Stowe MS 871

INVENTORY Of Service-books, plate, copes, vestments, napery, etc., brlonging to the church of St. Peter Mancroft, in Norwich; temp. Hen. VIII. The list begins with "one Antiphenare of the large volume garnished with blew silk and bottoms of the same . . . of Sir Robert Cutler, alias Sexten (Chantry-priest of Cosyn's Chantry, in 1490, Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. iv. p. 202), bryngying in to the Church, etc., and of Sir William Bilham [h]is gifte" (in 1498, ibid. p. 214). The copes are 47 in number and include (f. 8 b) "a cope of grene cloithe of tissue, with an orpheras golde brodered werke of the life of Sent Thomas of Canterbury, and in the cape Sent Petir garnyshid with perylles [pearls] and of the gifte of Thomas Mayne" and (f. 10b) "a cope for the boy that is the bushope, paned yelow and blew." Among the plate is (f. 16 b) "crose with the crucifixe, our lady and sent John, with iij euangelestes in amell [enamel], at euery vpper end one, and the xij appostellis in amell at the lower end, with vi wrethyng wormes betwene, the appostelles, and the knope of the soket and the crose selfe is enameld in the myddes with blew amell, and whight roses boith be hynd and afore, with the recidue gilte; with a fote also to the same, grauen with iiij euangelestes and iij prophettes, with the gospelles and prophecez in vii quarters, and in the viii quarter sent Petir sittyng in blew amell, hym selfe wight, and a man, woman and i child knellyng uppon grene amell afor hym . . . and this crose with the fote ponderith clxvi vnces." Paper; ff. 33. Small Folio.

Norwich: Inventory of service-books, plate, etc., in St. Peter Mancroft's church: temp. Hen. VIII.

Inventories: Service-books, plate, etc., in St. Peter Mancroft's church, Norwich: temp. Hen. VIII.

includes:

• f. 2 Sir William Bilham: Gift to St. Peter Mancroft's church, Norwich: [1498].