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 RELIGIOUS HOUSES John Prentys, occurs 1425 ^** and 1437 "' William Walesby, occurs 1453 '■" and 1455 '■" Robert Kirlcham, occurs 1459,''* 1461,'" 1468,"" died 147 I 1" John Alcok, appointed 1471,"' died 1472 '" Peter Courtcnay, appointed 1472,'" occurs 1477,''* resigned 1478 '^^ Henry Sharpe, occurs 1478'" and 1480 "' William Smyth, occurs 1491 "' Edmund Martyn, occurs 1498'^" Thomas Hobbis, S.T.P., occurs 1507 '" William Atwater, occurs 1509 '^^ John Forster, occurs 1509 "' Thomas Wolsey, occurs I 5 1 4 '** John Chamber, appointed 1514,'*" was the last dean '^* Smith, Antiquities of TVestminstery has included among the deans of St. Stephen's several deans of the chapel royal in the belief that the offices were identical. It is certain, however, they were not the same, for a document of 1377 mentions Sleford as dean of St. Stephen's and Thomas Lynton as dean of the king's chapel. The common seal of the college in the four- teenth century '*' is a pointed oval representing St. Stephen, a book in his right hand and three loaves in his left, in a gothic niche of two arches with carved canopy and sides ; before him on the right are five persons kneeling. In two smaller niches overhead is the Virgin crowned, with the Child on the left, and St. John the Evangelist, with the eagle on a plaque and a palm branch, on the right. In the base is the shield of arms of Edward III, viz., quarterly, I, 4, France (ancient), and 2, 3, England, '"Cott. MS. Faust. B. viii, fol. 9. '« Ibid. fol. z6b, 28. "«C<;/. of Pat. 146 1-7, p. 163. '" Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, A. Box 76, No. 2001. '"Doc. of D. and C. ofWestm., Westm. parcel 23, pt. 2, No. 18440. "'Ca/. oj Pat. 1461-7, p. 20. '"Ibid. 1467-77, p. 119. '"Ibid. 259. '"Ibid. ■"Ibid. 332. '"Ibid. '" Ibid. 1476-85, p. 48. "" Doc. of D. and C. of Westm., Westm. parcel 23, pt. 3, No. 18509. '"Cott. MS. Faust. B. viii, fol. ib. '"^Cal. of Pat. 1476-85, p. 215. "' Rymer, Foedera (ed. 3), v (4), 29. '*° Smith, op. cit. 133. '*' Doc. of D. and C. of Westm., Westm. parcel 23, pt. 2, No. 18448. '"Smith, op. cit. 133. Dean of king's chapel (?). ""■•Cott. MS. Faust. B. viii, fol. 53. 'L.andP. Hen. V1U,, 5607. ' Ibid. Smith, op. cit. I 34, says Dr. Vecy occurs I 51 5, but probably refers to king's ch.ipel. "" Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, I 349. He occurs 1 542. L. andP. Hen. Fill, xvii, 714 (5). '" B. M. Seals, xliil, 3. 164 Its 1 between four sprigs. Tabernacle work at the sides. Legend : — S. COME. DECANI ET. COLLEGII. CAPELLE SCI. STEPHI. WESTMONASTERII. A fine seal of Dean William de Sleford, 1373,'"' represents the dean standing in a stall and holding a book, beneath a gothic canopy with tabernacle work at the sides. Legend : — SIGILLVM . WILL'i . DE . SLEFORD. 35. THE CHAPEL OF ST. PETER AD VINCULA IN THE TOWER OF LONDON When and by whom the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower was founded is un- certain, though it must have been in existence long before 1241 ^ when Henry III directed various repairs to be made in the chancels of St. Mary and St. Peter, and the images to be re- painted.^ Edward I, in 1272, appointed a chaplain to pray for his father's soul at a salary of 50J. a year,' but whether this was in addition to the chaplain who had before officiated in the chapel at the same salary * is not clear.^ In the reign of Edward III, however, the only chaplain mentioned was one who was called the rector, and who received 6oj. a year from a tenement in ' Candelwykstrete,'^ until the king, in 1354, made the chapel practically collegiate by the addition of three chaplains,** enlarging the foun- dation by two more in 1356.' To provide for their maintenance he granted to them a rent of 3 1 J. id. from tenements on Tower Hill and Petty Wales, 5$. from a tenement near St. Katharine's, customs due to the Constable of the Tower for stal-boats and weirs on the Thames, 10 marks a year from the Exchequer, and annual sums to be paid by the master and workmen of the Mint.* At the king's request, moreover, the pope gave permission for the appropriation to them of the church of Allhallows Barking.' The faculty, however, cannot have been used, for Allhallows was not appropriated until the time of Richard 11,'" and then for the benefit of '^ Wolley Chart, vi, 8. ' Hennessy, Novum Repert. Eccl. Lond. 372, sajs it was founded probably by Henry I. ' Stow, Sa?f. of Lond. (ed. Strype), i, 68. ' Bay ley, Hist, of the Tower 0/ Lond. 115. ' If there was only one there when three were added in 1354, the papal grant of 1355 should have been made to four chaplains, not five as it was. CaL Pap. Letters, iii, 562. ' Bayley, op. cit. I 23. «*Ibid. ' Stow, op. cit. i, 68. ° Bayley, op. cit. 123. • Cal. Pap. Letters, iii, 562. '" Newcourt, Repert. Eccl. Lond. i, 237. Licence granted, 1385. Cal. of Pat. 1385-9, p 43. 571
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