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THE WILL OF WILLIAM SELK,
VICAR OF ALL SAINTS, BRISTOL, 1270.
By SIR JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A., &c,
President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
The original of this very interesting Will is in the possession of
F. F. Fox, Esq., Alderman of Bristol, of Yate House, Yate, Glou-
cestershire, and he has kindly communicated it for publication
in the Transactions of our Society. It has been, with Mr. Fox's
kind permission, photo-lithographed, slightly reduced {see Plate
XXXV.) So far as we are aware nothing is known of the testator
beyond what his will affords. His institution to the vicarage of
All Saints, or All Hallows, is not upon record in the Episcopal
Registry at Worcester, which diocese formerly included the greater
part of Gloucestershire. The Registers of Intitutions do not com-
mence until 1268, and the first institution recorded to the vicarage
is that of Michael Russelyn, chaplain, on the second of the nones
of August, 1278, upon the presentation of the Abbot and Convent
of St. Augustine's, Bristol. 1
Mr. Fox gives the following history of the document. He
writes : " Many years ago I purchased from the late Mr. Kerslake
a large volume of Bristol deeds, which had been collected by the
late Rev. William Maskell, and in July, 1889, Mr. Kerslake was
good enough to give me the remainder of the collection, which had
not been bound up because they had seals. My friend, Mr.
William George, placed the latter in the hands of Mr. J. J.
Mackney, of the British Museum, for translation, 2 and that gentle-
man soon found that several of them proved to be of exceptional
interest. Mr. Fox observes " that the will ante-dates by 100 years
the earliest known reference to the Sarum use." This is very
remarkable, if accurate, as the Sarum Use was introduced by St.
Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, a.d. 1007-1087, from the Use of
Rouen, which, as revised by St. Osmund, became known in Eng-
land as the Use of Sarum.
1 Bishop Giffard's Register, fol. 79.
2 Mr. Mackney's translation lias not been used.
Tm: Will OF Wii.i.ia.m Sklk. 3ll
The Text of the Will, Translated :
" In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost. Amen.
I, William Selk, Vicar of the Church of All Saints, Bristol,
bequeath and give to God and the Blessed Mary, and the
Church of All Saints aforesaid in pure and perpetual Alms
one Missal, of the Use of Sarum, one Gradual, 1 well bound,
with Processional 2 and Ordinal 3 with a Troparium, 4 for the
whole year, together with the Troparium of the Blessed Virgin
with many other things most useful [in Divine Worship] in one
volume ; and another Gradual unbound with Processional and
Ordinal and Troparium for the whole year in one volume. One
wooden Eagle not painted ; one Table 5 for the High Altar not
painted ; two Cushions covered with a pall ;° one wooden cup
painted, for the Eucharist ; 7 two Processional Crosses with
1 A book containing the Service of the Mass, Noted, so named from the
verse or verses (commonly taken from the Psalms) liturgieally known as the
Gradual, which was chanted in procession as the Deacon and Sub-deacon,
with their attendant Acolytes, were proceeding to the place where the Gospel
was sung.
3 A book containing the Antiphons and Litanies.
s A book containing the (Jrdo Servandus, or the Order and Rules to be
observed in saying the appointed Service throughout the year.
1 Troparium— a book containing the " tropes " or " sequences " which,
upon certain occasions, followed the Gradual.
5 " Uuam tabulam ad autenticum alt are." A technical term for the High
Altar from Autentus, " munere publico donatus." " Aidentiques, qua voce
Nobilis."— [Du Cavge), The Tabula was probably a retable or ledge for the
Altar-cross and Lights.
6 "Duo Cervicalia Co-opcrtapallio." DuCange gives : "Cervical, Pulvinus,
Gall. Cousin. Obituar. Eccl. Lingon. ex cod. reg. 5191, fol. 168. V°. Dedit
etiam duo Cervicalia de panno auro tex'.o ad decorem altaris in majoribm
festis.
T " Unam Cuppam ligncam depictam ad Kueharistiam," i.e. for the reser-
vation of the Eucharist. "Cuppa ad deponendam Eucharistiam. Nostris
Cihoirc. Inventar. S. Capellaj Paris, an. 1363, ex BibL reg. Item una Cuppa
argentea deaurata ad portandum Cor pa* ChrietL—Du Cange. This wooden
Cup was therefore a Ciborium or Pyx in which the Eucharist was placed and
carried for the Communion of the sick. " In the Register of Walter Gray,
Archbishop of York, a.d. l'-37<», we find a fair Pyx — Pyxia pro corpore <'ln-isti
honesta— included among the Church Ornaments to be provided by the
parishioners." The 1'yx in which the Eucharist was placed, in a fair linen
cloth, was sometimes of wcod, as in the present instance, or of ivory, but
preferably of precious metal.— See Rem rvatia it «f the Bktaed Sacrament, pp.
23, 70, 98, by the Rev. J. W. Kempe, M.A. London : rainier.
