The Cathedral Church of Peterborough: A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal SeeSweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)
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The Cathedral Church of Peterborough: A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
Sweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)
Peterborough Cathedral
=Robert of Ramsey= (1353-1361) ruled for eight years, and nothing else
is known about him.
=Henry of Overton= (1361-1391) was abbot during the commotions in King
Richard II.'s reign. The tenants with others rose up against the abbey,
intending to destroy it. The Bishop of Norwich "coming to the assistance
of the monastery with a strong power, forced the villains to desist from
their enterprise: nay, dispersed them, and took some of them, and killed
others; the rest, taking the church for sanctuary, which they intended
to have destroyed, were there run through with lances and swords; some
of them hard by the altar, others by the walls of the church, both
within and without."
=Nicholas= (1391-1396), =William Genge= (1396-1408) the first mitred
abbot, =John Deeping= (1408-1438) in turn succeeded. Nothing remarkable
is told of them. The name of the last and the names of the next two are
really the names of places; but the prefix "de" seems now to have been
discontinued, and the place-name to have become a surname. Abbot John
resigned his office the year before he died.
=Richard Ashton= (1438-1471) took great pains about the regulation of
the services in the church, and drew up a customary out of the ancient
usages of the place.
=William Ramsey= (1471-1496) appears to have devoted his time to the
management of the estates and to upholding the territorial privileges of
the house. If the epitaph formerly to be seen on a brass on his tomb is
to be believed, he was a man prudent, just, pious, esteemed by all,
chaste, kind, and adorned with every virtue.
=Robert Kirton= (1496-1528) has left several proofs of his energy in
building, signing, as it were, the stones with his autograph. His
rebus, a kirk on a ton, sometimes accompanied by the initial of his
Christian name, is to be seen in the New Building, which he completed,
on the Deanery gateway, and on the graceful oriel window in the Bishop's
Palace. The chamber to which this window gives light still retains the
name originally given of "Heaven's Gate Chamber." Much other work done
by him towards the beautifying of the church and buildings has perished.
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