Non-Residence in the Lincoln Diocese in the Early Sixteenth Century

Margaret Bowker

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Non-Residence in the Lincoln Diocese in the Early Sixteenth Century

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Lecturer in History and Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge

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In his Introduction to The Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517–1531, the late Professor Hamilton Thompson drew attention to the large number of pluralist and non-resident parish priests in the diocese in the early part of the sixteenth century. He could do no more than comment on a few cases, since the scribe did not bother to include in the comperta the names of all delinquents, their alleged reasons for non-residence nor the details about their licences. More recently attention has been drawn to the actual number of non-residents, but no attempt has been made to go behind the figures to the individual priests and parishes concerned.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , April 1964 , pp. 40 - 50

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^{page 40 note 1} Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517–1531, ed. Thompson, A. H., Lincoln Record Society, 1940, xxxiii, pp. xxx ffGoogle Scholar.

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^{page 40 note 3} Lincoln Record Office: Cj. 2. I am in the process of editing this book for the Lincoln Record Society. References to unpublished sources throughout this article are, unless otherwise stated, to MSS. at Lincoln.

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^{page 41 note 1} Visitation Monitions, 1500–1739 (unnumbered), June 1519.

^{page 41 note 2} Lyndwood, G., Provinciale, Oxford 1679, Lib. III, tit. 4, note yGoogle Scholar.

^{page 41 note 3} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 71.

^{page 41 note 4} Lincoln Chapter Acts, A. 3.3, fols. 139 ff.

^{page 41 note 5} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 42.

^{page 41 note 6} Ibid., 1–2.

^{page 41 note 7} Ibid., 2.

^{page 41 note 8} Cj. 2, fol. 84.

^{page 41 note 9} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 87.

^{page 41 note 10} Register XIII, fol. 154^v.

^{page 41 note 11} Register XX, fol. 160.

^{page 41 note 12} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 99.

^{page 41 note 13} Lyndwood, Provinciale, Lib. III, tit. 4, note z.

^{page 42 note 1} Cj. 2 passim and Moore, op. cit., 117 f.; Thompson, op. cit., passim.

^{page 42 note 2} Cj. 2, fol. 34^v.

^{page 42 note 3} Lyndwood, Provinciale, Lib. III, tit. 5, note c.

^{page 42 note 4} Cj. 2, passim.

^{page 43 note 1} Thompson, A. H., The English Clergy and their Organisation in the Later Middle Ages, Oxford 1947, 104Google Scholar.

^{page 43 note 2} Cj. 2, fol. 34^v.

^{page 43 note 3} Ibid., fols. 34^v, 35.

^{page 43 note 4} Absil, J., ‘L'absenteisme du clergé paroissial au diocése de Liége au XV^e siècle et dans la première moitié du XVI^e siècle’, Revue d'histoire Ecclesiastique, lvii (Louvain 1962), 8Google Scholar.

^{page 43 note 5} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 44.

^{page 43 note 6} Cj. 2, fol. 103^v.

^{page 43 note 7} Ibid., fol. 2.

^{page 43 note 8} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 9, 10, 11, 12³, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20², 21², 22², 25⁴, 26, 27², 28, 29, 30, 33.

^{page 43 note 9} Ed. Moore, op. cit., 146, 165, 209, 210², 211³, 212, 213, 214, 215, 217⁸.

^{page 43 note 10} Vj. 6, fols. 7, 7^v3, 8, 9, 9^v, 11², 11^v2, 12², 12^v, 13^v, 14^v, 15, 15^v2.

^{page 43 note 11} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 1², 3, 109, 110, 112, 113, 117; viz., in the parishes of Keyston, Ellington, Brington, Southoe, Kelshall, Munden Magna, Letchworth, Lilley.

^{page 43 note 12} Digswell, St. Nicholas Hertford, Hertingfordbury, Covington.

^{page 44 note 1} Woolley, Hemingford Abbots, Walkern, Sandon, Caldecote, Aston, Watton at Stone.

^{page 44 note 2} Hill, C., Economic Problems of the Church from Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament, Oxford 1956, 224 fGoogle Scholar.

^{page 44 note 3} Cj. 3, fols. 77–86^v.

^{page 44 note 4} Ibid., fol. 30.

^{page 44 note 5} Ibid., fol. 29^v.

^{page 44 note 6} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 37.

^{page 44 note 7} For examples in the diocese of Lincoln, see Register XXV, fols. 13, 15^v, 29^v; Cj. 2, fols. 5, 31, 84, 87, 89.

^{page 44 note 8} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 84.

^{page 44 note 9} Cj. 2, fol. 26^v.

^{page 45 note 1} Ed. Salter, op. cit., passim.

^{page 45 note 2} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 119, 122, 128; cf. Salter, op. cit., 256, 268, 276.

^{page 45 note 3} Salter, op. cit., 117

^{page 45 note 4} Cj. 2, fols. 26, 26^v2, 29, 29^v, 30^v, 31², 32², 35; ed. Thompson, op. cit., fols. 65³, 99, 123. A few more incumbents were fellows of Colleges: ibid., 1, 137; Cj. 2, fol. 25.

