natural aiding his castles of donariis amplificavit. Cui et inter cetera quoque campanas duas grandes, egregias, atque sonoras, devota largitione donavit. Nobiles quoque personas, literatosque viros, in ecclesia sua plerosque plantavit: terras quoque nonnullas, antea perditas, viriliter recuperavit. Idem,1 in werra illa magna, quam regi Henrico filii A true legitimi pravorum consilio suscitaverant, vere filius 41. naturalis, quoniam patri naturaliter adhærens et fideli- son, in ter assistens, castella Rogeri de Mumbrai fortiter ex- father. pugnando, Scottorumque regem Willielmum a borealibus Takes regni finibus refugando viriliter et repellendo,2 remoti- Roger de ores Norhumbria fines egregie pacificavit. Unde et Mowbray, quoniam, innata strenuitate, patri circa dies extremos back Wilpernecessarius videbatur, ipso procurante, Lincolniensem set ecclesiam sponte resignavit; et cancellariam regis cum Resigns terris magnis tam in Anglia quam transmarinis a patre Made suscepit. Et sic, ingruentibus circa finalia tempora per chancellor. legitimos incommodis multis, contra Francos, contraque vices to fratres, patri usque ad extremum ejusdem halitum his father, egregie militavit. Quo defuncto, in metropolitanam days. 3 Eboracensis ecclesiæ sedem est sublimatus.5 1 John de Schalby has nothing corresponding to the remainder of this chapter. 2 This was in 1174. Giraldus gives a fuller account of these exploits of Geoffrey, in the De Vita Galfridi (Anglia Sacra, ii. 378, &c.). He stands alone, I believe, in attributing to Geoffrey any direct part in the repulse of the Scottish inva sion and the capture of William of Scotland. 3 In 1181 the pope insisted upon his resignation, or immediate consecration. He accordingly resigned, 4 January 6, 1182; Ben. Abb. (i. 4 The rents of which amounted 5 He was elected to York in 1189, and was consecrated August 18, 1191. and drives liam of Scotland. Lincoln. His ser in his last Archbishop of York. 1183-1184. [CAP.] XXV.1 De Waltero Constanciensi. Walter de Successit autém electo Walterus, de Constanciis dictus, Coutances, sed revera de Corinei 2 domo Cornubiaque natus, et nobili Britonum gente ac Trojana stirpe originaliter propagatus; vir affabilis et liberalis, literarumque sturacter, &c. diis affatim eruditus, et in secularibus curiæque negotiis prudens admodum et discretus. Unde et regis aliquamdiu tam consiliarius quam archisigillarius existens, eodem procurante ad sedem Lincolniensem est vocatus.3 Ubi tantum annuus existens, iterum rege procurante, ut in consiliis suis et arduis negotiis propius eidem only for a assisteret, ad principalem Normanniæ cathedram et metropolitanam Rothomagensis ecclesiæ sedem est transbishop of latus. In uno tamen Lincolniensem ecclesiam graviter 42. Bishop of year. Arch Rouen. This about Walter de Coutances agrees in substance with John de Schalby's account of him, but is somewhat more amplified. 2 Corinei] So MS.; Cormei, Wharton. John de Schalby has simply, "De Constantiis dictus, sed "revera de Cornubia natus ;" and he has not the et nobili Britonum.. propagatus of Giraldus. This descent from Corineus, the fabulous Trojan immigrant into Cornwall, is probably a mere amplification of Giraldus's pen upon his original. 3 Walter de Coutances was elected, at Lincoln, on the third Sunday after Easter, May 8, 1183; Diceto, (615, 1. 16, &c., Twysden). He was ordained priest, by John bishop of Evreux, on Saturday in Whitsunweek, June 11; ibid. (1. 30). And he was consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury, at Angers, on the fourth Sunday after Pente cost, July 3; ibid. (1. 33, and 692, 11. 50-58). On the third Sunday in Advent, December 11, 1183, he was enthroned at Lincoln; ibid. (618, 1. 48), and Ben. Abb. (i. 307, Stubbs). 4 He was elected archbishop of Rouen in 1184, in presence of Henry II.; and therefore before June 11, when Henry landed in England; Diceto (618, 1. 61, &c., 619, 1. 8). According to the Rouen Chron. (Labb. i. 369), he was enthroned at Rouen on St. Matthias's day, February 24, 1185. Diceto says (626, l. 1, &c.), that a year, eleven weeks, and five days had elapsed between the enthronement at Lincoln (December 11, 1188) and that at Rouen. His xi. weeks is probably a mistake, or misprint, for x.; which would exactly agree with February 24 of the Rouen Chronicle. the aliena læsit, totumque capitulum non mediocriter offendit; unde et vir præclarus magnam in gloria sua maculam Confirmed posuit; quod ecclesias illas, quas prædecessor ejusdem tions of Robertus de Querceto quondam ut diximus alienaverat,1 churches in ipso decessu suo ordini de Semplingeham, quacunque of Semgratia seu beneficio præveniente vel subsequente, car- pringham. tarum suarum et sigilli munimine perpetua stabilitate roboravit. to the order [CAP.] XXVI. De Hugone Burgundiensi. Successit autem Waltero Hugo, de Burgundia natus, Hugh of ingenuis de ordine militari natalibus ortus. Hic a 1186-1200. Burgundy: juvenilibus annis honestati et religioni datus, ne per lubricum ætatis in lapsum rueret, arctissimis Cartusi- A Carthuensis observantiæ regulis se mancipavit. Unde transmissus postmodum prior in Angliam in cellula de Prior of Witham, regis Henrici secundi, qui forestam ubi sita 1 There is no mention here of the prebend of Canwick, also given by Robert de Chesney to the Gilbertine house of St. Catharine (supra, 34). A confirmation of this to them by Hugh of Burgundy, in which they are called the canons of the hospital of Lincoln of the order of Sempyngham, is in the Liber Cantariarum (f. 397, MS. Lincoln). This charter of Hugh says that Robert de Chesney's gift of the prebend was made with the assent of the chapter of Lincoln. 