Indulgent behaviour
In November 1349, Pope Clement VI authorised an agreement that anyone who visited St George’s Chapel on the feast days of St George (23 April) or St Edward the Confessor (13 October) would have one year reduced from the time ...
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The book that almost killed a man
Perhaps the best-known among the many renowned musicians to have worked in St George’s Chapel is John Marbeck, who was associated with the Chapel for more than half of the sixteenth century. The exact date of his appointment is not ...
A case of excommunication
In the spring of 1675, the dean of Windsor, Bruno Ryves (c.1596-1677) summoned thirty men and women (presumably resident in the castle precincts) to appear before him to answer to certain allegations made against them. Their offences were not specified, ...