LITERE CANTUARIENSES. wwwww (1375.) 944.-PETITIO CAPITULI DOMINO EDWARDO TERCIO DE Reg. B. REDDITU TRESDECIM MARCARUM DE HIBERNIA. 303. Petition from the Chapter of Church to the King asking to be allowed to receive the Irish rent notwithstanding the ordinance against 1 A nostre Seignur le Roy et a son bon Conseil supplient ses chapellayns le Priour et Covent de Cristcherche de Cantirbirs; qe come ils aient un annuel enpension de trezze marcz, a prendre annuelment de le Abbe et Covent de Voto en Irland, par cause des fruictes, oblacions, et obvencions, qe un Nichole, en ascun temps Priour du dit Esglise de Cantirbirs, par assent de son Covent, dona et granta a dit Abbe et Covent des dismes queux il avoit de diverces esglises en Irland, rendant annuelment a dit absentees. Priour et Covent et a lour successours les avauntditz trezze marcz, a paier a la Nativite de Nostre Dame; et ore tard, par cause dun estatut fait a parlement tenuz a Geldeford, les pocessions queux gent demoerant en Engleterre avoient en Irland furent seisis en la mayn nostre Seignur le Roy, pur ce qe ils ne firent mye lour contribucion en defence de la terre nostre Seignur le Roy illoeqes; qe plese pur lamour de Dieu et de Seynt Thomas le Martyr, et en oevre de charite, granter bref a les Justices et gardeyns de Irland, pur deliverer le dit enpension a dyt Priour et Covent; depuis qil est espirituel, et ne mye seisable, come chose temporel, par la ley. 1 les, MS. 2 As there is no record of a Parliament held at Guildford at this time, it is probable that the statute was of the nature of an order in Council. The King in his reply describes it as an ordinatio not as a statutum. 944. To our Lord the King and his worthy Council his chaplains the Prior and Convent of Christ Church, Canterbury pray; that whereas they own an annual pension of thirteen marks, to be annually received from the Abbot and Convent De Voto in Ireland, in consideration of the profits, oblations, and sundry receipts, which one Nicholas, aforetime Prior of the said Church of Canterbury, with the assent of his Convent, gave and granted to the said Abbot and Convent from the tithes which they owned, accruing from several churches in Ireland, for an annual payment to the said Prior and Convent and their successors of the said thirteen marks, to be paid at the Nativity of Our Lady; and now lately, by reason of a statute made in the parliament held at Guildford, the possessions which people dwelling in England owned in Ireland were seized into the King's hand, because they did not contribute to the defence of the land of our Lord the King there; may it please him for love of God and Saint Thomas the Martyr, and by way of charity, to issue a writ to the Justices and Custodians of Ireland, so that they may deliver the said pension to the said Prior and Convent; since it is a spiritual matter, and in no way, as a temporal estate, liable to forfeiture by the law. Apr. Cart. Ant. Rules for is the In vent. 945.-ORDINACIO DE MONACHIS INFIRMIS. Hæc est ordinacio facta in Scaccario, mense Aprili anno Domini MCCCLXXVJto, post visitacionem [revetenance of rendi] in Christo patris et domini Domini Simonis sick monks permissione divina Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi; videfirmary of licet, in præsencia Domini Stephani Prioris, per Fratres the Con- infrascriptos. Per Fratrem Johannem Godniston tunc Suppriorem, Willelmum Eythorne, Johannem Guston, Willelmum Richemund, Ricardum Hatfeld, Johannem Molessch, Johannem Bydynden, Johannem Gloucestre, Willelmum de Dovoria, et Willelmum Woghope. Isti decem Fratres nominati fuerunt, in præsencia dicti Domini Prioris, a senioribus et sanioribus de Conventu ad correcionem infrascriptorum. Qui ordinarunt, quod quilibet Frater de Conventu claustralis, actualiter infirmus, de licencia Supprioris occupans cameram in Infirmaria, recipiet et habebit de Custode Anniversariorum, pro cibariis emendis et pitanciis suis, diebus carnium, quolibet die quatuor denarios et unum ferculum de liberacione Celerarii, cum pane et cerevisia, sicut moris est. Et cum ad mensam sedere poterit cum aliis fratribus, per licenciam Supprioris et aliorum præsidencium,' confratres secum habebit, sicut moris est ab antiquo; nec septa Infirmariæ publice transibit, nec frocco, sed tantum cuculla, exterius uti debet, nisi prius in Conventu ad primam fuerit, prout consuetudinis esse dinoscitur. Et notandum est, quod tres lavendarii et balnearius, quando necesse fuerit, custodient dictos Fratres in cameris, et ministrabunt eis per diem et noctem, sicut antea fieri solet; et si isti minus sufficiant pro custodia fratrum prædictorum tunc Supprior qui pro tempore fuerit de aliis custodibus providebit ; vel si aliquis dictorum Fratrum infirmorum scolarem habeat in elemosinaria, per discrecionem Supprioris et Elemosinarii, dicto Fratri infirmo ministrare debet; qui vero nullum scolarem habuerit in elemosinaria, habere debet unum scolarem positum |