188, 217, 227, 228; Bourne, Nicholas de, 66; Norwich, 
 
 W. de, 68 ; St. Paul, Simon de, 76. 
 Cloth of gold, 197 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, ']^ ; Islip, Simon de, 
 
 95 ; Middleton, Thomas de, 66. 
 Cloth of silver, 197. 
 Enamelled, 19, 60. 
 
 Green, 65, 219, 228 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Feversham, 
 Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Lidebur, William de, 67, 
 68 ; Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 Jewelled, 60. 
 Murrey ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Thanet, Reginald de, 
 
 66. 
 Purple ; in St. Bartholomew's chapel, 157 ; in St. Michael's chapel, 
 
 148 ; Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 Red, 218, 228 ; in St. Bartholomew's chapel, 156; Bishopston, 
 Gilbert de, "]"] ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 
 66 ; Lidebur, William de, 67 ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; 
 Sandwich, John de, 69. 
 Red and blue, 218, 228. 
 Red and green ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, T]. 
 
 White, 2i;;, 65, 218, 228 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, 'j'j ; Feversham, 
 Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Middleton, Thomas de, 
 66 ; St. Paul, Simon de, TJ ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; 
 Sandwich, John de, 69. 
 With shields ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, TT. 
 Amicta, amictus, 2, 5. See Amice. 
 Amisia, 156. 5^^ Amice. 
 Amner, Mr., 285. 
 
 Amphibalus, St., bone of head of, 87. 
 Ample, ampulla. See Ampul, Crismatory. 
 
 Ampuls, 206 ; crystal, 50 ; pewter, 205, 208, 220, 229 ; silver, 23, 24, 50, "j-^., 
 171, 183 ; silver-gilt, 73, 171, 183 ; ad oleum, y^ ; for oil and cream, 
 220 ; towels for, 22. 
 Ampul-cloths, 205 ; colours for, 205 a;2d n. 
 Analogium. See Desk, also Eagle. 
 Anastasius, St., bones of, 89 ; relics of, 134. 
 Andirons, fire-dogs, 257. 
 Andrew, St., bones of, 37, 81, 93 ; cross of, silver-gilt, 81 ; finger of, 93 ; 
 
 relics of cross of, 81 ; tooth of, 74. 
 Andrewes, Lancelot, bp. of Winchester (1618-19-1626), 244, 245. 
 Anelattis, amelatus, enamelled, 70. 
 Angel, figure, among texts, 29, 79.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 323 
 
 Angel-steeple, 122, or Angyll Stepyll, 132, the central tower of the cathedral 
 
 church. Sec Belharry steeple. 
 Anian, bp. of Bangor (1267-c. 1306 or Anian Seys, 1309-27-8), 57 ; of St. 
 
 Asaph (1249-66, or Anian 11., 1268-93), 55- 
 Anian, Dr. Thomas, prebendary, 160 and tt. 
 Anne, St., relic of hair and clothes of, 90. 
 Annuhes. See Ring. 
 
 Anselm, St., abp. (1093-1109), hairs of, 91 ; tomb of, 32, 35, 40, 80. 
 Ansfrid the Sherift", 3. 
 Anthem books, 256. 
 Antioche, chasuble called, 51. 
 Antioc/ie, paiimis lie, 57. 
 Antony, St., relic of beard of, 92. 
 Ap Rice, John, a commissioner for the suppression of the monasteries, 181, 
 
 194. 
 Apostles, images of twelve, on font, 246, 268. 
 Apparatus, apparelled or furnished with apparels, 107, etc. 
 Apparels for albes, the ornaments or strips or patches sewn on to the sleeves, 
 and to the hem in front and back of an albe, 219 ; apparels for amices, 
 the embroidered strips or collars sewn upon the amices, i8«, 47, 
 Appollinaris, St., dust of, 90 ; rib and tooth of, 90. 
 Apulia, Simon of, bp. of Exeter (1214-23), 45. 
 Ara, an altar, 4i«. 
 
 Archbishop's seat, 173, 191, 240, 253, 284 ; mourning for, 277 ; at York, 252. 
 Archdeacon's vault, 288. 
 Argettietis, of silver, 5, etc. 
 
 Armariolum, an almery, aumbry, cupboard, or chest. 
 Armarioluin inagnuin reliqitiarum, the great almery of the relics, 80. It 
 
 stood on the north side of the presbytery, see p. 39. 
 Armariuvi, an almery or cupboard. 
 Armorie. See Armoury. 
 Armour, to be bought, 235. 
 Armoury, armorie, the place above St. Michael's chapel where the arms were 
 
 kept in the seventeenth century, 258, 276, 282, 286, 296, 303, 309. 
 Arms (heraldic) ; Aucherand Hewitt, 280 ; Beaufort, John, earl of Somerset, 
 151 ; Clarence and Holland, 150; Clarence, Thomas, duke of, 151 ; 
 De Clare, earl of Gloucester, 26, 76 ; Edward prince of Wales, 96 
 and n ; England, king of, 26, 59, 63, 64, 74, 76, 285, 296, 
 302, 309 ; France, king of, 63, 64 ; Hastings, earl of, 26, 76 ; Hereford, 
 earl of, 63 ; Leyburn, 59 ; Nevill, Dean, 261 ; Northwood, 59 ; 
 Ponyngg, 59 ; Scotland, king of, 14, 54 ; Warenne, earl of, 26, 76, 
 96, 98 ; Whitgift, 261. 
 (military) in armoury, 258 ; in dark house, 253, 266 ; footmen's, black, 
 i.e. armour painted black, 258 ; horsemen'.s, black, 258 ; white, 
 i.e. unblackened or bright armour, 258. 
 (relics of saints), 80. 
 Arras, tapestry made at that town. 
 Arrows, sheaves of, 258. 
 Ars briidatoria, the art of embroidery, 119. 
 Arundel, high altar at, 252;/. 
 Arundel, Thomas Fitzalan of, abp. (1397-8 and 1399-1413-4), 16, loi, 104, 
 
 107, no, 161, 177, 193, 202;z ; tomb of, 178, 179. 
 Arundel and Surrey, Thomas Howard, earl of (1604-46), chalice given by, in 
 
 1636, 249. 
 Arundel-ring. See Bells. 
 
 Y 2
 
 324 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Arysse, opus de, 123. See Arras, 
 
 Ascension. See Our Lord. 
 
 Ashes, lead, 277. 
 
 Aspcrsoriuiii, 7, 72. See Sprinkler. 
 
 Atrium, a little vestry, 163. 
 
 Attaby, a kind of cloth, 106. 
 
 Aucher, Sir Anthony {pb. 1558), 198, 280, 292. 
 
 Audit, St. Katharine's, 289. 
 
 Audit-house, a chamber, now destroyed, that once stood upon the ruined 
 
 undercroft west of St. Andrew's chapel, 257. 
 Auditor, 314. 
 Audoen, St., abp. of Rouen (640-683), new shrine, 35 ; new shrine restored, 
 
 123 ; relics of, 30, 35, 80. 
 Augustine, St., bp. of Hippo, bones of, 89. 
 Aula, a hailing, or set of hangings for a hall, 97. See Hailing. 
 Aulter, the high, the silver-gilt table or tabula made while Chillenden was 
 
 prior, 181. 6*^^ also 109, no. 
 Auinbre, amber, 106. 
 
 Aumbre or chest in Warham's chapel, 142. 
 Aureus, aurinus, golden, or of gold. 
 Auricalcum, brass or latten, 48. 
 Aurifrigerium, aurifrigium, an orphrey, or orphrey-work, 63, 130. See also 
 
 PaUiuni. 
 Aurifrigeatus, orphrey ed, 14. 
 Aurifius, aureus, golden, or of gold. 
 Aurwn de Venisia, Venice gold (q.v.), 116. 
 Austroberta, St., head of, 30, 37, 80. 
 Avignon, 6. 
 
 Baccilia, 50. See Basons. 
 
 Back-cloth, a dossal or traverse at the back of the high altar, 245. 
 
 Baculi Cantorum, the staves carried by the chanters or rulers of the quire, 
 
 61. 
 Baculus pasioralis, a pastoral staff or crosier, 2, 5, 7, 70. See also Croyse. 
 Balances, 259, 287, 297, 303, 310 ; in Martyrdom, 129, 134. 
 Balas-ruby, Baleys, Balassis, a rose-red variety of the spinel ruby, 6, 7, 
 
 121. 
 Baldok, Ralph de, bp. of London (i 305-6-1 3), 55. 
 Baldwin, abp. (1184-90), 22, 51 a7td n. 
 Balesham, Hugh de, bp. of Ely (1257-86), 55. 
 Balme, balsamum, a component of the cream, 30, 211 ; glass of, with red 
 
 box, 211, 223. 
 Balsamum. See Balme. 
 Banard-clothes. See Cloths. 
 Bangor, Anian, bp. of. See Anian. 
 
 Bankers, hangings or carpets for covering benches, 96 and ;?, 98. 
 Banners, 26, 76 ; cardinal Pole's, 202, 211, 222 ; St. Thomas's, 26, 76. 
 Baptistry. See John Baptist, St., church of, a)td Font. 
 Barbara, St., hairs of, 89. 
 
 Barehid, a bear-hide, or hide wherewith to cover anything, 6, 8. 
 Bargraud, Mrs., 255. 
 
 Barking, Alburga, St., abbess of, 89 ; William of, 52. 
 Barnabas, St., bone of, 89. 
 Barrett, Mrs., chandler, 313. 
 Bars, iron, 275.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 325 
 
 Bartholomew, St., arm of, 80 and n, 156 ; bones of, 92, 93. 
 
 Barygrave, Dr. {i.e. Isaac Bargrave, dean 1625-42-3), 288 ; Mrs., 288. 
 
 Base gold, probably copper-gilt or copper-gold (q.v.), 183. 
 
 Basket, 310. 
 
 Baskett, printer, 300, 307. 
 
 Basons, daccilia, 50, were used for a variety of purposes, such as washing 
 the hands at the high altar during mass (182, 240), for offerings (244), 
 for baptisms (202), and when hanging as lamps (192). Those for 
 washing are usually found in pairs (182) ; 182, 244, 245 ; brass, 
 283 ; copper, 259 ; copper, iron frame for, 259 : copper-gilt, hanging, 
 
 175, 192; at Dulwich, 250; golden, of Edward prince of Wales, 96, 98 ; 
 for high altar, 243 ; latten, at Durham, 175 ; latten, hanging, 175, 
 
 176, 192 ; leaden, 259 ; parcel-gilt, 260 ; pewter, 220, 229, 292, 299, 
 306, 312 ; silver, 23, 72, 231, 249, 260, 293, 265«, 268, 275, 283, 293 ; 
 from Canterbury College, Oxford, 213//, 224, 237 ; of Edward 
 prince of Wales, 96, 98 ; hanging, at Durham, 175 ; hanging, Arundel's, 
 wo and )t, 176, 192 ; gilt, 291 ; silver-gilt, 50, 106, 182, 2ii«, 260, 293, 
 298, 299, 305, 311- 
 
 Bassett, Fulk, bp. of London (1244-59), 46 and 7%. 
 
 Bass-part, 164. 
 
 Batellus, a little boat or ship for incense, 72. 
 
 Battely, Nicholas, 282, 313?/. 
 
 Batten, Mr., 285. 
 
 Bath, bishops of : see Burnel, Robert ; Droknesford, John de ; Gififard 
 Walter ; Heselschawe, Walter de ; Marchia, William de ; Walter. 
 
 Baudekins. See Canopy. 
 
 Baudekyn, baudekinus. a rich and costly embroidered stuff, cloth of gold, or 
 brocade, first made at Bagdad. 
 
 Bayeux, Thomas of, abp. of York (1070-1100), 15, 16, 17, 54. 
 
 Beacon, Thomas, prebendary (1559-67), 210. 
 
 Beam, a long piece of timber crossing the church above and beyond the 
 high altar, carrying probably a great cross or rood and the attendant 
 images ; upon or hung from it were numerous reliquaries, 35, 36, 38, 
 175 ; in Conrad's presbytery, 36; at entrance to Trinity Chapel, 
 3i« ; iron, 259 ; beyond St. Martin's altar, 36 ; beyond St. Stephen's 
 altar, 36 ; of wood, 258. For balances, 287, 297, 303, 310. 
 
 Beane, Mr., 274. 
 
 Beare bowl, a silver bowl or small cup for drinking beer from, 260. 
 
 Bearers in re-vestry, 241. 
 
 Beaufort, John, earl of Somerset. See Somerset. 
 
 Beazeley, Mr. M., 291. 
 
 Bed given by the lady Joan de Mohun, 99. 
 
 Beeres, biers for the dead, 256. 
 
 Bek, Thomas, bp. of St. David's (1280-93), 55- 
 
 Belfry^, bin of, 259. 
 
 Belk, Dr. Thomas, prebendary (1660-76) and treasurer, 274, 288, 
 2897?. 
 
 Bell, sacring, the little bell rung at the sacring or an elevation of the 
 Host in the mass, 140, 148, 150, 164, 182 ; sumpter, 4, 6, 8. 
 
 Bellharry steeple, the central tower of the cathedral church, in which hangs 
 Bellharry, 259 ; also called the Angel Steeple (q.v.). 
 
 Bellharry steeple vault, 259. 
 
 Bell-metal, 263. 
 
 Bellows, 257, 292, 299, 306, 312 ; to refine ashes, 259. 
 
 Bellringers, 317, 318.
 
 326 GLOSSAA'V AND INDEX. 
 
 Bells, chime of five, Arundel's, i ion ; in clocher, 44 ; on cope, 46 ; on 
 ephod and blue tunicle, 46 ; on fanon and stole, 46 ; on mitres, 46, 
 
 47- ■' 
 Belts, in armoury, 258. 
 
 Benches, 259, 276, 286, 288, 298, 303, 304, 309, 310. 
 Benedict, St., bones of, 86, 92 ; rule of, 43;; ; tooth and bone of, 82. 
 Benedicta, St., dust of, 90. 
 
 Benedictionalia^ books of benedictions or blessings, 25, 75. 
 Bejiedictiis, the song, 35. 
 Benignus, St., bone of, 81. 
 
 Berillciy beriUitm^ byrell, beryl or crystal, 133, 134, 183, 211. 
 Bernard and Tomkins, 301, 307. 
 Bertinus, St., relics of, 91. 
 Beryls, for new fire, 207, 211, 223. 
 
 Besanciuin, a besantiiun or bezant, a gold coin or sequin. 
 Beveridge, Dr. (William, prebendary 1684-91), 281. 
 Bewford (Beaufort), Thomas, 153^. 
 Bible, biblia, biblium, 256, 266, 275, 288, 296, 300, 302, 307, 309 ; with 
 
 Barker's arms, 260 ; Dr. Turner's, 278, 279, 283, 293, 299, 305, 311 ; 
 
 Walter's, Hubert, 50 ; Winchelsey's, Robert of, 8. 
 Bier, 256, 257, 276, 286, 303, 309. 
 Bilanciarian, par, a pair of balances or scales, 129. 
 Bin, 261. 
 
 Bishop, chapel of a, i. 
 Bishopston, Gilbert de, vestments of, jj. 
 Bi'ssus, some rich stulT, 122. 
 Bitches, iron, instruments for drawing up and holding iron rods or stays, 
 
 259. 
 Black book, the great, 164. 
 Black chapel, the, 258. 
 Black Death, 235;/. 
 Black Prince. See Edward. 
 Blase, St., arm of, 80 ; bones of, 29, 31, 35, 80, 83, 92, 93, 169 ; head of, 2,7, 
 
 80 ; pipe of, 38, 93 ; relic of, 80 ; tooth of, 81. 
 Blechinden, Dr., prebendary (1633, etc.), 243. 
 Blessing at mass, etc. prior's, 102;? ; at table, io2;i. 
 Blocks, 310. 
 Blodiiis, blue, 105. 
 
 Bloett, Robert, bp. of Lincoln (1093-1 122-3), 45- 
 Blomville, Thomas de, 51. 
 " Blue Dick." See Calmer. 
 
 Boards, 256, 262, 263, 276, 287 ; scaffolding, 287, 298, 304, 310. 
 Bockinge, white arras of, 212. 
 Bocle, a buckle, 196. 
 Bocton, Eudo de. albe, 60 ; J. de, chasuble, 52 ; cope, 54 ; dalmatic and 
 
 tunicle of, 58. 
 Bodleian Library, 195. 
 Bohemia, John, king of, 96;/. 
 Bokeram, bokeraiiununt, buckram, at first a fine linen or cotton fabric, but 
 
 later a coarse linen stiffened with gum or paste, 63. 
 Boleyn. See Bullen. 
 Boniface, abp. (1245-70), 4, 5, 51. 
 Boniface, St., bones of, 87. 
 Books, anthem, 256; catalogue of, 1315, 10; Chillenden's, loi ; for 
 
 christenings and burials, 258 ; the church statutes, 256 ; of Common
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 327 
 
 Prayer, 266, 273, 277, 288, 295, 296, 300, 301, 302, 306, 307, 309; of 
 Common Prayer, for abp., 294, 300, 306 ; of Common Prayer, Dr. 
 Finch, 279, 288, 294, 300, 306 ; of Common Prayer, sealed, 271 ; 
 Communion, a book containing the order of Communion, 241 ; epistle, 
 62 ; for fasts, 256 ; in library, 241, 254, 263, 264, 265 ; for 27th Alarch, 
 256 ; musical, 295, 301, 307, 308 ; musical. Dr. Aldrich's score, 296, 301, 
 308 ; Dr. Croft's anthems, 296, 301, 308 ; Dr. Green, anthem, 301, 
 308 ; Purcell, 301, 308 ; Tomkins' Organ, 301, 308 ; for 5th November, 
 256; Psalm, 257, 276 ; registers, 311, 312 ; service, 25, 244, 245, 254, 
 255, 256, 266, 273, 275, 294 ; service, burial, 62 ; singing, 275, 285 ; 
 Mr. Sympson's, 241 ; see also Benedictionalia ; Capitiilaria; 
 Collectoriiini ; Epistolares ; Evan^elia ; Gradale j Lectionale ; 
 Mis sale ; Ordinal ia ; Potitificale ; Portiforia ; Processionale ; 
 Psalferiuiii. 
 
 Bord alizander, a kind of striped silk made at Alexandria, 131. 
 
 Boulogne, Robert, count of, 63. 
 
 Bourchier, Thomas, abp. (1454-86), 11 and /i, 39, 121. 
 
 Bourges, 47;/. 
 
 Bourne, Nicholas de, vestments of, 67 ; W. de, 52, 75. 
 
 Bowet, Henry, abp. of York (1407-23), inventory of, m. 
 
 Bowl, 260 ; beer, 260, 268. See Beare-bowl. 
 
 Bows, 258. 
 
 Box, 257, 271, 276, 285, 296, 302, 308, 311 ; for singing bread, 182 ; mortar, 
 287, 298, 304 ; red, with glass of balm, 211, 223. 
 
 Boys, Sir John, 160. 
 
 Brachiuui, an arm-shaped reliquary, 80. 
 
 Bradfield, John de, bp. of Rochester (1278-83), 56. 
 
 Branch, a gilt chandelier with branches for candles ; three such still belong 
 to the cathedral church, 284 ; Sir Anthony Aucher's, 280, 281, 284, 
 292, 295, 301, 307; Dr. Shuckford's, 292, 302, 309, 317, 318; abp. 
 Tenison's, 292, 295, 301, 307. 
 
 Brandeston, Henry de, bp. of Salisbury (1287-87-8), 56. 
 
 Brasier, 281. 
 
 Bread, singing, box for, 182 ; used at Communion, 209. 
 
 Bredgare, Thomas, 218, 228. 
 
 Bredgars, copes called, probably given by Thomas Bredgare, 226. 
 
 Bregwin, abp. (759-62), tomb of, 32, 40. 
 
 Brenchley, dame Joan (ob. 1453), chantry founded by, 177 ; Sir William, 
 Justice of Common Pleas (1399-1406), 177 and n. 
 
 Breton, Richard the, sword of. See Sword-point. 
 
 Breudatits, broiidahes, briidatus^ embroidered. 
 
 Brian, Thomas, albe of, 59. 
 
 Bridges in basons, 220, 229. 
 
 Bridpnrt, Giles de, bp. of Salisbury (1256-7-62), 54 ; Thomas de, 54. 
 
 Brigida, St., relics of, 81, 91. 
 
 Bristow, Nicholas, notary, 197 and n. 
 
 Bronscombe, Walter of, bp. of Exeter (1257-8-80), 45, 46. 
 
 Brooches, St. Thomas's, 72. 
 
 Broudatus. See Breitdatiis. 
 
 Broudery, embroidery. 
 
 Brown bills, browned or rusted bill-hooks, furnished with spikes and 
 mounted on staves for the use of foot-soldiers and watchmen, 258. 
 
 Brudaiaria, Ars, the art of embroidery, 119. 
 
 Brudatus. See Breiidatus. 
 
 Brushes, 299, 306, 312.
 
 328 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Bryan, Mr., 285. 
 
 Buck, Thomas, printer, 278. 
 
 Buck cushions, 285. 
 
 Buckets, 260, 275, 303, 310, 312. 
 
 Buckingham, John of, bp. of Lincoln (1363-97), 103, 107, loc) a/td n, 179, 
 
 180 ; chapel of, 179, 180, 194. 
 Buckle, golden, 196 ; jewelled, 196. 
 
 BuUen, Sir Thomas, K.G., earl of Wiltshire (ob. 1539), 43«. 
 Bullets kept in Dark House, 253, 258. 
 
 Bunge, Mr. Jo., receiver, 240, 241 a)id 7i. ■ 
 
 Burghill, John, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield (1398-1414), 15, 16. 1 
 
 Burial-service books, 62. 
 
 Burnel, Robert, bp. of Bath (1274-5-92), 16, 55. 
 Burnley, Thomas, 282. 
 Burres, probably prickly flowers or fruits, used as devices in embroidery, 
 
 184, 216, 217. 
 Burton, ]?lu\&s, grana/orius, 139. 
 
 Burton (Button or Bitton), Thomas de, bp. of Exeter (1292-1307), 56. 
 Bury St. Edmund's abbey, 48. 
 Burying-ropes, 310. 
 
 Buskins, the embroidered leggings worn by bishops and mitred abbots or 
 priors under the sandals, 173, 191, 231. 
 
 Blue, 23, 173, 191, 220, 229 ; Thomas, St., 38, 85 ; Winchelsey, 71. 
 
 Cloth of gold, Pole, 231. 
 
 Red, 71, 173, 191 ; Peckham, 4, 5, 7, 23 ; Winchelsey, 71. 
 
 White, 2, 173, 191, 220, 229 ; Pole, 231 ; Winchelsey, 71. 
 
 Worn by Prior of Canterbury, 102. 
 Bustian, a cotton fabric, perhaps a kind of fustian (q.v.), 158. 
 Butler, John, prebendary (ob. 1569), 210. 
 Byrell, a crystal, or of crystal, 183. See Berilla. 
 Byrry, Thomas, officiary, 127, 129. 
 
 Cables, strong ropes for hoisting things, 257, 259, 285, 297, 303, 309. 
 
 Cades, cadas, a kind of stuff, 158. 
 
 Caffa, cafifay, a rich silk stuff like damask, of various colours, such as 
 
 red, white, green, crimson, black, etc. 188, 240. 
 Cain, picture of, 261. 
 Calais, map of capture of, 261. 
 Calcedo/niiin, chalcedony, 71. 
 
 Caleevers, calivers, a light musket or harquebus, 258. 
 Calepungiius^ a calipyne, calefactory, warmer, warming pan or pome, a ball ot 
 
 copper-gilt for warming the hands of the priest at mass, 72. 
 CaligcE lanecr^ the woollen stockings in which St. Thomas was buried in 
 
 1070, 85;?. 
 CaliXy a chalice, 2, etc. 
 Calixtus, St., pope (218-22), relics of, 94. 
 Camaka, cammoka, a kind of fine fabric, perhaps of silk, 99. 
 Caniati, a cameo, 72, 73 ; called also lapis Israel, 107. 
 Cainboca, apparently the same as camaka, 68. 
 Cambridge, St. Hugh's Hall, 132. 
 Camera 7iova prioris, 108. 
 Camericke, cambric, a fine white linen cloth originally made at Cambray in 
 
 Flanders, 231. 
 Camimun, a chimney, 118; apparently a shortened form oi percaiitiniiiii, 
 
 159.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX 329 
 
 Campaiia ad stiDuiiariiim capelle, a bell for the sompter-horse which bore 
 the archbishop's chapel, 6. 
 
 Caiiipa/iella, canipamila^ a little bell, 46, 47. 
 
 Canccllum^ the chancel or quire, so called from its being screened off 
 {cancellatiiin)^ 44. 
 
 Candelabra. Sec Candlesticks. 
 
 Candle, hallowed at Candlemas, holder for, 105, 107 ; Paschal, case for, 119. 
 
 Candle-ends, stolen, 314. 
 
 Candles, assize of, 313 ; distribution of, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318 ; tallow, 317 ; 
 white-wax, 315 ; yellow-wax, 315. 
 
 Candlesticks, 268, 272 ; Andrewes, 245 ; brass, 257, 294, 295, 300, 307 ; 
 Chillenden, Thomas, loi ; copper-gilt, 176, 192, 206, 219, 229; 
 copper-gilt, in Martyrdom, 129, 133, 134; at Dulwich, restored, 250 ; 
 at Durham, on high altar, 252 ; enamel, 4 ; high altar, restored to, 
 243, 244; iron, 192, 196, 220, 229; Jesse, 48; kept, where, 250; 
 latten, 192, 219 attd n, 229; latten, in Lady chapel, 164; in St. 
 Michael's chapel, 148, 150; three-branched, 192, 219, 229; in 
 Martyrdom, with double nozzle, 129, 133 ; parcel-gilt, 73, 196 ; 
 paschal, 176, 192 ; Pole, cardinal, 206, 230 ; portable, 24, 73 ; seven- 
 branched, 44, 47, 48, 49 ; at shrines of 6S. ..-Elphege and Dunstan, 
 119 ; silver, 106 ; silver, of Edward prince of Wales, 96, 98 ; Winchel- 
 sey, 4, 5> 7 ; silver-gilt, 73, 260, 2S3, 293, 299, 305, 311 ; silver-plated, 
 182; sold by Dean and Chapter, 236; Walter, Hubert, 50; at 
 Westminster, none on altar, 250; wooden, 255, 257, 271, 284; at 
 York, none on altar, 250. 
 
