[537] Ibid., p. 158.
[538] Gibbons, “Early Lincoln Wills,” p. 185.
[539] Ibid., p. 210.
[540] Hamo, Bishop of Rochester, in 1341 endowed a chantry for himself in the cathedral, the prior and convent engaging to give the chantry priest lodging and the food of a monk and 24s. yearly.
[541] Archbishop Sudbury, 1378, ordered Annuellers to be content with 7 marks, and others who serve cure of souls with 8 marks, or diet and 4 marks.
[542] This is the same year as the statute quoted above; and is clearly the ecclesiastical counterpart of that civic legislation.
[543] The Black Death, in 1348.
[544] In 1391, the dean and chapter made a regulation that henceforth no beneficed person should hold a chantry in St. Paul’s excepting their own minor canons.
[545] In 1323, J. de Taunton, priest and vicar in the Church of Wells, was collated by the Bishop to “annuate” in the Church of St. Mary, Wells, to celebrate for the soul of F. de Bullen (?) and all faithful souls (Rev. T. Hugo’s “Extracts,” p. 88). In the register of Montacute, Bishop of Ely, 1337, licence was given to Mr. Nicho. de Canterbury, stare in obsequiis of J. de Polleyne for two years, and this at the instance of Dnus. John de Polleyne. The same year licence was given to Dnus. Richard Rupel, Rector of the Church of Carlton quod possit stare in obsequiis of Dni. Paris Lewen for two years.
[546] The chantry priests of London, having been summoned by the bishop in 1532, and desired to contribute towards the £100,000 demanded by King Henry VIII. of the clergy, made such a stir that the bishop dismissed them for the time, and afterwards had some arrested and imprisoned (Stow’s “Chronicle,” p. 559).