Bishop Ernulf sets up alms-giving in honour of Gundulf: Textus Roffensis, ff. 197r 197v Translated from Latin and edited Dr Chris Monk

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1 Published online by Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Homepage: Bishop Ernulf sets up alms-giving in honour of Gundulf: Textus Roffensis, ff. 197r 197v Translated from Latin and edited Abstract: This is the alms-giving which the lord bishop Ernulf, having granted it at the request of the monks, set up to be made every year for the soul of our father, bishop Gundulf, on his anniversary...' To cite this report: Monk, C. (2017) Bishop Ernulf sets up alms-giving in honour of Gundulf: Textus Roffensis, ff. 197r 197v; Translated from Latin and edited. Rochester: Rochester Cathedral Research Guild. To link to this article: Published online: 14th December 2017 General Queries: Produced by permission of. All rights reserved to the author. Any views and opinions expressed in this work are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of either the Research Guild or the Dean and Chapter.

2 Textus Roffensis, Rochester, Cathedral Library, MS A. 3. 5, f. 197r Published online by the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 2 of 5

3 Textus Roffensis, Rochester, Cathedral Library, MS A. 3. 5, f. 197v Published online by the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 3 of 5

4 Bishop Ernulf sets up alms-giving in honour of Gundulf: Textus Roffensis, ff. 197r 197v Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk 2017 Date: This is the alms-giving which the lord bishop Ernulf, 2 having granted it at the request of the monks, set up to be made every year for the soul of our father, bishop Gundulf, 3 on his anniversary. 4 The secretary ought to give forty pennies. The chamberlain, forty pennies. The cellarer, forty pennies and one thousand herrings. 5 Haddenham four shillings and two salmon. Frindsbury, Denton, Fleet, Wouldham, six shillings and two salmon. 6 Stoke, two salmon; Lambeth, one; Southwark, one. These twenty shillings the cellarer will receive, 7 and then having acquired bread and herrings, he himself with the almoner will distribute these very things to the poor on this day. The salmon however, the brothers will have in the refectory. 1 This text was not written by the principal scribe, who completed his work c. 1123, but was added as part of a folio that was inserted later in the twelfth century to replace one that had been cut out. The note does however relate to the period of Ernulf s bishopric ( ), and may well be a copy of an original charter by the bishop. 2 Bishop of Rochester at the time of the writing of Textus Roffensis (r ). He likely oversaw its completion around Bishop and prior at Rochester, from 1077 to i.e. the anniversary of his death, 7 th March The secretary, chamberlain and cellarer were obedientaries, i.e. senior monks. 6 The responsibility was shared between these four villages in Kent. 7 The arithmetic is correct: note, 12 pennies to a shilling, so the 120 shillings of the three obedientaries is equivalent to 10 shillings; added to the four from Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, and the six from the four Kentish villages, that makes 20 shillings in total. Published online by the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 4 of 5

5 Latin text, directly from Textus Roffensis The digital facsimile of this text is located at: Type n401 into the page search box. The text begins five lines from the bottom of the right-hand folio and continues overleaf to about half way. Editorial notes: the layout approximates that in the manuscript (and thus includes words split over two lines); expansions of Latin abbreviations and contractions are indicated by italics; punctuation has been modernised; capitals have been used for all personal and place-names; coloured font represents coloured ink in the manuscript. [f. 197r] h ęc est elemosina, quam domnus Ernulfus episcopus consensu et rogatu monachorum constituit singulis annis faciendam pro anima patris nostri Gundulfi episcopi in anniuersario ipsius. [f. 109v] S ecretarius debet dare quadraginta denarios. C amerarius quadraginta denarios. C elararius quadraginta denarios, et unum millenarium allecium. Hedreham quattuor solidos, et duos salmones. Frendesberi, Denintuna, Flietes, Wldeham, sex solidos, et duos salmones; Stoches, duos salmones; L amhetha, unum; Suthuuerca, unum. Hos uiginti solidos recipiet celararius, et empto inde pane et allece, ipse cum elemosinariis distribuet ipsa die pauperibus. Salmones autem habebunt fratres in refectorio. Published online by the Rochester Cathedral Research Guild Page 5 of 5