The antiquities of Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall Containing principally matters of antiquity in them all. Collected chiefly from old manuscripts, lieger-bookes, and other like records, for the most part, never as yet printed. With an appendix here annexed: wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned) the manuscripts, and records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient metropolis, and his good affection to antiquities) sought out and published by the industry, and goodwill of William Somner.

And now am come to my Catalogue of the	1 Archbishops	of the Church.
2 Priors
3 Archdeacons

Beginning with the Archbishops, let me set before you in the first place, a few things very fit to be premised. viz.

• 1. The Antiquity of Archbishops in generall, and the cause of their first Institution.
• 2. The Antiquity of our Archbishops in particular, with the number of Archbishops in England, in former time, and at this day.

FOr the first (the Antiquity of Archbishops, &c.) I shall not need take much paines to search it out. For truth is, the Antiquity both of the name and office of an Archbi∣shop is already so fully laid downe and proved to my hand by the worthily admired Author of the Defence of the answer to the Admonition, and so vindicated and cleered from the aspersion of Antichristianisme (wherewith some late turbulent Innovators have beene pleased falsly to stig∣matize

them) and by his learned pen, who fetcheth and deriveth them (so venerable is their Antiquity) from before the time of the Gospell publike embracing by any Prince, or in any Kingdome, and (if I mistake him not) the Office, though not the Name, from the Apostolike times; and Bishop Bilson also, Bishop Downham, and many others, as the learned well know, have so laboured in this argu∣ment, that if I shall further proceed in the observing of the Antiquity of Archbishops, I shall but, as it were, actum agere. And therefore will it suffice that remissivè, I referre the reader to these mens Learned Labours, whom I have chosen to cite, because the vulgar, whose onely informati∣on I here intend, can more easily both purchase and peruse them, their workes like themselves speaking English. The learned, I know, can further satisfie themselves in the point from Bertherius in his Pithano••, and Morinus of late, in Ecclesiasticae Exercitationes, not to mention divers others. Of the former also, he may see those men answered, who (relishing nothing but a Presbyterian-Vtopian parity in the Ministery) under the pretence of zeale for the Reformati∣on (as they terme it) of disorders in the Church-govern∣ment by Archbishops &c. kick and carpe at the same, and upon occasion which un-offered they take of the report of those, who to shew the originall of Archbishops in the Church, say that they succeeded in the places of the Archi-flamines (certaine heathen High-Priests, or Arch-Priests, which had the oversight of the manners of the Flamins, heathen Priests likewise, as Judges over them: of whom Duarenusn , Alexander ab Alexandro o, and our Country∣man p Fox with others make mention) collect and conclude thus.

That the ministery of the Gospell was framed by example of idolatrous and heathenish functions. Of my

fore-cited Authors the Defender of the Answer to the Admonition chiefely takes these men to taske. After what manner he encountreth their arguments would be too pro∣lix here to relate, and because his larger discourse is, in my opinion well abridged and epitonized by M^r Mason:

I have chosen rather to present you with these words of his. Sed id demum (saith he q) illos pessimè habet quòd Epi∣scopi nostri atque Archiepiscopi sedes suas ad Flaminum atque Archiflaminum Ethnicorum numerum aptatas habuisse dicuntur. verum quid obsecro inde nascetur incommodi, si pulsis Idolorum cultoribus, veri Dei adoratores succedunt? Neque enim ulli loci Episcopatibus erigendis aptiores quam maxima & frequen∣tissimae Givitates. Ipsi Apostoli in nobilissimis urbibus in quibus fuerant, aliquando Flamines & Archiflamines aut sacrorum Praesides corum non dissimiles Episcopos constituerunt, &c. Thus farre M^r Mason.

Some learned men (I am not ignorant) there have beene and are, which will by no meanes yeeld, that the Sees of our Bishops and Archbishops were adapted to the number and places of the Flamins and Arch-flamins, arguing very stifly against it, by name Bishop Godwin in his Treatise of the Conversion of Britannie, preceding his Catalogue of Bishops, Fol. 26. and some others. But put case it be gran∣ted that they were so, and let these Cavillers (which dista∣sting our Aristrocracy (for such is our Church governe∣ment r) and desirous, as it seemeth, of an Anarchy, a Church like to Plinies Acephali, all body and no head) be allowed their so much desired premisses; yet still a non sequitur will attend on their conclusion. For were it (think they) a good collection to say that because there is now a Minister of the Gospell placed, where in the Popes time there was a massing Priest: Ergo the Ministery of the Gospell is fra∣med by the example of massing Priests? If they cannot justly say so of Ministers, neither can they of Bishops and Archbishops. For the reason is the same in both. As much to this purpose the said Author of the Defence &c. hath it Fol. 321. Agreeable whereunto is that of Bishop Hall s. Christianity (saith he) came in the roome of Iudaisme, was it therefore derived from it? I leave the judicious reader to give the answer.

And so enough of this, onely pray we that Anarchy ne∣ver get possession of our Stage, lest Confusion shut up the

Scene. And that maugre the malice of all turbulent Inno∣vators, our Church may still glory in this (the commenda∣tion given her by the late learned Isaac Casaubon) that she, t Inter vel excessu vel defectu peccantes mediam viam sequitur. And may continue to deserve that Encomium given her of divine Herbert ^u.

I joy deare Mother, when I view Thy perfect lineaments and hiew, Both sweet and bright. Beauty in thee takes up her place, And dates her letters from thy face, When she doth write. A fine aspect in fit aray, Neither too meane, nor yet too gay, Showes who is best. Out-landish lookes may not compare; For all they either painted are, Or else undrest. She on the Hills, which wantonly Allureth all in hope to be By her preferr'd, Hath kiss'd so long her painted Shrines, That even her face by kissing shines, For her reward. Shee in the Valley is so shye Of dressing, that her haire doth lye About her eares. While she avoides her neighbours pride, Shee wholly goes on th'other side, And nothing weares. But, dearest mother (what those misse) The meane thy praise and glory is, And long may be. Blessed be God, whose love it was, To double moate thee with his Grace, And none but thee. So much of the Antiquity of Archbishops.

The cause of their first Institution followes. And it was briefely this. As the whole Hierarchie was first invented and instituted, ut Augustae illius ac divinae Civitatis, quam ecclesiam vocamus, unitas ac tranquillitas melius conservetur. So Duarenus x, who there proceeds to show the further uti∣lity of the Hierarchicall order: so consequently the finall cause of ordaining an Archbishop (a principall member of that Hierarchicall body) was to promote and advance the Churches peace. This the often alleaged Author of the Defence, &c. well knowing, saith, that it is the chiefe and principall office of an Archbishop, To keepe Vnity in the Church, to compound contentions, to redresse heresies, schismes, factions, &c. as he gathereth out of Saint Cyprian, as you may read Fol. 355. And so I have done with my first Parti∣cular.

ANd come now to the other (The Antiquity of our Arch∣bishops in particular, &c.) In the world (as I read in a French Author y, a Civilian, who hath noted it out of the Provinciale omnium universi orbis Ecclesiarum, a booke so cal∣led, in which as he relateth all the Archbishoprickes in the whole world with their Suffraganes are particularly recko∣ned up) there are to the number of an hundred and thirty Archbishoprickes. For the truth of this relation (because it is a thing not so easily proved as published) sit fides penes autorem. But sure I am that We in this Kingdome acknow∣ledge onely two Archbishops to be in this our English-Orb at this day; albeit in time past, namely from the conversion of King Lucius unto Christianity foureteen hundred yeares agoe and upwards, unto the coming of Augustine (the Monk sent from Rome) into England, happening above one thousand yeares since, that is, for the space of about 400. yeares together, there were in this our Iland, three Arch∣bishops, z to wit of London, Yorke and Caerleon. To Caerleon the Churches of Wales were subject; Yorkes province was Scotland and the North of England; and lastly, London had Jurisdiction over the rest of the Kingdome. In which

three principall Cities of the Realme (as Fox and Lambert affirme) were before Lucius time, and in his reigne also untill his conversion, three Arch-flamins, who were by Fugatius or Faganus, and Damianus or Dimianus (teachers or Preachers sent by Eleutherius then Bishop of Rome into this Iland for the conversion of the King and people there∣of) turned into Archbishops, about the yeare of our re∣demption 180. Who, from and after that their plantation continued their Archiepiscopall seats there, untill such time as Augustine came over and was intertained of Ethelbert the Kentish King, in the time of the Saxon Heptarchy. For at that time (according to that prediction of Merlin. Dignitas Lovedoniae adornabit Doroberniam) at the prayer of the Citi∣zens of Dorobernia (as M^r Fox hath it) the Archbishoprick a of London (whose chaire stood at Saint Peters in Cornhill) was by Augustine and Ethelbert translated from thence to Canterbury. Other reasons for the translation of it are given by the Author of the Antiquitat. Brit b. You shall have his words. Sed Augustinus &c. But Augustine (saith he) whe∣ther for Ethelbert the Kentish King, and his kinde Hosts sake, whether because London was not Ethelberts, but Se∣berts his Nephew, whether in charity or good will to the Kentish-men for their kinde intertainment of him, or whether in regard that Kent was the prime and chiefe pro∣vince of Britanny, to the Dominion and Empire of whose King, the rest of the Kings were subject &c. But Master Lambert c saith flatly (if we may beleeve him) that Augu∣stine by great injury spoiled London of this dignity of the Archbishops chaire, bestowing the same upon Canterbury. Indeed it appeares, that Pope Gregory intending London for the Metropolitan Seate of Augustines Archbishopricke, sent him his Pall thither. But August. for many reasons (wherein you see Authors are divided) placed the same at Canterb. Whereof afterwards the Popes, Boniface, and Ho∣norius, in their severall letters, the one to Iustus, the other to Honorius successors of Aug. gave their expresse appro∣bations. The first thus . Id ipsum praecipientes firmamus,

ut in Dorobernia civitate semper in posterum Metropolitanus totius Britanniae locus habeatur; omnesque provinciae regni An∣glorum praefati loci Metropolitanae ecclesiae subjiciantur, immu∣tilatâ & perpetua stabilitate decrevimus. The latter in these words . Tuae ergo jurisdictioni subjici praecipimus omnes Angliae ecclesias & regiones: & in civitate Dorobernia Metropolitanus locus & honor Archiepisoopatus & caput omnium eccclesiarum Angliae semper in posterum servetur; & à nulla persona per ali∣quam malam suasionem in alium locum mutetur. Which thing, for the honour of Austin it pleased the wisdome of this Na∣tion afterwards to establish and confirm; witnesse this passage in certain letters of Kenulfus King of Mercia to Pope Leo . Nam quia beatae recordationis Augustinus, qui ver∣bum Dei (imperante beato Gregorio) Anglorum genti ministra∣bat, & gloriosissimè ecclesiis praefuit Saxoniae, in eadem civi∣tate diem obiit, & corpus illius in ecclesia beati Petri Apostolo∣rum principis (quam successor ejus Lawrentius sacravit) condi∣tum fuisset; visum est cunctis gentis nostrae sapientibus, quate∣nus in illa civitate Metropolitanus honor haberetur, ubi corpus ejus pausat, qui his partibus fidei veritatem inseruit. But enough of this matter; It is now time that I come to my Cata∣logue. Wherein I purpose, beside their names, to repeat little of what others have written of the Archbishops, un∣lesse in a brief collection of their more memorable acts and places of buriall, adding what things of note I finde omitted of others, with some pertinent observations.

Augustine. 1.

Augustine (you see) was the first Archbishop of Canter∣bury. Whose whole story is become so trite and vulgar that it needs no repetition. Wherefore let other mens copious discourse of him and his acts excuse my silence of either.

Lawrence. 2.

Lawrence succeeded Austin, as it was appointed by Austin before his death, and sate till 616. and then died.

Mellitus. 3.

Mellitus succeeded him, and died in the yeare 624. Of the miraculous preservation of our city from the fury of

the flame, by whose prayers and presence, you may reade in Bede's eccles. Hist. lib. 2. c. 7.

Iustus. 4.

Whom Iustus succeeded, governed the See 10 yeares, and then died.

Honorius succeeded Iustus. This Archbishop is famous for his division of the Kingdome into Parishes. For I reade, that about the yeare of our redemption 636. this man first began to divide England into Parishes: that so (saith my Author d) he might appoint particular Ministers to particu∣lar congregations. I reade, that Euaristus the first Bishop of Rome, who suffered martyrdome under Trajan the Em∣perour, about the yeare 110. did the like in Rome. And e that Dionysius, that blessed Martyr, Bishop of Rome circa annum 266. did attempt to do the like throughout the whole Christian world f. I finde no question made of any of these three divisions of Parishes save onely of that of our Hono∣rius; which M^r Selden in his History of Tithes flatly denieth. His arguments you may finde examined and answered by his Animadversioner, to whom for brevity-sake I referre you, and come to the History of the Councell of Trent, the Author whereof delivers his opinion in the generalitie of the point in hand thus.

