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roof of such kind as shall please the aforesaid abbess and convent or their 

 successors ; And the aforesaid chapel, that is to say the roof, shall be covered 

 with lead well and suitably ; And the roof within the aforesaid chapel shall be 

 all well ceiled and painted ; And the two parts of the aforesaid chapel shall be 

 made and perfected in all works as is above said from the day of Saint Michael 

 in the ninth year of the reign of king Edward son of king Edward, within the 

 eight years next following fully to be accomplished ; And the third part of the 

 aforesaid chapel shall be surely made and perfected within the four years next 

 after the eight years aforesaid fully to be accomplished, in every kind of work 

 as is abovesaid ; And if the aforesaid chapel shall not be made and perfected 

 and in all works completed and finished well and suitably in all points as is 

 abovesaid, which God forbid, then the aforesaid abbess and convent or their 

 successors shall be bound to the aforesaid Sir John or to his executors in two 

 hundred marks of silver, of which two hundred marks the aforesaid abbess 

 and convent have made and delivered to Sir John Bluet a bond ; And if the 

 aforesaid work shall be made and perfected in all manner of things completed 

 and finished in the time aforesaid the abbess and convent and their successors 

 shall be quit and released from the two hundred marks aforesaid stipulated in 

 a writing made about this by the aforesaid Sir John Bluet to the aforesaid 

 abbess and convent ; And the aforesaid Sir John Bluet wills and grants for 

 himself and for his heirs and for his executors that every kind of agreement 

 made before the day of the making of this writing touching every kind of work 

 of the abovenamed chapel shall be extinguished and held for nothing. [And 

 certainly a bond of the two hundred marks which the aforesaid abbess and 

 convent had made to Sir John Bluet before the making of this writing shall be 

 void and to all persons held for nothing.] * And, because the aforesaid parties 

 will on the one part and on the other that the aforesaid covenants in all matters 

 abovesaid may be firm and stable, they have interchangeably set their seals to 

 this indenture by these witnesses. Sir Walter de Pavely, Sir John de Hales, Sir 

 John de La Mare, knights, John Tourpyn, John de Stodleghe, John Percehaye, 

 John de Bourleghe, and others. Given at Lacoke, the Thursday next after the 

 feast of Saint Bartholomew, in the ninth year of the reign of king Edward son 

 of king Edward. 



Endorsement : — 



Indenture of an agreement made between Blewett and the Abbess of Laeok 

 for the new construction of a Chapel of the Blessed Mary within the aforesaid 

 monastery. 



Writing attached : — 



Pone to let it be known that the time that remains yet to perfect the chapel 

 of Our Lady amounts from the feast of Saint Michael last past, in the year 

 of the Incarnation of Our Lord Mcccxxr, as far as six years next following; 

 and from the same feast of Saint Michael as far as the feast of the translation 

 of Saint Thomas the martyr, after the six years. Fasten this writing to the 

 writing that touches the same matter. 



* The words enclosed in brackets are eraaed in the original. 



