^{page xiii note a} In Appendix A. will be found a tabnlated list of these Indulgences, which I have compiled from the originals.

^{page xiv note a} See Appendix L.

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^{page xiv note c} Political Poems and Songs, I. 251, 252.

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^{page xvi note a} A list of Altars in the Cathedral will be found in Appendix B.

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^{page xix note a} It will be found in Appendix D.

^{page xix note b} The King's devotion to the Holy See is very admirable: one wonders whether it would have been displayed quite as eagerly if Thomas had not been “inimicus et rebellis Noster.”

^{page xix note c} H. T. Riley, French Chronicle of London, pp. 257–8.

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^{page xx note b} A paper by Mr. H. Syer Cuming upon this effigy will be found in the Journal of the British Archæological Association, xxxv. 385Google Scholar; an engraving of the figure is appended to the paper.

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^{page xxi note c} That is, in the College of the Minor Canons, who had houses and a Common Hall adjacent to the Cathedral.

^{page xxi note d} The fine bold hand for which our Scriptorium was famous.

^{page xxii note a} Admirable man! 0 si sic omnes!

^{page xxii note b} The Collects in Article IX. are the only portions so marked. As I have printed these Collects as a separate Article, it has. not been necessary to retain the inverted commas.

^{page xxii note c} I am bound to admit that the task of arranging the Offices In order has been one of considerable difficulty. There are still one or two portions as to which it is very hard to decide whether they should be arranged rhythmically or not.

^{page xxii note d} Professor Stubbs, Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum, gives 675 A.D, as the date of S. Erkenwald's consecration, and [693] Ap. 30, as the date of his death.

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^{page xxv note a} S. Martin Vintry, destroyed in the Great Fire; the parish is now united to S. Michael Royal.

^{page xxv note b} His words are “publicavi, exposui, et intimavi, ac ad eorum notitiam deduxi, et singulis anctoritate dicti mandati publice mandavi et injunxi.”

^{page xxv note c} Dean of S. Paul's 1294–1305, Bishop of London 1305–1313.

^{page xxv note d} Dean of S, Paul's 1441–1456.

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^{page xxv note f} “Ac etiam pannos aureos ante Festum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli in Choro pendentes ponent.” Registrum, 368–9Google Scholar. De Officio Servientium.

^{page xxv note g} “Wharton, Historia, de Episcopis et Dccanis, 155Google Scholar, “dimissa forma veteri, quse Usus S. Pauli dicebatur.”

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^{page xxvi note a} Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England, 2nd edit. p. lx.Google Scholar

^{page xxvi note b} The office of Cardinal still remains in the Cathedral. The present Cardinals are the Rev. W. H. Milman and the Editor of this volume.

^{page xxvi note c} Monumenta Ritualia, ii. 341.Google Scholar

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^{page xxvi note f} “That the old Use of S. Paul's was held in high estimation, we have a proof in an order relating to Barking Monastery, in Essex, about 1390,” in which it is directed that, according to the ancient Customs of that House, “conventus priedictus tres modos diversos habeat sui servitii dicendi; primo horas suas dicat secundum regulam Sancti Benedicti; Psalterium suum secundum cursum Curiæ Romanæ; Missam vero secundum Usum Ecclesiæ Sancti Pauli Londoniarum.” Maskell, , Ancient Liturgy, lxi. lxiiGoogle Scholar. Dugdale, , Monast. Anglic. i. 437Google Scholar, note^R. It will be remembered that Barking Monastery was founded by S. Erkenwald.

^{page xxvii note a} Harleian MS. No. 2787.

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^{page xxvii note d} Infra, p. 15, and p. 24.

^{page xxvii note e} Sarum Breviary, 409–426.Google Scholar

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^{page xxvii note g} Ibid. 355–9.

^{page xxviii note a} Jumièges, I suppose. Orbis Latinus gives Jumièges, Gementicum.

^{page xxviii note b} Acta Sanctorum, a Godefrido Henschenio et Daniele Papebrochio. Aprilis, iii. 790, fo. Parisiis et Romæ, 1866.

^{page xxviii note c} Dugdale, , 327.Google Scholar

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^{page xxviii note e} “The original Pauline Manuscript remained among the treasures of the Cathedral, over which its author presided, for three centuries and a half. It was there when Edward I. searched the libraries of the monasteries for historical arguments in favour of his claims over Scotland.” Prof. Stubbs, Historical Works of Ralph de Diceto. Introduction.

