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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
Before relating the curious episode in the history of ecclesiastical institutions which forms the subject of this paper, a few words on the constitution of the institution concerned are necessary.
Beverley Minster, the quasi-cathedral church of the East Riding of Yorkshire, was, until its dissolution in 1548, a college of nine secular canons. The Archbishop of York quà Archbishop was reputed (and disputed) founder, patron, visitor, head, and a canon, besides being lord of the manor and town of Beverley.
page 2 note a Vol. ii. 3 pages after 59.
page 2 note b See Mr. J. Bilson's paper on its remains, and what it was, in Archaeologia, Vol. LIV., pp. 425–432Google Scholar.
page 6 note a The versicle and response at prime, “Preciosa in conspectu domini mors sanctorum ejus,” after which all went out to the chapter-house, where the Martyrology was read and the business of the day transacted.
page 8 note a Poulson, George, Beverlac; or the Antiquities and History of the town of Beverley, in the county of York, and of the Provostry and Collegiate Establishment of St. John's (London, 1829), ii. 532Google Scholar.
page 8 note b British Museum, Lansdown MS. 896, f. 132.
page 12 note a Rolls of Parliament, iii. 183.
page 12 note b Reg. Neville, i. 65b.
page 13 note a Reg. Neville, i. 66.
page 13 note b Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of Lincoln, communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Lincoln, July, 1848 (London, 1850), 316.Google Scholar
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page 19 note a i.e. St. John of Beverley, 7th May.