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

year and to demise his church at farm, provided
that the church is not deprived of due divine
services etc.
1040 4 September 1310, Lichfield. Licence to
Henry de Berleston, portionary of church of Darley
(Derleye in Pecco), to continue to serve M.
William de Prato, papal clerk, for one year and
more should M. William require his services, at
the request of M. William de Testa, archd. of Aran
(Aranen'), provided that the church meanwhile is
not deprived of due divine services etc.
1041 15 November 1310. Institution of Henry de
Derby, acolyte, in person of his proctor who has
sufficient mandate for this, to church of Aston on
Trent (Aston), vac. by resig. of John de Sandale,
the last rector, on 7 October; patrons, abbot and
cony. of St Werburgh, Chester, reserving to them
an annual pension of five marks. Ind.: archd.
(Nothing because the bp. remitted rthe feel. )
1042 17 January 1311, Eccleshall (Eccleshale).
1. Testa, general collector of papal taxes in
England, was collecting the tax of annates, the
revenue from the first fruits of vacant benefices
in England appropriated to pope Clement V for
three years in 1306. Prato assisted Testa in the
collection of annates in the province of York, see
W. E. Lunt, Financial Relations of the Papacy with
England to 1327 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1939),
pp.
487-90,621-2.
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