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Nov. 2.
Westminster. |
Henry de Bikton, parson of Long Aldryngton church, diocese of
Chichester, and Robert de Bikton, clerk, acknowledge that they owe to
Adam de Hilton, clerk, 12 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of
their lands and chattels and Henry's ecclesiastical goods in Sussex. |
Nov. 3.
Westminster. |
Robert de Shepeye of Whateleye acknowledges that he owes to John
Mareys 40l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels
in the county of Warwick. |
Dec. 29.
Westminster. |
The prior of St. Bartholomew, Smythfeld, London, and Jordan de
Barton acknowledge that they owe to Richard de Thoresby, clerk, 40 marks;
to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels and the prior's
ecclesiastical goods in Middlesex. |
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Membrane 2d. |
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Enrolment of indenture made between Sir John de Lile, lord of
Rougemount, and the prior and convent of Bolton in Craven testifying that
John has undertaken to give and to have appropriated the church of
Harewod, as well of the right of patronage as of the profit and possession
thereof, to the prior and convent in frank almoin, and he will pursue at his
costs the said gift and appropriation at the court of Rome and at the king's
court and everywhere else according to the law of holy church and of
the land, and in right of the process or execution to be made upon
the writ ad quod dampnum or other writ of the king touching the
appropriation of the prior and convent, will bear the entire costs, if any, and
John will bear the travail and pursuit in the matter; and for this the prior
and convent grant that as soon as the church is duly appropriated to them
and the bulls, process, charters thereupon delivered to them, they shall
be charged by oath of the prior and convent in verbo sacerdocii to find six
chaplains to be the vicar of the church, to chant in the church for the souls
for whom they are charged to do so by John or his heirs, according to the
conditions arranged between them, of which chaplains two shall be canons
of the house of Bolton or other seculars (sic), as shall be ordained by the bull,
who shall be discharged of every charge of the chantry except for the souls
for which it is made, and the others shall be seculars, and John will use
his power, without regard to the reasonable costs, that one of the canons of
the said house shall be vicar there, presentable by the prior, and that
his portion shall be made as small as is proper and by the same manner a
secular vicar if there cannot be a canon there; and after the church has been
duly appropriated to them the prior and convent agree to begin the chantry
of six chaplains in the church at Martinmas or Whitsuntide following,
according to the induction and possession; and they grant that when the
chantry is begun and any of the secular chaplains is dead or his place void
by other cause, John or his heirs shall present another in his place to the
prior and convent within three weeks, and if John or his heirs wish to
present another able chaplain in his place within three weeks, he shall be
received by the prior and convent as another, and this shall be done after
every voidance of the chaplains, and if John or his heirs do not present a
chaplain within the three weeks, then the prior shall put another chaplain
within a fortnight to make the said chantry, if he can find an honest
secular chaplain, and if he cannot do so in the time, he shall find a canon
of his house to chant at Harewod until he find a secular chaplain within a
quarter of the following year, and three weeks after the death or voidance
of any chaplain a canon shall chant in his place in the priory if the other
chaplain is ordained to chant in the church of Harewode, and the chaplains
shall be removeable at the wish of the prior, for any reasonable cause, and
the canon who chants in the place of the secular chaplain shall be discharged
of every other chantry for that time; and for this John grants that if the
prior and convent are charged by the bull of appropriation to find the said
six chaplains, they shall not be charged by this indenture to find several
chaplains or others in that chantry but only the six; and because John
wishes the chantry to be duly begun for the profit of the souls to which he
is bound, he agrees to give and have appropriated 40l. of land by extent
which will be worth 50l. yearly in common years, if he is able, to the prior
and convent, as aforesaid, until the appropriation of the church is made
and the prior and convent are in possession thereof, and they grant that
when they are in seisin of the said land they will find seven chaplains of
their fellow canons, discharged of every other chantry except for the said
souls, in their church of Bolton, and after they have possession of the said
church until the Whitsuntide or Martinmas after they are instituted
therein, in case they are not charged with the six chaplains by the bull, that
the chantry of seven chaplains shall begin at Bolton within a fortnight after
the prior and convent have been put in possession of the said land, to wit
after they have had the profit thereof for half a year; and if after the agreements have been in force the aforesaid gift and appropriation are repealed
and undone by force of law of holy church or by law of the land at the suit of a
