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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 58  1945  page 39

Recent discoveries in the Archives of Canterbury Cathedral
 a note on the Craftsmen
by John H. Harvey

not worked upon it as upon a day on which they shall have worked (sicuti in die quo operati fuerint).
     9 Cf. Knoop and Jones, op. cit., pp. 62-69.
   10  Cal. Patent Rolls, 1388-1392, p. 196. John Bryan's will of 1401 shows that he had been a mason upon the new work of the cathedral church for 20 years, and that he left the sum of 20 marks (£13 13s. 4d.) to the fabric. (W. Somner: Antiquities of Canterbury, ed. Battely, 1703; cf. A. Hussey: East Kent Wills, 1907, pp. 57, 133.
11. Cal. Patent Rolls, 1391-1396, p. 271; cf. Ib., 1401-1405, p. 23, where John Bernesale, "of Canterbury, smith," appears as a vendor of premises in Fordwich conveyed to St. Augustine's Abbey.
   12  Ibid., 1396-1399, p. 79.
   13  J. T. Smith: Antiquities of Westminster, 1807, p. 202.
   14  Cal. Patent Rolls, 1377-1381, p. 530.
    15  Ibid., 1381-1385, p. 8.

   16  Ibid., 1385-1389, p. 271.
   17  Bodl. Tanner MS. 165; I am indebted for these names to the kindness of Mr. Arthur Oswald.
   18  Cal. Patent Rolls, 1385-1389, p. 103; Cal. Close Rolls, 1385-1389, pp. 121, 207.
   19  Cal. Patent Rolls, 1388-1392, pp. 249, 261, 294; Cal. Close Rolls,1392-1396, pp. 45-46.
   20   Bodl. Tanner MS. 165; cf. C. E. Woodruff: "The Rebuilding of the South-West Tower of Canterbury Cathedral," in Arch. Cantiana, XLV, p. 37 ff.
   21   There is an account for making a "logge" (i.e. boat-house) for the safe keeping of the King's Barge in the lake at Kenilworth in 1438-1439, in P.R.O., D.L., 29/463/7540.
   22  J. Hutchins: History ........ of the County of Dorset, 3rd ed., 1861-1873.

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