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

their own use forever, when he reserved to himself
and his successors the ordaining or assigning of
the vicarage in the church, the instituting of a
vicar presented to him by the said religious and
the assigning of a suitable portion from the
revenue and goods of the church. Afterwards, the
religious caused to present to the bp. William de
Gonaltston near Southwell (Soutwell) to the vacant
vicarage and, an inquiry having been held in the
presence of each of the parties by the bp. 's
lawful mandate concerning the property (statu) and
an estimate or the true value of the church and of
whatever revenue of the same, the bp. ordains and
assigns as follows.
(1] Each vicar in the church of Tibshelf should
have all the fruits and revenue of the church
except only for the tithes of sheaves of corn
(garbis).
[2] He should have half the land of the church,
equally divided both from the best and the
inferior, together with the headlands (cheviciis)
containing the meadow or pasture lying at the head
of the strip of ploughland (sellionum) of the said
lands.
[3] The vicar should have a certain small church-
yard (aream) of the church, containing half an
acre of land, for a house for himself.
[4] He should have also half the hay of the church
both from the headlands of the lands of the church
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