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A42341	The history of the Church of Peterburgh wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history not unworthy publick view, are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick ...	Gunton, Simon, 1609-1676.; Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1686 (1686)	Wing G2246; ESTC R5107	270,254	362

the Emperor both by Sea and Land to hinder any from coming to it Two Cardinals many Prelates both Bishops and Abbots and other Clergymen especially those that went by Sea were taken by the favourers of the Emperor Whereupon the Pope Excommunicated him and absolved all the Barons of Germany from their Allegiance Thus that Chron. of John Abbot Whether Martin got thither or no I do not find but it was in this year as Mr. G. hath related that Gregory the Ninth granted to this Monastery that which they have intituled Magnum privilegium bearing date Anno gratiae Millesimo ducentesimo vicesimo octavo quarto idus Januarii In which besides that priviledge mentioned by Mr. G. there are these among others remarkable that he frees them from paying any Tythe of the Land which they kept in their own hands and Ploughed or Fed themselves And that there should be libera sepultura in this place for any that desired in their last Will or otherwise to be here buried which none should presume to hinder except he were an excommunicated person or interdicted or exercised publick Usury and saving also the rights of other Churches from which the dead bodies were brought In the year 1230. he asserted the liberties of the Church in Alwalton and Fletton against the pretences of the Abbot of Thorney as I find in an old record which begins thus Anno ab incarnatione Domini MCC XXX in Crastino Apostolorum Philippi Jacobi dirationavit Abbas Martinus libertates suas de Alwalton Fletton contra Abbatem de Thorney apud Westm coram Justic de Banco sicut in eorum rotulis continetur infrerius scriptum est c. The next year as Mr. G. observes the Bishop of Lincoln visited this Church the next day after the Feast of St. Laurence where a great many things were agreed on by the common consent of the Abbot and Convent and confirmed by the Episcopal authority under pain of Excommunication One was that the Abbot should not borrow any money upon Usury of the Jews nor of any Christians cum aliqua poenae adjectione without the consent of the Convent nor in that case ever ingage the Monastery or the Goods of the Monastery moveable or immovable Another was that the Sacrist of the Church should have as had been accustomed the Horses and all other things with the bodies of the Milites deceased With this moderation that if any Horse of a deceased Knight was worth more than four Mark the Abbot should have him and his Arms or the price of them should be laid up in some safe place by the Abbot with the privity of the Convent for defence of the Country and of the peace of the Church and with the money Arms should be mended and sustained In this year also an Inquisition was made by his Order into all the Mannors belonging to the Church and the Lands Tenements Tenants Customs c. are particularly set down belonging to every one of them It begins thus Ad festum Sancti Martini ad Pentecost per Chartam Domini Martini Abbatis Haec Inquisitio facta fuit per Maneria Domini Martini Abbatis secundi anno quinto anno ab incarnatione Domini M. CC. XXXI c. Two years after this he dyed as John Abbot tells us in his Chron. An. MCCXXXIII Martinus Abbas Burgi ob cui successit Abbas Walterus The day on which he dyed was the 26th of June where I find in the Kalander Depositio Martini Abbatis I have not room to insert several compositions and agreements made by him One in the year 1230. between him and Richard de Midelton about a Pond and a Mill in Cotingham and other things fol CLXXIIII Another 123. between him and the Rector of Bernake de decimis Lapidicinae Fol. CC. Another between him and John Earl of Huntendune in the same year about the Fishery and other things Fol. CCIII There was a Bridge then in Burgh called Pons Martini Martins Bridge which was sometimes called Bruni nigh unto which Hugo Fluri of Dodicthorp had a Messuage which he released unto the Abbot Which Hugo by the consent of his Wife Dionysia was a Benefactor to the Abbey in Martin's time many ways as appears by several Charters of his at the end of Swapham Fol. CCXXI c. WALTER de S. Edmundo This man though born at St. Edmundsbury was bred up here as Mr. G. relates and as Swapham tells us who gives a large account of his life was chosen Abbot by the unanimous consent of the Monks At his installation he offered a great Pall Flowred with Peacocks with a rich Cope and many other things of value And then applied himself to inlarge both the Buildings and the Revenue of the Church for he made the entrance of the new Refectory with great expences and many great buildings below his Palace especially that great House in which were two Horse Mills and a Barn for Hay and the Kitchin