alterations, that of 1503 has many amendments, and a large number of items in its second half have been struck through. As the inventory stands its order is broken by the interpolation of a number of additional entries at the bottom of the first page and top of the second; otherwise it follows the arrangement of the list of 1475. A further series of added items is also given at the end which should properly have been preceded by the interpolated entries. As might be expected, the 1503 inventory is to a large extent a repetition of the preceding list, with such defects and additions as would be likely during a period of nearly thirty years. In comparing the two lists it is not always easy to identify the items of 1475 with those of 1503, but apparently the differences apply to minor ornaments only. The chief gains in the new list, which of course incorporates the added entries of the old one, are a black worsted suit with golden letters R (the initial of the donor, William Redehode), two red silk copes, a " pair of vestments" of black velvet, with red, green, and white flowers, a cross-cloth of purple silk and another of sarcenet, etc. The plate is less by a chalice, but richer by another silver censer, a wooden chrismatory plated with silver, and an "oyle box" of silver. A few more books. are added, as for example, a psalter with the collects and hymns, a collectar or book of collects, and a number of quires" or music books for additional services. volumes of St. Augustine's works and another of St. Gregory's occur among the additional entries at the end. The other added items are mostly of vestments, including a complete suit of red, with frontals, curtains, etc. apparently for the high altar, with four albes, etc. "for children. The last of the additions, four stools for the chanters or "recter coryse" (i.e. rectores chori), is of interest as showing the adoption by parish churches of the uses of the cathedral and collegiate churches. In some cases there is a difference of description between the two inventories that suggests a replacement of an old ornament by a new, thus the white Lenten veil, instead of having a red cross thereon, appears with blue crosses, and two red silk curtains are described as purple; in this latter instance, as in some others, the change of colour may be due to fading or dyeing. "" Two The text of the inventory is as follows: f. iiiib.] Inventorium bonorum Ecclesie parochialis A sewte of vestimente of Cloth of gold Tyssewe. Item a nothir sewte of whyte bawdkyn wt Damaske flowris Item a sewte of Rede velewet wt Crownys of gold 44 Item a Cope of grene bawdekyn wt lyon Rampyon of gold [nowe a awter cloth added in another hand] Item a Chesy by H & an awbe of whyte sylke wt a cross of gold Item a Chesebytt of grene bordealisaund' 45 wt a crosse of raye sylke 46 39 A representation of the sun issuing from the clouds with long golden rays. 40 White. 41 Orphreys, the embroidered bands along the straight edge. 42 Fleur-de-lis. 48 A pair of vestments means a chasuble with its appurtenances, the amice, albe, girdle, stole, and fanon. 44 Lions rampant. 45 Bordealisaunder was apparently a striped cloth ("bord" or "burda") that took its name from Alexandria. It is commonly mentioned in inventories. Item a pat of blewe velewett Item a Crossecloth 17 of purpult sylke frengyd Item iij pallis of grene bawdekyn 48 Item ij sepulcr' clothis 8 leyd wt gold & sylver Item ij aut'clothis of blewe wosted wt flowrys of gold & spangete of sylv' Item ij Curtens of purpult sarcenett frenged Item iiij awt'clothis stayned Item ij Curtens of rede sylke for the hye aut' Item ij aut'clothis of whyte wt the sygne of the passion" 51 [Added in another hand at the foot of the page: 50 Item a sewte of Red welwet broderyd wt flowrys of gold wt iij walance Item ij Copys of redde damaske broderyd wt gold Item a westement of Red satten wt seynt Jhone the baptys yn the crosse 53] f. v] [Added at the top of the page in the same hand as the foregoing entries: Item a cope of Blew welwet wt angellys of golde Item a westement of Seynt Georges of Red bawdkyn Item [a altered into iij struck through and one written over] westemente of Blew damaske wt angelys of golde of the gyft of Mr Poynett] (The original hand resumes :) Item iiij lecturneclothis too of them stayned 47 A banner to hang from the cross when carried in processions on festivals. 