 Canister, or oox for wafers, silver-gilt, 244, 245. 
 
 Canola of St. Blaise, perhaps a silver eucharistic reed, 38, 93. 
 
 Canon of the Mass, position in old mass-books, 157//. 
 
 Canons, minor, 284" 314, 316 ; petty, 246. 
 
 Canopy, 213;/, 224;;, 240; for abp.'s seat, 173, 191, 240; for abp.'s seat, 
 purple, 299, 306 ; red, 253, 256 ; white and green, 240, 253, 255, 273, 
 275, 283, 293, 299, 305, 311 ; for dean's seat, 242 ; for font in Lent, 
 212, 224 ; green, 26, 76 ; murrey, 26, 76 ; over altar at Walberswick, 
 won ; red, 26, 76, 191, 211, 223 ; use of, 26 ; white, 191, 211, 
 223. 
 
 Canopy-staves, 211, 223, 241, 255, 256, 284, 305, 311. 
 
 Cantelupe, Thomas de, bp. of Hereford (1275-82), 55. 
 
 Canterbury, archbishops of : see Abbot, George ; yElfric ; zElphege, St. 
 .•Ethelgar; ^Ethelheard ; ^thelm: /Ethelnoth ; /Ethelred ; Anselm 
 St. ; Arundel, Thomas ; Baldwin ; Boniface ; Bourchier, Thomas 
 Bregwin ; Ceolnoth ; Chichele, Henry ; Courtenay, William 
 Cranmer, Thomas ; Cuthbert ; Dean, Henry ; Dunstan, St. 
 Eadsin ; Fleogild, St. ; Grindal, Edmund ; Howley, William 
 Islip, Simon of; Kemp, John; Kilwardby, Robert de ; Lanfranc 
 Langton, Stephen ; Laud, William ; Living ; Meopham, Simon of 
 Morton, John ; Odo, St. ; Parker, Matthew ; Peckham, John of 
 Plegmund ; Pole, cardinal ; Reynolds, Walter ; Richard ; Siric 
 Stafford, John ; Stratford, John ; Sudbury, Simon of ; Tenison 
 Thomas ; Theobald ; Thomas, St. ; Tillotson, John ; Walter 
 Hubert ; Warham, William ; Whitgift, John ; Winchelsey, Robert 
 of ; Wulthelm ; Wulfred. 
 
 Canterbury, archbishops of, list of relics of, (xvi. cent.), 40 ; alderman of, 
 religious and well -affected, 243 ; St. Augustine's, 48 ; Dean and 
 Chapter of, 243 ; Dean and Chapter of, embezzlement by, 234, 235, 
 236, 237 ; ordered to restore stolen goods, 236.
 
 330 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Canterbury — cojitiniicd. 
 
 Deans of: see Godwin ; Nevill ; Rogers ; Sharp ; Tillotson ; Wotton. 
 Prior and convent of : see Prior and Convent. 
 
 Priors of: see Adam; Alan; Chillenden, Thomas; Conrad; Eastry, 
 Henry of; Ernulf ; Fynch, John ; Goldston I., Thomas ; Goldston 
 II., Thomas; Hathbrand, Henry; Selling, William; Wibert ; 
 Wodennisbeg, John. 
 Vice-dean and chapter of, 197, 198. 
 W. of, abbot of Langdon, 57. 
 Canterbury College, Oxford, 213//, 224, 237. 
 Ca7ito7\ the chanter or precentor. 
 Canudiiiin, pafi/iiii/i^ hempen cloth or canvas, 1 29. 
 Canvas, canvase, />annu;/i camibiuin^ hempen cloth, 119, 129. 
 Capa, cappa, a cope, q.v. 
 
 Capa chori, a quire cope or black cloak worn in quire. 
 Capa ferialts, a cope for ferial days. 
 Cape professiomim^ profession-copes. See p. 14. 
 
 Capella, a chapel, or set of ornaments that a bishop or abbot could take 
 about with him. See p. i. The word is occasionally used in these 
 inventories with reference to a building. See p. 124. 
 Capita/ia^ capital letters, 132. 
 
 Capitidaria et collectoriinn^ 25, 75. Books of the capitiila or short lessons 
 used at most of the hour-services, and the coUectae or orationes used 
 at the same. 
 Capsa^ a box, chest, or coffer for keeping or putting things in ; also a case of 
 
 any kind, 128. 
 Captain, Lieutenant and Ancient, 250;/, 252, 253. 
 Capiiliii/i, the pommel of a. sword-hilt ; it was one of the relics kept in the 
 
 Martyrdom with the Cicspis gladii (q.v.), 135. 
 Carlisle, prior and convent of, \n ; Ross, John, bishop of (1325-32), \n. 
 Carpets, tapeta, 6, tapets, 212, 240, 241. These were used for a variety of 
 purposes, such as to lay before altars, or in front of or upon seats, or 
 for persons to stand on ; they were of all kinds of materials ; 44, 50, 
 191, 238, 240, 255, 256, 257, 275, 283, 284, 286, 295, 296. 
 Black, 174, 191. 
 
 Blue, 191, 212, 224; with eagle, 118. 
 Communion-table, under, 241. 
 Dean's and vice-dean's seats, 251, 255. 
 Esther, story of, 171, 191. 
 Goldston II., Thomas, 124. 
 Green, 117, 118, 212, 224, 230, 232, 240. 
 High altar, 243, 299, 300, 305, 306. 
 Lady-chapel, in, 164. 
 Persian, 294. 
 
 Prior's seat, for, 172, 191. 
 Red, 120 (ifid 77, 191, 212, 224, 230, 232, 240. 
 Turkey, 244, 294, 295. 
 
 White, 191, 212, 224, 230, 232, 240 ; in Martyrdom, 128, 132. 
 Willoughby, Mr., 232. 
 Carpetwork, a thick material like carpet, 190, 241. 
 Carriage, stone, 310. 
 
 Carse, a blunder of the scribe for " Tharse," 66. 
 Carsey, kersey, a coarse cloth, 271. 
 Cart, 259, 287, 288, 298, 304, 310. 
 Carthusians, 1 1 . 
 
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 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 331 
 
 Casaubon, Mr. (Meric), prebendary (1628-71) and treasurer, 254, 263. 
 
 Case for plate, 260. 
 
 Casta, caston, a socket for a mazer print, 74. 
 
 Casi/la, 2, a chasuble, q.v. 
 
 Casiila diiplicata, or duplex, a reversible chasuble, with the sides of different 
 colours, 66, 68. 
 
 Catalogue of books in 131 5, 10 ; in 1634, 263, 264, 265. 
 
 Cathedra, a chair or seat, 35/;. See Chair. 
 
 Cathedral-altar-glory-cloth, 247. 
 
 Cathedral-ceremonious-altar-service, 246. 
 
 Cat/ienu/a, a little chain, 46. 
 
 Catsamit, 65. 
 
 Catterick, John, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield (1415-19), 15, 16. 
 
 Caul, gold, 294. 
 
 Cavendish, William, a commissioner for the suppression of the monasteries, 
 181, 194. 
 
 Cecil, picture of, 261. 
 
 Cecily, St., hairs of, 86, 93. 
 
 Cedrimis, made of cedarwood, 2, 70. 
 
 Celebrant, position of, 209. 
 
 Celiira, a celure, canopy or hanging, 99. 
 
 Cemetery of monks, 153;/ ; benedictional for blessing, 75. 
 
 Cendale, J. de, bishop of Winchester (1316-19), 57, 74. 
 
 Censer, the vessel in which incense was burnt and with which persons and 
 
 things were censed. They were usually in pairs. In 1540 the church 
 
 had a " principal " pair, gilt, with white, i.e. silver, chains for use on 
 
 festivals, and a single or "common" one for ordinary use, 182. 
 
 Chillenden's, Thomas, 10 1 ; gold, Amyas Tatersall's, 121 ; laten, 205, 
 
 206, 208, 219, 229 ; Pole's, 206 ; silver, 3, lion ; silver-gilt, 7, 23, 24, 
 
 72, 171, 182, 202 ; silver-gilt, at St. Mary's altar, 72 ; Peckham's, John 
 
 of, 4, 5 ; Pole, cardinal, 230 ; pro juveiiibus, 106 ; with salamander 
 
 feathers, 72; at shrine of St. Thomas, 72; 'Walter, Hubert, 50; 
 
 Wibert, prior, 44. 
 
 Ceolnoth, abp. (830-70), relics of, 31 and n, 40. 
 
 Cera, for sera, a lock, 144. 
 
 Ceraste, made of horn, 50. 
 
 Cereiis pasclialis, 119. .S'^'(? Paschal. 
 
 Cericus. See Sericiis. 
 
 Certificate of use of ornaments, 209. 
 
 Cestrensis, 1 5. 
 
 Chad, St. (bishop of York 664-667 and of Lichfield 669-672), bone'from 
 head of, 93 ; relics of clothes of, 93. - ~■\^ 
 
 Chafing-dish, a vessel to hold lighted charcoal, 260. um; 
 
 Chair (285), chare (242), chayer (241), cheyer (183, 195), cathedra (35;0- 
 Chairs were used for various purposes, and varied in material from the 
 "stone" or marble seat of the archbishop (285), to the iron stools 
 (241), probably for the chanters or rectoris chori, the "chare of 
 wainscott" for the commissioners (242), or the state chair with its 
 silver parcel-gilt plating and its garnishing of red tissue (183, 195). 
 
 Chair, 256, 257, 275, 276, 283, 286, 294, 299, 306, 311 ; cloth of gold, 255 ; 
 cloth of tissue, 241, 248 ; copes, of old, 248, 261, iron, 256 ; ordinations, 
 at, 244. 
 
 Chair, the stone, sedes marmorea, cathedra, the marble seat of the archbishop, 
 formerly behind and above the high altar, 35 andn, 282, 285, 296, 301, 
 308.
 
 332 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Chalcedony, a precious stone of uncertain character, 50. 
 ChaHce, calix, the cup used at mass, 2, 107, 201 ; at different manors, 22, 
 70 ; in Buckingham's chapel, 180, 194 ; Mohun's, Lady Joan de, 100; 
 Richard's, abp., 160. 
 Gold, 21 ; of /Elphege, St., 82 ; Arundel, abp., iio and n ; Edward, 
 prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98; Henry III., 22, 69; high mass, 22, 
 69 ; morrow mass, 22, 69 ; Philip of France, 22, 69 ; repair of, 120 ; 
 St. Thomas' altar, 22, 69 ; Walter, Hubert, 50 ; W^inchelsey, 22, 70. 
 Silver, 22, 70. 
 
 Silver-gilt, 2, 4, 7, 22, 70, 159, 196, 210, 222, 249, 260, 270, 275, 298, 305 ; 
 of earl of Arundel and Surrey, 249, 268, 270, 283, 293, 299, 305, 
 311 ; Buckingham, John of, 104, 107; Chompaine, lady of, 70; 
 Clive, R. de, jo ; Copton, Richard, 133, 134, 182 ; Edward prince 
 of Wales, 96, 98; Martyrdom, 128, 133, 134; St. Michael's chapel, 
 148, 149 ; Norwich, W. of, 70 ; Feckham, John of, 4, 5 ; repaired, 
 291 ; Warham's chapel, in, 141, 192 ; Warham, William, 143 ; 
 Wibert, prior, 44. 
 Chamberpot, 257 ; pewter, 275, 283. 
 Champyon, Richard, D.D., prebendary (1540-44), 181. 
 Chancel, 246 ; completion of, 44. 
 Changeable, chaungeable, shot or changing coloured, usually applied to 
 
 silk, 141. 
 Chantry, founded by dame Joan Brenchley, 177 ; by Edward prince of Wales, 
 
 97, 99- 
 Chapel, a set of portable ornaments for a bishop or abbot, etc., abbot's, 3 ; 
 bishop's, I ; bishop's, chests for, i ; indenture on receipt of, i ; 
 King's, 3 ; Meopham's, Simon of, 6, 7 ; Peckham's, John of, 4, 5 ; 
 Walter's, Hubert, 3, 50. 
 Chapell-coffers, the chests or coffers in which a bishop's chapel was carried 
 
 about, I. 
 Chapels: Andrew, St., 32, 172, 173, 281; Andrew, St., under, 108, 113; 
 Anselm, St., 293; Arundel's, 176, 177, 179, 193; Bartholomew in 
 crypts, St., 156 ; Benedict, St., 3i/'7, 125 and tt, 163 and 7t ; black, 258, 
 263 ; black, chamber above, 263 ; Buckingham's, 176 ; clerks of, 6 ; 
 Dean's, 303, 309 ; Henry IV.'s, 177. 
 Lady, loi, 107, 108, 125, 138, 142, 145, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 176, 
 '^77i '93; altar, 167 ; dedication, 163 ; description of building, 165, 
 166, 167 ; no plate in, 165 ; quire, fitted as, 165 ; vestry, 163, 166. 
 Michael's, St., 31;/, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153 and n ; altar, 153, 154; 
 
 description of building, 150, 153. 
 Peter and Paul, SS., 32; Preacher's, 256,274, 277, 286,296; Prior's, 
 124 ; Thomas, St., 42 ; Trinity, ad Coronani, 31;/, 32, 33, 34, 160; 
 Trinity ad Coronani, crypt under, 32. 
 Warham's, William, 138, 139, 142, 176, 177, 192 ; altar, 142 ; arrange- 
 ment, 143, 144, 145, 146. 
 Chapman (Alexander) archdeacon (of Stow 1610 and prebendary 1610-29), 
 
 monument of, 125, 126;?. 
 Chapter-house, 144, 145, 246, 253, 254, 256, 257, 271, 276, 282, 283, 285, 296, 
 302, 309 ; closet, 285, 296, 303, 309 ; restored, by Chillenden, loi ; 
 roof, 253 ; services in, 239 ; white-washed, 114. 
 Chare. See Chair. 
 Charing, W. de, albe of, 59. 
 Charles L, 247, 269 ; anniversary of accession, 253 ; picture of, 281, 284, 295, 
 
 300, 307. 
 Charles O., 251.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 333 
 
 Chart, Thomas, monk, 128, 130. 
 
 Chasuble, chesible, castila, the principal vestment worn by the priest during- 
 mass, 63, 158, 172, 186, 188, 204, 216;/. 
 
 Baudekin, 52, 216//, 227. 
 
 Black, 186, 216, 221, 227, 229 ; Arundel's chapel, 194 ; for dead, 27, 52, 
 61, 120 ; Evesham, at, 27 ; Goldston II., Thomas, repaired by, 124 ; 
 Henry, prior, 13, 51 ; Lanfranc, 13, 27, 51 ; St. Michael's chapel, 
 148. 
 
 Black and red, 187. 
 
 Blue, 64, 65, 158, 186, 187, 216, 2i6;z, 227; Baldwin, archbishop, 51 ; 
 Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Bourne, W. de, 52 ; Buckingham's 
 chapel, 194 ; Chileham, G. de, 52 ; Goldston II., Thomas, 123, 
 124 ; Lese, Marcel de la, 52 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; Philip of 
 France, 62 ; Pritelwelle, Ralph de, 52 ; St. Leger, Mr., 221, 230 ;. 
 St. Paul, Simon de, 76 ; Sifleton, Daniel de, 52 ; Westgate, John 
 de, 66. 
 
 Bourne, Nicholas de, 67. 
 
 Chillenden, Thomas, loi. 
 
 Cloth of gold, 186, 187, 216, 227 ; Adam, prior, 52 ; Arundel's chapel, 
 194; Heme, T., 119; Islip, Simon ot, 95; Lidebur, William de, 
 68 ; Pisano, Antelino de, 63 ; Pole, cardinal, 231 ; Winchelsey, 
 archbishop, 62 a/id n. 
 
 Doubled, 28 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, "]"] ; Eastry, Bertram de, 66 ; 
 Gore, John de, 66 ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; 
 Sandwich, John de, 69 ; Winchelsey, John de, 69. 
 
 Edward, prince of Wales, 97, 99. 
 
 Goldston II., Thomas, 124. 
 
 Green, 3, 61, 65, 119, 158, 186, 187, 216, 227; Adam, prior, 52; 
 Adesham, R. de, 52 ; Arundel's chapel, 193 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 
 67 ; Buckingham's chapel, 194 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 103 ; doubled, 
 28, 66 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Hardres 
 A. de, 52 ; Lidebur, William de, 64, 67, 68 ; Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 
 Living, archbishop, 5. 
 
 Lovel, Katharine, 52. 
 
 Meopham, Simon de, 7. 
 
 Murrey, Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Living, archbishop, 51 ; Thanet,, 
 Reginald de, 52, 66. 
 
 Purple, Bartholomew's chapel, St., 156 ; Chileham, G. de, 52 ; doubled, 
 28 ; Michael's chapel, St., 148 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; Plukenet, 
 Sir Alan, 52 ; Walter, Hubert, 51. 
 
 Red, 2, 51, 52,61, 64, 65, 159, 186, 187, 188,213,224, 227;/; Antioch, called, 
 51 ; Barking, William de, jr., 52 ; Bartholomew in crypts, St., 156 ; 
 Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77 ; Boniface, 5, 51 : Boulogne Robert, 
 Count of, 63 ; Bourchier, Thomas, 121 ; Chillenden, Walter de, 64 y 
 doubled, 28, 66 ; Eastry, Henry de, 63, 187 ; Edington. William de, 
 96 ; Eleanor, queen, 52 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; Geynesborgh, 
 W. de, bp. of Worcester, 52 ; Gore, John de, 66; Greneweye, Thomas 
 de, 67, 77; Hereford, Countess of, 63; Holy Cross altar, 188; Lidebur, 
 William de, 64, 68 ; Lyndestede, J., 52 ; Magdalene, called, 5 1 ; M ichael's 
 chapel, St., 148 ; Peckham, John of, 62 ; Philip of France, 62 ; 
 Rawe, R. de, 64, 77 ; Ringemere, J. de, 52 ; Rokeslee, Richard de, 
 63 ; Sutton, Daniel de, 52 ; Thanet, J. de, 52 ; Thomas, St., 51 ; 
 Walter, Hubert, 51 ; Westgate, John de, 65 ; Winchelsey, Robert 
 of, 62. 
 
 Red and blue, 188, 219.
 
 334 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Chas able — continued. 
 
 Red and green, Bishopston's, Gilbert de, TJ. 
 Red and white, 219. 
 Russet, 188. 
 St. Paul, Simon de, 76. 
 Sotipc en vin^ Adam's, prior, 52. 
 Subsacrists, kept by four, 61. 
 Tawny, St. Paul, Simon de, 76. 
 Thomas, St., at Sens, 45. 
 
 White, 21;/, 52, 61, 63, 65, 186, 187, 188 ; Adam, prior, 52 ; Arundel's 
 chapel, 193, 194 ; Blomville, Thomas de, 51 ; Chichele, archbishop, 
 115, 187, 204 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 105 ; Courtenay, William, 104, 
 187, 216, 227 ; doubled, 28 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; Fevers- 
 ham, Stephen de, 67 ; Goldston II., Thomas, 124 ; Gore, John 
 de, 66 ; Jesse, with, 187 ; Lyndestede, J. de, 52 ; Middleton, 
 Thomas de, 66 ; Morton, John, 122, 186 ; Norwich, Walter de, 64 ; 
 Parkhurst, Mr., 221, 230; St. Leger, Mr., 221, 230; St. Paul, 
 Simon de, 'j'j ; Sandwich, Ale.xander de, 64 ; Westgate, John de, 
 65. 
 White and green, 188. 
 Wibert, prior, 44. 
 
 Yellow, Bocton, J. de, 52 ; Winchelsey, Thomas of, 52. 
 Chayer. Sec Chair. 
 
 Checker or chequer work, wrought in squares or checkers, 218, 241. 
 Cheney, a kind of worsted or woollen stuff supposed to have been made or 
 
 introduced from China, 300. 
 Cherubs, carved and gilded, 279, 280, 285, 296. 
 Chesible. See Chasuble. 
 
 Chests, 256, 257, 275, 277, 283, 294, 296, 299, 302, 305, 308, 309, 311 ; on 
 beam above high altar, 32, ^i?) ; for chapel, i and n, 7 ; in revestry, 
 241 ; in Warham's chapel, 140, 141, 142, 193. 
 Cheyer. See Chair. 
 
 Chichele, Henry, abp. (1414-43), 39, 115, 144. 
 
 Chichester, bishops of : see Gilbert ; Langeton, J. de ; Richard, St. 
 Chiefciel, a bolster, 99. 
 Chigwell, Dan Robert of, 95. 
 Chileham, G. de, albe of, 59 ; chasuble of, 52. 
 Chillenden, Thomas, prior (1390-1-141 1), 95, 99, loi, 102 and n.^ 161 ; gifts 
 
 and repairs of, 102, 103, 107 ; whitewashing of church by, 108, 113. 
 Chillenden, Walter de, 64. 
 
 Chishelle, John de, bp. of London (1274-79-80), 16, 55. 
 Chompaine, lady of, chalice of, 70. 
 Chorister, 219 ; albes worn by, 219. 
 Christina, St., relics of, 88. 
 Christopher, St., bones of, 90. 
 Chrysostom, St. John, bone of, 88. 
 Church basons, 182. 
 Churching veil, 293. 
 
 Ciclas, a rich stuff manufactured in the Cyclades, 3. 
 Cilicium^ a hair shirt ; that of St. Thomas of Canterbury was preserved 
 
 amongst the relics, 85. 
 Cinguhim., a girdle, usually worn with the albe. 
 Ciphus, a cup, for incense, 72 ; or as a pix, 108. 
 
 Cirotecce, cyrotecce, cirotece pontificalcs., gloves worn by bishops and mitred 
 abbots and priors, 2, 120. See also Gloves.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 335 
 
 Cisfa, a chest or coffer to put things in, i. 
 Cistern, 261, 262. 
 Cislula, a little box or coffer, 13. 
 Citheryn, a name for a sapphire, 106. 
 elapses. See Clasps. 
 
 Clarence, Thomas duke of, son of Henry IV., 150, 151, 152. 
 Clasps, elapses. These were often made of silver and gilt, or engraved and 
 otherwise ornamented, according to the importance or value of the 
 book to which they were attached, 194 ; silver gilt, 256. 
 Clauslruin, the cloister of the monastery, 101. 
 Clausura ferrea, an enclosure or grate, as about a tomb, 138, 146. 
 Clement, abbot of Feversham (1309-19), 57. 
 
 Clement, St., pope (c. 91-c. 100), bones of, 86, 89, 92 ; image of, 142. 
 Clerke, Richard, D.D., 248, 256. 
 
 Clive, M. de, albe of, 59 ; Richard de, albe of, 60, chalice and paten of, 70. 
 Clocarium^ the detached clocher or belfry on the south side of the church ; 
 
 its site is marked by the mound on which it stood, 44. 
 Clock, 284, 295, 301, 307. 
 
 Cloister, glass in, 118 ; repaired by Chillenden, loi ; whitewashed, 114. 
 Clonfert, Robert, bishop of (1296-1307), 2. 
 Cloth, plain, linen without a diaper or other pattern, 193 ; cloth, white, 
 
 undyed linen, 193. 
 Cloth of gold, cloth de gold, 149. 
 Clothes, wiping. See Wyping clothes. 
 Cloths, 4, 2 5 5,' 27 5, 283. 
 
 Altars, SS. yElphege and Dunstan, 116, 212, 224 ; in Lent, 105 ; high, in 
 Lent, 105, 117, 213, 224. 
 
 Ampul, 205, 220 ; colours for, 205 and n. 
 
 Banard (banner), 191, 211, 222. 
 
 Black, 25, 106 ; for Palm Sunday, 75, 174, 191 ; for pulpit, 253, 255. 
 
 Blue, banner, 211, 222 ; pulpit, 240. 
 
 Cambric, edged with gold, for archbishop's mitre, 231. 
 
 Chart, Thomas, 128. 
 
 Cloth of gold, 75, 211, 223. 
 
 Cross, 202, 212, 224 ; with cushions, 275. 
 
 Desk, 209, 220, 229. 
 
 Dusting, 293, 299. 
 
 Eyelet-holes, with, 228, 240. 
 
 Green, 25, 27, 75, 211, 223; banner, 211, 222; cross, 191, 211, 222; 
 state, 190. 
 
 Holland, 240. 
 
 Images, to cover, 174, 192. 
 
 Judas, 174, 192. 
 
 Mass-book, for, 20, 61. 
 
 Pulpit, for, 257, 275, 283, 285, 295, 299, 305, 311. 
 
 Purple, 283, 294 ; archbishop's seat, for, 290 ; high altar [" Glory-cloth "] 
 245 a7id 91, 246, 247, 248 ; Litany-desk, 266, 277, 284 ; Martyrdom, 
 130; pulpit, 273, 276, 283, 294, 299, 305, 311. 
 
 Pyx, 205, 207. 
 
 Red, 25, 75, 76, 211, 223; in St. Bartholomew's chapel, 157; in 
 Martyrdom, 127 ; state, 190. 
 
 Rood, 174, 192. 
 
 Silk, 50, 75. 
 
 Stained, for high altar, 174, 192, 202, 212, 224. 
 
 State, 190.
 
 336 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Cloths — continued. 
 Tapestry, 240. 
 
 White, 75 ; cross, igi, 211, 222. 
 White-purple, in Martyrdom, 127, 130. 
 Wiping, 238, 240. 
 
 Yellow, 25, 27 ; for bible and service-book, 256. 
 Cnut, King, 30, 47, 80;/, 1 56. 
 Coal-boxes, 306, 312 ; room, 309. 
 Cobham, Sir George, lord Cobham (ob. 1558), 181. 
 Cockaine, Sergeant-major, 266. 
 Cockes, Thomas, chapter clerk (in 1586), 242. 
 Coclcare, cochleare, the spoon used with the incense ship, 4, 72, 
 Cofifer, a box or chest of any kind, 193. 
 Colare. See Collar. 
 