The division of Parishes (saith he g) was first made by the people, when a certain number of inhabitants, having received the true faith, built a tem∣ple for exercise of their Religion, hired a Priest and did constitute a Church, which by the neighbours was called a Parish; and when the number was encreased, if one Church & Priest were not sufficient, those who were most remote did build another. In progresse of time, for good order and concord a custome began to have the Bishops consent also. Thus he. And so I return to our Archbishop

who sate almost 20 yeares, and died in the yeare 653.

Deus-dedit, or Adeodatus. 6.

Him next succeeded Deus-dedit or Adeodatus. He conti∣nued Archbishop about six yeares, and dying was buried (as all his predecessors were) in the Church-porch of S. Au∣gustines.

Theodorus. 7.

Theodorus succeeded him. Amongst his other designes for the advancement of learning, he founded the school at Canterbury; w^ch I have on a former occasion mentioned: In his time and chiefly by his endeavors learning so flourished in this Iland, that from a Nursery of Tyrones it became a pe∣culiar seminary of Philosophy h. He continued Archbishop two and twenty yeers, and dying anno Dom. 690. was buried within the Church of S. Austins Abbey, because the porch was full before, all his predecessors (six in number) being (as I told you) buried there. In memory of them all were composed and ingraven in marble certain verses, which Wever hath already published both in Latine and English i.

Brithwald. 8.

Theodores next successor was Brithwald, sometime Abbat of Reculver. No Archbishop continued so long in this See as he, either before or since his time. He sate 38 yeares and a half. Dying then, in the yeare 731. he was buried at S. Au∣stins with his predecessors. He held a Synod at Clift and another at a place then called Bacanceld, since Backchild and now Bapchild, an obscure village upon the rode neare Sitting bourne in Kent.

Tatwyn. 9.

Tatwyn succeeded him, and sate 3 yeares. died in the yeare 734. and was buried at Canterbury.

Nothelmus. 10.

Nothelmus succeeded Tatwyn. He was one of venerable Bedes Intelligencers for his Ecclesiasticall story, and dying k in the yeare 741. was buried also at Canterbury.

Cuthbert. 11.

Cuthbert was his Successor. This man was the first that obtained Church-yards for this Kingdome. For you must know there was a law amongst the Romanes, borrowed of the Grecians, and inserted into their Twelve Tables, that none should be buried or burned within any town. Hominem mortuum in urbe nè sepelito neve urito. So that all were buri∣ed either in the fields, along the high way-side (to put

passengers in minde of their mortality) upon the top or at the feet of mountains. And this kinde of interrement by generall custome was used both of Jewes and Gentiles, as you may finde at large illustrated by Wever in his Monu∣ments. Hence was it that Augustine the first of our Archbi∣shops procured the ground, on part whereof he afterward erected his Abbey, lying without the City, for a place of sepulture for the Kings of Kent, himself and all succeed∣ing Archbishops of that See.

Cicero making mention of this law, gives this reason for it. Credo (saith he) vel propter ignem, vel periculum. But l Hospinian out of Durand, Vlpian and others, shewes the rea∣son of it more at large. It was a custome (saith he) in times of old that men and women were buried in their own pri∣vate houses or gardens; but afterwards for the noisome savour and contagious stink of the dead carcasses so inter∣red, it was inacted that all burialls should be without Towns and Cities, in some convenient place appointed for that purpose. And however that this order was observed by the Gentiles upon this reason onely, scilicet ut in urbibus mundi∣cies servaretur, et aer minus inficeretur, ex cadaverum putre∣scentium foetore; yet the true Christians, and such as by their lively faith were adopted the children of God, had a fur∣ther mystery in this their manner of interrments: for by the carriage and buriall of the dead corps without their City-walls, they did publikely confirme and witnesse, that the parties deceased were gone out of this world to be made free denizens of another City, namely Heaven, there to remain with the blessed Saints in eternall happi∣nesse.

This order or custome of buriall without cities continu∣ed amongst the Christians untill the time of Gregory the Great, for as then the Monks, Friers and Priests (saith my foresaid Author) began to offer sacrifice for the souls de∣parted. So that for their more ease and greater profit, they procured first that the places of sepulture should be adjoyn∣ing unto their Churches. Upon this reason out of the said

Gregory m. Cum gravia peccata non deprimunt (saith he) tunc prodest mortuis si in ecclesiis sepeliantur: quia eorum proximi quoties ad cadem sacra loca veniunt suorumque sepulturam aspi∣ciunt, recordantur & pro eis Domino pr••ces fundunt. Ancient∣ly (saith Onuphrius Panvinius) the bodies of the dead were buried onely without Cities in coemiteries or sleeping places (as the word signifies) untill the resurrection. But persecution being ended, and peace given to the Christian Church, the manner grew in use to bury within Cities, at the entrance into their sacred Temples, yea and afterwards in the very Churches themselves. Now our Archbishop Cuthbert happening to be at Rome, and seeing of these bu∣rialls, obtained from the Pope a dispensation for the ma∣king of Coemiteries or Churchyards within Townes or Cities throughout England.

By this time you may see when the old custome of bury∣ing without City-walls ceased, and buryingin Churches and Church-yards both here and elsewhere began, and may guesse at the cause of the frequency of burialls in Churches in former times. A thing thus tartly reproved of Baldvinus the Civilian. Posteatamen (saith he o, having spoken before of the prohibition of such burialls) Christianorum Princi∣pum indulgentiâ res eò evasit ut multi in ipsis etiam divorum templis atque sacellis loculisque ambitiosè sepeliri vellent, quam superstitionem dicam an impudentem ambitionem Gratianus, Valentinianus & Theodosius reprimere conati sunt, edito hoc rescripto. Nemo Apostolorum vel Martyrum sedem humanis corporibus existimet esse concessam &c. So he. But enough of this.

Now return we to our Archbishop, Cuthbert. Who five yeares after his translation to this See, to wit anno 747. by the counsell of Boniface Bishop of Mentz, called a Convo∣cation at Clift beside Rochester, to reforme the manifold enormities wherewith the Church of England at that time was over grown. The constitutions whereof you may reade of elsewhere. He procured of Eadbert King of Kent, that the bodies of all the Archbishops deceased, from thence∣forth

should not be buried at S. Augustines (as heretofore) but at Christ-Church. And dying, his funeralls were there solemnized accordingly.

Bregwyn. 12.

As also were the funeralls of his next successor Bregwyn, who sate onely 3 yeares and died Anno 762.

Lambert. 13.

Lambert succeeded Bregwyn. From Abbat of S. Austins, he was by the Monks of Christ-Church chosen for their Archbishop, assuring themselves he would now be as ear∣nest a defender of their liberties, as he had been hereto∣fore an oppugner in behalf of S. Austins about the buriall of the Archbishops, for which being Abbat he had conten∣ded with Bregwyn his predecessor: but their hopes failed them; for perceiving his end to approach, he took order to be buried in S. Austins, and was (saith my Author) very honorably interred in the Chapter house there. In his time Offa King of Mercia erected a new Archbishoprick at Litchfield, and obtained of the Pope authority for Eadulfus Bishop there to govern the Diocesses of Worcester, Leice∣ster, Sidnacester, Hereford, Helmham and Dunwich. So that Canterbury had left unto him for his Province onely these, London, Winchester, Rochester, and Sherborne. But

Athelard. 14.

Athelard, his Successor, prevailed with (Offa's successor) Kenulph, and Leo the third then Pope, to quash this new Archbishoprick, and to ••educe all in statu quo prius. He sate 13 yeares, and then dying was buried in Christ-Church:

(By his means King Offa became an especiall benefactor to this Church, as by his charter there appeares; which, if it be authentick, and may be credited (as I see not why to question it) discovers an errour in the computation and ac∣compt which the current of our Histories and Chronolo∣gies do make of the beginning both of Offa's reigne and this Archbishops government: wherefo••e, and because it is otherwise remarkable, I have thought fit wholly to

transcribe it, as you may finde in my Appendix Scriptura 1^a.)

Wlfred. 15.

As his successor Wlfred likewise was, who died in the yeare 830. In his time the Monks of his Church died all to five^•.

Theologild or Fleologild. 16.

After Wlfred, Theologild or Fleologild, sometimes Abbat of Canterb. was Arcbishop for the space of 3 moneths, and dying was buried also in Christ-Church. One named Syred succeeded him, but being taken away before he had full possession, is not reckoned amongst the Archbishops.

Celnoth. 17.

Celnoth succeeded and continued Archbishop 38 yeares, died anno 870. and was buried in Christ-Church. He brought Clerks into his Church in aid of those 5 monks that survived the mortality before spoken of in Wlfred q.

Athelred. 18.

Athelred was Archbishop after Celnoth 18 yeares, and di∣ed anno 889. and was buried in the same Church. He ex∣pelled those Clerks out of his Church which his predeces∣sor brought thither, and made up the number of his Monks r again.

Plegmund. 19.

Plegmund succeeded him, and sate Archbishop 26 yeares, and dying anno 915. was buried also in his own Church.

Athelm. 20.

Athelm succeeded, and sate nine yeares, died anno 924. and was buried with his predecessors.

Wlfhelm. 21.

Wlfhelm succeeded Athelm. He continued 10 yeares, and died anno 934.

Odo. 22.

Odo sirnamed Severus succeeded him and sate 24 yeares. Dying then he was buried on the South-side of the high Altar, in a tombe built after the form of a Pyramis. Bishop Godwyn in his catalogue conceives it to be the tombe of ••ouchstone (such are his words) standing in the grate neare

the steps that leade up to S. Thomas Chapell. And there indeed accordingly, shall you finde a table hanging, epito∣mizing the story of his life and acts. Not without a great mistake doubtlesse. For first the modern Church is not the same that stood in Odo's dayes, or when he died: that (I think) is made plain enough before. Secondly this tombe is not built Pyramis-wise, or after the form of a Pyra∣mis. Thirdly it is cleare by Archbishop Parkers report, and by the words also of the same Bishop Godwin in his foresaid Catalogue, that this was and is the tombe of Archbishop Sudbury, who was slain by the Rebells in Ric. 2. time, whose body (they say) was intombed on the South-side of S. Dunstan's altar (Godwin addes) a little above the tombe of Bishop Stratford. Now this is the next and onely tombe above Stratfords, and S. Dunstan's altar (as shall appeare unto you) stood hard by. But hereof no more, till I come to speak of Archbishop Sudbury.

Dunstan. 23.

Dunstan succeeded Odo, sate 27 yeares, and then dying was buried in Christ-Church, that is (and so it must be un∣derstood of all his predecessors said to be there buried) in the old Church, not in the modern. For his piety and mi∣racles in his life time (so they say of him) he was (like his predecessor Odo) canonized a Saint after his death; and his reliques of such high account, even in those times, that s Archbishop Lanfranc, when he built the Church of new in the Conquerours dayes, very solemnly translated his corps from its first sepulchre into his new Church, and there of new intombed it (with the Pontificalls, wherewith, ac∣cording to the times, it was apparelled, and a plate of lead bearing an inscription to shew upon inquiry whose body it was) neare unto the high Altar on the South-side. And from thenceforth the tombe became called the altar of S. Dunstan, and the steps leading to it the steps of S. Dun∣stans altar. Whoso observes the pavement on the South∣side of the steps between Stratford and Sudburyes monu∣ments with the guilded work on the wall and pillar there,

shall easily discerne some such thing had thence, as que∣stionlesse this Altar was at the purging of the Church of such things at or shortly after the Reformation.

Whilest it was standing there, such high estimation was had of this Saint and his reliques, and so beneficiall they became to the place that enjoyed them, by the offerings to his altar, that the Monks of Glastonbury (amongst whom he was brought up) in Hen. 7. time, began to boast and give out that they had them in possession, being translated thi∣ther from Canterb. (as Capgrave in the life of Dunstan af∣firms) in the yeare 1012. Hereupon these Monks built him a Shrine t. and by that and other meanes the stream of be∣nefit formerly running to Christ-Church became turned to Glastonb. This at length so troubled the Archbishop of Canterb. and his Monks, that bethinking themselves of a speedy remedie, they resolve on a scrutinie to be made in his Tombe or Altar; by opening thereof to see whether really his corps, his reliques, were there inclosed or not. The scrutiny is made, and the searchers finde for the Christ-Church Monks. Whereupon Warham the then Archbi∣shop forthwith directs and sends his letters to the Abbat and Monks of Glastonb. straightly charging them to desist from all other jactitation of their possession of S. Dunstan's reliques, which letters he was fain to iterate, before they would obey; so loth they were to forgo their Diana. A Record of the scrutiny is kept in in Archivis ecclesiae, a true copy whereof you shall finde in my Appendix Scriptura duo∣decima. It is a pretty ••elation, and worth your reading.

Aethelgar. 24.

After Dunstan succeeded Aethelgar, who continued in the See onely one yeare and three moneths. Dying then he was buried in his own Church.

Siricius. 25.

Him Siricius succeeded, sate foure yeares, died anno 993. and was buried at Canterbury.

Aluricius aliàs Alfricus. 26.

Aluricius or Alfricus succeeded next, died 1006. and

was buried first at Abingdon, but was afterward removed to Canterb.

Elphege. 27.

