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

[12] The monks should be recalled to the convent
from the manors, and the manors should be placed
in the keeping of others who are faithful,
willing, and able to attend to cultivation.
[13] In accordance with an old agreement, the
abbot should give, or cause to be given, £4 10s.
to the kitchen for the monks at Hilbre Island and
Saighton.
(14) The prior, and future priors, should remain
in the convent according to the rule.
[15] The prior should not hunt beasts in the
forests.
[16] The prior should not use a bow and arrows but
should direct his attention to religion.
[17] The prior and his fellow monks should dress
according to the regulations of the order and the
rule.
[18] The prior should eat with his brothers in the
refectory and keep both meat days and fish days.
[19] Silence should be observed.
[20] The brothers should not eat and drink outside
the refectory or other place when they eat, but
the food that remains after dinner should be
turned into alms.
[21] Certain legal books, or an estimate of their
value, bought by the abbot with money from the
house should be returned to the monastery.
[22] After collation the brothers should not
engage in secret feasting and drinking but should
go to compline.
[23] Br. Matthew de Pentyn, Br. Geoffrey de
Bosdoun and Br. John de Gilbesmeire, by whose
insolence and malice the peace and tranquillity of
the brothers had been disturbed, should be
transferred to other houses until the bp. thinks
fit to ordain; Pentyn to Coventry, Bosdon to
Shrewsbury, Gilbesmere to Hilbre Island.
[24] Br. Robert de Markynton should be recalled to
the house and remain in the convent.
[25] Br. Robert Mareschall, who several times
meddled in surgery, or any other monk, should not
involve himself in works of that art except
through charity to relieve a sick pauper and then,
regarding wounds, by no means should he be allowed
to make incisions.
DECRETUM VISITACIONIS ABBATHIE CESTR'. Walterus
permissione divina Coventr' et Lich' episcopus
dilectis filiis abbati et conventui monasterii
Sancte Werburge Cestr' nostre diocesis salutem
graciam et benedictionem. Nuper kalendis Decembris
anno Domini M° CCC xv ad monasterium vestrum causa
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