^{page xxix note a} That is, a set of Vestments for Priest, Deacon, and Sub-Deacon.

^{page xxix note b} Several communications relating to these Altar-cloths will be found in Notes and Queries (series iv. vol. ix. 317, 416, 475; vol. x. 60). The Altar Frontals are said to be three in number, and of exquisite texture. They are embroidered with the subjects of the Ascension of our Lord and the Assumption of the B. V. Mary.

^{page xxix note c} “Convey the wise it call,” saith Ancient Pistol.

^{page xxix note d} A long note upon these Collects will be found at pages 39 and 40.

^{page xxx note a} He died March 5, 1694–5, in his thirty-first year. A short but highly appreciative and touching notice of Henry Wharton, and of his early death, will be found in Mr. J. E. Green's Stray Studies, 159–163.Google Scholar

^{page xxxi note a} I am not aware that Wharton's MS. had ever attracted any attention until I printed it in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society. In the present impression of it, I have entirely rewritten and largely extended the annotations.

^{page xxxii note a} Petrus Episcopus Corbanensis, that is, I suppose, Bishop of Corbey, near Amiens.

^{page xxxiii note a} Archdeacon Hessey has pointed out to me that Jeremy Taylor nses the word “angariation” for compulsion.

^{page xxxiii note b} Gervase: quoted in Memorials of Westminster Abbey, 450–541Google Scholar. See also Hook, 's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, ii. 534, 535.Google Scholar

^{page xxxiv note a} Infra, pp. 47, 48.

^{page xxxiv note b} The whole Chronicle is so short that I regret I did not print it in its entirety in Article XI. In deference to the suggestions of friends I have atoned for this omission by printing the early part of these Chroniculi in Appendix M. If Appendix M be prefixed to Article XI. the reader will possess the whole of the little volume.

^{page xxxiv note c} The Cathedral possesses a later volume, called the Statuta Minora, far inferior in the size both of the writing and of the volume itself, but containing much more matter.

^{page xxxiv note d} It is not quite easy to add up the total amount: there are some discrepancies in the various sums not readily to be explained.

^{page xxxvi note a} Stow, 's Survey, by Stype, i. 638.Google Scholar

^{page xxxvi note b} Ibid. 639.

^{page xxxvii note a} In the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, in a volume marked London Plans &c. vol. 4, is a rare plate of the City of London, in which the noble spire of the Cathedral is very well exhibited. On the plate are the three following inscriptions:

“A prospect of parte of ye citye of London Southward to ye Thames wherein you may beholde ye very forme of ye most famous Church of St Paule.

“The lengthe of Paules church is 720 foote, the bredthe 130, and the Steeple of Stone worke now standinge in height from ye ground is 260 foote.

“This Spere woh was of ti'ber coverd with lead was in height 260 Foote & in Anno D'ni 1561 wass burnte downe.”

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^{page xxxvii note c} Becon, , The Displaying of the Popish Mass. iii. 257Google Scholar. (Parker Society.)

^{page xxxvii note d} Collier, J. Payne, Extracts from Registers of the Stationers' Company, i. 39.Google Scholar

^{page xxxviii note a} This very curious tract is, reprinted in Bishpp Pilkington's Works. (Barker Society.)

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^{page xxxviii note c} For a notice of these exceedingly rare tracts, see Appendix H.

^{page xxxviii note d} In Archæologia, xi. 74Google Scholar, and in Sir Henry Ellis's, edition of Dugdale's S. Paul's, 95.Google Scholar

^{page xxxviii note e} Fuller, , Clvwrch History, edit. Brewer, iv. 313.Google Scholar

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^{page xxxix note d} i. e. ready made, Machyn's Diary, 261.Google Scholar

^{page xxxix note e} Ibid. 271. The entry is not dated, but the entry immediately preceding is dated Oct. 30, and that which follows is dated Nov. 1.

^{page xl note a} The Letters are printed in the Correspondence of Archbishop Parker (Parker Society), pp. 142–179. Soe also Dugdale, , 98.Google Scholar

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^{page xli note a} The Press mark of the volume is W. C. 16.

A very fine series of Account Books of the Charges incurred for various works in the Cathedral is preserved in the Eecord Room. The accounts from 1633 to 1664 fill sixteen volumes; from 1675 to 1749 they occupy thirty-nine volumes. They are for the most part very carefully written on vellum; and in some cases we have also the earlier paper books in which the entries were first made.