of the Abbot apud Grangias Burgi one new Grange and Boveriam novam covered with Stone He renewed the Grange at Thorp and made a new Bovaria at Castre at Warmington and at Owndle and a great many other places which Swapham mentions where he saith he built an incredible number of Barns or Granges or Oxstalls or Summer-houses besides Lands which he purchased He augmented the Revenue of the Infirmary with the increase of fifty seven Shillings out of a certain Rent at Stamford which he bought The Rents also of the Hospitalary he increased and both procured several grants of Lands from other devout people and setled those that had been formerly given For I find that Henry Rector of Paston for the health of his Soul and in gratitude for the Benefice he had received from Walter Abbot of Burgh and the Convent there gave with his body all the Lands he had in Paston in Burgh in Wermington c. to this Church Fol. CCI. Henry of Wermington his Nephew gave likewise a great deal to the same Church And Galfridus de Northbruc made a very great gift of a Capital Messuage of his with all the Lands Rents Tenements and all appurtenances in Norbruc Makesheye Nunton and all other places where he had any estate which are particularly mentioned in his Grant Fol. CCXIX. He took an account of all the expences of the Granary and of the stipends of Servants and Officers and especially the expences on the several great Feasts of the Church which still remain under this Title explanatio liberationis expensae de granario Burgi per annum de diversis mensuris ejusdem de sol Servientium curiae in tempore Abbatis Walteri ante There arose in his time a great controversie between this Church and the Canons of Landa about the Church of Pithesle and after a long suit the Canons yielded it to Burgh whereupon Pope Vrban confirmed the Church of Burgh in the possession of it I find agreements made between him and

teacheth Wulfade the feyth And words of Baptism over him he seyth Col. 3. Seynt Chad devoutly to Mass him dight And hoseled Wulfade Christy 's knight Col. 4. Wulfade wished Seynt Chad that day For his brother Rufine to pray THE FOURTH WINDOW Col. 1. Wulfade told his Brother Rufine That he was Christned by Chaddys doctrine Col. 2. Rufine to Wulfade said again Christned also would I be fain Col. 3. Wulfade Rufine to Seynt Chad leedeth And Chad with love of Faith him feedeth Col. 4. Rufine is Christned of Seynt Chaddys And Wulfade his Brother his Godfather is THE FIFTH WINDOW Col. 1. Werbode Steward to King Wulfere Told that his Sons Christned were Col. 2. Toward the Chappel Wulfere gan goe By guiding of Werbode Christys foe Col. 3. Into the Chappel entred the King And found his Sons worshipping Col. 4. Wulfere in woodness his Sword out drew And both his Sons anon he slew THE SIXTH WINDOW Col. 1. King Wulfere with Werbode yoo Burying gave his Sons two Col. 2. Werbode for vengeaunce his own flesh tare The Devil him strangled and to hell bare Col. 3. Wulfere for sorrow anon was sick In Bed he lay a dead man like Col. 4. Seynt Ermenyld that blessed Queen Counselled Wulfere to shrive him cleen THE SEVENTH WINDOW Col. 1. Wulfere contrite hyed him to Chad As Ermenyld him counselled had Col. 2. Chad bade Wulfere for his sin Abbeys to build his Realm within Col. 3. Wulfere in hast performed than Brough that Peada his brother began Col. 4. Wulfere endued with high devotion The Abbey of Brough with great possession THE EIGHTH WINDOW Col. 1. The third Brother King Etheldred Confirmed both his Brethrens deed Col. 2. Saxulf that here first Abbot was For Ankerys at Thorney made a place Col. 3. After came Danes and Brough brent And slew the Monkys as they went Col. 4. Fourscore years and sixteen Stood Brough destroyed by Danes teen THE NINTH WINDOW Col. 1. Seynt Athelwold was bidden by Gods lore The Abbey of Brough again to restore Col. 2. Seynt Athelwold to King Edgar went And prayed him to help him in his intent Col. 3. Edgar babe Athelwold the work begin And him to help he would not lyn Col. 4. Thus Edgar and Athelwold restored this place God save it and keep it for his grace Here I have a fair invitation to conclude with my heartiest prayers that this Church may stand and be employed to Gods glory and his peoples good To which how far the usurped authority of the late times was propitious I leave to the world to judge by the ensuing Act Passed 19 August 1651. An ACT Concerning the MINSTER in Peterburgh BE it Enacted by the Parliament now assembled and it is Enacted by the Authority of the same that the great Church called the MINSTER within the City and Burrough of Peterburgh and the Church-yard thereunto belonging shall be employed and made use of by the Inhabitants of the said City and Burrough in all time to come for the publick worship and service of God and for a Work-house to employ the poorer sort of people in Manufactures the said Inhabitants at their own Costs and Charges repairing and maintaining the same FINIS AN APPENDIX BEING A TRANSCRIPT OF SUCH Charters and Priviledges