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By David Lepine
This examine specializes in the canons of the 9 secular cathedrals in England within the later center a while, who have been among the main capable and winning clerics in their age. After contemplating the capabilities of the cathedrals which supplied them with a snug source of revenue and massive prestige, Dr Lepine turns to the canons themselves, tracing their origins and analysing their careers. He examines the canons' place of dwelling at their cathedrals, developing what percentage have been resident within the shut and what sort of time they spent there. The examine concludes by means of offering case experiences to teach the power and variety of capitular lifestyles within the later heart a long time: Salisbury among 1398 and 1458 (its so-called golden age) and Lichfield from 1490 to 1540, at the eve of the Reformation.
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The processions and plays that formed part of the liturgy drew crowds. 87 Lay attendance in the cathedral was encouraged by chapters. Salisbury was not alone in scheduling its services for the convenience of worshipers. 88 The Lincoln chapter was particularly worried that if there were none in progress the congregation would go elsewhere to 'inferior churches'. Indulgences were another means of attracting visitors. 89 We can never know how many came as visitors' books were not kept, but some impression is given by the offerings made at shrines and the many collecting boxes in cathedrals, though this is difficult to interpret.
In a large diocese like Lincoln they were usually collected in each archdeaconry; thus pentecostals from the archdeaconry of Leicester were collected in Leicester. By the later middle ages in some dioceses they were simply paid to archdeacons' officials but parishes close to the cathedral still made annual processions which were often boisterous occasions. 68 It is impossible to know how close to the mother church of the diocese medieval parishioners felt, but their wills make it clear that there was a convention to make small bequests to the cathedral and the standard phrase used in them was the 'mother church'.
In an eminently practical way the canons of Hereford were in the habit of lending copes and 'jewels', probably ornaments, to the parish churches of the diocese for special services. 65 The cathedral's authority and influence partly derived from its status as the mother church of the diocese, a claim that seems to date back to Norman times 58 Edwards, 'Salisbury Cathedral', 173. 59 Jacob, 'English Conciliar Activity 13951418', in E. F. Jacob, Essays in the Conciliar Epoch, 3rd edn, Manchester, 1967, 801.