Recent Discoveries in the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral

( 40 ) RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE ARCHIVES OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL NOTES ON THE MONKS AND PRIORY BUILDINGS MENTIONED BY DOROTHY GARDINER. THE ASSISAE OE 1252, ETC. WUham de Winchester (probably to be identified with WUham de Wynton in the Canterbury Profession List) died in 1288. Henry is no doubt the " Dominus H. Sturei" who still held office in 1253, the " Henry Stordy " of the List.1 WUham and Henry were companionmonks of Turgitius de Ostede, Carpentarius in 1254 jointly with Dominus Ricardus—the last named may have been Richard de Wynchepe, sometime Sacrist, who became Prior of Dover in 1268.2 ACCOUNTS OE 1317-1341. The Treasurer of the Monastery in 1317/18 who paid the wages of Simon the Glazier, was Alanus OyseU, professed in 1289.3 Two and sometimes three monks were of the Treasury annually and arranged the payment of wages ; hence the entry " per Thesaurarios " which occurs in 1334. THE EARTHQUAKE OE 1382. John of Goodnyston (1349-1397), Sub-Prior,4 had charge of repairs after the earthquake, including the hon screen of the organ. The rebuUding of the north side of the Infirmary Chapel presumably included the nave only, for the north window of the Chancel stUl exists, and is a fine specimen of Kentish tracery of the same period as the great window of St. Anselm's Chapel, buUt in 1336. The Cloister waU was damaged on the eastern range from the door of the Chapter House to the door of the crypt beneath the Dormitory, then as now marked by a fine Norman arch and columns. The new roof, lead-covered, beyond the Martyrdom may have been that of the buUding extending into the Slype. The restored Malt-haU and MU1 were both at the Barton. PRIOR'S ACCOUNT OE 1411 AND PRIOR'S LIVERY LISTS. To Mr. Blore's interesting notes it may be added that Thomas Rudham appears among the Freemen of Canterbury by virtue of his marriage in 1401 to Joan atte Wade, a waxchandler's daughter. DISCOVERIES IN ARCHIVES OE CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL 41 The name of a WUham Lane appears on the List of Monks professed 1443, and a John Pyrye, professed in 14355 and died 1449, may perhaps be identified with the Surveyor and Clerk of 1398. Profession after active hfe was over for declining years was not uncommon. There was a famUy of the name of Pyrye in the city : Robert Pyrye, waxchandler, became free in 1414. One John Wulward occurs among the entrants to West Gate Ward in 1398, the year his namesake' appears among the Prior's Armigeri, but the entrant is described as a barber. ACCOUNT ROLL OE 1436. Archbishop Chichele (1414-1443) built a-new hbrary above the Prior's Chapel, and to it this entry must refer. It was burnt, with numerous priceless books and manuscripts, two years before the Suppression6. LEASE OE 1446. Robert Colbroke, Sacrist, died August 29, 1447, and Stone's Chronicle records his burial by the Prior, after Archbishop Stafford had celebrated the Mass of Requiem.7 Henry Chesman, mercer, to whom he leased a garden within the Cemetery, and Thomas Smythe of St. Sepulchre's, the former lessee, were both free of the city. Can the fact that the Masons' house caUed Le Loygge was situated in this quarter of the Precincts be associated with a tradition that in Saxon times a church of the Quatuor Coronati (the four martyred masons of Rome) stood there ?8 ACCOUNT ROLL OE 1453/4. John Pyle, described as a glass-wright, was for long a resident in Canterbury. He came into Northgate Ward in 1438, moved into Westgate Ward, and is last heard of there in 1454-5.9 ACCOUNT ROLL OE 1455/6. Many members of the Mayhew family resided in Canterbury at this time, but the only John on record (1426-7) is described as a chandler. Robert Haryngton, however, as a brazier, may be identified among the entrants to Northgate in 1458-9 ; he remained tUl 1470.10 ACCOUNT ROLL OE 1472/3. Thomas Goldstone I was buried in the Lady Chapel in 1468. The inscription on his gravestone had disappeared in Dart's time and the graves of John Oxney (Prior 1468-71) and of WUham Petham (August 42 DISCOVERIES IN ARCHIVES OE CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL 1471 to September 1472) were also forgotten and BonevUe's slabs of Purbeck marble had vanished.11 NOTES. 1 Cf. Searle (1902), p. 173. John Sturrey, Stordy. 2 Ibid., p. 174, for all these names, and cf. p. 169. Ostede may perhaps be Horsted in Sussex. 8 Searle, pp. 171 and 177. 4 Ibid., p. 181. 6 Ibid., p. 188. 0 Woodruff and Danks. Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral, 1912, p. 385. ' Chron. of John Stone, ed. Searle, p. 42. 8 Cf. Bede, Eccles. Hist. (Everyman), p. 76. 9 Cowper : Intrantes, pp. 77, 87. 10 Ibid., pp. 104, 119. 11 Dart (1727), p. 187.