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

Ralph de Sandford, William Herward, Richard de
Wottenhull, William Gamel, William de Colton and
others.
803 24 August 1311, York. Grant to M. Geoffrey de
Blaston, canon of Lichfield church, for the whole
of his life of that house within Lichfield Close
which M. Walter de Clipston, the bp. 's nephew,
formerly held, together with an upper-room and
cellar which the bp. has recently begun to build,
and also an upper-room and a lower cellar, a
kitchen and a bakery, provided that he will cause
the rooms to be made good at his expense within
four or five years at the latest, otherwise the
grant will be void.
COLLACIO DOMUUM1 IN CLAUSO LICH'. Pateat universis
quod nos W[alterus] permissione divina Coventr' et
Lich' episcopus dedimus et concessimus dilecto
nobis in Christo magistro Galfrido de Blaston,
canonico ecclesie nostre Lich', ad totam vitam
suam, aulam illam infra clausum nostrum Lich' que
quondam fuit magistri Walteri de Clipston, nepotis
nostri, una cum solario et celario inferiori
capite illius aule situatis que nuper de novo
edificare incepimus, ac eciam solarium et celarium
ad cupud inferius dicte aule, necnon coquina et
pistrina infra idem mansum existentes. Ita tarnen
quod idem magister Galfridus predictas domos suis
sumptibus infra quadriennium vel quinquennium ad
ultimum a tempore date presencium reparari faciat
sicut decet. Si autem infra idem tempus hoc facere
neglexerit volumus quod ex tunc habeat nostra
1. Sic for domum.
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