reasons which would induce Edgar to confirm the gift of his brother,
and also the reasons the King would have for making the gift as
valuable as possible in the eyes of the Archbishop (pp. 13, 14).
[57] The part of the charter which defines the boundaries of the land
is written in Anglo-Saxon, and is obscure.
[58] Southwell was all one parish up to about sixty years ago.
[59] _Alcuin of York_, p. 82, _note_.
[60] Leach, _Memorials of Southwell Minster_, Introd. p. xxii.
[61] _Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops_:
Edited by Canon Raine (Rolls Series), vol. ii. p. 353.
[62] _England under the Normans and Angevins_: H. W. C. Davis, p.
190.
[63] William of Newburgh, _Historia Rerum Anglicanum_, book ii.
chap. 3. (In Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I. Rolls
Series.)
[64] The Visitation Charge of the Archdeacon of Nottingham, delivered
at Southwell in May 1909.
[65] Mr. Francis Bond’s opinion, quoted in _Life of Thomas II._,
by W. E. Hodgson, p. 86.
[66] _Ibid._, p. 87.
[67] Roger de Hoveden (_sub anno_ 1189).
[68] _Ibid._ (_sub anno_ 1190).
[69] Roger de Hoveden (_sub anno_ 1194).
[70] Quoted from the Rev. A. Dimock’s _Guide to Southwell
Cathedral_, p. 91.
[71] Cavendish, _Life of Wolsey_ (Temple Classics, p. 181).
[72] _Memorials of Southwell Minster_, Introduction, p. lxviii.
[73] Dimock, _Guide to Southwell Cathedral_, p. 115.
[74] Dimock, _ibid._, p. 115.
[75] Livett, _An Account of the Cathedral Church of Southwell_, p.
33.
[76] Livett, _ibid._: Quotation from State Papers, 1604, Add. Ch.
15,241 Brit. Mus.
[77] The important MSS. in the Library, besides the White Book, consist
of Chapter Decree Books, which start about the middle of the fifteenth
century, and with some considerable number of years omitted, go down to
1840. There is also a book of leases and other documents.
[78] Quoted by Mr. Dimock, _op. cit._ p. 129.
[79] Dimock, _op. cit._ p. 124.
[80] “South Prospect of Nottingham, taken from Wilford Pasture beyond
the Trent,” by Thomas Sandby, R.A., 1721–1798. Nottingham Castle Art
Museum, Gallery F.
[81] “Be it had in mynd that the Towne of Maunsfeld Wodhouse was
burned, the Saturdaye nexte afore the Fest of Exaltation of the
holy Crosse, the yere of our Lord MCCCIIII., and the Kirke Stepull
with the Bells of the same, _for the Stepull was afore of Tymber
werke_: and part of the Kyrk was burned” (Thoroton, _Antiquities
of Nottinghamshire_, p. 273).
[82] The church was destroyed by fire on 2nd July 1706.
[83] The Anglo-Saxon verb “getimbrade” (made of wood), became so
familiar in the vernacular, that we find in documents the expression
“to getimbrian a church of stone”--_i.e._, literally to make of
wood a stone church. Nor was this altogether a misnomer, for the motif
of the carpenter was adopted in the earlier attempts at masoncraft.
[84] The fine illustrations of Newark and Bingham are reproduced by
permission of B. T. Batsford from Francis Bond’s _Gothic Architecture
in England_.
[85] Whatton and Normanton-on-Soar are the only central steeples in the
county. The remainder are all at the west end.
[86] The spire is shown with crockets in early pictures of Nottingham
down to 1845, when for the first time it is represented as it now
stands plus the pinnacles, portions of which lie in the churchyard at
the base of the tower.
[87] An example can still be seen at Scarning church, Norfolk.
[88] “And he sall make a windowe on the same side, of two lightes, and
a botras accordaunt thereto on the same side. And the forsaide Richarde
sall make then a quere dore on wheder side of the botras that it will
best be, and a windowe of two lightes anense the deskes.”--_Endenture
Ecclesie de Catrik_ (Yorks), A.D. 1412.
[89] Tompion and Graham lie in Westminster Abbey as the fathers of
English clockmaking, while Knibb was clockmaker to William III., and
Quare was the inventor, among other things, of the repeating watch.
[90] In the case of the late Mr. Harston, the organ builder, this
process was reversed. Being apprenticed to a clock and organ maker, he
left the clock trade for that of the piano and organ, and founded the
business so successfully carried on at present by his son.
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