medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Susan Hoyle wrote:
>
> As for long shots, at this stage of my research (deadline the end of
> this month) I am definitely interested in them--for recalcitrant
> items like this, I mean. The collegiate church of St Buryan,
> supposedly founded or at least chartered by Aethelstan (c 930), was
> by 1300 at the latest claimed by the Crown as a Royal Free Chapel or
> a Royal Peculiar. It was used to provide income
> for this or that royal clerk, only one of whom ever so much as set
> foot in the parish--he was the Dean, and other absentees were
> prebendaries. The work was done by resident chaplains, or canons.
> The Augustinian canons (whose affiliation is virtually never
> mentioned; indeed I don't think I've seen it in more than one
> primary source) lived in houses around the church, and every now and
> then there was a scandal...
I'm going to stick my neck out and say that a collegiate foundation wouldn't
be Augustinian pre-Conquest. If the canons are prebendaries and living in
houses, that rather sounds as if they are secular canons rather than Regular
Canons (Augustinians).
John Briggs
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