Historia Et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Part 3

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tho vacanetes os the My ; the second section compria private chariem os donation, agmementa, presentationuto in ches, resignationa os livings, and other Melesiasti inldocumenta, ali os them haring immediate relation to St. Pete s. This volume Ι have no hesitation Wha ver in identissu With the one mentioned in tho historyd cauae ita conranta persectly talty With What me them find specified. The history in spe ing of Froucester,sa , ' Ει pro vacatione ecclesin, quod gratioso et mir μ biliter fuerat magnis laboribus et sumptuosis exponata prosecutum, et ad finem ingeniose perductum, ac etiam in curia domini comitis de Stames placitum do curia tenenda do tribus septimanis in Ne ori, necnon et alia diversa quae prolonga erant narranda ut in capsa indo consecta, et Wallieri Froueoire in titulata, et in arctivis ecclesiae condita plenius continentur.' nis pro od-ing relative to tho vacancies is ovidently tho ons besero referred is, and the Nea concerning the holding os thomuri os Ne Ort is iam found in a subsequent pari os ino samo manus ph. Tho old titie, ho-ver, cannot beeompared, because the manuscript haa been recentUro und, but there can bo no doubi illat, had the ancient bindiu been preserveri We should hine sein tho mo Amiteri Fro Mailre on the bach, as mentioned in tho

Historia; homever, Withous inis, I think the proa os identio is suffcient.

No. 2 is a thicher volume in the fame hand, butcompiled on a very different principio. It contatas tendistinet registere, namely, those of the sacristan, thealmoner of Standiis, the hostillar, tho suNalmoner, themaster os ine moris, the chamberlain, tho resectorar, the infirmarer, the m ter os the chapel, md the praecentor.

Appendix to Introduction, Vol. i Ante. VOl. i. p. 55. i. p. lxxi. l

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as seemed most to requiro augmentation.

No. 3 contians the register of abbot Brauncto λα1500 151R, and is entived thus, Regestrum actorum' tam temporalium quam spiritualium Thomae Brauncta,' permissione divina electi in abbatem monasterii Sancti Potri Glo estriae, ultimo die Augusti, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo, tempore Iohannis Walden capellani disti abbatis, et Willielmi Ηρο-

possemions of St. Hiorla during ino abbacy of Braunine. In N o. 3 is also contained the register of abbot No ton A.D. 151 1513), entived thus, 'Regestrum actorum tam spiritualium quam temporalium reverendi in ' Christo patris domini Johannis Newton, Moras Theo- logias Prosessoris, electi in abbatem monasterii Sancti Petri Gloue trim, penultimo die mensis Julii, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo decimo, ει confirmati

vicesimo secundo die Novembris, ac iustallati noxio dio Deeombris, anno Domini supradicto, magna com' troversia praedicta electione inter dictum reverendum' patrem et quendam dompnum Johannem Huniele ' adiunc commonachum et cellerarium dicti monasterii non obstante. Ita contenta are similar to thoso os Brauncto, register.

No. 4 is tho register of William Malveme, tho last

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containa Aimilar instruments.

In tho Dar 1800, in ansmer to tho questions os the Commissionem on ths Publio Remess, the Rogistris os ins Dein and Chapter of Gloue ter replied, that there Me no original recorti m MVer in theis possession os the nature alluded in is order of tho Committes, but there are Dur manus in boota in tho custody of the man and Chapter, conisining copi of thΘ recorct, ' etc., herein-Hher montioned.' The description .hichinen follows does nos talty in every res et mith thesour Glaucester manuscripta os Which I have besore ven a sitos oviline, indeed one I cannot at ali r

Registrar in his retum. Ηε says that tho fimi is an ancient register, Whichv ars to have been compiled in the year 1397, and containa copies of tho royal chas era sind confirmations

The second book, according to the Registrari constans copies os various wriis and other legat pro edings, οutino relin os EdWard Ι., and the iam and customa sor thoint emat regulation os the monastery. It iam contatas the Statutos de Scamario: Districtiones Soacearii; Statuta de Exonia; Sintuta de Itinere; Statuta de Finibus ; Do Ρresentibus vocatis ad Warrantiam ; Statuta de Quo Warranto ; De Juratis et Assisis extra Comitatum ; De Antiquo Dominico Coronae; circumspecte Agatis; De Regia Prohibitione; Do vasto facto in Custodia ; Do Gaveleto in Londonia ; De Anno et Dis Bissextili: Consuetudines Κancim; De Moneta ;Articuli do Tonsura Monetae; De Cohaeredibus; De Μilitibus lacisndis; Sintuta Armorum in Tomiamentis;

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menta os the monastery.

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Where find. Thero is eister some strange caretosanem Ormisdescription Whicli I cannot explain, or esse Malueraehregister has been substituted sor the book No. 2 at somo period sinos the year 1800. But even then tho book

There is in tho possession of the Dean and Chapter os Glouo ter, besides the laur volumes besere described, a series of original deods With seias attached, in excellent condition, ali relating to St. riter's. They are mounted in largo Mota sermod os caruidge paper, With caritiessor os reception os tho Mala, and mueli judment hasbeen used in thela preservation. I havs noι been able toexamino them very minutoly, but I bellove that among them iners mill bo found tho originals os somo of the chartem printed in these volumes. Main tho Publio Record Ossice possesses a mali collection os original chartem mith seias attached, formerlybelonging to St. Peter's. The earlieat document relating to tho monasteW,namely, hing Ethelred a laundation charier, in the yeares our Lord 68I, and confirmed is Burgressi ring of Μereia, in 872, is printed in the fidit volume of this mork App. to Introduction, No. Ι.), but tho texi is, as mill be

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Whita savour mas at onoe granted. risi fortunes of St. riter's during the fimi laur cem turies os ita existenco mere, as me learn, considerablychequered: in iis orion a nunne , it flourishod underroia protection and patronam sor a time; then came aperiod os desolation, When nationes tumulis and distur, ances divo the nuns Bom their pea sui home; aste watas it mas placed under tho rese of secular clero, Who in thois tum gave Way to Benodictino monks introducedio St. ΡεMes in the year 1022 by Wolsinn, bishop of rcester, With the permission of hing Canute. In thacariniary a Bath abben noW preserved in tho libra a Corpus Christi Collego, Cambridgo, thero is a very interesting document relating to thia chango in tho con-

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mero one monaStery, and ω be ' quasi cor unum et anima

and also for every deparsed brothor, as is they ali merotogether in one monastery; thus Mautifulty illustratingtho doctrine os tho Communion os Minis, whisi tho

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i Vol. i. p. 58.