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reduced to beggary, had not the Bishop of Winchester interposed 
in his favour, and with great humanity insisted on a provision for 
him for life. The reason for this difference seems to have been, 
that, in the first case, though in years, he might have been hale and 
capable of taking his share in the duty of the convent: in the 
second, he was broken with age, and no longer equal to the 
tunctions of a canon. 
Impressed with this idea, the bishop very benevolently interceded 
in his favour, and laid his injunctions on the new-elected prior in 
the following manner. 
Fol. 56. “In Dei nomine Amen. Nos Willmus, &c., consider- 
antes Petrum Berne,” late prior, “in administratione spiritualium 
et temporalium prioratus laudabiliter vixisse et rexisse ; ipsumque 
senio et corporis debilitate confractum ; ne in opprobrium religionis 
mendicaré cogatur ;—eidem annuam pensionem a Domino Johanne 
LEADEN TAP. 
Sharpe, alias Glastonbury, priore moderno,” and his successors, 
and, from the priory or church, to be payed every year during his 
life, “‘ de voluntate et ex consensu expressis’’ of the said John 
Sharpe “sub ea que sequitur forma verborum—assignamus :” 
ist. That the said prior and his successors, for the time being, 
honeste exhibebunt of the fruits and profits of the priorship, “eidem 
esculenta et poculenta,” while he remained in the priory “sub 
consimili portione eorundem prout convenientur priori,” for the 
time being, mnistrari contigerit; and in like manner uni famuzlo, 
whom he should choose to wait on him, as to the servientibus of 
the prior. 
Item. ‘‘Invenient seu exhibebunt eidem unam honestam 
cameram,” in the priory, “cum socalibus necessariis seu oppor- 
tunis ad eundem.”’ 
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