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- Listed in 1280 Worcestershire Lay Subsidy Roll of Carkedon
Carton, f., in Mamble (2 m. NE. of). D. Carle/une; 1275
Carkedon, S. R. ; 1332 Carkeden, S. R. I distrust the D.
form. If accepted, the original form would be Ceorlatune,
meaning ' the churls or husbandmen's town/ or ' Ceorle's
town,' Ceorl being a common p. n., borne alike by princes and
peasants. But then this should become Charlton. It could
only be Carlton in the NE. of England, or in some locality
frequented by Norsemen, and they had no influence whatever
in Worcestershire (v. Charlton). Carkeden I cannot trans-
late ; that also must be a corrupt form. D. records 2 7 ' Carle-
tune/ all, except in this instance, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire,
and Nottinghamshire ; and 18 ' Cerletone ' (pr. Charlton), all
in Mercian counties.
Note: This has me puzzled too. Although our Ingram lineage
is R1A (Norseman bloodline); My Ingram lineage is pointing
toward this area.
- (Research):An opinion upon the question of a privileged peculiar in the Vale of Evesham, prepared for Bishop Freake about the year 1587, cites the Decretals as stating that Celestinus the pope exempted the churches in the Vale ; but observes that as shown by the White Book of the bishoprick the abbots of Evesham had exercised their ecclesiastical jurisdiction partly by consent of the
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bishop of Worcester, for which the bishop had received from the abbey the advowsons of Hillingdon, Kinwarton, and Weston.47 This is authenticated by an agreement made at Fladbury, in 1242 upon St. Katherine's day, during the abbacy of Thomas de Gloucester. It is witnessed among others by Simon de Evesham archdeacon of the east riding of York, and is copied by Dr. Nash (ii. 178) from the White Book of the bishops of Worcester. Pentecostals were formerly made from the chapelries in this deanery to the monastery, as the mother church. These oblations, from their being made at whitsuntide and their consisting of a farthing from every householder, were also termed whitsun-farthings. From a document in the Petyt MSS. in the Inner Temple library, 48
it appears that certain of the villagers in making these payments individually at the monastery, were accustomed to repair thither in Among the oldest writs extant, 23d of Edward III. the
abbot of Evesham stands fifth in order ; and is, in after summonses, commonly distinguished, with those of Bury, St. Albans, and Waltham, by the appendage of " Exempti," indicative of their freedom from visitation by the diocesan ; and these four usually take precedence of all others of their class and order.43 This abbey from an early period claimed, as former portions
of this chapter have intimated, entire exemption from episcopal
jurisdiction. During the reign of Canute, JElfward abbot here and
at the same time bishop of London, provided that Avikin then
prior of the monastery should be constituted dean of the whole
Vale ; that this church might not again be deprived of its exemption,
as it had previously been by Adulf bishop of Worcester in the
reign of Ethelred the Unready.
M In the time of abbot Randulph
the dean also visited the churches throughout the vale as peculiars
of this abbey : he also collected therein the Peter's-pence or yearly
payment of one penny from each house to the see of Rome, called
Rome-scot by the Anglo-saxons except where they were collected
by the bishop ; and appropriated the proceeds to the expenditure of
his office, reserving the yearly payment of twenty solidi to the
pope.
45 This collection is warranted by a bull from pope Gregory,
(presumed to be Gregory VIII.) dated from the Lateran in the
fourth year of his pontificate ; such payments to be gathered from
the residents on the monastic demesne and also at Moreton and
Ombersley.
46 An opinion upon the question of a privileged peculiar
in the Vale of Evesham, prepared for Bishop Freake about
the year 1587, cites the Decretals as stating that Celestinus the
pope exempted the churches in the Vale ; but observes that as shown
by the White Book of the bishoprick the abbots of Evesham had
exercised their ecclesiastical jurisdiction partly by consent of the
43 Vide Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs, vol. i. pp. 28, 30, 32, 47, 56, 78, and 80.
44 Cottonian MS. Vespasian B xv.
45 Constitutions of Abbot Randulf, in Cottonian MS. Augustus II.
46 Ecclesiastical Documents, part ii. published by the Camden Society, 1840,
pp. 70, 71, 72.
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bishop of Worcester, for which the bishop had received from the
abbey the advowsons of Hillingdon, Kinwarton, and Weston.47 This
is authenticated by an agreement made at Fladbury, in 1242 upon
St. Katherine's day, during the abbacy of Thomas de Gloucester.
It is witnessed among others by Simon de Evesham archdeacon of
the east riding of York, and is copied by Dr. Nash (ii. 178) from
the White Book of the bishops of Worcester.
Pentecostals were formerly made from the chapelries in this
deanery to the monastery, as the mother church. These oblations,
from their being made at whitsuntide and their consisting of a farthing
from every householder, were also termed whitsun-farthings.
From a document in the Petyt MSS. in the Inner Temple library,
48
it appears that certain of the villagers in making these payments
individually at the monastery, were accustomed to repair thither in
distinct processions, carrying a cross and banners. This being done
at a period of general and boisterous festivity, rivalries and quarrels
had taken place; and in 1442 "many mutilations and even murders
" had occurred. In these tumults the inhabitants of Church-
Honeybourne had been so conspicuous, that in the above year pope
Eugenius IV. upon a petition exhibited to him, ordained that this
long-established custom of procession should cease ; but that the
usual payment from each householder to the monastery should
continue.
Of the cells, or monasteries subordinate to and governed by this
abbey, the earliest appears to have been the priory at Othenesei,
now Odensee the capital of the isle of Funen, in the Baltic. Application
having been made from that priory for instruction in the
Benedictine discipline according to the usage of Evesham abbey,
William Rufus permitted twelve monks and three clerks to remove
thither, accompanied by five moniales and three attendants ; all of
whom were to receive in their new situation the same allowance of
food and clothing as they did here.49 In 1174 the affiliation with
47 " Memorandum concerning the priviledged Peculiar in the Vale of Evesham,"
in Nash's Worcestershire, i. 422.
48 De Processione Villanorum de Honeyborne ad Evesham, copied in Nash, vol.
i. page 200.
49 Account of Robert, abbot of Evesham, in Harleian MS. 3763.
HISTORY OF EVESHAM.
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this abbey was completed ; Evesham being then, in a charter from
Waldemar I. king of Denmark, recognized as the mother church.50
The priory of Penwortham in Lancashire was confirmed as a cell
to this abbey by bull from pope Alexander III. during the twelfth
century.
51
According to bishop Tanner, Warine Bussel having in
the time of William the Norman given the church and tythes of
Penwortham, with other estates thereabout, to this abbey, the
priory was soon after erected, and Benedictine monks from Evesham
were placed therein. 52 In the Harleian cartulary this cell is
stated to have had no endowment distinct f
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