In message <12694399.1092211072823.JavaMail.www@wwinf3001>, John Edwin Lindley <member@lindley-york.freeserve.co.uk> writes >Hi > >Apologies - Latin, not OE but any help appreciated if possible. I'm a bit >puzzled by the following, where the visitation seem to have uncovered a >state of neglect. My small Latin dictionary doesn't seem to include >medieval and Church Latin, and I'm a bit stuck on variations in meanings >such as: Seqyestering is taking away the cure of souls from a clergyman - mostly this would be because of gross misconduct, as the appointment, once made, was usually only terminable by death or voluntary resignation. When the removal is sudden, an official called a sequestrator is appointed until such time as the clergyman is tried and restored or finally dismissed and a new man found. But this is 1559, a year after Mary's Catholic clergy were being replaced by good Protestants. Here the clergyman (curate covered any clergyman with a 'cure' or care of the parish) had gone, for whatever reason, voluntarily or not, and the parish is vacant, possibly because the patron refused to appoint someone else whose doctrines he did not like. The care of the working of the parish, and the collection of fees and tithes(fructus et decimas) was committed to these three men, probably the churchwardens of most important men of the parish, who would collect and be accountable for them when a new clergyman was appointed/ > >'Super detectione exhibita per Iconomos et parochianos de Maltbye quod >ecclesia vacata et destituta sit curato, omnes fructus et decimas eiusdem >sequestranda fore decreverunt, sequestracionem quoque eorundem fructuum >Joanni Persleye et Willelmo Lynley ac Joanni Sheppard, dicte ecclesie >Iconomis, commiserunt &c.' >Source: The Royal Visitation of 1559 (Surtees Society Vol.187 [1972]) > >Any help appreciated. > >John Lindley >Wigginton >NRY > -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

The Committee for the Compounding who sequestered royalist estates during the Commonwealth deprived the lords of the manor for a certain period. They were obliged to discharge the sequestration before they could again take possession of their property. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve McLaughlin" <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Latin - not Old English > In message <12694399.1092211072823.JavaMail.www@wwinf3001>, John Edwin > Lindley <member@lindley-york.freeserve.co.uk> writes > >Hi > > > >Apologies - Latin, not OE but any help appreciated if possible. I'm a bit > >puzzled by the following, where the visitation seem to have uncovered a > >state of neglect. My small Latin dictionary doesn't seem to include > >medieval and Church Latin, and I'm a bit stuck on variations in meanings > >such as: > Seqyestering is taking away the cure of souls from a clergyman - mostly > this would be because of gross misconduct, as the appointment, once > made, was usually only terminable by death or voluntary resignation. > When the removal is sudden, an official called a sequestrator is > appointed until such time as the clergyman is tried and restored or > finally dismissed and a new man found. > But this is 1559, a year after Mary's Catholic clergy were being > replaced by good Protestants. > Here the clergyman (curate covered any clergyman with a 'cure' or care > of the parish) had gone, for whatever reason, voluntarily or not, and > the parish is vacant, possibly because the patron refused to appoint > someone else whose doctrines he did not like. > The care of the working of the parish, and the collection of fees and > tithes(fructus et decimas) was committed to these three men, probably > the churchwardens of most important men of the parish, who would collect > and be accountable for them when a new clergyman was appointed/ > > > > >'Super detectione exhibita per Iconomos et parochianos de Maltbye quod > >ecclesia vacata et destituta sit curato, omnes fructus et decimas eiusdem > >sequestranda fore decreverunt, sequestracionem quoque eorundem fructuum > >Joanni Persleye et Willelmo Lynley ac Joanni Sheppard, dicte ecclesie > >Iconomis, commiserunt &c.' > >Source: The Royal Visitation of 1559 (Surtees Society Vol.187 [1972]) > > > >Any help appreciated. > > > >John Lindley > >Wigginton > >NRY > > > > -- > Eve McLaughlin > > Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians > Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from list mode -- > Send the one word UNSUBSCRIBE to > OLD-ENGLISH-L-request@rootsweb.com > >