 Coliweston, Walter, monk of Christchurch, 132. 
 Coll, a cowl, tub, or barrel, 259. 
 Collar, an amice, or amice apparel, 18, note 2. 
 Collcctoriinn. .See Capititlai-ia., 25. 
 
 Color de soi/pe en vin^, a kind of red colour, 52 ; de potinas. 57. 
 Columba, St., of Sens, relics of, 93. 
 Cohinibella. See Columbine. 
 Columbine, the flower so called ; it was a favourite device in later mediaeval 
 
 ornament, probably on account of its graceful form, 185. 
 Columbyns. See Columbine. 
 
 Comb, pecten., 74, 24 ; combs were generally of ivory, but occasionally of 
 gold or other metal and adorned with gems and stones ; gold, 196, 
 197 ; Henry III., 24, 74 ; ivory, 24, 50, 74 ; silver-gilt, 74. 
 Conunendatio aninic, a book, 75. 
 Communion, once a month, 209. 
 Communion-book, 241. 
 
 Communion-cup and cover, the name given to the newly made chalices and 
 patens after the cup was restored to the laity, 201 and n, 210;/, 222, 
 236, 237, 240. 
 Communion-prayer, daily, 209. 
 Communion-table, the Lord's table or altar. See Altar. 
 
 Position, 209. 
 Concordia cum candore, motto, 249, 283, 293, 299, 305, 311. 
 Conduit, the, probably the upper story formerly occupied by the monks' 
 lavatory and lately called the baptistery from the font having been 
 moved into it, 298. 
 Confessors, colour for, 20, 27. 
 Confirmation, benedictional with office for, 75. 
 Conrad, prior (1107-26), 32, 44. 
 Consutits., sewn on, or applique, cut work. 
 Cofttextus, woven. 
 
 Conversion of St. Paul, picture of, 242. 
 Coop, 261. 
 
 Cooperculum, a cover, of a cup, y^. 
 Coopertorium, a covering or lid of anything or kind, 129. 
 
 See Littre, Diciionnaire de la La7tgue fraiK^aise (Paris, 1881) s.v. Soupe.
 
 CLOSSA/^y AND INDEX. 337 
 
 Cope, capa, 172, 184, 185 ; ^Iphege, St., 53 ; with bells, 46. 
 
 ]51ack, 184; Buckingham, John of, 104, 105, 184 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 
 J06 ; Goldston II., Thomas, repaired by, 124; Lanfranc, 13, 46, 
 53, 61. 
 
 Blue, 53, 54, 65, 119, 183, 184, 185, 186, 204, 215, 216, 226, 233 ; Adam, 
 prior, 53 ; Adesham, Ralph de, 54 ; Bredgers, called, 226 ; 
 Chillenden, Thomas, 105 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; Goldston II., 
 Thomas, 123, 124, 184, 185; Norwich, Henry of, 106; Philip of 
 France, 62; Walter, Hubert, 53. 
 
 Boys' old, 20, 61. 
 
 Chillenden, Thomas, loi, 106. 
 
 Cloth of gold, 184, 185 ; Arundel, Thomas, won ; Chillenden, Thomas, 
 105 ; Islip, Simon de, 95 ; Mohun, lady Joan de, 100 ; Pole, 
 cardinal, 231. 
 
 Embroidered, Conrad, prior, 44 ; Kilwardby, 14, 53 ; Lanfranc, 13 ; 
 Loyel, Katharine, 14, 53; Walter, Hubert, 14; Wibert, prior, 44 ; 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 5, 62 and n. 
 
 Ferial, 61. 
 
 Goldston II., Thomas, 123, 124. 
 
 Green, 54, 6f, 119, 184, 185, 186, 203, 214, 2I4«, 225 and n, 232; 
 Adam, prior, 53; Arundel, Thomas, 104, iion ; Chillenden, 
 Thomas, 103, 106; Courtenay, William, 104, 186; St. Leger, 
 Mr., 221, 230. 
 
 Islip, Simon de, 95. 
 
 Murrey, 53 ; St. Edmund's, 53. 
 
 Pole, cardinal, 206. 
 
 Profession, 14, 15 ; Anian, bp. of St. Asaph, 55 ; Balsham, Hugh de, bp. 
 of Ely, 55. 
 Blue, Ketene, John de, bp. of Ely, 56 ; Longespeye, N., bp. of Sarum, 
 
 56 ; Roger, bp. of Norwich, 55 ; Scamel, W., bp. of Sarum, 56. 
 Chishelle, John de, bp. of London, 55. 
 
 Cloth of gold, Cendale, J. de, bp. of Winchester, 57 ; David, bp. of 
 St. David's, 55 ; Droknesford, John de, bp. of Bath, 55 ; Kirkby, 
 J. de, bp. of Ely, 56. 
 Green, Alderby, J. de, bp. of Lincoln, 55 ; Burton, Thomas de, bp. of 
 Exeter, 56 ; Cornere, W. de la, bp. of Sarum, 56 ; Ely, John of, 
 bp. of Norwich, 56 ; Langton, W. de, bp. of Coventry, 56 ; 
 Oliver, bp. of Lincoln, 55 ; Wyngeham, Henry de, bp. of London, 55. 
 Murrey, Gravesend, Richard, bp. of Lincoln, 55 ; IVIarchia, William de, 
 
 bp. of Bath, 55. 
 Northburgh, Michael of, bp. of London, 17. 
 
 Red, Baldok, Ralph de, bp. of London, 55 ; Bayeux, Thomas de, abp. 
 of York, 14, 15, 54 ; Bek, Thomas, bp. of St. David's, 55 ; Burnel, 
 Robert, bp. of Bath, 55 ; Cantelupe, Thomas de, bp. of Hereford, 
 55 ; Gifford, Godfrey, bp. of Worcester, 55 ; Gravesend, Richard of, 
 bp. of London, 55 ; Henry, bp. of Winchester, 55 ; Heselschawe, 
 Walter de, bp. of Bath, 55 ; Hothum, John de, bp. of Ely, 57 : 
 Langton, J., bp. of Chichester, 56 ; Luda, W. de, bp. of Ely, 56 ; 
 Middleton, W. de, bp. of Norwich, 56 ; Mortivallo, Roger de, bp. 
 of Sarum, 56 ; Oswald, abbot of Feversham, 57 ; Ralph, bp. of 
 Hereford, 17, 54 ; Ralph, bp. of Norwich, 56 ; Reginald, bp. of 
 Worcester, 56 ; Robert, bp. of Ely, 56 ; Segrave, Gilbert de, bp. 
 of London, 55 ; Simon, bp. of Sarum, 56 ; Stapelton, W. do bp. of 
 Exeter, 56 ; Swynefeld, Richard de, bp. of Hereford, 55. 
 Sheppey, John of, bp. of Rochester, 17. 
 
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 338 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Cope — continuea. 
 
 Purple, 185, 215, 226 ; Stratford's, 107;/. 
 
 Quire, 2 ; Cloth of gold, Mohun, Lady Joan de, 100 ; Meopham, S. dc, 
 
 7 ; red, 2. 
 Red, 8, 53, 54, 61, 1S3, 184, 185, 197, 203, 214, 215, 225, 226, 233; 
 yEyerford, W. de, 53 ; Bourchier, Thomas, 121 ajtd n, 184 ; 
 Chillenden, Thomas, 105, 106 ; Clerke, Dr., 248, 256 ; Courtenay, 
 William, 104 ; "Duke of Orleans gown," 215, 226 ; Eastry, prior, 
 Henry of, 63, 185 ; Edington, William de, 96 ; Ediva, queen, 53 ; 
 Edward I., 14, 53 ; Frevyll, Joan, 121 ; Grauntsey, Gerard de, 54 ; 
 Greneweye, Thomas de, 65 ; Henry HI., 53, 184 ; Jesse, with, 215, 
 226 ; Lideber, W. de, 64 ; Philip of France, 62 ; Rawe, R. de, 64 ; 
 tasselled, 5 ; Walter, Hubert, 53 ; Westgate, Ralph de, 53 ; 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 62. 
 Red and black, 185. 
 Richard, 160. 
 St. Leger, Mr., 221, 230. 
 Scarlet, 256. 
 
 Sold by Dean and Chapter, 235, 237. 
 Stuff to line, 118 and n ; make five, 118. 
 Walter, Hubert, 50. 
 
 White, 61, 63, 64, 184, 185, 186, 203, 214, 225, 232 ; Bridport, Thomas 
 de, 54; Buckingham's, Thomas of, 104, 105;/; Chichele, 115, 184, 
 203, 214, 225, 232 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 103, 105 ; Courtenay, 
 William, 104, 184; Goldston, Thomas, II., 124; Jesse, 184, 203, 
 214, 225, 232 ; Morton, John, 122, 183, 197, 203, 214, 225, 232 ; 
 Morton, John (at Cranbrook), 203;? ; Parkhurst, Mr., 221, 230 ; 
 with arms of King of Scotland, 14, 54. 
 Worn by celebrant, epistoler and gospeller, 209. 
 Yellow, 54 ; J. de Boctofi's, 54. 
 Copper baudekyn, baudekyn woven with copper gold instead of pure gold, 
 
 184, 185, etc. 
 Copper gold, base gold or copper-gilt, 1 50. 
 Copper silver, silvered or silver-plated copper, 150. 
 Copton, Richard, sub-prior, 127, 129, 133. 
 Coptons, vestments so-called, probably given by Richard Copton, 217, 
 
 228. 
 Cords, 271. 
 
 Corduba, St., bones of, 84. 
 Corneliniis, a precious stone, 171. 
 Cornelius, St., pope (251-53), bones of, 89. 
 Cornere, W. de la, bp. of Salisbury (1289-91), 56. 
 Cornets, 283. 
 Cornii eburneiDii^ a large ivory horn used as a reliquary, 93. Such a horn is 
 
 still preserved in York Minster. 
 Cornwall, Edmund, earl of (1272-1300), jasper stone of, 29, 79; text 
 
 of, 78. 
 Corona, the famous relic always known by that name at Canterbury, but 
 popularly as the Caput sancti T/ioinc. It was reputed to be the 
 crown of St. Thomas's head which was supposed to have been struck 
 off at his martyrdom, and was kept in a golden and jewelled reliquary, 
 in the form of a mitred bust, in the round chapel of the Holy Trinity 
 at the east end of the church, beyond the chapel of St. Thomas 
 where the shrine stood, 39, 42, 80. 
 Corona hanging in quire, 281.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 339 
 
 Corporale. See Corporas. The word is sometimes loosely used tor the case 
 
 as well, t'._^. " corporali de panno de Tharse viridi," Tj. 
 Corporas, corporale, 158, 190, 211, 223; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157 ; 
 
 Martyrdom, 128, 132 ; Michael's chapel, St., 148, 149 ; of lawn, 132 ; 
 
 of linen, 132. 
 Corporas-cases, 8, 158, 190, 202 and n, 211, 223; Arundel's chapel, 179, 
 
 194; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157; Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77; 
 
 Martyrdom, 128, 132 ; IMichael's chapel, St., 149. 
 Blue, 65, 158 ; Martyrdom, 132 ; Lady chapel, 165, 193. 
 Green, 65 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, T] ; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157 ; 
 
 Michael's chapel, St., 149. 
 Murrey, Reginald de Thanet, 66. 
 Red, 65 ; Martyrdom, 132. 
 
 White, 65 ; Martyrdom, 132 ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; Westgate 
 John de, 65. 
 Cosimts, a cushion or pillow, 50. 
 Cosmas and Dam i an, SS., bones of, 89 ; jaws of, 84. 
 Cosshions. See Cushions. 
 Coste, Mr., 241 and n. 
 Costers, side curtains, of Edward prince of Wales, to be hung in quire, 96 
 
 and n, 97 and n, 98, 191. 
 Cotidianus, for daily use, 61. 
 
 Cottens, cottons, green, a woollen fabric lilce frieze, 257. 
 Counterfeit cloth of gold, an imitation of the real article made with base 
 
 gold or copper-gold instead of the pure metal. 
 Counterfeit stones, imitation gems made of coloured paste or glass, 
 
 181. 
 Counterpane, 50. 
 
 Courtenay, VVilliam, abp. (1381-96), 104, 109, no, 161. 
 Coventry and Lichfield, bishops of; see Burghill, John ; Catterick, John ; 
 
 Langeton, W. de ; Roger ; Scrope, Richard le ; Stretton, Robert. 
 Coverings for relics in Martyrdom, 129. 
 Cradle, 259, 287, 298, 304, 310 ; for glazier, 258 and n, 276. 
 Crampon, the metal border or setting of a stone in a ring, 71. 
 Cranmer, Thomas, abp. (1533-55-6), 168, 181, 194 ; picture of, 261. 
 Crapodinus, a crapaund, crapaud stone, or toadstone, jz. 
 Cream used at coronations, 208. 
 Cream, a compound of olive oil and balm, blessed by the bishop on Maundy 
 
 Thursday, 220. 
 Credence, credcntia, a credence table, 244, 245. 
 Cremes, St., bone of, 89. 
 Cremona, Sicard, bishop of (i 185-1215^ 47. 
 Criptuin, criptus, the crypt or undercroft which e.xtends beneath the quire 
 
 and presbytery and eastern parts of the church, 119. .SVt- also Crypt. 
 Cris)na, 50. See Cream. 
 
 Crisinatoriu?n, a crismatory or ampul. See Crismatory. 
 Crismatory, crismatorium, ampulla, or ample ; parcel-gilt, Clement, John, 
 
 183; Pole, cardinal, 206, 231; silver, 7, 183; silver, Peckham, 
 
 John de, 4, 5. 
 Crispin and Crispinian, SS., dust of, 90. 
 Cristallinus, made of crystal, 50. 
 Cristallus, a crystal. 
 Crocetis, yellow. 
 
 Croft, Dr. (composer, ob. 1727), 296, 301, 308. 
 Cros charnellis, hinges, 142. 
 
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 340 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Crosier (see also Croyse), Baldwin, 22, 70 ; cedar, Peckham, 2, 22, 70 ; ivory, 
 22, 70; "lynde, de," 70; Martin, Richard, 121 ; Pole, Cardinal, 206, 
 231 ; prior of Canterbury, carried by, 102 ; Richard, 160. 
 Silver, 183 ; Buckingham, John of, 104, 107 ; Peckham, 4, 22, 57, 70. 
 Silver-gilt, 183 ; Arundel, Thomas, won ; Thomas, St., 22, 70, 197. 
 Cross, 182; archbishop's portable, 21, 69; copper-gilt, 219, 229; foot for, 
 219; gold, 21, 196; gold, of Langton, Stephen, 37, 81 ; Peckham 
 (with relics), 21, 69 ; Thomas, St., 72 ; Good Friday, 211, 223 ; ivory, 
 Feversham, Stephen de, 67; leaden, 221, 229; parcel-gilt, 206,211, 
 222 ; parcel-gilt with relics, 81 ; Pole, cardinal, 206, 230, 231 ; 
 processions, for, 107 ; relics of True Cross, with, 50 ; St. Paul, vSimon 
 de (with relics), 69 ; silver, 181 ; silver-gilt, l8l ; silver-gilt, Andrew's, 
 St., 81 ; Edward prince of Wales, 96, 98 ; Peckham, John of, 4, 5, 
 7, 21, 69 ; Peter's, St., 2>7i ^i > processions, for, 69 ; with relics, 81, 
 82 ; True, relics of, 21, 37, 50, 69, 81, 82, 85, 86, 91, 92, 93, 94, 134 ; 
 True, rock on which it stood, 93. 
 Cross, Francis W., 234 and n. 
 Cross-cloths, 211. See Cloths. 
 Cross girdles, 183. 
 Cross-staves, 182, 183, 219, 229. 
 Crosses for armour, 258. 
 Crow, iron, 258, 287, 298, 304, 310. 
 
 Crown of St. Thomas, 35, 39, 42 ; destroyed, 169. See also Corona. 
 Crown of Thorns, ^t'6' Our Lord. 
 Crowns, leather, gilt, 213, 224. 
 
 Croyse, 211, croyser, 183, crosyers staff, 231, baculus pastoralis, 2, 70, the 
 crosier or pastoral staff carried by archbishops, bishops, abbots, 
 priors, and abbesses and prioresses. 
 Crucifix, 267 ; of silver, 198. 
 
 Cruets, 182, crwyttes, 143, urceoli, 5, 72ii the small flasks or bottles, usually 
 found in pairs, to contain the wine and the water at mass, 3, 23, 
 24, 70, 73, 120, 182; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157; Buckingham, 
 John of, 104 ; crystal, 24, 50, 73, 171, 183 ; Edward prince of Wales, 
 in form of angels, 96, 98 ; enamelled, 7 ; gold, Arundel, Thomas, no ; 
 gold, Edward prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98; pewter or tin, 159; 
 Martyrdom, 128, 133, 134; Michael's chapel, St., 148, 150; St. Paul, 
 Simon de, 73 ; silver, 24 ; Norwich, W. de, 72, ', Peckham, John of, 
 4, 5 ; silver-gilt, 7, 182, 202, 210, 222, 237, 240; Buckingham, John 
 of, 107; Warham, William, 143 ; Winchelsey, Robert of, y^. 
 Crux portatilis, a processional cross, 5, 69 ; it could often be detached from 
 the staff and was then furnished with a foot (219), so that it could be 
 used as an altar cross. 
 Crwyttes. See Cruets. 
 
 Crypt, II, 30, 32, 34, 41 ; flood in, 113 ; image of Our Lady in, in. 
 Cubberds, cupboards, 242. 
 Ciictdia, a cowl, 85 ; in this instance that of St. Thomas of Canterbury, 
 
 which v.as preserved amongst the relics. 
 Culcitra, a quilt or coverlet, 50. 
 Culmer, Richard, 243, 247, 267 and n, 268, 279. 
 Culte/han, a little knife or dagger, 50. The examples quoted had handles ot 
 
 jasper or other precious material. 
 Cumberland, Mr., 289, 314. 
 Cup, standing, 232, 237, 240, 265;/ : parcel-gilt, 231 ; silver-gilt, 231, 249, 
 
 260, 283, 293, 311 ; silver-gilt, in Deanery, 260. 
 Cupboards, 242, 255, 266, 276, 284, 286, 296, 297, 302, 303, 309.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 341 
 
 \ 
 
 Cuppa, a cup of any kind, such as ad Corpus Domini, jt„ for relics, 84, etc. 
 
 See Pyx. 
 I Curtains, curteyns, 191, curtena, 12,1, curfi/m, 74. Curtains were formerly 
 used for much the same purposes as now ; but in these inventories 
 they often occur in pairs to hang at the ends of altars, and were also 
 called ridels {j-idella) or costers. 
 Curtains, 24, 25, 74, 173, 202, 213;/, 214;?, 232, 276, 284, 285, 299, 302, 306, 
 309 ; archbishop's throne, 299, 306 ; Bartholomew's chapel, St.. 157 ; 
 Mohun, lady Joan, 100 ; Warham's chapel, 141, 193. 
 Black, 105, 213, 225 ; Michael's chapel, St., 150. 
 Blue, 213, 214, 225, 232 ; Warham's chapel, 140. 
 Blue and red, 213, 225. 
 Green, 117, 118, 213, 225. 
 Purple, 191 ; Michael's chapel, St., 150. 
 
 Red, 74, 191, 213 (2), 225 (2), 233, 295 (4), 300 (12), 307 (12); Chart, 
 Thomas, 128, 131 ; Goldston II., Thomas, 213, 225 ; Martyrdom, 
 128, 131, 134. 
 White, 2i;z, 25, 74, 191, 213, 214, 225, 232 ; at Durham, i65« ; Lady 
 Chapel, 161, 165, 193; Martyrdom, 128, 134; Sandwich, John, 
 131 ; Warham's chapel, 141, 193. 
 Curtena, 131, curtina, 74. Sec Curtain. 
 Curteyns, 191. See Curtain. 
 Curtus, short. 
 
 Cushions, cusshyons, cosshions, 190, 239, 240, 244, cosini, 50, pulvinaria, 
 74. These were made of every kind of material and were used 
 for all kinds of purposes as at the present day, 24, 190, 202, 212, 
 2i2;z, 223, 238, 241, 244, 245, 255, 273, 293, 305, 311; archbishop's 
 throne, 284, 299, 300, 306 ; audit house, 257 ; Bencdicta sit S. 
 Trinitas, with, 239, 241 ; blue, 205, 212, 223, 240, 295, 300, 307 ; for 
 pulpit, 240; for rectors, 212; brown, 294; carpet-work, 190, 241; 
 cases for, 294; chair, marble, for, 301, 308; communion-table, 241, 
 294, 300, 306 ; dean's and vice-dean's, 295, 300, ■}p'] ; divers colours, 
 in Martyrdom, 132 ; gold, 190, 205, 239, 241 ; gold for rulers, 212, 
 223; green, 190, 212, 223; green for King's scholars, 276; green 
 and murrey, 241 ; kneeling, 255, 275 ; Martyrdom, 129, 132 ; Mayor 
 of Canterbury's, 283, 295 ; Mayor and Alderman's, 294, 295, 299 ; 
 preacher's chapel, 256, 277, 286 ; prebendaries' stalls, 284, 295, 300, 
 307, 312 ; pro niinisiris altaris, 25, 74 ; pulpit, 257, 273, 285, 295 ; 
 red and white, 99 ; sermon-house, 257, 276, 285, 296, 302, 309 ; 
 sermon-house, closet, 285 ; spread eagles, with, 241 ; star, with, 283 ; 
 tapestry, 212, 223, 255 ; text, 212, 223; Turkey work, 255 ; Walter, 
 Hubert, 50. 
 Purple, 256, 273, 275, 294, 299, 305, 306, 311, 312 ; archbishop's throne, 
 2S4 ; communion-table, 283 ; dean, 300, 307 ; dean and prebendaries, 
 275, 284; pulpit, 276, 283, 299, 305, 311; sermon-house, 283; 
 vice-dean, 307. 
 Red, 190, 205, 212, 223, 224, 241, 25s; communion, 300, 306; com- 
 munion-table, 294 ; Dean's lady's seat, 295, 300, 307 ; kneeling, 
 294 ; ruler's, 212, 223. 
 White, 190, 205, 212, 223, 241, 255; for Lent, 239; long, 255; long, 
 sermon house, 255 ; rulers, 212, 223. 
 Cuspis gladii, the pointed end of Richard the Breton's sword, which was 
 shivered on the pavement at the martyrdom of St. Thomas of 
 Canterbury, 128. It and the pommel of the same sword were kept as 
 relics in the Martyrdom. {Sec p. 135.)
 
 342 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Cusios Martirii, the title of the monk who was keeper of the Martyrdom, or 
 
 north transept, 125. 
 Cuthbcrt, abp. (741-758), tomb of, 31, 32, 40 ; St. (bishop of Lindisfarne, 
 
 685-687), relics of beard and clothes of, 90. 
 Cyprian, St., bones of, 89. 
 
 Cyriacus, St., bones of, 87, 89 ; relics of, 87 ; teeth of, 89. 
 Cyrotcccf. See Ciroteca?. 
 
 Daggers, 258. 
 
 Dalmatic, c/al/naticu, the principal vestment worn by the deacon at mass 
 Hence sometimes called a " deacon " (186), 2, 3, 63, i86_. 
 Baudekin, 58. 
 Black, 64, 186. 
 Black and red, 187. 
 Blue, 58, 64, 186, 187, 217, 227 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 64 ; Goldston 
 
 II., Thomas, 217, 227 ; Philip of France, 62. 
 Blue, dark, Lanfranc, 17, 57. 
 Chillenden, Thomas, loi. 
 Cloth of gold, 186, 187 ; Islip, Simon of, 95 ; Winchelsey, Robert of, 62 
 
 a?id n. 
 Coloris dc pounaz, 57. 
 Diver si coloris, 58. 
 Green, 61, 119, 186, 187, 217, 227; Adam, prior, 58; Chillenden, 
 
 Thomas, 103 ; Lidebur, W. de, 64. 
 Living, 5. 
 
 Lovel, Katharine, 57. 
 Meopham, Simon de, 7. 
 
 Murrey, Adam, prior, 57 ; Edmund, St., 57 ; Living, St., 57. 
 Orphreyed, 18, 57. 
 Prior and convent, worn by, 102//. 
 Purple, 57 ; Adam, prior, 57. 
 
 Red, 2, 7, 17, 57, 58, 5i, 64, 186, 186, 217, 227 ; Adam, prior, 57 ; 
 Boniface, 5 ; Chillenden, Walter de, 64 ; Eastry, prior, Henry of, 
 63 ; Geynesbeigh, W. de, 58 ; Greneweye, Thomas de, 65 ; 
 Hereford, Countess of, 63 ; Lidebur, W. de, 64, ll ; Peckham, John 
 of, 62 ; Philip of France, 62 ; Pole, cardinal, 231 ; Rawe, R. de, 
 64, "]"] ; Winchelsey, Robert of, 7, 62. 
 Simple, 5, 58. 
 
 Subsacrists, kept by four, 61. 
 Tasselled, 18, 57, 58, 64. 
 Walter, Hubert, 50. 
 
 White, 57, 61, 63, 186, 187; Chichele, 115, 187, 217, 227; Courtenay, 
 William, 104 187 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; Jesse, 187 ; Morton, 
 John, 122, 186 ; Norwich, Walter de, 64 ; Parkhurst, Mr., 221, 230 ; 
 Pole, cardinal, 231 ; Winchelsey, Robert of, 63. 
 Yellow, J. de Bocton's, 58. 
 Datnasccnus, damask, 131. 
 Damascus, 107, damask, q.v. 
 Damask, damaske, a silk or linen fabric woven with designs or figures, 124. 
 
 Black, 194. 
 Damian, St., bones of, 87, 89 ; jaws of, 84 ; shin-bone of, 92. 
 Daviila, a doe, 127. 
 Daniel, Roger, printer, 278. 
 
