Bishop Gundulf’s arrangements for the monk’s clothing,

Bishop Gundulf’s arrangements for the clothing of the monks, c.1089–c.1108¹. Textus Roffensis, ff. 196r–196v. Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.

196r (select folio number to open facsimile)

_Hęc sunt quę ordinata sunt a domino nostro Gundulfo episcopo ad uestitum monachorum.

De Rouecestra, x libras. De molendino eiusdem uillę, xxx solidos. De cellario, xxiiii solidos. De Frandesberia, v libras et x solidas. De Stoches, xxx solidos. De Fletis, iiii libras et x solidos. De W[u]ldeham, maiori et minori, xxx solidos. De Hederham, v libras. De Tarenteford, ii libras. De Northfletis, iii libras et x solidos. De Cantuarię, iii libras. De Bullocesfelde, ii libras. De Grean, xv solidos. De Ærhetha, xx solidos. De Adeloldo de Cilesfelda, x solidos. De Uulmero eiusdem uillę, x solidos. Rodbertus de Uuateuilla, xv solidos. Radulfus Pincerna, vi solidos et viii denarios. De archidiacono, x solidos.

Willelmus de Editune, v solidos. Heimfred, vi solidos et viii denarios. Hunfrith Canuth, x solidos. Radulfus Pincerna, v solidos, de Culingis.

Et omnis decimas quas Anschetillus archidiaconus de Cantuaria tenebat de Adam fratre Eudonis Dapiferi.

Osbernus de Biliceham, xii solidos, Godefridus de Scræmbroce, x solidos. Ulgerius nepos

196v

Geroldi, v solidos. De Æilesford, xx solidos. De Suðtune, xx solidos. De Uuleuuic, iiii solidos. De Ciselherste, iiii solidos.

Translation

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HERE ARE THE ARRANGEMENTS BY OUR LORD AND BISHOP GUNDULF² FOR THE CLOTHING OF THE MONKS.

From Rochester, 10 pounds. From the mill-house of the same estate, 30 shillings. From the cellarer,³ 24 shillings. From Frindsbury, 5 pounds and 10 shillings. From Stoke, 30 shillings. From Fleet, 4 pounds and 10 shillings. From Wouldham, Greater and Lesser, 30 shillings. From Haddenham,⁴ 5 pounds. From Dartford, 2 pounds. From Northfleet, 3 pounds and 10 shillings. From Canterbury, 3 pounds. From Bullocksfield,⁵ 2 pounds. From Grain,⁶ 15 shillings. From Erith, 20 shillings. From Æthelwold of Chelsfield,⁷ 10 shillings. From Wulmer of the same estate, 10 shillings. Robert of Watteville, 15 shillings. Ralf Pincerna,⁸ 6 shillings and 8 pennies. From the archdeacon, 10 shillings. William of Addington, 5 shillings. Heimfred, 6 shillings and 8 pennies. Hunfrith Canuth, 10 shillings. Ralf Pincerna of Cooling, 5 shillings. And of all tithings which Anschetill archdeacon of Canterbury was holding from Adam,⁹ brother of Eudo Dapifer. ¹⁰ Osbern of Belceham,¹¹ 12 shillings. Godfrid of Scræmbroce,¹² 10 shillings. Ulger, grandson of Gerald, 5 shillings. From Aylesford, 20 shillings. From Sutton, 20 shillings. From Woolwich, 4 shillings. From Chislehurst, 4 shillings.

Footnotes

1 The document lists Haddenham as one of the estates contributing to the clothing fund. Since the grant of Haddenham to St Andrew’s Priory at Rochester was confirmed after the death of archbishop Lanfranc in 1089, this is the earliest possible date of the original document. Bishop Gundulf died in 1108, thus marking the latest possible date. See notes 2 and 4 below.

2 Bishop Gundulf, second of the post-Conquest bishops of Rochester, was a monastic bishop, serving also as prior of the cathedral’s priory (St Andrew’s). He was consecrated as bishop in 1077 and served as bishop and prior until his death in 1108.

3 The cellarer was one of the obedientaries (senior monks) of the monastery. He would have kept his own accounts.

4 In Buckinghamshire. This estate was granted to Gundulf by archbishop Lanfranc, but after the archbishop’s death in 1089, King William II (William Rufus) disputed the grant forcing Gundulf to make a concession of fortifying Rochester Castle in exchange for the estate. A copy of the Domesday Book entry for Haddenham (‘Hedreham’) is preserved in Custumale Roffense, f. 8r, and the transference of the estate (‘Hedenham’) to Gundulf is recorded in a charter in Textus Roffensis, 173r.

5 Unidentified, but apparently somewhere in the parish of Bletchingley: kentarchaeology.ac, p. 224, n. 17.

6 Isle of Grain.

7 He was probably a knight and the brother of Baldwin, a monk of Rochester. See H. Tsurushima, ‘The Fraternity of Rochester Cathedral Priory about 1100’, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1991, Anglo-Norman Studies 14 (1992), 313–337, at 326.

8 The surname pincerna means ‘butler’ or ‘cupbearer’; see Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources: http://logeion.uchicago.edu/index.html#pincerna.

9 Adam Sinclair, commissioner of Domesday Book and wealthy Norman landowner, serving under Bishop Odo. See: fionamsinclair.co.uk

10 Eudo Dapifer (dapifer is Latin for ‘server’, one who waits at tables), a Norman aristocrat, served as steward for William the Conqueror, William Rufus and Henry I. See Henry Ellis, A General Introduction to Domesday Book (1833), pp. 415–16.

11 Unidentified; however, there is a Belce Wood (Old English, Bylce wudu) in Sturry, Canterbury, which may indicate the approximate area. See Judith Glover, The Place Names of Kent (London: Batsford, 1976), p. 15.

12 Unidentified. The spelling has not been modernised; possibly ‘Sharnbrook’.