DA/1/5/65

DA/1/5/65

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Excommunication of Prebendaries for Failing to Pay Their Fifth Part and Accounts of Chapter Meetings

Aug 1621

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Excommunication of prebendaries for failing to pay their fifth part by William Smythe (or Smithe) counsellor of John Barnston locum tenens of the Dean of Salisbury. The locum tenens of the Dean and Chapter were lawfully proceeding against all prebendaries whose names are underwritten on account of their manifest contumacy in not appearing before them at the specified time and place in the Chapter House for the payment of the fifth part and portion of the profits, returns and income of their prebends for the work, use, fabric and repairs of the Cathedral, according to a certain Chapter Act of Salisbury, and since they did not appear nor excuse themselves they decreed that in punishment of their contumacy they should all be excommunicated. Therefore William Smythe excommunicates them. There is a list of prebendaries, but most of them have been crossed out. Read and carried on 09 Aug 1621 by William Smythe. On the other side are accounts of Chapter meetings on 07 and 09 Aug relating to the payment of the fifth part and relating to Mr John Bartlet [Bartlett] recently Master of the Choristers who was to hand over possession of his house.

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Smythe, William
Barnston, John
Bartlett, John