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A37229
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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.
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Davies, John, 1625-1693.
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in her Father's house Her belly swelling and the King perceiving it diligently examined her who was the Author of that fact Upon examination she made this answer That solitary young man who dwelleth hereby is he who hath overcome me and with whose beauty I am thus deceived Whereupon the King furiously enraged presently repaired with his defloured Daughter accompani'd by divers Knights unto the solitary place where he presently spake to the Servant of God in this manner What art thou he who under the colour of Religion prophanest the Temple and Sanctuary of God Art thou he who under the title and profession of a solitary Life exercisest all filthiness of the World in Incest Behold here is my Daughter whom thou by thy deceits hast corrupted not fearing to make her dishonest Therefore now at last openly confess this thy fault and plainly declare here before this company in what sort thou hast seduced her The King's Daughter marking the fierce speeches of her Father more impudently stepped forth and boldly affirmed that it was he who had done that wicked fact At which thing the young man greatly amazed perceiving that this forgery proceeded from the instigation of the Devil thereupon though brought into great perplexity applied his whole Heart unto Almighty God and said as followeth My Lord my God who only knowest all things and art the searcher of all secrets make manifest also this work of iniquity and indignity and by some example approve-the same which though it cannot be done by Humane policy make it manifest by some divine Oracle When as the young man with great lamentations and tears incredible to be reported had spoken these words even suddenly in the self-same place where the King's Daughter stood the Earth making a hissing noise presently opened and swallow'd her up in the presence of all the beholders This place is called Coâ—wen where she for her corruption was convey'd and carried into Hell As soon as the King perceived this marvellous chance to happen in the presence of all his Company he began to be greatly tormented in his mind fearing lest he himself should incurr the like punishment Whereupon he with all his Company humbly craved pardon of Almighty God with further desire and petition to that good man St. Cuthbert that by his prayers he would crave at God's hands to have his Daughter again Which petition the said holy Father granted upon condition that no Woman after that time should have resort unto him Whence it came that the King did not suffer any Woman to enter into any Church dedicated to that Saint which to this day is duely observed in all the Churches of the Picts which were Dedicated in the honour of that Holy man The North-Alley of the Body of the Church In the North-Alley from the North-Church-door to the Cross-Alley in the midst of the Church called the Lantern-Alley where the Lantern standeth in the entrance of the end of the said North-Alley into the said Lantern-Alley from pillar to pillar there was a Trellasaome which did open and close with two Leaves like unto a fall-down Door and above the said Door it was likewise Trellised almost to the height of the Vault above and on the height of the said Trellis or Trellasdome it was stricken full of Iron pricks of a quarter of a yard long to the intent that none should climb over it and was evermore lock'd and never open'd but upon Holy-days or on such Days as there was any Procession And likewise the North-Rood-door which was on the hither-side of the Pillar at the North-end of Jesus's Altar was never opened but when there was some Procession There were two fair Holy-water Stones belonging to the Abbey-Church of Durham of a very fair blew Marble The fairest of them stood within the North-Church-door over against the said Door being wrought in the Corner of the Pillar next adjoyning to our Lady of Pitty 's Altar on the left hand as you turn into the Galilee having a very fair shrine of Wainscot over head very finely painted with blew and little gilt Stars being kept very clean and always fresh water provided against every Sunday-morning by two of the Bell-ringers or servants of the Church wherein one of the Monks did Hallow the said Water very early in the Morning before Divine-service The other stood within the South Church-door not altogether so curious yet all of blew Marble very decently kept in the same manner with fresh water every Sunday-morning by the said Bell-ringers or Servants of the Church where in like sort one of the Monks did Hallow the water early in the morning before Divine-service One of these Holy-water-stones viz. That at the South-door served the Prior and all the Convent with the whole House the other at the North-door joyned into the Pillar served all those that came that way to hear Divine-service There was betwixt two Pillars on the left hand in the North-Alley as you turn into the Galilee from the North-Church-door our Lady of Pitty 's Altar being inclosed on either side with fine Wainscot with the Picture of our Lady carrying our Saviour on her Knee as he was taken from the Cross very lamentable to behold Then on the right hand of the said North-Alley as you go into the Galilee under the Bellfry called the Galilee-Steeple was St. Saviour's Altar the North-end of the said Altar-stone being wrought and inclosed into the pillar of the Wall from the first Foundation of the Church for Mass to be said at as appeared at the Defacing thereof and remaineth there to be known till this Day by a Corner of the said Altar-stone not to be pull'd forth but by breaking of the wall In the West-end of the Church in the North-Alley-end over the Galilee-door there in a Bellfry called the Galilee-steeple did hang four goodly great Bells which were never Rung but on principal Feasts or at such other times as the Bishop came to the Town Every Sunday in the year there was a Sermon preached in the Galilee in the After-noon from one of the Clock till three and at twelve of the Clock the great Bell of the Galilee was towl'd every Sunday three quarters of an hour and rung the fourth quarter till one of the Clock that all the people of the Town might have warning to come and hear the word of God preached There were certain Officers pertaining to the said House who were always charged whensoever the said Bells were Knelled to be ready for the Ringing of them viz. Two men of the Kitchin were charged with the Ringing of one Bell and four men of the Church that did lye always in the Church were charged with the third Bell and six others were charged with the Ringing of the great Bell viz. Two of the Bake-house two of the Brew-house and two of the Kiln And in the latter days of King Henry the eighth the House was suppressed and after that time the said Bells were never Rung Then
