IV.—On the Topography of the Dominican Priory of London

Alfred W. Clapham Esq.

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IV.—On the Topography of the Dominican Priory of London

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Alfred W. Clapham Esq.

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The remains of the Dominican houses in England are so inconsiderable as to give little indication of the former power and influence of the order. The Dominican convents, however, outnumbered those of any other mendicant order, and while the popularity of the Blackfriars amongst the lower classes probably never equalled that of the Minor brethren, yet in court favour and aristocratic support the Dominicans held the higher place, and a succession of their friars occupied the post of confessor to the later mediaeval kings.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 63 , 1912 , pp. 57 - 84

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^{page 57 note 1} See plan in Harrod's, Gleanings among the Castles and Convents of Norfolk, p. 73.Google Scholar

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^{page 57 note 3} See reproduction of old plan in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. xiii, p. 87.Google Scholar

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^{page 57 note 7} A view of the ruins appears in A History of Northumberland, vol. i (Bamburgh), 1893, p. 138Google Scholar.

^{page 57 note 8} The site of the first house is fully discussed by Baildon, W. Paley in the Black Books of Lincoln's Inn, vol. iv, p. 263Google Scholar.

^{page 58 note 1} Hist. MSS. Commission, 4th Report, p. 176.

^{page 58 note 2} Ibid.

^{page 58 note 3} Stow, , Survey of London, edit. 1633, p. 373.Google Scholar

^{page 58 note 4} They are so named on the list of burials, Harleian MSS. Plut. 6033.

^{page 58 note 5} Cal. of Close Rolls 1279-88, p. 428.Google Scholar

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^{page 59 note 1} Cal. of Close Rolls 1288-96, p. 373.

^{page 59 note 2} Ibid., 1296-1302, p. 451.

^{page 59 note 3} e.g., Cal. of Patent Rolls 1307-13, pp. 483, 556, &c.

^{page 59 note 4} Ibid., 1350-4, p. 323.

^{page 59 note 5} Ibid., 1307-13, p. 159.

^{page 59 note 6} Stow's, Survey, edit. 1633, p 405.Google Scholar

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^{page 59 note 10} Ibid., p. 187.

^{page 59 note 11} Ibid., p. 98.

^{page 59 note 12} Stow's, Survey, edit. 1633, p. 436.Google Scholar

^{page 59 note 13} Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. iv, no. 5613.

^{page 59 note 14} Ibid., vol. xiii (2), no. 809.

^{page 60 note 1} V. C. H. London, vol. i, p. 501, note.

^{page 60 note 2} The quotations from this source are taken from the edition of the Early English Text Society.

^{page 61 note 1} See illustration in Smith's, Ancient Topography of London, p. 26.Google Scholar

^{page 61 note 2} See plan of precinct, after Leake, J., in the Soane Museum, Fauntleroy Pennant, vol. iv, no. 107Google Scholar.

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^{page 61 note 4} Strype's, Stow, edit. 1720, Book III, p. 179.Google Scholar

^{page 61 note 5} Brit. Record Soc. London Inquisitions, vol. ii, p. 115 (Peter Goberd)Google Scholar.

^{page 61 note 6} Hist. MSS. Comm., 7th Report, p. 665 a.

^{page 61 note 7} P.R.O. Declared Accounts, no. 3328.

^{page 61 note 8} This gate is indicated on Agas's View of London (c. 1560-70).

^{page 62 note 1} Acts of the Privy Council, vol xxi, p. 402.Google Scholar

^{page 62 note 2} Hugh Losse's survey is printed in extenso in Appendix I.

^{page 62 note 3} Sharpe's, Court of Husting Wills, vol. i, p. 391.Google Scholar

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^{page 62 note 6} Steele, , Anchoresses of the West, p. 100.Google Scholar

^{page 63 note 1} Printed in full in Besant's, Survey of London, vol. ii, Appendix ix.Google Scholar

^{page 64 note 1} Gent. Mag., 1843, Pt. i P. 635Google Scholar, where illustrations are given of the two slabs.

