XXIX. Remarks on the Stalls near the Communion Table in Maidstone Church, with an Enquiry into the Place of Burial of Archbishop Courtney. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Director.

Samuel Denne

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XXIX. Remarks on the Stalls near the Communion Table in Maidstone Church, with an Enquiry into the Place of Burial of Archbishop Courtney. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Director.

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I am much obliged to you for having exhibited to our Society the drawing made by Mr. Fisher of certain stalls now remaining on the south side of the chancel of Maidstone church. But previous to my stating the supposed time of their construction, with such an illustration of them as may be thought requisite, I will offer some general observations relative to similar seats that are still to be seen in parochial as well as cathedral and collegiate churches.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 10 , 1789 , pp. 261 - 297

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900020634 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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^{page 262 note [a]} Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. LVI. p. 752.

^{page 262 note [b]} Johnson's Colleaion of Ecclesiastical Laws.

^{page 262 note [c]} Vol. II. p. 78.

^{page 262 note [d]} Gent. Mag. Vol. LVII. p. 663.

^{page 263 note [e]} Gent. Mag. Vol. LVI. p. 752.

^{page 263 note [f]} Ibid. Vol. LVII. p. 663.

^{page 263 note [g]} Johnson's Eccles. Consist. A. MCCXXII. Langton's Const. 22, 23, A. M. CCXXXVII. Legat. Const. of Otto. 20. A. MCCLXVIII. Legat. Const. Othobon. 18.

^{page 264 note [h]} Memorials of Rochester cathedral, inserted in Mr. Thorpe's Antiquities of the Diocese of Rochester, p. 212. Reg. 1. Lowe Epi Rossen. sol. 203. a. A. 1457, June 21, Apud Rossam facta suit convocatio cleri civitat' et dioces Rossen' et exposit' clero per mag. Tho. Candour commissar' D'ni de visitatione epa'li hoc anno et de procurationibus solvendis ratione visitationis concessere v1d. de lib. solvend' D'no pro esculentis et poculentis et procurationibus ratione visitationis solvend' die visitat' secundu' taxationes beneficior taxat' et non taxat' secundu' commun' valore' eorund'. Et qd' licebit D no per omnes censuras ecclesiasticas non solventes compellere. Act. Cur. Consist. fol. 323. b.

^{page 264 note [i]} Stillingfleet's Posthumous Tracts, p. 256.

^{page 264 note [k]} Act. Cur. Consist. Roffen. et Act. Cur. Archid. Roffen.

^{page 265 note [l]} Ibid.

^{page 266 note [m]} Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosanct. Concil. Tridentini restitutum; de principio missæ, et consessione facienda. Si sacerdos celebraturus sit coram summo pontisice, fistit se ante infimum gradum altaris a cornu Evangelii ante ipsum pontificem, ubi genu flexus expectat. Accepta benedictione, erigit se, et stans aliquantum versus ad altare, incipit missam. Si autem sit coram cardinale, legato sedis apostolicæ, aut patriarcha, archiepiscopo, et episcopo, in eorum residentiis, vel loco jurisdictionis, stans ante insimum gradum a cornu Evangelii, ut supra expectat. Dato signo, sacit profundam reverentiam piælato, et versus ad altare incipit missam. Si autem solemniter celebrat coram summo pontifice, aut alio ex prædictis prælatis in ecclesia eorum jurisdictionis, stans a sinistra prælati facit cum eo confessionem, et alia servat, ut in cæremoniali ordinatur.

^{page 266 note [n]} Isaack's Memorials of Exeter, P. 43.

^{page 267 note [o]} Godwin de Præsul. edit. Richardson, p. 400.

^{page 267 note [p]} Memorials of Rochester Cathedral, p. 202.

^{page 267 note [q]} P. 44.

^{page 268 note [r]} Newton mentions its being perhaps the largest parish church in the county; and that, upon an admeasurement, the nave appears to be, in length 163 feet and half, breadth 91 feet, the length of the choir or great chancel 63 feet and half, breadth 30 feet, and the ailes on each side the great chancel 17 feet each in breadth, p. 54.

