Perpetual Chantries in Britain

This book is based on the Birkbeck Lectures for 1954–55, and on further researches into perpetual chantries in England and Scotland.

K. L. Wood-Legh (Author)

9780521089579, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 December 2008

376 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg

The material concerning Chantry history is voluminous and contained in many sources: the foundation deeds of particular chantries; administrative notes in episcopal registers; borough records; monastic and other cartularia; and the records of the English Chancery, particularly the Patent Rolls. These documents, some printed and many in manuscript, comprise the sources for Miss Wood-Legh's work. Perpetual chantries in Britain is a pioneer study in detail of the function of the chantry over a wide area of Britain. It will also give those whose curiosity is aroused by architectural survivals an impression of the part played by chantries in medieval life.

1. Introductory
2. Forms of Chantries
3. The Process of Foundation
4. Patronage and Supervision
5. Impoverished Chantries
6. Chantries and the Religious
7. Chantries and the Towns
8. The Chaplains and their Livings
9. Illness and Old Age
10. The Chantry Priests' Daily Life
11. The Chaplains' Religious Duties
12. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: History [HB]