By the Rev. C. Soames. 
Et volo qd executores mei ibm inu- 
eniant vnum honestum presbiterum 
qui per trienniu a morte mea celebret 
in Capella virginis gliose infra deam 
eccliam situat pro anima mea parentum 
et confrm meorum nnon_Radulphi 
Erghum quond*m Bathon Epi alioram 
que benefcorum meorum necnon in 
genere pro quibus magis_ specifice 
teneor exorare omniumque fidelium 
defunctorum animabus. 
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and two towels* for the high altar there. 
And I desire my executors to find 
there a decent priest, who for three years 
after my death shall celebrate [masses | 
in the Chapel of the Glorious Virgint 
situate in that Church, for my soul and 
for the souls of my parents and brethren, 
also for the soul of Ralph Erghum,f 
formerly Bishop of Bath, and for the 
souls of all others my benefactors ; and 
also, in general, for the souls of those 
for whom I ought more especially to 
pray, and for the souls of all the faithful 
* departed. 
Item lego vnum par vestimentorum Also, I leave one set of vestments of 
* Tuellis. Among the enquiries to be made by the Archdeacon, probably of the 
time of Richard III. (see Jones’ Fasti, p. 131) was “ whether you have sufficient 
Books for your Churches, that is to say, a portuoire, a legend, an antiphonner, a 
sawter, a masse booke, a manual, and a pie .’ Also “ whether ye have 
sufficient towels [tuellis], surplices, &c.” Also “whether the churchmen oons a 
yere gyve accompts of the Churche goods to the parochians or noo.” Compare 
accounts of sheep to be rendered to parishioners, as directed later on. 
+ There is in the south aisle of Mildenhall Church an evident trace of an altar 
at the east end—in the two brackets or corbels for the support of a reredos, or 
of images, carved, one with the head of a Bishop, the other with the head of a 
King. This was in all probability the chapel of the Glorious Virgin, referred to 
in the will. The principal altar in the Church at Wanborough, Wilts, with which 
parish the Poulton family was closely connected, was dedicated to the Glorious 
Virgin. See Jackson’s Aubrey—Wanborough. 
t Ralph Erghum was nominated by the Pope as Bishop of Sarum in 1875. He 
is spoken of by Harpsfield as “juris civilis professor et Lancastriz Cancellarius.” 
He obtained leave from Richard II. to crenellate the episcopal manors, and 
amongst them his “mansion in Salisbury court, Fleet Street, in the suburbs of 
London.” This he was allowed “ muro de petra et calca firmare et crenellare.”’ 
He was founder of the Hospital of St. Michael, near Sarum, and he caused the 
 eross to be erected in the city by the Earl of Salisbury as a penance. During 
his episcopate a fierce controversy arose between him and the Chapter, as to his 
rights of visiting the prebends, during a vacancy in thedeanery. It was referred 
first to the Archbishop of Canterbury—then to the Pope—and decided against 
the Bishop of Sarum. He was translated to the see of Bath and Wells in 1388, 
and dying there in 1400 was buried in the Cathedral at Wells. Jones’ Fasti. 
 Gent’s Mag., 1804, p. 1099. There was another Ralph de Erghum, who was Arch- 
- deacon of Dorset in 1385—Archdeacon of Taunton in 1391—and Precentor of 
_ Wells in 1402, and died soon after 1410. Jones’ Fasti. 
