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Footnotes to Chapter IV
1. Hasted II, 346-51, 469.
2. Ibid., 46-7; AC LXXV, 38.
3. Hasted I, 451 & II, 149, 217; AC LXXV, 37-8
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4. AC XXII, 307; Fielding, 529.
5. AC XXII, 295, 306-8. Nine of the parishes were in the Deanery of
Rochester; Meopham, from which came the signature of John Bird, the vicar,
was in the Deanery of Shoreham, a peculiar of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. Another who signed was Ewinus Carlton, he was at the
time a stipendiary at Rochester and signed as such, but he became rector
of Longfield in the same year. As on this occasion, at any rate, the
rector of Ash signed as ‘Wyels’, that spelling has been used in the
text. Other variant found include Wyells, Welis and Wylis; Test. Cant.,
2, renders the name as Welles.
6. The will of Richard Edmondson (in the will called Emonson)
was dated 25 October 1541 and. proved in |
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the Rochester Consistory Court on 24 November of that
year: KAO DRb/PWr/368 - Rich Emnonson.
7. Generally as to the 1552 inventories, see AC VIII, 74 ff.
The Ash and Fawkham inventories are reproduced ibid, 104, 155-6,
those for Hartley, Kingsdown and Longfield in AC IX, 266-7, 277, 281 and
the Ridley inventory in AC X, 295.
The Ash items are mostly self-explanatory, but it may be mentioned that
‘vestment’ meant a suit of mass-robes; the vestments of the deacon and
subdeacon were the dalmatic and the tuniele. The corporas or corporax was
a consecrated white linen cloth used in the service of the altar, on which
the host and the chalice rested; it was kept in an embroidered case. The
two books would have been the Great Bible and the ‘Paraphrase’ of
Erasmus, as required by Edward VI’s Injunctions of 1547, at which time
the translation contained only the Gospels and the Book of the Acts.
8. Wyels’ will was dated 21 April 1555 and proved at Rochester on
7 June of that year: Test. Cant, 2; AC XXII, 307; 'Sir Richard
Gallant' was the Richard Galon mentioned at p.11, supra. |