As are mentioned in the foregoing DISCOURSE King Wolfere HIS CHARTER FOR THE Endowments and Priviledges OF THE MONASTERY OF MEDESHAMSTED WOlfere Dei beneficio Rex Merciorum Mediterraneorum Anglorum Australiumque regnorum praesentibus posteris omnibus Christum sanctamque ejus Ecclesiam colentibus perpetuam Salutem Benedicat anima mea Dominum Jesum Salvatorem meum Et coram omnibus viventibus confiteor ei cum fratribus sororibus meis populisque meis novo nuper baptismate initiatis quia Soljustitiae ortus est nobis qui nos de tenebris idololatriae transtulit in admirabile lumen suae agnitionis Qui non solum reos paternis roribus absolvit advenas pupillos suscepit sed etiam in filios adoptionis credentes elegit Cumque aeterna regna omnium regnorum distributor suis fidelibus repromiserit etiam in hac brevi via qua ad aeternitatem transitur nos regnare facit Quid ergo retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae retribuit mihi cum sine ipso nihil habeamus nihil valeamus nihil sumus magna etiam aviditate salutis nostrae omnium Largitor accipit parva infirma nostra quatenus causam habeat retribuendi maxima sua quodque dederimus sanctis suis quodque dilectae Ecclesiae suae hoc sibi datum acceptum ipse testabitur in fine mercedem quoque justi justi susceptorem promittit accepturum esse Quia propter illum divinae fidei Ecclesiarum principem regnique Dei Clavigerum per quem admittar in Paradisum Domini specialius reconciliari mihi gestio per privilegium domus suae quae in Medeshamstede studio venerabilis Abbatis Saxulfi gloriose est condita divina Monachorum familia bene disposita Cui quicquid Antecessor germanus meus Peada vel Oswinus Christiana fide confrater conregnator concessere non solum mea autoritate cupio stabilire verum etiam de meo aliquid addere Ego ita faventibus fratribus meis Aethelredo ac Meruvala cum beatissimis sororibus meis Kyneburga Kynesuida quarum prior Regina mutavit imperium in Christi ancillatum praesidens Monasterio Kyneburgensi quod suo nomine decoratur mater sacrarum Virginum altera illibata virginitate in divinum flagrat thalamum His inquam consentientibus trado Beato Petro ad praefatum Medeshamstede Monasterium haec stagna paludes lacus piscaturas cum terris videlicet omnibus infrajacentibus quae de meo regali jure vel principum meorum mutuatione assensu amodo in perpetuum libere famulentur Deo famulantibus Quae ita hic determinari volumus Ab ipso Medeshamsted ad Northburch inde ad locum quem vocant Folies inde totam paludem indirectam usque ad Esendic de Esendic ad locum quem Federmuder dicunt deinde in directum ad locum via decem leugiarum quem Cuggedic circa habitantes nominant deinde ad Raggewith de Raggewith quinque miliariis ad Magistram aquam quae ducit ad Elm ad Wisebeche atque inde sicut itur tribus leugiis contra cursum Magistrae aquae usque ad Trokenholt de Trokenholt indirectum per immensam paludem ad Dereforde longitudine viginti leugiarum inde ad Gratescross per unam pulchram aquam Bardanea nomine sex leugiis ad Paccelade Sic in medium partitis stagnis plurimis immensis paludibus cum habitatoribus Huntedunensis provinciae una cum stagnis lacis Scalfremere Wyttlismere aliis quamplurimis ad haec pertinentibus cum terris quoque mansionibus quae adjacent in Australi parte de Scalfremere cum infrasepta undique

Ministers the days then being very evil because there was great discord inter Regnum Sacerdotium between the Civil and the Ecclesiastical power For they that should have defended the Church took Arms against it and they who seemed to be friends of Religion endeavoured to destroy it There had been a Petition preferred by the Almoner of Burgh in his Predecessors time to Pope Clement showing that he having no Ecclesiastical benefice belonging to the Almonry whereby he might be able to keep good hospitality was willing to assign the Church of Makeseia to that use if the Abbot and Convent who had the right of presentation would consent Whereupon the Pope moved Hugo Bishop of Lincoln to use his Authority to perswade them to grant the said Parsonage to that use which Hugo did and Pope Celestine afterward confirmed the Grant of the Church of Makeseia and Normanby with all their appurtenances unto the use of the Almonry After which Acarius by the Petition and advice of the Convent setled all the Tythes of all their Lands for the maintenance of Hospitality except of those two Mannors de Stanewig de Irtlingburgh Which was afterward confirmed by William Bishop of Lincoln who recites the whole Charter of Akarius in his Fol. XCIII He granted also out of reverence and respect to this Church of Makeseia and at the Petition of Galfridus Son of Radulphus de Halone one of the Milites of Burgh and at the desire of the Parishioners that they would hereafter have no passage through the Church-yard of Makeseia for their Horses Oxen Cows Hoggs or other Animals nor by themselves nor Servants lay any thing in the Church-yard which might discolour or dishonour it saving to themselves only the herbage of the