_ Item lego Priori domus Carmelitarum 
@ Marleburgh vnu nobile et cuilibet 
ffratri eiusdem domus unum tricennale 
ijporum domui xx*. vt. cum celeritate 
‘quo comode possint celebrent inter se 
Centum missas pro anima mea et ani- 
mabus supradcis et vt inter ffratres 
eiusdem domus mortilegiatus existam 
melius auisamentum executorum 
meorum. 
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Item lego xxiiij togas de nigro 
panno aut plures pauperioribus et 
debilioribus personis accedentibus ad 
rz exequias meas mortis mee tempore aut 
a nniversarii mei die vt infra sequitur si 
tot venerint et ad missam celebranda 
solempnem apud Myldehale aut apud 
‘Prioratum sancte Margarete vel in 
ecclia beate marie Marleburgh prout 
executoribus meis visum fu‘it plus ex- 
pedire pro anima mea et animabus 
supradcis et cuilibet sacerdoti cui su- 
perius prius nil legauerim inibi in nocte 
tunc interessenti in exequiis et missam 
celebranti ibidem de mane xij’. ad 
orandum pro anima mea et animabus 
supradcis. 
Ita tamen quod quilibet sacerdos 
religiosus aut alius de supra nomi- 
natis parochiis aut locis inibi ppin- 
quis quicumque fuerit cui aliquid vt 
supra scribitur prius reliqui teneatur 
jpus prioris relicti pretextu in predictis 
uiis et missa solempni personaliter 
se nisi causa maior et evidens 
as ab executoribus meis appro- 
banda eum impediat et subsistat. 
Item lego C.solid distribuend die sepul- 
tre mee pauperibus accedentibus ad mis- 
sam et exequias predcas aut in die Anni- 
By the Rev. C. Soames. 
61 
Also, I leave to the Prior of the House 
of the Carmelites, at Marlborough,* one 
noble, and to each brother of the same 
house one fee for thirty days’ service, 
and to their house 20s., that they may 
as quickly as they conveniently can 
celebrate among themselves one hundred 
masses for mine and the above-men- 
tioned souls, and that I may be inscribed 
on the roll of the departed brothers who 
have been benefactors of the same house, 
according to the best advice of my ex- 
ecutors. 
Also, I leave twenty-four or more 
gowns of black cloth to poor and feeble 
persons who shall attend my funeral at 
the time of my death, or on the day of 
my anniversary hereinafter mentioned, 
if so many come, and to the celebration 
of a solemn [mass] for mine and the 
above-mentioned souls either at Myl- 
denhalle,or at the Priory of S. Margaret, 
or in the Church of the Blessed Mary, 
at Marlborough, as may seem to my 
executors most suitable; and to every 
priest to whom I have not left anything 
as above,who is present there during the 
night at my obsequies, and who cele- 
brates mass there in the morning, 12d., 
to pray for my soul and the above- 
mentioned souls. 
Yet so that every religious or other 
priest out of the above-named parishes 
or places near there to whom I have left 
anything as above-mentioned shall be 
bound in consideration of his previous 
legacy, to be present in person at my 
above-mentioned funeral, and at the 
solemn mass, unless a greater cause and 
evident necessity, to be approved of by 
my executors, shall exist to hinder him, 
Also, I leave one hundred shillings to 
be distributed on the day of my burial 
to the poor persons who shall come to 
 * The present building on the site of the Carmelite House at Marlborough 
(founded 1316), is still called the Priory. 