Elphege succeeded him, and sate six yeares. He was most barbarously murthered by the Danes in the yeare 1011. at what time they both spoiled the Church and City, and ti∣thed the Monks and other people therein, whereof our Chronicles are so very full, that I forbear it further relati∣on, onely crave favour to give you the description of it out of Henry of Huntington^•.

Who thus sadly tells. Anno un∣decimo &c. In the eleventh yeare (saith he) when the Danes had done preying on the North-side of Thames, they besieged Canterbury the Metropolis of England, and by treachery took it. For Almar whom before Archbi∣shop Alfege had rescued from death, betrayed the same. Entring therefore they took Alfege the Archbishop, Godwyn the Bishop, Lefwyn the Abbat, and Alfword the Kings Provost, the Clerks also with the Monks, the men with the women, and so returned conquerors to their ships. But you might have seen an horrid spectacle, the face of an ancient and most beautifull City all brought to ashes, the carcasses of the citizens thick strawed in the streets, dying both soile and River black with bloud, the weeping and howling of women and children which were to be led away captive, the chieftaine of faith, and foun∣tain of doctrine of the English hurried about in fetters x.

Thus he. Our Archbish. Elphege being by those bloudy mis∣creants thus basely butchered, was buried first in S. Pauls Church in London, afterward conveyed to Canterb. by the command of King Knute, and interred in his own Church. He was afterward made a Saint, and had an Altar proper to him standing by that of his predecessor Dunstan, both neare unto the high altar that now is, as is cleare by these words in Archbishop Winchelseys Statutes. De redditibus verò (say the same) magno altari & duobus altaribus vicinioribus, viz. sanctorum Dunstani & Elphege &c.

Living. 28.

Living succeeded Alphege, and having been Archbi∣shop about 7 yeares died in the yeare 1020.

Agelnoth. 29.

Agelnoth was his Successor. Who when he had sate Arch∣bishop 17 yeares and upwards, in which interim of time he perfected the work of his Churches repair that had been destroyed and burnt by the Danes, as formerly I have said, died anno 1038. I reade that the Monastery of Reculver, built by one Bassa, in the time of Egbright (the 7^th King of Kent in succession after Hengist) whereof Brithwald that was afterward Archbishop was (as we reade) sometimes Abbat, was in the yeare 949. given to Christ-Church by King Edred y. Notwithstanding which donation I finde it still continued a Monastery undissolved unto this Archbi∣shops time, but the governour of it turned from an Abbat to a Deane, as, with some further discovery of that Mona∣steries then estate and condition, and somewhat else also of Antiquaries observable, by a certain Charter of this our Archbishop concerning that Monastery, to be found in my Appendix, will appeare, pag. 261.

Eadsin. 30.

Eadsin succeeded Agelnoth. He continued Archbishop almost 11 yeares, and died in the yeare 1050. was buried in his own Church, and after his death made a Saint.

Robert. 31.

Robert sirnamed Gemeticensis succeed Eadsin. He died and was buried in the Abbey of Gemetica where he was brought up, having been Archbishop about the space of 2 yeares or scarcely so much.

Stigand. 32.

Stigand was his Successor. He was deposed by the Con∣querour, whom (if Spot, S. Austins Chronicler, say true) with Egelsine, the then Abbat there, he incountred as a stout champion for the Kentish liberties, whereof you may reade your fill elsewhere. He lies buried at Winchester, dying 1069.

Lanfranke. 33.

Stigand being thus deprived, Lanfranke was consecrate Archbishop. He caused the Sees of many Bishops, that were before and untill then in countrey-villages to be re∣moved from thence into Cities, according to the Canon. Distinct. lxxx. per totum. So that a City with us (Westmin∣ster excepted) hath ever since been and yet is known, by having in it a Bishop, and a Cathedrall Church. Plures igi∣tur Civitates haud numerarunt nostri Majores, quàm Episcopa∣tus, saith S^r H. Spelman z. And not onely here, but else∣where also is this a note whereby to distinguish and discerne a City from a Town or Village, as you may learn from the Interpreter, who for instance in this point, alleadgeth that of Cassaneus in Consuetud. Burgund. c. 15. where he averreth that within the territories of France are 104 Cities, and gi∣veth this (saith he) for his reason, because there are with∣in the same so many Bishopricks. But return we to our Archbishop.

Besides his new building of the Cathedrall with the Mo∣nastery, and a Palace for himself and his Successors (where∣of before) he built also the Priory of S. Gregories without the Northgate of the City of Canterb. and by it the Hosp. called S. Iohns, as also that other of S. Nicholas at Her∣baldowne: all which he endowed with competent revenues, as hath been fully shewed already. And did many other good and pious acts, whereof (as also of the former) you may finde mention in the Antiquit. Brit. and the Catal. of Bishops, in his life and elsewhere. He contended at Windsor with Thomas Norman Archbishop of York for the primacy, and there, by Judgement before Hugo the Popes Legate, recovered it from him. So that ever since the one (that is, he of Cant.) is called Totius Angliae Primas; and the other Angliae Primas, without any further addition. There hap∣pened afterward frequent controversies between the suc∣ceeding Archbishops of both Provinces about the Prima∣cy, and for the ones bearing up the crosse in the others Pro∣vince: all which differences Wever a hath concatenated in a

continued discourse, whither I referre you. This Lanfranc was the man that setled the Mannors both of the See and the Priory. .i. both of the Archbishop and the Monks in that manner as they are recorded in Doomsday-book , which for Antiquity-sake, and as a monument which the curious that way haply may desire to see, my Appendix shall make publick. To the Prior and Monks of his Church, for their better future observance of S. Benets rule and order, from which by the remissenesse and neglect of former times, he found in them a deviation, he prescribed in wri∣ting certain ordinances, which intituled Decret' Lanfranci pro ordine sancti Benedicti, you may finde published in the latter end of Reyners Apostolatus Benedictionorum. This Archbishop having fate 19 yeares, and then dying was bu∣ried at Cant. in his own Church. But his monument not now extant; however Wever tells he found his body to be interred there by a Table inscribed which hangs upon his Tombe. Erroniously. For there is neither Tombe nor Ta∣ble of his there.

Anselme. 34.

Anselme succeeded Lanfrank, who died in the 16 yeare of his government, and was buried first at the head of his predecessor Lanfrank, but afterward (saith Malmesbury) b Dignius ma••soleum in Orientali porticu accepit; he was re∣moved to the East end of his Church. That (I take it) is his monument on the South-side of Beckets Chapell, and on the same side of the Black Prince his Tombe, whereon Teobald's table hangs. But of this see more in Theobald. Almost 400 yeares after his death, by the procurement of Iohn Morton one of his Successors he was canonized a Saint. For the finding of a light before whose Tombe, King Ste∣phen c gave unto the Monks the Mannor of Berkesore neare Shepey in Kent. He built (as I have already told you from Thornes report) the Nonnery of S. Sepulchres by Canterb. The preceding story of the Churches Fabrick will further informe you of his piety. Other things I passe over as ob∣vious enough elsewhere.

Ralfe or Rodulph. 35.

Ralph or Rodulph succeeded Anselme, sate eight yeares, and then died, to wit anno 1122. and was buried in the mid∣dle of the body of Christ-Church in Canterb. in medio aeulae majoris ecclesiae decenter sepultus, saith Edmerus. Howbeit (saith Bishop Godwyn) I see not any monument or other signe of his sepulture there at all. But no marvell, because the modern nave or body of the Church was built long since this Archbishops time. His buriall place was in the el∣der, the former body of the Church which Archbishop Sud∣bury (as I told you) took down, and was sithence rebuilt. Besides it is hard to finde a monument, much lesse an Epi∣taph so ancient any where in England. That age (it seems) was not very ambitious of either. The ancient custome was to put laminam plumbeam a plate of lead with the inter∣red parties name inscribed on it, into the sepulchre with the corps . So had Archbishop Dunstan. So also Richard, Beckets immediate Successor. But Simon Islip (of the Arch∣bishops) is the first that hath an Epitaph upon his tombe in the whole Church. About his time (I take it) they first became common and frequent. Haec obiter. This our Arch∣bishop gave a penny a day out of his Mannor of Liminge in Kent to Herbaldowne Hospitall for ever, which gift his Successor Theobald renewed and confirmed d.

William Corboyl. 36.

W•• Corboyl succeeded Ralfe, and died in the yeare 1136. having sate almost 14 yeares, and lieth buried in his own Church: the particular place I finde not; haply it was in the old body. He is famous for the new building of this Church (whereof before) as also of S. Martins by Dover. Of which please you to heare Archdeacon Harpsfield speak. Erant in eo sacello (saith he speaking of S. Martins) antiqui∣tus Canonici quos seclares appellant. Quorum ecclesia cum in medio oppidi, parvi illius quidem sed populosi consisteret, cano∣nicique ecclesiae sacra pensa perfunctoriè obirent, illiusque bona per lustra, libidines & luxuriam profunderent & consumerent: Guiliel. diligenter meditatus secum est, qua potissimum ratione

huic malo occurreret. Aedificat itaque novam extra muros op∣pidi ecclesiam, cum caeteris domibus ad habitationem monastic is viris accommodis &c. Out of this Monastery, Richard, a successor of this Archbish. was taken and chosen to the See.

Theobald. 37.

Theobald succeeded William. He departed this life in the yeare 1160. when he had sate Archbishop 22 yeares. He was the first of the Catalogue that had the title of Apostolicae Sedis Legatus conferred upon him, to wit in the yeare 1138. Which title was retained untill Archbishop Cranmers time. But then the Popes authority finding its deserved ruine in our clearer and better understanding, a decree passed in the Synod (Anno 1534) that laying aside that title, they should be styled, I use now my Authours own words) Primats and Metropolitans of all England c. This our Arch∣bishop perceiving his end to approach made his Will, and gave all his goods unto the poore: and dying was buried in his own Church, in the South-part of S. Thomas Cha∣pell, in a marble Tomb joyning to the wall (saith Bishop Godwyn) and accordingly there hangs a table lately made, of him and his acts. But with what warrant give me leave to make question. The table I know follows Bishop God∣wyn. And sure I am that none that have written his life be∣side Godw. (before him I mean) have authorised this report of his. The particular place of his buriall hath no mention amongst them, nor yet in his Will, which I have seen too. Besides this, and the probability that it is Archbishop An∣selmes tombe (as you may see before) another unlikeli∣hood there is it should be Theobalds, and that is this. It hath no Inscription or Epitaph upon or about it, whereas his had, and it was this (as Wever sayes)

Hic jacet Theobaldus Cantuar. Archiepiscopas, ob morum placa∣bilitatem atque constantiam, Hen. 2. valde gratiosus, affabi∣bilis, veridicus, prudens & amicus firmus, in omnes liberalis, & in pauperes munificus, qui suae tandem senectut is & langui∣dae vitae pertaesus anteactam vitā morti persolvit. Anno Dom. 1160. cum 22. annis sedisset. Anima ejus requiescat in pace. Amen.

Now if you will have my opinion where this Archbishop was buried: I shall tell you that I think it was in the old body of the Church, whose demolition and new erection is the very cause (as I conceive) we now misse so many of those elder monuments.

Clarenbald the first Abbat of Feversham (in the yeare f 812. called the Kings little town of Fefresham. In partibus suburbanis Regi•• oppidulo Fefresham dicto, as it is in a Charter of Kenulph King of Mercia, made to Wulfred the then Arch∣bishop received benediction of this Theobald in praesentia Re∣ginae Matildis quae praedictum monasterium de Feversham ince∣pit & terris aliisque donis ditavit: Clarenbald first having ob∣tained his and his fellows release from the Clunia••s, to be clearely absolved from subjection to that order, being now to live under the rule of S. Benet in Feversham Abbey: whereof in Christ-Church a record is kept to this effect, viz. that at Clarenbalds benediction by Archbishop Theo∣bald, were first read publickly literae absolutoriae Petri Abba∣tis Cluniacensis, & B. Prioris S. Mariae de Caritate, quae praedi∣ctos Clarenbaldum & Monachos qui secum venerant de Bermon∣deseia ab omni subjectione & obedientia ecclesiae Cluniacensis ab∣solvebant, nè viz. ecclesia Cluniacensis aliqd' subjectionis in eundem Clarenbald. sive in successores ejus vel aliqd' juris in Mo∣nasterio▪ de Fever. calumpniare posset in posterum. Thus the Record. M^r Cambden then (salva ejus Reverentiâ) is mista∣ken in saying that King Stephen founded this Abbey for the Monks of Clugny.

The same Records (being thus fairly occasioned, let me note it by the way) furnish me with a Catalogue of the names of divers Abbats as well of that place, as of severall other Abbeys in the Diocesse that receiving benediction from the Archbishop made profession of obedience to him and his Church, which I have thought not impertinent here to insert.

Professiones.

Feversham.	Baxley.
Clarenbald•• primi Abbats, Theobaldo.	Lamberti.
Guerrici. Richardo.	Thomae. Theobaldo.
Algari.	Iohannis.
Petri.	Willielmi.
Petri. Bonifacio.	Dionisii.
Iohannis.	Walteri.
Petri de Herdes••o.	Simonis.
Oswardi.	Roberti. Bonifacio.
Clementis.	Gilberti.

