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2. The Early History of the Priory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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page ix note 2 Eadmer, Historia Nov. in Anglia (Rolls Ser.), p. 16 ; Gervase of Canterbury, Opera (Rolls Ser.), ii. 368 ; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum (Rolls Ser.), p. 72 ; Leland, Collectanea, ed. T. Hearne, i. 84.

page ix note 3 Ungedmckte Anglo-Normannische Geschichtsquellen, ed. F. Liebermann, p. 4.

page ix note 4 Thomas of Elmham, Historia Monasterii Sancti Augusiini (Rolls Ser.), p. 224. It was not unusual for a community to have been established some time before it received a charter recording its endowments ; see Galbraith, V. H., ‘ Monastic Foundation Charters ’, Camb. Hist. Journal, iv. 3Google Scholar.

page ix note 5 Somner, , Antiquities of Canterbury (1640), p. 89Google Scholar.

page ix note 1 See Appendix I for contemporary charters relating to the house which are not included in the cartulary. No attempt has been made to collect together any original charters of a later date than that of the cartulary.

page ix note 2 Eadmer, Historia Nov. in Anglia (Rolls Ser.), p. 16; Gervase of Canterbury, Opera (Rolls Ser.), ii. 368; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum (Rolls Ser.), p. 72; Leland, Collectanea, ed. T. Hearne, i. 84.

page ix note 3 Ungedruckte Anglo-Normannische Geschichtsquellen, ed. F. Liebermann, p. 4.

page ix note 4 Thomas of Elmham, Historia Monasterii Sancti Augustini (Rolls Ser.), p. 224. It was not unusual for a community to have been established some time before it received a charter recording its endowments; see V. H. Galbraith, ‘ Monastic Foundation Charters ’, Camb. Hist. Journal, iv. 3.

page ix note 5 Somner, Antiquities of Canterbury (1640), p. 89.

page x note 1 Cartulary no. 14.

page x note 2 J. C. Dickinson, Origins of the Austin Canons, pp. 104–5.

page x note 3 College of Arms, Arundel MS. 28, fo. 12v.–13r.; ecclesiam sancti Gregorii Cantuar’ sitam a Willelmo archiepiscopo religione decoratam … proferamus.

page x note 4 See Dickinson, ibid., pp. 105, 147, who holds that St. Gregory's was first founded as a hospital. But in support of the separate foundation of St. John's Hospital, Northgate, see V.C.H. Kent, ii. 211, and Lambeth MSS. 1131 and 1132, from which Battely wrote a full account of it (Bibl. Topog. Brit., i. 173–296). Lanfranc endowed Northgate and Harbledown hospitals together with £140 yearly, payable out of archiepiscopal estates in Reculver and Boughton under Blean. Archbishop Richard's alteration of the endowment quotes this : cum olim bone memorie Lanfrancus predecessor noster duo hospitalia unum scilicet apud Herebaldun’ et aliud apud Cant' extra Northgate instituisset et ad sustentationem fratrum hinc leprosorum illinc claudorum cecorum et debilium septies viginti libras sterling' de duobus maneriis videlicet de Raculfe et Boct’ annuatim percipiendas assignasset (quoted by Battely, ibid., p. 129, in his notes on Reculver).

page x note 5 Cartulary no. 33.

page xi note 1 B. L. Woodcock, Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of Canterbury, pp. 126–31.

page xi note 2 Hasted, History of Kent, iv. 267.

page xi note 3 Canterbury Psalter, ed. M. R. James, fos. 285r. and 286r., and p. 53.

page xi note 4 Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 6159, fo. 10. There are various other copies of this will in Christ Church Registers.

page xi note 5 Ex officio and probate business were dealt with at afternoon sessions in St. Gregory's, after instance cases had been heard in the cathedral in the mornings (D. & C. Cant. Y.I.II, Liber Correctionum, 1468–74).

page xi note 6 Reg. Pecham, fo. 112b and fo. 26, quoted by I. J. Churchill, ‘ Table of Canterbury Archiepiscopal Charters ’, Camden Soc., 3rd series, 41.

page xi note 7 I. J. Churchill, Canterbury Administration, p. 546 n.

page xii note 1 D. & C. Cant., Register A, fo. 151V.

page xii note 2 Brit. Mus., Stowe Ch., 27.

page xii note 3 A considerable amount of polemic writing was produced on this topic, in the defence of the one house or the other. See Thomas of Elmham, Historia Monasterii Sancti Augustini (Rolls Ser.), pp. 223 ff.; Thorne, Chronica, ed. A. H. Davis, pp. 236 ff.; Capgrave, Nova Legenda Anglie, ed. Horstman, ii. 197; and Goscelin, Libellus contra inanes usurpatores sancte Mildrithe, Brit. Mus., Vespasian B xx.

page xii note 4 In 1189, during the struggle with Baldwin (Gervase, Opera (Rolls Ser.), p. 451); again in 1239, during a quarrel about the election of Prior Roger (Gervase, Gesta Regum (Rolls Ser.), ii. 153); and in 1241, during a quarrel with the archdeacon of Canterbury (ibid., p. 181).