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Title: Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901
Subjects: Clergy -- England Great Britain -- Church history 1066-1485 Great Britain -- Social life and customs 1066-1485
Publisher: London (etc.) Society for promoting Christian knowledge New York, E. S. Gorham
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ide their time amongtheir principal estates. Aidans head-quarters wereat Lindisfarne, but he had also a church andchamber at Bamborough, the chief residence of theNorthumbrian kings ; and, if we rightly understandBedes words,* he had a church and chamber at otherof the principal houses, where the king and his courtused to live for months together. It would be naturalthat the king should provide for the permanentresidence of a priest to serve each of these royalchapels, for the well-being of the people on the severalroyal estates ; and the subsequent history of royal freechapels confirms the conjecture that he did so.The great landowners would be among the first tofollow the kings example ; and we find some evidenceof it in an incidental notice by Bedef of the consecra-tion by St. John of Beverley (705-718), then Bishopof Hexham, of a church at South Burton, in Yorkshire,for the Ealdorman Puch, and another at North* Bede, hi. 17. t Ibid., v. 4, 5. DIOCESAN AND PAROCHIAL ORGANIZATION 47
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48 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. Burton, in the same county, for Addi the Ealdorman.What Puch and Addi were doing on their estates,probably others of the great Thanes were also doing,though no marvel occurred at the consecration of theseother churches to lead the historian to mention them.Not only kings and nobles, but the bishops them-selves, and the great monasteries with outlying estates,would naturally make provision for the religiousinterests of the people dependent upon them. Inthe south we gather from the canons of Clovesho,in 747, that the collegiate and conventual bodies haderected churches on their outlying estates, and thatthe lands of the lay proprietors had been divided intodistricts by the bishops, and committed to the careof resident priests. A letter written by Bede, the most learned andmost revered Churchman of the time, to Egbert, onhis consecration to the See of York, is a very valuablepiece of evidence as to the condition of the Church inthe north at that point

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