Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral: Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the SeeWorley, George
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Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral: Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
Worley, George
Southwark Cathedral (London, England)
"Item a vestment of white bustyan, with a redde cross and all
thinges perteyninge to the same."
Evidently vestments of coarse white stuff such as were universal in
England during the first four weeks of Lent, cf. the "ash-coloured,"
or white vestments still worn on weekdays in Lent in the South of
France.
"Item an altar cloth hanginge afore the altare of redde silke
with a crucyfix."
This was probably the frontal used in Passiontide, _i.e._, from
Passion Sunday until Easter. Other Lenten ornaments were the
following:
"Item iiij paynted clothes for altar clothes in Lent."
"Item iij paynted clothes to hange upon saynt Katerynes and
saynt Margarettes in Lent."
The following is an interesting description of a panelled or striped
frontal and frontlet:
"Item an altar cloth for the frontur of thalter of redde
velvyt and yelowe & redde damask in paynes with Kateryn
wheles in the bordour above."
The sales are quoted as realising in all L165 17_s._ 8_d._, but
an addition of the separate items does not result in this
total.
The difficulties in the way of an exact calculation are (1) lax or
ambiguous entries, _e.g._:
"Item iiij chalyces wayng liiij onz. wherof ij communyon
cuppis were made by the said Calton (purchaser of a
previous lot) waynge but lij onz.... xvijs viii.d"
(2) The omission of prices, and (3) the disappearance of articles
quoted as "myssinge at the praysement of the vestry stuff," or (4)
"myssinge and not delyveryd to the now Churche wardens neither sold or
accompted for to thuse of the Churche."
The conclusion arrived at by the representatives of the parish is thus
stated: "And where yt is a parcell of our othe to present howe and to
what use the moneye cummynge of the sale of our ornamentes and plate
is employd and in what place of our church it is bestowed, to that we
saye yt is not in our wyttes to tell ... and surly yf there be not
moche more reparacyons done upon the said churche shortly yt will
utterly dekay."
The list of "plate and other things" left in the church is as follows:
Two communion cups with a cover all gilt.
Nineteen albes and six amices, lacking all their apparel,
"whereof the wardens have made sixteen surplices for the
choir, which was all that could be made of them."
Towels and tablecloths, good and bad, diaper and plain xij.
A cushion of green silk.
Three hearse-cloths, one of Our Lady, another of Saynt
Katheryne, and one of blue and red velvet.
Six "bells of accorde" and one small bell.
Which bells the parish bought of the late king of famous
memory king Henry the eight at the purchesing of the hole
church.
A bible and a paraphrases.
Three communion books and four psalters printed.
Two pair of good organs furnished.
A chest with two locks for the alms for the poor.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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