William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster — John Shaqi
William de Colchester, Abbot of WestminsterPearce, Ernest Harold
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William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster
Pearce, Ernest Harold
William, of Colchester, Abbot of Westminster, approximately 1338-1420
Waltham, Abbot of, 74
Waltham, John de, Bishop of Salisbury, 74-76
Ware, 66
Ware, Richard de, Abbot, 22, 44
Warwick, Earl of, 26
Westminster Abbey, memorial windows, 10;
Muniment room, 11, 13;
Poets' Corner, 11 f.;
Abbot's rent-roll, 24, 60;
pancakes at, 27 ff.;
Monk-Bailiff, 16; Treasurer, 19 f.;
Refectory, 21;
Abbot's Seneschal, 22, 24 ff., 45 n.;
Sacrist, 23;
Kitchener, 27 f.;
Chapter House, 30;
suit against St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, 31 ff.;
enriched by Langham's will, 36;
murder in the choir of, 39;
Archdeacon of, 43 ff.;
Lady Chapel, 47;
Convent Garden, 47 f.;
royal gifts to, 57 f.;
New Work in Nave, 58 f., 63, 80 f., 84;
prayers in war-time at, 70 f.;
Confessor's Chapel, 74 f.;
Henry IV.'s death at, 80;
Henry V.'s chantry, 81
Westminster Abbey, Almonry, clerks of, 71
Westminster Abbey, _Customary_ of, 18, 22 f., 44
Westminster Abbey, Monks of, how named, 15;
how admitted, 17 f.;
exennia given to, 18;
Great Pestilence among, 19;
at Oxford, 19 f.;
clothing of, 41 f.;
chambers or camerae for, 47-50;
funerals of, 51;
in armour, 53;
chariot provided by, 83.
Westminster Abbey, parish of St. Margaret, 71
Westminster Abbey, Sanctuary at, 39, 45
Westminster School, "greese" at, 29
Whittington, Richard, 81
Windsor Castle, 64, 66
Windsor Castle, St. George's Chapel in, 31, 74
Woodstock, Thomas of, Duke of Gloucester, 57, 68
Worcester, Prior of, 82
Wratting, John de, Prior, 43 n., 70
Wykeham, William of, 27, 68
Wylie, Dr. J. H., 79 n., 81 n., 82
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FOOTNOTES
[Footnote 1: "Such were the Abbots of Westminster," says Dean
Stanley (_Memorials_, 3rd ed., p. 394), after recording the
little that he knew of them, adding that, "if from the Abbots
we descend to the Monks their names are still more obscure."]
[Footnote 2: Act iv. sc. 1, ll. 332-3.]
[Footnote 3: Act v. sc. 6, ll. 19-21.]
[Footnote 4: _Mun._ 5259.]
[Footnote 5: _Mun._ 5260, A.]
[Footnote 6: The reader who wishes to know what parts of this ancient and
interesting church were known to Abbot Colchester may be referred to the
details and the plan given in the Herts. volume of the Royal Commission
on Historical Monuments, 1911, p. 31 f.]
[Footnote 7: _Mun._ 3571; October 5, 1411.]
[Footnote 8: _Customary of Canterbury and Westminster_, H.B.S. i. 261,
404.]
[Footnote 9: This custom will be treated in greater detail in the
introduction to a Register of the Westminster Benedictines, which will
be issued shortly.]
[Footnote 10: Reyner, _de Antiq. Benedict. in Anglia_, App., p. 55.]
[Footnote 11: This sum is roughly equivalent to that which an economical
undergraduate spends at the present time.]
[Footnote 12: Cf. _Flete_, ed. J. Armitage Robinson, p. 70.]
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