2 In this chapter, of course, there is no longer the agreement hitherto existing between Giraldus and John de Schalby. This account of Hugh, -though very possibly somewhat altered in the revised treatise sent to archbishop Langton years after 3 Cartusiensis] So MS.; Cantua- 4 Hugh came into England as prior of Witham in 1175, or very near upon that year; Magna Vita, Preface, xxi., &c. Witham, Somer setshire, was the first Carthusian house in England, and had shortly before been founded by Henry II. sian monk. Witham. Lincoln. ance to 43. secular His zealous of his duties. factions. 2 est cellula venandi studio frequentare, locumque ea occasione atque priorem visitare consueverat, familiariBishop of tatem in brevi et favorem adeptus, in Lincolniensi His resist- ecclesia est sublimatus.1 Hic igitur in primis, justitiæ cultor rigidus existens, nec aulicis, vel curialibus, aut publicis officialibus, in ecclesiam aut clerum grassantibus exactions. ut solent, vel in modico deferebat. Quicquid honestati, execution quicquid religioni, quicquid ecclesiæ suæ proficuo vel honori prodesse videbat, totum effectui mancipare, totisHis bene- que nisibus adimplere curabat. Communam ecclesiæ suæ egregiis largitionibus amplificavit. Canonicas in certis perpetuisque beneficiis, terris videlicet et ecclesiis olim amissis quas recuperavit, duas adjecit; aliasque duas a decessoribus olim in denariis ex camera conEynsham stitutas cancellavit. Item monasterium de Egnesham, olim perditum ire regia potestate paratum, viriliter retinuit; baculique pastoralis donationem sumptuosis laboribus, sed efficacibus et fructuosis, ad ecclesiam Lincolniensem revocavit. Item ecclesiæ suæ capicium 5 Pariis lapidibus marmoreisque columnis miro artificio renovavit, et totum a fundamento opere sumptuosissimo abbey. Rebuilds the choir of the church. 3 Hugh was elected bishop of Lincoln about the end of May 1186, was consecrated September 21, and enthroned at Lincoln September 29. See Mag. Vit. 102, 114, and notes; and Ben. Abb. (i. 353, Stubbs). 2 In the Registrum Antiquissimum (f. 195), in the record room of the dean and chapter of Lincoln, is a charter of Hugh, giving to the commons of the canons the churches of Ossington and Edwinstowe (Notts); and f. 196, a charter which gives the church of Welingo Were (Wellingore, Linc.), and another which confirms a gift of the church of Scredington (Linc.) by Ralph de Swaveton. 3 ire] MS.; iri, Wharton. The suit about Eynsham was decided in Hugh's favour in 1197. See the Mag. Vit. 189-192, and notes. 5 capicium] So MS.; capitulum, Wharton. This "capitulum," or chapter-house, of Wharton, has been a sore difficulty with architectural exponents of the history of the cathedral; the architectural details of the chapter-house pointing so plainly to a somewhat later time than that of Hugh of Burgundy. The true reading "capicium," i.e. the head, or east end of the church, removes all the difficulty; this was built by Hugh, and the chapterhouse was not. See Glossary, infra. a new ment of novum erexit. Similiter et domos episcopales egregias Begins construere cœpit,1 Dominoque cooperante longe prioribus palace. ampliores et nobiliores spe certa consummare proposuit. Item pallium illud Bloetinum et Alexandrinum, minus Redeems provide minusque circumspecte semel datum, et ob hoc 2 the payperpetuo debitum, saniori consilio depilavit: et tam the mantle. interminabilem tantæ servitutis exactionem, per cartas regio sigillo munitas, Lincolniensis ecclesiæ libertatem, ac perpetuam, si regnet in terris fides, immunitatem 44. protestantes, unica largitione delevit. Item personas Promotes egregias, literatura et honestate præclaras, per regni am- and good plitudinem quasi studio quodam ad hoc electas, fideles men. ecclesiæ suæ columnas erexit; non sanguinem imprimis, ut ceteri, non sobolem, carnaliter sapiens; sed duce Spiritu, ac ratione prævia, literas potius et merita pensans. Item, cupiditatis omnis et ambitionis expers, His freeab omni munere, subjectorum gravamine et exactione dom from potenter manus excutiens, adeo simoniæ laqueos, qui- ness, &c. bus hodie cuncti fere majores irretiuntur, exhorruit, His horror See supra, p. 35, n. 4. John de Schalby says, "Aulam episco"copalem egregiam inchoavit." There is no mention of this in the Magna Vita, or in any other authority. The palace, thus begun by St. Hugh, was still unfinished in 1224. A writ of Henry III., December 30, 1223, directs the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln to allow bishop Hugh de Wells to quarry stone for his house from the adjacent city foss; Rot. Lit. Claus. (Record Commission, 580). And another writ, April 29, 1224, bids Hugh de Nevill deliver to the bishop " 40 fusta" from the forest of Sherwood, which had been given to him "ad trabes "et gistas ad aulam suam Lincol"niensem faciendas;" ibid. (595). And so, John de Schalby tells us 2 hoc] So MS.; hæc, Wharton. 3 This was in 1194, according to Richard's charter of release, dated at Le Mans, June 23 of that year, as in the Regist. Antiquiss. of Lincoln (f. 27). Hoveden places it under 1195 (431 b., Savile). hodie cuncti] So MS.; cuncti hodie, Wharton. learned covetous of simony. |