APPENDIX B
THE TOMB OF HUMPHREY, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
In Cotton MS., Claudius, A. viii. ff. 195-198, there is an entry of which the title runs: ‘In this sedule be conteyned the charges and observances appointed by the noble Prince Humfrey late Duke Gloucester to be perpetually boren by thabbot and Convent of the Monastery of Seint Alban.’ The entries contained in the schedule are as follows:—
Paid by the said Abbot and convent ‘for making of the tombe and place of sepulture,’ £433, 6s. 8d.
To two priests for saying Mass daily at the altar of the tomb at the rate of 6d. a day each. £18, 5s. per annum.
To the Abbot for his expenses on the ‘day of anniversary of the Duke,’ 40s. per annum, and to the Prior for the same, 20s. per annum.
To 40 monks in orders, to be paid on this ‘day of anniversary’ every year, 6s. 8d. each, £13s, 6s. 8d.
To 8 monks as above on the same day, 3s. 4d. each, £1, 6s. 8d.
To an ‘ankress’ at St. Peter’s Church and another at St. Michael’s on that same day each year, 20d.
To be distributed to the poor on that day each year, 40s.
To 13 poor men bearing torches round the tomb on that day each year, 2s. 6d. each, £1, 8s. 2d.