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annual payment of 20s. at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. 
The total receipts were assessed at £5, and had to pay tithe on 
this basis; a sum of 3s. 9d. was charged against the Vicar for rent. 
Out of this he was to find a clerk for the Church at his own charge, 
and was to bear all ordinary and archidiaconal burdens, except 
the liability to repair the chancel. 
In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 the value of the Rectory was 
returned as worth (in common years) £6, out of which was to be 
paid to the Vicar, as stated in the ordination of 1337, £1 per 
annum. Richard Burton, the Vicar, returns the Vicarage as worth 
£9 1s. 4d., from which he paid for procurations and synodals 13s. 9d., 
and 3s. 9d. to the Abbess as rent. 
APPENDIX No. I. 
P.R.O. Catalogue of Ancient Deeds, A. 10,254. Copied into Older Cartulary, 
p. 185. Newer, 9a and 36d. 
‘Hee est conuencio inter comitem W. Sar[isburie] et Rad{ulfum] Bloet 
uicinum suum de Ecclesia Lach’ que est in communi feodo eorum et in 
communi aduocacione eorum scilicet quod conuentum est inter eos communi 
consideratione et assensu eorum et amicorum suorum ad remouendam omnem 
discordiam et litigium quod unus ex aduocatis habeat donationem predicte 
Ecclesie cum omnibus pertinentiis suis una uice et p[er]sonam ecclesie 
idoneam et honorificam ponat, et post decessum p[er]sone reueniat donatio 
_ predicte Ecclesie alteri aduocato cum omnibus pertinentiis suis. Et tuncidem 
aduocatus p[er]sonam ecclesie idoneam et honorificam ponat ita libere et 
quiete sicut alter prius posuit. Et ita inter eos et heredes eorum permaneat, 
quod unus ex aduocatis habeat donationem una uice huius prefate Ecclesie 
et alter altera uice, et p[er]sona utrique domino sit obediens sicut 
aduocatis. Conuentum est etiam inter predictos dominos quod nec comes 
nec sui heredes nec Radulfus Bloet nec sui heredes prefatam ecclesiam dare 
possint in religionem uel in alium locum, quod unus per alterum|donationem 
amittat. Testibus: A. Comitissa. (Com’a) Rogero filio Gaufr[idi]. 
Roberto fratre suo. W.desancto Martino. Ricardo de Herierd. W. Bloet. 
Waltero Bloet. Ricardo Vic[ecomite]. Ricardo Cotel. Godefr[ido] de 
 Sancto Mart{ino]. Willelmo de Poertona. WillelmoCapell{ano]. Ricardo 
 Capellfano] Lach’. W. filio War[ini]. Rogero Dernef[ord].” 
‘‘Lacok de vocacione ecclesie [in dorso].” 
Note—This deed, being witnessed by the Countess A[lionora ?], 
seems to prove that the Earl William who is one of the parties to 
the agreement is the father, and not the husband, of Ela, the 
