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Ellie,

I've just (about) completed a survey of Berkeley acts of religious patronage in the period c1300-c1350, and one thing that struck me was the number and variety of chapels there were in the landscape besides the parish churches. For example the core Berkeley estate in central Gloucestershire contained six parishes but just as many chapels: some closely associated with lordly or knightly residences, some on sites that the family were clearly hoping to develop in other ways, some just 'there', a mile or two from the nearest church. I only come across them because one lord Berkeley or another founds a memorial mass in one; it's rarely possible to tell if the chapel has been newly built for this purpose, or if it has stood on the site for some time. I've never found any indication of any activities other than the saying of masses at the altar. Physical remains are sparse. I'll happily send you the draft if any use.

Anyway, the main tip I have relates to chantry certificates. These will include any religious building where a chantry was known to be taking place at the Dissolution; the value of any plate is usually given, and sometimes of origins of chantries, too. While not complete - no continuing memorial masses (sometimes simple obits get in) in 1547, no mention - they are a v useful way of tracking down wayside chapels, and getting some kind of sense of how richly furnished (or not) they were and what went on in them.

While you could consult the certificates themselves, many are published, often in the county journal relating to the area concerned. Citations for the complete published chantry certificates in Gloucestershire and Somerset where locatable in seconds using the respective archaeological societies' websites, which include indices of all articles published to date. Fascinating reading they make, too. Hopefully something like that will exist for S Wales counties, too.

Jon

PS

This isn't the paper I've been talking to you about... we must talk about that.

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> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:26:46 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] Chapels
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Later episcopal visitations sometimes asked about chapels which had gone out of use.
> The crucial distinction is supposed to be between chapels of ease (used for Mass and presumably other services as well but without rights of baptism, marriage and burial) and parochial chapelries (which did have such rights) - but as I'm aware of several medieval chapelries in south Wales which were described as chapels of ease but have evidence of burials I wonder whether that's really a post-medieval distinction.
>
> Maddy
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> Dr Madeleine Gray
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> Ellie, you should certainly look at registers of the bishops of Hereford.
> The Canterbury and York Society has published the following
>
> Registrum Ade de Orleton, episcopi Herefordensis, 1317-27 ed. Bannister
> (1908). (vol 5)
> Registrum Ricardi de Swinfield, episcopi Herefordensis, 1283-1317 ed. Capes
> (1909). (vol 6)
> Registrum Johannes de Trillek, episcopi Herefordensis, 1344-1361 ed. Parry
> (1912). (vol 8)
> Registrum Thome de Charlton, episcopi Herefordensis, 1327-1344 ed. Capes
> (1913). (vol 9)
> Registrum Ludowici de Charltone, episcopi Herefordiensis, 1361-1370 ed.
> Parry (CYS, 14; Cantilupe Society publications). (1914). (vol 14)
> Registrum Willelmi de Courtenay, episcopi Herefordensis, 1370-1375 ed. Capes
> (1914). (vol 15)
> Registrum Johannis Gilbert, episcopi Herefordensis, 1375-1389 ed. Parry
> (CYS, 18; Cantilupe Society publications). (1915). (vol 18)
> Registrum Johannis Trefnant, episcopi Herefordensis, 1389-1404 ed. Capes
> (1916). (vol 20)
> Registrum Roberti Mascall, episcopi Herefordensis, 1404-1416; introduction
> noted by C. Johnston transcr. Parry (CYS, 21; Cantilupe Society
> publications). (1917). (vol 21)
> Registrum Edmundi Lacy, episcopi Herefordensis, 1417-1420 transcr. Parry &
> Capes; Registrum Thome Poltone, episcopi Herefordensis, 1420-1422; 1417-1420
> transcr. J.H. Parry, ed. A.T. Bannister; 1420-1422 transcr. W.W. Capes (CYS,
> 22; Cantilupe Society publications). (1918). (vol 22)
> Registrum Thome Spofford, episcopi Herefordensis, 1422-1448 ed. Bannister
> (1919). (vol 23)
> Registrum Ricardi Beauchamp, episcopi Herefordensis, 1449-1450; registrum
> Reginaldi Boulers, episcopi Herefordensis 1441 [1450]-1453; registrum
> Johannis Stanbury, episcopi Herefordensis, 1453-1474 ; ed. Bannister;
> register of John Stanbury transcr. J.H. Parry (CYS, 25; Cantilupe Society
> publications). (1919). (vol 25)
> Registrum Thome Myllyng, episcopi Herefordensis, 1474-1492 ed. Bannister
> (1920). (vol 26)
> Registrum Ricardi Mayew, episcopi Herefordensis, 1504-16 ed. Bannister
> (1921).(vol 27)
> Registrum Caroli Bothe, episcopi Herefordensis, 1516-1535 ed. Bannister
> (1921). (vol 28)
>
>
> You should also look at the Calendars of Papal Letters and also perhaps the
> Calendars of Chancery Rolls (Patent, Close, Fine) for odd references.
>
> For chapels of ease in general:
>
> As so often, I suggest you look at A Hamilton Thompson, The English Clergy
> in the later Middle Ages (Oxford, 1947), pp 123-8 for his piece on parochial
> chapels as a starting point.
>
> See also RN Swanson, Church and Society in Late Medieval England (Oxford,
> 1989)
>
>
>
>
> You might therefore find it useful to look at the online database of
> taxation records help in The National Archives class E 179
>
> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179
>
> There are 121 hits for a search on the place of Llangarron 'chapel'
> including a mention of the Llangarron chaplain in the 1380 clerical poll
> tax; and Llangarron chaplains in a 1406 tax on unbeneficed clergy. However,
> I cannot see anything for Llangrove/Longrove.
>
> You should also look at the 19th century editions of the Taxatio of
> Nicholas IV and the Valor Ecclesiasticus - although I note that the Taxatio
> database has nothing for Longrove/Llangrove
>
> I hope this is of some help.
>
> Regards,
> Rosemary Hayes
>
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