362 On the Appropriation of the Rectory of Lacock. 
(4) To admit on his nomination, or that of his successors 
after him, a suitable person as a nun in their house. 
This instrument was also executed by the Convent at Lacock on 
the day following. 
These details being thus settled, Sir John Bluet executed a deed 
bearing date the Friday after St. Laurence, 6 Ed. II. (11-17 Aug., 
1312), in which he formally resigns his right in the alternate 
presentation, according to the tenour of the Royal letters patent, 
the Abbess and convent being bound to do “acertain alms” 
according to the Bishop of Salisbury’s ordination. This deed is 
still preserved at Lacock (Appendix No. VL). 
It was not, however, only the King who stood to lose money in 
the shape of fees and fines, by the falling of the entire patronage 
of the Church into the “dead hand” of the Abbey ; in consequence 
of the appropriation, there would be no more Rectors instituted, 
and consequently the Archdeacon of Wilts would lose certain 
fees, which he had been accustomed to receive. He appears to 
have represented this to the Bishop, who thereupon issued an 
order, which was copied into the older Cartulary, directing that _ 
as soon as the abbess and nuns should have obtained peaceable 
possession of the Church, they should pay the Archdeacon three 
shillings annually on Lady Day; the procurations and other 
ordinary burdens were, nevertheless, still to be paid as usual. 
(Appendix No. VIT.) 
All these arrangements were, however, dependent on the Abbey 
obtaining possession of the Rectory by the death or resignation of 
the then incumbent, Robert de Dorinton; and as he continued to 
hold the living, the nuns seem to have pressed for some immediate — 
acknowledgement of their position as Inpropriators. The consent — 
of both Rector and Patron was obtained, and is on record, the 
former in a Latin letter (P.R.O., Ct. of Wards, 94 E, 29), and the — 
latter in one in French (/did, 94 B, 117), both addressed to the 
Bishop, and promising to abide by his decision. Both these are 

