'God is in none land so well served': Placing the late medieval English parish
'To be showed and declared': Circumstances and sources
'According to the usage there': Reading testamentary evidence
'Since his decease': The widows' might
'God amend them': The parish wronged
'In possession for the profit of the church': Securing commemoration in the parish
'For all future time': The Halleways' Chantry
'He procured, moved and stirred': Clergy as mentors
'Well willed men': Leaders, managers and parishioners
'Was but single and no thing of beauty': Enhancing the parish church
'To the laud and the loving of Almighty God': Increasing divine service in All Saints'
Conclusion: 'What else, I ask you, is a city than a great monastery?'
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Dr CLIVE BURGESS held a Senior Lectureship in late medieval history at Royal Holloway, University of London.