Church-yard and liberty to mow it c. Galfridus on his part giving the Eleemosynary of the Church of Burgh two Acres of Arable Land in the field of Makeseia so that the Church yard might be freed from all that filth which was caused by the Carriages of the Procurators of the Eleemosynary Both these Charters are remaining Swaph fol. CIII In another Charter this Abbot granted to the same Eleemosynary the offerings of the Chapel before mentioned of Tho. a Becket called there Capella Sancti Thomae ad Portam for the use of the Hospital which belonged to it Yet so as that on Festival days when the Parishioners of St. John Baptist were bound to make their Oblation at that Church none should be admitted to hear Mass in the Church of the Hospital to the prejudice of the said Church of St. John Baptist But if any man were so weak in Body that he could not go so far as the Parish-Church and therefore made his Oblation in the aforesaid Chapel two parts of three of such Oblation should be given to the Sacrist and the remaining third to the Chaplain of St. J. Baptist Upon other days if any body came out of devotion to this Chapel and made his offerings here they should be wholly applied to the use of the Hospital In like manner if Strangers came to pray there whether on Festival or other days and offered any thing or if any Legacy were given to the Hospital all should be intirely applied to the uses of the poor people there Fol. CIV and fol. CC. And accordingly an agreement was made and drawn in writing between the Sacrist the Chaplain of St. John Baptist and the Almoner In which the Festivals are expressed on which the Parishioners of St. J. Baptist were wont to offer and might not be admitted unless in case of weakness to hear Mass in the Chapel of the Hospital viz. All-Saints All-Souls Christmas Circumcision Epiphany Purification Good-Friday Easter Ascension Whitsunday St. John Baptist the Assumption and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin and Saint Giles This Abbot did many other memorable things for the benefit of the Infirmary and of the Monks Chamber and many things were done by others in his time particularly Robert de Tot by the will and assent of Akarius whom he calls his Lord gave seven acres of Arable Land in Paston to the Chapel beatae Mariae de Parco which I cannot set down without inlarging this Supplement too much beyond the bounds to which I am confined One thing done in his time I must not forget which is a Bull sent from Gregory the IXth to the Bishop of Lincoln and him the Abbot of Burgh importing that the Abbot had represented to him how some Monks of his Church had incurred the sentence of Excommunication for laying violent hands one upon another and upon other both Secular and Religious persons and Secular Clergy and other Monks were under the same sentence for denying due obedience to the Abbot when they were corrected by him others because they had entred the Monastery by Simony and how some of these Excommunicated Persons had presumed to celebrate divine Offices not having obtained absolution For whose Salvation the Abbot being solicitous had petitioned the said Gregory that it might not be necessary for them to come to the Apostolical See for the benefit of absolution and dispensation he in confidence of his discretion granted him power to absolve them in all the forenamed cases except such enormous excesses in laying hands on any body as might seem fit to be referred to the See Apostolique after satisfaction made to those who had been injured And that he should proceed against the Simoniacal Monks according to the constitution in a General Council and suspend those who in contempt of Ecclesiastical discipline had officiated in the Church during their Excommunication for two years à suorum executione ordinum Which being finished he might mercifully dispense with them if they were of an honest Conversation and a better life Several compositions also made by him I must omit and conclude as R. Swapham doth that this good man governed the Monastery for about X. years and was such an example to all of order honesty kindness and bounty that from him posterity might learn how to behave themselves both in the cloyster and in the World And particularly he was extroardinary kind to the Convent unto whom he sent meat every day from his own Table for the consolation of the Brethren which the Prior divided among them The like he did to the domus infirmorum sending flesh-meat to those who were weak and would often say in the Convent Domini Domini nisi per quosdam vestrum stetisset c. My Masters my Masters had not some of you hindred I had done much good to you Which saying saith Swapham from which we may gather he lived in this time was not understood by us then but after his death we perceived why he said this and knew of whom it was meant But it is no matter saith he they are gone they lifted up themselves and the Lord hath cast them down As for this good man he never rendred evil for evil to any man but studied more