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[363] They consisted of the impropriation of five parochial benefices.

[364] He was a very forward man in defacing the shrines of this church and delivering up the treasure thereof into King Henry VIII.'s hands (Willis's "Survey of Cathedrals").

[365] "Valor Eccl.," vol. iv. p. 198.

[366] Ibid., p. 43.

[367] Ibid., p. 88.

[368] Ibid., p. 124.

[369] Ibid., p. 166.

[370] Ibid., p. 78.

[371] Ibid., p. 138.

[372] Ibid., p. 344.

[373] Ibid., p. 107.

[374] Ibid., p. 88.

[375] Ibid., p. 127.

[376] Ibid., p. 64.

[377] "Valor Eccl.," vol. iv. p. 20.

[378] 1 Chron. ii. 5.

[379] There might be--often were--canons who had no prebends; that is the condition to which the too-sweeping reforms of recent times have reduced the great majority of the canons of all our cathedrals.

[380] Benson, "The Cathedral."

[381] See two canons in their tippets, in Tib. E. VII. f. 27, v., an English MS. of the latter half of the fifteenth century.

[382] "P'comunis et vinis" ("Valor," iv. pp. 8_b_ and 22).

[383] See p. 362.

[384] The archdeaconries of this diocese (except that of Oxford) had no endowment; their income was derived from fees, etc.

[385] Dr. Foxe's Christian name is not given. A Matthew Foxe was rector of Hardwyk, 6 17_s._ 5_d._; a John Fox was vicar of East Haddon, 15; and a Thomas Fox, vicar of Lewesden, 6 17_s._ 4_d._

[386] ? founder of a Chantry, 5 6_s._ 8_d._, at Leighton Bromeswold Church (see "Valor," vol. iv. p. 258).

[387] Up to the fifteenth century, at least, part of the cathedral nave was used as the parish church of St. Peter; at a later period, probably after Henry VIII., the north transept was used for that purpose, and so continued until 1853, when the present parish church was built.

[388] "Taxatio of Pope Nicholas," p. 138_b_.

[389] Among the items are the rent received from the Society of Lincoln's Inn for their Inn, 6 13_s._ 4_d._; and the rent of certain tenements in Chancery Lane (which are still called the Chichester Rents), 2 13_s._ 4_d._

[390] "Valor," vol. i. p. 308.

[391] Ibid., p. 318.

[392] Ibid., p. 340.

[393] Ibid., p. 346.

[394] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 19.

[395] Ibid., p. 19_b_.

[396] Ibid., vol. i. p. 301.

[397] Ibid., p. 185.

[398] "Valor," vol. i. p. 301.

[399] Ibid., p. 333.

[400] Ibid., p. 301.

[401] Ibid., p. 324.

[402] Ibid., p. 317.

[403] Ibid., p. 300.

[404] Ibid., p. 345.

[405] An antiphon was sung nightly before St. Mary's image by the junior vicar after evensong (1459-63). The shrine of St. Richard stood as usual at the back of the high altar; a harper used to play and sing the praises of the saint (Rev. T. Hugo).

[406] Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, _Building News_, May 15, 1874.

[407] The permanent relation between a religious house and its founder is ill.u.s.trated in the case of Boxgrove Cluniac Priory, Suss.e.x. The founder, in 1120, Robert de Hara, stipulated [for himself and his descendants, we take for granted] that he should choose one of the monks to officiate in the chapel at his neighbouring manor house of Halnaker; and that if at any time the monks should fail to elect to a vacancy in the office of prior within three months, he should nominate.

The prioress and nuns of Mount Grace, c. 1250, bound themselves to present each successive Prioress for approval to John le Verdun, their patron (_advocato nostro_), and his heirs or their deputies ("Eccl. Doc.u.ments,"

p. 66, Camden Society. See also Cartnell Priory, "Papal Letters," vol. i.

p. 135, Rolls Series).

[408] See the case of two of the Prebendaries of Lincoln, named at p. 343; and of two parish priests, at pp. 286 and 294.

[409] Matthew of Westminster says the Franciscans dwelt "in bodies of ten or seven;" but Chaucer seems to intimate that the usual number of friars in each house was thirteen--

And bring me then twelve friars, will ye why?

For thirtene is a convent as I wis.