A HISTORY OF SURREY 



household, was to be applied by the warden 

 for the benefit of the chapel and in no other 

 way ; that the warden should yearly make 

 an inventory by indenture of the chapel's 

 goods, one part to remain with the warden, 

 and the other (to be exhibited yearly to the 

 diocesan) with the senior chaplain ; that the 

 chaplains should have their meals together in 

 the same apartment, and each sleep in Ins 

 allotted chamber ; that the warden should pro- 

 vide a competent clerk to sen'e at mass and to 

 minister to the chaplains in their chambers ; 

 that the warden should supply the chaplains 

 with comely surplices and amices trimmed 

 with black fur for use in the chapel, and 

 should also furnish books, chalices and other 

 necessary ornaments for the chapel ; that 

 none of the chaplains, save the warden, 

 should introduce any stranger at the expense 

 of the house, but that threepence should be 

 paid for a stranger at dinner, and twopence 

 for every other entertainment ; that the war- 

 den and chaplain should entirely abstain from 

 taverns, and that the latter should not visit 

 any house without leave of the warden ; and 

 that the diocesan had power to remove any 

 refractory or incorrigible chaplain. An ex- 

 ceptional provision was also made to check 

 any granting of a corrody or parting with 

 any of their property, whereby the house was 

 disallowed any common seal. Full regula- 

 tions were made for the various daily services 

 which were to be after the use of Sarum : 

 on Monday mass was to be said for the 

 founders : on Tuesday, the mass of Salui 

 Popuii, for the welfare of the king and queen 

 and the bii^liop, and after their deaths the 

 mass of St. Thomas the Martyr ; on Wednes- 

 day, the mass of St. Mary Magdalen ; on 

 Thursday, the mass of the Holy Ghost ; on 

 Friday, the mass of the Holy Cross ; on 

 Saturday, the mass of our Lady ; and on 

 every Lord's Day and other festivals, the 

 mass of the day. There was also a daily 

 Requiem mass. 



On I June 1355 these ordinances were 

 confirmed by Bishop Edendon, with a cer- 

 tain stipulation in favour of parochial rights 

 namely, that mass should not be said in the 

 chapel on any Sunday or special festival in 

 the presence of any parishioner not residing 

 in the manse, imless such parishioner had 

 license from the vicar, save only John Love- 

 kin, the founder ; that the chaplains should 

 themselves attend high mass at the parish 

 church on the four principal feasts, and make 

 their offerings ; that no warden nor chaplain 

 should administer sacraments or sacramentals 

 to parishioners, or accept from them pay- 

 ment for masses ; and that the chapel should 



possess no ri-hts of ecclesiastical sepulture. 



John Lovekin, the refounder, was a hsh- 

 monger, a citizen of London : he was lord 

 mayor in 1347, ^357, '3^4 and 1365. He 

 lived in the parish of St. Michael s, Crooked 

 Lane, and rebuilt that church shortly before 

 his death, which occurred on 4 August 

 1368.^ William Walworth, sometime 

 apprentice to John Lovekin, lord mayor in 

 1373 and 1379, who attained fame as the 

 slayer of Wat Tyler, considerably increased 

 the endowments of the chapel in 137 1, mak- 

 ing provision for another chaplain. 



"On 11 January 1372, the bishop issued a 

 commission for the due auditing of the 

 accounts of this foundation,^ and notice was 

 served on Reginald Jurdan, warden of this 

 chapel, on II September 1401, that the 

 bishop would visit the house in the following 

 month.* 



In 1535 the Fa/or Ecclesiastkus^ returned 

 the clear annual value of this foundation as 

 ;^34 19^. (>\d. From an inquisition, cited 

 by Manning, it appears that Charles Carew, 

 the last warden, forfeited this chapel with its 

 possessions to the Crown in March 1540, 

 through being attainted of felony, though the 

 nature of the felony is not stated. 



In April 1547, the site and appurtenances 

 were demised by the Crown to Richard 

 Taverner for twenty-one years, at a reserved 

 rentofj^i2 is.od. The particulars contained 

 bear out the idea that this establishment was 

 something more than a chapel and house for 

 a warden and two chaplains. Twelve lots 

 arc mentioned, namely : (i) the site of a free 

 chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, with garden ; 

 {2) a small chapel called St. Anne's adjoining, 

 with chambers and study over it ; (3) an 

 inner chamber, with a hawk's mew over it ; 

 (4) a small chapel called St. Loy's on the 

 south side of St. Mary Magdalen's with a 

 little place under it ; (5) an old kitchen, with 

 chamber adjoining, and a solar or loft over 

 both ; (6) a chamber under the kitchen, to 

 the west of St. Mary Magdalen's ; (7) a 

 house next to the said kitchen ; (8) yards on 

 the north and west of St. Mary Magdalen's 

 chapel ; (9) a gallery over the said yards, leading 

 from St. Anne's chapel to a small place and 

 to two chambers called the master's lodgings ; 

 (lo) a cellar and four small chambers under 



' The foundation charter ordinances and stipu- 

 lations are set forth at length in Wykeham's Regis- 

 ters (Hants Record Society), ii. f. 445-451. 



2 Nevycourt's Refart, 415, 483. His epitaph 

 is given in Weever's Fun. Mon., 410. 



' fFykeham's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.) iii. f. 62b. 



* Ibid. iii. f. 337. 



5 Fal. Eccl. (Rec. Com.) ii. p. 47. 



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