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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Around 1230 Archbishop John Peckham was born.
Longstone Records. Concerning a Perpetual Chantry at Longedon, in the Parish of Bakewell.
In the year 1262, it was agreed between Griffyn son of Wennwen of the one part and all the Parishioners belonging to the Chapel of S. Giles of Great Longdon [Map] that the said Griffin granted for himself and his heirs for ever to the said Parishioners two bovates of land with all their appurtenances in the town and territory of Great Longdon in aid of the maintenance of a Chaplain to celebrate divine service in the same Chapel, that is to say those two bovates of land with all their appurtenances which were taken from the bovates of the homage of the said Griffyn of Great Longdon and which were before assigned by the said Parishioners for the maintenance of that same service. To have and to hold of the said Griffyn and his heirs to the said Parishioners or to any person or persons of the said Parish to whom they shall entrust them for the maintenance of that same service freely quietly well and in peace for ever, saving however to the said Griffyn and his heirs multure of the corn growing on the said two bovates to the extent of one vessel in thirty. Be it known however that if it so happen that the Canons of the mother Church of Lichfield or the ordinaries of the Church of Bakewell shall appropriate to themselves the said two bovates of land and the maintenance of a Chaplain to celebrate divine service in the same Chapel for ever, or if the said Parishioners shall sell to anyone or in any other way alienate the said two bovates, then it shall be lawful to the said Griffyn and his heirs to seize into their own hands the said two bovates and do their will of them just as of their own lordship without any impediment or contradiction of the said Parishioners or of any Pai-ishioner of the said Parish. And that this agreement may be kept firmly and without fraud for ever, the said Griffyn, for himself and his heirs, Thomas le Lewyd of Little Longesdon, Elias son of William of the same, Richard son of Adam of Great Longesdon, William Clerk of the same, Thomas le Bond of the same, Phelip dil Hul of the same, and their heirs, being constituted representatives of the whole Parish, bound themselves and affixed their seals alternately for a testimony to this present writing drawn up in the manner of an instrument. And for this grant the said Parishioners gave to the said GrifPyn seven marks as a fine. Witnesses, William Wyne, William de Esseburne, John de Hollewell, Roger de Scheladon, William de Reyndon, John le Wyne, Nicholas de Wynnefeld, Richard de Hokelowe, Clerk, and others.
Note. "When Archbishop Peckkam (age 32) made his Metropolitan visitation in 1280, it was arranged that the stipend of the Minister of Longstone should for the future be at least five marks, half being paid by the parishioners, and half by the Dean and Chapter. But in 1315, a different arrangement was made by which the Dean and Chapter were only to be called upon to supply six marks to the five Chapelries of Baslow, Longstone, Taddington, Monyash and Beeley. Of this sum, fifteen shillings was set apart for the Minister of Longstone, the Dean and Chapter granting remission of charges for testaments and administrations." Dr. Cox.
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On 25th January 1279 Archbishop John Peckham (age 49) was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
On 26th August 1279 Archbishop John Derlington was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin by Archbishop John Peckham (age 49) at Waltham Abbey, Essex [Map].
In 1280 Archbishop John Peckham (age 50) attempted to carry out a visitation of all the royal chapels that lay within the Coventry and Lichfield diocese. St Michael's Church, Penkridge [Map] refused entry as did the others at Wolverhampton, Tettenhall, Stafford, Gnosall, Tamworth and Quatford.
Annals of Dunstable. In the same year Brother John (age 54), archbishop of Canterbury, visited the diocese of Lincoln for the first time. And on the feast of Saint Luke [18th October 1284] he turned aside to Dunstable for the purpose of visitation. And since he found everything there in good order, because the bishop of Lincoln had quite recently visited that house, he nevertheless stayed there one night. And he received from that monastery for his procuration four marks; and he departed. Also, to a certain canon of Dunstable who had incurred irregularity, the said archbishop gave the cross, and by the authority granted to those signed with the cross absolved the said canon from that irregularity, provided that on the first expedition he should make redemption of it, so far as he might be able to obtain the money from his own chamber or also from his friends, without loss to the monastery. On the following Sunday [22nd October 1284] the said archbishop consecrated Walter Scammel as bishop of Salisbury, namely in one of the manors1 of that bishop near Reading. Also, the inspection of our privileges concerning the appropriation of churches the same archbishop then postponed.”