 Dark Entry, 303, 310, 312. The passage leading from the cloister towards 
 the infirmary.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX 343 
 
 Dark House, 253, 257, 263, 276, 277. 
 
 Darnex, 241. See Dornix. 
 
 Darrell, William, prebendary (1554-1589?) 210. 
 
 Dart, Rev., John, 10, 143, 144, 145, 272, 279, 280, 282. 
 
 Dartnoll, Mr., 185//. 
 
 Darus, St., bone of, 88. 
 
 David, bp. of St. Asaph (1314-15 — ?), 57 ; of St. David's (i 296-1 327-8), 55. 
 
 De Clare. See Gloucester. 
 
 De Mohun, lady Joan. ..SV^ Mohun. 
 
 Deacon, the dalmatic worn by the deacon at mass, 186. 
 
 Dead, book of services for, 25, 75 ; colour for, 20, 27. 
 
 Dealdaa'o, whitewashing, 108. See t^. 113. 
 
 Dean, Henry, abp. (1501-03), 126;/, 2137?, 224, 271, 272. 
 
 Dean and chapter of Canterbury. See Canterbury. 
 
 Deanery, plate in, 260, 261, 262, 
 
 Dear & Ringge, perhaps a rebus for Richard Dering, cellarer, 241. 
 
 Demiratus, gilt. 
 
 Dedraudaties, embroidered, 104. 
 
 Delivering-pipes, 310, 312. 
 
 Demetrius, St., bone of, 87 ; oil of, 84. 
 
 Denis, chaplain to prior Henry, 10, 28, 51, 78. 
 
 Dering, Richard, cellarer, 174, 203. 
 
 Derynges, 212, 213. See also Dear & Ringge. 
 
 Desk, analogiiim^ 123, 245, 255, 257, 260, 272, 283, 284 ; chanters', 176, 192, 
 
 220/Z, 229 ; choristers', 242, 255 ; dean's seat, 242 ; iron, 241, 248, 
 
 255, 257 ; kneeling, 255, 272 ; Lady chapel, 165, 166, 193 ; officiant's, 
 
 242 ; prebendaries' seats, 242 ; quire, in middle of, 239, 242, 275 ; 
 
 wooden, 241 ; brass (eagle) given by Coldston, 242. 
 Desk cloth, 190. 
 
 D'Evereux, Mr., minor canon, 314. 
 Devorax, Simion, clerk and sacrist in 1689, 283. 
 
 Diaper, a linen fabric woven with various patterns or figures, 165, 190, 240. 
 Diasperatus^ diapered, or ornamented with a diaper or pattern running 
 
 throughout or over the surface of a fabric. 
 Didron, 1 1 1, 112. 
 Discipulus, St., du5t of, 8g. 
 Dismas, the good thief, relics of cross of, 87. 
 Domus capitiilaris^ the chapter-house of the monastery, loi. 
 Dotnus ?-ash/rae, the shaving-house, loi. 
 Donatus, St., bones of, 87. 
 Door plated with iron, 259. 
 
 Dormitory, great, new way from, loi ; restored by Chillenden, loi. 
 Dornix, a stuff made at Dornix, otherwise Tournay, in Flanders, 190. 
 Dorsale, the back of a cope, 54. 
 Dorsarhi/n, 67. See Dosser. 
 Dosser, 96, dorsarium, 67, a cloth for hanging up behind anything. Sec 
 
 Frontal. 
 Dover, bishop of, 206, 221, 229 ; John Thornton, prior and suffragan 
 
 bishop of (1507-14), 139; Richard of, sacrist, 3, 10, 28, 51, 78; 
 
 Richard Rogers (dean 1584-97), bp. of, 234; Simon of Meopham 
 
 lands at, 6. 
 Dresser-board, 261. 
 Dressers, 261. 
 
 Droknesford, John de, bp. of Bath (1309-29), 55. 
 Drum, 261.
 
 344 CLOSSAKY AND INDEX. 
 
 Drum-sticks, 261. 
 
 Dulwich College, 250. 
 
 Dunstan, St., abp. (959-988), 11, 24, 30, 31 ; exhumed, 123 and n ; head of, 
 
 123 a7id n ; image of, 36 ; staff of, 74 ; tomb of, 31, 32, 33, 34, 40, 79, 
 
 116, 119, 169. 
 Dunster, Joan de Mohun, lady of Sec Moliun. 
 
 Duredent, a cloth so called, 64. ■ 
 
 Durham, bishop's chapel, at, 3 ; candlestick at, 47, 48, 49 ; high altar at, ■ 
 
 252 ; Hunt, Dr., dean of (1620-38), 252 ; prior and convent of, 3. ■ 
 
 Durham, bishops of. See Flambard, Ralph ; Karilepho, William de. 
 
 Eadmer, 8o«. 
 
 Eadsin, abp. (1038-50), tomb of, 31, 32, 33, 40. 
 
 Eagle of brass (242), the analogium sive aquila cnea given by prior Thomas 
 
 Goldston II., 123, 124, 176, 192, 220, 229, 237, 242, 248, 255, 
 
 266 ; it was destroyed in the Great Rebellion and replaced by a new 
 
 one in 1663, 272, 280, 284, 295, 300, 307 ; latten, 213;/, 224^. 
 Easter Even, head for herse for new fire on, 207, 220. 
 Eastry, Bertram of, vestments, 66 ; Henry of, prior (i 285-1 331), 10, 20, 28, 
 
 39, 50, 51, 62, 63 (Did 71, 78. 
 Eburneus, of ivory, 5, etc. 
 
 Edburga, St., arm of, 81 ; bone of, 84 ; relic of, 93 ; rib of, 87. 
 Edinburgh, brazen font brought from, 238. 
 Edington, William of, bp. of Winchester (1346-66), 96. 
 Ediva, queen, cope, 53 ; relics of, '})'i- 
 Edmund, duke of Somerset. .SV^ Somerset. 
 Edmund, earl of Cornwall. See Cornwall. 
 Edmund, St., abp. (1234-45), cope of, 53 ; dalmatic and tunicle of, 57 ; hairs 
 
 of, 83 ; relics of clothes of, 83 ; ring of, 128, 133, 135 ; tooth of, 83. 
 Edmund, St., king and martyr, blood of, 82, 84 ; boots of, 82, 84 ; relic of 
 
 cushion of, 82 ; shirt of, 82. 
 Edward I., cope given by, 14, 53 ; marriage of, I36«. 
 Edward VI., second year of reign of, 206, 207. 
 Edward prince of Wales, " Black Prince," 96. 
 Egges, edges, 181. 
 
 Egwin, St., founder and patron of Evesham monastery, 27. 
 Eichstiidt, supef'huinerale won by bishops of, 45;;. 
 Eikott Basilikc., 281. 
 
 Eleanor, queen, albe of, 4, 5, 59 ; chasuble of, 52 ; stole and fanon of, 5. 
 Eleinostjjafiies, the almoner, 70. 
 
 Eleven thousand virgins, bones of the, 88 ; relics of, 92. 
 Elham, Dan Robert of, 4. 
 Elias, St., relics of clothes of, 90. 
 Elintune, William de, 3. 
 Elisha, relics of, 91. 
 Elizabeth, queen, 201 a?id /i, 240. 
 Elizabeth, St., hair of, 92. 
 
 Elstob, Charles, prebendary (1685-6-1721), 288, 289;/. 
 Ely, bishops of: sec Balsham, Hugh de ; Hothum, John de ; Ketene, John 
 
 de ; Kirkby, J. de ; Luda, W. de ; Orford, Robert. 
 Ely, John of, bp. of Norwich (1299-1325), 56. 
 Emaraudes, emeralds, 196. 
 Embezzlement of goods loy Dean and Chapter, 234, 235, 236 ; of wax candles 
 
 by sacrist, 315, 316. 
 Embroidery by monks, 1 19.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 345 
 
 Emma, queen, wife of king Cnut, 8o«, 1 56. 
 
 Eneus, aneus^ brazen or made of brass, 123. 
 
 England, map of, 261. 
 
 Entry, dark, 303, 310, 312. 
 
 Ephod, 45. 
 
 Epistle books, 62. 
 
 Eptstolares, Libri^ epistolars or books of the Epistles, 62. 
 
 Eqtnis suimnarhn/i, a sompter horse, 8. 
 
 Erasmus, Desiderius (1467-1536), evidence as to relics, 41 and n, 123;/, 127, 
 
 137. 
 Ereus, 12,2,- Sec ^Erciis. 
 Ernulf, prior (1096-1107), 32, 44. 
 Esmal, enamel, 4. 
 
 Essen, sev-en-branched candlestick at, 47«. 
 Eugenius, St., pope (654-57), bone of, 86. 
 Euphemia, St., blood and clothes of, 89. 
 Eustace, St., bone of, 87 ; relics of, 91. 
 Evangelists, images of, on font, 246, 268. 
 Evangelia, quatuor, a gospellar or book of the Gospels, 75. 
 Evangeliorum^ liber ^ a Gospel-book, 120. 
 Evensong, ornaments worn at, 209 ; time of, 210. 
 Evesham, 27. 
 
 Ewer, a jug or vessel to hold rose-water, 260, 266. 
 
 Exeter, bishops of : see Burton, Thomas de ; Peter ; Stapelton, W. de. 
 Exeter, effigies of bishops at, 45. 
 Exeter, John of, bp. of Winchester (1262-68), 54. 
 
 Facundinus, St., bone of, 89. 
 Faith, St., bone of, 92 ; relics of, 81, 91. 
 Falling gate, 287, 298, 303, 310, 312. 
 
 Fanon, phanon, fanton, 3 ; inanipuhon, iiuuiipulus, the short strip with 
 fringed ends worn on the left wrist by the priest and deacon at 
 mass, 8, 19, 60, 61, 63, 189, 213, 224. 
 
 Bells, with, 46. 
 
 Bishopston, Gilbert de, jj. 
 
 Black, for dead, 61. 
 
 Blue, 65, 158 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; Westgate, 
 John de, 66. 
 
 Bourne, Nicholas de, 67. 
 
 Clive, Richard de, 60. 
 
 Cloth of gold, Lidebur, William de, 62 and tt ; Winchelsey, Robert (/, 68. 
 
 Dead, for, 61. 
 
 Doubled, Eastry, Bertram de, 66 ; Gore, John de, 66. 
 
 Eleanor, queen, 5. 
 
 Edward prince of Wales, 97, 99. 
 
 Ferial, 20, 61. 
 
 Green, 5, 61, 65, 158 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 
 103, 106 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Lidebur, 
 W. de, 67 ; Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 
 Lidebur, William de, 68. 
 
 Lovel, Katharine, 61. 
 
 Michael's chapel, St., 148. 
 
 Murrey, 60 ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Thanet, Reginald de, 66. 
 
 Nigra purpura, 3. 
 
 Norwich, W. de, 68.
 
 346 GLOSSANY AND INDEX. 
 
 Fanon — continued. 
 
 Number, total, 6i 
 
 Purple, Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157 ; Chart, Thomas, 130 ; Goldston 
 II., Thomas, 131 ; Michael's chapel, St., "48 ; Norwich, AV. de, 68. 
 
 Randulf, 5. 
 
 Red, 60, 61, 65 ; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 156 ; Bishopston, Gilbert 
 de, yj ; Chillenden, Thomas, 106 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; 
 Gore, John de, 66 ; Gore, Thomas, 130 ; Greneweye, Thomas de, 
 65 ; Lidebur, W. de, 67 ; Martyrdom, 130 ; Michael's chapel, St., 
 148 ; Sandwich, John de, 69 ; Westgate, John de, 65. 
 
 Relics, for, 61. 
 
 Silken, 2. 
 
 Sold by Dean and Chapter, 236. 
 
 Virgins, for, 61. 
 
 Walter, Hubert, 50. 
 
 White, 21//, 61, 64; Chichele, 115, 189; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; 
 Gore, John de, 66 ; Martyrdom, 130 ; Middleton, Thomas de, 66 ; 
 Morton, John, 122, 189 ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; Westgate, 
 John de, 65. 
 
 Winchelsey, John of, 69 ; Robert of, 62. 
 Fa?tum, 3. See Fanon. 
 Farmery, chimney and new window in, 118. 
 Farrer, William, principal of St. Hugh's Hall, Cambridge, 132. 
 Felix, St., pope, bone of, 86. 
 Felvetum, wj 6'i?^ Velvet. 
 
 Femoralia cilidna, the haircloth breeches of St. Thomas of Canterbury, 85;/. 
 Fere/rarii,ihe. feretrars or keepers of the shrine {feretrti/n) of St. Thomas, 
 
 64. 
 Feretruni., a shrine, 79. 
 Fesauntes, pheasants, 185. 
 
 Feversham, 272 ; abbots of: sec Clement ; Oswald ; Wilfrid. 
 Feversham, Stephen of, ivory image, 67 ; vestments of, 67. 
 ffairher, William. See Farrer. 
 Figre, figured or stamped, 148. 
 
 Figurcita, figuretto, a stuff woven with flowers or figures, 255. 
 Fi/acteriufH, a reliquary that could be suspended by a cord, 82. 
 Filinn, thread, 120. 
 
 Finch, Hon. Dr. Leopold William, prebendary (1689-1702), 279, 288. 
 Fire engine, 298, 303, 310, 312. 
 Fire fork, an instrument for stirring up a fire or putting on fuel, 257 ; hooks 
 
 303, 310, 312. 
 Fu-e of 1 1 74, 2,3-, 50- 
 FinnaciehifH, a brooch or clasp, 72. 
 Finnaria, the monk's infirmary or farmery, 118. 
 Firmin, St., bone of, 90. 
 
 Fistula cristallina, a tubular or pipe-shaped reliquary, 82. 
 Fitzalan of Arundel, Thomas, abp. ..SV^ Arundel. 
 Flagellitin., a scourge, 86, 
 Flagons, in Deanery, 260, 268 ; silver gilt, 249, 260, 270, 275, 283, 291, 
 
 293, 298, 305, 311. 
 Flambard, Ralph, bp. of Durham (1099-1128), 46. 
 Flaskets, small flasks, 258. 
 Flavian, St., bone of, 88. 
 
 Fleogild, St., abp. (June-Aug. 829), relics of, 31 and n, 40. 
 Flood in crypt, 113..
 
 GLOSSARY A/XD INDEX. 
 
 347 
 
 Flore s de Hz, 6b,Jlon's de htys, \ig, folia deliciarum, 127, folicia delidarum, 
 130, lilyflovvers, fleurs-de-lis, or " flowredelyce," 130. 
 
 Flores Saracciioriim, 115. 
 
 Flori, Hugh de, abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury (1091-1124), 48. 
 
 Flowers, water, 218. See Water flowers. 
 
 Floxis, flock, woollen or cotton refuse for stuffing pillows, etc., 132. 
 
 Fans, 118. ^><' Font. 
 
 Font. This is only indirectly referred to before the inventory of 1584. In 
 the fifteenth century it was in the nave (118), and at the beginning 
 of the sixteenth century it seems to have been of silver or 
 silver-gilt (237, 238), with a canopy belonging to it (212). In the 
 inventory for 1584 the font is described as a bason of brass with an 
 iron foot (237, 242), but about 1640 the present font was given by 
 Dr. Warner (246). 
 
 Font, brazen, 237, 242 ; for baptism of children of King of Scots, 238. 
 
 Marble, given by Dr. Warner, 246 ; consecrated, 247 ; description 
 (Puritan) of, 246 ; destroyed and restored, 268, 269. 
 
 Foot carpet, 121. 
 
 Foot-cloth, carpets to stand on " for warmness,'' 255. 
 
 Foot for the cross, 2 1 9. See Crux portatilis. 
 
 Foot-gear, 2. 
 
 Foot pace, the platform on which the high altar stood, 244, 245, 284, 286. 
 
 Fork, iron, 257. 259. 
 
 Forms, 241, 242, 255, 256, 257, 258, 260, 276, 285, 296, 297, 299, 302, 303, 
 308, 309, 312; choristers', 242; communion, for, 295; "strangers','' 
 239, 242. 
 
 Fortunatus, St., bone of, 88. 
 
 Fotherbye, Mrs. (widow of Charles Fotherby, archdeacon, 1594-5, and dean, 
 1615-19), 255. 
 
 Fount, 212. See Font. 
 
 Foxe's book of martyrs, 239, 241. 
 
 Frame, for armour, 274, 276, 286, 296, 303, 309 ; bason, 259 ; bells, 263 ; 
 carpenter's, 259 ; Commandments, 279, 284 ; grindstone, 259 ; herse, 
 257 ; hoisting timber, 259 ; lockets, 258 ; stalls, of two, 256 ; window, 
 302. 
 
 France, Henry IV. of, picture of, 261 ; Louis of, pyx of, 73 ; Philip of, 
 chalice, 22, 69, vestments, 20, 62. 
 
 Francis, St., tooth and hair of, 88. 
 
 Frecta^frectura, a fret, 59, 60. 
 
 Freelntus, frettus, fretted or fretty, 51, 66. 
 
 Frectura, a fret, 60. 
 
 Freestone, 263, 287, 304. 
 
 French congregation, 239. 
 
 French, Paul, prebendary (i 566-1600), 242. 
 
 Frenge, fringe, 1 17. 
 
 FretttiSy frecfaius, fretted or fretty, 51, 66. 
 
 Frevyll, Joan, 121. 
 
 Fringe, gold, 263, 271. 
 
 Fro?is, 131. See Front. 
 
 Front, 189, fro/is, 131, the frontal or hanging of an altar. Sometimes 
 there were two : an upper front, hung behind the altar ; and a 
 nether front, hung below or in front of the altar itself. Sometimes 
 the front was of metal : cf. " the high aulter of Sylver parcell gilt " 
 (181) and "the nether fronte of the high and ij side aulters of copper 
 and gilte" (192).
 
 348 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 P' rental, 8, 96 atid ?i, 97, 98, 158, 159, 172, 190, 232, 238, 239, 240, 251, 255, 
 277, 284, 306; altars of SS. Dunstan and yElphege, 61, 117, 118; 
 Arundel's chapel, 179. 
 Black, Arundel's chapel, 194 ; Chillendcn, Thomas, 106 ; Edward 
 
 prince of Wales, 97. 
 Blue, 65 ; Bartholomew's in crypts, St., 157 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; 
 Michael's chapel, St., 150; cpire altars, three, 116, 118, 189; 
 Warham's chapel, 140, 141, 193. 
 Cloth of gold, 189, 213?/, 224/;; St. Leger, Sir Anthony, 222, 229; 
 
 Warham's chapel, 140. 
 Divers colours, in Martyrdom, 128, 131. 
 Edward prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98. 
 
 Green, 158, 159, 238, 240 ; Arundel's chapel, 194 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 
 67; Gore, John de, 66; quire altars, three, 117, 118, 189, 190; 
 Warham"s chapel, 141, 192. 
 High altar, 61, 117, 118. 
 Lozenges, with, Bishopston, Gilbert de, yy. 
 Michael's chapel, St., Ingram, W., 149 ; Salisbury, John, 149. 
 Purple, 251, 255, 266 ; Mary II, 290; Michael's chapel, St., 150. 
 Red, 65, 189, 230; 232«, 238, 240, 251, 255, 294, 300, 306 ; Martyrdom. 
 127, 128, 131 ; Stone, Richard, 131 ; Michael's chapel, St., 149 ; 
 Thornden, William, 149. 
 Red and blue, 190. 
 
 Red and green, Bishopton, Gilbert de, 77. 
 Russet, 190. 
 Scudamore, lord, 252;/. 
 
 Shields, with, 65 ; Norwich, Alexander de, 65. 
 
 White, 2i«, 158, 189, 197, 239, 240 ; Bishopston, Gilbert of, 77 ; Chillen- 
 dcn, Thomas, 105 ; Glastonbury, Wilfrid, 127, 131 ; Gore, John de, 
 66 ; Lady chapel, 164, 165, 167, 193 ; Michael's chapel, St., 149, 
 150 ; Warham's chapel, 141, 192. 
 Frontella^ifrontellum. See Erontlet. 
 
 ¥ronX\et, /rontel/a, ffofitelhan, 2, 8, 232, 294; blue, Bartholomew's chapel, 
 St., 167 ; divers colours. Martyrdom, 128 ; red. Martyrdom, 127, 128 ; 
 used with pallia, 61, 65 ; white. Martyrdom, 127. 
 Eurse, St., 25 ; head of, 30, 37, 80 ; dust of, 85. 
 Eustian, a kind of coarse cloth made of cotton or flax, 165, 213. 
 Eynch of Winchelsey, John, prior (1377-90-1), io2«, I26«. 
 
 Galoche, a shoe or sandal, 7. 
 
 Garba avene, a barley sheaf, 85. 
 
 Gardyner, George (probably a mistake for William Gardiner alias Sand- 
 wich, prebendary 1540-44), 201. 
 
 Garnescyng, garnishing, 117. 
 
 Garniainentuin, one of the garments composing a vestivieniiim or suit of 
 vestments, 95. 
 
 Garnished, ornamented, 181. 
 
 Gelwen stuff, perhaps galoon, 295. 
 
 Ge 111711 a, a gem or jewel, 2. 
 
 Gene, Sendal dc, ? made at Genoa, 100. 
 
 Geftne, pafinus de, perhaps cloth of Genoa, 58. 
 
 George, St., arm of, 80 ; bone of, 86, 87, 92 ; picture of, 129. 
 
 Germanus, St. See Remigius. 
 
 Gernetta, a garnet, 71. 
 
 Gervase of Canterbury, 3, 31;/, 50, 126, 281.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 349 
 
 Gervasius, St., blood of, 91 ; bones of, 90. 
 
 Gethsemane. See Our Lord. 
 
 Geynesbergh, \V. de, bp. of Worcester (1302-07), 52, 58. 
 
 Giffard, Godfrey, bp. of Worcester (1268-1301-2), 55 ; Walter, bp. of Bath 
 
 (1264-5-66), 17, 54, 55. 
 Gilbert, bp. of Chichester (1288-1304-5), 56. 
 Giles, St., bones of, 93. 
 
 Gin-pole, the pole of a windlass or gin, 259, 287. 
 Girdle, girdel, 45, 50, 183, 202, 211, 222. 
 Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77. 
 Black, bp. Guy de Mona, 107. 
 
 Green, Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77 ; Middleton, Thomas de, 66. 
 Mixed, 65. 
 
 Red, 65 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, 77 ; Sandwich, Ale.xander de, 65. 
 Silken, Bourne, Nicholas de, 67. 
 Thomas, St., 2)^, 85. 
 White, 21 n, 213, 224. 
 Gladeolatus, c^ntry glandeolafiis, acorned or knobbed, 14. 
 Gladeohis, Q\x&xy glandeolns, a little acorn, 14. 
 Glatis, an acorn. 
 
 Glass, coloured, 263, 287 ; plain, 287 ; quantity of, 304, 309 312. 
 Glastonbury, abbey of, claim to St. Dunstan, 123/7. 
 Glastynbyre, Dan Geoffrey, 127, 131. 
 Glaucus, green, 149, 157, etc. 
 Glaziery, 287, 297, 304, 309. 
 Glory-cloth. See Traverse, 246, 247. 
 Gloucester, de Clare, earl of, 26, 76. 
 Gloucester, St. Peter's Abbey, 119. 
 
 Gloves, pontifical, 2, 107, 120, 219, 220//, 229 ; Peckham, John of, 4, 5 ; 
 
 Pole, cardinal, 206, 231 ; prior, to be worn by, io2« ; silken, 2 ; 
 
 tassels, 22, 71 ; Thomas, St., 38, 85; Walter, Hubert, 50; Win- 
 
 chelsey, Robert of, 7, 22, 71. See also Cirotecce. 
 
 Godwin, Thomas, dean (1566-7-84), 261. 
 
 Gold, broken piece of, 196; cost of, 117^; Venice, 116, ii7«, 141, 
 
 184. 
 Gold leather, gilt leather, 190. 
 
 Goldston I., Thomas, prior (1449-68), 125//, 144, 163, 166. 
 Goldston II., Thomas, prior (1494-15 17), 122, 129, 130, 131, 138, 149, 174, 
 
 203, 237; tomb. 126 and ?!. 
 Golgotha, relic of, 93. 
 
 Goodricke, Henry, prebendary (1560-66), 210. 
 Gore, John de, vestments of, 66 ; Thomas, 127, 130. 
 Gospel-books, 25, 75, 120. 
 Gostling, Mr. (John), minor canon in 1713, 314; William, minor canon 
 
 1727-77, 108, 109 (i^id n, 136, 137, 239, 269, 281, 282, 293. 
 Gowns, 266. 
 
 Gradale. See Grayle, 75. 
 Grapple, 286, 297. 
 Grate, iron, 292, 299, 306, 312. 
 Grates, the iron railings enclosing tombs or altars, 24^ , " long set of red 
 
 above," 242. 
 Grauntseus, Gerard de, bp. of Verdun (1275-78), 16, 53. 
 Gravesend, Richard de, bp. of Lincoln (1258-79), 55 ; bp. of London (1280- 
 
 1303), 47 audit, 55. 
 Grave-stone by west door, 242.
 
 350 GLOSSA/iV AND INDEX. 
 
 Gray, Sir Henry, earl of Tankervillc and lord of Powys (ob. 1449-50), 162 
 
 and n^ 163, 166. 
 Grayle, 16^, grada/e, 75, a book of the introits, graduals, etc. ; Goldston II., 
 
 Thomas, 122 ; Lady chapel, 164 ; Langton, Stephen, 25, 75 ; 
 
 Peckham, John of, 5. 
 Green, Dr., composer, 301, 308. 
 
 Gregory, St., pope (590-604), arm of, 80 ; bones and tooth of, 90, 92. 
 Greneweye, Thomas de, feretrar, vestments of, 65, yy. 
 Gresse, perhaps grass or long slender leaves in embroidery, 184. 
 Grindal, Edmund, abp. (i 575-6-1 583), picture of, 261. 
 Grindstone, 259. 
 
 Grisandes and Darias, SS., bones of, 87 ; relics of, 91. 
 Grotta-Ferrata (Italy), 112. 
 Guide line, 286, 297, 303, 309. 
 Guildford, Peter of, treasurer of the wardrobe to abp. John of Peckham (in 
 
 1288), yon. 
 Gunpowder, in Dark House, 253, 258, 266. 
 Gunpowder Plot, 253. 
 
