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XX. Historical notices of the Great Bell Tower of the Abbey Church of St. Edmundsbury: in a Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
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The body of St. Edmund reposed in a basilica of wood until Canute, in a kingly spirit, animositate regia, raised a stone church to the honour of the martyr, which Egelnothus Archbishop of Canterbury, dedicated, with pomp, in 1032: and it is a remarkable fact in the history of our ecclesiastical architecture, that within half a century after the erection of this church it was pronounced unworthy of the improvement which had at that time taken place in the art of building. Baldwin, Abbot of St. Edmund's, under the auspices of the Conqueror, laid the foundations of another church, because, says the monk Hermannus, a contemporary, hœc quoque simplici facta schemate, non sic artificalis ut quœdam construuntur hoc tempore. The Presbytery of Baldwin's church, by the same author compared for magnificence to Solomon's Temple, was consecrated in 1095.
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page 327 note a Magno tabulatus op'e multitudo fidelis in Beodrici villa sibi basilicam condidit, in primis, qua temp'e Cnuti piissimi Regis et Emme eius bone memorie coniugis, posteritas monachilis dilectatione maiori lapideam reparavit, quæ etia ab Eadnodo Cantuariensi Archi Ep'o dedicata ad usq' tempora n'ra duravit: hæc quoq' simplici facta scemate, non sic artificalis ut queda' construuntur hoc temp'e, a gloriosissimi Regis Angloru' Willelmi primi suasu, monitu, jussu, jussa est alia construi, &c. Hermannus, MS. Cotton, Tib. B. II. fo. 77. Ubi quiescit humatus Sanctus Eadmundus Rex et Martyr. Liber Domesday.
page 327 note b Malmesb. fo. 41.
page 327 note c Regisfm Nigrura Abb. Burgi St. Edmundi, MS. Bibl. Pub. Cantab. M.M. 4.19. fo. 91 b. Reg'm Sacristae Abb. Burgi S. Edm. MS. Bibl. Pub, Cantab. F.F. 2. 23. fo. 21. 23 b.
page 327 note d Herm. fo. 80 b.
page 328 note e Cronica Joscelini de Brakelond, MS. Harl. 1005.
page 328 note f Attractum fecit magnum de lapidibus et sabulo ad magnam Turrim ecclesise construendam, &c. Ibid. fo. 123.
page 328 note g Ibid. fo. 131.
page 328 note h “The news of this mournful event (which occurred in 1187) plunged the Christian world into the deepest consternation. The aged Pontiff died of a broken heart; William King of Sicily wore sackcloth for four days, and vowed to take the Cross; the other princes condemned their indolence, and the avarice which had prompted them to prefer their own petty interests before that which they deemed the common cause of the Christian religion.” Lingard, Hist, of England, toni. II. fo. 148.
page 329 note i In the Chronicle a tedious passage follows, which is here omitted: it tends chiefly to show the Abbot's indifference to food, and his desire that the monks should imitate his. example in that respect.
page 329 note k Paltenerius.—Paltonarius, superbus, ferox, ex veteri Franco Pautonnier.—Du Cange. See also, Roquefort, Pautonier.
Then sayde our kyng of renon,
That hyghte Rychard Coer de Lyon,
“Off your sawes I am blythe;
Let see arme you now swythe!
Ster you my galye, Trenchemer;
I wol asaye that Paiutener.
With myn ax I schal hem frape,
Ther schal no Sarezyn escape!”
Richard Coer de Lion, Weber's Metr. Rom. vol. II. p. 99. And you schall hear a totted frere
Say “stryke Pautnere.” The Kyng and the Hermyt. British Bibliograph. torn. IV. p. 90.
page 329 note l A wrangler.
page 329 note m Registrum Curteys, abb. Burgi S. Edmundi penes Edm. Wodehouse, Arm. fo. 87 b.88.
page 329 note n De lamentabili casu magni Campanilis in occid. fine ejusdem monastery. Indentura receptorum abhatis. Ibid. fo. 309.
page 330 note o De adventu Regis Henrici Sexti ad monasterium de S'c'o Edm'. Ibid. fo. 110. Archæologia, torn. XV. fo. 65. The Infirmary was also in ruins at that time.
page 330 note p Regm. Nigrum, passim.
page 330 note q Regm. Curteys, fol. 309.
page 330 note r Ibid. fo. 293 b.
page 300 note s Ibid. fo. 308.
page 332 note t Indentur a dat. 1 Sept. 17 Hen. VI. Ibid. fo. 308 b.
page 332 note u Ibid. fo. 318 b. 319. This document will be found, numbered xxxvii. in the Appendix to the History of St. Edmundsbury Monastery. Dugdale's Monasticon Angl. Lond. 1819.
page 332 note x Regm. Curteys, fo. 323.
page 332 note y In front of St. James's Church is a deep shore or channel, now arched over, which was open within the memory of man, and subject to overflow.
page 333 note z Inter alia, “Itm lego fabrice nov' Campanill raon' S'c'i Edm' iijs. iiijd.” Testam' Joh'is Hert; dat. 21 Sept. 144-1; prob. 16 Nov. sequ. Reg'm Osbern, so. 248. If lego ad fabricam novi Campanil' diet' mon' iiijor marc'. Testam' Dionysice Redgys; dat' 26 Julii, 1449; prob' 12 Aug. sequ. Reg'm Haulee; fo. 129.
page 333 note a In p'mis lego a'i'am mea' Deo O'ipotenti, B'ae Mariae Virg', et o'ib's Sc's, corpus q'3 meu eccle'asticae sepulturse, videl'3 sub lapide jacente in mago ostio novi campanil' Mo'st'ii S'c'i Ed'i in Bury p'd'. Testam' Joh'is Amy dat' 4 Mali, 1461; probat. 20 Julii sequ'. Ibid.
page 333 note b It' lego ad cel'iorem expedic'onem campanilis Monast' de Bury, S'c'i Ed'i noviter faciend' xxvjs. viijd. Testam' Matth. Robert; dat. 2 Apr. 1465; prob. 8 Mali, sequ. Ibid, fo. 85.
page 333 note c Itm lego ad edificationem novi Campanil' in Monasterio p'd'ct' qui'que libras. Testam. Thomas Eden; dat. 4 Sept. 1495; prob' 20 Mail anno sequ. Reg'm Pye.fo. 44. Itm, I bequeath to the bylding of the new Stepyll wtin the said Monastery, vjs. viijd. Testam. Gul Legat; dat. 4 Julii, 1500; prob. die Luna, p'x post festum exalt' S. Cruets. Ibid, fo. 100.