St Radegund.	Langdun.	Combwell.
Hugonis. Huberto.	Richardi. Huberto.	Iohannis.
Henrici.	Iohannis.
Richardi.	Roberti.
Iohannis.	Willielm. Huberto.
Henrici.	Willielm. Bonifacio.
Willielmi.	Rogeri.
Roberti. Waltero.

I passe from Theobald and come to his successor.

Thomas Becket. 38.

Whose whole story our Chronicles and tradition withall have made so trite and vulgar, that lest I be checked with a Nil dictum quod &c. I forbear to relate it, onely I shall desire to say somewhat of his buriall, translation and shrine, and to shew what the quarrell was he so stoutly (stub∣bornly I should say) defended.

Being most barbarously murthered, upon Tuesday the 28 of December 1170. his body was buried first in the Un∣dercroft. But the revolution of 50 yeares, having brought about his Jubilee (to wit in the yeare 1220:) and being first matriculated by the Pope a glorious Saint and Martyr; his body with great solemnity, was taken up and laid in a most sumptuous shrine at the East end of the Church, at the

charge of Stephen Langton his Successor, whereof I reade as followeth. Adveniente igitur translationis die, praesente maxi∣mâ multitudine tam divitum quam pauperum; Pandulphus Apo∣stolicae sedis Legatus, Cantuariensis & Remensis Archiepiscopi, Episcopique atque Abbates quamplurimi, cum Comitibus & Ba∣ronibus praedictam ••apsam, praesente Rege Henrico tertio, super humeros suos susceperunt, & in loco quo nunc honoratur cum omni gaudio collocaverunt.

The solemnity of this Translation happened upon or about the 7^th of Iuly. Hence (I take it) the occasion and originall of our (as we call it) Beckets Fair at Cant. begin∣ning to be holden annually on the 7^th of that moneth.

For, as S^r Hen. Spelman g is of opinion, that Fairs began and came up by the flocking of Christians to the place for the solemnizing of some festivall, such either as the feast of the Churches dedication or other the like; and saith it is easie to conjecture to what Saint the place hath been com∣mended, by the Fair-day: So I am perswaded that this Fair which we hold at Canterb. annually on the 7^th of Iuly (as that other on the 29^th of December) first came up as a means to gather the greater multitude thither for the celebration of the Anniversary solemnities of Beckets translation, on the one, and his passion (as they used to terme it) on the other of those dayes. And (for so my author addes) as Fairs were greater, as the Church and town were of more estima∣tion: So however these our Fairs at Canterb. are now so small as not at all considerable, yet assuredly time was when they were of greater request, and might justly boast of great resort as any elsewhere: the decay of them and of the trading of our city participating of both one cause, namely the defacing of the shrine we now treat of, and the demoli∣shing of such religious houses as were sometime standing in and about the City, the magazins of reputed holy reliques, the incentives unto all sorts of people in those times for their frequent visitation of them. Whence that of M^r Lam∣bert h. To tell the ••ruth (saith he) little had all these casualties of fire and flame been to the decay of this Town (speaking be∣fore

of the often firing of Canterb.) had not the dissolution and finall overthrow of the religious houses also come upon it. For where wealth is at command, how easily are buildings repair∣ed? and where opinion of great holinesse is, how soon are cities and towns advanced to great estimation and riches? And there∣fore no marvell if after wealth withdrawn, and opinion of holi∣nesse removed, the places tumbled headlong to ruine and decay. Thus he.

The so seasonable application of these observations will beplea good enough (I trust) for this digression. And in that hope I returne to our Archbishop, or rather to his Shrine. Whereof let me first give you Erasmus, then Stowe's description. Auream thecam (saith the former i) theca con∣tegit lignea, ea funibus sublata opes nudat inaestimabiles, vilis∣sima pars erat aurum, gemmis raris ac praegrandibus collucebant, nitebant ac fulgurabant omnia, quaedam superabant ovi anserini magnitudinem. Prior candida virga demonstrabat contact•• sin∣gulas gemmas, addens nomen Gallicum, pretium & authorem doni. Nam praecipui Monarchae don•• miserant. Thus he.

It was built (saith Stow k) about a mans height all of stone, then upward oftimber plain, within the which was a chest of iron, containing the bones of Thomas Becket, skull and all, with the wound of his death, and the piece cut out of his skull laid in the same wound. The timber work of this shrine on the outside was covered with plates of gold, da∣masked and embossed with wires of gold, garnished with broches, images, Angels, chaines, pretious stones, and great orient pearls, the spoil of which shrine (in gold and jewells of an inestimable value) filled two great chests, one of which six or eight strong men could do no more then convey out of the Church: all which was taken to the Kings use, and the bones of S^t Thomas (by command∣ment of the Lord Cromwell) were then and there burned to ashes, which was in September, the yeare 1538. Hen. 8. 30. l

This Shrine had a Clerk and other retainers that con∣stantly gave their attendance upon it; and need enough

in regard both of the treasure that was about it and also of the continuall offerings thereunto by such as either of visi∣tation or in pilgrimage made their approaches to it: Which offerings amounted to a great value by the yeer, as I guesse by the accompts thereof for certain yeares which I have seen, shewing that from about 200 lib. per annūm which they arose unto about 300 yeares since; within a six or eight yeares following they were grown to be more then trebled. But (by the way) when the Accomptant comes to Christs altar (the high altar) that's dispatched with a blank or a Nil: summo altari Nil. So much had that Shrine obscured this altar. The lesse marvell that the Church dedicated to Christ, gave place (as it did) to the name of S^t Thomas, and that the prints of their devotion in the marble stones who crept and kneeled to his Shrine remain to this day; there∣in but royallists (as I may call them) or imitators of sove∣reigne example, if we but consider with what reverence some of our Kings mention both him and his shrine. Cujus pretiosum corpus (Hen. 6. words of him to the Monks of the place) in ecclesia vestra praedicta gloriosè tumulatum extitit. In cujus ecclesia Metrop. corpus beati Thomae martyris ad quem devotionem gerimus specialem, honorificè feretratur, sayes Ed. 4. in his Charter to our City.

It may not be omitted that this Saints Jubilee was kept every fifty yeares from and after his death: because such multitudes flocked to the City to solemnize the same as is scarce credible; witnesse this record kept of one happen∣ing in the yeare 1420. which I here commend to your per∣usall, transcribed from a book of the City chamber.

De anno Iubileo apud Cant.

MEmorand' quòd anno ab incarnatione Domini 1420. & anno Regni illustrissimi Regis & principis Hen. 5. à con∣questu Angliae octavo, tempore Willielmi Bennet & W ^mi Ickham tunc Balivor••m Cant. Henrici Chichele tunc Archiepiscopi Sedis Cant. & Iohannis Woodnesberwe ad tunc Prioris ecclesiae Christi

Cant. die dominica in festo translationis sancti Thomae Martyris extitit apud Cant. annus Iubileus in ecclesia Christi Cant. qui tunc extiterat sextus annus Iubileus a translatione praedicti Tho∣mae Martyris gloriosi. Cujus quidem jubilei solemnizatio incepit ad horam duodecimam in vigilia dicti festi, & continuavit per 15 dies continuos proximò & immediatè sequentes; quo tempore idem Rex & princeps illustrissimus fuit in Francia cum suo ho∣norabili exercitu ad obsedio••▪ villae Millon' quae distat à Civi∣tate Parisiensi triginta milliaria. Qui quidem verò Ballivi prae∣libati universaliter praeceperunt civibus Civitatis illius suffici∣entiam domorum ad herbigandum & ad hospitandum populum ad tunc pro salute animarum suarum adipisc••nda venturum, di∣vina gratia suffragante, tam infra Civitatem praedictam, quam infra suburbia Civitatis ejusdem habentibus, quòd essent parati in lectis & aliis populo praedicto necessariis: Ac etiam praecepe∣runt universis vitellariis dictae Civitatis, viz. Tabernariis, Pandoxatoribus, Pistoribus, Carnificibus, Piscinariis, Cocis & hospitatoribus quòd ordinarent contra tempus praedictum victu∣alia populo praedicto tunc suffectura, qui quidem populus ut aesti∣mabatur ad tunc atting••bant ad numerum Centum millia homi∣num & mulierum tam Angliginentium qu••m alieniginentium exterorum viz. Hibernicorum, Wallicorum, Scotticorum, Fran∣corum, Normannorum, Garnisientium & Gernisientium, ad ean∣dem Civitatem, pro gratia praedicta habenda ad tunc affluenti∣um, pace verò & tranquillitate inter populum praedict' opitula∣tione Dei omnipotentis suaeque gloriosissimae genetricis Dei Mariae, precibus quoque gloriosi Martyris Thomae sociorumque ejus sanctorum Curiae celestis, veniendo, morando & redeundo, toto tempore Iubilei illius habitis & optentis. Qui quidem vitel∣larii ordin••runt victualia pro populo praedicto copiosa, it a quòd la∣gena vini rubii de Vasconia tunc vendebatur ad octo denarios, & lagena vini albi ad sex denarios, & duo panes levati vendeban∣tur ad unum denarium, & omnia alia victualia, Domino dispo∣nente, de bono foro extiterunt; per quae Civitas praedicta & totus Comitatus Kanciae exinde per totam Angliam favente altissm•• magnum & diutinum revera optinuerunt honorem.

Thomas Chirch fecit & scripsit, & ad hoc per plenam Cu∣riam

de Burgemoto, tam per Ballivos, Aldermannos, xij Iu∣ratos, cum xxxvj hominibus in numero consueto, specialiter requisitus fuerat, & in forma praedicta redegit in scriptis.

Our City of Canterb. (it seems) of old pitched upon this S. Thomas, for it Patron and tutelar Saint: and there∣fore caused these verses to be cut about the ring of her old common seale.

Ictibus immensis Thomas qui corruit ensis, Tutor ab offensis urbis sit Canturie••sis.

And, which is more, borrowed a part of the City armes retained to this day (if I mistake not) from his coat, which is three Cornish choughs proper. It is observable beside, that as by meanes of his fame and the great account of his martyrdome and miracles the name of Christ▪ Church be∣came changed to S. Thomas Church; so the common seale of the Church, from the new dedication thereof by Arch∣bishop Corboyl untill then used, upon his martyrdome was changed, and on the one side of it that represented with these verses circumscribed.

Est huic vita mori pro qu•• dum vixit amori Mors erat & memori per mortem vivit honori.

This was the Churches third common seale, and was not altered afterward untill the new foundation by H. 8.

So much for this Archbishop; the legend of whose mi∣racles, were it utterly lost, might easily (I think) be repai∣red from the windowes on each side of the place where his shrine sometime stood abounding altogether with the story thereof.

I come now to his quarrell, which was the defence of the Clergy, and their liberties, their exemption especially from secular judgement or triall. The shadow of which priviledge we still retain; and call it Clergy. For your better understanding whereof, and consequently of the quarrell Becket died in, my Appendix shall treat unto you of these 5 particulars.

The nature ••nd qualitie of the priviledge, what it is, and whence it came.

The form and manner how it is put in practice.

The antiquity thereof in this land.

The extent of it.

The declining of it by degrees and restrained condition there∣of, with us, at this day.

I may not here forget our Archbishops foundation and erection of an ancient Spittle which we have at this day in our City, and is called Eastbridge or Kingsbridg-hospi∣tall, whereof enough before in proper place.

To conclude, the Monks (it seems) glorying and pri∣ding themselves in nothing more then this of Beckets Mar∣tyrdome (for so they calld'd his murther) or at leastwise conceiving their Church in no one respect so famous and renowned as in that, and not satisfied with the resemblance or representation of it in that their forenamed common seale; nor knowing better how, either to perpetuate the memory of it, or to make it more generally known abroad then thus: at or about what time that their common seal was renewed, contriving another speciall seal, ad causas, (that is, as I conceive, chiefly for matters concerning Ju∣risdiction, which, sede vacante, devolved into their hands) did insculp it also in the same. And now to distinguish this from that their more usuall and common seale, they vary the inscription on both sides of it; that on the forepart, about the ring (containing within it the figure of the Church and Beckets Martyrdome) being this ^† Sigillum ec∣clesiae Christi Cantuarie ad causas: whilest that on the reverse, about the ring (within which are three smaller rings or cir∣cles having in each of them ••n head or face like to the pi∣cture of our Saviours) was this. Deus pater. Deus filius. Deus spiritus sanctus. An inscription probably intended to help preserve the then decaying memory of the Churches ancient name and dedication to the Trinity. This un∣doubtedly is that seale, which some, from ('tis like) the triple visage, and that Trinitarian ins••ription in the reverse, have ••istaken for our Cathedralls first se••le, whereof be∣fore in my 1. Particular of the Church-Survey.

Richard. 39.

Richard first a Monk of this Church, afterwards Prior of Dover, succeeded Becket, and dying anno 1183. his body was honourably interred in Christ-Church, in the then La∣dy-chapell: not in that which now stands, but in a more ancient one included within the old body of the Church, as is before shewed more at large.

Baldewin. 40.