45 For the Easter sepulchre. 49 The strip or frontlet sewn to the edge of the uppermost linen altar cloth. 50 For Lent time. 51 The Lenten veil. 52 The boys who assisted at the altar wore amices and girded albes. 53 One late form of orphrey for a chasuble was a broad stripe down the front and a cross on the back. Item [a herseclothe of blakcoton struck through] Item [a herseclothe of blak wosted wt the name of Jhus theron struck through] Item vij Towellys to hoseł wt pept Item [ij subsequently altered into] iiij weschyng Towellis for the aut Item v valaunce to put abowte the herse wt Reqiem et'nam Item ij Corpaxe clothis iij Casis for the Corpaxe Item myters of div'se sewte54 Item ij Chaless' halowed wt ther patens [weyñg (x struck unce xiiij unce added in another through) [Item ij Chaless' suspendyd55 wt ther patens (weyñg xxiiij unce di & di qt added in another hand) struck through] [Item a Crosse of sylv' & gylte (j xij unce di & di q't' written over) wt the fote & the pynakytt (weyng beside iij unc' j q't' & di q't added in another hand) struck through] [Item iij sensuris of sylver wt ther Cheynes whereof one is gylde ( unce xij added in another hand) struck through] [Item ij Schyppys wt ther sponys of sylv' (xx unce di added in another hand) struck through] [Item ij Candilstykks of sylv' (weying 1 unce di added in another hand) struck through] [Item ij basyns of sylver (xxvij unc' j q't' added in another hand) Item ij Crewetys 56 of sylv' (ix uncę di added in another hand) struck through] Item a pyxe of sylv' & gylde wt a pece of sylv' theryn [weying added in another hand] Item a pyxboxe of sylv' & gylde [weying added in another hand] [Item a paxe sylv' & gylde wt v stonys theryn (xv unce added in another hand) struck through] 54 An unusual item in a parish church inventory. Perhaps they were for the boy bishop. 55 Disused. 56 These are usually in pairs; the one for wine, the other for water. Item a Crysmatory 57 of sylv' & pte therof gylde [weying added in another hand] [Item a Crismatory of Tymbr58 covered wt sylv' (xxj unce di di q't' added in another hand) struck through] Item a boxe of Ivery garnesched wt sylv' [ij unce iij q't' added in another hand] Item a boxe of Copur enameled Item an Oyle boxe of [silv' (weying added in another hand) struck through] [Item a sepulcr boxe wyth certen relykes Item iij Crossys of Copur & gylde & one tre Item a sensur & a schyppe of Copur 59 Item ij Crosse for baners of laten Item viij banerpolys Item ij stremers of sylke one rede (anothir blewe crossed out) Item a stremar of whyte sylke Item a rede stremar wt thassumpcion of or lady Item iij rede baner clothis Item a ban' of sylke wt the Molett & Item ij baners of grene sylke 60 Item ij whyte baners wt the signe of the passion f. v b] Item a whyte ban' wyth a blewe Crosse Item a Crosseclothe of sarcenet paynted all struck through] Item ij grete lyggers Callid Antiphon's in the Qwer Item a Invitator wt the Grayles the Attia iij Manuet ix pcession's Item a Gospelar & the Pystof a Sawt wt the Collette & the Imnes Item a Martilage an Ordinatt a Collecto iiij Qweyres noted of the visitacon of owr lady iij Queyres of the tansfiguracon of Jhu & the masse also 57 The box containing (1) the Oleum Sanctum for use before baptism, (2) the Crisma or cream for use after baptism and at confirmation, and (3) the Oleum Infirmorum for anointing the sick. 58 Probably a less valuable one than the silver to carry to the sick. 59 Perhaps for use in Lent. The mullet was a star. If not heraldic, this may have been an Epiphany banner. |