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Can anyone point me to sources which would indicate who would serve
chantries (and particularly chantry chapels) in monastic churches (and
in particular monastic cathedrals)? I am thinking of England in the
first instance.
I would have thought that chantry chapels would have been rarer in
monastic chuches, and would have been served by the monks themselves
rather than by secular chaplains, with the exception of monastic cathedrals.
To my surprise, I found a houses of Augustinian Canons (Anglesey Priory,
Cambridgeshire) where early chantry agreements (VCH Cambridgeshire)
specified secular chaplains, who were to be given food and lodging in
the monastic house!
(This may throw some light on the other vexed question as to whether
regular canons served their parish churches themselves or put in vicars.)
John Briggs
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