143 



Et de ij'. de decasu unius libere firme in Bekfeld pro quatuor 

 annis per annum vj**. de Priore de Markby ^ in comitatu Lyncoln 

 quia non soluti pro xx annis et ultra. 



RowMBRUGHT. Et de vj'. viij**. de decasu Celle de Rowm- 

 brught pro vino in die Pentecostes.^ 



Summa patet. 



Et de xx". de decasu unius pencionis ecclesie de Myddleton 

 Tyas pro vino in quarto die infra octavas assumpcionis Beate 

 Mare (sic) viz. pro anno vj°., vij°. et ix°. quia male est dispositus^ 

 et non vult solvere. 



Et de ij'. de decasu per personam Poille/ qui solebat dare pro 

 pane de lez mayne in quarto die infra octavas assumpcionis 

 Beate Marie et nunc denegat. 



Et de xx'. solutis Domino Abbati in modum subsidii ad 



pinciones^ magni altaris. 



Summa xlij'. 



Summa omnium bxpensarum et allocacionum, vjiiij''. j**. ob. 



Et sic debet super hunc compotum, xij'. v"*. 



1 Near Alford. Here was a Priory of Augustiniaii Canons, founded by Ealph 

 Fitz GUbert to the honour of St. Peter, about the end of the xith century. The 

 Prior appears to have held a farm in Bekfeld in Lincolnshire under the Abbot of 

 St. Mary's, and to have been a bad tenant. 



* This, which was probably a customary payment, had not been received by the 

 accountant in consequence of the suppression of the Priory in the preceding year. 

 Eomburgh was one of five of the smaller monasteries, for the suppression of which 

 Cardinal "Wolsey obtained a grant from Pope Clement VII., in order to found a 

 College at Oxford, and another at Ipswich. The Bull of the Pope is dated Prid Id. 

 Mail, (the 14th of May,) 1528 ; and on the 11th of September following, the officers 

 of the Cardinal took possession of the Priory. On the 20th of that month, the 

 Abbot of St. Mary's, Edmund Whalley, addressed a letter to the Cardinal, deprecating 

 the suppression of the Priory which had been granted to the Abbey by one of its 

 earliest founders and benefactors ; entreating that "yt might consiste and abyde as 

 a mcmbre to oiu-e monastery, as yt haith done this thre hundred yeres and more," 

 and oflfering, if his suit were granted, three himdrcd "markes sterlinge" towards 

 the erection and fovmdation of the intended college at Ipswich. But his grace's 

 "most bownden bedeman" sued in vain. — See ^Letters relating to the Suppression 

 of Monasteries,' published by the Camden Society. 



' This ill-disposed person was the Vicar. Sec p. 126. 



* The parson of one of the churches belonging to the monastery. 



* The word is uncertain, being very badly written ; if it be thus rightly 

 represeated, it denotes, probably, some ornamental paintings. 



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