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G. John de Chishul, bishop of London, confirms to the nuns their church of North Weald Bassett. He makes certain detailed regulations. Date : 1275.
MSS. : Cartulary, fos. Io5r.-Io5v. : St. Paul's A., Box 41, 149o.
(The following, text is that of the original.)
a Vniuersis biSancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes littere peruenerint Iohannes miseracione diuina Lond' episcopus salutem in domino Iesu Christo
Paternarum traditionum exemplis debitum pastoralis officii persoluere cupientes, monasteria ancillarum deo degentium sub nostro regimine que calcatis curis secularibus solius sponsi celestis cui-us annulo subarrantur inherent desiderio tam competenti et regulari moderamine intendimus auctore deo disponere.
Vt ea que ad ipsarum sustentationem lu is contulit pia C fidelium C deuotio sine perturbatione possidentes quanto minus desudant in exteriorum laborioso certamine cum Martha tanto liberius totis desideriis vacare possint interiori contemplationis dulcedini cum Maria.
Cum igitur felicis recordacionis Willelmus 1 Lond' episcopus predecessor noster honestam et laudabilem conuersationem in domino religiosarum mulierum priorisse et conuentus de Clerekenewelle pietatis oculo considerans ecclesiam de Nortwelde in proprios vsus eis contulerit et eedem moniales collationem huiusmodi postmodum a summis pontificibus ac episcopis predecessoribus nostris et a d decan.o et capitulo London' procurauerint confirmari salua competenti vicaria in eadem ecclesia ordinanda sicut in autenticis e instrumentis vidimus plenius contineri : nos in tam pio opere predecessorum nostrorum vestigiis inherentes concessionem et confirmationem predictis monialibus ipsis factas de predicta ecclesia quantum in nobis est concedimus et confirmamus, meo tamen et ecclesie nostre Lond' per omnia iure saluo.
Percipient autem predicte moniales et perpetuo jure possidebunt ratione
i i i ' illam partem antiqui manerii ecclesie que vocatur Bemewyk' cum grangiis aliis edificiis et gardinis prout distiiiguitur ab alia parte quodam muro terreo ducente a media porta vsque ad stratam que est retro curiam : item duas croftas terre arrabiles propinquiores ecclesie prout fossatis et sepibus vallantur : item duas partes totius prati et pasture pertinentium ad ecclesiam : item duas partes decime garbarum cuiuscumque generis bladi ac etiam feni tocius parochie.
Et si terras aliquas de bruera vel bosco contigerit assartari in parochia predicta, percipient moniales duas partes decime bladi inde peruenientis. Similiter si terra aliqua nemus vel pratum seu alia possessio. legata vel alio modo collata fuerit indistincte prelate g ecdesie moniales predicte duas hide
partes optinebunt super statu vicarie in ecclesia predicta taxande de voluntate et expre,sso consensu predictarum priorisse et conuentus taliter ordinamus videlicet quod nos et successores nostri episcopi Lond' vicariam ipsam quotiens vacauerit ydonee persone conferemus jure nostro. Et cum sec:1es Lond' vaccauerit decanus et capitulum conferant eandern vicariam si ipsam tunc contingen t vacare.
Iam enim ipsam vicariam vacantem contulemus Ricardo de Eli presbitero qui ratione vicarie sue percipiet et perpetuo iure possidebit et successores sui vicarii similiter illam partem mansi ecclesie cum aula cameris aliis edificiis et gardinis propinquiorem cimiterio prout ab alia parte distinguntur muro terreo supradicto : item illam terciam croftam que est remociora domibus suis predictis prout sepibus [fo. 05v.] recluditur :. item terciam partem [prati] et pasture pertinentium ad ecclesiam : item terciam partem k decime garbarum cuiuscunque generis bladi et feni tocius parochie : item terciam partem decime assertorum si que fieri contigerit : item terciam partem terrarum nemorum pratoru.m vel aliarum possessionurn si que contigerint indistincte legari vel alio modo conferri ecclesie pred.icte : item omnes decimas minores oblationes obuentiones et alia omnia v-ndecunque perueniencia ratione ecclesie predicte.
Predictus vero vicarius et successores sui de portione sua soluent singulis annis monialibus predictis quatuor marcas sterlingorum ad quatuor terminos videlicet ad festum Sancti Michaelis natiuitatem domini pasche et natiuitatem Sancti Iohannis per equ,ales pordones. Si tamen vixerint vitra pascha si vero
LWilliam, i.e. of Ste. Mère Église ‘(r199/1221), see no. 30.
postquam fructus colligerint in autumpno quacumque hora decesserint ante pascha: de tribus primis terminis solummodo satisfacere teneantur et futurus vicarius satisfaciet pro vltimo termino sequente.
