Lionel's Death and Burial 93 



mediseval chronicler of IMontferrat, confirms the statement of 

 Capgrave. What is certain is that the whole, or some part, 

 of his body was buried at Clare before 1377, for on Sept. 12 of 

 that year the prior of Clare and brother Robert of the same 

 monastery come to an agreement respecting the sum of ten 

 marks, to be paid by the said Robert in satisfaction of the 

 expenses^* incurred for the funeral of Lionel.^^ Moreover, we 

 have the testimony of a manuscript, in English and Latin, for- 

 merly belonging to Augustine Vincent (i584?-i626), and quoted 

 by John Weever (1576-1632) in his Ancient Fmierall Monu- 

 ments (folio, 1631). This manuscript, or its prototype, was 

 written in the lifetime of Richard, Duke of York,^'' father of 



"The Vict. Hist, of Suffolk says (2. 128) : 'The sum of ten marks was 



paid to the prior and brethren, in the chapter house, on 12 September, 1377, 



for their share in the funeral expenses.' 

 ^° The instrument, from the Registrum Chartarum ]\Ionasterii Heremi- 



tarum S. Augustini de Clare, follows from Had. MS. 4835, fol. 42^ last 



paragraph, with contractions expanded : 



'Hec indentura testatur judicium et finalem concordiam inter priorem 

 conventus Clare, ordinis Sancti Augustini, ex una parte, et fratrem 

 Robertum de Clare, ejusdem ordinis et conventus, ex alia parte, de 

 expensis factis per predictum fratrem Robertum circa funeralia nobilis 

 domini Domini Leonelli quondam Ducis Clarence — quod a die confec- 

 tionis presentium predictus conventus assignabit fratrem vel fratres 

 ad satisfaciendum per missas, seu alia divina obsequia, pro X marcis 

 per predictum Robertum providendis, quas sibi removebunt pro com- 

 pleta solucione pro expensis omnibus omnibus [sic] circa predicta 

 funeralia factis aprius [MS. ap'us] usque ad diem confectionis 

 presentium ; unde se prefectus predicti conventus adquietat, et se 

 obligat omnibus et singulis personis extra conventum predictum degen- 

 tibus satisfacturum ad rationem expensarum supradicti funeris vindi- 

 cantibus. Predictus vero conventus, ex altera parte, istam conditionem 

 sibi promittit adimplere, ac eum adquietat de omnibus receptibus 

 ratione et nomine predictorum funeralium aprius [MS. ap'us] usque 

 ad diem confectionis presentium. Ilia vero concordia judicialis fuit 

 comprobata per fratrem Johannem Ergom, Sancti Thome doctorem 

 permissorium ordinis et provincie, commissarium fratris Henrici, 

 prioris provincialis ejusdem ordinis et provincie, in banc causam 

 specialiter deputatos [-um?], anno Domini M.CCC.LXXVII, die xii 

 mensis Septembris, in loco capitulari conventus supradicti. Tn 

 quorum omnium testimonium sigilla predicti commissarii, ac supradicti 

 conventus, et fratris Roberti, huic indenture alternata sunt apposita.' 

 ^* Prominent in the Shakespearian 2 and 3 Henry VI. 



