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of which he was rector. It would appear from this entry that Phillip de 
Turville was also the founder of a charity in the cathedral at the Altar of S. 
Thomas ; but this must have been in conjunction with Canon John Kinnarsley, 
who is elsewhere spoken of as the founder of this charity, in the year 1332. 
27. Basins used for the ‘‘lavabo,” or ceremonial washing of the hands 
at Mass. They generally occur in pairs. 
28. William de Bosco was Chancellor of the Cathedral from November 26th, 
1310, up to his death in March, 1328. 
29. Samite was a thick glossy silk or satin. 
30. On Holy Innocents’ Day there used to be religious processions of the 
children, both within and without the churches, as of the Deacons on St. 
Stephen’s Day, and of the Priests on St. John’s Day. 
31. Cloth of Turkey was an embroidered material, imported from the East, 
chiefly for church purposes. 
$2. Syndon was a special kind of linen of a cottony texture. 
33. John de Leicester held the prebend of Oloughton, in the year 1340. 
34. Baldekyn, or Baudekyn, was the most valuable of all ecclesiastical 
fabrics, a kind of heavy silken brocade, often interwoven with threads of gold 
or silver. The word is used in this and other old inventories in two senses— 
_ Firstly, for the stuff itself; and, secondly, from hangings for dossals, choir 
stalls, etc., being usually of this material, for any kind of hanging or canopy. 
35. The following churches were appropriated at this time to the Dean and 
_ Chapter (in addition to numerous pensions and moieties from others) :—Arley, 
Cannock, Rugeley, Harbourn, Chebsey, and Dilhorn, Staffordshire ; Worfield, 
Shropshire ; Edgbaston, Warwickshire ; Thornton, Lincolnshire ; and 
Kniveton, Bakewell, Hope, Tideswell, and Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. 
36. Dunchurch was a Warwickshire Rectory, out of which a pension of £10 
was paid to the Dean and Chapter. 
87. Thomas Dadrebury, or rather De Adderbury, was Prebendary of 
Wellington, afterwards Precentor of the Cathedral, from 1303 to 1307. 
38. Ralph de Hengham, of a Norfolk family, was a Justice of Assize, and a 
Justice of the Common Pleas. The first entry we have met with relative to 
this judge (in the Patent Rolls, etc.) is in 1270, when he was adjudicating at 
_ Stafford ; in 1272, he was at Lichfield ; and the last mention of him that we 
have seen is in 1309, when he was hearing various cases affecting ecclesiastical 
property, at Newcastle-under-Lyme. 
39. The word “da/dekinus” was also used to signify a pall. There were five 
kinds of palls. (1) Palls for covering the bier and coffin at funerals. (2) Palls 
for extending over tombs. (3) Ornamental palls, used as hangings in choirs 
on festivals. (4) Linen cloths to cover the altar. (5) Palls sent by the Pope 
to the Archbishops. Examples of the first four kinds will be found in this 
inventory. The word “ baldekin,” however, only applies to I, 2, and 3. 
