62 The Will of Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, A.D, 1842. 
versarii simili modo confluentibus si extra 
regnum decedam similiter et pauperibus 
aliis quibus executores mei hee viderunt 
expedire qui illue tempore predco acce- 
dere non poterint dum tamen pauperes 
et debiles illarum parcium sint et 
veraciter indigeant tali elimosinarum 
largicione. Et volo quod in Convivio 
sepultre mee aut Anniversarii solemnp- 
nitate faciend sicuti communiter moris 
est non exponant' vltra ¢.* aliquo modo 
prout deo respondere velint executores 
mei et supervisores si huius mee con- 
trarium egerint voluntatis. In quo 
Convivio presbiteros vt premittitur cele- 
brantes et pauperes conuolantes p’cipuos 
esse volo si de presbiteris et pauperibus 
huiusmodi sufficien habeatur 
Ttem lego xx‘ilibr sterlingorum ad inu- 
eniend vnum capellanum bonam et ydon- 
eam personam quam ad hoc nominauerint 
et eligerint executores mei et supervisores 
ad transeund pro me Romam et ad stan- 
dum ibidem per duos Annos continuos 
transeundo pro me stationes et visitando 
diversa loca sancta et reliquias Sanc- 
torum et ad celebrandum ib idm in locis 
deuocioribus iuxta discrecionem suam pro 
Anima mea et animabus supradictis non 
aliis aut alieno deditus occupaconibus 
aut eis quomodolibet p’peditus. Ad 
quod executoribus meis ante sui tran- 
situm corporale prestet iuramentum. 
Similiter et qd pauperibus reclusis in 
vrbe vtriusque sexus et aliis miserabili- 
bus personis et locis devotis fideliter min- 
istrabit et realiter tradet in moneta 
illarum parcium verum et precisem va- 
lorem c. *. quos sibi vltra xx.li predict 
mass and to the above-mentioned ob- 
sequies—or who shall come in like 
manner on the day of my anniversary, 
if I shall die out of the kingdom—and 
likewise to other poor persons who shall 
not have been able to come there at the 
above-mentioned time, according as shall 
seem expedient to my executors, so 
however, that they be poor feeble persons 
of those parts, and really in want of 
such almsand largesse ; and I desire that 
not more than one hundred shillings be 
spent in any way on such feasting as is 
commonly the custom at my burial or 
at the solemn celebration of my anni- 
versary,* as my executors and super- 
visors wish to be answerable to God, if 
they act contrary to this my desire. At 
which feast I desire that the priests 
celebrating as above, and also the poor 
people who flock in, shall be the chief 
guests, if there be deemed to be a 
sufficient number of priests and poor 
persons of this description. 
Also, I leave £20 sterling to find as 
chaplain, a good and proper person, 
whom my executors and supervisors 
shall choose and appoint for that par- — 
ticular purpose, to cross over on my — 
behalf to Rome and to remain there con- — 
tinuously for two years,for the purpose 
of attending the stations for me, and — 
visiting the different holy places and 
relics of the saints, and celebrating — 
mass there in the more sacred places, — 
according to his discretion, for my soul — 
and the above-mentioned souls; and he 
is not to engage himself in any other 
occupation or occupations, or in any way 
mix himself up in them, to which in- — 
tent he shall bind himself to my execu- 
tors by an oath on the Body of Our 
Lord before starting on his Journey. — 
Likewise also he shall faithfully dispense 
and actually distribute among the poor ~ 
* For the method of keeping such an anniversary see “ Memorials of the See 
of Chichester,” by Stephens, p. 188. 
