Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . eswould supply other masses. In the pastoral care of the people, too, the vicarof a great parish was not left single-handed. Pro-bably (as has been already said) each chantry priest,and, still more, each priest of a gild or service hada group of persons—the relatives of their founder,or brothers and sisters of their fraternity—who lookedto them for spiritual ministrations; but besidesthese, the vicar sometimes had chaplains who wereassistant-curates. The calendar of chantries, etc.,refers to a number of endowments for stipendiarie
Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . eswould supply other masses. In the pastoral care of the people, too, the vicarof a great parish was not left single-handed. Pro-bably (as has been already said) each chantry priest,and, still more, each priest of a gild or service hada group of persons—the relatives of their founder,or brothers and sisters of their fraternity—who lookedto them for spiritual ministrations; but besidesthese, the vicar sometimes had chaplains who wereassistant-curates. The calendar of chantries, etc.,refers to a number of endowments for stipendiaries,of which some are named in conjunction withchantries and gilds as if they were cantarists, butothers in conjunction with parishes as if they weresimply parish chaplains. Let us take Newark as our last example. THE MEDIAEVAL TOWNS. 523 Leofric, the great Earl of Mercia, and Godiva hiswife, gave this manor to the monastei) of , the first NormanBishop of Lincoln, held itin demesne, and then, ac-cording to Domesday, ithad ten chuiches and eight. Newnrk Chuicli, Nottmglnmshiiepriests ; the churches and priests were probably in theplace itself and in the sixteen sokes under its jurisdic-tion, the names of which we recognize in the names ofthe neighbouring villages for some miles round on theleft bank of the Trent. Alexander, the next bishop,built a castle * here on the bank of the Trent; and thetown seems to have grown up into importance, owingpartly to its situation on the Fossway and the Trent,and partly to the protection and fostering care of the ? The castle chapel, dedicated to St. Philip and James, wasanciently given to the mother church of Newark. 524 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. bishops. When Henry II. founded the Priory (ofSempringham nuns) of St. Katherine, near Lincoln,he endowed it, among other properties, with theChurch of Newark. A convent of Austin Friars wasplanted here and another of Observants (Franciscans),and the Knights of the Temple had a
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