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.

Thus the other.

Lord Andomar de Rupy is Archdeacon of Canterbury, to the which Archdeacon belong the Church of Lymin with∣in the same Dioces, worth by yeare after taxation of the tenth xx^l. The Church of Tenham worth by yeare after the said taxation, Cxxx^l. vj^•. viij^d. The Church of Ha∣kington neere Canterbury, worth by yeare twenty markes. The Church of Saint Clement in Sandwich, worth by yeare after the taxation aforesaid, eight markes. The Church of Saint Mary in Sandwich, worth by yeare eight pounds, of the which the said Archdeacon receiveth onely sixe markes. The profits of all which premisses S. William Latimer Knight hath received, together with the profits arising out of the Iurisdiction of the Archdeaconry, worth by yeere xx^l.

Afterwards, to wit, in the yeare 1381. one William of Packington, or (as Pitseus writes him) Pachenton, had the Archdeaconry conferred upon him by the then Prior and Covent a 1.1 in the vacancy by Sudburies death: his Proctor making and taking the accustomed oath of obedience to the Prior and Covent; and that he will not attempt any thing to the prejudice of the Church of Canterbury, and will faithfully execute such mandates as he should receive from the Prior and Chapter. Pitseus will further acquaint you with this man, and his great worth, and good parts, if you consult him.

In Archbishop Courtneys time (Sudburies next Successor) one Adam de Mottrum was Archdeacon, and withall the

Archbishops Chancellor, as I finde by Courtneys Will extant in Christ-Church, wherein he is a legatary.

He was succeeded by Richard Clifford, who was Arch∣deacon in Archbishop Arundels dayes. Harpesfield tells of b 1.2 a controversie that happened to arise betweene the Arch∣bishop and him about matter of Jurisdiction. Ricardo (saith he) controversia quaedam, de exercenda Iurisdictione, cum A∣rundellio intercessit, quae certa transactione, mutuo ipsorum con∣sensu composita est. The composition here spoken of is ex∣tant (for I have seene both prototype and copy) in the Church Records. The Lieger of the Consistory hath also a transcript of it. He was afterward consecrate Bishop of Worcester, to wit Anno 1401. and translated thence to London Anno 1407. See more of him there in Bishop Godwins Ca∣talogue who speakes very honourably of him. I finde his name and picture drawne and set up in the West-Window of the Chapterhouse of Christ-Church, as in likelihood, a be∣nefactor to the worke, it being new built in his time, as you may finde elsewhere.

For that was the way by which the religious men used to expresse their thankfulnesse to their benefactors, namely, by representing their effigies, and setting up their names, their coats also that had any, in some part of that building, which by their bounty they had holpe to advance; some∣times adding withall their gift and largesse, what and how much it was: as for instance in that particular, in the Cloy∣ster, hard by the doore of the Chapter-house, about the shield of a coate representing the effigies of a Monke in his habit, one that about the same time with this Archdeacon, was a benefactor to that worke, I read as followeth▪^ Frater Iohannes Schepene, cum adjutorio amicorum suorum, contribuit ad fabricam claustri C. lib. cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen.

I have done with the Archdeacons of this (14^th) Century, and come now to them of the next, by name.

• 1. Robertus Hall.
• 2. Iohannes Wakering.
• 3. Thomas Rumnoth.
• 4. Willielmus Chichley.
• 5. Prosper de Columna.
• 6. Thomas Chichley.
• 7. Thomas Wittembourne.
• 8. Iohannes Bourgchier.
• 9. Hugo Pentwin.

The first of these (Hall) was (as Harpesfield sayes) Arch∣bishop Arundells Vicar generall.

The second Wakering, was keeper of the Privy Seale (saith Sir Henry Spelman) to Hen. 4. Regi ab archivis sive scriniis, saith Harpsfield, and in the yeare 1416. he was ele∣cted and consecrate Bishop of Norwich. Godwyn writes very honourably of him, as you may see in his Catalogue in Nor∣wich.

The third Rumnoth c 1.3, questioned and called before him Iohn Bishop of Saint Assaph, as not legally holding his Bishopricke, being never inducted or put into possession by his predecessor Robert, as the manner was, and of right he should have beene, it being one of the rights of the Arch∣deacon to induct all B B. of the Province into the possession of their Sees.

The fourth, William Chicheley d 1.4, being Archbishop Chi∣cheleys neare Kinsman, was by him made Archdeacon, what time he was with the King in the French expedition. This William being a Notary of the Apostolike See, and dying in the Court of Rome: Pope Martin 5. bestowed the Arch∣deaconry upon his nephew Prosper de Columna, a Boy under foureteene yeares of age, and richly provided for before by the Pope his Uncle, but not to the content of the Popes avaritions minde; who so prevailed with the King, that his nephew being an alien, and so incapable of the dignity by the lawes of the Realme, he was by Royall indulgence indenized and made capable of the same, but so as the Pope should by his Bull, conceptis verbis, give way to the Patron freely to conferre it afterward, as it should fall voyde, and that this indulgence should not be drawne into example.

This Archdeacon after a few yeares was made a Cardinall.

The sixt, Thomas Chicheley, had the Archdeaconry after∣ward conferred upon him by the same Archbishop Hen. Chi∣cheley, his neare Kinsman also. In an examplification of his (which I have seene) belonging to S. Iohns Hospitall with∣out Northgate, I finde him style himselfe thus. Thomas Chi∣cheley, decretorum Doctor, Archidiaconus Cant. & Domini Papae Prothonotarius. In the yeare 1463. hee was Provost of Win∣gham Colledge in Kent e 1.5

The seventh and ninth I know onely by their names. For as yet I finde nothing at all written of them.