 Hainault, queen Philippa of, 96^. 
 
 Hales, Sir Christopher, master of the Rolls (ob. 1541), 168, 181, 194. 
 
 Halesgestus (Halstow), church of, 50. 
 
 Hailing, aula, a set of hangings for a hall, 96, 97 ; of Edward prince of 
 
 Wales, 96 and ;?, 97, 98. 
 Hammer, 298. 
 Hand-barrow, 310. 
 Hanging bason, a bason suspended by a chain, 192. There were three such 
 
 before the high altar. Sec Basons, hanging. 
 Hangings, a general term for any cloths or carpets that could be hung up, 
 191, 255, 271, 273, 275, 277, 283, 286, 299, 305, 311. 
 
 Abp.'s seat, before, 300, 306 ; for, 173, 191. 
 
 Deanery, 260, 261. 
 
 Grates, above, 242. 
 
 High altar, 248, 251, 255, 271, 277, 279, 284. 
 
 Lady chapel, 164, 165, 166, 193. 
 
 Quire. See Quire. 
 Hardres, Andrew de, albe of, 59 ; chasuble of, 52. 
 Harley, Sir Robert, master of the Mint (1579-1656), 247. 
 Ha7'nas, the harness of a sompter or other horse, 8. 
 Harris, Mr. William, 291. 
 Hasta, the silver-plated staff for bearing the candle to tlie new fire on Easter 
 
 Even, 69. 
 Hastings, earl of, 26, 76. 
 Hathbrand, Robert, prior (1338-70), I53«. 
 Hatton, (Sir Christopher) picture of, 261. 
 Hauks, hawks or falcons, 185. 
 Hawte, Mr., 164. 
 
 Haynes, Isaac, subsacrist (in 1634), 254. 
 Head of Jesus, the vernicle, a favourite device in the fifteenth and sixteenth 
 
 centuries, 193. 
 Heade for herse, 207, 220. See Herse. 
 Headings of various sections, 12, 171. 
 Head-pieces, 258. 
 Hed, hedde, 186. 5^£' Amice. 
 Henrietta Maria, queen, 269.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 351 
 
 Henry, bp. ofWinchester (1305-16), 55. 
 
 Henry, prior. See Eastry. 
 
 Henry, prior of Lanfranc (ob. 1096), chasuble of, 13, 51. 
 
 Henry III., chalice given by, 22, 69 ; cope given by, 53. 
 
 Henry IV., 151, 152 ; chapel, 279, 280, 285, 296 ; of France, picture, 261. 
 
 Henry V., 150. 
 
 Henry VI., 150, 152. 
 
 Henry VIII., 133, 168, 169, 179, 181, 238, 239. 
 
 Henstiidge, James, sacrist (in 1713 and until at least 1735), 289, 293, 314, 
 
 315- 
 Hereford, bishops of : see Cantelupe, Thomas de ; Ralph ; Swynefeld, 
 
 Richard de. 
 Hereford, Countess of, vestment, 63. 
 Hereford, candlestick at, 49. 
 Heme, T., 119. 
 Herse, a frame to place over a bier or coffin at a funeral, 192, 220. This 
 
 example had belonging to it " iiij grete candelstickes (of) latein." Also 
 
 applied to the candlestick used at the blessing of the new fire on Easter 
 
 Even ; head for (Easter Even), 207, 220 ; lawn for, 220, 229. 
 Herse-cloth, an embroidered cloth or pall to cover the coffin at a funeral or 
 
 to hang upon a herse, 189, 240. See Pall, funeral. 
 Hertford, monk of Christchurch, 222. 
 Heselschawc, Walter de, bp. of Bath (1302-08), 55. 
 High altar. See Altar. 
 Hill, Mr. (probably John Hill, prebendary, 1567-95), chanter, 241, and 
 
 treasurer, 242. 
 Hippolytus, St., bones of, 92 ; relics of, 85. 
 Holbe/d, a halberd, 258. 
 
 Holland, a fine linen first made in Holland, 240. 
 Holland, earl of (Henry Rich, 1624-48-9), 267;? ; Margaret, countess of 
 
 Somerset and duchess of Clarence (ob. 1439), 150, 151, 152, 153. 
 Holmeleves, holly leaves, 185. 
 Holy Ghost, image on font of, 246, 268. 
 Holyvvater stocke and sprynkell, the bucket and sprinkler used for the 
 
 holy water at the Sunday procession, etc., 181. 
 Home Lacy, church of, 252;/. 
 Honoratus, St., bone of, 89. 
 Honorius III., pope (1216-27), 102//. 
 Honysocles, the flower honeysuckle, 184. 
 Hood, preachers', 292, 294. 
 Hoods, silk, the academical hoods worn by preachers and graduates of the 
 
 Universities, according to their degrees, in quire in conformity with 
 
 the canon, 210. 
 Hook, 286, 297, 303 ; fire, 303, 310, 312. 
 Hooks in St. Michael's chapel, 155. 
 Hooper, Dr. (George, dean 1691-1703), 290. 
 Horn, ivory, for relics, 36, 38. 
 
 Horse, sompter, i, 4, 6, 8, 50 ; harness, etc. of, 6, 8 ; wooden, 259. 
 Hose, Mr., 257. 
 Hoses, the buskins or embroidered stockings worn by bishops and mitred 
 
 abbots and priors ; blue, 191 ; green, 2 ; red, 191 ; white, 191. 
 Hothum, John de, bp. of Ely (1316-36-7), 57. 
 
 Howard, picture of, 261 ; Thomas, earl of Arundel and Surrey (1604-46), 249. 
 Howley, William, abp. (1828-38), cenotaph of, 39. 
 Hubert, abp. See Walter, Hubert, abp.
 
 352 GLOSS A A' V AND INDEX. 
 
 Huckaback, a linen stuff for making towels, 299. 
 
 Hudson, James, subsacrist in 1662, 274. 
 
 Hugh, St., bp. of Lincoln (i 186-1200), arm of, 81. 
 
 Hull, William, 218, 228. 
 
 Humerale, an ephod, also an amice, 47, q.v. 
 
 Hunsden, picture of, 261. 
 
 Hunt, Dr. (Richard), dean of Durham (1620-38), 252. 
 
 Ignatius, St., bones of, 92 ; dust of, 87. 
 
 Ikham, Stephen of, 58 ; Thomas of, 140. 
 
 Image, of Clement, St., 142 ; ivory, Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; images 
 
 slashed by troopers, 267 ; Thomas, St., 134, 135, 136 ; Warham, 
 
 William, 141, 193. 
 Incense, use of, in post-reformation tim.es, 208 and n. 
 Incense pot, a vessel of pagan origin in which incense was sometimes burnt 
 
 in the seventeenth century, 244. 
 Inde de Gangi, 58. 
 IndicuSy 76, indiis., 51, blue. 
 
 Ingestorp, Thomas de, bp. of Rochester (1283-91), 56. 
 Ingram, William, /^;zz/^;?/z'«r/«i' (15 11-32), and ciistos iiiai-fyrit \n 1500-1503 
 
 125, 127, 129, 139, 141, 148, 149, 150, 156. 
 Injunctions of abp. Parker, 236. 
 Innocent, St., bone of, 87. 
 Innocent III., pope (1198-1216), io2n. 
 Innocents, Holy, bones of, 83, 86, 92. 
 Instruments, musical, 294. 
 InstruDientiini, a silver-gilt holder for the hallowed candle on Candlemas 
 
 Day, 105, 107. See also Mariale. 
 I?isutus, sewn on, 123. 
 Interhiimerale, \/\n. 
 Inventories : Arundel's chapel, 193 ; Bartholomew's chapel in crypts, St., 
 
 156 ; books, 241 ; Buckingham, John of, chapel, 194 ; a chapel, 158 ; 
 
 Chillenden, Thomas, goods acquired during priorate of, 105 ; jewels 
 
 delivered to king, 196 ; Lady chapel, 164, 193 ; martyrdom, keeper 
 
 of, 127 ; Meopham, Simon of, chapel, 7 ; Michael's chapel, St., 
 
 148 ; Paul's, St. (London), 1245, 14, 46, and 1295, 4^ ; Peckham's 
 
 chapel, 5 ; Peterborough, 19 ; Warham's chapel, 140, 141, 192 ; 
 
 Warwick, St. Mary's college, 2\n ; Winchester cathedral church, 18;/. 
 
 Christ Church, of 131 5-6, 50 ; of 1540, 168, 181 ; of 1540, headings, 171 ; 
 
 of 1563, 199, 209, 222, 232 ; of 1584, 240 ; of 1634, 253 ; of 1662, 
 
 274 ; of 1689, 283 ; of 1701, 1702, and 1726, 289 ; of 1735, 289, 293 ; 
 
 of 1745, 289, 298 ; of 1752, 289, 305 ; and of 1761, 289, 311. 
 
 Invitatory book, 164. 
 
 Irenaeus, St., and his companions, bones of, 88. 
 Isabella, daughter of Edmund, duke of Somerset (ob. 1453), ^S3"- 
 Isackes, Mr., 242. 
 Islip, John, abbot of Westminster (1500-32), 175 ; roll of, no candles on altar 
 
 in, 250. 
 Islip, Simon of, abp. (1349-66), 95. 
 
 Jacintes, the stone jacinth, 196. 
 
 Jack for unloading timber, 288, 298, 304, 310. 
 
 Jackets for horsemen, 258. 
 
 James of Scotland, king, picture of, 261. 
 
 James I., 252.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 353 
 
 James II., 239. 
 
 James, St., apostle, bone of, 86; relics of, 81, 85, 91 ; the great, apostle, 
 
 bones of, 91, 94 ; hospital of, 133. 
 Jaspis, jasper, 50, 72. 
 Jerome, St., bone of, 92 ; clothes of, 92 ; feast of, 131 5, 2 ; relic of arm of, 
 
 84 ; stole of, 92. 
 Jesse, the Tree of Jesse ; it was sometimes embroidered on copes, 56, 154. 
 A beautiful early English example is in the Victoria and Albert 
 Museum at South Kensington. 
 Jewel House at the Tower, 168. 
 Jewels, icinp. prior Thomas Chillenden, loi, 102. 
 
 Set in gold, 71 ; sapphire (loup), 71, 72 ; sapphire (black), 72 ; onyx, 71 ; 
 
 crapodinus, 72 ; cornelian, 72 ; gai'nets, 72 ; seed-pearls, 72. 
 Set in silver, 72 ; jasper, 72 ; peridot, 72 ; prama, 72 ; crapodinus, 72 ; 
 cameo, 72 ; pear-shaped stone, 72 ; black stone, 72 ; garnetts, 72 ; 
 cornelian, y'z ; R. de Weynchepe's, 72. 
 Set in silver gilt ; onyx, with sapphire and pearls, 79 ; jasper of Edmund 
 earl of Cornwall, 79 ; sold by dean and chapter, 234 ; sold by 
 Thomas Goldston II., 129 ; among texts, 29, 79 ; Thomas, St., 23, 
 71, 72. 
 Joan, queen of Henry IV., 177. 
 
 /ocalia, jewels or gems, or in fact any object in hardware of value. 
 John Baptist, St., church of, 31 ; heads, 141 ; relics of, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92. 
 John, king, 3, 50. 
 
 John, king of Bohemia. See Bohemia. 
 John and Paul, SS., relics of, 91. 
 John's Head, St., here a mis-description of the Vernicle or Head of Our 
 
 Lord, 182. 
 Johnson, Mr., minor canon, 314. 
 Jordan, William, junior, 274, 277. 
 Joseph of Arimathea, relic of, 91. 
 Judaizing, 45. 
 
 Judas Iscariot, picture of, 261. 
 "Judas-cloth," 174, 192. 
 Juice, a joist to lay wood upon, 259. 
 
 Julian, St., bishop of Le Mans, relic of, bone of, 87 ; head of, 92 ; tunicle of, 92. 
 Julian, St., bone of, 81. 
 Juliana, St., relics of, 85. 
 Julitta, St., bone of, 88. 
 Jtista, a small flask or vessel, 50. 
 Justina, St., bones of, 89. 
 Justus, St., relic of, 93. 
 
 Kail, a caul or veil, 219. 
 
 Karilepho, William de, bp. of Durham (1080-1-95-6), 3. 
 
 Karo/a, perhaps little bells, 46. 
 
 Katharine, St., bones of, 93 ; oil of, 86 ; relics of, 94. 
 
 Kemp, John, abp. (1452-54), and cardinal, 175. 
 
 Kensington, South, Museum, 47;/. 
 
 Kent, Thomas (Holland), earl of (ob. 1421), 150. 
 
 Kersey, carsey, a coarse cloth, 270, 271. 
 
 Ketene, John de, bp. of Ely (1310-16), 56. 
 
 Keyneburga, St., bone of, 89. 
 
 Keys, 259, 266 ; bunches of church, 258. 
 
 Kilburn, Mr., minor canon, 314. 
 
 2 A
 
 354 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Kilwardby, Robert de, abp. (1272-3-78), 14, 16, 53. 
 
 King's chapel, 3 ; lodgings, 258. 
 
 King's scollers, 276. 
 
 Kings, map of death and pedigree of, 261. 
 
 Kingston, Henry de, "jon ; Margaret, sister of St. James's hospital, 133. 
 
 Kirkby, J. de, bp. of Ely (1286-90), 56. 
 
 Knife, de ceraste, 50 ; jasper, 50 ; sacramental bread, to cut, 244. 
 
 Knight's pew in chapter-house, 254, 255. 
 
 Knolton, 185;/. 
 
 Knoppes, of mitres, the ornamental knops surmounting the horns, 181. 
 
 Knott, Mr., composer, 301, 307. 
 
 Koccus disfmctus^ checkered scarlet {coccuni), 53. 
 
 Labells, the pendant strips at the back of mitres, 181. 
 Ladder, 259, 286, 287, 297, 298, 303, 304, 309, 310. 
 Ladle, 259. 
 
 Lambert, St., dust and clothes of, 90. 
 Lambeth, 4 ; Palace Library, 43. 
 Lamp, hanging, in Lady chapel, 165, 166, 193. 
 Lamprey, Thomas, sacrist in 1745 ^^"d I752, 298, 304, 305. 
 Lanfranc, abp. (1070-89), 14, 15, 31 ; chasubles of, 13, 27, 51 ; copes of, 13, 
 53 ; tomb of, 32, 33, 40 ; transept of, 144 ; tunicle and dalmatic of, 
 
 17, 57. 
 Langdon, Dan John, 116. 
 Langdon, W. of Canterbury, abbot of, 57. 
 Langeton, John de, bp. of Chichester (1305-37), 56; Walter de, bp. of 
 
 Coventry (i 296-1 321), 56. 
 L'Angle, John Maximilian de, prebendary (1678-1724), 288. 
 Langton, Stephen, abp. (1206-28), 25;?, 75 ; tomb of, 153 and n, 154. 
 Lanterns, 284, 311. 
 
 Lapis, a precious stone. See Onic/imi/s, Jaspis, etc. 
 Lapis Israel, a cameo, 107. 
 Lapis viiretis, an imitation jewel of glass, 14. 
 Laquea, a drop or tear, 74. 
 Last Supper, part of table, 38, 90. 
 Laten, latein, laton, latten, lattin, the medieval name for bronze or brass, 49, 
 
 150, 164, 175, 176, 192, 208, 219, 220, 229. 
 Lateran, St. John, cloister of, 112. 
 Lather, a ladder, 242, 276, 287. 
 Lathes, bundles of, 262 ; lead, 262. 
 Laud, William, abp. (1633-44-5), 243, 247, 250. 
 Laund, 132. See Lawn. 
 Lavatory, 269. 
 
 Lawn, lawne, laimd, fine linen, 132, 220. 
 Lawrence, St., bones of, 82, 86 ; girdle, 82 ; gridiron, 82, 92 ; hairs of, 82 ; 
 
 relics of, 134 ; tooth of, 86. 
 Lay clerks, 210, 314. 
 Lazarus, St., relics of tomb of, 88. 
 Le Mans, Julian, St., bishop of, 87, 92. 
 Lead, 263, 287 ; crosse of, 221. 
 
 Leather, gilt or gold, 190, 239, 241 ; used for cushions, 211 ; or crowns, 213. 
 Lectern, for rulers of choir, 22o«, 229 ; Goldston's, see Eagle. 
 Lectionale, a book of lessons ; St. Furse's, 25, 75. 
 Lectrimnn, 93. See Desk. 
 Lectron, a lectern or reading desk, 220. See also Desk.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 355 
 
 Lectron cloth, a cloth to hang on a lectern or reading desk, 21;?. 
 
 Lechnii, the embroidered hangings of a bed ; such were often bequeathed to 
 
 churches to make curtains, etc. 99. 
 Ledebur. Sec Lidebur. 
 Lee, Sir Richard, 238. 
 Leeds, 187;/. 
 
 Leicester, picture of, 261. 
 Lennox, duchess dowager of, 245. 
 Lenten stuff, 21, 174, 192, 202, 212, 224; of Chillenden, Thomas, 105, 174; 
 
 sold, 235. 
 Lenten veil. See Veil. 
 Lenton, the season of Lent, 21. 
 Leo, St., pope, bone of, 89. 
 Lese, Marcel de la, chasuble of, 52. 
 
 Liber conimendatio afiiniannn, cum exeqiiiis morhiorttJii, 75. 
 Liber de exeqiiiis inortiioriiiii, 62. 
 Liber Episfo/aris, 62. See Epistolarc. 
 
 Liber Evangelioriim., a Gospellar or Gospel Book, 120. See Evangeha. 
 Liber pro rastura Novicioriiiii, 75. 
 Liberius, St., bishop of Poitiers, bone of, 88. 
 Library, books from, 241 ; catalogue of books in 1634 ; 263, 264, 265 ; new, 
 
 144, 281 ; old, 144. 
 Libri, books. See also Benedicfionalia, Capitularia, Collectoriiiiii, Epis- 
 
 toiares, Evangeiia, Grada/e, Lectionale, Missale, Ordinale, Poftiijicale, 
 
 Fortiforiinn, Processionalc. 
 Lidebur, William de, feretrar, 64 ; vestments of, 67, 68. 
 Liege, 45;/. 
 
 Lieutenant from Norwich, 253, 267;?. 
 Light, artificial, time for, 281. 
 
 Lignum Doininicum^ the wood of the True Cross of Our Lord, 69. 
 Limba, 14. 
 Lincoln, bishops of: j^<' Alderby, J. de ; Bloett, Robert; Buckingham, 
 
 John of; Gravesend, Richard de ; Hugh, St. ; Oliver. 
 Lincoln, candlestick at, 49. 
 Linen, for altar, etc. 270. 
 Linen cloths, 192, etc. ; for ferial days, 193 ; for Lent, 192 ; plain, 193 ; 
 
 steyned, 192. 
 Lining, ? linen, 263. 
 
 Linsey woolsey, a cloth made of a mixture of linen and woollen, 294. 
 Linum., linen, gloves of, 71. 
 Lira, thread, 120. 
 Litany-desk, 239, 273, 277, 284. 
 
 LittcrcE, letters or monograms used as ornamental devices, 131. 
 Livery-pots, 240. 
 Living, abp. (1013-20), chasuble of, 5, 51 ; dalmatic and tuniclc of, 5, 57; 
 
 tomla of, 32, 33, 40 ; vestments of, 4, 5. 
 Llandafif, bps. of : see Monemewe, J. de ; William. 
 Llewellyn, bp. of St. Asaph (1293-1314), 57. 
 Lock and key, 259. 
 Lockets for glazier, 258. 
 London, bishops of: see Baldok, Ralph de ; Bassett, Fulk ; 
 
 Chishelle, John de ; Gravesend, Richard de ; Northburgh, 
 
 Michael de ; Sandwich, Henry de ; Segrave, Gilbert de ; Wynge- 
 
 ham, Henry de. 
 London, goods to be sold at, 235. 
 
 2 A 2
 
 3S6 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 London, Richard, custos tnar/ytii in 1496, 129 ; William of, sacrist in 1321, 
 
 10,28,51,78. 
 Longespeye, Nicholas de, bp. of Salisbury (1291-2-97), 56. 
 Looking-glass, 299, 306, 312. 
 Lord's Prayer, sung, 246. 
 Losenges, lozenges, 59, 60. 
 Louis, king of France, jt,. 
 
 Loup or !i/p, apparently a sapphire uncut or set en caboc/ion, 23, 71, 128, 133. 
 Lovel, Katharine, albe of, 59 ; chasuble of, 52 ; cope given by, 14, 53 ; 
 
 dalmatic and tunicle of, 57 ; stole and fanon of, 61. 
 Luda (Louth), W. de, bp. of Ely (1290-98), 56. 
 Luke, St., bones of, 91. 
 Lumber, 259, 276. 
 Lup. See Loup. 
 Lydeber. See Lidebur. 
 Ly?ide, lime-wood, bacillus de, 70. 
 Lyndestede, J. de, albe, 59 ; chasuble, 52. 
 Lyons, Irenaeus, St., bishop of (c. 177-201-2), 88, 
 
 Macarius, St., bone of, 89. 
 
 Machutus, St., bones of, 89. 
 
 Magdalen, St. Mary, bone of, 86. 
 
 Magdalene, chasuble called, 51. 
 
 Magmim or Majus Altare, the principal or High Altar of the church. 
 
 Majcstas or Magestas, a representation of Our Lord in majesty, usually 
 
 sitting on the rainbow, with the four Evangelistic symbols, 70. 
 Malmesbury, William of, 15. 
 Mambre, relic of oak of, 91;?. 
 
 Man of God, bone of a, 81 ; found near St. Sebastian's body, relics of, 87. 
 Mauipuliis, nuDiipiiIinn. See Fanon. 
 Mann, Thomas, 164 and n. 
 
 Mantella ad po7-tandain patenani., 61. See Offertory veil. 
 MantclIcE,b\. See Mantella. 
 Alantclliim, 44 ; in mensa, prior's, 102;/. 
 Manuscripts in library in 1634, 264, 265. 
 Maniiicrgiiiin., 5. .See Towel. 
 Mappula de serico, a silk napkin or cloth, 50. 
 Maps, of capture of Calais, 261 ; of death and pedigree of kings, 261 ; of 
 
 England, 261 ; of Holy Land, 261. 
 Marca, a mark, 2. 
 
 Marcellus, St., pope (307-309), relics of, 134. 
 
 Marchia, William de, bishop of Bath (1293-1302), 55. 
 
 Marcus and Marcellianus, SS., relics of, 81. 
 
 Margaret, queen of Edward L, 136. 
 
 Margaret, St., bones of, 86, 89. 
 
 Margarita, a pearl, seed pearl, or bead, 51, 71. 
 
 Mariale, the name at Westminster Abbey for the magnus cercus used at 
 Candlemas, 105. 
 
 Marianus, St., bone of, 88. 
 
 Marriner, Matthew, sacrist in 1634, 254. 
 
 Marshall, Henry, bp. of Exeter (i 194-1206), 45. 
 
 Marshall, William, engraver, 278. 
 
 Martin, Richard, bp. of Waterford and Lismore (1472-75), 121. 
 
 Martin, St., bone of, 84, 92, 93 ; cloak of, 84, 92 ; relic of, 94. 
 
 Martinian, St., bones of, 89.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 357 
 
 Martirium. See Martyrdom. 
 
 Martyrdom, 39, 41, 125, 135, 136 and n, 162, 282, 285, Martirium, 118, the 
 north transept, so-called from its being the place where St. Thomas 
 was martyred ; condition at time of murder, 126 ; new work in, 118 ; 
 red door in, 137. Sec p. 125. 
 Martyrology, at Lambeth, 43;/. 
 Martyrs, colour for, 20, 27. 
 Martyrs, Foxe's book of, 239, 241. 
 Mary II., queen, 290, 300, 306. 
 Mary, the mother of James, St., relics. 
 
 Mary the Virgin, St., altar of, 4; hairs of, 82; image of, 107, now, 113, 
 163;? ; image of, in Christchurch, in ; in church of St. yElphege, 
 III ; measure of, iii ; of Queningaie, iii ; relics of, 94, bed, 85, 92, 
 clothes, 83, 85, 134, clothes made by, 90, golden handkerchief, 87, 
 veil, 82 ; seat on day of Purification, 92 ; tomb, 87, 92, 93 ; slab from 
 tomb, y], 82 ; wool, woven by, 38, 90. 
 
 Mary and Martha, SS., relics of clothes of, 90. 
 
 Mary of Sardiney, St., oil of, 38, 88. 
 
 Maser, 231, ciippe de Murro, 7^,. Bowls of spotted maple wood ; they were 
 usually garnished with silver or gilt bands {circuli) round the rim, 
 and had an ornamented medallion or print {casid) in the bottom. 
 Some masers were raised on a metal foot, or furnished with a 
 cover, 24, 74, 265;? ; silver, -j-^i \ silver-gilt, "]% 231 ; silver-gilt, cover 
 of, 7}, ; Thomas, St., ']'}) ; use of, 24. 
 
 Mass-book, missale, 2, 25, 75, 120, 159; Arundel, iio/i; Arundel's chapel, 
 179, 194; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157; cloths for, 20, 61; 
 Coliweston, Walter, 132 ; Edward prince of Wales, 132 ; Farrer, 
 William, 97, 99; Goldston II., Thomas, 122; Lady chapel, 164; 
 Martyrdom, 128, 129, 132; Michael's chapel, St., 148, 149; Mohun, 
 Lady Joan de, 100; Peckham, John of, 5; Warham's chapel, 141, 
 193 ; of religious use, 141 ; of Sarum use, 141. 
 
 Massa, a mass or lump, e.g. of silver, 123. 
 
 Mast of a ship, 288. 
 
 Mast, the Paschal, 192. See Paschal. 
 
 Mat, 8, 271, 276, 277. 
 
 Match, rolls of, 258. 
 
 Matthew, Paris. See Paris. 
 
 Matthew, St., apostle, relics of, 91. 
 
 Mattins in south aisle of nave, 242. 
 
