[DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE ALMONER OF ST PAUL'S]
Vellum,
8.75 x 6, ff. 79, 28 lines to a page.
14th cent. (? 1345), clearly written.
Donor?
Collation : 18
– 48 (5 canc.) 58 – 108.
Contents:
Documents
relating to the office of Almoner of the Cathedral Church of St Paul,
London.
f.
1 is mutilated at top.
Redditus
Ad Elemosinariam… | London spectantes Anno domini mo cc……
2b. Sequitur de Resolucionibus et honeribus
Elemosinarii preter victum vestitum
et domorum reparacionem.
3b. Hec sunt statuta Elemosinar’.
4. Note of a constitution of the year 1343.
5b. Hic inc. copie cartarum et aliorum
munimentorum ad Elemosinar’ S. Pauli
London. partinencium. per Elemosinarium
dicte ecclesie compilate A. d. mill.
cccmo xlo quinto.
On
32b
is the roll of William de Tolleshunt 1328.
32b. Mem. de denariis quos Camerarius eccl. S.
Pauli London. soluet annu-
atim Elemosinario…
50b. Hic inc. pitancie choristarum S. Pauli
London.
56
sqq. deal with the case of the Church
of Hoton in Essex.
67b
sqq. Royal confirmations.
71
sqq. of the aula minorum canonicorum.
73. de almuciis minorum
canonicorum.
The
last document is of a bequest of Walter de Blockeley 35 Edward I.
S.H. Cavanaugh, 'A study of books privately owned in England 1300-1450' (Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1980), 872-73.
M.C. Erler, Records of Early English Drama: Ecclesiastical London (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
A.F. Leach, 'St Paul's School before Colet', Archaeologia 62 (1910), 220-22.
E. Rickert, 'Chaucer at school', Modern Philology 29:3 (Feb. 1932), 258.