After Richard succeeded Baldewin. He died in the holy land, whither he would needs attend the King (Ric. 1.) when he had been Archbishop even almost 7 yeares, and was buried there. Between the Monks of Cant. and him there was great debate and strife about the Colledge which he first intended and attempted to erect at Hackington by Canterb. and afterwards at Lambhith: but was crossed in both, as you may finde at large elsewhere. He first laid Wales to the Province of Cant.

Reginald. 41.

Reginald Fitz-joceline succeeded Baldwin, but died within fifteen dayes after his confirmation, and after his electi∣on. 49.

Hubert Walter. 42.

Then succeded Hubert Walter. He it was that first devised our assize of bread, our weights and measures of wine, oyl, corn &c. He compassed the Tower of London with a strong wall and deep mote, so as the water inclosed the same quite round, which before that time could never be brought to passe, and performed many other great works of inestima∣ble charge: such as his ecclesiasticall revenues alone could never have inabled him to do, had not other helps from his secular offices been adjoyned. For at one time, besides that he was Archbishop, and the Popes Legate à latere, he was Lord Chancellor, Lord chief Justice, and High imme∣diate governour under King Ric. 1. of all his dominions born in Wales and England. And having been Archbishop almost 12 yeares, died at his Mannor of Tenham. And was buried Iuly 13. 1205, in the South-wall of Christ-church,

beside the Quire. His tombe is there extant at this day, and is (I take it) the most ancient one (except Anselmes) that the Church visibly affoords. From the situation where∣of, let me give you this note, that the ancientest tombes in Churches are so or alike situate, namely in or along by the Church-walls. For the honor of his Church, I may not omit his crowning there of King Iohn and Queen Isabel his last wife, anno 1201.

Stephen Langton. 43

Stephen Langton succeeded Hubert. He was made a Car∣dinall, and sate Archbishop 22 yeares, and dying Iuly 9. 1228. was buried in his own Church, in the Chapell of S. Michael; where you may finde his monument. The first dividing of the Bible into Chapters, in such sort as we now account them, is ascribed to him, of some m, but deni∣ed of other n. This man changed the Parish Church of Ole∣combe, now called Vlcombe, into a collegiate Church. The Ordination whereof is extant in the Records of Christ-Church, where I have seen it. The head of which Church or Colledge was styled Archipresbyter, by which name one S^• Benjamin, in the vacancy of the See by Archbishop Peck∣ham's death, in the yeare 1293. presents to the then Prior of Christ-Church one S^• Iohn Elmestone a Priest, with desire of his admission in minorem Canonicum ecclesiae praedictae, juxta ordinationem bonae memoriae Domini Stephani quondam Cantuar' Archiepiscopi &c. as I have it from the same Re∣cords.

In this Archbishops time five marks per annum was hold∣en a competency for a Vicars stipend (at Halstow, ancient∣ly called Halegestow signifying the Holy place, a Vicarage being erected and indowed by Archbishop Hubert, the Vi∣cars stipend there was rated accordingly;) and thereupon that constitution, Quoniam autem de officio Vicarii, in Provin∣ciali, was agreed upon and made, for the establishing of that rate as sufficient. Indeed five marks in those dayes was as much as ten pound in these. However, it seems it was a great deale cheaper world in those dayes, and all saleable

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things were then of farre lesse price then now, when foure times five marks of ours, nay foure times five pounds of ours is now the ordinary, and yet (in respect to the charge∣able state of these dayes) but reasonable and moderate sti∣pend for a Curate. Would you know the reason? It is then shortly this; the greater abundance of money now then heretofore. For (as S^r Henry Savill noteth upon Tacitus) the excessive abundance of things which consist meerly on the constitution of men; draweth necessarily those things which nature requireth, to an higher rate in the market. Captâ ab Augusto Alexandriâ (saith Orosius) Roma in tantum opibus ejus crevit, ut duplo majora quam antehac rerum ve∣nalium pretia statuerentur. Thus he. And so I leave this Archbishop.

Richard Wethershed. 44.

Richard Wethershed succeeded Stephen Langton: who en∣joyed the honour but a little while to wit, two yeares or thereabouts, and died at S. Gemma in his return from Rome, where he was buried.

S. Edmund. 45.

S. Edmund succeeded him, who died anno 1242. eight yeares after his consecration, and was buried also in forrein parts. He married King Hen. 3. to Queen Eleanor at Can∣terbury in the yeare 1236.

Boniface. 46.

Boniface succeeded S. Edmund. He died in Savoy (his own Countrey) in the yeare 1270. somewhat more then 26 yeares after his consecration. He performed two things not unworthy of memory, he payed the debt of 22 thousand marks that he found his See indebted in. And built a good-Hospitall at Maidstone, called the new works, and indued with revenues valued at the suppression at 159 lib. 7^s 10^d. (William Courtnay his successor long after translated the same in a Colledge of secular Priests. Bishop Godwin addes a third thing, at the belief whereof I somewhat stick; and that is his perfecting and finishing that most stately Hall of the Lord Archbishops palace at Cant. with the buildings

adjoyning: unlesse it may be thus made good, to wit, by his paying the debt which his predecessors by building the same had run themselves into. And indeed in that sense he was wont to vaunt himself the builder of it. Praedecessores mei (saith he) istam aulam cum magnis expensis fecerunt, bene quidem fecerunt, sed expensas ad illam construendam nisi de pe∣cunia mutua non invenerunt, videtur quidem mihi, quòd ego illam feci, quia illorum debita persolvi o.

Robert Kilwardby. 47.

Robert Kilwardby succeeded Boniface. He built the Black Friers in London, being himself of that order. Having been Archbishop about the space of six yeares he was made a Cardinall, and then resigning his Archbishoprick gat him into Italy, and died and was buried at Viterbium. Being yet Archbishop in the yeare 1277. by his kinde and gentle per∣swasion he appeased the Citizens of Canterb. eagerly bent upon revenge in a very strange way to be taken of the Monks of Christ-Church, for refusing them their aid in that imposition of finding and setting forth twelve horsemen to serve in the Kings intended warre against Lewelyn Prince of Wales, laid upon the City, whereof before in the Black Friers I have spoken.

Iohn Peckham. 48.

Iohn Peckham succeeding Kilwardby: and continued in the Chaire 13 yeares, and almost an half. In which time he founded the collegiate Churchat Wingham in Kent, or ra∣ther changed the Parish-Church there into a Collegiate. The head of which Colledge was called Praepositus, a Pro∣vost. The ordination of which Praepositure, together with this our Archbishops letters for the dividing of Wingham Church into foure Parishes, dated anno 1282. are extant in the Records of Christ-Church, where I have seen them. Now Wingham it self (the mother Cuurch) Ash, Good∣nestone, and Nonington (Chapells to it) were the 4 Pa∣rishes. Overland and Richborough were Chapells to Ash, and Wimingswold a Chapell to Nonington. This Col∣ledge of secular Canons (for such the founder placed in it)

was valued at the time of the suppression at 84 lib. of yeare∣ly revenues. Collegium in Cantia Wengamense (Harpsfields words of this foundation) ejus potissimum opera constitutum est, sed seminarium ejus beneficii à Roberto decessore ejus profe∣ctum est: Qui à Gregorio Pontifice impetrabat, ut liceret eccle∣siam parochialem Wengamensem in eum usum convertere. The City of Canterb. went to suit with this Archbishop about li∣mits and liberties, of which heretofore in my survey of Westgate street. Amongst other of his labours (as I have it from Gavantus his Thesaurus sacrorum rituum) he compo∣sed an office for Trinity-Sunday, called Officium Sanctae Trinitatis. It was received by the Church of Rome, and in use about the yeare 1290. but for the difficulty and obscuri∣tie of the style was sithence abrogated.

Leaving these things I come now to the place of this Archbishops buriall. He was buried (saith Bishop Godwin) in his own Church, but in what particular place I finde not. Archbishop Parker (it seems) found it not neither, for he mentions it not. By a Record in the Church of the time of the death and place of the buriall of this Archbishop which I have seen, it appeares he was laid in parte Aquilonari, juxta locum Martyrii beati Thomae Martyris. I feare the Author of the Tables hath done him some wrong in hanging Archbi∣shop Vfford's Table upon that which (I take it) is rather Peckhams tombe then his, that namely in the corner of the Martyrdome next unto Warham, which the Table-writer up∣on (it seems) Bishop Godwin's conjecture, takes for grant∣ed to be Vffords tombe. But (as I conceive) the cost be∣stowed on that monument (however the Archiepiscopall effigies which it hath is framed of wood) being built some∣what Pyramis-like, and richly overlaid with gold, which is not yet worn off, gainsayes it to be Vffords. For I reade p, that dying before he was fully Archbishop, having never received either his pall or consecration, and that in the time of that great plague which (as Walsingham reports) consumed nine parts of the men through England; his bo∣dy without any pomp or wonted solemnity was carried to

Canterb. and there secretly buried by the North-wall, be∣side the wall of Thomas Becket. But I passe to his Successor.

Robert Winchelsey. 49.

Robert Winchelsey succeeded Peckham. In the Record of whose inthronization, I finde mention of three Sub-Dea∣con-Cardinalls of the Church which did assist the then Prior in that action. Such (it seems) the Church had at that time. Of the like sometimes in S. Pauls Church Lon∣don, S. Hen. Spelman's Glossary will inform you in verbo Car∣dinalis. But I come to the Archbishop, who kept possession of the Chaire about the space of 19 yeares, and died in the yeare 1313. Much might be said of his admirable liberali∣tie and charitie to the poore, but here of Archbishop Parker, and from him, Bishop Godwin and others have said enough already. And I passe over his whole life, and come to his buriall place, which is not now extant by any monument of him in the Church. But certain it is he once had one there, and it stood (say those Authors) beside the Altar of S. Gre∣gory by the South-wall. This obscure description of the si∣tuation at length I came to understand thus. First I read in some Records of the Church a gift ad luminare troni qui est contra imaginem Salvatoris contra altaria Sanctorum Iohannis Evangelistae & Gregorii Papae. To shew me where these al∣tars stood, comes after to my sight the mention of Altare Sancti Iohannis Evangelistae in Australi cruce. Which laid to the former I perceive these altars stood in the South crosse-Ile of the Quire, the one under the one, the other under the other East-window thereof, more assured of it by view∣ing the opposite wall, where are tokens of something (most likely that throne) once affixed to it, but now had away. By the South-wall then of this Crosse-Ile sometime stood this Archbishops tombe.

About 13 yeares after his death, Thomas then Earle of Lancaster, implored his Canonization at the Popes hands, but without successe for these reasons. Scire te volumus (saith the Pope to him q) quod Romana mater ecclesia non con∣s••vit super tanta causa praesertim praecipitanter aliquid agere,

quin potius tale negotium solempnis examinationis indagine pon∣derare, propter quod si negotium ipsum credideris promovendum, oportet quòd illud coram fratribus nostris in Consistorio per so∣lempnes personas ex parte Praelatorum Cleri & populi Anglicani vitam, merita, atque miracula ipsius Archiepiscopi attestantium specialiter destinatas solempniter proponatur, supplicatione sub∣juncta, ut inquisitio hujusmodi de vita mirabili, miraculis etiam & meritis gloriosis person•• idoneis committatur, ut juxta exitum inquisitionis ipsius canonizatio fieri debeat vel omitti &c. Here∣upon his immediate Successor (Walter Reynolds) and his Suffragans, anno 1326., all joyned in petition to the Pope for his Canonization, directing their letters to him for that purpose under their severall hands and seales: which it seems were never sent, for the originall is yet remaining in the Cathedrall. Vidi, inspexi. And I do not reade that he was ever canonized. Yet for his vertues, the common peo∣ple would needs esteem him a Saint. And I finde treasurers of the Church accompt divers yeares for offerings to or at his tombe. Therefore it was afterwards pulled down. In the Records both of the Cathedrall, and of the Hospitall of Herbaldowne I have seen new Statutes of his making, namely such as he made and gave to either, upon and after his Visitation of each place. It was he that first erected per∣petuall Vicarages in the mother Church of Reculver, and the Chapells to it (Hearne and S^t Nicholas) and endowed them, as I finde by an authenticall copy of the ordination of those Vicarages which hath come unto my hands.

For the maintenance of the Churches liberties, and ec∣clesiasticall Jurisdiction, he mainly opposed prohibitions grown frequent in his dayes, and caused the Clergies grie∣vances to be drawn into Articles: whereof see the Anti∣quitates Britannicae in his life. pag. 211. See also pag. 215. in the life of his Successor Reynolds; and if you would know what good courses have from time to time sithence been taken to restrain Prohibitions, see the same Author pag. 216. in the life of the same Reynolds. pag 286. in the life of Staf∣ford. pag. 294 in the life of Bourgchier, in which last place

you may finde this worthy question properly, by my ren∣dred Author, subjoyned. Cum itaque (saith he) omnis La∣icorum Iudicum in Praelatos quaerimonia, tum cum Romanae Cu∣riae potestas etiam Regibus ipsis terrorem incussit; sola haec fuit, qd' nisi pleraeque causae ab ecclesiastico foro ampu••entur, appellati∣onibus à regia cognitione ad populum perferantur: quid nunc dicere possunt cum pralati Regiam authoritatem & divino ver∣bo sanctiùs, & sua jurisdictione multò peritiùs tueantur quam Causidici? &c.

