Chapter acts: 1512-14

Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1914.

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'Chapter acts: 1512-14', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 2, (London, 1914) pp. 231-237. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol2/pp231-237 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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1512–1513.

1512, St. Jerome's day, Sept. 30.—Collation to priories, chantries and offices, as before.—ƒo. 201d.

Clerk of the fabric: Pomerey.—ƒo. 202d.

Communar: Capron.

Sub-treasurer: Ferr.

Escheator: Weston.

Tabeller: Mores.

1512, Sept. 30.—John Gaylard admitted a vicar non-perpetual.

1512, Oct. 25.—Grant to Sir John Gye, vicar-choral, for his good and diligent service to God and St. Andrew, namely, his musical praises [laudibus organicis], and for his diligent instruction of the boys and choristers—of a reward of 26s. 8d. to be paid by the clerk of the fabric from a vacant stall, for one whole year. He must faithfully keep and observe the duty of the said stall when its turn comes round [cum cursus advenerit].—ƒo. 203.

Mr. Reynold West, sub-dean, objected for himself, and also for Mr. Roger Churche, whose proctor he was.

1512, Dec. 9.—Grant to Mr. Thomas Goldwege of a place of sepulture in the chapel of Corpus Christi on the north part of the church.

1512, Dec. 17.—Collation of a chamber or place in the almshouse in the city of Wells to John Gollover [margin: Vacat, quia cursus pertinet magistro civitatis].

1512–13, Jan. 2.—Decreed that the name of Mr. Thomas Harres, late treasurer, be inserted in the roll of governors [? presidencium dominicalium], because he in his lifetime paid more than 200 marks of his own goods for the common utility of this church. Cujus anime propicietur deus, amen.—ƒo. 203.

1512–13, Jan. 8.—Decreed that the obit of Bishop Bubwith shall cease [defalcatur] at the end of 10 years, and that during such period 6s. 8d. shall be abated of the stipend of each of the four chaplains.—ƒo. 203d.

Mr. Roger Churche, the steward, and Mr. T. Goldwege may grant to the parishioners of Shepham a tenement late of Isabel Piers.

A fee of 20s. granted to Mr. Robert Bowryng.

1512–13, March 22.—Confirmation of a grant by the bishop to Edmund Mylle, for his good and faithful service, of the office of keeper of the park of Banwell and of the manor or mansion of Banwell, and of bailiff of the hundred of Wynterstoke, to hold for his life, and to be exercised by himself or his sufficient deputy, with a yearly fee of 10 marks. Dated March 13, 4 Henry VIII.

1513, May 14.—Thomas Piper admitted a vicar non-perpetual.—ƒo. 204d.

1513, May 18.—Confirmation of a grant by the bishop to Thomas Twesell of the office of auditor of all accounts of receivers, bailiffs, &c., of all lordships, manors and possessions of the see of Bath and Wells, to hold to him for life, and to be exercised by himself or his sufficient deputy, with the accustomed fee and with all due emoluments as fully as Thomas Hobson, late auditor, held it. Dated April 15, 4 Hen. VIII.

1513, July 1.—Confirmation of a grant by the bishop to Mr. Jerome Virgil, for good service to the bishop and to the cathedral churches of Bath and Wells, of the office of keeper of the hospitium in the parish of St. Clement Danes, with the mansion or tenement, annexed thereto on the outer side of the same, which William Clervys now holds, between the tenement of John Eddes on the east and that of John Coke on the west; to hold to him for life, and to be exercised by himself or his sufficient deputy; taking the wages of 2½d. a day and also a robe of the suit of the gentlemen of the bishop's service against Christmas, so often as the bishop or his successors gives livery of this kind; and also a mess of food [ferculum ciborum] with bread and drink, every day when the bishop or his successors are staying in the hospitium. Dated May 31, 1513.—ƒo. 205d.

Dominus Midensis [Dominus Hugo Yng, episcopus Meden'—interlined], prebend of Estharptre, appointed Mr. T. Tomyoo, archdeacon of Bath, Peter Carsleghe, Roger Churche, Thomas Goldwege, John Bekham and John Edmundes, canons residentiary, his proctors in all matters relating to chapters or the visitations of the bishop.—ƒo. 206d.

1513, July 6.—Mr. Robert Hill, M.A., admitted master of the schools, on taking the oath of canonical obedience to the dean and chapter.

