Stowe Ch 603

INDULGENCE of 800 days of pardon granted by Thomas [FitzAlan], Archbishop of Canterbury, and Richard [Scrope], Archbishop of York, Papal Legates, Robert [de Braybrooke], Bishop of London, Gye [Guy de Mohun], Bishop of St. David, Walter [de Skirlaw], Bishop of Durham, Henry [Beaufort], Bishop of Lincoln, Edmund [Stafford], Bishop of Exeter, Henry [Bowet], Bishop of Bath and Wells, John [Fordham], Bishop of Ely, Henry [le Spencer], Bishop of Norwich, Richard [Mitford], Bishop of Salisbury, Richard [Clifford], Bishop of Worcester, John [de Bottlesham], Bishop of Rochester, John [Burghill], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, Robert [Reade], Bishop of Chichester, John [Trevenant], Bishop of Hertford [Hereford], John (sic) [William Strickland], Bishop of Carlisle, Richard [Young], Bishop of Bangor, Thomas [Peverel], Bishop of Llandaff, and John [Trevour], Bishop of Seynte Asse [St. Asaph], to all who shall say prayers and give alms to the Chapel or Hospital of the Holy Cross in the suburbs of Colchester [co. Essex]. [1402-1404.] Engl. Contemporary copy. After the words "In witnesse," etc., is given an account of the finding by St. Helen of the Holy Cross, and how she "toke one part of the holy crosse and closed it with golde and sent it to her hospitall to Colchester (she being a native of Colchester) evermore to be abyding with her Ring, her gyrdull and her purs with other xx^tiiiii moo Reliques"; of the visit of St. Thomas of Canterbury in 1200 to the hospital when he "halowed" it and confirmed the said grant, "and gaf his Pontificall Ring in tokenyng"; and how in 1401 certain thieves carried off the relic of the Holy Cross as far as "Knyfittes poolis," 3 miles out of the town, but being pursued threw it into the pool, whence owing to its miraculous floating on the surface, though it weighed xxi. ounces, it was recovered. At the foot are two notes in the hand of Philip Morant, who has given, from the present document, in his History of Essex, Appx. to History of Colchester, no. xv., a transcript of the Indulgence, without the matter which follows it.

Richard Scrope, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1386), and Archbishop of York (1398), Papal Legate: Indulgence to benefactors of Holy Cross Hospital, Colchester: 1402-4.

Relics: Gifts of, to Holy Cross Hospital, Colchester: 1402-4.

Saint Helena: Account of the finding of the Holy Cross by: 1402-4.

Thomas Fitz-Alan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Papal Legate: Indulgence to benefactors of Holy Cross Hospital, Colchester: 1402-4.

Cross, The Holy: Account of St. Helena's finding of, and of her giving it to Holy Cross Hospital, Colchester: 1402-4.

Colchester, Essex: Indulgence to benefactors to Holy Cross Hospital: 1402-4.

Colchester, Essex: Gift of relics to the Holy Cross Hospital: 1402-4.

Saint Thomas Becket,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Account of his visit, etc., to Holy Cross Hospital, Colchester: 1402-4.