in the said Monastical and Abbey-Church of Durham as a place most worthy and a fit Monument to preserve the memory of so great a Saint And at the West-end of the said Church Hugo who was also called Pudesay Pusar or de Puteaso Bishop of Durham and Earl of Northumberland King Stephen's Nephew did build a very fair and beautiful Chappel which he dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was called the Galilee or our Lady's Chappel but now simply called the Consistory And there in a silver casket gilt with gold he laid the Bones of Venerable Bede and erected a costly and magnificent Shrine of black Marble over it as is above declared He also Founded the Priory of Finkley in honour of St. Gordrick the Hermite He Founded also the Hospitall of Allerton and the famous Sherburne-Hospital near Durham He built also Elvet-Bridge over the Weer with two Chappels upon it He also built both a Mannor and Church at â—arlington and he bought of King Richarâ— the First the Earldome of Sadberge for 〈◊〉 â—uccessors And because those holy Bishoâ—â—nd Monks would not be unmindful of the least favour which was done for them and for the honour of their holy Saint Aldwinus on the out-side of his Church and Ranulph Flambard according to the intention of William Carlipho made the Pourtraiture of a Woman milking her Cow on the out-side of the North-west Turret of the Nine Altars at the building of the new Church in a thankful remembrance of that Maid who so fortunately in their great perplexity directed them to Dunholme where the Body of their great Saint was to rest untill the Resurrection which Monument though defaced by the Weather to this day is there to be seen The description of the Tomb which William Carlipho erected in the Cloister-garth till a fair Shrine might be made in his new Church where he might be inclosed William Carlipho Bishop of Durham before he took down the old Church built by Bishop Aldwinus did prepare a fair and beautiful Tomb of Stone in the Cloister-garth a yard high from the ground where St. Cuthbert was laid until his Shrine was prepared for him in the new Church that now is over which Tomb was laid a great fair and comely broad Through-Marble stone But when his Body was Translated to the Feretory where it was inshrined in honour of him they made a goodly large and curious Image of Marble representing St. Cuthbert very finely and curiously pictur'd and wrought in the stone with painting and gilding very beautiful and excellent to behold in that form in which he was wont to say Mass with his Mitre on his head and his Crosier-staff in his hand and his other Vestments very curiously engraven on the said Marble which after his body was inshrined in the new Church was placed above the said Tomb-stone and round about the said Tomb-stone both at the sides and at either end were set up neat Stanchells of Wood joyned so close that one could not put in his hand betwixt one and the other but might only look in and see that exquisite Picture which lay within them and was cover'd over above all very finely and closely like unto a little Chappel or Church Which comely Monument did stand in the Cloister-garth till the suppression of the Abbey over against the Parlour-door through which the Monks were carried into the Centry-garth to be buried which Parlour is now turned into a Store-house and a Room made above it for the Register's Office And also it did continue to the suppression of the House as is aforesaid and afterwards unto the time of Dean Horn who caused the said Monument of St. Cuthbert to be pull'd down and converted the Leads and all to his own use and the said Image of St. Cuthbert was laid on the one side against the Cloister-wall over against the Parlour-door as they go through into the Centry-garth And afterwards when Whittingham came to be Dean he caused the said Image of St. Cuthbert as he had done many other of the Ancient Monuments to be defaced and broken all to pieces to the intent that there should be no memory or token of that holy man St. Cuthbert or of any man who formerly had been famous in the Church and great Benefactors thereunto as the Priors his predecessors were left whole and undefaced in memory or token of that holy man St. Cuthbert who was sent and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God and prov'd the occasion of the Building of the said Monastical Church and House where they have all their Livings and commodities to live on at this day The East-Alley of the Cloisters It was many years after the Building of the Cloisters to the time of Bishop Walter Skirlaw who was first consecrated Bishop of Lichfield He sat there one year and was translated to Wells and sat there two years and in September 1388. he was removed to Durham He gave towards the Building of the Cloisters two hundred pounds in his Life-time and four hundred pounds in his Will and he bestowed also two hundred and twenty pounds in the Building of the Dirivitory He sate Bishop of Durham eighteen years and died in the beginning of the year 1406. And after him Thomas Langley Bishop gave to the Building of the said Cloisters 838 lib. 17s 6d So that these two Bishops were the two first Founders and Builders of the said Cloisters and did bear all the charges of the Building and Workmanship of the said Work and were the first that did cause from the Cloister-door to the Church-door to be set in Glass in the Window the whole story and miracles of that holy man St. Cuthbert from the day of his Birth to his dying day And there you might have seen his Mother lying in her Child-bed and how that after she was delivered the bright beams did shine from Heaven unto her and upon the Child as he lay in the Cradle insomuch that to every mans thinking the Holy Ghost had over-shadow'd him for every one that did see it thought that the house had been all on fire the beams did shine so bright over all the House both within and without And the Bishop baptized the Child and called him Yullock in the Irish Tongue in English Cuthbert The Bishop's Name who baptized and had the keeping of the virtuous and godly Child was Eugenius The Name of the City where St. Cuthbert was baptized was Hardbrecunb for he was blessed of God even from his Mothers Womb. So that every Miracle that he did after from his Infancy was set in the said Windows by it self and under every miracle there were certain Verses in Latine declaring the contents and meaning thereof in most excellent colour'd glass most artificially set forth and curiously wrought And the said stories thus set up in the Windows were set in that place at the charge of those two godly Bishops to be annexed and joyned to the said Tomb of St. Cuthbert