Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One The Tudor Scene
- Part Two The Gathering Storm
- Part Three Suppression and Dissolution
- Part Four Reaction and Survival
- Appendix I Sir Thomas More's letter ‘to a monk’
- Appendix II Religious houses suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey
- Appendix III The witness of the Carthusians
- Appendix IV Houses with incomes exceeding £1000 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
- Appendix V The sacrist of Beauvale
- Appendix VI Itinerary of the visitors, 1535–6
- Appendix VII The commissioners for the survey of the Lesser Houses in 1536
- Appendix VIII The conflict of evidence on the monasteries
- Appendix IX The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
- Appendix X Regulars as bishops
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix V - The sacrist of Beauvale
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One The Tudor Scene
- Part Two The Gathering Storm
- Part Three Suppression and Dissolution
- Part Four Reaction and Survival
- Appendix I Sir Thomas More's letter ‘to a monk’
- Appendix II Religious houses suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey
- Appendix III The witness of the Carthusians
- Appendix IV Houses with incomes exceeding £1000 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
- Appendix V The sacrist of Beauvale
- Appendix VI Itinerary of the visitors, 1535–6
- Appendix VII The commissioners for the survey of the Lesser Houses in 1536
- Appendix VIII The conflict of evidence on the monasteries
- Appendix IX The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
- Appendix X Regulars as bishops
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It is difficult to believe that the monk of Beauvale escaped in this way if the oath was tendered to his community as it was to other houses, for in such cases the monks were not asked their views, but told to take the oath. It may be, however, that after their experience at London, the government decided not to force the Carthusians up to the brink, but to get some sort of acknowledgment out of them. In fact, no Carthusian house, other than London under Prior Trafford, appears in the lists of those who took the oath printed in the Deputy Keeper's Report VII. Beauvale duly appears as surrendering in Report VII, but the sacrist's name (Dugmer) is not among the signatories. He rejoined the order at Sheen and died twenty years later in exile in the odour of sanctity. One of his confreres related the following incident of his early life (Hendriks, The London Charterhouse,304):
Our good Father Dugmer told me that when he was young and Sacrist, and one day had washed the Church Corporals, and had laid them in the garden upon the lavender borders to dry, in the midst of his dinner he went into his garden to see the cloths, and he saw our Blessed Lady sitting beside the Corporals tending them, and our Blessed Lord in the likeness of a little child, pulling the lavendar knops and, as little children will do, casting them upon the Corporals. […]
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- The Religious Orders in England , pp. 475 - 476Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979