/.«em vnum tricennale Ef cvilibet 
_alteri capellano seculari infra ecclias de 
Marleburgh et Myldenhale Okebo'ne 
et Okebo'ne pershute et Remmesbury 
ac Alleburn diuina celebrant ii*. argenti. 
Item lego Portiforium meum antiqum 
solempne notatum et singulariter limi- 
natu similiter et ynum gradale ac vnum 
par vestimentorum ac xvj. mare argenti 
ecclie sancti Petri_de Marleburgh ita 
quod parochiani ibm ynum capellanum 
anima mea ac animabus supradcis et 
quod magis comuniter missam dicat pro 
pore in pulpito nominatim temporibus 
affuturis quod si fortassis parochiani ipi 
ex eorum alicuius inuidia hoc facere recu- 
sauerint tunc volo quod executores mei in 
lio loco de quo ipis magis videbitur hoe 
faciant fideliter adimpleri cum bonis 
legatis premissis. 
By the Rev. C. Soames. 59 
Chaplain there, if there be any at that 
time, one fee for a thirty day’s mass, 
and to each other secular Chaplain 
celebrating Divine Worship in the 
Churches of Marlborough, Myldenhalle, 
Okebourne,* and Okebourne, Preshute, 
and Remmesbury, and Alleburn 2 shil- 
lings each. 
Also, I leave my ancientBreviary,regu- 
larly noted and curiously illuminated,t 
likewise also one gradual,f and one set 
of vestments,and sixteen marks of silver 
to the Church of St. Peter, at Marl- 
borough, on condition that the parish- 
’ joners of the same shall find a fit chap- 
lain to celebrate [mass] there for three 
years after my death, on behalf of my 
soul and the above-mentioned souls, and 
that he may more generally say mass 
for the dead in such manner that I may 
be specially commended from the pulpit 
by name to the prayers of the same pa- 
rishioners, on Sundays, at the hour of 
mass,in timesto come. But if, by chance 
it should happen, that the parishioners 
themselves, by reason of the ill will of 
any of them, should refuse to do this, 
then I desire that my executors see that 
this condition be faithfully fulfilled in 
some other place which may seem fit to 
them, out of the before-mentioned 
legacies. 
* A singular method of describing Ogbourne S. Andrew and Ogbourne S, 
Zeorge. All the parishes named adjoin Mildenhall. 
_ + The rendering of the words “solempne notatum, et singulariter liminatum ” 
s somewhat difficult. Liminatum I cannot find in any dictionary. Whether it 
9 a transcriber’s error for “ illuminatum,” or a word coined by the writer of the 
ill, it is impossible to say. I have taken it as the former. But it has been 
ageniously suggested that it “may mean ‘ bound,’ the cover being the ‘limen, 
joundary, or border, or threshold through which you enter into the contents of a 
ook—‘ beautifully bound’ reads well.” Possibly some of the readers of the will 
nay send a better translation. 
~{ Graduale—a book containing the office for sprinkling holy water, and other 
portions of the mass—an antiphonar. : 
