Cathedralia
by MacKenzie Edward Charles Walcott (9780217455527)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and they collectively kept the keys of the seal coffer. At Exeter they were called " the internal dignitaries," and resided for two parts of the year, continuously or at intervals; the office of prsecentor being specially endowed with Penyngton, the chancellorship with S. Newlyn's, and the treasurership with S. Probus. The following legends were inscribed over their stalls: ? " Tardius atque mane residens, rege cuncta, Decane. Hie residendo chorum rege, Cantor, dux puerorum. Hac qui sede sedes jura sacra leges (Caucellarius). Thesauros conde, residens, pro lumine sponde." At S. Paul's the order of precedence was, archdeacon, prse- centor, treasurer, and chancellor. At Lincoln they resided continuously, the sub-dean being one of the five dignitaries; but if they kept four months, even at intervals, they were not mulcted in the fine for non-residence?one-seventh of their prebend?which went to augment the canons' commune. The archdeacons, in consideration of their diocesan toil, resided only during forty days. At York, contrary to usual custom, they had no seat in the great chapter unless they held a prebend besides; and at Hereford, like the prebendary of Moreton, unless of the number of the twenty- seven prebendaries, were excluded from those who were eligible to become residentiaries.1 1 Qui sunt in dignitatibus vel officiis aut administrationibus constituti, quales sunt decanus, archidiaconus, archipresbyter, prsepositus, prsecentor, cancellarius, magister scholarium, sacrista, et hujusmodi. (Lyndw. Provinc. lib. v. tit. xvi. n. k.) Archipresbyter idem est quod decanus. (Lib. iii. tit. i. n. d. p. 117.) Dignitas est prseeminentia in ecclesia quoad forura contentiosura gradum tenens. Qua; quandoque dicitur personatus quia honoratur persona. Quanduque dicitur officiu...

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