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Chapter Act Books & Minutes

Chapter Act books are not minutes of discussions but are registers of decisions taken, or actions done and which can also include records of installations of deans and prebendaries, assignments of chapter employees, decisions about services, leases of properties and orders involving much of the minutiae of chapter administration. The 1319 statutes of Bishop Mortival laid down that a sworn notary should be appointed for the purpose of keeping regular chapter records and that a residentiary canon should be elected annually to act as a 'custos mumimentorum'. These provisions were not immediately or completely effective, although notes of admissions of canons and other capitular acts for the years 1319-26 are found in Liber C. Towards the end of Liber C, ff 452-8 are 'Chapter Acts' for 1320-1324. The early Chapter Act books are named after the Chapter Clerks. Chapter Act Book CH/1/14 contains references to two other Chapter Act books now lost: Register Stallyngton (p 66) and Register Howsington[?] p 112 line 2. Also referred to in CH/1/14 is 'Liber Albus' on p 118.

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