To return to our Archbishop. He married King Ed. 1. to his second wife Margaret in his Church at Cant. whose nup∣tiall feast (saith Stow) was kept in the great Hall of his Pa∣lace.

Walter Reynolds. 50.

Walter Reynolds succeeded Rob. Winchelsey, who when he had sate Archbishop 13 yeares and somewhat more, died and was buried in the South-wall of Christ-Church neare the Quire, where his tombe is as yet extant. At his inthro∣nization (see the state of it in those dayes) Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere tendered himself to the Earl of Glocester chiefe Steward, to serve in the office of Chamberlaine to the Archbishop, for (or in respect of) his Mannor of Hat∣field by Charing r. This occasionally induced, let me set be∣fore you in this place the fees which by ancient Record in the Cathedrall appeare to have belonged to the Earle of Glocester in respect of his office of Steward and Butler to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the day of his inthroni∣zation: and they were these.

Ista pertinent ad fe••d. Comitis Gloverniae pro officio senescal∣li, die intronizationis cujuslibet Archiepiscopi Cantuar. si tamen summonitus fuerit, & venerit ad faciendum serviti∣um suum & non aliter.

Idem Comes habebit de Archiepiscopo vij robas de scarleto.

Item xxx sextarios vini.

Item l. libras cer•• ad luminare suum proprium pro toto festo.

Item liberationem feni & avenae ad lxxx equos per 2. noctes tantum.

Item discos & salsaria quae assid••bit coram Archiepiscopo ad pri∣mum ferculum.

Item post festum pcrendinationem trium dierum cum l. equis tan∣tùm, sumptibus Archiepiscopi, ubi idem Comes eligere volu∣erit de proximis maneriis dicti Archiepiscopi ad sanguinem min uendum.

Ista pertinent ad feod. ejusdem Comitis, pro Officio Pin∣cernar. die supradicto, si tamen, &c.

Idem Comes habebit vij robas de scarleto.

Item xx sextarios vini.

Item l. libras cerae.

Item liberationem feni & avenae ad lx equos per 2 noctes tantùm.

Item cuppam qua serviet coram Archiep. die festi.

Item omnia dolia evacuata.

Item habebit sex dolia si tot potata fuerint viz. subtus barram, in crastino festi computo recepto, & licèt plura dolia si•• potat•• fuerint, sex tantùm inde habebit, & residuum Archiepiscopo remanebit.

Et nota quòd in intronizatione Roberti de Kilewardby Archiepiscopi, praedict' Comes habuit primò praedicta feo∣da: & tunc habuit unum mantellum cum penula. Et postea in intronizatione I. de Peckam Archiepiscopi ha∣buit duos mantellos.

Ista maneria tenet praedict. comes pro dicto officio senescalli faciend. viz. Tonebregg, cum castro & handlo cum per∣tinen. & totam leucatam.

Ista maneria tenet praedict. comes pro officio Pincernar. viz. Bradestede. Vieleston. Horsmandenne. Melton & Pectes.

See more of this (if you please) in M^r Lamberts Peram∣bulation of Kent in Tunbridge.

To returne to our Archbishop. He gave unto his Covent (saith Bishop Godwin) the Mannor of Caldcote, and the Wood of Thorlehot. Now the Charters of this gift I have seene in the Church Records, dated Anno 1326. In which the Archbishop gives to the Prior and Covent mane∣rium nostrum (as his words are) de Caldecotes juxta Cant. cum

bosco nostro de Toreholt: and that by consent of the King and Pope. In the Popes licence the situation and value of the thing, together with the use which the Covent meant to make of it, and for which they begged it of the Archbishop, is thus expressed. Cum tu (the Pope so writes to the Arch∣bishop) inter alia mensae tuae Archiepiscopalis Cant. bona, unum modicum receptaculum vocat' Caldecote juxta Civitatem Cant. scituat', cum quadam terra eidem adjacen' valoris decem libra∣rum vel circiter ad mensam eandem spectan' obtinere noscaris, quod u••que receptaculum cum terra praedicta, iidem Prior & Capitulum ac dilecti filii monachi ecclesia tuae Cantuarien. san∣guine minuti, & ceteris laboribus futigati ibidem interdum propter loci vicinitatem recreari valeant, multum affectant per te sibi concedi, & in usus eorum perpetuos assignari, &c. In this passage give me leave to take notice of two things, to shew what they meane and were. The first is that of Sanguinis minutio, the other is the worke or labour what it was that the Monkes employed themselves about. For the former (sanguinis minutio) it was apertio venae ad minuendum sangui∣nem. So Reyner in his Onom••sticum. And was used of the Monkes partly (I suppose) to keepe their bodies under, and partly physically and for their health-sake, to evacuate cor∣rupt and bad humours contracted, some may thinke, by their unwholesome dyet, feeding most what upon fish, and course fare; and true it is, by their order they were to ab∣staine from eating flesh; yet heare what Polydor Virgil saith of that matter. Item à carnibus (saith he) perpetuò se absti∣nent, nisi cum aegrotare caeperint. Vnde monachi (marke now) qui hodie continenter carnibus vescuntur, quorum numerus ubi∣que gen••ium extra Italiam ingentissimus est, perpetuò aegrotent necesse est, nisi velint impudenter fateri se contra suas leges fa∣cere s. So that I conceive they did thus evacuate not so much for unwholesome as for full and high feeding, and much ease withall, a course of life contrary to that of the Primitive Monkes, who fared hardly, and not onely lived by their labour, but used it as a principall meanes of their Mortification t.

As for the other point, their worke or labour wherein they employed themselves, and were occupied, it was of divers kinds. The Ceremoniale Benedictinum thus sets them forth. Opera autem quibus se occupare debent, sunt haec: vide∣licet scribere libros, aut rubricare, velligare, pergamenum & alia necessaria praeparare, & his similia &c. No longer to di∣gresse this Caldecote Mannor sometime lay partly in the old Parke and there-away, about Cockar-barne, as they now call it for Caldcote-barne.

And now returne we to our Archbishop. To the Nonnes of Davington by Feversham which my Author thinkes were French-women, he gave and prescribed rules or ordinan∣ces in the French Tongue, for their more easie intellect. He amerced the President of S. Bertins, for leasing out, without his privity, the fruits of Chilham Parsonage which belonged to the Priory of Throuleigh, a Cell to S. Bertins, and one of those that in the generall suppression of Priors aliens by Hen. 5. was dissolved. And so much for this Arch∣bishop, except I shall remember his appropriation of the Parsonages of Farley and Sutton to the Hospitall at Maid∣stone of his Predecessor Boniface foundation, and his like appropriation of the Parsonage of Waldershire to Langdon Abbey, unto which about the same time King Ed. 1. gave the Parsonage of Tong.

Simon Mepham. 51.

Simon Mepham succeeded Walter Reynolds; and conti∣nued Archbishop five yeares and somewhat more, and dyed Anno 1333. at Mayfield in Sussex. His body was con∣veighed to Canterb. and laid in a Tombe of Black-Marble upon the North-side of S^t Anselmes Chapell: that so called at this day, for when he was buried there, it had another name. The Record of the place and manner with the time of his buriall kept in the Church saith he was laid in Quadam capellâ sancti Petri nuncupata ex parte australi summi altaris. His Tombe is that whereon by error Archbishop Sudburies Table now hangs.

Iohn Stratford. 52.

His Successor was Iohn Stratford who having sate Arch∣bishop about 15. yeares, dyed and was buried in a Tombe of Alabaster on the South-side of the high Altar, besides the steps of S^t Dunstans Altar. By the Table hanging where∣on you may easily finde it.

Iohn Vfford, or Offord. 53.

Him succeeded Iohn Vfford or Offord. But he never re∣ceived either his Pall or Consecration. Of his buriall I have spoken before in Peckham.

Thomas Bradwardin. 54.

Thomas Bradwardin succeeded, but within five weekes and foure dayes after his consecration he dyed, so that he was never inthronized at all. He was buried in S^t Anselmes foresaid Chapell, by the South-wall.

Simon Islip. 55.

Simon Islip was his next Successor. Amongst many other acts of his piety, he gave unto his Covent to the use of their Elemosinary, the Churches or Parsonages of Monkton and Eastry; say the Writers of his life. Yet I finde these very Churches with others formerly appropriated to them for that use, to wit by Archbishop Richard, Beckets immediate Successour, as you may finde before in my Survey of the Almnery. Both relations true. For the Church Muniments informe me that these Parsonages were taken from the Church by Archbishop Baldwin; that Richards immediate Successor in and upon the quarell that was betweene him and his Monkes (whereof before) and so they continued, at least at the Archbishops dispose, untill this Simon Islip, with the Kings licence, did restore, reunite and annexe them againe unto the Church: shortly after which guift of his Vicars perpetuall were ordained and indowed to each Church; Copies of the ordination and dotation of which Vicarages I have seene in the Liegers of the Church, where they are fairely registred. But to our Archbishop againe. With his consent Buckland Parsonage was appropriated to the Priory of Dover, as was the Parsonage there to Bilsing∣ton

Priory. He dyed Anno 1366. after he had beene Arch∣bishop 16. yeares and upwards: and was sometime buried under a faire Tombe of Marble inlaid with Brasse in the middle, and neare the upper end of the Body of his Church, sithence removed and set betweene the two next Pillars on the North-side thereof. The times were very mortall, by the raging of the plague, when he came first to the See, as from Walsingham, is noted by Harpesfield, with this note of his upon it. Cum verò (saith he) propter hanc hominum ani∣maliumque ceterorum pestilenti••m, agri passim inculti, vasti, & deserti jacerent, & possessores solitis redditibus destitueren∣tur; coacti sunt non modo de solita pensione remittere, sed etiam agros omni rustica facultate instructos colonis locare. Quod & si a laicis possessoribus, ad rem attentioribus observari fere desitum est, in praediis tamen coenobiorum, Episcoporum & collegiorum mos ille frequens, ad nostrausque tempora, maximo colonorum emolumento perduravit.

Simon Langham. 56.

Simon Langham succeeded Islip. Who sate only two yeares, dyed Anno 1376. was first buried at Avinion (where he dyed) in the Church of the Carth••sians (whose house he had foun∣ded,) but afterward at Westminster (where he had beene first a Monke, afterward Prior, and lastly Abbat) in a goodly Tombe of Alabaster.

William Wittlesey. 57.

William Wittlesey succeeded Langham, who having con∣tinued in the See, almost seven yeares, dyed in the yeare 1374. and was buried almost over against (his Uncle) Simon Islip, betweene two Pillars on the South side of the body of the Church, under a faire Marble Tombe inlaid with Brasse, as his Table will direct.

Simon Sudbury. 58.

Him next succeeded Simon Sudbury: who being barba∣rously murthered by the Rebells in Rich. 2. dayes, Anno Domini 1381. his body after all stirres ended was carried to Canterbury, and there honourably interred upon the South-side of the Altar of S^t Dunstan, the next above the Tombe

of Archbishop Stratford, and is that (as in Odo I told you) whereon Odo's Table hangs. The place (I take it) or neare it where his predecessor S^t Elpheges Altar-Tombe some∣times stood. That as there was but little or no difference betweene them, in the condition either of their lives or deathes, they being both Archbishops of the place and both unworthily murdered (I might say martyred) by the outrage of the people, a rabble of cruell assassinats, of Danes the one, ofDomestickes the other, little better then divels incarnate both, so there might also be little or no distance in their sepulchres or resting places after death. He built the West-gate of our City together with the grea∣test part of the Wall betweene it and the Northgate, com∣monly called by the name of the Long-Wall. A great worke (saith my Author) no lesse necessary and profitable unto the City then costly and chargeable unto the builder. The Maior and Aldermen once a yeare, used to come so∣lemnely to his Tombe to pray for his soule in memory of this his good deed to their City. To remedy and remove which piece of superstition (I take it) his Epitaph (some tokens whereof are yet discernable) was torne and taken from his Tombe at or since the Reformation. Wevers Mo∣numents hath this fragment of it.

Sudburiae natus Simon jacet hic tumulatus Martyrizatus nece pro republica stratus. Heu scelus infernum, crux, exitiale, nefandum Praesulis eximii corpus venerabile dandum In rabiem vulgi—

William Courtney. 59.

