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 A HISTORY OF LONDON to the army against France in 1544, as many as the archbishop of Canterbury. '"- This last expense certainly may have been defrayed by the college, which could have well afforded it, for its financial difficulties must have vanished Ions before it was dissolved by Edward VI in I547^*' The pensions allotted were as follows : — To the dean ^^52 ioj., to each of the eleven canons 135. 4^/., to four chantry priests ^^6 each, to one of the clerks £6 13J. ^d. and to the other three j^6 each, and to every chorister, of whom there were seven, 53J. ^d}''^ In Mary's reign six pre- bendaries and four choristers were still receiving pensions.'**^ Its revenues amounted in 1535 to ^^ 1,085 IOJ. 5</. gross, and ;^458 4J. iod. net, £s^l being paid yearly to the dean, canons, and vicars.'"* Its possessions comprised tenements in London and Westminster, and a small payment from the ferm of the City ; '*'^ rent of assize in Lambeth, co. Surrey ; "" the manors of Wells and Gayton,'"' and lands in South Lynn **" and Wiggenhall St. Mary's,"" co. Norfolk; the manor of Winchfield, co. Southants ; '" a pay- ment of j^35 14J. "jd. from the ferm of York ; the ferm of some mills there ; "^ the manors of Frampton and Burton and rents of assize in Winterborne Came, co. Dorset ; "' land in Bledlow, CO. Bucks ; '" the manors of Elham, Ash ford, Queencourt, Eastling or Northcourt, Bredhurst, Merecourt, Wichling, Langley,'" Colbridge,"^ Plumford and Painters,"' and land in Eynsford,"* Iwade,"' and Harty Isle,'^ co. Kent ; the manor of ' Codyngton,''^' co. Sussex ; the rectory of Fen Stanton,'" co. Huntingdon, which had been given to them in 1394 by Thomas earl of Nottingham ; '-' the appropriated churches of Wakefield with the chapel of St. Leonard, of Dewsbury, Sandal, Penistone,"* and "" L. and P. Hen. Fill, xix (i), 274. "" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, I 349. "" Chant. Cert. no. 88 dorso. '"» Add. MS. 8io2,fol. 6*. "» Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 428. '»« Ibid. "" Ibid. Some tenements in Lambeth were be- queathed to the college about the middle of the fifteenth century bv Margaret wife of Henr}' Wroughton. Cotton. MS. Faust. B. viii, fol. 34^-36. '"* Falor Eccl. i, 428. '"' Blomfield, Hist. ofNorf. iv, 628. "°IbiJ. 767. '" Valcr Eccl. i, 428. "» Falor. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 428. »» Ibid. '" Cal. of Inq. p.m. Hen. Vll, i, No. 106. "» Valor Eccl. i, 428. "' Hasted, Hist, of Kent, ii, 433. "' Ibid, ii, 793. "8 Ibid, i, 309. "'Ibid, ii, 641. '» Ibid, ii, 677. '" Valor Eccl. i, 428. "» Ibid. ^^ Cal. of Pat. I 391-6, p. 518. '" The church of Penistone had been appropriated to them in 141 2. Pat. 14 Hen IV, m. 6, see Tanner, 'Notit. Mon. Burton, co. York ; the rectory of Frampton and the chapel of St. Lawrence in Burton, co. Dorset ; '^* and of Gayton in Norfolk.'"^ In 1 43 1 the dean held the manor of Overland in Loningborough Hundred, co. Kent, by the ser- vice of a knight's fee in Elham. '^ St. Stephen's, as the chapel in the king's palace at Westminster, was of course particularly rich in vestments and plate. In the long inven- tory of vestments, the total value of which was estimated at ;^336 19X. dd.,"^'^ there were men- tioned children's copes and albs, evidently those worn by the boy-bishop and his attendants in the festivities of St. Nicholas's Day, which seems always to have been observed there.'^' At the beginning of the fourteenth century the chapel possessed many ornaments of gold or silver-gilt adorned with precious stones and enamels,"" and at the Dissolution it had at least 2,250 oz. of silver gilt and 436 oz. of silver parcel gilt besides the jewels in the various articles and a cross and chalice of gold."' Deans of St. Stephen's College, Westminster Thomas Cross, appointed 1348, died 1349 "' Michael de Northburgh, D.C.L., occurs 1349'" Thomas de Keynes, appointed 1355 "^ Thomas Rous, appointed 1367 '^° William de Sleford, appointed 1369,"* occur* 1377,"' 1 383,"* and 1395"' Nicholas Slake,"*^ appointed 1396,"' occurs 1407 '*^ and 141 1 "^ ^^ Valor Eccl. i, 428. '« Blomfield, Hist. ofNorf iv, 767. '" Feud. Aids, iii, 69. '"Z,oW. and Mid J. Arch. Soc. Trans, iv, 365, &c. '"In 1382 the king paid j^l to the boy-bishop there. Devon, Issues of tie E.vA. zzi. Henry VIII in 1576 gave to the boy-bishop 20/. during pleasure. L. and P. Henry VIII, ii, p. 876. A similar payment was made in 1526. Ibid, iv, p. 869. ""Smith, op. cit. 164-70. "'Lend, and Midd. Arch. Soc. Trans, iv, 366, &c. '^Newcourt, Repert. Eccl. Lond. i, 746. '" Cal. Pap. Letters, iii, 398. "' Newcourt, op. cit. i, 746. •" Ibid, i, 747. "Mbid. "' Rymer, Foedera (ed. 3), iii (3), 68. '"C<7/. of Pat. 1 38 1-5, p. 291. "'Ibid. 1391-6, P- 553- '*°In I 391 Nicholas Slake, king's clerk, was made archdeacon of Wells (ibid. 1388-92, p. 478) ; in i;;94 he held a prebend of St. George's Windsor which he exchanged for one in the chapel of Bridg- north (ibid. 1391-6, p. 485) ; in 1395 he became prebendary of Tamworth, and warden of the free chapel of Sherborne. Ibid. 621. '"C^/. of Pat. 1391-6, p. 684. "' Doc. of D. and C. of Westm. parcel 23, pt. 2, No. 1S516. '"Cott. MS. Faust. B. viii, fol. 19^, 21. 570
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