by Jill Blackwell Hughes, BA Thesis submitted to the University of ...

Licence to John de Weston to build an oratory and
to have divine service celebrated there for three
years.
475 5 February 1302, Lichfield. M. Thomas de
Abberbur', vicar-general, sealed thirteen charters
delivered to him by William de Brikhull,
seneschal, containing sixteen acres and one and a
half roods of land given to diverse men in
exchange for lands which the bp. had from them in
his park of Beaudesert.
476 6 April 1302, Lichfield. Ordination by M.
Thomas de Abberbur', vicar-general, of the
vicarage of the parish church of Castleton in the
Peak, appropriated to the abbot and cony. of Vale
Royal who have presented William Notekyn, priest,
to the vicarage, canonically ordained by the bp.
Following an inquiry made by neighbouring rectors
and vicars and by trustworthy men concerning the
true value of the portion, the revenue of the
church and the charges incumbent upon the vicar
and his vicarage, the vicar-general, in the
presence of the religious and the presented,
ordains as follows.
[1] The religious and their successors should have
half of the house which the rector had, that in
which the granary is situated, with the usage and
profits of the moiety.
(2) The religious and their successors should also
have the mortuary animals and the tithes of corn
of all the parochial lands then cultivated, of hay
of all the parishoners, of the mine, of foals from
the king's stud and of the king's water mill.
[3] Because the vicar is bound to reside, he and
his successors should have the other half of the
rector's house, together with the demesne land and
park of the church and, because the exercising of
hospitality is expensive where the church is
situated, where there are many poor wastes and
woods, the vicar is to have the tithes of lambs,
wool, milk and other small tithes, the revenue,
oblations and proceeds of the church except the
tithes and revenue assigned to the religious.
[4] The religious are to serve, and cause to be
served, the church of Castleton notwithstanding
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