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office of custodian of the chantry was held, ex 

 officio, by the sacrist. 



Besides the foundation of Dean Brembre, there 

 was another and later chantry of equal, or even 

 greater, importance in the church, founded by 

 Margaret countess of Richmond and Derby but 

 not completed till after her death. By a tri- 

 partite deed, dated 12 March, 1511, between 

 the executors of the will of the deceased countess, 

 the dean and chapter of the college, and the 

 sacrist or custodian and chaplains of the Great 

 Chantry, reciting the grant procured by the 

 countess of her son Henry VII by letters patent 

 of I March, 1497, for the foundation of a 

 chantry of one chaplain in the royal free chapel 

 or collegiate church of Wimborne ' to the praise 

 and honour of Jesus and the Annunciation of 

 the B. V. M.,' with licence to appropriate lands, 

 rents, and benefices &c., to the annual value of 

 j^io, to the said chaplain and his successors; 

 and after the death of the countess and the ap- 

 pointment of her executors (Richard bishop of 

 Winchester, John bishop of Rochester, and 

 others), the letters patent of Henry VIII, 

 7 August, 1509) in the first year of his reign, 

 confirming the previous grant of his father and 

 granting an additional licence to appropriate lands 

 and rents to the annual value of j^6, besides the 

 above ;^io, was established a perpetual chantry 

 for the augmentation of divine service and for 

 the souls of the said countess, her parents and 

 ancestors, and all the faithful departed at the 

 altar on the south side of the tomb of John 

 Beaufort, late duke of Somerset, and Margaret 

 his wife, the father and mother of the aforesaid 

 countess. 



By this same deed Richard Hodgekynnes, 

 B.A., was appointed the first chaplain, to reside 

 in a house within the college opposite the 

 chamber or dwelling of the sacrist and to teach 

 grammar to all comers after the form and manner 

 used at Eton and Winchester. Besides this duty 

 he was bound to celebrate daily for the soul of 

 the founder, and for the souls of her father, 

 mother, and ancestors, special collects being 

 appointed to be recited ; an anniversary was fixed 

 to be kept yearly on 29 July, whereon a 

 requiem mass should be said, and at the end of 

 the mass a distribution of 20s. made in the 

 following manner: — To the sacrist of the college 

 if he should be present in his surplice and amice, 

 idd.; to each chaplain 'present and devoutly 

 singing,' 8i. ; to every secondary and parish 

 clerk, 4</. ; to the sacrist for five wax candles to 

 be burnt round the bier, and two on the altar 

 during the mass, and for bell-ropes, ibd. ; to 

 those ringing the bells, 8^. ; the remainder of the 

 20;. should be distributed to the poor of the 

 parish by the advice of the sacrist according to 

 their necessities, thus : — to one, id. ; to another, 

 2d. The said Richard Hodgekynnes should 

 receive yearly £10, and his servant or usher 



40J., and he should present a yearly account, 

 within Michaelmas and the Feast of All Saints, 

 of his receipts and expenditure in the presence of 

 the dean, or, in his absence, of the sacrist, and of 

 the senior chaplain of the chantry of Thomas 

 Brembre, and it should be deposited in a chest 

 with three keys whereof one key should be in the 

 custody of the dean, or, in his absence, of the 

 sacrist, another in the custody of the senior 

 chaplain, and the third should be kept by Richard 

 Hodgekynnes himself and his successors.'^ 



The deanery was held on the eve of the 

 Reformation by the famous Reginald Pole, and 

 according to the Valor of 1535 was worth 

 ^^29 8j. \d. clear.*" The office of the sacrist, 

 held by Thomas Yeroth who also served the 

 'Redcottes' Chantry founded in the chapel of 

 the hospital of St. Margaret and St. Antony 

 within the manor of Kingston Lacy,*' was 

 valued at ^^5 9;. i^d. clear.*^ The incumbents 

 of the four prebends, Richard Sperkeford, John 

 Starkey, Thomas Myllys, and George Lylly, 

 received respectively the following stipends : — 

 ^15 5j. id.,li6 15s. 8^2'., ^15 13^. 4^^., and 

 £12 191. The number of chaplains attached to 

 the Brembre or Great Chantry had been reduced 

 from four to three, their names being given as 

 Walter Gardener, Edward Thorpe, and John 

 Ase, or Ace as he afterwards appears ; each 

 had a stipend of £•] lis. lod. Edward Laborne, 

 the schoolmaster and chantry priest attached to 

 the foundation of the late countess of Richmond 

 and Derby, had a net income of ^9 I li. 2d.*^ 



In the return of the commissioners, appointed 

 under Edward VI to take the value of the pos- 

 sessions of colleges and chantries and to report 

 on their plate, goods and ornaments, the ' college 

 or free chapel of our Sovereign Lord the king in 

 Wimborne ' was said to be worth ^5 1 ^s. 6d., 

 with 'rents resolute' of £6 131. ^.d. and fees 

 £6 6s. 8d., reducing the clear income to 

 ;^3^ 5^'** The sacrist's office after deducting 

 'rents resolute' of j^3 14s. lod. was returned 

 at £5 2s. 4.d. clear.** The Great Chantry, with 

 a deduction of £10 2s. \d. in ' rents resolute,' 

 was worth ^^34 is. ^d., and had the following 

 ' jewels ' and ' ornaments ' : — Three chalices 

 weighing 55 oz., three pairs of old vestments 

 worth bs., two table borders, and one ladder 2s. 



Item I challice belonging to St. James weighing 5 oz. 

 2 basons of silver and gilt gyvty to the kinges Majestic 

 by the parishioners of Wymborne so it [is] said = 

 50 oz. Total 8/., 1 10 oz." 



" A copy of the original of this deed is given by 

 Hutchins, Hiii. of Dorset, App. 3, iii, 271-3. 



'" yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 273. 



*' For account of this chantry see under hospitals, 

 p. 106. 



" Falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 273. 



" Ibid. 274-5. 



*' Chant. Cert. Dorset, 16, No. 24.. 



" Ibid. 25. *' Ibid. 27. 



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