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Nottingham North. Nottingham South. West Bingham. Created by Archbishop Thurstan and confirmed by another grant of Henry I, Beckingham was one of the 'berewicks' of the Archbishop's great manor of Laneham. With the exception of Normanton, the only prebend created within the limits of the Manor of Southwell. The solitary lay foundation among the prebends of Southwell; bestowed upon the church by Pavia de Malluvel and Robert her son sometime between and Created by Archbishop Thurstan, , with Beckingham, and separated from Beckingham by Archbishop Romayne in The Taxation Roll of Pope Nicholas IV in has details on all the sixteen prebends, though they have to be identified with care, as some are given under the name of the prebend and others under the name of the prebendary then holding the preferment.
In there was a hostile demonstration by 'certain sons of unrighteousness' at the Whitsunside procession at Southwell which was intended to divert the offerings brought to this ceremony from every part of the archdeaconry of Nottingham.
A later attack in indicates that such disturbances were periodical. Statutes governing the Chapter and the lesser clergy attached to the Minster were issued by Archbishops Gray, Romayne, Corbridge and Melton. The Chapter only very reluctantly accepted those of Gray after many years delay. Romayne and Corbridge were more insistent on enforcing discipline.
All these archbishops were concerned by the problems of absenteeism. In June Archbishop William Melton issued a mandate for convocation of the Chapter of Southwell for discussions concerning the residences of canons; which holy orders each prebend required; the need for a common lodging for lesser clergy; and a possible pay-rise for vicars.
Fifty years after the tax, the Nonarum Inquisitiones provided taxation valuations for In general terms, the prebendal wealth in had changed little compared with When the Valor Ecclesiasticus of was drawn up, separate returns were made for each of the sixteen prebends.
By the 15th century around sixty priests, clerks, deacons and a few lay officials served the Minster community. When the College and Chantry Commissioners of visited Southwell Minster, they described it as 'reputed and taken for the head mother Church of the Town and County of Nottingham, Eadwig, who gave the land in , died in and was succeeded by his younger brother Edgar. There were three Canons Residentiary, a parish Vicar, sixteen Vicars Choral, thirteen Chantry Priests, four deacons and sub-deacons, six choristers, two 'Thuribales,' and two clerks.
The sixteen Prebends and the thirteen Chantry Priests are all specified; the latter had each a chamber and share in their common hall. The reign of Henry VIII was a time of disruption distortion and danger for the churches of England and for their clergy. The Collegiate Church at Southwell, despite its special status, was uniquely threatened — and then uniquely reprieved.
On the same day also the Vicars Choral surrendered their chief house or mansion in Southwell with all their possessions, and like surrenders were also executed by the prebendaries and by the chantry priests. These definite and recorded surrenders, however, were, through some unknown influence and the unpredictable actions of the ageing monarch, Henry VIII, overturned within three years.
In January their effect was formally annulled by a special act of Parliament, whereby 'the College and Church Collegiate of Southwell' was legally re-established in every particular; the whole of its property and officials were restored, including lamps, obits, chantries, and chantry priests. More than two hundred collegiate foundations extant throughout England in pre-Reformation days, both great and small, were ruthlessly confiscated by either Henry VIII or Edward VI; even the fabrics were in many cases destroyed and merchandise made not only of the lead and bells but of the very monuments, brasses, and gravestones.
In some cases, like Beverley and Ripon, Southwell's sister minsters, the churches were bought back by the inhabitants and turned into parish churches.
In only five instances were fabrics and endowments eventually spared, Windsor and Manchester being amongst them, but of these by far the most ancient and famous, as well as one of the largest, richest, and most beautiful, was the collegiate church at Southwell. Richard Cox, who afterwards became Bishop of Ely. The Commissioners of Edward VI, carrying out a visitation in , made meticulous records of what they found.
Of the Chantry Priests, one is entered as a preacher, two as 'meetly learned,' and four as 'unlearned. We have details of the inventory in full:. This visitation, however, not only swept away all the chantries of Southwell, but the college itself, the church being continued as the parish church, on the petition of the parishioners.
By an act, however, of Philip and Mary the chapter was restored. Most of the confiscated property had passed to John Beaumont, Master of the Rolls, but he had fallen into disgrace and his estates had been resumed by the Crown in payment of his debts.
After this restoration until the final dissolution of the chapter in the constitution of the collegiate church was governed by a set of statutes promulgated by Queen Elizabeth on 2 April , interpreted by injunctions issued by successive Archbishops of York as Visitors of the Church and by resolutions of the chapter itself.
No definite scheme of residence was propounded in these statutes, which left the performance of this duty to the will of the Prebendaries. A new officer, elected by the canons from among their number and known as the Vicar-general, was created at the same time to exercise the ecclesiastical jurisdiction belonging to the chapter.
The whole set of statutes represented a very thorough reorganization, which reflected much credit upon the Queen's advisers, amongst whom was Edwin Sandys, the reigning Archbishop of York. Whilst the statutes of appeared to authorise and underpin the chapter and its work, there remained enemies of the church who sought to undermine it through legal challenge, alleging that an extensive portfolio of properties belonged, in reality, to the crown and not to the minster.
The death of Elizabeth I and the accession of James I inspired these enemies to attack again. The chapter mounted a powerful defence and the new monarch instructed his attorney-general to take all necessary steps to make Southwell Minster secure. In , King James confirmed that all its ancient possessions would remain in the hands of the collegiate church.
A resident named Gervase Lee whose ancestors had been installed in various Chapter estates by their relative Archbishop Reginald Lee at the Reformation published a catalogue of serious complaints: services were being neglected, the divinity lecture was not read regularly and the catechism was not taught every Sunday afternoon.
In addition, Lee alleged that the prebendaries were not keeping residence as they should, that there was a shortage of Vicars-Choral and, most importantly of all, that there were major financial irregularities and misappropriation of funds. Noverint universi per presentes That the canons of Southwell are much to be shentes, In seeing their churches pitifully rentes, By not glazing of which they be greatly offendentes.
Well said Christmas. Again they hold of their Virgin Mary, Ecce quam bonum est cohabitare! And neither keep bakehouse, brewhouse nor dairy, Nor any residence, nor tell us quare. Again, they preach unto their Uxoribus, And say, it was written in Aristotle de moribus, That the right summum bonum to cozen the pooribus, Is to say, that the butler is gone out of dooribus.
The charges were most serious and the chapter eventually made a detailed response. The many fascinating details revealed in this material illustrate the growing strength and importance of the chapter in the economic development of Nottinghamshire.
A century after the disruption caused by the Reformation, another violent upheaval came along, as the struggle between King and Parliament raged hither and thither. Whilst Southwell played a prominent part in the English Civil Wars, there is a dearth of information about the minster during that period and the Commonwealth that followed.
They were unstable times and records were either lost or destroyed deliberately. In Southwell Minster was deprived of its collegiate status by The Commonwealth and became an ordinary parish church once again.
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