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solemn days appointed for that purpose? he says he has, and this 
he knows because in procession he blessed the font there. He 
says also that he performed baptism solemnly on the vigils of Easter 
and Pentecost, and he adds that God appointed those days as 
he believes to the solemnisation of the said baptism ; nor does he 
know at what time, in what month, on what day, at what hour, 
and in whose presence the said days were thereto appointed, nor 
does he recollect how often he has seen baptism there solemnly 
performed. 
Also asked whether the said church pertains to the Dean and 
Chapter of Lichfield: he says that it does. And this he knows 
because William de Chester, Canon of Lichfield, whom the witness 
himself served at Tideswell, collected the goods of the said church 
there as proctor of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. 
VI. Universis Christi fidelibus. ad quos presentes litere per-~ 
venerint. H. Lincoln’ Ecclesie. Decanus. salutem in domino sem- 
piternam. Noyverit vestra universitas nos ad partes venerabilium 
virorum dominorum. Decani & capituli Lich’ Ecclesie. rectorum 
Ecclesiarum de Baucwell & de Hoppe. quas ex eorum tradicione 
ad firmam sub certa forma optinemus. concessisse eisdem. quod 
quatuordecim marcate decimarum quas pro annuo redditu assig- 
nare debent. Priori & Conventui de Lenton per taxacionem 
discretorum virorum. Radulfi de Cubbele rectoris Ecclesie de 
Eyum. J. & R. vicariorum Ecclesiarum de Esseburn & Radford. 
secundum tenorem Composicionis nuper mite coram. Gardiano 
fratrum minorum leycestr’, &.. Archidiacono Cestr’ auctoritate 
apostolica inter eosdem .. Decanum & Capitulum ex una parte. & 
dictos .. Priorem & conventum ex altera. Assignentur, per taxa- 
cionem predictorum in predicta parochia de Baucwell. vel de. 
Hoppe. in ceteris locis. vel cetero loco. in quo vel quibus Ad 
minorem Lesionem vel Pacem maiorem premorate Lich’ Ecclesie 
& nostram pro tempore nostro potuerunt assignari. & quod sic 
taxate & assingnate. remaneant supradictis. Priori & Conventuj 
inperpetuum juxta eiusdem composicionis tenorem. Salvis nobis 
in omnibus aliis iure ac possessione que hactenus habuimus & 