 Mattock, 259, 287, 304, 310. . ,• r 
 
 Maurice, St., coin pierced by lance of, 88 ; and his companions, relics of, 
 91, 92. 
 
 Maurus, St., bone of, 89. 
 
 Measure, of Our Lady, in, 112 ; Our Lord, in, at St. Denis, in, 112, at 
 St. John Lateran, 112. 
 
 Medard, St., dust of, 90. 
 
 Melting-pot, 287, 297, 303, 310. 
 
 Memoriale multoriiin }lefirici Prioris, 9. 
 
 Mennas, St., bone of, 83. 
 
 Mensura Beate Marie Virginis. See Measure. 
 
 Meopham, Simon of, abp. (1328-33), chapel of, 6 ; vestments of, 6, 7. 
 
 Merton, Walter de, bp. of Rochester (1274-77), 56. 
 
 Metz, siiperhumerale worn by bishops of, 45?z. 
 
 Michaels Day, St., colour for, 27, 58. 
 
 Michelbourn, Mr., 292.
 
 358 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Micklethwaite, J. T., \n, 251. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas de, vestments of, 66 ; W. de, bp. of Norwich (1278-88), 56. 
 
 Milan, seven-branched candlestick at, 47;/. 
 
 Mildred, St., arm of, 81 ; bone of, 84, 86; tooth of, 84. 
 
 Miniver, the fur so called, 256. 
 
 Missa capilularis, 107. 
 
 Afissa magna, missa summa, high mass or mass for the day, 64, 123. 
 
 Missa matutijialis, morrow mass, 45, 69. 
 
 Missale, ahbreviatum, 75 ; notatiim, 5 ; plenare, 75 ; cotideaiiiim ; pannus 
 pro, 61. The book containing the service of the mass or Communion 
 Service. See Mass-book. 
 
 Mitra, 2. See Mitre. 
 
 Mitrale, a book of, 47. 
 
 Mitre, the headgear worn by bishops, and by certain privileged abbots and 
 priors, including the prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, 2, 22, 45, 71, 
 104, 107, 171, 2i3;z, 221, 224;/, 229; Arundel's, 107, \\o;i ; with bells, 
 45, 46; Dover, bishop of, 206, 221, 229; embroidered, 2, 71, 181, 
 196; for Good Friday, 183; Henry III., 22,70; Martin, Richard, 
 121 ; Peckham, John of, 4, 5, 7, 22, 70 and n, 71, 107 ; Pole, 
 cardinal, 230; precious, 2, 50; prior, use of by, 10271; Rayne, 
 Walter, 107; simple, 71; Stratford, 104, 107 and ft ; Thomas, St., 
 38, 85 ; Walter, Hubert, 50. Mitres were of two kinds : (i) precious 
 {preciosa), or ornamented with gold or gilt plates and gems ; and 
 (2) simple {simplex), or comparatively unornamented. The front 
 and back formed the horns {cor?tua), which were surmounted by 
 "knoppes" (181), and the pendant strips behind were the"labells" 
 (181). A mitre here enumerated, one "slightlie garnisshed with 
 sylver"and set with counterfeit stones, was used on Good Friday 
 (183). 
 
 Mockador, a mock or imitation velvet, 241. 
 
 Modewenna, St., relics of, 87. 
 
 Mohun, the lady Joan de, lady of Dunster (ob. 1404), widow of John lord 
 Mohun (ob. 1375 or 1376), and daughter of Bartholomew lord 
 Burghersh, 99. 
 
 Molin, Dr., probably Peter du Moulin senior, prebendary in 1660, 263. 
 
 Mone (de Mona), Guy, bishop of St. Davids (1397-1407), 107. 
 
 Monemewe (Monmouth), John de, bp. of Llandaff (1296-7-1323), 56. 
 
 Moniale, a. brooch, 53. 
 
 Moningeham, Henry de, vestments of, 66 ; Robert de, abbot of St. 
 Radegund's, 57. 
 
 Monstraunt, a monstance, or standing pix with transparent body for 
 carrying the Blessed Sacrament in on festival days, 207, 220, 229. 
 
 Monuments, upper, 282, 285, 296, 301, 308 ; violated, 266. 
 
 Morre, 51, query Murrey ; de Kocco distincto, 52 ; de Tripe, 57. 
 
 Morse, morsiis, an ornamental clasp or brooch, usually for a cope, 24, 
 105; copper, 25, 74; enamelled, 74; Cendale, John de, bp. of 
 Winchester, 74 ; king of France, 74 ; Walter, bp. of Worcester, 74 ; 
 gold, 25 ; ivory, 53 ; jewelled, 54, 74, 105, 189 ; silver, 25, 74. 
 
 Morsus, 74. See Morse. 
 
 Mortivallo, Roger de, bishop of Salisbury (1315-29-30), 56. 
 
 Morton, John, abp. (1486-1500) and cardinal, 122, 183, 186, 197, 20111. 
 
 Mose. See Morse. 
 
 Moses, relics of, rod of, 81 ; rod of, which budded, 90. 
 
 Mould, for casting lead, 259, 287, 297, 303, 310 ; outlets at end of, 262. 
 
 Mountegue, picture of, 261.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 359 
 
 Mountjoy, picture of, 261. Probably of Mountjoy Blount, lord Mountjoy 
 
 1617-8-65-6. 
 Mourning, 277 ; on 30th Jan., 282. 
 Murro, cuppa dc, j^)- -^^^ Maser. 
 Musket, 258. 
 Myter. See Mitre. 
 
 Nak {de panno de TJiarse de ftak), "jy. 
 
 Napkins, 275, 283, 293, 299, 305, 311. 
 
 Napre, linen of any kind, but especially table linen, 131. 
 
 Nave, rebuilt by Chillenden, loi ; steps leading up from, built by Chil enden, 
 
 107, 108. 
 Nains ecclesie, the nave, anterior ecxlesia, or " forchyrch," 107. 
 Navis pro incenso zniponendo, 106. See Ship. 
 Neal, Daniel, 244, 245. 
 Nelson, Robert, 2?>o and ?i. 
 Nereus, St., bone of, 87. 
 
 Network, thread embroidery on linen netting, 256 ; table cloth of, 256. 
 Newton, Theodore, prebendary (c. 1560-68) and treasurer, 210, 222. 
 Nevill, Thomas, dean (1597-1615), 261. 
 Nicander, St., tooth of, 88. 
 Nicholas, St., bones of, 83, 86, 93 ; flesh of, 83. 
 Nicodemus, picture of, 261. 
 
 Nictarius, St., bishop of Poitiers, bone of head of, 88. 
 Nigra-purptira, a deep purple colour, 3. 
 Nilmes, Mr., 291. 
 
 Nixon, Thomas, prebendary (c. 1689- 17 13), 288. 
 Nodus, a knot, e.i^. of a chalice, 7. 
 No/a, a little bell, such as were sometimes attached to the edges of copes 
 
 and other vestments, 44. 
 North, Mr., treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, 185;/, 196, 197. 
 Northlaurgh, Michael of, bp. of London (1354-56), 17. 
 Norwich, 4, 252, 267/;. 
 
 Bishops of: see Ely, John of; ISIiddleton, W. de ; Ralph; Roger; 
 Simon ; Henry. 
 Norwich, Walter de, chalice and paten of, 70 ; vestments of, 64, 68. 
 Notatus, noted, used with reference to a book with musical notation, 5. 
 Novices. See Profession. 
 Nut, a cup fashioned out of a cocoa-nut and mounted in silver or silver-gilt, 
 
 231. 
 
 Obits, Kalendar of, A,^ and n, 51;/, 62;/, 63//, 80;/, 95, 96,97, loi, 103, 109 
 
 attd n, no and n, 120, 122, 151, 161 and n, 163, 166. 
 Oblacio, 5, ? obley. 
 
 Odo, St., abp. (941-58), tomb of, 30, 32, 2,3, 34, 35> 4° ; body of, 80. 
 Odo, abbot of Battle, tooth of, 88. 
 Ogygius, 41. 
 
 Oil used at coronations, 208. 
 Oliver (Sutton), bp. of Lincoln (1280-99), 55. 
 Olpher [? Oliver], Dan John, chanter, 164 and n. 
 Omers, meister, 180. See Archceologia Canh'ana, xiii. 116-121. 
 Ofiichtnus, apparently an onyx stone, 71. 
 Operatus, wrought or worked, 7. 
 Opportuna, St., bone of, 89. 
 Opus Afiglicanu7H, English embroidery work, 14.
 
 36o GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 O/^^-j </^ ^/jjj-^, Arras or tapestry work, 123. 6V^ Arras. 
 
 Opus de Turkyc, 63. 
 
 Opus lignctis, wood\vork, loi. 
 
 Opus Saresittum, probably sarcenet, q.v. 
 
 Opus textrmum^ woven work, 125. 
 
 Ordinale, 159; Peckham's, 5. The book containing the general rules 
 relating to the order of divine service. 
 
 Orfer, an orfrey, 1 58. 
 
 Orford, Robert, bp. of Ely (1302-3-09- 10), 16, 56. 
 
 Orfreys, orfers, 106, 158, aurifrigium, aurifrigcrhuii, 63, 130; the 
 ornamental stripes or bands on copes and chasubles, etc. 
 
 Organ, 192, 242, 256, 266, 267, 270 ; in Deanery in 1634,' 261 ; in Lady 
 chapel, 165, 166, 193 ; in sermon-house, 253 ; at York, 252. 
 
 Organ-bellows, 256. 
 
 Organ-blower, 317. 
 
 Organ-loft, 270, 301, 308, 318. 
 
 Organ-metal, 263. 
 
 Organist, 314, 316. 
 
 Organs, pair of, an organ with a complete set of pipes, 192, 193, 242, 256. 
 
 Orleans, duke of, gown [cope called], 215, 226. 
 
 Ornainenta, a general term for ornaments of every kind. 
 
 Ornaments, Chillenden's, Thomas, 102 ; kept near altars, 1 1 ; kept by four sub- 
 sacrists, 20, 61 ; legislation concerning, 206 ; Lenten, white, 45 ; 
 pontifical, worn by prior, 102 and n ; use of, at Canterbury, 209. 
 
 Orphrey. See Orfrey. 
 
 Osith, St., relics of, 81, 86. 
 
 Ostrui, the hostry, 116. 
 
 Oswald, abbot of Feversham, 57. 
 
 Otford, 70;/. 
 
 Ouche, golden, 196 ; jewelled, 196. 
 
 Our Lord, banner of, 94 ; crown of thorns, thorn from, 82 ; image of, on font, 
 246, 268 ; measure of, 1 1 1, 112 ; pictures of, 261 ; relic of angel's stone 
 at Resurrection, 90 ; Ascension stone, 38, 87, 90 ; column of scourging, 
 90; cradle, 81, 92 ; cross, see Cross, True; Gethsemane, 90; hole 
 where cross stood, 92 ; manger, 81, 84, 90, 94 ; napkin, 81, 86 ; olive 
 branch, 90 ; pall over tomb, 90 ; place of prayer, 92 ; quadrage?ui, 
 88 ; sponge, 134 ; stone in Galilee, 90 ; stone on which he ate, 91 ; 
 table of, 86, 88 ; table of Last Supper, 38, 90, 92 ; tomb, 81, 87, 90, 
 92, 94 ; Transfiguration, 92. 
 
 Owches, attached jewels, 181, 196. See Ouche. 
 
 Oxenden, Richard of, prior, 1 53;/. 
 
 Oxford, bishop of, 247. 
 
 Oxford, Canterbury College, 213/;, 224. 
 
 Oxne, James, officiary in 1500, 127. 
 
 Oyle in amples, 220. 
 
 Oylett wholes, eyelet holes, 238, 240. 
 
 Oyster-board, 260. 
 
 Pad, of purple stuff, 293. 
 Pails, buckets, 287. 
 
 ^ Probably the same as that of which the case and fragments of 
 machinery exist above the Treasury. It bears the arms of Isaac Bargrave, 
 dean, 1625 — 1642-3
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 361 
 
 Palestine, map of, 261. 
 
 Palla. See Pall. 
 
 Pallintiis., pallionaiiis, with vertical stripes or paly, 62, 69. 
 
 Fallio/ian, a little pall, 4. 
 
 Pallium, of an archbishop, 5 ; a strip orfrey, 52, 66, TJ, 105 ; funcrale, 122. 
 
 6V^ also Palls. 
 Pall-pins, Peckham's gold, 4, 5, 6, 7 ; Hubert's, 50. 
 Palls for altars, 44, 50, 61 ; Bishopston, Gilbert de, jj ; altars of SS. 
 
 Dunstan and /Elphege, 20, 61 ; archiepiscopal, Thomas, St., 42 and 
 
 n, 84 ; blue, 65 ; doubled, Bishopston, Gilbert de, jj ; funeral, 240 ; 
 
 Morton, John, 122, 189, 202 and «, 211, 223; high altar, 20, 61 ; 
 
 Martyrdom, 128 ; red, 65 ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; with shields, 
 
 65. 
 Palm Sunday, vanes and reeds for, 207, 213. 
 Pan, 259, 262. 
 
 Pancras, St., dust of, 90 ; relics of, 81, 91. 
 Pannus, cloth of any kind ; aureus, 52 ; auratus, 62 ; planus, 131 ; de 
 
 auro, 75 ; de Genne, 51, 58; de Tidy, 55 ; lineus, 127 ; de Antioche, 57 ; 
 
 de serico, 6\ ; de T/iarse, 51, 56 ; ad crucetn intra magnum altare, 75 ; 
 
 ad sacrarium, 8 ; pro inissali in festis majoribus, 61 ; pro patena 
 
 et reliquiis portanda, 61 ; pro f est Palmarum, 75. 
 Pantaleon, St., bone of, 83, 87, 90. 
 Papejays, popinjays or parrots, 59. 
 
 Parata, appareled or furnished with apparels, 51 note 2. 
 Paris, Matthew, 3. 
 Pari tola, 106. See Peridot. 
 Parker, Matthew, abp. (1559-75), 199, 209, 222, 234, 243, 260; picture of, 
 
 261. 
 Parkhurst, Richard, prebendary (1540-58), 181, 214/;, 221, 222//, 225;?, 230, 
 
 232. 
 Parliament, Committee demolishing idolatrous monuments, 247 ; denouncing 
 
 term "high altar," 252 and ti. 
 Parts, bass, 164 ; singing, 164 ; tenor, 164. 
 Parura, parure. See Apparels. 
 Paschal, pascall, paschal mast, cereus paschalis, the paschal candlestick. 
 
 192 ; cloth for, 207, 220 ; at Durham, 48. 
 Paske, Dr., Thomas, prebendary (1625-62) and sub-dean, 266, 267;/. 
 Passion-tide, colour for, 25. 
 Pastoral staff. See Crosier. 
 Paten, patent, patena, the plate used with the chalice ; golden, 196, 244 ; 
 
 Edward prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98; Henry III., 22, 69; Philip 
 
 of France, 22, 69 ; used at high mass, morrow mass, and 
 
 St. Thomas's altar, 22, 69 ; Winchelsey, 22, 70. 
 Mother of pearl, yElphege, St., 82. 
 Silver, 22, 70. 
 
 Silver-gilt, 22, 159, 182, 210, 222, 283, 291, 298, 305, 311 ; Chompaine, 
 lady of, 70 ; CHve, R. de, 70 ; Martyrdom, 128, 133, 134 ; Michael's 
 chapel, St., 148, 149 ; Northwich, W. de, 70 ; Peckham, John 
 of, 4, 5. 
 Cloth for carrying, 61. 
 Patena, a paten, q.v. 
 Patibulum, a Crucifix or patible, 69. 
 Patibulum dupplex, a double-barred crucifix containing a relic of the True 
 
 Cross, 81. 
 Patrick, St., bone of, 93.
 
 362 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Paul, St., blood of, 85 ; bone of, 88 ; picture of conversion of, 242 ; relic of 
 
 staff of, 81, 91. 
 Paul, St., the tirst hermit, bone of, 92. 
 Paul's, St., dean and chapter in copes, 252 ; high altar, 252 ; inventory of,^ 
 
 1 4 and 71, 46. 
 Paulinus, St., arm of, 87. 
 
 Pavement on north side of quire, Chillenden's, 108, 114. 
 Pax, 129, 159, 182 ; ivory, 133, 134 ; pewter, 150. 
 Payles, palings, 262. 
 Payne, a pane, panel, or strip, 218, 228. 
 Peca, a. pica, porti/of'iuj!!, or porthos, 159. See Porthos. 
 Peckham, John of, abp. (1278-9-92), 3 ^ albe, 5 ; chasuble, 62 ; crosier, 4, 5, 
 
 7, 70 ; cross, 4, 5, 7, 69 ; gloves, 4, 5, 9 ; mitre, 4, 5, 7, 107 ; pontifical, 
 
 8, 25 ; ring, 4, 5, 7 ; tunicle and dalmatic, 62. 
 Pecten, 74. See Comb. 
 
 Pectoral, a brooch or clasp; of ivory, 211, 223; of pearl, 189, 202, 211, 
 
 223. 
 Pcdiivi, a crosier or staff, 41;/, 42. 
 
 Peerson, Andrew, prebendary (1563-94) 210, 235, 236. 
 Pelvis, 72, 106. See Bason. 
 Pendant. See Frontal. 
 Pendent, pendaunt, a hanging of any kind, 15S, 189, 211, 222 ; for Easter 
 
 Sepulchre, 21 1, 222. 
 Pendi/e, a hanging or curtain, 120, 157. 
 Penitenciariits, 125. 
 Penjice salamandre, 72. 
 Pensions to monks, 164;?, 168/;. 
 PerLami?iitiii, pcr^ajiie/i, parchment, 132. 
 Perforated panel behind Warham's tomb, 144. 
 Peridot, paritota, chrysolite or olivine, a deep olive green gem, 72, 106. 
 
 Perles, perlys, de Pej're, pearls, or seed pearls, 104, 105, 121. 
 
 Perula, a pearl, 51, 53, 57, 60, 70. 
 
 Peter (Quivil), bishop of Exeter (1280-gi), 55. 
 
 Peter, St., beard, 84, 92 ; bones of, 84 ; cross, 81, 84 ; prison, 38, 90 ; relics 
 of, 94 ; table, 92. 
 
 Peterborough, inventory of, 19. 
 
 Peti-canon, petycannon, the old name of a minor canon in a cathedral 
 chapter of the new foundation, 210, 242, 246. 
 
 Petition by citizens of Canterbury in 1640, 246. 
 
 Petty-canons. See Peti-canon. 
 
 Pewternolls, petronels, 258 ; cases of, 258. 
 
 Phanon. See Fanon. 
 
 Philacteriiim, filacterium, a reliquary suspended by cords, 4, yj, 82, 83, 84. 
 
 Philip and Mary, 235. 
 
 Philip of France. See France. 
 
 Philip, St., apostle, bones of, 86, 91. 
 
 Philippa of Hainault. See Hainault. 
 
 Phiola, 133. See Cruet. 
 
 Phylacteria. See PJiilacteriiiin. 
 
 Pica. See Porthos. 
 
 Pichira, a painting, coloured decoration in general, 44. 
 
 Pictures, of Conversion of St. Paul, 242 ; in Deanery, 247, 261 ; ancient, 
 261 ; changeable, 261 ; of Christ and Nicodemus, 261 ; of Christ in 
 Arras cloth, 261 ; perspective, 261 ; Popish, removed from King's 
 chapel, 247.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 363 
 
 Pieces of material, 262 ; for kneeling, 295 ; wrought with dogs and trees, 
 292, 294. 
 
 Pierson, Mr. See Peerson, Andrew. 
 
 Pikes, 258 ; racks for, 282. 
 
 Pilartiis, a pillar, 126. 
 
 Pin, pinne, iron, for the archbishop's seat, 256 ; ad pallium (of the arch- 
 bishop), 5; silver, to minister balm on Maundy Thursday, 211; 
 splicing, 259. 
 
 Pinchers, 286. 
 
 Pinne. See Pin. 
 
 Pipe, crystal, with relics, 82 ; delivering (for fire engine), 310, 312 ; suction, 
 310, 312. 
 
 Pirns., pearwood, 70. 
 
 Pisano, Antelinus de, chasuble of, 63. 
 
 Pistols, 258. 
 
 Pix, pi.xis., of ivory ad oblacionern, ^, 7 ; ad hostias, 62, J2>- ^^^ Pyx. 
 
 Pixis. See Pyx. 
 
 Planks, 256, 258, 262. 
 
 Plata., a plate of metal. 
 
 Plate, 249, 259, 260, 267, 268, 270, 275 ; belonging to church, 268 ; com- 
 munion table, 271 ; Deanery, 249, 260, 261, 262 ; sold by Dean and 
 Chapter, 234. 
 
 Plegmund, abp. (891-923), 29, 32. 
 
 Plukenet, Sir Alan, knt., 52. 
 
 Plumbery, 259, 262, 277, 286, 297, 303, 310. 
 
 Plumley, Mr., 292. 
 
 Plummery. See Plumbery. 
 
 Plii?tkei., a colour, 76. 
 
 Poitiers, bishops of: See Liberius, St. ; Nictarius, St. 
 
 Poker, 292, 299, 306, 312. 
 
 Pole, Reginald, abp. (1555-6-58) and cardinal, 202, 206, 222/;. 
 
 Pollard, Mr., 169. 
 
 Pome, a hollow ball filled with hot water for warming the priest's hands at 
 mass ; copper-gilt, 23, 73. 
 
 Pome garnettes, pomegranates, 214. 
 
 Poniel, the pommel or knob on the handle of a sword, 133. 
 
 Pcniicllinj!, the knop of a cover, jt,. 
 
 Ponet, John, prebendary (1545-50), 198. 
 
 Pontifical, poniijicale, the book containing the offices used by a bishop, 2, 6, 
 25, 75 ; Peckham's, 8, 25, 75. 
 
 Pontifical ornaments, use of by prior. See Ornaments. 
 
 Pontijicale, anniihcs pontificalis^ a pontifical ring, 7, 71, 106 ; copper, 213//, 
 224;/. 
 
 Poniijicale (book). See Pontifical. 
 
 Porthos, 97, ()% portiforiutn, 75, breviarium, 2^, peca, 159, ad Usum Sarutn, 
 25, 75 ; of Edward prince of Wales, 97, 99. The book containing the 
 hour-services. 
 
 PortiforiuDi. See Porthos. 
 
 Pot. See Incense Pot. 
 
 Potentianus, St., bone of, 88. 
 
 Pots, livery, 237, 240 ; standing, 232, 237. 
 
 Pottes, amples for holding the oil and cream for anointing, 183, 220. 
 
 Poucyn, R., albes of, 59. 
 
 Poultry, the, 313. 
 
 Pouiiaz, color de. See Color.
 
 364 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Vowd&red, ptilverizattes, sprinkled over with a device, 105, 185. 
 
 Powdering-tub, 262. 
 
 Powys, Sir Henry Gray, earl of Tankerville and lord of, 162 and /i, 163, 166. 
 
 Praiiia, a jewel or gem, 7, 71, 72. 
 
 Praxedes, St., relics of, 85 ; sponge of, 88. 
 
 Preachers' chapel, 256. 
 
 Press, 262 ; for books, 302, 308 ; for surplices. See Surplice. 
 
 Prick-song, 246, 267. 
 
 Prince, Mr., chandler, 313. 
 
 Prior and convent of Canterbury, 2, 4, 99, 102 aitd n, 138, 152, 162 ; of 
 
 Carlisle, i?t ; of Durham, 3. 
 Prisca, St., bone of, 91, 
 
 Priscus, St., and his companions, bones of, 88. 
 Pritehvelle, Ralph de, albe, 59 ; chasuble, 52. 
 Processionale, or book of procession services, 105. 
 Processions, marks in floor for, 108, 109;/, 180 ; at York, 108 ; at Fountains 
 
 Lincoln, and Wells, 109. 
 Profanity, monastic, 163 and n. 
 Profession of novices, book of, 75. 
 Protasius, St., bones of, 90. 
 Protector Somerset. See Somerset. 
 Prynne, William, 2/\^n. 
 Psalter, 257 ; in Lady chapel, 164 ; of St. Thomas, 28, 29 ; of Hubert 
 
 Walter, 50. 
 Psalteriuni, a psalter, or book of the Psalms of David. See Psalter. 
 Pudner, captain, 303, 309. 
 Pulpit, the portable piece of furniture to preach from, 242, 256, 275, 276, 
 
 296, 302, 308 ; cloth, 257 ; cushion, 257 ; mourning for, 277 ; in nave, 
 
 242 ; in quire, 246 ; in sermon-house, 246, 276, 285, 296, 302, 309 ; 
 
 at York, 252. 
 Pidpittim, the loft surmounting the screen at the west end of the quire ; it 
 
 must not be confounded with the pulpit used to preach from, 107 ; 
 
 built by Chillenden, 108. 
 Pulverizatus, powdered or sprinkled, 105. 
 Pulvinaria, 74. See Cushions, 74. 
 Puntoyce, John de, bp. of Winchester (1282-1304), 55. 
 Purcell, Henry, composer, 301, 308. 
 Purificator, 238. 
 Purpre, purple, 76. 
 Pi/rpitreies, purple colour, 51, etc. 
 Pyerled, decorated with pearls, 120. 
 Pyx, the vessel in which the Blessed Sacrament was reserved over the high 
 
 altar ; of copper-gilt, 207, 219. See also Pix. 
 Crown of, silver- gilt, 24, 73. 
 Golden, 24, 50, J2>i ^^i, 198 ; of Simon of Islip, 95, 108 and n, no and n, 
 
 171, 181 ; of Louis King of France, J^- 
 Ivory, 7, 61 ; in Martyrdom, 128, 133, 134 ; John of Peckham's. 
 Silver, 23 ; for high altar, cuppe, 24. 
 Silver-gilt, 50, 73. 
 For singing-bread, 182. 
 Pyxe-cloth, the veil hung over the pyx, 205, 207, 219. 
 
 Quadrangiila, a square or four-sided figure, 59, 60. 
 
 Queningate, Our Lady of, in. 
 
