The income of the dean and chapter has grown to £310 14s. 6½d.; we have no note of the way in which it was disposed of.
The income of the dean, William Fleshmonger, was £58 9s. 4d. We have no reason to doubt that he was identical with the William Fleshmonger who was Rector of Selsey,[390] worth £11 3s. 4d.; with the Dr. William Fleshmonger who was Rector of Storyngton,[391] £18; and with the William Fleshmonger who was Rector of Hertfield,[392] £7. No doubt it was the dean who was the tenant by indenture for a term of years from Battle Abbey, at a rent of £15 6s. 8d., of the Manor of Apultram[393] near Chichester, and in all probability he is identical with the William Fleshmonger who held the Prebend of Carlton cum Dalby[394] of the Church of Lincoln.
The Dignity of the Precentory had endowment to the amount of £35 0s. 5½d., and Charles William Horsey seems to have had no other preferment in Chichester Diocese. But among the Prebendaries of Lincoln there is also a William Horsey, Prebendary of Scamelsby,[395] who may very possibly have been identical with our Precentor.
The Dignity of Chancellor was endowed with a clear £27 7s., and we find that Mr. George Croft was also Prebendary of Middleton,[396] worth £2 3s. 4d. There was also a George Croft, Rector of Wynford,[397] £21 12s. 10d., in the diocese of Bath and Wells, who may have been our chancellor.
The treasurer, Hugho Rolfe, after paying two servants and other dues, had a clear £62 6s. 8d. from the dignity, and held besides the Prebend of Braklesham,[398] £11 17s. 3½d., and apparently the vicarage of Henfield,[399] £16 9s. 9½d.
The dignity of the Archdeaconry of Chichester was worth £38 3s. 4d., and the Archdeacon John Worthial also held the Prebend of Huve Town,[400] £10; he seems also to have held the benefice of Sutton, £15 0s. 6d.;[401] but we hesitate to identify the venerable archdeacon with the William Worthiall who held the two Chantries of Eastangmering and Fyrring,[402] though no doubt his friends would often jestingly assure him that if he had half a dozen more sinecures he would still have been “worthy all.” The Archdeaconry of Lewes was worth £39 14s. 10d., and Archdeacon More was also Prebendary of Coleworth,[403] £18 13s. 4d., and is probably identical with the Edward More who was Vicar of Bexhill,[404] worth £23 10s. 2d. There were altogether thirty-one prebends ranging in value from £10 to £20; four of these were added by Bishop Sherborne a little before the Reformation, restricted to men of Winchester and New Colleges, who were required to serve in their own persons without deputies.
Residentiaries on first appointment to office were bound to attend every service without a single omission for a year, and in case of an omission to recommence their course.
There were twelve vicars choral who received £2 12s. 8d. each, and fourteen chantries which were served by the vicars choral, the profits of each ranging between £3 and £13. There were also eight choristers and four thuribulers.[405]
“Bishop Sherborne, just before the Reformation, having ruled magnificently, laid down his staff and mitre weary with the weight of ninety years and more, and left his statutes chained to his throne; begging the kindly thoughts of all sorts and conditions of men; with a bequest of crown soleil, and bread and good wine to be offered to the bishop at his ‘jocund coming’ on a visitation; ypocras and choice fruits for the crowned king and primate; wine to be drunk round the city cross for the young; ample doles for the aged; marriage portions out of the annual residue for poor girls; egg flip with milk and sugar, coloured with saffron, for the choristers; and a dinner to the chapter on his anniversary.”[406]