^{page 45 note 5} Cj. 2, fol. 35.

^{page 45 note 6} Epistolae Academicae, ed. H. Anstey, Oxford Historical Society, xxv, 1898, 2, no. 2.

^{page 46 note 1} Roper, M., ‘The Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln 1514–1521’ (Oxford unpublished B.Litt. thesis 1962), 124Google Scholar.

^{page 46 note 2} Ibid., 9–68.

^{page 46 note 3} Register XXIII, fol. 292.

^{page 46 note 4} Register XXV, fol. 76^v.

^{page 46 note 5} Ibid., fol. 53^v.

^{page 46 note 6} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 37, 131.

^{page 46 note 7} Register XXIII, fol. 391.

^{page 46 note 8} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 102.

^{page 46 note 9} Ed. Salter, op. cit., 203.

^{page 46 note 10} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 20.

^{page 46 note 11} Ibid., 81, 84, 94, 122, 123, 124.

^{page 46 note 12} Cj. 2, fols. 26, 34.

^{page 46 note 13} Ibid., fol. 104.

^{page 46 note 14} Ibid., fols. 25, 30, 31², 34^v.

^{page 47 note 1} Ibid., fol. 77; ed. Thompson, op. cit., 133.

^{page 47 note 2} Ed. Salter, op. cit., 184, 259.

^{page 47 note 3} Register XXV, fol. 44.

^{page 47 note 4} Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. J. S. Brewer, ii, pt. ii, No. 3173.

^{page 47 note 5} Cj. 2, fol. 31; ed. Thompson, op. cit., 56, 76.

^{page 47 note 6} Cj. 2, fol. 34^v.

^{page 47 note 7} Ibid., fol. 25.

^{page 47 note 8} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 110.

^{page 47 note 9} Cj. 2, fol. 34.

^{page 47 note 10} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 56.

^{page 47 note 11} Emden, A. B., A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, Oxford 1957. i. 385Google Scholar.

^{page 47 note 12} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 13.

^{page 47 note 13} Register XXV, fols. 3, 12, 13^v, 15^v, 17^v, 20^v2, 26^v, 30, 48^v2, 49^v, 63^v.

^{page 47 note 14} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 91.

^{page 47 note 15} Cj. 2, fol. 30^v.

^{page 48 note 1} Cj. 2, fol. 34^v.

^{page 48 note 2} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 40, 52, 54, 100², 119².

^{page 48 note 3} Ibid., 2, 3, 28, 33, 41, 44, 49, 53, 57, 59, 61, 62, 67³, 71², 73, 76, 88, 89, 94, 119², 125, 130, 132², 134.

^{page 48 note 4} Hawridge, Surfleet, Westwell, Wrangle.

^{page 48 note 5} Ibid., 67.

^{page 48 note 8} Ibid., 132.

^{page 48 note 7} Ibid., 130, 139.

^{page 49 note 1} Ibid., 30, 139.

^{page 49 note 2} Ibid., 132, 138.

^{page 49 note 3} Ibid., 2.

^{page 49 note 4} Ibid., 131.

^{page 49 note 5} Cj. 2, fols. 6, 7, 21^v, 36^v, 56^v, 66², 70, 73, 90^v, 93, 98; ed. Moore, op. cit., pt. ii, 607, 618; ed. Thompson, op. cit., 2, 44, 89, 90, 96, 121, 125, 126, 131, 133, 137.

^{page 49 note 6} Wootton, Iffley, Thoresway, Stoney Stanton, Manton.

^{page 49 note 7} Ed. Salter, op. cit., 98, 102, 104, 105, 119; viz., Kirkby Bellars, Countesthorpe chapel, Hugglescote, Stapleton chapel, Stretton Parva.

^{page 49 note 8} Ibid., 99, 105, 110, 118; viz., Lutterworth, Witherley, Loughborough, Carlton Curlieu.

^{page 49 note 9} du Boulay, F. R. H., ‘Charitable Subsidies granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury 1300–1489’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, xxiii, 162Google Scholar.

^{page 49 note 10} Unfortunately no parish accounts survive in the diocese which would prove this. Archdeaconry accounts indicate that mortuary fees due to the archdeacon from deceased priests were very heavy (Rev. L/1, 2, 3, and Rev. S/1).

^{page 49 note 11} Ed. Thompson, op. cit., 8–34.

^{page 50 note 1} Thompson, The English Clergy, 72.

^{page 50 note 2} Roper, ‘The Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln 1514–1521’, 115 ff.

^{page 50 note 3} Emden, op. cit., i, 73. His career strongly resembles those of bishops Smith and Longland; ibid., ii, 1160, iii. 1721.

^{page 50 note 4} Eton College Audit Rolls, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; Oxford University Register D, fols. 1–207.

^{page 50 note 5} Salisbury Cathedral Muniments, Chapter Acts, Tom. 14, fols. 125–32. William Wilton is stated as being the locum tenens for Atwater.

^{page 50 note 6} A.3.4, fol. 30^v.

^{page 50 note 7} Cj. 2, fol. 56^v.

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