 Quer copis, quire copes, the copes worn by the chanters in quire, 100.
 
 GLOSSAKV AND INDEX. 365 
 
 Queristorles, the choristers or quire boys ; they are still called " quiristers " 
 
 at Winchester College, 210. 
 Quintin, St., bone of, 90 ; relics of, 81. 
 Quire, 241, 246, 234, 256, 270, 275, 277, 284, 294, 300, 306. 
 
 Hangings in, 173, 191, 192, 213;?, 220/;, 222«, 224;/, 229, 238, 242, 248, 
 270, 271, 284. Chillenden, Thomas, 120; Dering, Richard, 174, 
 192 ; Edward prince of Wales, 97, 98, 174, 191 ; Goldston II., 
 Thomas, 123, 124, 174, 192. 
 South aisle of, 276. , 
 
 Quotidians, things for daily use, 189. 
 
 Rafters, 259. 
 
 Rails, altar, 244, 245 and n, 266, 267, 302, 308. 
 
 Railton, Mr., composer, 301, 307. 
 
 Ralph, bp. of Hereford (1234-39), 17, 54 ; of Norwich (1236), 56. 
 
 Ramiincidiis^ a little bough or branch, 2. 
 
 Range for hanging meat, 252. 
 
 Rationale^ a brooch worn with the chasuble by twelfth and thirteenth century 
 
 bishops, 44, 45. 
 Rawe, R. de, feretrar, 64, i"]. 
 
 Rayed, stragulatus., strans^ithitiis., 58, striped, 213. 
 Rayne, Walter, abp. See Reynolds, Walter, abp. 
 Reading Abbey, 91//, 152. 
 Rebellion, the great, 239. 
 
 Rector cushions, for the use of the chanters, rulers, or rectores c/iori, 212. 
 Rector staves, the official ensigns of the rectores chori or chanters, 183 : the 
 
 rectors, chanters, or rulers were also provided with iron stools to sit 
 
 upon, 220, note 13, tapets to stand on, 212, a " lectrone " for their 
 
 books, 220, note 13, and a candlestick for light, 220. 
 Red door in Martyrdom, 135, 136, 137. 
 Reedes and Vanes for Palm Sunday, 207, 213. 
 Regensburg, SKperhiinierale worn by bishops of, 45«. 
 Reginald, W., bp. of Worcester. Sec Reynolds, Walter. 
 Registring books, 311, 312. 
 Regis/rum, a register or bookmarker, 128. 
 Rejection of ornaments in 1563, 205, 206. 
 " Relation of a short survey of 26 counties," 250;?. 
 Relics, 29, 79 ; acquisition of, when begun, 29 ; of archbishops and lay folk, 
 
 36 ; arrangement of, in Lanfranc's church, 31 ; behind high altar, 38 ; 
 
 cupboard of, 2)7 ^ 39) 82 ; despoiled, 170 ; greater, 34 ; lesser, 35 ; 
 
 miscellaneous, 2)7- 
 Reliquary, copper, at St. Thomas's altar, 128, 133, 134 ; copper, at St. 
 
 Thomas's altar, mending, 135 ; parcel-silver, 4. 
 ReliquicE, relics of saints, etc. 79, etc. 
 Remigius and Germanus, SS., bones of, 89. 
 
 Reredos, ivory in Arundel's chapel, 179 ; stone, of high altar, 109. 
 Rest for muskets, 258. 
 Restoration, 269. 
 Revestry, 241, I'esiiarttnu, 50, the "grete vestuary," 191, or chapel of St. 
 
 Andrew, on the north side of the presbytery, where the ministers vested. 
 
 Sec also Vestry. 
 Reynolds (Rayne or Reginald), Walter, bishop of Worcester (1309-1313), 
 
 abp. (1313-4-27), 2, 7, 107. 
 Rheims, St. Remi, 47//. 
 Riban, ribbon, 117.
 
 366 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Rice, John ap. Sec Ap Rice, John. 
 
 Rich, Sir Richard, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, i68, i8i, 194. 
 
 Richard, abp. (i 174-83-4), 160. 
 
 Richard, bp. of Rochester (1238-50), 162. 
 
 Richard, St., bp. of Chichester (1245-53), ^-rm of, 80. 
 
 Richard II., 102;/, log and 7t. 
 
 Richard III., picture of, 261. 
 
 Ridella, ridels or costers, the curtains hung at the ends of altars, 105. 
 
 Ring, pontifical, annulus pontiflca/is, worn by bishops and mitred abbots 
 and priors, 7, 23, 71, 106, 183, 221, 231. 
 
 Ringemere, J. de, 52. 
 
 Ringla, a little ring, 1 1 7. 
 
 Rings, 196 ; Chillenden, Thomas, loi, 106 ; cameos, 107 ; paritotis, 106 ; 
 sapphire {Citherytt)^ 106 cuid n ; stones of amber colour, 106 ; Dover, 
 bp. of, 221, 229 ; Edmund, St., abp., 128, 133, 135 ; Peckham, John 
 of, with black sapphire, 4, 5, 71 ; Pole, cardinal, 206, 213 ; prior, use 
 of by, I02« ; sapphires (black), 71 ; sapphire {loiip)^ 71, 128, 133, 135 ; 
 silver, with garnets, 72 ; square, with emerald, 71 ; Thomas, St., 
 cornelian, green, 71, emerald, 71, ruby, 71, sapphire {loiip), 71 
 sapphire (watery), 71, turquoise, 71 ; Walter, Hubert, 50; Winchelsey, 
 Robert of, with black sapphire, 23, 71. 
 
 Ripon, relics of St. Wilfrid removed from, 30. 
 
 Robert, count of Boulogne. See Boulogne. 
 
 Robert, bishop of Clonfert (i 296-1 307), 2. 
 
 Robertson, Rev. W. A. Scott, 249. 
 
 Rochester, bishops of : see Bradfield, John de ; Ingestorp, Thomas de ; 
 Merton, W. de ; Richard; Russell, John; Sheppey, John of; 
 Warner, Dr. ; Wellys, William ; Woldham, Thomas de. 
 Church of, 3. 
 
 Rode cloth, the cloth to veil the rood during Lent, 192. 
 
 Rods, for curtains, in chapter house, 276, 285, 302, 309 ; Dean's seat, 255 ; 
 Durham, 165//; Michael's chapel, St., 148, 150; Warham's chapel, 
 140, 142 ; for vergers, 274, 275, 283, 294, 299, 306, 312. 
 
 Rogation-ljanners. See Banners. 
 
 Roger, bp. of Coventry (1256-7-95), 54 ; bishop of Norwich (1266-77-8), 55 ; 
 bishop of Salisbury (1 107-39), 45. 
 
 Rogers, Richard, dean of Canterbury (1584-97), and bp. of Dover, 234; 
 picture of, 261. 
 
 Rolls or rollers for sawpit, 288, 298, 304, 310. 
 
 Romanus, St., bones of, 92. 
 
 Rome, 4, 29, 267. 
 
 Popes : see Alexander II. ; Alexander III. ; Calixtus, St. ; Clement, St. ; 
 Cornelius, St. ; Eugenius, St. ; Felix ; Gregory, St. ; Honorius 
 III.; Innocent III.; Leo, St.; Marcellus, St.; Silvester, St.; 
 Sixtus, St. ; Stephen, St. ; Urban, St. ; Urban VI. 
 
 Ronan, St., arm of, 80. 
 
 Rondale, H. de, basons of, Tl. 
 
 Rood, 160; cloth, 174, 192; ultra magnuin altar e, 175, 192; Westminster, 
 
 175- 
 Rope, 257, 286, 288, 297, 303, 309, 310 ; for balances, 287 ; burymg, 310. 
 
 Rope-room, 286, 297, 303, 309. 
 
 Ross, John, bishop of Carlisle (1325-32), \n. 
 
 Rouen, Audoen, St., abp. of. See Audoen, St. 
 
 Rouen, candlestick at, 47// ; colours for ampul-cloths at, 205 and n. 
 
 Roundles, rowndles, 148, rundelles, 183 ; the same as circles, 217.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 367 
 
 Rowell, John, embroiderer of Glory cloth, 247, 248. 
 
 Rownd place, the circular chapel at the east end of the church in which 
 
 stood the altar of the Holy Trinity and where the relic called the 
 
 Corona was anciently kept, 276. 
 Rubeus, red, 2, etc. 
 Rubinus^ a ruby, 7. 
 
 Rufinianus, St., arm of, 93 ; bone from back of, 93. 
 Rulers of quire or chanters, 176, 205, 212, 220, 223, 224, 229. 
 Rundelles. See Roundles. 
 
 Russell, John, bp. of Rochester (1476-80), 162;?. 
 Ruton, Richard, 119. 
 
 Saba, St., relics of tomb of, 88. 
 
 Sackbuts, in chest, 283, 305, 311. 
 
 Sack-posset, eaten out of altar-bason, 268. 
 
 Sacran'uiii, the p/sc//?a or drain near an altar, 8 ; a vestry, 41;/. 
 
 Sacring bell. See Bell. 
 
 Sacrist's accounts, iig, 161. 
 
 Saer/s/a, a sacrist or sexton, 7, etc. 
 
 Sacristaria, a sacristy or sextry, the place in charge of the sacrist, 108. 
 
 Saddle and cloth for sompter horse, 6, 8. 
 
 St. Albans, brazen font at, 238. 
 
 St. Asaph, bishops of: see Anian ; David ; Llewellyn. 
 
 St. David's, bishops of : see Bek, Thomas ; David ; Mone, Guy. 
 
 ■"St. John's Heads," 141, \Afln. 
 
 St. Leger, Sir Anthony, a commissioner for the suppression of the monasteries, 
 
 181, 194, 222, 229 ; Arthur, prebendary (1540-68), 181, 221, 222;/, 230. 
 St. Margaret, Dan Hugh of, sacrist in 1328, 6. 
 St. Paul, Simon of, albe of, silken, 58 ; amice of, 60 ; cross of, gold, 69 ; 
 
 vestments of, 76. 
 St. Radegund's, Robert de Moningeham, abbot of, 57. 
 Saintes, 3. 
 
 Sala/nandre., pettncp. See Pennce Salamandre. 
 Salisbury, bishops of: see Brandeston, Henry de ; Bridport, Giles de ; 
 
 Cornere, \V. de la ; Longespeye, N. de ; Mortivallo, Roger de ; 
 
 Roger ; Scamel, W. ; Simon ; Wickhampton, Robert de. 
 Salisbury, candle blessed at Candlemas, 105 ; candlestick at, 49. 
 Salle. See Hailing. 
 Salome, St., relics of, 134. 
 
 Salt, salt saler, a salt cellar, 260, 26S ; for holy water, 182, 231. 
 Salvius, St., bone of, 86 ; relics of, 35, 80. 
 Sainictellies, probably an inferior kind of samite, 52. 
 Samictus^ a splendid and costly six-threaded {exainituni) stuff of various 
 
 colours, 2. See also Catsainit and Smnzclelius. 
 Sampson, St., bone and tooth of, 89. 
 Sandalia. See Sandals. 
 Sandals, sendalls, 191, showes, 191, sandalia, 7, the ornamented shoes worn 
 
 by bishops, and mitred abbots and priors. See also Buskins. 
 Sandwich, Alexander de, 64, 65 ; Henry de, bp. of London (1263-73), 55 ; 
 
 John de, vestments of, 69 ; John, 127, 131. 
 Sandys, colonel Edwin, 245^, 266, 269. 
 Saphirus. See Sapphire. 
 Sapphire, saphirus, a precious stone of a deep blue colour ; called citheryn, 
 
 106; aquosus (? a star sapphire), 71; le lupes, 128, 133; loup or 
 
 lup, 71.
 
 368 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Sarcenet, a silk stuff first made by the Saracens, probably in Spain, 141 ;, 
 
 changeable, 193 ; painted, 191. 
 Saresinuin, opus, 132. See Opus Saresijitini. 
 Sarisberye, ]o\\n, pe?titenciarius, 149. 
 Sarum use, 25, 75, 141, 193. 
 Satildis, St., bone of, 89. 
 Satin, satten, anciently any silk stuff, 116, 240 ; of Burges (Bruges), 131, or 
 
 Briges, 141 ; figurie, 188. 
 Satten, 240. See Satin. 
 Saundyr, John, i64«. 
 Sawnder, John, 120. 
 Sawpit, 262, 288, 298, 304, 310. 
 Sawter, a psalter, 164. 
 Scaffolding-boards, 287. 
 Scaffolding-poles, 277, 287, 304, 3io- 
 Scaina, scanna, a skein (?), 1 1 7. 
 Scales. See Balances. 
 
 Scamel, Walter, bp. of Salisbury (1284-86), 56. 
 Scholars, king's, 276 ; queen's, 210. 
 Schoolmaster, 210, 314. 
 Scilla, skilla, a little bell, 44, 46. 
 Sconces, candle-holders or light carriers, 182, 255, 257, 284, 296, 302 ; capt. 
 
 Pudner's, glass, 303, 309. 
 Scots, king of, baptism of children of, 238. 
 Screen of tabernacle- work, 266, 270. 
 Scrmiuiii, a coffer or small chest to hold relics. 
 Scriptura, a scripture, text, or motto, 128, 131. 
 
 Scrope, Richard le, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1386-98), 15, 16. 
 Scudamore, lord, 2 52/;. 
 Scutchens, shields of arms, 216. 
 Scufel/a, a vessel to hold incense, 3. 
 Scutum, a shield of arms, 69. 
 Seal, common, 270. 
 Seat, archbishop's, the archbishop's pew or stall at the east end of the south 
 
 quire stalls ; now usually called the throne, 241. 
 Seats, 242, 256, 257, 266, 285, 286, 296, 297, 302, 303, 308 ; for Dean and 
 
 Chapter in south aisle, 242 ; quire, pulled down, 244. See also Bench, 
 
 Form, Settle. 
 Sebastian, St., bones of, 86, 87, 90 ; the hermit, relics of, 134. 
 Secta, a suit or set, e.g. of vestments, 65. 
 Secundina, St., bone of, 88. 
 Sedebrasse, a seven-branched candlestick, 176. 
 Segrave, Gilbert de, bp. of London (1313-16), 55- 
 Sella, a saddle, 6. 
 
 SeUing, William, prior (1472-94), 149 ; tomb, 126 and n. 
 Selmiston, Thomas, 118. 
 
 Sendal, cendal, a silken fabric, 99 ; de Gene, 100 ; de Tripe, 100. 
 Sendalls, 191. See Sandals. 
 Sens, 45. 
 
 Senser. See Censer. 
 Septum, the altar rails, 244. 
 Sepulchre, Easter. See Sepulture. 
 Sepulture, the Easter Sepulchre, or place where the Reserved Sacrament was 
 
 kept from Good Friday to Easter Day, 211, 222. 
 Sequence-books, 164.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 369 
 
 Serenus, St., bone of, 88 ; relics of, 93. 
 
 Sericus^ cericus^ silk ; it was used undyed {purus) or mixtiis and in all 
 colours, 2, etc. 
 
 Sermon-house, 246. See Chapter-house. 
 
 Sermons in chapter-house, 239, 246 ; in quire, 246 ; of St. Vincent, 
 159. 
 
 Service-book. 6"^^ Book. 
 
 Settle, a seat, 242, 256, 286, 296, 303, 309. 
 
 Sextre, sextry, a sacristy, i8«. 
 
 Shaft, 263. 
 
 Sharp, John, dean (1689-91), 288. 
 
 Sharsted, Richard of, sacrist in 131 5, 10, 50, 78 ; albe of, 60. 
 
 Shelves, 261, 262, 287. 
 
 Sheppard, Dr. J. Brigstocke, 158. 
 
 Sheppey, John of, bp. of Rochester (1352-3-60), 17. 
 
 Ship [model], 261 ; mast of a, 288. 
 
 Ship, 205, shippe, 182, navis, 106, vas ad thus, 5, 7, the vessel in which the 
 frankincense was kept to feed the censer from ; copper, 219, 229 ; 
 latten, 208, 219, 229; silver, 37, 23, 72 ; silver-gilt, 72, Peckham's 
 4, 5, Pole's, 230, Winchelse^s, 72. 
 
 Shiver, the wheel of a pulley, 259, 276, 288, 297, 303, 309. 
 
 Shop, working, 310. 
 
 Shovel, 259, 275, 310 ; fire, 257, 292, 299, 306, 312. 
 
 Showes, 191, shoes. See Sandals. 
 
 Shuckford, Dr. Samuel, prebendary (1737-8-54), 292, 302, 309, 317, 318. 
 
 Siburgis, St., relics of, 31. 
 
 Sicard, bp. of Cremona (1185-1215), 47. 
 
 Sifleton, Daniel de, albes of, 52 ; chasuble of, 60. 
 
 Sifter, 306, 312. 
 
 Signaculum, ? a book-marker, 128. 
 
 Signum, a great bell, 44. 
 
 Stgnus, cygnits, a swan, 117. 
 
 Silvester, St., pope (314-35), bones of, 87, 92. 
 
 Simeon, St., arm of, 80. 
 
 Simon, bishop of Norwich (1257-8-65-6), 54 ; bishop of Salisbury (1297- 
 
 1314-5), 56. 
 Sindon, a silk stuff like cendal, 52 ; de Tripe, 77. 
 Singing-men, 246. 
 Singing-school, 282. 
 Singyng brede, box for, 182. 
 Siric, abp. (990-95), tomb of, 2)3, 40. 
 Sixtus, St., pope, bone of, 90. 
 Skilla, scilla, a little bell, 44, 46. 
 Skulls, head-pieces, 258. 
 Slobs, 262. 
 
 Stnaragdina, a crapaund, crapaud stone, or toadstone, 4, 7, 71. 
 Smith, George, 290. 
 Smith or Smyth, Mr., 285, 301, 307. 
 Solder, 262. 
 
 Somerset, John Beaufort, earl of (1396-7- 1408-9), 151 and ;/, 152 ; Edmund 
 (Beaufort), duke of (1448-55), 153^; Duke of. Lord Protector, 197, 
 198. 
 Somner, William, 35^, 108, 109 andn, 136 and n, i6in, 251, 266,';, 267/7, 269 
 
 313- 
 Sompter horse. See Horse. 
 
 2 B
 
 370 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Sonebemys, rays of the sun or sunbeams issuing from a cloud, 128. The 
 
 robe of Richard II., on his latten effigy in Westminster abbey church 
 
 is powdered with this device amongst others. 
 Sophia, St., relics of clothes of, 90. 
 Sotulares. See Buskins. 
 Soupe-en-vitt, color de^ 52. See Color. 
 Spanged, spangled, 218, etc. 
 Spars, 298. 
 
 Spear, silver, to carry candle, 21, 69, 182, 196. 
 Spicer, John, subsacrist in 131 5, 10, 28, 50, 51, 78. 
 Spindula, a pall pin {spinula) 50 ; three of gold were given by archbishop 
 
 Hubert. 
 Spoon, with basons, 220, 229 ; for incense, silver, 4, 7, 23, 72, silver-gilt, 72, 
 
 Pole's, cardinal, 230 ; silver, domestic, 232. 
 Sprinkler, sprynkell, aspersorium, the instrument for scattering holy water, 
 
 7, 72, 181. 
 Sprynkell, 181. See Sprinkler. 
 Spud, 259. 
 
 Stablegate, Edmund, citizen of Canterbury, in. 
 Stacio Crucis, apparently the place of station of the Sunday procession before 
 
 the Rood, 107. See p. 108. 
 Staff", a crosier, 197 ; but also used in the general sense, such as the staff" of a 
 
 cross, etc. 231 ; for archbishop's throne, 241 ; for chanters, 24 ; gilt, 
 
 St. Thomas, 74 ; horn, 24, 74 ; silver, 24, 74 ; silver, St. Dunstan, 74 ; 
 
 wooden, 20, 6i ; horsemen's, 258 ; rectors' silver, 183 ; turned, 21, 69. 
 Staff"ord, John, abp. (1443-52), 126^, 162. 
 Stage, 263. 
 Stalls for beer, 261. 
 
 Stajnina^ staminitivx, a relic of St. Thomas, 85^, 86. 
 Stamnu7ny stannuvi, tin or pewter, 133, 150. 
 Standing cup, a cup mounted on a tall foot, 231. 
 Standing pot, a drinking vessel mounted on a foot, 232. 
 Standish, an inkstand, 257. 
 Stajtnuin, 1 50. See Stamnuvi. 
 Stapleton, Walter de, bp. of Exeter (1308-26), 56. 
 State-cloths, 190. See Cloths. 
 Stayned, steyned, painted, 211, 213. 
 Stephen, St., deacon, blood of, 83 ; bones of, 82, 86, 87, 93 ; hair of, 
 
 87 ; relics of, 85, 134 ; stones with which he was stoned, 82, 85 ; 
 
 tooth and finger of, 82. 
 Stephen, pope (254-57), bone of, 81, 90. 
 Stevens, Mr., 289. 
 
 "Sticke to here the Candell on candelmas day," 182. 
 
 Stillitories, the open yards on the north side of the quire, east of the chapter- 
 house, 249, 259, 263, 287, 297. 
 Stocke, holy water, the bucket or vessel for the holy water, 181 ; with it was 
 
 usually a " sprynkell." 
 Stockings, bishop's. See Hose. 
 Stola. See Stole. 
 
 Stole, stola., 2, 8, 19, 60, 61, 63, 158, 189, 213, 221, 224, 229. 
 Bells, with, 46. 
 Bishopston, Gilbert de, "]"]. 
 Black, for dead, 61. 
 
 Blue, 65 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; Westgate 
 John de, 66.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 371 
 
 Stole — continued. 
 
 Bourne, Nicholas de, 67. 
 
 Clive, Richard de, 60. 
 
 Cloth of gold, Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Winchelsey, 62 and n. 
 
 Dead, for, 61. 
 
 Doubled, Eastry, Bertram de, 66 ; Gore, John de, 66. 
 
 Edward prince of Wales, 97, 99. 
 
 Eleanor, queen, 5. 
 
 Ferial, 61. 
 
 Green, 5, 61, 65 ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 67 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 
 103, 106 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Lidebur, 
 William de, 67 ; Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 
 Lidebur, William de, 68. 
 
 Lovel, Katharine, 61. 
 
 Michael's chapel, St., 148. 
 
 Murrey, 60 ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; Thanet, Reginald de, 66. 
 
 Nigra purpura^ 3. 
 
 Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 
 Number, total, 61. 
 
 Purple, Bartholomew's chapel, St., 157 ; Chart, Thomas, 130 ; Goldston 
 II., Thomas, 131 ; Michael's chapel, St., 157 ; Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 
 Randolph, 5. 
 
 Red, 60, 61, 65 ; Bartholomew's chapel, St., 156 ; Bishopston, Gilbert 
 de, 77 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 106 ; Feversham, Stephen de, 67 ; 
 Gore, John de, 66 ; Gore, Thomas, 130 ; Greneweye, Thomas 
 de, 65 ; Lidebur, William de, 67 ; Martyrdom, 130 ; Michael's 
 chapel, St., 148 ; Sandwich, John de, 69 ; Westgate, John de, 65. 
 
 Relics, for, 61. 
 
 Virgins, for, 61. 
 
 Walter, Hubert, 50. 
 
 White, 21;/, 61, 65, 130; Chichele, 115, 189; Feversham, Stephen de, 
 67 ; Gore, John de, 66 ; Middleton, Thomas de, 66 ; Morton, 122, 
 189 ; Sandwich, Alexander de, 65 ; Westgate, John de, 65. 
 
 Wibert, prior, 44. 
 
 Winchelsey, John of, 69. 
 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 62. 
 Stoles, stools, for sitting on or kneeling at, 192, 241, 244. See Stools. 
 Stoleworke, 184. 
 
 Stone, John, monk, 116, I28«, 131, 151, I53«, 162. 
 Stone-carriage, 310. 
 
 Stones, 263 ; free, 263, 287, 304 ; paving, 302. 
 Stools, 192, 205, 22o«, 229, 237, 241, 244, 245, 248, 255 andn, 270, 275, 284, 
 
 294, 300, 302, 307, 308- 
 Storehouse, 262. 
 
 Stories, a series of historical or other pictures, 213. 
 Stragula, a stripe, 58. Striped stuff was said to be " rayed." 
 Stragulatus, strangulaiiis. See Rayed. 
 Strainer, 290, 298, 305, 311. 
 Strangers, the, 239, 242. 
 
 Stratford, John, abp. (1333-48), 104, 107 and n. 
 Streamer, 211, 222, stremer, 191. 
 Stremer, 191. See Streamer. 
 
 Stretton, Robert, bp. of Coventry and Lichfield (1360-85), 15, 16. 
 Strictus, narrow or strait, 65. 
 Strike, 259. 
 
 2 B 2
 
 372 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Stureye, Thomas de, 59. 
 
 Subdeacon, a name for the tunicle worn by him at mass, 186. 
 
 Subhunierale, 14, note 3. 
 
 Siibrubetis., 51. 
 
 Subsacrista, a sub-sacrist or under sexton, 61. 
 
 Substitutes, 314. 
 
 Suction-pipe, 310, 312. 
 
 Sudbury, Simon of, abp. (1375-81), 98, 102;?, 161. 
 
 Sumniariuin., a sompter horse, 6, 8. 
 
 Sun, gilded, 279, 280, 285, 295. 
 
 Superahar, siepera/tare, altare gcstatorhnn, 50, a small portable consecrated 
 
 slab used to celebrate on at an unhallowed altar ; calcedony, 
 
 50. 
 Siiperkii;nerale, 45. See also Subhumerale. 
 Suppellicitun, 12%^ superpel/iceujii, 105, note 2, a surplice ; so-called because 
 
 worn over the pcllicitan^ pilch, or fur-lined cassock. See Surplice. 
 Suppression of monastery, (68; commissioners for, 168, 179, 180, 181. 
 Supremacy, Acknowledgement of, 164;;, i68;?. 
 Surplice, suppelliciuin, 210, 266, 267, 274, 296, 309 ; in armoury, 282, 286 ; 
 
 in Martyrdom, 128, 132 ; open before, 302 ; presses for, 294, 299, 
 
 302, 306, 308, 312; worn by petty-canons, etc. 210; worn by 
 
 preacher, 210 ; priest, 209 ; schoolmaster, 210. 
 Sutton, Daniel de, 52. 
 