William Courtney succeeded Simon Sudbury, and having sate twelve yeares lacking one moneth, dyed Anno 1396. at Maidstone. Where he pulled downe the old worke first built by Boniface his predecessor for an Hospitall, and building it after a more stately manner translated it into a Colledge of secular Priests, which at the time of the suppression was valued at 139^l. 7^s. 6^d. by the yeare. This Archbishop lyeth buried (saith Bishop Godwyn) upon the South-side of Thomas

Beckets shrine, at the feet of the blacke Prince in a goodly Tombe of Alabaster. But what sayes Wever? It was the custome of old (saith he) and so it is in these dayes for men of e∣minent ranke and quality, to have Tombes erected in more places then one; for example and proofe of my speech, I finde here in this Church a Monument of Alabaster at the feete of the blacke Prince, wherein both by tradition and writing, it is affirmed that the bones of William Courtney (the sonne of Hugh Courtney, the third of that Christian name, Earle of Devonshire) Arch∣bishop of this See lyes intombed. And I finde another to the me∣mory of the same man at Maidstone here in Kent, wherein (be∣cause of the Epitaph) I rather beleeve that his body lyeth buried. Thus he. His place of burial appointed of him in his Will ex∣tant in Christ-Church was the Cathedrall at Exceter, where he had sometime beene a Prebendary, and where he reque∣sted the Bishop of the place to bury him. Afterwards lying on his death bed and having changed his mind in this point; and holding his body (as he then declared) unworthy of bu∣riall in his Metropolicall or any other Cathedrall or Col∣legiate Church, he wills it to be buried in the Church-yard of his Collegiate-Church at Maidstone, in loco designato Io∣hanni Boteler armigero suo (as his owne words are.) Thus you see his Will sends us to seeke his buriall place at Exceter. His after declaration on his death bed, to the Cimitery of his Collegiate Church at Maidstone. His Monument in that Church sayes he lyes there, and this in Christ-Church, that he is in none of the three but here. And that I take to be the truest. For I finde in a Lieger Book of Christ-Church, that the King (Rich. 2.) happening to be at Canterb. when he was to be buried (upon the Monkes suite, 'tis like) over∣ruled the matter, and commanded his body to bee there interred.

This Archbishop upon the overture of an intended in∣vasion by the French, directs his letters to the then Com∣missary of Cant. to arme the Clergy of the City and Dio∣cesse after these rates and proportions u. A benefice excee∣ding 100 markes to finde a man and two Archers, a be∣nefice

exceeding xl^l. to finde two Archers, a benefice of xx^l. one Archer, and for those under xx^l. to finde Loricas, coates of male and other smaller a••mes. Here, as from a fit occa∣sion, let us observe by the way the alteration of the times in point of martiall and military weapons. The Bow, (the long Bow) and the Bow-man, we all know, were those which did the deed, and bare away the Bell in martiall brunts in former times, the Bow then the prime weapon for offen∣sive service, and the chiefest instrument warre knew where∣with to try the mastery; the Gun, and Gun-shot being but of late (though too soone heaven knowes whilst earth rues) invented: and yet so cryed up and magnified, by Martial∣lists especially, that the Bow the whilest is quite rejected with contempt as uselesse, and doomd and deemd at best as onely fit for men of peace in way of recreation to sport withall. Now being grounded in a good opinion of Arche∣ry my selfe, and not unwilling to vindicate the under valu∣ation of it with other men, I desire here to recommend unto my reader a worthy and judicious Elogie one com∣mendation of (Englands ancient glory.) Archery; not my owne, nor yet any meere Mercurians, one able to judge on∣ly by theoreticall speculation, but a learned disciples both of Mars and Mercury, one equally experienced in both warfares, the armed and gowned; Master Iohn Bingham I meane, in his Notes upon Aelians Tactiks, where he playes the part of a most excellent advocate for discarded Archery. The Booke is now somewhat deere and scarce, and there∣fore to save their labour and cost (of searching the origi∣nall) who can endure to see despised Archery commended according to it worth, I shall present them with a true Co∣py of that whole passage verbatim, as there it lyes, pag. 24. and so forward. It is somewhat long; for avoyding there∣fore of too great an interruption and digression here, I have given it a place in my Appendix, where you may finde it, Scriptura 15^a. Craving pardon for this digression, I return to our Archbishop.

He had the Bailiffes of Canterbury in question for medling

in and with ecclesiasticall matters, as the punishment of A∣dultery and the like, and made them to submit sub poena in∣terdicti Civitatis. He had the Serjeants of the City also in coram, for bearing their Maces and using their authority within the precinct of his Church. But at the petition of the City they were dismissed, provided that for time to come they leave their Maces without the utter-gate when they come to the Church, or within the precinct. He had the Bailiffes of Romney also in coram, for medling in Church∣businesse, who obstinately rebelled and sought and thought to secure themselves by a prohibition, but were deceived, for the Archbishop gat it reversed, and (saith the Record) made that unadvised Towne submit. He obtained x of Ric. 2. foure Faires for the Church at the foure principall feasts of peregrination in the yeare, viz. one on the Innocents-day, on Witson-Eve another, on the Eve of Beckets transla∣tion a third, and the fourth and last on Michaelmas-Eve, to hold for nine dayes next following every of them, and be kept within the site of the Priory.

Thomas Arundell. 60.

Thomas Arundell next succeeded after Courtney. Who sate one moneth above 17 yeares, and dyed Anno 1413. He lyeth buried (as his Table will shew) on the North-side of the body of Christ-Church, where doubtlesse he sometime had a farre better Monument then now remaines of him. For his Will appoints out his buriall thus. In Monumento meo novo quod ad hoc licès indignissimè construi & fieri feci in orato∣rio meo in navi sanctae Cant. ecclesiae, infra Cantariam meam perpetuam duorum Capellanorum ibidem ordinatam, &c. But Chantery and Monument are both gone, a bare grave-stone levelled with the floore, with the brasse all shamefully torne away being onely left; whereas you may know there some∣times stood a Chapell (like to that I suppose of Bishop Kemp on the North-side of the Body of Pauls) wherein both the Archbishop lay fairely intombed, and his two Chanterists did daily celebrate, which had for their stipend x^l. a peece yearely out of Northfleet Parsonage: and their

dwelling or Mansion which was built for them by himself ex australi parte ecclesiae, and contained in length 80. and in breadth 60 foot measured. I suppose it yet standing, and to be one of those present buildings on the South-side of the Church-yard. The Chapell (as I learn from the report of the Chantery Priest thereof) was taken down and sold away by H. 8. his Commissioners. This Archbishop y confirmed the foundation of the Colledge of Bredgare, to which the Pa∣rish Church there was in his time converted by Robert then Parson thereof. In the yeare 1413. what yeare this Archbi∣shop died I finde z him an Inhabitant in the Castle of Leeds in Kent, which in a decree or sentence which he gave be∣tween his Monks and the Covent of S. Gregories by Cant. da∣ted at that place, the same yeare, he calls his own Castle. Dat' (saith he) in Castello meo de Ledes.

Henry Chicheley. 61.

Henry Chicheley succeeded next after Thomas Arundell. He sate 29 yeares, and dying anno 1443. was laid in a very fair tombe built by himself in his life time, standing on the North-side of the Presbytery. It is the tombe which was lately repaired and beautified by the All-souls-colledge men, whose founder he was. His table will direct you to it. Lindewood dedicating his Provinciall to this Archbishop styles him Dei gratia, Cantuarien' Archiep. And no marvell for 600 yeare before, his predecessor Archbishop Athelard useth the style, writing himself thus. Ego Aethilheardus, gratia Dei humilis sanctae Dorobernensis ecclesiae Archiepisco∣pus &c. The like a was usuall in the styles of other Arch∣bishops. And not onely Archbishops, Bishops, and Dukes, in times past used the same in their titles, but also Abbats, Pri∣ors, Earls, yea the meanest Magistrates and Legates som∣times, Earls especially which had Iura Regalia, and mitred Abbats. But Kings in the mean season disdaining and dis∣pleased at it, and challenging it as the symboll and proof of their (save under God) independent Majesty, by little and little it became either wholly omitted or else altered, as our Archbishops into providentia divina, or permissione di∣vina.

M^r Selden will instruct you more at large in this mat∣ter, if you peruse the 1. part of his titles of Honor cap. 7. § 2. Unto whom let me adde a pertinent discourse hereof. The author of it, Roverius, in his Illustrations upon the History of S. Iohns Monastery at Rheims pag. 618. Fecerant (saith he) li∣berae electiones, & Pontificiae exemptiones, ut horum temporum Abbates (speaking of the yeare 1192.) se Dei solius gratiâ constitutos censerent, atque inter dignitatis titulos hunc etiam annumerarent. Neque verò hoc primùm saeculo natus est hic sen∣sus, cum anno jam Mxxx. Gandensis Abbas S. Bavonis sic scribe∣ret. Otginae Comitissae Othelboldus gratiâ Dei Abbas, & annis plusquam centenis antè Abbas S. Galli; Christi favente gratia Harm••tus Abbas, & Christi disponente providentia, aut largien∣te clementia, Crimaldus Abba. Verum ii, qui amantiores erant humilitatis religiosae, non facilè comperiuntur hoc usi sermone. Neque ehim vel Cluniacensis ullus, vel Bernardus Claraevallen∣sis, vel Gofridus Vindocinensis, vel Lupus Ferrariensis id sibi us∣quam tituli arrogarunt. Nam sive ea voce significetur Praefectu∣ram Deo soli debitam, subditamve esse, sive Monasterio benefici∣um à Deo impertitum, quòd vir talis fuerit Praefectus, sive Ab∣bati gratiam à Deo factam, quòd sit Praefectus, non potest non ali∣quid continere sensus, quam humilitatem religiosam deceat, sublimioris, cùm id de seipso Abbas profitetur, qui nec satis verè potest affirmare supremum sibi jus esse, vel sacrarum, vel tem∣poralium rerum sui Monasterii, nec satis dimissè sua in Monaste∣rium merita jactare, nec satis tutò Praefecturam, quae gravissi∣mum onus est pro divino favore habere. Itaque sapientissimi quique, & si aliis hunc titulum tribuunt, nunquam tamen sibi, dignum videlicet rati, ut de aliis sentiant, quod de se non ausint. Quamobrem suspicari licet has voces pluribus Abbatum chartis, actisque publicis non tam illorum quam pragmaticorum usu, ac instituto invectas, dum Abbates inducunt de seipsis eo loquentes modo, quo ipsi pragmatici sibi de illis sentiebant loquendum. Quanquam videri etiam possit has voces à Librariis in antiqua interdum scripta ex sui saeculi moribus intrusas. Vix enim an∣te secundam Regum Franciae stirpem, aut Reges supremam pe∣t••statem rerum civilium, aut Episcopi rerum sacrarum his

verbis expresserunt. Sanè & Episcopi, & Abbates aliqui invidiam titulo praeclarè aliquando emollierunt, aut potius sunt interpretati, dum se permissione, aut concessione Dei Episcopos, vel Abbates dixere &c.

Iohn Stafford. 62.

Iohn Stafford succeeded. Sate almost nine yeares, and dy∣ing anno 1452. was buried in the Martyrdome, under a flat marble stone inlaid with brasse.

Iohn Kemp. 63.

Iohn Kemp succeeded next. He continued not in the See above a yeare and an half. The Parish Church of Wy in Kent where he was born, he converted into a Colledge, in which he placed secular Priests to attend divine service, and to teach the youth of their Parish. Their Governour was called a Prebendary. This Colledge at the suppression was valued at 93 lib. 2^s by the yeare. It was surrendred anno 36. Hen. 8. This Archbishop, with his two next Successors were Cardinalls.

Thomas Bourgchier. 64.

Thomas Bourgchier succeeded Cardinall Kemp, continu∣ed Archbishop 32 yeares, and dying anno 1486. was buried upon the North-side of the high Altar in a marble tomb. He gave to his Successor by his Will 200 lib. in recompense of dilapidations. He had a Chantery. The revenues where∣of were surrendred with the Priory to the King (H. 8.)

Iohn Morton. 65.

Iohn Morton succeeded. Thirteen yeares he enjoyed the Archbishoprick, died the yeare 1500. He lieth buried in the Lady-chapell of the Vndercroft under a marble stone. Howbeit a goodly tombe is erected in memory of him up∣on the South-side of the Chapell.

Henry Deane 66.

Henry Deane succeeded, who died anno 1502. the second yeare after his translation, and was buried in the Martyr∣dome.

William Warham. 67.

William Warham succeeded Henry Deane. The pomp and state of whose entertainment and inthronization you may reade of at large elsewhere. He continued Archbishop 28 yeares, and died at S. Stephens neare Canterb. in the house of William Warham his kinsman, Archdeacon of Cant. and was laid in a little Chapell built by himself for the place of his buriall upon the North-side of the Martyrdome, and hath there a reasonable fair tombe, where he founded a per∣petuall Chantery of one Priest daily to say masse for his soul, but the dissolution of the Priory suppressed it, and sei∣zed the revenues thereof to the Kings use. Erasmus b (up∣on whom this Archbishop bestowed the Parsonage of Al∣dington in Kent) so commends him for his humanity, learning, integrity and piety, that (as he concludes) nullam absoluti praesulis dotem in eo desideres.

Thomas Cranmer. 68.

