regards the existence of this body as an exceptional case, and thinks it dangerous to assume it to have been a survival of ancient times. Mr. G. G. Coulton in
Chaucer and his England considers that the Black Death of 1348-9 and the consequent diminution of the clergy may have thrown the people on their own resources, and caused the lay control over parish finances which appears to have dated (he says) from the fifteenth century.
57
Calendar of Papal Registers, vol. ii., p. 294.
58
Tax. Eccle. P. Nicholai, iv.
59
Lancashire Pipe Rolls, Mr. W. Farrer.
60
Lancashire Inquests, etc., ed. by Mr. Farrer.
61
Calendar Patent Rolls, 8 Edw. III. and 14 Edw. III., pt. 3, mem. 11.
62
Calendar Patent Rolls, 8 Edw. III. There was a question of a marriage between his daughter Mary and the king's brother.
63
Calendar Patent Rolls, 8 Edw. III.
64
Calendar Patent Rolls, 13 Edw. III.
65
Calendar Patent Rolls.
66
Calendar Patent Rolls, 17 Edw. III.
67
Calendar Patent Rolls, 17 Edw. III.
68
Calendar of Close Rolls.
69
Calendar Patent Rolls and Close Rolls, 22 Edw. III.
70
Rymer's Foedera, Dic. of Nat. Biography. "Proof that Ingelram Earl of Bedford was son of Ingelram brother of William, who was son of William de Coucy, Christiana's son, is contained in Inq. p.m., 50 Edw. III. (1) No. 18." Mr. W. Farrer.
71
Calendar Patent Rolls, 5 Rich. II., 9 Rich. II., and 2 Hen. IV., part iv.
72
Inq. p.m. MS. Rawl., B 438, f. 71.
73
Inq. p.m., 14 Hen. VI., No. 36.
74
Calendar Patent Rolls, 1 Edw. IV., pt. 7, mem. 8; and Inq. p.m., 12 Edw. IV., No. 47.
75
Calendar Patent Rolls, 22 Hen. VI.
76
Inq. p.m., 22 Hen. VI., No. 19.
77
Victorian History of Cumberland.
78
Inq. ad quod damnum, 38/6.
79
Calendar Patent Rolls, 30 Edw. I.
80
Calendar Patent Rolls.
81
Calendar Patent Rolls, 17 Hen. VI., p. 1.
82
Calendar Patent Rolls.
84
MS. Dodsworth 28, fol. 78.
85
Calendar of Papal Registers, vol. v., p. 1-4.
86
Dr. Cox, Parish Registers of England, p. 251.
87
In 1383 Richard de Clifford, "king's clerk" was presented to the church of Warton in Kendale, Calendar Patent Rolls.
88
MS. Rawlinson, B. 438, f. 2.
89
Calendar Patent Roll, 20 Edw. III.
90
Calendar Patent Roll, 20 Edw. III.
91
Canon Raine's Notes to Testamenta Eboracensia, Sur. So., vol. 30, p. 68.
92
Min. Acc., Hen. VII., 877.
93
"List of Rydall-Writings." D.F.
94
Lay Subsidy Roll, West, 195/1A, 6 Edw. III.
98
"List of Rydall-Writings," by D.F., in which he writes the names as Bellowe and Brokylsbee.
99
Rydal Hall MSS. and Tax Eccles. P. Nicholai.
100
Chester Diocesan Register.