^{page 269 note [s]} Pref. p. xvi.

^{page 269 note [t]} Page 77.

^{page 270 note [u]} History of Kent, p. 190.

^{page 270 note [x]} This coat seems to have a relation to archbishop. Arundel, or one of his family; for in the arms of John Fitz Alan, earl of Sussex and Arundel, as emblazoned in the map of Sussex inserted in Speed's Theatre of the British empire, are barry of eight Or and Gules, impaling Sable, a lion rampant, Or.

^{page 270 note [y]} The eastern and western monument were erected in 1653, and the middle monument is a memorial of John Astley, the youngest son of Sir Jacob Astley. He died in 1618.

^{page 271 note [z]} In your Sepulchral Monuments, p. 60, you seem to make these stalls the monument of Leosric; though in p. 8 you describe a monument erected to him in the South transept in 1568, which was the true place of his interment, being at the time of his decease, before the church was enlarged, the cemetery belonging to it. Godwin, loc. cit.

^{page 271 note [a]} Memorials of Rochester Cathedral, p. 203.

^{page 272 note [b]} Sepulchral Monuments, p. 154.

^{page 272 note [c]} Antiquities of Canterbury, p. 135.

^{page 274 note [d]} By the injunction of king Henry VIII A. 1539, the name of St. Thomas (Becket) was to be expunged from all books; Cantuar. Sacra, p. 117. In the Cawston MS. Mr. Hasted observed many deaths and other incidents entered as having occurred on days dedicated to that imaginary saint; and he noticed the title of Saint being rased in every article, except that which mentions the burial of archbishop Courtney.

^{page 274 note [e]} Cantuariæ sepultum Godwinus scribit. Verius Maydenstonæ tumulatum esse patet ex codicillo, qui testamento suo annexus extat inter archiva ecclesiæ Christi Cant. Ang. Sacr. I. p. 121.

^{page 274 note [f]} Arundel, Chicheley, Stafford, Kemp, and Bourchier.

^{page 275 note [g]} Wilkins's Concil. II. p. 184. He resers to Regist. Hear. Prioris Cantuar.

^{page 276 note [h]} Funeral Monuments, p. 211.

^{page 277 note [i]} Q. Godson, or Pupil, I suppose. Batteley, Cantuar. Sacr. p. 74.

^{page 278 note [k]} Tanner, Bibl. Britan. p. 712.

^{page 278 note [l]} Decem Script. c. 2197, 2192.

^{page 278 note [m]} Godwin de Præful. Edit. Richardson, p. 123.

^{page 278 note [n]} Claus. 20. R. II. Pl. 1. m. 28. De personis opiniones contra fidem tenentibus arestandis.

Teste rege apud Cantuar. quarto die Augusti, Rymer MS. 4595. f. 121.

^{page 280 note [o]} Holinshed's Chronicle, v. II. p. 1088, &c. Much greater preparations seem to have been made for the king's second voyage, than for his first. In Rymer Fœd. VII. 839, 840, are minutes of the following writs for pressing and victualling of ships. 20 R. II. De navibus arestandis pro passagio regis. Test. Reg. apud Westm. xxx die Augusti. De victualibus pro viagio regis. Test. Reg apud Roffen. vicesimo tertio die Septembris.

^{page 291 note [a]} Blomefield, I. 493.

^{page 292 note [b]} Blomefield, I. 504.

^{page 292 note [c]} Ib. III. 403. 404.

^{page 292 note [d]} Ib. 459.

^{page 292 note [e]} Ib. II. 678.

^{page 294 note [f]} Blomefield, IV. 108. 109.

^{page 294 note [g]} Ib. 202.

^{page 297 note [h]} At Edgeworth, p. 553, “a lavatory and curious subsellium or stone bench on the left side of the altar.”

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XXIX. Remarks on the Stalls near the Communion Table in Maidstone Church, with an Enquiry into the Place of Burial of Archbishop Courtney. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Director.

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