The chapter proceeded to the choice of a vicar of St. Cuthbert's, Wells, vacant by the death of Thomas Cornyssh, bishop of Tine. Mr. William Mors, canon residentiary, and Mr. John Calveley, M.A., were the candidates. Calveley was chosen by a majority, the dean not voting. On being asked whom he wished to be nominated, the dean said he would not then nominate, and adjourned the chapter to the next day, those who had voted for Calveley objecting. The dean, Thomyoo, Goldwege and Mors then withdrew, the others remaining and sitting there as a chapter [capitulariter]. And since the dean, before he went away, had been required by Mr. Reynold West to declare Mr. Calveley, as duly nominated by a majority of the chapter, to be presented to the vicarage, and he had not done so and had de facto refused to do so; wherefore, after his [the dean's] going, Mr. West then remaining with other four, Masters Carsleghe, Yng, Churche and Bekham; and West, then holding the place of president, declared Calveley to be presented to the said vicarage by the consent of the dean and chapter, because he was nominated by a majority of the chapter. And thereupon the said sub-dean [West], in the names of himself and the other four, required Mr. Churche, the vicar-general in spirituals of the bishop, to admit Calveley as rightly presented, whenever he should come to him ad hoc et instaret ad dictam vicariam.—ƒo. 207.

1513, July 17.—Mr. Walter Piers, LL.D., installed by proxy as precentor, pursuant to mandate of the bishop.—ƒo. 208.

1513, July 31.—Mr. Thomas Lovell, decretorum doctor, admitted a canon, and installed in person in the prebend of Bukland Dynham, vacant by the death of Gundissalve Ferdinandi.

1513, Aug. 6.—Sir John Parsons, annuellar of the college, was charged with adultery with the wife of John Tresorer, since he was found in her house at night, under suspicious circumstances; he submitted himself to correction. Ordered that he must paint a king not yet painted in front of the door of the choir, at once [incontinenter], and if he shall not be indicted in the king's court before Michaelmas next or the following term, then he shall paint another king not yet painted. He was further warned to abstain from the house and society of the woman, under pain of being deprived of his chantry. Reynold West, the sub-dean, objected.—ƒo. 208d.

1513, Aug. 30.—Mr. Thomas Wulcy admitted a canon, and installed by proxy in the prebend of Compton Dunden.—ƒo. 208.

1513, Sept. 3.—Sir William God was charged with incontinence with a woman called Alice Knytter. He denied it, but confessed the rumour and submitted to correction. Ordered that on Sunday next, the feast of the Nativity of the B.V.M., and on the Sunday following, he must go before the cross in the procession, with a taper in his hand. At his humble request the penance was changed, and he was ordered to paint the image of St. Michael, together with the tabernacle, before Michaelmas next.—ƒo. 209.

1513, Sept. 6.—Grant to William Mors, canon residentiary, of the canonical house now vacant by the death of Mr. Thomas Goldwege, paying the accustomed rent to the escheator.—ƒo. 208.

Mr. John Bekham presented to the vicarage of the parish church of Cheddre, vacant by the death of T. Goldwege.—ƒo. 208d.

The dean and canons, in the presence of me, Thomas Roger, in decretis baccalarius, of the diocese of Canterbury, notary public by apostolic authority, their scribe then assumed, unanimously nominated Master Robert Williamson, notary public by apostolic authority and their scribe, then absent, to the parish church of Shepham, vacant by the death of Mr. Thomas Goldwege, the last rector; and they have asked me, the said notary, to insert and make mention of this act, which I have done, with my hand and sign manual.
T. Roger.

1513–1514.

1513, St. Jerome's Day, Sept. 30.—Collation to priories, chantries, etc., as before.—ƒo. 209.

Clerk of the fabric: Pomerey.—ƒo. 210.

Communar: Capron.

Sub-treasurer: Ferr.

Escheator: by the vicars, Weston, Orchard [? Achard] and Abbot; by the canons, Weston.

Tabellar: Goddard:

1513, Sept. 30.—John Gaylard admitted a perpetual vicar.

