60 The Will of Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, A.D. 1342. 
Item lego domvi sancte Marga- 
rete virginis iuxta Marleburgh centum 
solid et duos branches de Corall 
meis et quod habeat eorum vterque 
unum pedem de argento deauratum 
sumtibus meis et in bona altitudine ad 
ponendum super sumum altar et in 
honore beate Margarete virginis speciali- 
ter vt participem me constituant suffra- 
giorum eiusdem domus ac vt fideliter 
quolibet Anno semel pro anima mea 
fiant ibidem vigilie mortuorum de nocte 
et missa solempnis de mane in vigilia 
Sancte Margarete supradce aut die 
preuio. 
Similiter lego vnum librum qui 
vocatur sumam sumarum prec Yj. 
marcarum ad vsum predictum cum ca- 
thena ferrea in choro ecclie ipus Priora- 
tus aut in alio loco magis ad hoe apto 
perpetuo ligand et inibi sub pena ana- 
thematis perpetuo remansurum et scri- 
batur in primo folio libri nomen con- 
ferentis et causa Insuper et ad premissa 
debite faciend et vt canonici in iporum 
missis specialiter oreat pro anima mea 
et ceteris prespecificatis et vt cum celeri- 
tate qua comode possint celebrent inter 
se xxx'* missas pro anima mea et ani- 
mabus supradcis Item lego cuilibet 
canonico ibidem vnum nobile et Priori 
loci ynam marcam argenti. 
Also, I leave to the House of S. Mar- — 
garet the Virgin,* near Marlborough, — 
190 shillings and two branches of my 
Corals, and I desire that each of them 
may have a silver gilt foot at my ex- 
pense, of good height, to be placed on 
the high altar, and in honour of the 
Blessed Virgin 8. Margaret, on purpose 
that 1 may have the benefit of the 
prayers of that house on my behalf ; and 
that once in every year on the vigil of 
the said S. Margaret, or on the previous 
day there be faithfully held there vigils 
for the dead at night, and a solemn 
mass in the morning for my soul. 
Likewise, I leave one book called 
“Summa Summarum’”’ of the value of 
six marks for the before-mentioned use, 
with an iron chain for keeping it always 
fastened in the choir of the Church of 
the Priory,or in any other more suitable 
place, and I desire that it shall perpet- 
ually remain there under pain of anath- 
ema, and that there be written on the 
first leaf of the book the name of the 
donor and the cause of the gift. More- 
over, in order that the above be duly 
performed, and that the canons, at their 
masses, may specially pray for my soul 
and the souls of those above-mentioned, 
and that as quickly as they conveniently 
can they may celebrate amongst them- 
selves thirty masses for my soul and the 
souls above-mentioned, I leave to each 
canon there a noble, and to the Prior of 
the place one mark of silver. 
a 
* A priory of the Sempringham order, of royal foundation, as old as the 
beginning of King John. Part of the building is still in existence. Dugdale 
mentions it among the houses of the order of S. Augustine. 
+ This is, as Mr. F. Madan, the sub-librarian of the Bodleian, informs me, “ a 
large law book, the further title of which is ‘Summa Summarum, sive Speculum 
Compendii, et Repertorium Juris Canonici,’ in five books. There is more than 
one MS. of it in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford. The author is quite unknown. 
The work was first printed at Bologna in 1517, folio, with the title ‘Summa 
Summarum que Tabiena dicitur,’ but neither the British Museum nor the 
Bodleian seem to possess it.” 
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