The Archdeaconry of Leicester was worth £80 12s. 4d. Dr. Foxe[385] was the archdeacon.
The Archdeaconry of Northampton was worth £107 7s. Gilbert Smith, the Archdeacon, was Prebendary of Leighton Bromeswold, worth £57 15s. 1d.[386]
The Archdeaconry of Buckingham was worth £82 14s. 5d., and Richard Leighton the archdeacon seems to have had no other preferment in the Diocese of Lincoln.
The Archdeaconry of Oxford was worth £71 6s. Richard Coren, the archdeacon, held also the Prebendary of Welton Paynshall, worth £5 11s. 11d.
There were—or should have been—twenty-five Vicars Choral, who were paid a stipend, each by his own Prebendary, of £2. The Corporate Body of Vicars also had property which yielded a net annual income of £145 11s. 2d., which divided between the twenty-five vicars gave to each £5 16s. 5d., “leaving a remainder of 9d. to be divided into twenty-five parts;” and fifteen of them had chantries assigned to them.
At the time of the “Taxatio” there appears to have been only one chantry in the cathedral, for the soul of Bishop Hugh of Wells; by the time of the “Valor” the chantries had grown in number to thirty-six.
One vicar was cantarist of the Chantry of William Winchcome, which, after giving 20s. to the poor and other payments, was worth £6 5s. 4d. The same vicar received £2 for playing the organ at the Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and also £1 6s. 8d. for playing at the Jesus Mass. Other vicars served the following chantries: of Hervey de Luda, worth 9s. 4d.; of Simon Barton, 9s.; of William Thornake, £4. 2s. 4d.; of Henry Benyngworth, 8s. 8d.; of Robert and John Lacy, 8s.; of William Hemyngburge and others, 8s.; of William FitzFulke, £4; of King Edward II., 12s., and the same clerk filled the office of succentor, for which he received from the precentor 50s., and 6s. 6d. for wines at the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and from the Chapter, 7s. 6d.; for wines at the end of the year p’pastu chori, 18s. 9d.; making £4 12s. 9d. The cantarist of Roger Benetson received £5 12s.; of Walter Stanreth, £4; of Oliver Sutton, 8s.; of Geoffrey Pollard and others, 9s. 4d.; of Gilbert Umfraville, £4 6s. 8d., the same clerk occupied the office called Clerk of the Hospital, for which he received from the Prior and Convent of St. Katharine juxta Lincoln, 24s. 2d.; and from the Chapter for a gown, 9s., and other sums amounting to £1 14s. 10d.; of Hugh of Wells, after paying for 2 vicar chaplains, and to the vicars of the second form, and to the servants of the Church, and in alms at the obit of the founder, received £6, the same clerk filled the office of sacrist, for which he received from the Treasurer and in perquisites, £6 17s. 6d. The 6 clerks who said the daily mass at the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary received each 13s. 5d. There were 4 vacancies in the body of vicars choral, and the 4 shares were divided among the remaining 21 vicars.
Besides the chantries in the presentation of the dean and chapter, and divided by them among the vicars choral, there were other chantries, of which a separate account is given. Some of them with more than one chaplain. The chantry of Nicholas de Cantelupe had 2 cantarists, who received £19 10s. 2d. between them; that of Bishop Henry Lexington had 2 cantarists, each of whom received 8s. 8d.; 14 other chantries were worth various sums, from 8s. 4d. to £13. The chantry of Bartholomew Burghersh had 5 chaplains, who received £7 9s. 0½¼d. each, it also maintained 6 poor boys and their master at a cost of £12 7s. 4d.
The choristers had a special fund in the trusteeship of the dean and chapter, out of which were entirely maintained twelve boys and the master who instructed them in singing, playing the organ, and grammar, at an annual cost of £34 13s. 5½d.