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

St Barnabas the Apostle (10 June] 1315, enjoining
that each part should be observed strictly. In his
visitation of the monastery of Haughmond (Hagh')
the bp. granted the retirement of the abbot Br.
Gilbert de Caumpedene and an ordinance of
provision for his sustenance. The bp. has
committed the ordinance or provision for the
sustenance of Br. Gilbert to M. John Popard, bp. 's
clerk, and M. John has published this in writing
as follows.
[1] Br. Gilbert should have that room which he had
before;
(2] sustenance in food and drink from the commons,
just as for two canons in the refectory, one canon
serving to him, just as for one canon in the
refectory, and two servants serving to him with
bread and ale from the cellar, just as for two
servants of the abbot, provided that certain
leftovers (residuum) are given for alms.
[3] The abbot and cony. henceforth should have
their church of Cheswardinel (Chestwarthyn) which
they are disputing (dispuant)2, notwithstanding
the said ordinance etc.
(4] Br. Gilbert should receive annually from the
1. See no. 984 for the bp. 's confirmation of the
grant of this church; see also The Cartulary of
Haughmond Abbey, ed U. Rees (Shropshire
Archaeological Society and University of Wales,
Cardiff, 1985), nos. 223,452.
2. Sic for disputant.
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