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... They first seem to appear in the decades after the Norman conquest
(early cases have been identified at Old Sarum and Lincoln, both secular
chapters reformed in the 1070s-1090s). They thus stand in contrast to the
communalised, ie more monastic in tone, colleges of priests that had
hitherto been seen as the ideal 'model' for secular chapters.
The definitive work on prebends, canons and all pertaining to them is
Edwards, K 1967 The English secular cathedrals in the Middle Ages,
Manchester University Press.
One might also have a look at Bowker, M 1968 The secular clergy in the
diocese of Lincoln 1495–1520, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and
Thought, new series, XIII, CUP, or the historical chapters of general works
on individual prebendally-organised colleges (scuse grammer). Of these the
secular cathedrals where by far the largest (at least before the late c14):
Lincoln*, Old Sarum/Salisbury, St Pauls*, Chichester*, Hereford*, Lichfield,
Wells*, Exeter* and York*. Other large colleges included Southwell,
Beverley, Crediton, Ottery St Mary, St George's Windsor*, St Stephen
Westminster, and the academic colleges of Oxford* and Cambridge*. I have
marked with an asterisk those which have particularly good, easy to trace,
relevant historical literature. Or another way in is my own 'Cathedral: the
English cathedrals and the world that made them (Constable, 2007).
>From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Funding of Prebends
>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:19:17 -0000
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Ms B M Cook wrote:
>>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>>culture
>>Can anyone who is clued up in medieaval economics tell me how
>>prebends were funded, or rather tell me if I am remembering correctly
>>or have got the whole thing screwed up.
>>
>>As I believe, prebends were incomes provided for Cathedral Canons who
>>lived in houses and not a quasi monastic common life.
>
>Prebends seem to have originated as gifts of land or churches from laymen
>(or the bishop, as at Salisbury), but with some right of nomination
>reserved. It made sense to appoint as a canon someone with local ties who
>would be the resident rector and receive the tithes and income from glebe
>directly. Where there were estates of manors or land, again a canon could
>be appointed to live locally and manage the estates. But other estates were
>farmed, and the income reserved to a central fund for the maintenance of
>the resident canons.
>
>This is touched on in Diana E. Greenway's "1091, St Osmund and the
>Constitution of the Cathedral" pp.1-9 in Medieval Art and Architecture at
>Salisbury Cathedral (British Archaeological Association Conference
>Transactions XVII, 1996).
>
>
>John Briggs
>
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