Inuenient etiam vicarii suis sumptibus libros calices vestimenta et alia omamenta ecdesie et sustentabunt vnam lampadem ardenjtem in ecclesia qui pro tribus croftis predictis solebat sustentari et per sufficientes et idoneos ministros facient eidem ecdesie deseruiri.
Alla vero omnia et ordinaria et extraordinaria predicte moniales et vicarii sustinebunt pro rata suarum procionum.
Ordinamus etiam quod. moniales a prestatione decimarum de terris n pratis et pasturis illarum porcionum contingentibus sint immunes et vicarii similiter de contingentibus porcionem suam.
Et vt predictarum monialium indempnitati caueamus ne illarum laudanda simplicitas eis futuris temporibus sit dampnosa statuimus quod singuli quibus nos et successores nostri dictam vicariam conferemus antequam immittantur ° in ipsius collate sibi vicarie corporalem possessionem prestent monialibus predictis in capitulo suo apud Clerekenewelle iuramentum sicut fecit Ricardus suprascriptus quod predictas quatuor marcas annuas eis soluent terminis constitutis et quod nichil eorum que ad- ipsas moniales pertinent per ordinationem predictam aliquatenus vsurpabunt.
Vt autem premissa omnia perpetue firmitatis robur optineant presentes litteras quadripartitas in modum cirographi q confectas quarum vna pars penes nos alia penes moniales predictas tercia penes decanum et capitulum nostrum London' et quarta penes vicarium et successores suos remanebunt fieri fecimus et nostri et predictarurn priorisse et conuentus sigillorum impressionibus comuniri.
[Hiis testibus. Domino Herueo de Horham decano Lond'. Magistris Willelmo de Middelton offic' cur' Cantuar' et Radulfo de Iuingho offic' Lond'. Iohanne de Sancta Maria. Radu/fo de Baudak', Roberto de Dreiton', canonicis Lond'. Dominis Rogero de Westthorp' et Iohanne de Waleton' capellanis et aliis.
Dat' apud Stebbenh' non' Iulij. Anno gratie mocco septuagesimo quinto et pontificatus nostri anno secundo.]
The first and third lines of the folio are blank ; on the second line Vniuersis Sancte matris ecclesie filiis, erased.
6 Darker ink. ° Reversed St. Paul's deed.
d After a, Cart. has i dotted for deletion. autenticiis Cart.
f Note spelling. huius modi added in St. Paul's deed.
g i dotted for deletion after prefate, Cart. h idonee St. Paul's deed.
i One c St. Paul's deed. J cameriis Cart.
After partem, Cart. has pl. which Mr. Charles Johnson thinks is meant to be omitted. assartorum St. Paul's deed. m contigerit Cart.
n ternis Cart. ° One in in St. Paul's deed.
I' Final e indicated by an abbreviation sign, St. Paul's deed.
cirograffi St. Paul's deed.
r From Hiis testibus to the end omitted in Cart.
NOTE: the ' third part' of this quadripartite agreement, said to have been with the dean and chapter of St. Paul's in line 79, is still with them ; Dean and chapter of . St. Paul's, A. Box 41, 1490, calendared in Ninth Report, p. vb.
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seals each attached to strips passing through two slits each. The strips for two survive and the one in the centre of the bottom of the deed still bears the seal of the nunnery. Red wax, 7 cm. long vesica shaped. The edges are chipped, the original width being perhaps 5.3 cm. An enthroned virgin, the child between her knees, both haloed, in her hand a fleur-de-lys inclined towards the 'head, upon a stem emanating from an orb. The child grasps a staff with a cross at the top in the dexter hand. The sinister arm, bent towards the elbow, holds what appears to be a book resting on the knee. There is a counter seal 4.4 x 4.6 cm. A virgin and child in a cusped vesicas, the lower portion obscured by a circular compartment containing a demi-figure robed and veiled, apparently kneeling, the head facing the dexter and hands clasped in prayer.
The large seal bears the legend on the dexter side, MARIE CLERICORUM, the other side being badly chipped iway. The counter-seal bears the legend
PRIORISSE DE CLERKENWELL' op (The same conventual seal occurs as early as Ermengarde at St. Bartholomew's hospital and as late as 9 Henry VI; P.R.O., Ancient Deed B. 7983. For examples : in green wax, see deeds of prioress Alice (at St. Bartholomew's hospital) and of prioress Hawis (no. 34ô): in white wax, deed of prioress Cecilia (St. Paul's A. Box 15,178) : and red wax in 1275 (above) and in 1377 (Harl. chart. 53. H. 15). See Brit. Mus., Cat. of Seals, i. 512, and illustrations in Pinks, History of Clerhenwell, p. 31, and Storer and Cromwell, History of Clerhenwell, p. 31. The counter-seal is found on prioress Alice's deed.) |