THE WILL OF WILLIAM SELK,
VICAR OF ALL SAINTS, BRISTOL, 1270.
By SIR JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A., &c,
President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
The original of this very interesting Will is in the possession of
F. F. Fox, Esq., Alderman of Bristol, of Yate House, Yate, Glou-
cestershire, and he has kindly communicated it for publication
in the Transactions of our Society. It has been, with Mr. Fox's
kind permission, photo-lithographed, slightly reduced {see Plate
XXXV.) So far as we are aware nothing is known of the testator
beyond what his will affords. His institution to the vicarage of
All Saints, or All Hallows, is not upon record in the Episcopal
Registry at Worcester, which diocese formerly included the greater
part of Gloucestershire. The Registers of Intitutions do not com-
mence until 1268, and the first institution recorded to the vicarage
is that of Michael Russelyn, chaplain, on the second of the nones
of August, 1278, upon the presentation of the Abbot and Convent
of St. Augustine's, Bristol. 1
Mr. Fox gives the following history of the document. He
writes : " Many years ago I purchased from the late Mr. Kerslake
a large volume of Bristol deeds, which had been collected by the
late Rev. William Maskell, and in July, 1889, Mr. Kerslake was
good enough to give me the remainder of the collection, which had
not been bound up because they had seals. My friend, Mr.
William George, placed the latter in the hands of Mr. J. J.
Mackney, of the British Museum, for translation, 2 and that gentle-
man soon found that several of them proved to be of exceptional
interest. Mr. Fox observes " that the will ante-dates by 100 years
the earliest known reference to the Sarum use." This is very
remarkable, if accurate, as the Sarum Use was introduced by St.
Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, a.d. 1007-1087, from the Use of
Rouen, which, as revised by St. Osmund, became known in Eng-
land as the Use of Sarum.
1 Bishop Giffard's Register, fol. 79.
2 Mr. Mackney's translation lias not been used.
Tm: Will OF Wii.i.ia.m Sklk. 3ll
The Text of the Will, Translated :
" In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost. Amen.
I, William Selk, Vicar of the Church of All Saints, Bristol,
bequeath and give to God and the Blessed Mary, and the
Church of All Saints aforesaid in pure and perpetual Alms
one Missal, of the Use of Sarum, one Gradual, 1 well bound,
with Processional 2 and Ordinal 3 with a Troparium, 4 for the
whole year, together with the Troparium of the Blessed Virgin
with many other things most useful [in Divine Worship] in one
volume ; and another Gradual unbound with Processional and
Ordinal and Troparium for the whole year in one volume. One
wooden Eagle not painted ; one Table 5 for the High Altar not
painted ; two Cushions covered with a pall ;° one wooden cup
painted, for the Eucharist ; 7 two Processional Crosses with
1 A book containing the Service of the Mass, Noted, so named from the
verse or verses (commonly taken from the Psalms) liturgieally known as the
Gradual, which was chanted in procession as the Deacon and Sub-deacon,
with their attendant Acolytes, were proceeding to the place where the Gospel
was sung.
3 A book containing the Antiphons and Litanies.
s A book containing the (Jrdo Servandus, or the Order and Rules to be
observed in saying the appointed Service throughout the year.
1 Troparium— a book containing the " tropes " or " sequences " which,
upon certain occasions, followed the Gradual.
5 " Uuam tabulam ad autenticum alt are." A technical term for the High
Altar from Autentus, " munere publico donatus." " Aidentiques, qua voce
Nobilis."— [Du Cavge), The Tabula was probably a retable or ledge for the
Altar-cross and Lights.
6 "Duo Cervicalia Co-opcrtapallio." DuCange gives : "Cervical, Pulvinus,
Gall. Cousin. Obituar. Eccl. Lingon. ex cod. reg. 5191, fol. 168. V°. Dedit
etiam duo Cervicalia de panno auro tex'.o ad decorem altaris in majoribm
festis.
T " Unam Cuppam ligncam depictam ad Kueharistiam," i.e. for the reser-
vation of the Eucharist. "Cuppa ad deponendam Eucharistiam. Nostris
Cihoirc. Inventar. S. Capellaj Paris, an. 1363, ex BibL reg. Item una Cuppa
argentea deaurata ad portandum Cor pa* ChrietL—Du Cange. This wooden
Cup was therefore a Ciborium or Pyx in which the Eucharist was placed and
carried for the Communion of the sick. " In the Register of Walter Gray,
Archbishop of York, a.d. l'-37<», we find a fair Pyx — Pyxia pro corpore <'ln-isti
honesta— included among the Church Ornaments to be provided by the
parishioners." The 1'yx in which the Eucharist was placed, in a fair linen
cloth, was sometimes of wcod, as in the present instance, or of ivory, but
preferably of precious metal.— See Rem rvatia it «f the Bktaed Sacrament, pp.
23, 70, 98, by the Rev. J. W. Kempe, M.A. London : rainier.