 Swithun, St., body of, 36 and «, 80 ; head of, 30. 
 Sword Point, 39, 41, 128, 133, 135, 137 ; coverings for, 129, 131 ; destroyed, 
 
 169 ; pommel of, 133, 135. 
 vSwords, in the armoury, 258. 
 
 Swynefeld, Richard de, bp. of Hereford (1282-3-1316-17), 55. 
 Sympson, Mr. (probably Nicholas Simpson, prebendary, ob. 1609), 241 ; 
 
 Mrs., 258. 
 
 Tabernacle, given by Edward prince of Wales, 96, 98. 
 
 Tabernaciiliun., a canopied niche, tabernacle, or housing for an image, 53 ; 
 
 the term often included the image also. See Tabernacle. 
 Table, 141, 193, 242, 256, 257, 260, 261, 276, 277, 286, 287, 297, 298, 302, 303, 
 
 308, 309 ; Communion, 240, 241 ; folding, 299, 306, 312 ; golden, 41 ; 
 
 ivory, 179, 193 ; letters of gold, 261 ; monumental, 285, 296, 301, 308 ; 
 
 silver-gilt, 95, 107, 171, 181, 198. 
 Tabula., a general term to describe anything of a flat character, such as a 
 
 reliquary, 82, 84, a triptych, 86, a reredos, 107, a pax, 133, 159, etc. 
 
 See also Table. 
 Taches, 196. 
 TaUis, Mr., 285. 
 
 Ta7iee., probably tawney coloured, 76. 
 Tankerville, Sir Henry Gray, earl of, 162 and n., 163, 166. 
 Tapers, 271. 
 Tapestry, 213;?, 22o«, 224;/, 229, 238, 242, 248, 267, 284, 294, 301, 308; 
 
 Edward prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98, 174, 191 ; Goldston II., Thomas, 
 
 123, 124, 174, 192. 
 Tapestry work, 240, opus de Arysse, 123. See Arras. 
 Tapet, 212, 240, 241, tapetum, 6. See Carpet. 
 Tarce, Tarse, or Tharse, panjtus de., Cloth of Tars, a costly silken fabric of 
 
 doubtful character, 51. 
 Tarras, 263. 
 Tartaryn, a costly stuff of uncertain nature, 21//.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 373 
 
 Tasselli, 5, 46, see page 13 ; on chasubles, 14;; ; on copes, 5, 8, 13, 14, 16, 
 53) 54) 55 5 01^ dalmatics and tunicles, 18, 57, 58, 64 ; on gloves, 22, 
 71- 
 
 Tattersall, Amyas, 121. 
 
 Teca, 128. See Theca. 
 
 Tenison, Edward, archdeacon of Carmarthen, 292 ; Thomas, abp. (1694- 
 1715), 282. 
 
 Tenor-parts, 164, 301, 307. 
 
 Terebra, a herse, or candleholder for three tapers, 129, 133. 
 
 Tersoriuni, jj . See Towel. 
 
 Tessutum^ tissue or cloth of gold, 121. 
 
 Testitudo^ the vault or stone ceiling of a chapel, 163. 
 
 Text, texfiis, a Gospel book, 211 ; copper, in Martyrdom, 129, 133, 134 ; 
 copper-gilt, 28, 79 ; Domus Dei., 29, 78 ; gold, 28, 29, 78 ; silver, 28, 
 79 ; silver-gilt, 28, 78, 79 ; silver-gilt, of Edmund earl of Cornwall, 78 ; 
 Thomas, St., psalter, 28, 29, 79 ; Wibert, prior, 44 : wooden, 29, 79. 
 
 Textrinuin, opus, 128. See Opus texlrinuin. 
 
 Textus, woven, 50. 
 
 Textus, a Text (,q.v.) or Gospel Book ; a series of rich examples are given 
 on pp. 78, 79. 
 
 Thaddaeus, St., apostle, relics of, 91. 
 
 Thanet, John de, albe of, 52 ; chasuble of, 59 ; Reginald de, 52 ; vestments 
 of, 66. 
 
 Tharse, paiinus de, 5 1 . See Tarce, pannus de. 
 
 Theca., teca, a case or box for relics, 128. 
 
 Theobald, abp. (i 1 38-9-61), tomb of, 32, 33, 160. 
 
 Theodore, St., bones of, 87 ; relics of, 87. 
 
 Thomas, St., apostle, bones of, 86, 91, 93. 
 
 Thomas, St., of Canterbury, abp. (1162-70), 11, 18, 19, 22, 24, 121 ; albe, 
 
 silken, of, 58 ; amice of, 60 ; arms of, desk cloth with, 209, 220, 229 ; 
 
 body of, 79 ; body of, dust of, 84, 85 ; book of history of, 75 ; brooches, 
 
 golden, 72 ; buskins of, 85 a/id n ; chanter's staft"of, 74 ; chasuble, red, 
 
 of, 51 ; chasuble, at Sens, of, 45 ; crosier of, 22, 70, 197 ; cross, 
 
 golden, 72 ; gloves of, 85 ; hair-shirt of, 38, 85, 86, 134 ; handkerchief 
 
 of, 42 ; image of, 134, 135, 136 ; image of, key of, 135, 136 ; jewels 
 
 of, 23, 71, 72 ; mitres, 85 ; murder, site of, 125 ; pall of, 42 a/id n, 
 
 84; relics of, ^7, 93 ; rings of, 71, 128, 133, 135 ; shrine, great, 
 
 34, 43, 69, 72, 151 ; shrine, great, destruction of, 169 ; skull of, 
 
 41 ; staff of, 42,70; tu)]iba., 32, I53«; tuinba., destruction of, 168; 
 
 flood at, 113 ; votive masses, 133//. 
 
 Relics of, bed and girdle of, 85 ; blood of, 83, 84, 85, 86, 
 
 88, 134 ; bloodstained cloth of, 86, 134 ; buskins of, 84 ; chasuble 
 
 of, 84, 85/7, 86 ; cope of, 85, 86 ; covering of shrine, 85 ; cowl of, 
 
 85 and >i, 86, 134 ; cushion of, 85 ; dalmatic of, 85^, 86 ; flesh, etc. 
 
 83, 84, 85, 88, 134 ; frock of, 85;;, 86 ; girdle of, 85 ; hairs of, 85, 
 
 134; head-cloth of, 86; scourge of, 86; skin of, 84; tunicle of, 
 
 85;/, 86. 
 
 Thomas, duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV., 150, 151, 152 ; earl of Kent, 
 150. 
 
 Thornden, Richard, D.D., prebendary (1540-57-8), 181 ; William, 149. 
 
 Thornton, John, prior of Dover and suffragan laishop (1507-14), 139. 
 
 Three Kings, the, 313. 
 
 Thrimmed, trimmed, 241. 
 
 Thuribularius, a thuribler, tribuler, thribuler, 105. 
 
 Thuribulum, turribulum., 106. Sec Censer.
 
 374 GLOSSAJ^Y AND INDEX. 
 
 Tiburtius, St., bone of, 89. 
 
 Tiles, 287 ; paving, 263, 287. 
 
 Tillotson, Dr. John, dean (1672-89) and abp. (1691-94), 279, 280 and n, 281. 
 
 Timber, 262, 263, 288, 298, 304 ; oak, 262. 
 
 Timber-bat, 310. 
 
 Timber-chain, 288. 
 
 Timber-yard, 288, 298, 304, 310. 
 
 Tiniinnabuhcm, a sacring bell, the little bell rung at the sacring or elevation 
 
 in the mass, 153. 
 Tissue, tyssK, tessution, pannus aureus or cloth of gold, 121, 130. 
 Titus, arch of, 47;/. 
 Tomkins, Mr., 285, 301, 308. 
 
 Tonne, a vessel to hold wine for the Holy Communion, 244. 
 Tongs, 292, 299, 306, 312. 
 Touch-boxes, 258. 
 
 Toul, siiperhiimerale vi^orn by bishops of, 45^. 
 
 Towel, 220, tuella, 128, manufergium, 5, tersorium, ad altare, z^, ad fnanus, 
 5, ad sacrarium, 7J, de la 7iapre, 131 ; linea, 131. 
 
 Altar, 5, 2i3«, 220 and it, iz^n, ii<:). 
 
 Consecration of bishops, for, 213;^, 224;?. 
 
 Divers colours, for Sword Point, 128, 131. 
 
 Edward prince of Wales, 97, 99. 
 
 Hands, for, 5, 8, 20, 21;?, 61, 150,299, 306; Bishopston, Gilbert de, 
 T] ; Martyrdom, 128, 132 ; Michael's, St., 148, 150, 
 
 To carry amples, 220 ; and the pascal, 207, 220. 
 
 Of bord alizander, 131. 
 
 Of linen attached to altar fronts, etc. 125, 131, etc. 
 
 Of silk, 220. 
 
 Red, for Sword Point, 128, 131. 
 
 Red cross in centre, 157. 
 
 White, for Sword Point, 128, 131. 
 Tower, central, rebuilt, 122. 
 Tower of London, 168. 
 Trabes, 36. See Beam. 
 
 Travers, traverse, 100, 245, note 3. See also Glory Cloth. 
 Tresory howse, the treasury or vaulted chamber north of the revestry or 
 
 St. Andrew's chapel, 11, 172, 234, 292. 
 Tresser, John, 271. 
 
 Trestles, 257, 258, 259, 287, 289, 304, 310. 
 Trewloves, 184. 
 
 Treybrasse, a three-branched candlestick, 176. 
 Tricanale, 244, 255. 
 Trifuriaiiis, 14. 
 Trinity, Holy, images of, given by archbishop Bourchier, 121, archbishop 
 
 Courtenay, 109 and n, and Edward prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98. 
 Tnpe, inorre de, 57 ; scndal de, 99 ; sindofi de, 59. 
 Trocia, St., relics of head and hair of, 88. 
 Trough, wooden, 261. 
 Trunk, 257, 275, 283, 299, 305, 311. 
 Trussels, 304, 310. 
 Trusser, Mr., 273. 
 Tub, 259, 287 ; powdering, 262. 
 Tuella, 128. See Towel. 
 
 Tuftis, le, tufts, apparently roots of trees erased, 128, 132. 
 Tuly, a deep red colour (puniceus ox punicits), 52, 55, 76.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 375 
 
 Twnba, the tomb of St. Thomas in the crypt wherein his body lay from 
 
 1 170 to 1220, 72. 
 Tunica. See Tunicle. 
 
 Tunicle, tunica., the vestment worn by the subdeacon at mass, 2, 3, 63, 186, 
 
 204, 213, 217;/, 224,217 ; hence in later times often called a subdeacon, 
 
 186. The dalmatic and tunicle from being alike came to be called 
 
 a pair of tunicles, 231. 
 
 Baudekin, 58. 
 
 Black, 64, 186; Goldston, II., Thomas, repaired by, 124; Lanfranc, 
 
 17, 57- 
 Black and red, 187. 
 Blue, 45, 46, 58, 186, 187, 217, 227 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; 
 
 Goldston II., Thomas, 123, 124, 217, 227 ; Philip of France, 62. 
 Chillenden, Thomas, loi. 
 Cloth of gold, 186, 187 ; Islip, Simon of, 95 ; Winchelsey, Robert of, 62 
 
 and n. 
 Coloris de pounaz, 57. 
 Diversi coloris for Michaelmas, 58. 
 Green, 61, 119, 186, 187, 217, 227; Adam, prior, 58; Chillenden, 
 
 Thomas, 103 ; Lidebur, W. de, 64. 
 Living, archbishop, 5. 
 Lovel, Katharine, 57. 
 Meopham, Simon of, 7. 
 Michaelmas, for, 27, 58. 
 
 Murrey, Adam, prior, 57 ; Edmund, St., 57 ; Living, archbishop, 57. 
 Orphreyed, 18, 57. 
 Pole, cardinal, 206. 
 Prior and convent, worn by, 102;/. 
 Purple, 57 ; Adam, prior, 57. 
 Red, 2, 7, 17, 57, 58, 61, 64, 186, 187, 217, 227 ; Adam, prior, 57 ; 
 
 Boniface, 5 ; Chillenden, Walter de, 64 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 
 
 63, 187 ; Geynesbergh, W. de, 58 ; Greneweye, Thomas de, 65 ; 
 
 Hereford, countess of, 63 ; Lidebur, W. de, 64, ']^ ; Peckham, John 
 
 of, 62 ; Philip of France, 62 ; Pole, cardinal, 231 ; Rawe, R. de, 64, 
 
 •J"] ; Winchelsey, Robert of, 7, 62. 
 Simple, 5, 58. 
 
 Subsacrists, kept by four, 61. 
 Tasselled, 18, 57, 58, 64 ; Walter, Hubert, 50. 
 White, 57, 61, 63, 186, 187 ; Chichele, 115, 187, 217, 227; Courtenay, 
 
 William, 104, 187 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; Goldston II., Thomas, 
 
 124; Jesse, with, 187 ; Morton, John, 122, 186; Morton, John [at 
 
 Cranbrook], 203;? ; Norwich, Walter de, 64; Parkhurst, Mr., 221, 
 
 230 ; Pole, cardinal, 231. 
 Yellow, Bocton, J. de, 58. 
 Tunstall, William, prebendary (1613-22), 263 a7td n. 
 Turkey work, 254 ; opus de Turkye, 63. 
 
 Turkeyes, turkoyse, the opaque bright blue stone called a turquoise, 71, 231. 
 Turner, Dr. Thomas, dean (1660-72), 278, 278, 281. 
 Turribuluin, 106. See Censer. 
 
 Undercroft, 96, 97, 98, 99, 249, 259, 262, 263, 277, 287, 298, 304, 310; the 
 
 crypt, q.v. 
 Urban, St., pope (222-30), bone of, 86, 89. 
 Urban VI., pope (1378-89), 102;;.
 
 376 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Urceolus, urcio/us, urseolus, 5, 'j'i)- ^^^ Cruet. 
 
 Ussher, the under-master of the King's School, 210, 314. 
 
 Vallance, 294 ; for archbishop's seat, 284. 
 
 Vanes for Pahii Sunday, 207, 213. See Reedes. 
 
 Vas ad agitain benedicfam, 7, 72. See Vat. 
 
 Vas ad l/ius, 5, 7. See Ship. 
 
 Vat, for holy water, 205 ; laten, 206, 207, 220, 224 ; parcel-gilt, Pole, cardinal, 
 
 231 ; silver, 7, 23, 72, 181, 238 ; Robert of Winchelsey's, 72. 
 Vaute, the vaulted chamber beneath the altar steps, 191. 
 Veil, vayle, veyle, the great curtain, usually of linen, that was hung across 
 the church between the quire and the presbytery during Lent, 
 immediately to the east of the tombs of archbishops Kemp and 
 Chichele, 2i«, 45, 175, 192, 202, 212 ; black, 61 ; churching, 293, 299 ; 
 green, 61 ; offertory, 44, 61 ; red, 61. 
 Velvet, velTetU/JH, ^2, felvettan, 117 ; raised, 218 ; figurie, 188. 
 Venice gold, aiinitii dc Venisia, 116, 141, 184. See Gold. 
 Verdun, Gerard de Grauntseus, bp. of (1275-78), 16. 
 Verdure, perhaps a kind of baize, 190 ; of Bocking, 190; red, white, blue, 
 
 191 ; small, 190. 
 Vergers, 274, 275, 283, 294, 299, 306, 318. 
 Vernaciiluin, the Vernicle or representation of Our Lord's face supposed to 
 
 have been imprinted on St. Veronica's handkerchief, 128, 141, 193. 
 Vernicles, in Warham's chapel, 141, 193. 
 Verses, 261. 
 
 Vessels sold by Dean and Chapter, 236. 
 Vesterers, 317. 
 
 Vestiariiim, 50, the revestry or " grete vestuary," 191. See Revestry. 
 Vcstinientum. See Vestment. 
 
 Vestment, vestimentum., generally the chasuble or outer vestment worn by 
 the priest at mass ; but the term is often applied to a complete suit or 
 set of vestments {ziestinicniinn integrum)^ and includes not only the 
 chasuble for the priest and the dalmatic and tunicle for the deacon 
 and subdeacon, but one or more copes, as well as the amices, albes, 
 girdles, stoles, and fanons to match and sometimes the corporases and 
 frontals. Sec p. 21. 
 Vestments, in Arundel's chapel, 179. 
 
 Benedictional with office for blessing, 75. 
 
 Black, 20, 186 ; Buckingham, John of, 104. 
 
 Black and red, 187. 
 
 Blue, 64, 186, 187 ; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; Norwich, W. de, 68 ; 
 
 Philip of France, 20, 62. 
 Bourchier, Thomas, 121. 
 Bourne, Nicholas de, 67. 
 Buckingham's chapel, in, 180. 
 Cloth of gold, 186, 187 ; Islip, Simon de, 95 ; Lidebur, William de, 68 ; 
 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 62 and n. 
 Colours of, table, 26, 28. 
 Doubled, Mohun, lady Joan de, 100. 
 Edward prince of Wales, 97. 
 
 Green, 20, 119, 186, 187 ; Arundel, Thomas, no;; ; Bourne, Nicholas de, 
 67 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 106 ; Courtenay, William, 104 ; Edward 
 prince of Wales, 96, 97, 98 ; Lidebur, W. de, 64, 67, 68 ; Norwich, 
 W. de, 68 ; Wigmore, John, gift to St. Peter's, Gloucester, 119. 
 Henry, prior, in time of, 20, 62, 63.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. t,-j-j 
 
 Vestments— continued. 
 High priest's, 45. 
 Lady chapel, in, 164. 
 Lidebur, William de, 68. 
 Living, archbishop, 4, 5. 
 Murrey, Lidebur, W. de, 68. 
 Norwich, W. de, 68. 
 Purple, Chart, Thomas, 130; Goldston II., Thomas, 130; Norwich 
 
 W. de, 68. 
 Red, 20, 64, 186, 187 ; Chillenden, Thomas, 103, 105 ; Chillenden, 
 Walter de, 64; Eastry, prior Henry of, 63 ; Gore, Thomas, 127, 
 129; Greneweye, Thomas de, 65: Hereford, countess of, 63; 
 Lidebur, William de, 64,67; Martyrdom, 127, 129, 134; Philip of 
 France, 20, 62 ; Rawe, R. de, 64 ; Warham's chapel, 141, 192, 193 ; 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 2, 20, 62. 
 Relics, for feasts of, 20. 
 Ruton, Richard, 119. 
 Sandwich, John de, 69. 
 Suits of, 2, 63, 172, 186. 
 Virgins, for feasts of, 20. 
 Warham, William, 143. 
 
 White, 20, 21 and n, 186, 187 ; Buckingham, John of, 104; Chichele, 
 115, 187; Courtenay, William, 104, 187; Eastry, prior Henry of, 
 63 ; Edward prince of Wales, 96, 98 ; Jesse, with Tree of, 187 ; 
 Lady chapel, in, 165, 193 ; Martyrdom, 127, 130, 134 ; Morton, John, 
 122, 186; Norwich, Walter de, 64; Sandwich, Alexander de, 64; 
 Warham's chapel, in, 141, 192. 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, 63 ; John de, 69. 
 Vestry, at Canterbury, 4, 33, 234, 235, 236, 254, 256, 275, 277, 283, 293, 298, 
 305, 311 ; position of, 10; choristers', 282; inner, see Treasury; 
 Lady chapel, 163, 166 ; minor-canons', 293, 297, 302, 308 : room near, 
 108 ; singing-men's, 293, 302, 308. 
 Vestuary, the great, 191. See Re vestry. 
 Vexilluni, 64 ; pro Rogationibics^ 76. Sec Banner. 
 Vials, viols, chest of, 261, 283, 305, 311. 
 Vice, 287, 297, 304, 309, 312 ; cutler's, 258. 
 Vincent, St., bones of, 83, 92 ; sermons of, 159. 
 Viols. See Vials. 
 
 Vi7'ga, a. rod to hang curtains, etc. from, 140. 
 Virgata., a yard (measure), 120. 
 Viridis, the colour green, 2, etc. 
 Vitalis, St., bone of, 87. 
 Vitreiis^ glassy, made of glass, 14. 
 Vitrieni, a glass, 84. 
 Votive masses at Canterbury, 133. 
 Vynch of Winchelsey, John, prior. See Fynch. 
 Vytatoryboke, 164. 
 
 Wainescott, wanescott, 242. 
 Wainscot in Deanery, 260, 261, 262. 
 Waldred, Walter and Joan, in. 
 Walsingham, picture of, 261. 
 Walter, bp. of Bath. See Giffard. 
 
 Walter, Hubert, abp (i 193-1205), 3, 47 ; chasuble of, 51 ; cope of, 14, 53 ; 
 gifts by, 50.
 
 37^ GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 
 
 Wandregesilus, St., bone of, 85, 89. 
 
 Warenne, earl of, banner of the arms of the, 26, 76. 
 
 Warham, WilUam, abp. (1503-32), 40, 138, 142 ; image of, 141, 193 ; tomb 
 
 of, 138, 142, 143, 144 ; will of, 143. See Chapel. 
 Warner, Dr. John, bp. of Rochester (1637-8-66), 245, 247. 
 Warwick, St. Mary's college, inventory of, 2in. 
 Watch-house, 304. 
 Water-flowers, 185, 218. 
 
 Waterford and Lismore, Martin, Richard, bp. of (1472-75), 121. 
 Weights, 286, 287, 297 ; leaden, 259 ; stone, 259, 286, 297, 303, 310. 
 Welles, J. de, albes of, 59. 
 Wells, meaning of "high altar" at, 252. 
 Wells, picture of, 261. 
 
 Wellys, William, bp. of Rochester (1437-43-4), 150. 
 Westgate, John of, vestments of, 65 ; Ralph of, 53. 
 Westminster, candles on altar in I slip roll, 250 ; candlestick at, 49 ; Islip, 
 
 John, abbot of, 175 ; meaning of "high altar" at, 251 ; portable 
 
 chapel, 3 ; reredos, 109 ; sale of goods by abbot and convent of, 235^. 
 Wevyng worke, anything woven in a loom, 1 58. 
 Weynchepe, R. de, jewels of, 72. 
 Wheel-barrow, 287, 304, 310. 
 Whitewashing beneath St. Andrew's chapel, 108, 113; chapter-house, 114; 
 
 church, 108, 113; cloister, 114; prior's nova camera, 108; quire, 
 
 113, 114 ; sacristy, 108, 113. 
 Whitgift, John, abp. (1583- 1603-4), 261. 
 Wibert, prior (i 153-67), 44. 
 
 Wickhampton, Robert de, bp. of Salisbury (1274-84), 56. 
 Wigmore, John, abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester, 119. 
 Wilfrid, abbot of Feversham, 57. 
 Wilfrid, St., relics of, 30-35, 80. 
 William the Conqueror, 1 5. 
 Williams, picture of, 261. 
 
 Willoughby, Thomas, prebendary (1550-54), 210, 236. 
 Winchelsey, John of, vestments of, 69 ; John Vynch of, prior, io2«, 126;/ 
 
 Thomas of, 52. 
 Winchelsey, Robert of, abp. (1294-1313), 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 43, 61 andi!,j2 
 
 albe, 62 and n ; amice, 62 and n ; chasuble, 62 and n ; chalice and 
 
 paten, 70 ; cope, 62 and 71 ; dalmatic and tunicle, 62 and n 
 
 enthronization, 35 ; fanon, 62 and n ; stole, 62 and 72. 
 Winchester, bishops of : see Andrewes, Lancelot ; Cendale, J. de ; Edington, 
 
 William of; Exeter, John of; Henry ; Puntoyce, J. de. 
 Winchester, candlestick at, 47 ; inventory of, 18;/. 
 Window-leaf, 257. 
 Windsor, 15. 
 
 Wodennisbeg, John, prior (141 1-27-8), 116. 
 
 Woghope, Dan Thomas of, warden of the archbishop's chapel in 1328, 6, 7. 
 Woking, John of, 59. 
 
 Woldham, Thomas de, bp. of Rochester (1291-2-1316-7), 56. 
 Wood, Daniel, 272 ; John, master of novices, 164 a7id 71. 
 Wood-bill, 299, 306, 312. 
 Wood-reeve, 314. 
 Worcester, bishops of: see Geynesbergh, W. de ; Gififard, Godfrey; 
 
 Reginald, W. ; Walter ; Wulstan, St. 
 Worsted, cloth made of long stapled wool, 188. 
 Worthe, Stephen de, albes of, 59.
 
 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. yj^ 
 
 Wotton, Nicholas, first dean (1540-66-7), 152, 169. 
 
 Wriothesley, 169. 
 
 Wulfad, St., arm of, 93. 
 
 Wulfhelm, abp. (c. 928-941), relics of, 31 and Ji, 40. 
 
 Wulfran, St., bones of, 89. 
 
 Wulfred, abp. (804-829), tomb of, 32, 40. 
 
 Wulgan, St., bones of, 87 ; relics of, 35, 80. 
 
 Wulstan, St., bp. of Worcester (1062-95-6), arm of, 80 ; bone of, 91 ; flesh 
 
 of, 93- 
 Wye, Dan J. of, archbishop's chaplain in 1294-5, 4? 5 ! albe of, 59. 
 Wykeham, John, chaplain (1503), 129. 
 Wyngeham, Henry de, bp. of London (1259-60-62), 55. 
 Wyngunaloc, St., bones of, 90. 
 
 Wynter, John, treasurer in 1584 (ob. 1605-6), 240, 241 and n. 
 Wyping clothes, 238, 240. 
 
 York, archbishops of: see Bayeux, Thomas of; Bowet, Henry. 
 
 York, archbishop's seat at, 252 ; bible and book of common prayer, 250 ; 
 
 candlestick at, 49 ; communion plate at, 250 ; no candles on altar, 
 
 250 ; organ, 252 ; pulpit, 252 ; quire, 252. 
 
 " Zealous soldier," 267. 
 
 Zona^ a girdle, also a band or stripe, 148,
 
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