^{page 64 note 2} V.C.H. London, vol. i, p. 500.Google Scholar

^{page 64 note 3} Wills, P. C. C, 40 Holgrave. The passage runs: ‘in ecce. ffm predicatof londofi, desuper capellam erect, et fundat. in eadem ecclia in honore beatissime et gloriosissime virgis Marie, ex fundatione Johanne nuper dne de Ingoldsthorpe ac nup. sororis Jotiis nup. comitis Wigorn. et murū ejusdem eccfte. Occident sepeliend.’

^{page 64 note 4} Wills, P. C. C, 13 Vox. She desires to be buried ‘in the chapel of our Lady set within the church of the Black Friars within Ludgate of London, in the same place where the body of Sir John Typtoft, late Earl of Worcester, my brother, resteth buried’.

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^{page 65 note 1} The examples at Lynn and Coventry, mentioned above, are the only two now standing in England, but the crossing at the Blackfriars, Norwich, still remains, and foundations uncovered at the Austinfriars at Warrington and Ludlow indicate the existence of similar features at those places. Steeples of this class are still very numerous in Ireland, and one (the Trinitarian Friars at Dunbar) still remains standing in Scotland. The Greyfriars tower at Richmond (Yorks.) is of the more ordinary type.

^{page 65 note 2} This list is printed in Appendix II.

^{page 65 note 3} Antiquary, vol. 23, p. 126.Google Scholar

^{page 65 note 4} Ibid., vol. 24, p. 28.

^{page 65 note 5} Ibid., p. 29.

^{page 66 note 1} Strype's, Stow (1720), Book III, p. 182.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 2} Wills, P. C. C., 13 Holder.

^{page 66 note 3} Ibid., 15 Stokton.

^{page 66 note 4} Ibid., 3 Horne.

^{page 66 note 5} Ibid., 28 Porch.

^{page 66 note 6} Ibid., 14 Holgrave.

^{page 66 note 7} Antiquary, vol. 23, p. 125.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 8} Ibid., vol. 24, p. 29.

^{page 66 note 9} Wills, P. C. C, 13 Bennett.

^{page 66 note 10} Antiquary, vol. 24, p. 76.Google Scholar

^{page 66 note 11} Ibid., p. 79.

^{page 66 note 12} Ibid., p. 78.

^{page 67 note 1} Antiquary, vol. 24, p. 29.Google Scholar

^{page 67 note 2} Wills, , P. C. C., 1 Home.Google Scholar

^{page 67 note 3} Antiquary, vol. 24, p. 28.Google Scholar

^{page 67 note 4} Ibid., p, 30.

^{page 67 note 5} Register Fitzjames, fo. 27.

^{page 67 note 6} Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. v, p. 766 (7).Google Scholar

^{page 68 note 1} This practice obtained very generally in friars' houses all over England. At Hulne (Carmelite) two alleys of the cloister, the east and west, were so constructed, and other examples yet remain standing at Aylesford (Carmelite), Ware and Dunwich (Franciscan), Bristol and Hereford (Dominican).

^{page 68 note 2} Wills, P. C. C, 5 Holder.

^{page 68 note 3} Ibid., 22 Ayloffe.

^{page 70 note 1} Augmentation Off., Particulars for Grants 524, dated Sept. 7, 36 Henry VIII. ‘Firmatotius illius introitus vocati’ le entree' adjacentis et annexati ad ‘le gallorye’ domine Anne Greye, versus Austrum continentis per estimacionem xvi pedes in longitudine usque ad ostium ducentem ad clau-strum et in latitudine, per estimacionem vin pedes ducentis usque ad ostium in orientali parte de le dorter, ac de eodem dormitorio xx pedes in longitudine, ab australi muro usque ad primam trabem versus borialem et sic ducentis usque ad introitum qui ducit ad quandam parvam cameram, vul-gariter vocatam ‘the provincyalles Chamber’ super gardinum. Necnon firma cujusdam camere ruinose vocate ‘le comon Jakes Chamber’ juxta dictam cameram vocatam ‘the provyncyalles chamber’ etunius paris gradium vocati ‘le payer of Stayers’ ducentis per murum lapideum australem dicti dormitorii usque ad dictam cameram vocatam ‘the provyncyall Chamber’. Necnon firma trium camerarum, cum duobus caminis in eisdem. Ac etiam unius camere vocate ‘le Scolehouse’ exi-stentis apud orientalem finem magni claustri. Ac etiam unius parvi gardini existentis ante fenestras ejusdem domus vocate ‘le Scolehouse’; insimul dimissorum dicte domine Anne Greye vidue xecutoribus et assignatis.’