Eodem anno, frater Johannes, Cantuariensis archiepiscopus, primo visitavit Lincolniensem diocesim. Et die Sancti Lucæ apud Dunstaple causa visitationis divertit. Cumque ibi omnia prospere reperisset, eo quod Lincolniensis episcopus quasi recenter domum illam visitasset, una tamen nocte ibidem pernoctavit. Et recepit ab illo monasterio pro procuratione sua quatuor marcas; et discessit. Item, cuidam canonico de Dunstaple, qui irregularitatem contraxerat, dictus archiepiscopus dedit crucem, et auctoritate cruce signatis indulta, dictum canonicum ab ipsa irregularitate absolvit. Ita quod in prima expeditione faceret inde redemptionem, quatenus assequi posset pecuniam a sua propria camera, seu etiam ab amicis, sine monasterii læsione. Dominica proxima sequenti dictus archiepiscopus Walterum Scamal in episcopum Sarisburiensem Salisbury, consecravit; videlicet, in quodam manerio ipsius episcopi juxta Redingges. Item, inspectionem privilegioleges as to rum nostrorum super appropriatione ecclesiarum, idem archiepiscopus ad tunc posuit in respectum.
Note 1. The manor of Sunning, aka Sunninghill, in Berkshire.
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On 22nd October 1284 Bishop Walter Scammel was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury by Archbishop John Peckham (age 54). See Annals of Dunstable.
Annals of Dunstable. Brother John (age 55), archbishop of Canterbury, and the whole clergy, perceiving that many of these statutes infringed upon ecclesiastical liberty, petitioned the lord king for redress in these matters; at the least, that he would revoke the writ of prohibition which had been issued from his court more broadly than was customary. The king, however, granted certain mitigations to the clergy; yet he did not allow that pleas should be heard in the court Christian, except in causes of matrimony and of testaments.
Frater Johannes Cantuariensis archiepiscopus et totus clerus, plurima ex ipsis statutis ecclesiasticæ libertati attendentes derogare, a domino rege super his remedium postulabant; saltem ut literam prohibitionis regiæ, quæ solito largius a sua curia emanaverat, revocaret. Rex vero quasdam mitigationes fecit clero; attamen non concessit quod in curia Christianitatis placitarentur, nisi causa matrimonii et testamenti.
Archaeologia Volume 29 Section XIII. The arrival of the funeral procession in London appears to have been on the l4th of December, and the entombment took place on the 17th. To this date we have the testimony of Wikes, the Annals of Dunstable, and Matthew of Westminster. We have no distinet evidence in what particular religious house the body remained while in London. The position of one of the Crosses in West-Cheap may seem to guide to Saint Paul's. What house there could have been near the site of Charing Cross [Map] is a more difficult question. The funeral rites in the Abbey were performed with great magnificence; "cum summa omnium reverentia et honore, [with the greatest respect and honor of all]" says Walsingham. One thing a little dimmed the splendour and detracted from the completeness of the solemnity. There was a dispute at that time between the Abbot of Westminster and the Archbishop of Canterbury (age 59) (Peckham) which made the Archbishop unwilling to enter the Abbey; so that the Bishop of Lincoln (age 70) (Sutton) presided. We have this information from Thomas Wikes.
In 1290 Bishop Thomas Cantilupe was excommunicated by Archbishop John Peckham (age 60). Thomas proceeded to Rome, Italy [Map] to resolve the issue.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 8th December 1292 Archbishop John Peckham (age 62) died.