List of Indulgences to penitents visiting Furness. 621

[CCCCV.-INDULGENCES GRANTED BY FIFTY-ONE ARCH

BISHOPS AND BISHOPS TO SUCH PENITENTS AS SHALL
VISIT FURNESS ITSELF, OR ANY OF THE CHURCHES OR
CHAPELS APPERTAINING TO IT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF
DEVOTION.] 1.

Venerabiles Patres in Christo, D'ni Archiep'i et Ep'i infranominati, omnibus et singulis S. Matris Ecclesiæ filiis vere contritis, pænitentibus et confessis, quotiens ad istud Monasterium1 S. Maria de Furnesio, seu ad ecclesiam aliquam vel capellam eidem Monasterio pertinentem, ad devote audiendum Divinum officium, vel Dei verbum ibidem per aliquam personam ejusdem Monasterii ad Dei laudem et animarum salutem prædicatum, personaliter accesserint, vel de bonis suis eidem Monasto vel ecclesiis, alicuive capella dicti Monasto spectantibus, contulerint vel legaverint, subscriptarum indulgentiarum munera concesserunt imperpetuum duratura: Quas indulgentias concessas, et alias rite imposterum concedendas, Archiep'i Ebor. infrascripti, hujus dicti Monasterii Diocesani, ratas habent pariter et acceptas, insuper et in forma præmissa pias indulgentiarum largitiones misericor [257] diter

Summa omnium præmissarum indulgentiarum sunt v anni, octies xv dies. Episcopi sunt li.

[CCCCVI.—BULL BY POPE URBAN VI. GRANTING TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER, OF EITHER SEX, THAT THEIR OWN CHOSEN CONFESSORS MAY, IN THE ARTICLE OF DEATH, GIVE THEM PLENARY ABSOLUTION.]

A.D. M° ccc° lrr[0] viii[0], die S. Paschae, viz., viii° die mensis Aprilis, creatus fuit Urbanus Papa vi., qui de gratia sua speciali, A° Pontif. sui vi[0], viz., [M°]ccc° lxxx[°o] íííío, die S. Jacobi Apostoli, istam sequentem indulgentiam omnibus personis Ordinis Cistercii [?concessit.]

Urbanus Epus etc. dilectis filiis universis Abbatibus, Prioribus et monachis, cæterisque personis utriusque sexus, Cistercii Ordinis, salutem et Apost. benedictionem. Provenit ex vestræ devotionis affectu, quo nos et Romanam Ecclesiam reveremini, ut petitiones vestras, illas præsertim quæ animarum vestrarum salutem respiciunt, ad exauditionis gratiam admittamus: Hinc est quod nos vestris supplicationibus inclinati, ut Confessor quem quilibet

vestrum duxerit eligendum, omnium peccatorum vestrorum de quibus in corde contriti fueritis semel tantum in articulo mortis plenam remissionem vobis, in sinceritate fidei et unitate S. Romanæ Ecclesiæ, ac obedientia et devotione nostra vel successorum nostrorum, Romanorum Pon[257b col. 2]tificum, canonice intrantium, persistentibus, auctoritate Apostolica, concedere valeat. devotioni vestræ, tenore præsentium, indulgemus: sic, tamen, quod idem confessor de hiis de quibus fuerit alteri satisfactio impendenda, tam vobis per vos si supervixeritis, vel per alios si sic forte transieritis, faciendam injungat, quam vos illi facere teneamini, ut profertur: Et ne, quod absit, propter hujusmodi gratiam reddamini procliviores ad illicita inposterum committenda, volumus quod, si ex confidentia remissionis hujusmodi, quoad illa, prædicta remissio nullatenus suffragetur. Nulli ergo etc. Data Tubur', viiio Kalendas Augusti, Pontif. nostri Ao vio.-Ista Bulla est apud Boxeley, sub instrumento. [ff. 258, 259 torn out; 260, 261 blank.]

[CCCCVII.

SUMMARY OF THE NEW TAXATION OF THE VARIOUS CHURCHES AND THEIR TEMPORAL REVENUES, WITH THE AMOUNT PAYABLE AS TENTH, IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF RICHMOND.]

[262] Nova taxa Ecclesiarum et bonorum temporalium in Archidiaconatu Richemondiae.

Barningham, at the present day. The Domesday form is Berningham, and the Inquest forms the same, and Bernyngham. But the form Bermingham is by no means uncommon in ancient deeds and other records.

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* Arkengarthdale. I have met with the form Arklegarth as late as the reign of James I., and there is a hamlet in the parish which bears the name of Arkletown. The preservation of the old form here and in the North Riding Records is not without its interest.