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To qualify for ordination, you also had to be born free and legitimate -
although you could be made free (manumitted) and have a dispensation against
illegitimate birth.
Following Jim's reference to Bishop Alnwick's visitations
Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln 1420-1436
(Canterbury & York Soc, vol 17, 1915) has references to chantries served by
chaplains (p36) and religious (98)
Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln 1436-49 [Bp
Alnwick] (Canterbury & York Soc, vols 24, 33, 1919, 1927) has about 20
references to 'chantries in or dependent on religious houses'
These should be available in 'all good libraries' and volumes 17 and 33 are
available from me for £15 and £10, respectively. Sadly, vol 24, which
contains 15 of the references is out of print.
There might be something in Chapters of the Augustinian Canons, vol 29
(1922) but, at a quick glance, the index is not so comprehensive as the
Visitations volumes so it would need to be read!
Re John's 'vexed question', there is plenty of evidence for the canons
serving in parishes in episcopal registers. Our project on taxation of the
clergy has also found evidence for this. See my colleague, Maureen
Jurkowski's article in the latest Monastic Research Bulletin
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/Publications/MRB15.pdf p 8. There may also
be information in other articles in MRB - available freely online.
Regards,
Rosemary Hayes
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>> the more encompassing Council of Vienne in 1311 it was decreed that no
>> monk of 24 years of age and who was not otherwise disqualified (how, I
>> wonder?) might refuse to take holy orders when commanded by his abbot;
> IIRC a man had to be "physically perfect" to be priested. I have a vague
> memory of a Scottish graduate (of Glasgow ?) who had been blinded in one
> eye by a carrot (!!) thrown during a student brawl and who had to get a
> papal dispensation to be ordained in spite of his handicap. Obviously a
> man who was wholly blind and could not see to read the service books would
> be at a serious disadvantage even in a society where a lot could and was
> learned by heart. But I think a lame man (Vide Gilbert of Sempringham) or
> a eunuch was disqualified also or at least needed a dispensation. These
> disqualifications would not apply to monks.
>
> BMC
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