. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. g them. The school probably formedj the residence of one of the Cathedral canons, consistingof a fine hall running north and south, and doubtless asolar at the southern end. The secular clergy in England! throughout the Middle Ages were frequently married,and maintained establishments of their own, despitenumerous efforts to have it otherwise on the part ofvarious reformers, up to and including Queen Elizabeth,i One such attempt is rather amusingly set forth under! date 1129 in the Saxon Chronicle. when
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. g them. The school probably formedj the residence of one of the Cathedral canons, consistingof a fine hall running north and south, and doubtless asolar at the southern end. The secular clergy in England! throughout the Middle Ages were frequently married,and maintained establishments of their own, despitenumerous efforts to have it otherwise on the part ofvarious reformers, up to and including Queen Elizabeth,i One such attempt is rather amusingly set forth under! date 1129 in the Saxon Chronicle. when they camethither the meeting began on the Monday and lastedtill the Friday, and it came out that it was all concerningthe wives of archdeacons and priests, that they shouldpart with them by S. Andrews day; and that he whowould not do this should forego his church, his houseand his home, and never be permitted to claim themagain. This was ordered by William, Archbishop ofCanterbury, and all the bishops of England : and the Kinggave them leave to depart, and so they went home, and LIY. B. THE PREBENDAL SCHOOL AT CHICHESTER. 3 these decrees were in no respect observed, for all kepttheir wives, by the Kings permission, even as before. The hall is of Early English character, built perhapsabout 1220; the walls are about 2^-ft. thick, of rubblework, nearly all flint. The lower part was covered by athick rubble tunnel vault, of which there remain onlytraces at the sides; the floor was hardly, if at all, belowthe level of the ground. In the east wall are a plaindoor and a blocked recess (6-ft. 7-in. wide), both of whichhave very flat arches, and seem to be Perpendicularinsertions. This crypt is doubtless the magnumeellarium, which by the statutes is the only part of thepremises that may be let or set to farm or grantedgratis to laymen or secular persons, and that only if itcan be done without scandal or inconvenience to thescholars of our grammar school. A stone-vaulted lowerstorey and
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