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chescun temps qascun deuient Burgeys 
a demurrer deinz mesme la Burgh il 
iurra gil serra foial et loial a nostre 
Seigneur le Roi et a cez heires et gil ne 
ferra rienz ge purra turner en disherit- 
ance de mesmes Burgeisez et cominalte 
touchant lez fraunchisez Suzditz. Et 
lez Burgeisez auantditz veiantz le grant 
et graciouse done et conferment le Roi 
Athelston en son temps firent edefier 
une chapell en honour de dieu et Seint 
Johan le Baptist en quell chapell estoit 
ordeignez par lez ditz Burgeises qe 
perpetuelement seroit un chapelleyn 
pur chaunter chescun iour pur lez almes 
le Roi Athelston et dame Mauld Sa 
compaigne et lez almes du (sic) Roies 
dengleterre et pur lez almes de lez 
Burgeisez de mesme la ville et de lour 
progenitours et successours et pur lez 
almes dez bienfesours a mesme la ville 
Et apres la deces de chescun chapelleyn 
up autre serra eslieu par lez ditz Bur- 
geisez et mys en la dite chapelle en 
dewe forme et issi demurer pur sa vie 
le quell chapelleyn issint ordeigne ad 
estee et chaunte pur lez almes Suzditz 
et de toutz cristianes tout temps puis 
encea. A quell chapeleyn et sez Suc- 
cessours hommes et femmes ascuns en 
lour testament ont deuisez et ascuns 
sanz testament par don ont doner partie 
deuant temps de memorie et partie puis 
et longe temps deuant lestatut de re- 
ligiouses terres et tenemenz en eide et 
sustinances de mesme la (sic) chapelleyn 
pur acomplier cell grant almoigne gency 
bon manere feust comence les queux 
terres et tenemenz montent par an a 
quarant et Sis Soldzen tout. Et purceo 
ge le dit chapelleyn ne poet Suffisaunte- 
ment viure de cell rent le Aldreman et 
lez Burgeises de mesme le Burgh donent 
a luy le remenant de lour biens propres. 
Et auxi ordeigneront deuant temps de 
memorie pur mesme le chapelleyn un 
mancione a luy et cez Successours Et 
autres biens pur Seruer en la dite cha- 
Certificate of the Town Gild of Malmesbury. 
from time whereof memory runs not.to 
the contrary that every time that any- 
one becomes a burgess to live in the 
same borough he shall swear that he 
will be faithful and loyal to our lord the 
king and to his heirs and that he will 
do nothing which can turn to the dis- 
inheritance of the same burgesses and 
commonalty touching the abovesaid 
franchises. And the burgesses aforesaid 
considering the great and gracious gift 
and conferment of king Athelston in 
his time had a chapel built in honour of 
God and St. John the Baptist in which 
chapel was ordained by the said bur- 
gesses that perpetually should be a 
chaplain to sing every day for the souls 
of king Athelston and dame Maud his 
spouse, and the souls of the kings of 
England, and for the souls of the bur- 
gesses of the same town and of their pro- 
genitors and successors and for the souls 
of the benefactors of the same town. 
And after the decease of every chaplain 
another shall be chosen by the said 
burgesses and put iu the said chapel in 
due form, and there to stay for his life, 
the which chaplain thus ordained has 
been and sung for the souls abovesaid 
and all Christian souls all time since 
after. To which chaplain and his suc- 
cessors men and women some in their 
wills have devised and some without 
wills by gift have given, some before 
time of memory,and some since, and long 
time before the statute of the religious, 
lands and tenements in aid and susti- 
nence of the same chaplain for the 
accomplishment of this great charity 
which in such good manner was begun. 
The which lands and tenements amount 
by year to forty and six shillings in all. 
And because that the said chaplain 
cannot sufficiently live of this rent the 
alderman and burgesses of the same 
borough give him the remainder out 
of their own goods. And also ordained 
before time of memory for the same 
