364 On the Appropriation of the Rectory of Lacock. 
Michaelmas of that year the Abbess and Convent entered into a 
bond to Sir John Bluet to finish the chapel before Michaelmas, 
1319, under penalty of 200 marks, which sum, if they performed 
their bargain, was to be applied towards the cost of the work. 
This bond is preserved in the Record Office, and is printed in the 
Appendix (No. XI). By 1315, however, either they found them- 
selves unable to carry out their obligation, or some change was 
introduced into the plan, and a new agreement, now preserved at 
Lacock, and printed in vol. xvi. of the Magazine, p. 350, was drawn 
up on the Thursday after St. Bartholomew (Aug. 24th), 1315. 
Two bonds bearing date the Saturday after the Nativity of the 
Virgin (Sept. 8th), 13815, provided for the completion of two-thirds 
of the work under penalty of £88 18s., and of the remaining one- 
third under penalty of £44 9s., are now in the Record Office.t No 
dates are specified in these bonds, but in the agreement itself 
eight and four years respectively are mentioned for the completion 
of the two portions of the work. As we have no record to the 
contrary, it may be assumed that the chapel was finished within 
the time specified ; 7.e., before July 7th, 1328. 
In 1318 Nicholas Skarpenham was presented to the Vicarage, 
but no settled arrangement had been made for the permanent 
endowment of the charge. Power had been reserved by the 
instrument of appropriation in 1312 to “ordain” the Vicarage, in 
ease of it not being done by the patron, and thus we find in 1337, 
the Bishop of Salisbury (Robert Wyville) issuing his “ ordinationes ” 
which were duly copied into the Older Cartulary, p. 3d, from which 
they are here printed (Appendix, No. XIV.). The chief points may 
thus be summarized:—The Vicarage was to consist of (1) the — 
“manse” or dwelling-house; (2) ten acres of arable land; (3) 
right of pasture to the annual value of at least twenty pence; (4) 
the oblations of all kinds both in the Parish Church and the Chapel — 
of Lackham; (5) the small tithes, including those of wool and 
lambs, of cheese and milk, of cows, calves, foals, young pigs, geese, 
hemp, and flax; (6) the tithe of all mills in the parish; (7) an — 

1 Court of Wards, Deeds, &c., Box 94 E, 21,107. App. XII. and XIII. 

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