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

64 October 1298, Acomb (Acum). Presentation of
Alexander de Wylghton to vicarage of parish church
of Hartingdon (Hertingdon), canonically ordained,
by abbess and cony. of Blessed Mary the Virgin
[the Minories] without the walls of London
(Aldgate], of the order of St Clare.
' He has a
certain letter directed to the archd. of Coventry
and M. Walter de Thorp that he should be
instituted to same vicarage. (Derby. Nothing [for
the feel because he is poor. )
74 October 1298, York. Letter to John de
Whalleye, priest, addressed to the dean of
Warrington (Wermingham) and Robert, rector of
Standish (Standissh), that he should be inducted
in vicarage of parish church of Whalley
(Whalleye); patrons, abbot and cony. of Whalley
(Whalleye). (Chester. He paid half a mark. )
8 15 October 1298, York. Grant, in commendam, to
Eudes de Derb' of church of Heanor (Henore) for
half a year. 2 (The bp. relaxed the half mark. )
1. VCH, London, i, p. 516.
2. A benefice could be held in commendam for six
months only and the recipient had to be a priest
under the constitution of pope Gregory X, Council
of Lyons, 1274, clause fourteen, see Sext.
Decret., Book I, 6,15; Churchill, Canterbury
Admin., i, p. 114, n. 2.
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