Close Rolls, Edward I: 1287

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: 1287', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288, (London, 1902) pp. 521-522. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol2/pp521-522 [accessed 24 April 2024]

1287

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Enrolment of grant by Alan, prior of Bykenacre, and the convent of the same to John son of Hugh de Swanesheth of victuals for life in their house of Bykenacre befitting a clerk, in food, clothing and shoe-leather, to wit a suitable robe of colour yearly, and when John shall go to the university (scolas) they shall pay him 10d. a week for his commons (ad communem suam), and when he shall return from the university to dwell with them, they shall find him necessaries as above. John shall serve them and their successors humbly and faithfully without murmur or unbefitting contradiction, so long as he shall remain in secular habit or until he take the habit of religion (dum tamen in seculari abitu vel abitum religionis per Dei graciam assumpserit). For the observance of these things the prior and convent submit themselves to the coercion or jurisdiction of any judge of ecclesiastic or civil law. Dated at Bykenacre, on Friday in Easter week, 1286, 14 Edward.
Memorandum, that the prior came into chancery at Westminster, on 21 November, and acknowledged the premises.
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