party or in any other manner by action tried, so that there is no fault, fraud
or collusion in the prior that he does not advance the defence which he may
by law, whereby the prior and convent are deprived of the land or the
appropriation of the church, then the chantry shall cease and the prior and
convent shall be discharged thereof, and they grant, to make the chantry
perpetual, an annuity of 100l. to John to be received from certain lands
which he shall name, by defeasance, that if the chantry is made and
maintained according to the agreement the said annuity shall remain in
suspense; and if the chantry cease for a month, unless by destruction of
common war or by pestilence, or the land or advowson are recovered and
the appropriation undone by judgment as aforesaid, then the annuity shall
remain in force until the chantry is begun again; and if the parish of
Harewode is destroyed by pestilence or common war, whereby the church
does not suffice to bear the charge of the chantry, the prior shall not
be charged with the chantry for three quarters of the following year,
so that the chantry shall then be begun again, and if the prior is enfeoffed
in the land as aforesaid he shall release the arrears of the land to John for
a term of forty years, at a rent of 40l. to him yearly on condition that if
the rent is in arrear at any term the prior may re-enter the lands and
retain them until he is satisfied for the arrears and his damages, and if
John die within the term of forty years the prior shall re-enter the lands
and hold them until John's heirs, at their costs, have appropriated the
church to this prior to hold as aforesaid, and if the prior does not make the
said release, then the annuity of 100l. shall remain in force, and when the
church is appropriated to the prior and convent John may re-enter the
said lands. Dated at Bolton in Craven on Thursday before St. Leonard,
26 Edward III. French. |
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In the matter of the ordinance of the chantry John's will is that the
chaplains shall chant their masses placebo, dirige, commendacio and other
offices which pertain especially to the dead for the soul of Sir Robert de
Lile, John's father, and for the souls of Margaret, John's mother, John
Peverel and the brothers and sisters of John Lile, and that each of the
chaplains shall say a special collect every day in his mass for the salvation
of Sir John and of his wife and children, and after their deaths that they
shall chant for their souls and for the souls of Thomas and Isabel the father
and mother of Robert de Harton, prior of Bolton, and for James de Grancete
and for all Christian souls. French. |
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Enrolment of grant by John de Insula, lord of Rougemont (de Rubeo
Monte), to the prior and convent of Boulton in Craven of an acre of land
called 'Snaghyngbusk' in Harewod and the advowson of the church of
that town, to hold in frank almoin. Dated at Harewod on the feast of
St. Leonard, 26 Edward III. |
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Enrolment of deed testifying that although the prior and convent of
Bolton in Craven have granted to John de Insula, lord of Rougemont, a
yearly rent to be received of their lands in Roudon, Wygdon, Brandon,
Kildewyk, Halton, Emmeseye, Estby, Apeltrewyk, Malghom, Penyesthorp
and Holmton, as is fully contained in a deed made thereupon, John grants
that if the prior and convent maintain a chantry of six chaplains in
Harewod church or of seven chaplains in their church of Bolton and
observe all the other things agreed upon, or if John does not observe the
said agreements on his part, as contained in an indenture made thereupon,
the said rent shall cease until the prior and convent make any default in
executing the agreements. Dated at Bolton on Wednesday after St.
Leonard, 26 Edward III. |
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Memorandum that John came into chancery at London on 8 November
and acknowledged the preceding deeds and charter. |
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Enrolment of grant by Richard Moyne of Northampton, chaplain, to
Henry Grene the younger of a messuage, a cottage, 1½ virgates of land with
the meadows and pastures adjacent in Little Brampton, all which tenements
Walter Broun and Isabel his wife hold for life of Richard's demise, at
a yearly rent to him of 20s. and making the customary services to the
chief lords, as appears by an indenture made thereupon, to hold the
premises after the death of Walter and Isabel together with a rent of 20s.
and the services aforesaid during their lives. Witnesses: Sir George de
Lungevill, knight, Sir William de Byfeld, Sir William de Luffewyk, William
de Braundeston, John de Berughby. Dated at London on Saturday the
eve of Martinmas, 26 Edward III. |
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Memorandum that Richard came into chancery at London on the said
Saturday and acknowledged the preceding deed. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
Peter de Brewosa, knight, acknowledges that he owes to John Brocas,
knight, 400 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in the county of Hertford. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
Nov. 14.
Westminster. |
Walter de Mauny, knight, acknowledges that he owes to John de Sancto
Philberto, knight, 3,000l.; to be levied etc. in Norfolk. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