1513, Nov. 6.—Mr. Thomas Lovell, decretorum doctor, prayed to be admitted a canon residentiary. But because Mr. Roger Churche, vicar general in spirituals of the bishop, in the last ordinarial visitation, on Oct. 30, 1511, with the consent of the canons then present and resident and of the other canons by their proctors, had agreed and appointed among themselves that no canon should be admitted to residence in the cathedral church unless he could expend clear 40l. apart from his prebend and dignity and the income and emoluments of the cathedral; moreover it was then and there agreed and appointed among themselves that in case a canon so admitted to residence can expend clear 40l. apart, etc., that then he may have, if he can get it [si habere potest], a house of his own out of these canonical houses following, used and accustomed for canons residentiary, viz. a house in the public market, now belonging to Mr. John Chamber, the treasurer, or in one of the houses where Masters John Edmundes, Peter Carsleghe, Thomas Austell, Reynold West, William Mors, Edmund Mille, Robert Gumby, John Bekham, Thomas Tomyoo, Hugh Yng, Roger Churche, and Thomas Goldwege, canons residentiary, now [i.e. in 1511] live, and not any other house in the town nor in any other place; as more fully appears in the acts of the visitation.—ƒo. 210d.

And immediately Mr. Lovell said that, as to the first statute, on the word of a priest he could well expend 40l., apart, etc., and as to a house, he said that he had a house, but it was not his own, but they waived this point in his case [sed cum prefato magistro Thoma Lovell super suam propriam domum dispensarunt]. He thereupon paid his caution money of 100 marks, and the dean, with the consent of his brethren, admitted him a canon residentiary.—ƒo. 211.

1513, Nov. 11.—The dean exhibited an apostolic bull and caused it to be read by Mr. Robert Williamson, the scribe of the chapter acts. And immediately Reynold West, the sub-dean, asked for a copy, and the dean granted it.—ƒo. 211d.

1513, Nov. 21.—Mr. James FitzJames, M.A., admitted a canon, and installed by proxy in the prebend of Cudworth, vacant by the death of Mr. T. Goldwege.

1513, Dec. 1.—A reward of 13s. 4d., issuing out of Byconaller, granted to Richard Byktom [?] of Crokham, gent., for his labour in soliciting matters for the chapter at Ilchestre.

Agreed that each canon resident in the year ending Michaelmas last, viz.: Masters T. Tomyoo, Reynold West, Peter Carsleghe, Roger Churche, John Bekham, John Edmundes, William Mors and Robert Gumby, shall pay 20s. out of his residence for that year towards the defence of a controversy between Mr. William Cousyn, the dean, and the above-named canons, touching the dean's mode of residing in that year [de modo residendi ejusdem decani in illo anno].—ƒo. 212.

Agreed further that a letter shall be composed in their names and sealed with the common seal of the chapter, to be sent to the Roman curia, for their defence against the dean, etc.

1513–4, Jan. 2.—Grant to Richard Byktom [?] of Crokeham, gent., of the parsonage [personatusl of Stokegummour, for 5 years from Michaelmas last.—ƒo. 212d.

Mr. Reynold West, sub-dean, appointed Masters Carsleghe, Churche, Bekham and Lovell, his proctors in all causes concerning the chapter.

Grant to Richard Ronyon of a yearly fee of 13s. 4d. to be paid by the communar at the time when the sessions are held at Wells.

Mr. H. Hervy shall not receive his fee until he pay 6s. 8d. be has retained.

1513–4, Jan. 3.—Mr. Roger Churche is chosen steward of the cathedral church and of the chapter for one year, beginning on the morrow of Michaelmas last.—ƒo. 213.

Mr. John Bekham to be assistant to the steward for that year; he shall have all days when he is occupied on the business of the steward for the use of the chapter. He shall be steward in the year following.

He who is assistant to the steward during one year shall be steward during the following year; and so from year to year.

With regard to the dean's residence for the past year, the canons neither consent nor dissent.

1513–4, Jan. 7.—John Gaylard, vicar choral, has license to be absent from matins, except on festival days, until the annunciation of B.V.M. next, on condition that he teach the choristers to sing.—ƒo. 212d.

1513–4, Jan. 13.—Masters Roger Churche and John Edmundes to ride to Byconalder to view and take "a vewe" [?] of the lands there.—ƒo. 213.

The official of the archdeacon of Bath shall sequestrate the fruits of the free chapel of Claverham to the use of the chapter, during the time it is vacant.

1513–4, Jan. 21.—William Mylward admitted a vicar non-perpetual.—ƒo. 213d.

Martii 1669 stylo Angliœ. Recepi istum librum in custodiam a famula Mr. Dowthwayte.

A. H. (fn. 1)

Footnotes

  • 1. End of the second part of Liber Ruber.