APPENDICES (a) Returns of 1389
138. Return of the fraternity of the Holy Trinity, 1389 (P.R.O. C47/42/
210).
De ordinacione fraternitatis et fundacione sancte Trinitatis in ecclesia
Sancti Botulphi extra Aldrisgate London'. Magister fraternitatis Philippi
atte Vyne.
Memorandum quod citra festum Paschae anno regni Regis Edwardi
tercij xlviijo ordinata erat quedam fraternitas in ecclesia Sancti Botulphi
extra Aldrichesgate London' in honorem Corporis Christi et ad sustentandum tresdecim cereos ardentes circa sepulcrum in eadem ecclesia
tempore Paschae adquamquidem sustentacionem dictorum cereorum
quilibet frater dicte fraternitatis soluerunt unum denarium. Et postea
per quinque annos sequentes videlicet anno regni Regis Ricardi secundi
secundo ex gratia divina dicta fraternitas multiplicata erat predicti fratres
ordinauerunt et concordauerunt spontanea eorum voluntate quod quilibet frater dicte fraternitatis et eius vxor soluere deberent per annum
duodecim denarios ad sustentacionem cereorum predictorum ac cuiusdam capellani in eadem ecclesia celebrantis quolibet die in aurora diei
pro operarijs et laborarijs ibidem missam audiendo. Quiquidem capellanus celebrat in dicta ecclesia vsque in hunc diem. Et quia in die
Paschae ex causa solempnitatis festi fratres et sorores non potuerunt
congregari pro missa ibidem audiendo ordinatus et concordatus erat
quod dicti fratres et sorores conuenirent in festo Sancte Trinitatis in
ecclesia Sancti Botulphi predicta ad audiendum ibidem missam in
honorem Corporis Christi et Sancte Trinitatis et ibidem oblaciones
faciendum. Et siquis fratrum vel sororum voluerit habere capucium de
secca fraternitatis libenter habebit suportibus suis propriis.
Et predicti fratres et sorores ex elemosina inter eos congregata fieri
fecerunt ad seruiendum in ecclesia predicta unum missale et unum
calicem qui sunt in ecclesia Sancti Botulphi predicta et valent x marcas.
139. Summary of the rules of the fraternity of SS. Fabian and Sebastian,
1389 (P.R.O. C47/41/196; Chambers and Daunt, 50–3; Toulmin Smith,
9–11).
Masters: John Dancastre, limner, and Richard Spaigne, skinner.
1. Brethren to swear an oath on entry and exchange a fraternal kiss
with other members present.
2. Brethren falling into poverty through age, sickness or mishap to
receive 14d. a week. Those young enough to work to be helped by
charity of the individual members.
3. Entry fee 6s. 8d. to cover man and wife. Quarterage 3d., or 6d. for
a married couple. Single women to pay the same rate as men.
4. Brethren to assemble on the following four days, on pain of 40d.:
the principal meeting, on the feast of SS. Fabian and Sebastian, for
mass and to honour the saints; Sunday after Easter; Sunday after
Midsummer Day and Sunday after Michaelmas.
5. On the death of a brother all members to assemble to offer mass for
him on pain of 40d.
6. If a brother cannot afford his own funeral expenses, they will be
paid from the common box.
7. If a brother dies within 10 miles of London and the wardens are
notified they are to fetch his body back to London. All brethren to
meet the body outside the city and attend it home on pain of 40d.
Wardens' expenses, and the expenses of the deceased if he was poor,
to be paid from the common box.
8. Brethren in need may borrow a reasonable sum from the common
box against security. No loans to be made to people outside the
brotherhood.
9. Seven wax tapers, each weighing 20 lbs. to be lit all day on high feast
days, in honour of God, the Blessed Virgin, SS. Fabian and Sebastian
and All Saints. On Sundays and simple feasts, two of the tapers to
be lit at high mass. The seven tapers are to be set about the bodies
of brethren who cannot afford their own. Torches to be provided
when any dead brother is brought into church.
10. Wrongdoers to be expelled from the brotherhood.
11. New brethren only to be admitted to the fraternity on days of
assembly.
12. Four good men to keep the brotherhood's goods and to give account
on SS. Fabian and Sebastian's day before all the brethren or six of
the wisest of them. Normally the four should be changed each year.
13. No new rules to be made or wardens appointed except on days of
assembly with the assent of all the brethren.
140. Summary of the rules of the fraternity of St. Katherine (P.R.O.
C47/41/198; Chambers and Daunt, 47–50; Toulmin Smith, 6–8).
Wardens; Richard Brechforde and Reginald Swetebon, citizens.
1. Brethren to swear an oath on entry and exchange a fraternal kiss
with other members present.
2. Brethren falling into poverty through age, sickness or mishap to
receive 14d. a week.
3. Entry fee to be fixed according to means. Quarterage 3d., or 6d. for
a married couple. Single women to pay the same rate as men.
4. Brethren to assemble for mass in the church on the feast of St.
Katherine. Masters to be chosen that afternoon or on the following
Sunday.
5. On the death of a brother, all members are to come to the Dirige
and mass on the following day.
6. If a brother cannot afford his own funeral expenses, they will be
paid from the common box.
7. If a brother dies within 10 miles of London and the wardens are
notified, they are to fetch his body back to London. All brethren to
meet the body outside the city and attend it home. Wardens'
expenses, and the expenses of the deceased if he was poor, to be
paid from the common box.
8. Brethren in need may borrow a reasonable sum from the common
box against security.
9. Five wax tapers, each weighing 20 lbs., to be lit all day on high feast
days in honour of God, the Blessed Virgin, St. Katherine and All
Saints. On Sundays and simple feasts, two of the tapers to be lit at
high mass. The five tapers are to be set about the bodies of brethren
who cannot afford their own. Torches to be provided when any dead
brother is brought into the church.
10. On the death of a brother, the wardens to pay the Friars Minor to
say a Dirige at the burial place, and on the following day a trental at
the Friary.
11. New brethren only to be admitted to the fraternity on the day of
assembly, with the assent of the members.
12. Four good men to keep the brotherhood's goods: one the box; one
the key and two to collect the quarterage. They are to render account
on St. Katherine's day to all the brethren or six of the wisest of
them.
13. No new rules to be made or wardens appointed except on days of
assembly with the assent of all the brethren.