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

himself with the portions written below and that
he should never seek another portion or further
augmentation.
[1] The vicar will receive for his lifetime all
the alterage, and whatsoever pertaining to the
alterage, on the assignment of his portion and
vicarage, except from the tithe of wool and of
lambs and the money from the same, and except from
the mortuary payment arising from the two lords of
Grandborough if it should be a horse or arms; [Fo.
80] if, however, it should be another animal it
should pertain to the vicar.
[2] The vicar will retain also the houses,
buildings, curtilage and croft which he or his
predecessors have had previously, and three strips
of ploughland above 'Madewell', one strip of
ploughland above 'Bauedich', four strips of
ploughland next to 'Smalebrok', two roods of
meadow under Sawbridge, four roods of meadow next
to 'Schirrindale' towards Kites Hardwick, and one
cartload of hay from the same meadow to be
received from the hay for tithes which the vicar
and his predecessors were accustomed to receive.
However, from the tithe of sheaves which the vicar
and his predecessors previously received and from
the hay or other for tithes in the said parish the
vicar will receive nothing over and above the hay
previously granted to him, but the aforesaid
religious will receive wholly all the tithes of
sheaves of corn and hay. The vicar, however,
should receive for his lifetime the tithes from
the cultivated curtilage and 6s. 6d. from the men
of Caldecote for all the tithes of his meadowland
for horses and of headlands in Caldecote.
[3] The vicar also will provide a suitable deacon
to reside continuously, whom the religious were
accustomed to provide, and the vicar will receive
from the religious annually on 25 December one
quarter of corn and all the tithes of all the
mills in the said parish for the support of one
deacon.
[4] The prior and cony., however, will pay the
procurations and synodalia of the archd.
Lest the premisses are disputed both by the
religious and by the vicar, who pledged to observe
the premisses on corporal oath, and
notwithstanding that both parties affixed their
seals to the memorandum they procured for
everlasting time, and the seal of M. W[alter] de
Thorp, the bp. 's official, is affixed to the same,
the bp., observing the portion noted above, with
the resources of the church and the canonical
agreement considered, and for the incumbent
burdens to be supported to have been and to be
adequate and accepted and approved as such by all
the vicars existing afterwards in the same place
without challenge or additional demand, just as
the inquiry, made with the bp. 's authority by the
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