^{page 71 note 1} Rentals and Surveys, Gen. Ser., pt. n, no. 18. Firma totius claustri ibidem vocati ‘le Inner Cloyster’ modo Gardinum existentis. Ac omnium edificiorum et domorum subtuo dormitorium; ac totius aulo promptorii et ccllarii ox parto boriali dieti claustri. Necnon firma totius domus et edificiorum vocatorum ‘le Lybrarie’ ex parte orientali dicti claustri. Ac totius illius paFtis dormi-toriiquo non -assignatus (sic) nee demitt' (sic) domine Anne Grey vidue, ox partc boriali claustri ibidem. Necnon totius spacii subtus et infra claustrum predictum. Ac etiam totius edificiorum vocatorum ‘le fermorye’ ad occidentalem finem dicti claustri. Ac totius spacii supra et subtus eidem spectantis. Necnon totius pistrini et domus Brasine dicte ‘le fermorye’ adjacentium. Ac etiam firma totius stabuli proximum adjacentis dicte domui Brasine, unacum omnibus viis, &c, &c.

^{page 71 note 2} See paper by Dr. Norman, P. in London Topographical Soc. Ann. Record, vol. i, p. i.Google Scholar

^{page 72 note 1} See note, p. 70.

^{page 73 note 1} See note, p. 70.

^{page 73 note 2} Inq. p. m. 2 Elizabeth, pt. 1, no. 90. Index Lib., London Inquisitions, vol. i, p. 191.Google Scholar

^{page 73 note 3} Pat. Rolls, 4 Edward VI, pt. 6.

^{page 73 note 4} Chancery Proceedings printed in the Athenaeum, July 17, 1886: ‘Inhabitants of the Black Friars v. Cawarden, Jan. 1557. The said parish church and churchyard was severed and divided with brick walls from the said parishioners by the officers of the said late king, whereof Sir Thomas Cawarden was one, who declared unto the said parishioners that the said king's pleasure was to have there the said parish church and churchyard amongst other rooms within the said site of the said late house to lay in his majesty's pavillions, tentes, maskes, and revels.’

^{page 73 note 5} There is some confusion as to the position of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, several of the late seventeenth-century plans showing it on the opposite or west side of Church Entry; the plan, however, at the Guildhall should be conclusive on this point.

^{page 74 note 1} See note 6.

^{page 74 note 2} See Guildhall plan.

^{page 74 note 3} Antiquary, vol. xxiv, p. 119.Google Scholar

^{page 74 note 4} See note 1, p. 71.

^{page 74 note 5} Leland's, Collectanea, edit. 1774, vol. iv, p. 51.Google Scholar

^{page 74 note 6} Pat. Rolls, 2 Edward VI, pt. 7, m. 10. See Appendix III.

^{page 75 note 1} Index Library, London Inquisitions, vol. i, p. 184.Google Scholar

^{page 76 note 1} Aug. Office Parties, for Grants, Henry VIII, no. 293.

^{page 76 note 2} Printed in full in Besant's, Survey of London, vol. ii, Appendix ix.Google Scholar

^{page 76 note 3} The projection of this chamber is still preserved in the modern building line.

^{page 77 note 1} Hist. MSS. Commission, 7th Report, p. 603.

^{page 77 note 2} Barrett, C. R. B., History of the Society of Apothecaries.Google Scholar

^{page 77 note 3} See Athenaeum, July 17, 1886.Google Scholar

^{page 79 note 1} Printed in full in Halliwell-Phillipps's, Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, vol. ii, p. 299.Google Scholar

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^{page 73 note 3} A drawing in the Gardiner Collection, supposed to represent the front of the theatre, is reproduced in Baker's, G. P.The Development of Shakespeare as a DramatistGoogle Scholar . It indicates a classic building with an open colonnaded portico, but the ascription is doubtful.

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