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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
Towards the close of the fourteenth century extensive building operations were undertaken at Canterbury Cathedral. The more important of these were the rebuilding of the nave and the erection of a new chapter-house. At Canterbury, as at Gloucester, the cloister was to the north of the nave, and as the chapter-house was erected to the east of the cloister it was necessary to reconstruct in some measure the roof of both the south and east walks, but the opportunity was taken to construct an arcading on each side of the cloister garth, and to throw a vaulted roof across from the arcade to the walls. This work was in hand during the time of Prior Chillenden—prior from 1391 to 1411—and he proceeded in the cloisters with a brutal disregard for the beautiful work left behind by his predecessors, whose walls he used so far as they served him. The prior had been munificently assisted by a wealthy archbishop, viz. Archbishop Courtenay, who died the 31st July, 1396.
page 452 note 1 It is to be observed that this was printed before the whitewash and everything else was cleared away in the ‘restoration’ of 1835.
page 453 note 1 The whole story is to be found in Messrs. Woodruff and Danks's valuable Memorials of the Cathedral, etc. (8vo, 1912), at page 322.
page 453 note 2 Mr. Streatfeild's copy of Mr. Willement's book is now in the collection of Dr. Cock, F.S.A., and he has kindly allowed me to use it freely. It gives clear evidence of the care with which Mr. Streatfield inspected and noted all the shields in the cloisters. It is adorned by some of his tricks of shields. The beauty of his drawings of arms is well known to all who have used his manuscripts in the British Museum.
page 455 note 1 Really it was by Burnby, John, See Arch, Cant., xxiii, 37Google Scholar.
page 456 note 1 This has been done by assigning to those shields which are not noticed in his book a letter of the alphabet followed by a numeral indicating the compartment. Thus A.33 is a shield not noticed by Willement which exists in compartment 33.
page 463 note 1 The abbreviations used in this list are: A., the MS. numbered 162 in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries; C., the MSS. in the possession of Dr. Cock; Ha., the copy of a MS. made by Hasted, now Add. MS. 5479; S., a roll of Richard II, c. 1377, emblazoned by Messrs. A. P. Harrison & Sons [? 1848], apparently the same roll as that cited in Papworth's Ordinary as S.; W., the Heraldic Notices, etc., by Thomas Willement (1827).
page 484 note 1 In the discussion that followed the reading of the paper the Rev. E. E. Dorling, F.S.A., pointed out that the arms were allusive, trois cols de cygnc. I have also to acknowledge many suggestions from him since this paper was in type which I have been able to incorporate in the notes to the various shields, thereby much adding to their value.