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Post by Daniel Silk on Feb 3, 2009 16:57:24 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Feb 3, 2009 16:59:08 GMT
What is a Prebendary? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrebendaryA prebendary is a post connected to an Anglican or Catholic cathedral or collegiate church and is a type of canon. Prebendaries have a role in the administration of the cathedral. A prebend is a type of benefice, which usually consisted of the income from the cathedral estates. When attending cathedral services prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of the choir stalls. These are known as prebendal stalls.  |
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Post by Daniel Silk on Feb 3, 2009 17:01:29 GMT
Who is Robert Stillington? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_StillingtonRobert Stillington (1420-1491) was Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England. It is alleged by some that it was he who presented evidence that the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville was invalid due to Edward's earlier betrothal to Lady Eleanor Talbot. |
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Post by Daniel Silk on Feb 3, 2009 17:03:37 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Feb 3, 2009 17:14:02 GMT
www.wellscathedral.org.uk/running/whoswho.phpThe Chapter The Chapter is made up of 8 people. Three of them, the Dean (Very Revd John Clarke), the Chancellor Revd Canon Andrew Featherstone and the Precentor (Reverend Canon Patrick Woodhouse) are employed full time on Cathedral business. Two more, also members of the Clergy, are shared between Cathedral and Diocese. Russell Bowman-Eadie is Canon Treasurer and Venerable Nicola Sullivan is Archdeacon of Wells. The Cathedral Administrator, a lay person but still titled Prebendary, John Roberts is a member of the Chapter ex-officio and there are two further appointed lay members, Prebendaries Helen Ball and Elsa van der Zee. The College of Canons The word Canon means a yard-stick, in old times a rule to live by. Canons are so-called because they belong to a body that lives by a rule of worship and service. In Wells it is the custom for Canons to be known as Prebendaries each of whom is linked with a prebend, which is a manor or other estate, from which the Prebendary used to derive an income. The College of Canons consists of 39 Prebendaries and is a body of people appointed by the Bishop who are associated in some way with the life and outreach of the Cathedral. In addition to the Chapter members, the Bishop of Taunton, the Archdeacons of Taunton and Bath and the Sub-Dean the Bishop may appoint up to 27 people including those beneficed or licensed in the diocese, or other dioceses and lay people. It is the College of Canons who meet in the Chapter House to elect a new Bishop, having received the Royal licence to do so.
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 6, 2009 16:18:17 GMT
I had a good chat with a few people at Wells Cathedral the other week, and they have given me a contact in the Cathedral Archives, so I will drop them an email to see if they can give us anymore info on this Silk back in 1493. Would be amazing if we could connect back to him I guess he must be related in some way. |
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 13, 2009 15:20:43 GMT
News back from the Wells Cathedral Archive -
"I am afraid there is little I can add to the information you already have. During the Middle Ages the forty or so canons of the cathedral each held a prebend or estate which provided him with his living. The prebend of Combe, near Chard, was so wealthy that it supported no fewer than 12 canons, one of whom was Silk; the prebend is usually written Combe IX. When he was appointed, the prebend had been left vacant for some considerable time, though we have no explanation for this. His successor was appointed immediately on Silk's death. None of the dean and chapter estates were in the Frome area, so we have no records of other Silks among our estate records."
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 13, 2009 15:47:53 GMT
I then asked about what area Combe IX covered - "It's basically the parish of Combe St Nicholas."  |
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 13, 2009 21:57:50 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 30, 2009 17:08:17 GMT
www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32250M. William Sylke D.C.L. 1479-1508. Coll. 20 Nov. 1479 in succession to Walter Bate (Reg. Courtenay f. 90; see above). D. by 13 May 1508, and succeeded by Thomas Ruthall (PCC 35 Adeane; Reg. Oldham f. 23; see below p. 61).
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 3, 2009 23:29:44 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 3, 2009 23:34:12 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 3, 2009 23:46:52 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Dec 6, 2010 22:07:52 GMT
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=021-art&cid=5-7#5-7[no title] ART/5/7 1487, 6th Mar ('1486' and 9th of Bishop Peter [Courtenay]) These documents are held at Cornwall Record Office Related information: See ART/5/6. Contents: Letter From: William Silke, LI.D., vicar general of the Bishop of Exeter To: Thomas Colyn, subdeacon of the diocese of Exeter Selected contents: Dimissorial letters, granting you licence to receive ordination as deacon and priest, which you have not yet attained, provided that you are found suitable in native habits, age and knowledge, and that no other rule stands in the way.
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Post by Daniel Silk on Dec 19, 2010 15:10:48 GMT
www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67302Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells: volume 2 1493, Sept. 15.—Mr. William Silke admitted a canon and installed by proxy in the prebend of Combe IX, pursuant to mandate of the bishop.
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Post by Daniel Silk on Mar 4, 2011 12:08:27 GMT
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6408/is_n1_v67/ai_n28708128/The surname `Sylk' in the second inscription has been written over but does not completely obscure the surname of the person who actually purchased the volume from Brownyng: `Elyote.' Bishop Edmund Lacy's Register of Institutions records the institution of Sir William Elyote, chaplain, as rector of Berrynarbor on 6 March 1454/5, on the death of the previous rector.(7) The same register also indicates that `Master William Brownynge' became rector of Berrynarbor in 1430 and remained so until his death in 1454/5, a fact confirmed by Brownyng's will, in which he refers to himself as `Willelmus Brownyng canonicus ecclesie cathedralis beati Petri Exon' ac ecclesiarum parochialium de Uggeburgh et Byrynerberd Exon' diocesis rector licet indignus.'(8) If William Elyote was chaplain to Brownyng before succeeding him as rector of Berrynarbor, then he must have attained that position after 14 February 1449/50, when William Castell is recorded as chaplain of `Byry Nerber'.(9) Since the volume that is now MS Harley 3300 is not among the three books mentioned in Brownyng's will, Elyote must have acquired it from him before 15 August 1454.(10) The William Sylk who subsequently acquired the volume, perhaps from Elyote himself, is probably the Oxford lawyer who became canon and prebendary of Exeter in 1479 and subsequently was archdeacon of Cornwall, precentor of Exeter, and vicar general of the bishop of Exeter before his death in 1508.(11) He is first recorded as a scholar of canon law in 1463, and might well have acquired the volume as a reference work for his study of that subject. His professional interests and his Exeter connections make him a better candidate for the volume's owner than his contemporary and namesake William Silk, MA, who was chaplain rector of Chilfrome, Dorset (1442-52), and rector of Kingsdown, Somerset (from 1451; still in 1468).(12) All evidence suggests that the volume remained in the possession of Exeter clerks, if not physically in Exeter, until its purchase for Harley's library, in 1715.(13)
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