358 Agreement for BuilcVmg a CJmpel at Lacock. 



tesmoignes Sire Wauter de pavely Sire Johan de hales sire Johan de la mare 

 Chivalers Johan tourpyn Johan de stodleghe Johan percehaye Johan de Bour- 

 leghe e autres Done a Laeoke le Jeody procheyn apres la feste seynt bartolomeu * 

 Ian du regne le roi Edward filz au roi Edward neofyme." 



Appended is a seal which is slightly injured, and on it is a shield 

 bearing the arms of Bluet, a two-headed eagle^ with the legend 

 (sigi)llvm . JOHis . blt(et), and two dragons filling the space 

 between the seal and the legend. 



There is the following endorsement : — 



•' Indentura convencionis facte inter Blewett et Abbatissam de lacok pro 

 nova construcione Capelle beate marie intra monasterium predictum." 



The following writing is attached : — 



•' Fait assavoir qe le temps qe remenit uncore a parfaire la chapele nostre 

 dame amounte de la feste seint michel prochein passe Lan de la Incarnacion 

 nostre seigneur mil . ccc . xxj. taunqe a sys annz prochein suvauntz e de mesmes 

 la feste seint michel taunqe la feste de la translacion seint Thomas le martir 

 apres les sys annz f Tachez ceste escrouoite al escrit qe touche mesme la matire." 



Translation. 



This is the covenant made between the Lady Johanna de M ounfort abbess of 

 Laeoke and the convent of the same place of the one part, and Sir John 

 Bluet lord of Lacham of the other part : That is to say that the aforesaid 

 abbess and convent or their successors will cause to be made and perfected a 

 chapel of Our Lady in their abbey of Laeoke, which chapel adjoins their high 

 church of the same abbey ; And thus shall the chapel be, of the length of iifty- 

 nine feet and of the breadth of twenty -live and a half ; And there shall be in 

 the aforesaid chapel four windows, that is to say in each gable one window so 

 large as the one is made and finished, and the other as it is begun shall be well 

 made and finished, and in the further side of the aforesaid chapel let the one be 

 such as it is made and finished, and the other so large as it is begun shall be 

 made and finished of good and suitable work ; And the aforesaid windows 

 shall be suitably fitted with iron and glass ; And the old wall shall be beaten 

 down from the point of the two windows which were and appeared on the day 

 of the making of this writing in the aforesaid wall as far as the range table 

 next below the bases of the same windows ; And two arches shall be made where 

 the wall shall be beaten down so large that is to say as well and surely can be 

 allowed between the two buttresses where the old vault can be sawn without 

 danger ; And the aforesaid abbess and convent or their successors shall cause 

 the roof of the same chapel to be made of good timber and suitable work and a 



•The feast of St. Bartholomew was the 24th of August. This, in the ninth year of Edward II., 

 gi^es the date 1S15. 



+ The time which was left for finishing the chapel, when this was written, ran from September 

 29th, 1321, to July 7th, 1328, (the feast of the translation of St. Thomas a Beoket next after 

 Michaelmas, 1327.) 



