Dear David
I greatly appreciate your kindness.
I'd like to thank you for your beneficial comments.
Ryo
--- "leach david" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Dear Ryo,
>
>Your question is very big. There are three things that occur to me at once.
>
>
>First some of the monks who became parish priests or curates after the
>Dissolution may well have been acting in the same capacity before the
>Dissolution, because the cure was provided by monks on behalf of their
>monastery who owned the right of presentation. Therefore I suspect that
>there was continuity for some monks in some parishes. How many monks had
>done the same duties before and after the Dissolution I don't know. The
>parish histories in the Victoria County History series might be a good place
>to start.
>
>Secondly, it is difficult to find out what happened to individual monks or
>canons and especially friars if the record of their pension has not survived
>(I don't think that friars got pensions as a rule). I believe that Claire
>Cross has published work on the ex-monks in Yorkshire, but I haven't got the
>reference to hand.
>
>Thirdly, the effects on parish administration will depend on the survival of
>parish documents such as the church wardens accounts. These are not very
>plentiful, but some have survived, and a few have been published. The
>document such as the vicar's journal from Morebath used by Eamon Duffy for
>his book 'Voices of Morebath' are very rare, and that vicar (or was he a
>rector?) was not an ex-monk. The other documents which might throw some
>light on parish administration are the bishop's visitation records and court
>records if they survive, but they are not likely to be any more than
>snapshots, unless you are very lucky.
>
>I hope this brief reply is helpful.
>
>Dave Leach
>
>On 14 November 2010 00:35, Ryo Sakamoto <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> To All
>>
>> After Dissolution many monks became parish priests or curates, but it is
>> difficult to trace the effect on the parish administration after that. I
>> wonder if anyone could tell me the informations relative to that including
>> the possibilities and the problem faced by the monks.
>>
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