[91] Gray’s “Register,” p. 113. Surtees Society.
[92] Extracts from Lincoln Registers. Harl. MS. 6950, p. 1250.
[93] Bronscombe’s “Register,” p. 253.
[94] Ibid., p. 330.
[95] Ibid., p. 334.
[96] “Bath and Wells,” p. 122, S.P.C.K.
[97] Long Preston, in Craven, is mentioned in “Domesday.” In the reign of Stephen it was granted by Wm. de Amundeville to the church and canons of Embsay. In 1303, Archbishop Corbridge ordained that the church should be served by a fit vicar and his ministers. In 1307 there was another “taxation,” a third in 1322, and a fourth in 1455 (Whitaker, “Craven,” p. 145).
[98] In the Episcopal Register of Lincoln, under date 25th April, 1511, William, Abbot of Oseney, was admitted to the Vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, on the presentation of the Abbot and Convent of the same.
[99] “Lichfield,” p. 138, S.P.C.K.
[100] It was this which made a rectory so much like a small monastery in its constitution, that rectories were often called minsters, and monasteries often merged into rectories.