The eight, Iohn Bourgchier, was (I take it) brother or neare Kinsman to the Archbishop Thomas Bourgchier. He dyed in the year 1495. and was buried in the Lady Chapell of Christ-Church, where you may finde his Monument. I have tran∣scribed the Inscription or Epitaph upon it before in the Survey of the Church Monuments. The Windowes of this Chapell where hee lyes are very full of the Bourgchiers armes.

Thus much very briefly of the Archdeacons of the 15^th Cent. I come now to those of the next, by name.

• 1. William Warham.
• 2. Edmund Cranmer.
• 3. Nicholas Harpsfield.
• 4. Edmund Guest.
• 5. Edmund Freake.
• 6. William Redman.
• 7. Charles Fotherby.

The first, William Warham, was Archbishop Warhams Kinsman, in whose house s 1.6 then situate at Hakington, the Archbishop dyed. He was withall Provost of Wingham. For the cause (its like) of his conscience, by Cession, as the Ca∣nonists phrase it, he left both it, and the Archdeaconry, and by the privity and consent of the then Archbishop (Thomas Cranmer) had a stipend or pension of 60^l. per annum, allowed him during his life, out of the Archdeaconry, and 20^l. per annum out of his Prepositure of Wingham g 1.7,

By his Successor in both, Edmund Cranmer, Archbishop

Cranmers brother, who continued Archdeacon afterward untill Queene Maries dayes, and was then deprived of it, his Prebend also, and Parsonage of Ickham, which were all taken from him in the yeare 1554. for being a married Clerke, and the first given to Nicholas Harpsfield Doctor of Law, the second to Robert Collens Batchelor of Law and Commissary of Canterbury, and the third to one Robert Marsh. h 1.8

Concerning Harpsfield, Fox, a Protestant, and Pitseus, a Papist, give their severall censures: but cleerely ex diame∣tro contrary, and so full (I feare) of partiality, and by their reflexion upon the cause of religion, so prejudicate, that I leave it to the moderate to give a temper to them both, not desirous to interpose my judgement, but wishing onely he may be censured with truth and indifferency. He was with∣all a Prebendary of Canterbury whom Doctor Moulin, after many other, doth succeed. Being a prisoner, he wrote the Ecclesiasticall story of England, and other Bookes whereof see a Catalogue in Pitseus.

Harpsfield in the beginning of Queene Elizabeths reigne, being deprived, Edmund Guest succeeded in the Archdea∣conry, and shortly after, to wit Anno 1559. was consecrate Bishop of Rochester, and translated thence to Salisbury Anno 1571. Where you may see more of him in the Catalogue of B B.

His next Successor was Edmund Freake, both in the Arch∣deaconry, and also in the Bishopricke of Rochester, with which latter he held the Archdeaconry in Commendam, un∣till he was afterward removed to Norwich, and from thence to Worceter. The fore-cited Catalogue will tell you more of him.

William Redman succeeded in the Archdeaconry, but in the yeare 1594. was removed to the Bishopricke of Norwich. Consult the often cited Catalogue in Norwich, if you would know more of him.

Charles Fotherby upon Redmans remove to Norwich was made Archdeacon, and afterwards Deane of Canterbury:

both which with other spirituall livings besides, he held till his death, which happened Anno Domini 1616. He lyeth buried in the Lady Chapell in Christ-Church; and, Bourg∣chier excepted, who lyes buried in the same Chapell, is the onely Archdeacon of Canterbury, that by any Monument or Record appeares to have beene buried in Christ-Church. He was (you see) the last of that Century; as the modern Arch∣deacon, the reverend D^r Kingsley, is the first of the next, and makes the 59^th Archdeacon. But manum de tabella. And here let me close this discourse of the Archdeacons with a touch of that Praerogative anciently belonging to them, of putting the Suffragan-Bishops after their consecration or translation to a Bishoprick, in possession of the same, (which we vulgarly call induction or installation) together with such rights and fees as were usually paid unto the Archdeacon in respect thereof. Their private Leiger called (from the sable cover) the blacke booke sets forth the matter at large, but affecting brevity, I have chosen rather to represent it in Archdeacon Harpsfields more compendious way. Est qui∣dem (saith he * 1.9) Cantuariensis ceterorum in Anglia Archidiacono∣rum antesignanus, habetque & hoc etiam saeculo habuit id praero∣gativae, ut designatos & initiatos Episcopos, quasi in praesenti rerum omnium possessione constituat. Ad quam possessionem tra∣dendam, solebat ipse proficisci ad Episcopum in possessione locan∣dum. Quibus temporibus equum Episcopi, & penulum ad suos usus, & viginti praetereà aureos * 1.10 ad sumptus accipiebat. Moris praetereà erat, ut ex argenteo aut de aurato quodam poculo Episco∣pus ei in mensa praebiberet, acceptúmque poculum ad Archidia∣coni commodum cederet. Posterioribus, & nostris praesertim tem∣poribus, Archidiaconi possessionem hanc tradendi provinciam, aliis per literas mandantes, ipsi non proficiscebantur, viginti illos aureos solummodò sibi decerpentes. Thus he. And so both this Catalogue, and my whole taske for the Cathedrall is absolved.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Lib. eccles. Cant.
• b 1.2

  Hist. ecs. Angl. Saecul. 15. cap. 14. pag. 634.
• c 1.3

  Harpsfield ubi supra.
• d 1.4

  Idem Harpsf. ubi supra.
• e 1.5

  Liber testam. pen••, registr. Domin•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Cant.
• s 1.6

  Antiq. Brit in ejus vita.
• g 1.7

  Ex R•• Cranm••.
• h 1.8

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lib. eccl••s. Cant.
• * 1.9

  Histor. eccles. Saecul. 13. pag. 450.
• * 1.10

  10 marcas, saith Parker. Antiq. Britan. pag. 28.