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A37229 The ancient rite and monuments of the monastical, & cathedral church of Durham collected out of ancient manuscripts, about the time of the suppression / published by J.D. Davies, John, 1625-1693. 1672 (1672) Wing D392; ESTC R24290 63,356 175

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the Frontsteed for which Fact she was complained upon and so she laid those stones without the door which before were made well fast within her House Thus were the godly things intended for God's Service in the Church converted to prophane uses There was in the Centry-garth under the South-end of the Church called the South-end of the Nine Altars betwixt two Pillars adjoyning to the Nine Altars door a Song-School built for six Children to be learnt to sing for the maintenance of Gods Divine Service in the Abbey-Church which Children had their meat and drink at the Housecharge amongst the Children of the Ambrie The said School was built time out of mind before the suppression of the House and was neatly boarded within round about a man's height above the Walls and a long Desk from one end of the School to the other to lay their Books upon and all the floor was boarded for warmness and long Forms about it set fast for the Children to sit on And the place where the Master did sit and teach was all close boarded both behind and on either side And the said Master was to teach those six Children to sing and to play on the Organs every principal day when the Monks did sing their high Mass and at Even-song And the said Master was bound to play on the Organs every principal day when the Monks did sing their high Mass and likewise at Even-song but the Monks when they were at Mattins and Service at Mid-night then one of the said Monks did play on the Organs so that the Master play'd only upon principal dayes in the high Mass time and at Even-song as aforesaid Also the said Master had his Chamber adjoyning to the said School where he lodg'd having his meat and drink in the Prior's Hall among the Prior's Gentlemen and all his other necessaries were found at the charge of the Prior and the House till such time as the House was suppress'd And shortly after because there was no teaching in that School any longer but in another place or School appointed for that purpose the aforesaid School in the Centry-garth fell to decay and was pull'd down so clearly that one cannot tell almost in what place it stood Of St. Cuthbert's Death and the Translation of his body to Durham The 20. of the Calends of March in the year of Christ 587. St. Cuthbert ended his Life and was buried in Holy Island where he was Bishop three years in St. Peter's Church by the Altar on the East-side in a Grave of stone purposely made for him Being thus buried in St. Peter's Church in Holy Island and having lain there for the space of eleven years he was taken out of the ground the 20. of the Calends of March in the same Calends he had dyed in entire lying like a man asleep being found safe uncorrupted flexible and leath-wake and all his Mass-cloaths safe and fresh as they were the first hour they were put on him at which time they enshrined him in a new Sepulchre or Feretory a little above the pavement of the Church and there he stood many a day she is said to be descended from the Blood-Royal of the Kings of Ireland being Son of one Muriardach and Sabina his Wife who was Daughter to a King there He was brought up in the Abbey of Mailrose first under his Predecessor Eata and afterwards under Boisil who succeeded Eata After the death of Boisil he was made Abbot of that Monastery which he govern'd with great care and sincerity He was Anchorite thirteen years He was Monk thirty seven years and Abbot fourteen years Also in the year 55. Eardulf was Bishop at which time certain Danes and Pagans Infidels of sundry other Nations invaded and destroyed the Realm of England in divers places And after a certain space Halden King of the Danes with a great part of the Navy and Army of the Infidels arrived in Tinmouth-Haven intending to sojourn there all the Winter following and the next Spring he meant with all his power to invade spoil and destroy the County of Northumberland Whereof when Eardulf the Bishop had intelligence with all his Clergy and people after long consultation had amongst themselves what course was to be taken in that extremity to prevent the barbarous cruelty of the Savage and merciless Infidels they in the end called to mind the words and monition deliver'd by St. Cuthbert to his Brethren The said Holy man before his departure out of this Life amongst other wholsom counsels and godly admonitions then delivered uttered these or the like words If you my Brethren shall be at any time hereafter urged or constrained unto one of the two extremitics following I do much rather choose and wish that you should take my Bones up and flye from those places and take your place of abode and stay wheresoever Almighty God shall provide for you then that you should by any means submit your selves to the yoak and servitude of wicked Schismaticks Which words he then spake by the spirit of Prophesie foreseeing the perillousness of the time to come Bishop Eardulf and Abbot Edred did take and carry away the Body of St. Cuthbert from Holy Island Southward and fled seven years from Town to Town by reason of the great Persecution and slaughter of the Painims and Danes And when the Inhabitants of the Island saw that St. Cuthbert's Body was gone they left their Lands and Goods and followed after him Whereupon the Bishop the Abbot and the rest being wearied with Travelling thought to have stollen away and carried St. Cuthbert's Body into Ireland for its better safety Being upon the Sea in a Ship three Waves were miraculously turned into blood and the Ship was driven back by tempest and forc'd upon the shore Nay the said Ship wherein they were by the greatness of the Storm and the rage of the Waves was turned on the one side and the Book of the Holy Evangelists fell out of the Ship into the bottom of the Sea The said Book was most curiously written and all adorned with gold and precious stones on the out-side Now while they were all troubled and in great perplexity for the loss of the said Book St. Cuthbert being loath to see his honourers in such sorrow did appear in a Vision to one Hundredus a Monk and commanded him that they should diligently seek for the Book upon the Coasts thereabouts where they did find it three miles from the Sea-shore cast as it seemed by the force of some Wave and carried thither by the violence of some happy gale of Wind or by some divine power They found the book much more beautiful than before both in Letters and Leaves and excelling in the outer beautifulness of the cover being nothing blemished by the salt water but polished rather by some Heavenly hand which did not a little increase their joy But being wearied with seeking the book and with carrying about St. Cllthbert's body he presented to
