Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Volume 3 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... made, not only to confirm permission already granted or received, but also to record the motive of the grant, and the obligations to which the prior and monks of the Charterhouse had subjected themselves to the great spiritual advantage of the Hospitallers. The charter of the prior and brethren of St. John recited at length two letters of fraternity granted by the Carthusians. They are both dated on the same day--the Assumption of the Mother of God, 1430, but the one is confined to the privileges of fraternity granted personally to William Hulles, the prior of St. John, the other to the privileges of fraternity to be enjoyed by all the members of the order. In behalf of William Hulles it was granted that when he died he should have his obit celebrated, that a trental, masses during thirty days, should be offered for him, and his name enrolled in the martyrology of the Carthusians. Whenever obits were founded an endowment was generally given by charging certain estates or benefices with the payment of a sum of money, to be distributed annually at the celebration of the obit. The cost of the celebration for William Hulles was the value to the Carthusians of their aqueduct, and the obit may be considered as rent annually paid. If the Prior of St. John's thus provided in perpetuity spiritual benefits for himself he cannot be charged with neglecting his brethren. The second document, the grant of fraternity, enrolled the brethren of St. John of Jerusalem among the founders and principal benefactors of the Carthusians. It provided that whenever the death of any Prior of St. John's should be intimated an obit should be celebrated, and that all future priors, preceptors, knights, presbyters, and non-presbyters should partake of the fraternity, and, upon their deat...