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you and us, the felicity of eternal life.” Then, as this noble 
man (saw) their hearts and the devices of their hearts were 
honest, and inspired by God, fitly yielding gladly to their just 
and honest petitions, he caused William de Grendon, clerk, the 
son of his sister and Lord of Ockbrook, to be summoned to him, 
and said to him—‘I propose to found a certain house of the 
Premonstratensian Order, by the counsel of my friends, in my 
park of Stanley, to which is immediately adjacent that ancient 
place of Depedale, of which you are patron, where also there has 
flourished successively a congregation of divers religious men, 
who all, intolerable poverty assailing—nay, rather driving them— 
have left the place desolate; and I feel sure you may be 
willing to bestow the place on my new foundation, so that 
between me and you we shall provide, out of our lands and 
other posesssions and goods granted to us by God (if God 
lengthen my life), that no necessity may from henceforth 
compel to beg or to change their abode the religious men 
to be called to that very place.” To which William de Grendon 
responded : “‘ Blessed be the Lord, who has inspired you with so 
pious a design, and blessed by God be they who gave you 
such counsel. And therefore may you finish that which you have 
happily proposed in the name of the Lord, and if it pleases 
speedily, since we are all frail and mortal. And the house of 
Depedale, with all its appurtenances which it pertains to me to 
give, and which ever at any time were the Black or White 
Canons’ I will bestow on your new house, with certain hope of 
more abundant grace. Yet on condition, however, that every 
day for ever, in the Chapel of Depedale, which they shall 
sustain, the Divine obsequies be celebrated for my soul, and 
for the souls of my ancestors and successors, and for the souls 
of all there resting in Christ, by a priest of that congregation, 
and that in the fratry upon the greater table there be placed daily 
one prebend of the conventual bread and beer, and companagium* 
to be distributed to the poor.” To which the noble man his 
* This is something served cum pane. 