^{page xli note b} Calendar, State Paper, Domestic, Jas. I. vols. 35, 37.

^{page xli note c} Calendar, State Papers, vol. 113, March 20.

^{page xli note d} Calendar of State Papers, Public Record Office, vol. 261, f. 255 b.

^{page xlii note a} Calendar of State Papers, vol. 324, fo. 10.

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^{page xliii note c} Ibid. v. 466.

^{page xliii note d} See further, in this Introduction, p. 1.

^{page xliv note a} Calendar, Domestic, Elizabeth, 1577, June 26 (Case B. Elizab. No. 14.)

^{page xliv note b} See also in the Works of Archbishop Laud, his Letter to the Bishops of his Province, dated Lambeth, 31 January, 1633; his Letter to the Lord Mayor,Lambeth, 28 April, 1634; and his Letters to the Bishop of Lincoln from Croydon, 17 July, 1635, and 6 January, 1636. Works, vi. 344–5, 369–70, 428, 478.

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^{page xlvii note c} The Poems of Bishop Corbet. The Fourth Edition, edited by Octavius Gilchrist, 80 Lond. 1807. pp. 5, 6. Thomas Ravis, Bishop of London, died 14 Dec. 1609. Le Neve.

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^{page lii note a} It will hardly be believed that when I became Hector of S. Matthew's, Friday Street, in 1857, a brass rod with curtains ran along.the eastern end of the principal block of pews: these curtains were drawn during morning prayer and litany, entirely intercepting any view of the altar, and were undrawn (not without noise) when the Clergyman passed from the reading-desk to the altar.

^{page lii note b} “Such an instance was once mentioned to the writer by Bishop Eden, the present Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.” Note in The English Church, &c. ii. 423.Google Scholar

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^{page lv note a} In 1645 was printed, “An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons, inabling the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to seize and sequester into their hands all the houses, rents, and revenues belonging to the deane, deane and chapter, and all other officers belonging to the Cathedrall Church of Pauls London; and for paying Dr Burges 400 pounds per annum, for a publike lecture in the said church: as also for setling Master Philip Goodwin in the Vicarage at Watford.” (40 Lohd. 1648.)

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^{page lviii note a} Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, edit. 1873, i. 55, 56.Google Scholar

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^{page lx note a} See supra, p. 1.

^{page lx note b} See note on Lollard's Tower in Appendix J.

^{page lx note c} Examination and Writings of John Philpot (Parker Society), 7.

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^{page lxi note a} The Spectator, No. 552, 12 3, 1712Google Scholar. The paper from which it is taken is attributed to Steele (as transcriber).

^{page lxii note a} An octavo of sixteen pages, London, 1710.

^{page lxii note b} Referred to as Dr, H. in another part of the pamphlet; i. e. Dr. Hare, Prebendary of Portpoole, 27 Feb. 1706–7; Dean of S. Paul's, 1726–40; successively Bishop of S. Asaph and of Chichester.

^{page lxii note c} Fact against Scandal, 80, London, 1713, p. 19.Google Scholar

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^{page lxv note a} I trust that I shall have the indulgence of members of so grave and learned a Society as the Camden Society for printing such frivolous matter as this particular section. I felt reluctant to omit even trivial illustrations of a subject which interests me very deeply.

^{page lxv note b} In Appendices B and C.

^{page lxv note c} A full-sized copy, in pen and ink, by N. Whittock, will be found in the Grace Collection at South Kensington. It is 10 feet long by 17 inches high.

^{page lxvi note a} Maitland's London, 1171, 1172; see also Stow, and Dugdale. The order followed in the text is that of Maitland.

^{page lxvi note b} The Tower of S. Gregory's Church was pulled down in 1688. Malcolm, , Lond. Rediv. 104.Google Scholar

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^{page lxvi note d} Malcolm preserves an estimate of repairs in 1608, made by John Record and Richard Smith, masons (from the original preserved at S. Paul's).

“The Weste end of the church, with Lollard's Tower, and the tower next my lord's honse, on the Weste side, with the two turrets over the topp of the stayre cases.

“From the Steeple to Lollard's Tower 240 feet.”

The west end of the old Church was not taken down till 1686. “In the same year a great qnantity of old alabaster was beaten into powder for making cement. These fragments were donbtless monumental effigies which once adorned the Church.” Londinium Redivivum, 74, 75, 104.Google Scholar

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