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Revival at Glastonbury 1530–9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Robert W. Dunning
Robert W. Dunning*
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Victoria County History of Somerset
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It is curious that Glastonbury abbey should have attracted more attention for its beginnings than for its ending. The no-man’s-land between history, archaeology and legend, as misty and mysterious as the climate so often makes the abbey and its surroundings, has produced theory and counter-theory in abundance. In contrast, though the tragic deaths of abbot Whiting and his two companions have been described in minute detail a thousand times, little enough attention has been paid to the community which the king’s visitors found so much difficulty in bringing to an end. This community, well enough documented to permit the identification of all its members over the last fifteen years of its life, reveals characteristics which stand in marked contrast to the general level of religious life in the years immediately before the dissolution.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 14: Renaissance and Renewal in Christian History , 1977 , pp. 213 - 222
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1977

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13 LP 14 (2) pp 60-1.

14 WCM p 162 and n.

15 Ibid pp 159-64; RO 3 p 347.

16 WCM pp 159-64. The deposition of John Pantalion is inaccurate and incomplete.

17 Taken from the original, SUO D/D/Ca 10a p 23.

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21 Robert Joseph pp 13, 48, 270.

22 Made deacon in December 1525: SRO D/D/B reg 12 (register of bishop Clerk) fol 117v; PRO SC 6/Henry VIII/3115.

23 PRO SC 6/Henry VIII/3116.

24 Emden (O) 1501-40.

25 RO 3 p 379n. Whiting was made acolyte in September 1498, subdeacon in the following December, deacon in September 1499 and priest in March 1501: SRO D/D/B reg 9 (register of bishop King) fols 119r, 119v, 120v, 123r.

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29 With Nicholas Andrew making the three graduates referred to by the king’s visitors.

30 Geoffrey Bennyng, Thomas Brent, John Marke, John Pantalion, John Phagan, Thomas Weston and possibly John Aldhelm: Emden (O) 1501-40; Robert Joseph pp 270, 274, 280-1; PRO SC 6/Henry VIII/3116.

31 Emden (O) 1501-40.

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38 SRO D/D/B reg 9 (register of bishop King), fol 123v; reg 10 (register of bishop Hadrian) fol 150r. But Besyll first appears as Basill.

39 SRO D/D/B reg 10 (register of bishop Hadrian) fols 139r, 140v, 141r.

40 Other founders cited in Valor Ecclesiasticus (Record Commission, London 1810-34) 1 p 147 included king Lucius, queen Guinevre and king Henry VII. Athelney attempted a similar policy in the 1520s: SRO D/D/B reg 11 (register of Wolsey) fol 29v.

41 Knowles and Hadcock.

42 Wolsey, Clerke, Knyght and Bourne pp 84-8.

43 ‘Visitation 1526’ pp 211-13.

44 Wolsey, Clerke, Knyght and Bourne p 86 gives the total as 47.

45 PRO SC 6/Henry VIII/3115.

46 Warner p lxxi.

47 PRO SC 6/Henry VIII/3117-18.

48 Emden (O) 1501-40, p xxii.

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51 Archbold pp 151-2; MA 1 p 9.

52 Four rare cases are Robert Touker or Ider, John Shepard or Deruvian, John Pydesley or Phagan and William Godson or Dunstan: SRO D/D/B reg 10 (register of bishop Hadrian) fols 157r, 160r.

53 SRO D/D/Ca 21.

54 Emden (O) 1501-40.

55 VCH Somerset 3 (1974) p 34.

56 SRO D/P/crew 2/1/1.

57 SRO D/D/Vc 66.

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60 SRO D/P/crew 2/1/1.

61 SRO D/D/B reg 7 (register of bishop Stillington) fol 218v.

62 SRO D/D/B reg 8 (register of bishop Fox) fols 43r, 43v, 44r; reg 9 (register of bishop King) fols 117r, 119r, 121r.