III.—On a MS. Collection of Ordinances of Chivalry of the fifteenth century, belonging to Lord Hastings

The manuscript volume which, by the kind permission of Lord Hastings, I am enabled to exhibit this evening, is one of great value and interest. Those great antiquaries Sir F. Palgrave and Albert Way saw the volume, and while the former made a rough note of its contents, the latter contributed to the fourth volume of the Archæological Journal a valuable paper on one part. The notes of these two gentlemen have been compared with the original MS., and I have ventured, whilst giving transcripts of some portions of the volume, to add a few notes and descriptions. The manuscript, which is written on vellum, consists of fifteenth-century copies, with some illuminations, of various treatises dealing with chivalry, state, etc. These have been bound in one thick volume, which from external evidence we may suppose to have at one time belonged to that distinguished Prince, Henry, son of James I.

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The medieval church of Montrose: a place ‘of much antiquity and abundantly populous’

The Innes Review ◽

10.3366/inr.2014.0064 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 13-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Catriona Anna Gray

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Early Date ◽

Plausible Candidate ◽

External Evidence ◽

Medieval Church ◽

Local Tradition ◽

The Church

Montrose was one of Scotland's earliest royal burghs, but historians have largely overlooked its parish kirk. A number of fourteenth and fifteenth-century sources indicate that the church of Montrose was an important ecclesiastical centre from an early date. Dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, by the later middle ages it was a place of pilgrimage linked in local tradition with the cult of Saint Boniface of Rosemarkie. This connection with Boniface appears to have been of long standing, and it is argued that the church of Montrose is a plausible candidate for the lost Egglespether, the ‘church of Peter’, associated with the priory of Restenneth. External evidence from England and Iceland appears to identify Montrose as the seat of a bishop, raising the possibility that it may also have been an ultimately unsuccessful rival for Brechin as the episcopal centre for Angus and the Mearns.

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A fifteenth-century sword and a medieval bronze figure from Westminster Abbey

The Antiquaries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0003581500010428 ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 146-148

Author(s):

Lawrence E. Tanner

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Kind Permission ◽

Points Of Interest

The two articles here described were exhibited by the kind permission of our Fellow the dean of Westminster. They cannot be said to be recent discoveries, but have never been shown before to the Society; and they possess enough points of interest to warrant publication (pl. xiv).

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Castle Garth in Newcastle (UK): processes of transformation, integration and discharge of a fortified complex in an urban context

X ◽

10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11548 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Francesco Novelli

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Direct Access ◽

Urban Context ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

James I ◽

Commercial Activities ◽

Urban Transformations ◽

Charles Ii ◽

The City

Castle Garth is the name of the fortified area once enclosed within the castle walls. In the fifteenth century Newcastle became a county in its own right, however, the Garth, being within the castle walls, remained part of the County of Northumberland. The Great Hall, a building separate from the Castle Fortress (the “Keep”), which in later years became known as the “Old Moot Hall”, was used by courts that sat at regular intervals in every county of England and Wales. The Fortress then became a prison for the County and was used as such until the early nineteenth century. Beginning in the fifteenth century, unlicensed traders, taking advantage of the fact that the city authorities had no jurisdiction over the Garth area, settled there with their commercial activities. From the time of Charles II (1630-1685), the area then became famous for its tailors and shoemakers, who grew particularly abundantly on the path known as “Castle Stairs”. In 1619 the fortified complex was rented by James I to the courtier Alexander Stephenson, who allowed the civilian houses to be built inside the castle walls. After the civil war, new houses were added until, towards the end of the eighteenth century, Castle Garth had become a distinct and densely populated community, with a theater, public houses and lodgings. The main urban transformations were started in the early nineteenth century with the construction of the new Moot Hall called County Court. From 1847 to 1849 the fortified enclosure was partially compromised by further intersections with the infrastructure for the construction of the railway viaduct, thus interrupting direct access from the Castle guarding the Black Gate. Despite the development of the contemporary city has affected the preservation of the ancient fortified palimpsest, a strong consolidated link is still maintained by the sedimentation of values of material and immaterial culture. The proposed contribution intends to present this process of integration between fortified structure and city highlighting today the state of the art, the conservation, restoration and enhancement initiatives undertaken in the last forty years.

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X.—On some fifteenth-century Drawings of Winchester College; New College, Oxford; etc.

Archaeologia ◽

10.1017/s0261340900011292 ◽

1892 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 229-232

Author(s):

Thomas Frederick Kirby

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Kind Permission ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

Secretary Of State ◽

Henry Vi ◽

The University ◽

National Biography

By the kind permission of the Warden of New College, Oxford, I have the honour to exhibit copies of four pen and ink drawings attributed to the year 1463.They are from a MS. at New College, Oxford, entitled Brevis Chronica de ortu vita et gestis nobilibus reverendi viri Willelmi de Wykeham, which is generally attributed to Thomas Chandler. I do not find him in the Dictionary of National Biography, but he was a man of some note in his day, having been warden, first of Winchester and then of New College; chancellor of the university of Oxford, and of the churches of Wells and York; master of St. Cross hospital, near Winchester; dean of Hereford and the chapel royal; and secretary of state under Henry VI. and Edward IV. He died in 1490.

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