Mary and Christ in her Arms in fine colour'd glass The Rite or Custome of burying Bishops in the Chapter-house The Bishops of Durham when they died were brought to the Abbey-Church of Durham to be interr'd and buried The Prior and Monks of Durham did meet the deceas'd at the Abbey-Church-yard gate at the Palace-green and received him there and brought him through the said Church into the Chapter-house to be buried at which burial there was used great solemnity and devotion by the Prior and the Monks of the Church of Durham according to the accustomable burying of Bishops in the Ancient time The accustomed burial of Bishops in those times was that they should be interr'd with the Habit they were wont to say Mass in with their Albes Stoles and Phannels and their other Vestments with Mitres on their Heads and their crosier-staffs in their hands and so laid in their Coffins with a little Chalice of silver other metal or Wax which Wax-chalice was gilt very finely about the edge and the knob in the midst of the shank of the Chalice and about the edge of the patten or cover and the foot of it also was gilt One of which Chalices was laid upon his breast in the Coffin with him and the cover thereof nail'd down to it and very solemn service was done at their Funerals The Prior and Monks had the Horses Chariot and all other things which came with the deceas'd Bishop being due to them by their Ancient custome as more plainly doth appear in the History of the Church of Durham alias Dunhelme at large And afterwards the Bishops came to be interred within the Abbey-Church of Durham and not in the Chapter-house in these latter dayes The Names of all the Bishops of Durham who were sumptuously buried out of the Chapter-house within the Abbey-Church of Durham as they were accustomed to say Mass with all their Furniture belonging thereto as their Predecessors had been in the Chapter-house as is aforesaid in every respect as appears by their Monuments and Inscriptions thereof Which Bishops had been great Benefactors to the said Church Anthony Beak Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Jerusalem was the first Bishop that ever attempted to be buried in the Abbey-Church out of the Chapter-house and to lye so near the Sacred Shrine and Body of St. Cuthbert Lodovicus Beaumont Episcopus Richardus de Bury Episcopus Thomas Hatfield Episcopus Gualterus Skirlaw Episcopus Thomas Langley Episcopus Robertus Nevill Episcopus Cuthbertus ●onstall Episcopus This Cuthbert being deprived of his Bishoprick by Queen Elizabeth was kept Prisoner in the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's House at Lambeth where he dyed a profess'd Catholick and lyeth buried under a fair Marble stone in the Parish-Church of Lambeth where he was first consecrated and made Bishop Forty years before that at the East end of the Chapter-house and on the South side of the Quire there was a Yard or Garth called the Centory-garth where all the Priors and Monks were buried in which said Garth there was a Vault all set within on either side with Mason work of free stone and likewise at either end and over the midst of the said Vault there did lye a fair Thorowstone and at either side of the stone it was open so that when any of the Monks was buried whatsoever bones were found in his Grave they were taken out of the Grave where he was buried and thrown through the same into the said Vault which Vault was made for the same purpose to be a Charnell-house to cast dead mens bones in There were also divers Gentlemen of good Worship buried in the said Centory-garth out of a desire that they might be buried nigh unto that holy man St. Cuthbert And amongst the rest there was one Gentleman of good Worship called Mr. Racket who was buried in the said Centory-garth near unto the Nine Altars-door over against the Shrine of the holy man St. Cuthbert who had a fair Tomb over him and a fair white Marble stone above the said Tomb whereon was wrought very curiously the Picture of the said Mr. Racket all in Brass in his Coat-Armour with his Sword girt about him and at every corner of the said Marble stone was one of the four Evangelists all in Brass likewise There was also another Gentleman called Mr. Elmeden buried in the said Garth without the Nine Altars door and a fair through-stone above him and divers other Gentlemen whose memories are now perished and all their Monuments defaced and gone Also in the same place all the Priors and Monks were buried in Ancient time All the Priors had every one a fair Through-stone laid upon their Tombs or graves some of Marble some of Free-stone Which stones Dean Whittingham caused to be pull'd and taken away and did also break and deface all such stones as had any Pictures of Brass or other Imagery-work or Chalice wrought and engraven upon them and the residue he took away and employ'd them to his own use and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth so that it cannot be discerned at present that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth it is so plain and strait for he could not abide any Ancient Monuments nor any thing that appertained to a goodly Religiousness or Monastical Life Within the said Abbey-Church of Durham were two Holy-water-stones of fine Marble very artificially made and engraven and boss'd with hollow bosses upon the outer-sides of the stones very curiously wrought They were both of the same work but one much greater than the other and they were both taken away by Dean Whittingham and carried into his Kitchin and employ'd to profane uses and there stood during his Life and his people steeped their Beef and Salt-fish in them having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the Water as they had when they were in the Church And after his death the greater of the two Holy-water-stones was removed to the lower end of the Dean's Buttery where the water-Conduit is set and next unto the Wine-Cellar that therein the Servants might wash and make clean their Pots and Cups before they serve at the Table The foot of the said Holy-water-stone was laid without the Church door and was afterwards plac'd in the ground in one Lamb's Shop a Black-smith upon Framwell-gate-bridge-end and is now there to be seen Moreover Mrs. Whittingham after the death of her Huband took away the lesser Holy-water-stone out of the Dean's Kitchin and brought it into her House in the North-Baily over against the Dean's Orchard at the East-end of the Church and set it in their Kitchin And she also carried away divers Grave-stones of blew Marble and other Through-stones that lay upon the Priors and Monks out of the Centory-garth when she built her house in the Baily with stones Some of them are laid in the thresholds of the doors and two great ones did lie without the doors over against the Wall before