Thomas Cranmer succeeded, being consecrated Archbi∣shop anno 1533. and suffered most unworthy death at Oxford anno 1556. He was the man designed to succeed in the Chair by his predecessor, who though he foresaw and foretold too, that a Thomas should succeed him, who (as my Au∣thor saith, slandereth I should say) per laxam & remissam vitae licentioris indulgentiam populo concessam, perque prava dogma∣ta, magis Cantuariensem, omnemque reliquam Angliae ecclesi∣am deformaret, quàm eam olim Thomas Martyr suo martyrio amplificasset; admonuitque nepotem, ut si quis fortè Thomas, eo vivo ea sede potiretur, ne ulla ratione in illius famulitium se ascribi pateretur &c. Yet to see, he pitches upon this man (a Thomas) in his choice of a successor. Waramus autē (saith the same Author) eum ipsum Thomam, de quo tam malè ominaba∣tur, quique primus ex omnibus Cantuariae Episcopis haeresim (so he slanders our religion) in eam sedem invexit, successorem sibi sortitus est.

Reginald Poole 69.

Reginald Poole otherwise and more vulgarly called Car∣dinall Pooole succeeded. Two yeares and almost eight

moneths he continued Archbishop, and died even the same day that Queen Mary did. His body was (and lies) intomb∣ed on the North-side of Beckets crown, where his monu∣ment is extant. He was the last Archbishop that was buried in Christ-church. Their burialls there have been ever since discontinued; a thing the whilest to some seeming very strange, that of all the Archbishops since the Reformation, not one hath liked to be buried there, but all, as it were with one consent, declined their own Cathedrall (the anci∣ent and accustomed place of Archiepiscopall sepulture) and choosing rather an obscure buriall in some one private Parish Church or other.

Matthew Parker. 70.

Matthew Parker succeeded Cardinall Poole in the Arch∣bishoprick, held the same 15 yeares and 5 moneths and de∣ceased anno 1575. Besides a multitude of pious acts, he be∣stowed upon the reparation of his Palace at Canterb. one thousand foure hundred pounds. He lies buried in the Cha∣pell of Lambeth house. Amongst other his works, with the help no doubt of other able Antiquaries, he wrote the lives of his predecessors, the Archbishops of Canterb. intituling his book. De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae &c. Whereof Cuiacius (having occasion to make mention of it c) gives this commendation. Sunt multa (saith he) in eo auctore prae∣clara, nomen ejus ignoratur, & liber tantum exstat in Anglia, unde accersitur, & accersitus est magno pretio.

Edmund Grindall. 71.

Edmund Grindall succeeded, and sate seven yeares and almost an half, and died and was buried at Croydon. He was a very grave man, and gave to our City C. lib. to be imploy∣ed upon a stock to set the poore on work.

Iohn Whitgift. 72.

Iohn Whitgift succeeded and continued Archbishop somewhat above 20 yeares. In which mean space he built the Hospitall and School at Croydon. After the finishing where∣of d, the French Lieger Embassador, Boys Sisi, inquiring what works the Archbishop had published, and receiving

answer that he had written onely in defence of Church go∣vernment, but it being incidently told him that he had founded an Hospitall and a School: Profectò (saith he present∣ly) Hospitale ad sublevandum paupertatem, & Schola ad instru∣endum juventutem sunt optimi libri quos Archiepiscopus conscri∣bere potuit. He lieth buried at Croydon.

Richard Bancroft. 73.

Richard Bancroft succeeded and sate 6 yeares or therea∣bouts, died anno 1610. A man of singular wisdome, and ve∣ry zealous in defence both of Church-liberties and disci∣pline.

George Abbot. 74.

George Abbot succeeded, he sate Archbishop 22 yeares. In which space of time he bestowed great summes of money in building and indowing of an Hospitall at Guilford in Surrey, the Town wherein he was born, and afterwards buried. He began also to shew himself a speciall benefactor to our City: witnesse the goodly conduit which he built for the com∣mon good and service of the same. A work as of great charge to the Author, so of no lesse benefit to the City. He died in Iuly Anno Domini 1633.

William Laud. 75.

After whom succeeded the present Lord Archbishop his Grace, by name William Laud, by title Primate of all Eng∣land, and Metropolitan, one of the LL. of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, and Chancellor of the Vniver∣sitie of Oxford. Of whom to speak, is not a task for my pen. I leave it to posterity hereafter, and to better abilities to set forth his constant piety, great wisdome and spotlesse justice. Howbeit, what all men take unto themselves a li∣bertie to speak of him, I shall be bold to commemorate, namely those famous works of his that so much praise him in the gate: As his care, his cost, his encouragement to the repair of what all men despaired as much to see repaired un∣till he undertook it, as ever they did to see it finished, d when Mauritius first began to build it, S. Pauls Church in London. Another, that never to be forgotten gift of his to

the Vniversity-library of Oxford, of an innumerable multi∣tude of choice and rare Manuscripts, with his great care and cost, gathered from all parts not onely of this Kingdome, but also of the whole world. A third, the flourishing of the same Vniversitie by his meanes in a twofold way; one, in the government of it, by his late new Statutes; the other, in buildings, at S. Iohn's first, at his own proper cost and char∣ges; and by his example and furtherance, in other Col∣ledges, such buildings all and so goodly, as none did ever expect, and all do now admire to see raised.

Now that Providence, which by the meanes of a most pi∣ous and prudent King sent him unto us, grant we may long enjoy him, and afterwards translate him from the cares of the Church militant here, to the joyes of that triumphant one above.

If any shall desire to see the ancient form of our Archbi∣shops inthronization, he may finde it in my Appendix, tran∣scribed from a Record of that of Archbishop Winchelseys, kept in the Church, and (as it may be supposed by the gene∣rall title of it) intended for a precedent in this kinde. And so having done with the first part of my intended Catalogue, to wit concerning the Archbishops of Canterb. I proceed to the second. viz.

Notes

• 5. Particular.
• n

  Tract. de Bene∣ficiis.
• o

  Genial. Di••.
• p

  Acts &c. Monum.
• q

  De Ministerio Anglican. lib. 2. cap. 3. pag. 79.
• r

  Downings Dis∣course Con∣clus. 1. §. 6.
• s

  Apology a∣gainst Brow∣nists. Sect. 46.
• t

  Exercitationes.
• The Temple.
• x

  Desacr. eccles. M••nister. & Ec∣••ficiis. lib. 1. cap 9.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• y

  Gualterus.
• z

  Antiq. Brit. pag 6. Acts &c. Mon. tom. 1. pag. 96. Lamb. Perambul. pag. 62. Catal of BB. pag. 181▪
• a

  Tom. 1. pag. 108.
• b

  Vbi supra.
• c

  Vbi supra.
• Malmesb. de gestis Pontificum lib. 1. pag. 208.
• Ibidem. Pag. 209.
• Idem. De Ge∣stis Regum An∣glor. l. 1. pag. 31.
• Anno Dom. 596
• 611.
• 619.
• Anno Dom.
• 624.
• 634. Division of Parishes.
• d

  Antiq. Britan in ejus vita.
• e

  Pet. Greg. Tholos. de Be∣nefic. cap. 4. num. 5.
• f

  Id. Tholos. ubi supra.
• g

  Lib. 6. pag. 498.
• 655.
• Anno Dom. 668.
• h

  Malmesb. De Gestis Reg lib. 1. pag. 11.
• i

  Ancient fune∣rall Monum. pag. 248.
• 692.
• 732.
• 736.
• k

  Vide Praefat▪ Bedae.
• 742. Church-yards.
• l

  Wever. Of ancient funer-Monuments pag. 7.
• m

  13. quaest. 2•• c. xvij.
• In lib. de Rit•• sepeliendi mor∣tuos.
• o

  Ad LL. 12. Tabularum.
• Anno Dom.
• 759.
• 764.
• Archbisho∣prick at Litch∣field.
• 793.
• Anno Dom. 807.
• ^• Liber eccles•• Cantuar.
• 83••.
• 832.
• q

  Lib. supradi••.
• 871.
• r

  ^• Lib. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• 889.
• 915.
• 924.
• 934.
• Odo's tombe mistaken.
• Anno▪ Dom. 961.
• s

  Harpsfield. Hi••. eccles. Angl. in ejus vita.
• t

  Harpsfield. ubi supra.
• Scrutiny in S. Dunstans tombe.
• Anno Dom. 988.
• 989.
• 993.
• Anno Dom.
• 1006.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉. lib. 6.
• x

  A fuller rela∣tion of this out of Osborne the Monk of Cant. is to be seen in my Ap∣pendix. Scri∣ptura xxxj.
• Anno Dom. 1013.
• 1020.
• Reculver.
• y

  Lib. eccles. Cantuar.
• 1038.
• 1050.
• 105••.
• Anno Dom. 1070.
• Bishops See the note of a City.
• z

  Glossar. in verb. Burgus.
• Cowell.
• Title of totius Anglie Primas.
• a

  Of ancient funerall Mo∣num. pag. 305▪
• Archbishop and Monks Mannors. Vide pro scriptu. 14▪ in Appen∣dice.
• Anno Dom. 1093.
• b

  De 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Pon∣tific. lib. 1.
• Anselmes Mo∣nument.
• c

  Lib. Eccles. Cant.
• Anno Dom. 1114.
• Old Epitaphs rare in Eng∣land.
• Vide Mat. Paris. ad Ann. Dom. 1257. pag. 1258. Lond. Ed.
• d

  Ro••. Hosp. de Herbald.
• 1122.
• S^t Martins by Dover.
• Anno Dom.
• 1138.
• Title of Apo∣stolice Sedi•• Legatus.
• c

  Parker. in vi∣ta Cranmer.
• A mistake a∣bout Theobalds tombe.
• f

  Lib. Eccles. Christi ••ant.
• Feversham.
• Anno Dom. 1161.
• Beckets Tran∣slation.
• His Faire.
• g

  Glossar. in verb. Feri••.
• Faires.
• Whence the decay of Can∣terbury.
• h

  Perambula∣tion of Kent in Caterburie.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shrine.
• i

  Peregrinatio ••lig. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• k

  Annals ••n H••n. 8.
• l

  Liber comp•• Eccles. Christ•• Cant.
• Beckets Jubilee
• Becket our Ci∣ties Patron.
• Clergy••.
• Vide in fi•• ••i.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• 2. 3. 4. 5.
• A Seale ad causas.
• Anno Dom. 1171.
• 1184.
• 1191.
• 119••.
• Ancient tombs.
• Anno Dom. 1206.
• m

  Parker & Godwin. i•• ejus vita.
• n

  Spelman. Gloss. verb. Heptatic••. Vlcombe.
• Vicars stipend
• Anno Dom.
• 1229.
• 1234.
• 1244.
• Maidstone Hosp.
• o

  Antiq. Brit. in ejus vita.
• Anno Dom. 1272. Black Friers London.
• 1278. Wingham.
• Peckhams tombe.
• p

  Antiq. Brit. in vita Vfford.
• Anno Dom. 1294. Sub-Deacon-Cardinals at Christ-Church.
• Winchelseyes tombe.
• Endeavours for his Cano∣nization.
• q

  Liber Ecc••s. Cant.
• His Statutes.
• Prohibitions.
• r

  Lib. eccles. Cant.
• Earle of Glo∣cester.
• Caldecote. Thoreholt.
• Sanguinis mi••∣tio.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Rer. lib. 7. cap. 2.
• s

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. Fras. Co••. In I••opbagia. Fa∣••r, & defen∣•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Haius i•• Astro inex∣••o. q••io. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pag. 130. &c.
• t

  Creccelius de Orig. & fund. Monastic. or••. cap. 1.
• Monkes em∣ployment.
• Ha p••field.
• Priors aliens.
• Anno Dom. 1327.
• Sai•• Peters Chapell.
• Mephams Tombe mista∣ken.
• 1333.
• 1348.
• 1348.
• 1349.
• Monkton. Eastry.
• H••.
• Great mo••aili∣ty. Note.
• Anno Dom. 1366.
• 1368.
• 1375.
• Sudbury his Tombe mista∣ken.
• Leland.
• 1381.
• Maidstone Col∣ledge.
• Contradiction about the place of Courtneys buriall.
• Clergy armed ••nd rated.
• u

  Ex Registro Courtney.
• Archery.
• A worthy commendati▪ of it.
• Medling in Church mat∣ters by Laics punished.
• x

  Liber Eccles. Cant.
• 1396.
• Arundels Mo∣nument.
• His Chantery.
• y

  Harpsfield. Bredgare.
• z

  Walsingham.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Anno Dom. 1414.
• Dei gratia.
• a

  D. H. Spel∣man. Glessar. in verb. Dei gratia.
• Anno Dom. 1443.
• 1452. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Colledge.
• 1454.
• 1487.
• 1501.
• Anno Dom. 1504.
• b

  Pereg••natio Relig. ergô.
• 1533.
• Harpsfield.! Warhams evill prseage of a Thomas.
• 1555.
• Buriall of the Archbishops in Christ-Church dis∣continued.
• Anno Dom. 1559.
• c

  Ad cap. qu•• s••te. de Ap∣pellationib.
• 1575.
• 1583. Hosp. and School at Croy∣don.
• d

  S•• George Paul, in his ••fe.
• Anno Dom. 1604.
• 1611
• ••uilord Hosp.
• Conduit at Canterbury.
• d

  Stow. Godwyn.
• Inthronizati∣on of the Arch∣bishop of Cant. the form of it. Vide pro Scri∣ptura 16. in Append.