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Excommunication of Prebendaries for Not Paying the Fifth Part of their Prebends

28 Aug 1622

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Excommunication of prebendaries for failing to pay their fifth part by Nicholas Clunn counsellor of John Barnston locum tenens of the Dean and the Chapter. The locum tenens of the Dean and the Chapter were proceeding against all the prebendaries whose names are underwritten on account of their contumacy in not appearing before them at the appropriate day, hour and place in the Chapter House for the payment of the fifth part of their respective profits from their prebends for the use, fabric and necessary repairs of the Cathedral according to a certain Chapter Act. Since they did not appear nor excuse themselves they [the Dean’s locum tenens and the Chapter] decreed that they [the prebendaries] would be excommunicated on account of their contumacy. Thus Nicholas Clunn excommunicates Francis Doe prebendary of Bricklesworth and John Rawlinson prebendary of Netherbury in Ecclesia. Read and carried on 28 Aug 1622 by Nicholas Clunn. The text on the opposite side is largely obscured due to tears, folds and staining; from what can be read it states that on 28 Aug they decreed that they would be excommunicated until 28 Sep.

Latin

Material: paper

Clunn, Nicholas
Barnston, John