- momine si quid amplius pro decima 
huiusmodi debeatur de tempore quo 
inibi fueram in officiis diuersis. 
Item Johanni Bryght cognato meo 
iuxta Marleburgh ilij mare et_pu’is 
suis si plures ad minus tres heat xl*. 
si vero duos aut vnum solum ij mare. 
Item lego domui ffratrum de Iuelces- 
tre x°, 
Item lego Emmote, filie Willi Polton 
fratris mei defuncti x.". disponend pro 
eadm iuxta melius auisamentum exe- 
cuforum meorum post mortem mariti 
sui Tarant et non ante. 
Item lego ecclie de Myldenhale et 
ad vsum eiusdm ec. et xx oves matrices 
- aut alias iuxta disposicoem executorum 
-Meorum que stabunt sub disposicoe 
parochianorum et Custodu bonorum 
ip ipius ecclie qui fu'int pro tempore ad 
tenendum Anniversarum meum ibidem 
-imperpetuum videlicet qd singulis annis 
certo die limitando heantur ibidem 
‘yigilie mortuorum in nocte et de mane 
_X Misse per x presbiteros quarum tres 
solempniter fiant quorum presbiterorum 
-quilibet heat singulis huiusmodi tempo- 
Tribus xij‘, 
By the Rev. C. Soames, 
65 
that he piously remits, in the name of 
that Church, whatever more tythes of 
that nature may be owing for the time 
that I was there in different offices. 
Also, to John Bright, my relation, 
near Marlborough, 4 marks, and to his 
sons, if he has three or more, 40s. ; if, 
however he has two, or only one, 2 
marks. 
Also, I leave to the House of the 
Brothers at Ilchester, 10s.* 
Also,I leave to Emmota, the daughter 
of William Polton, my deceased brother, 
£10, to be expended for her according 
to the best advice of my executors, 
after the death of her husband Tarrant, 
and not before. 
Also, I leave to the Church of Mil- 
denhall, and for the use of the same, 
one hundred and twenty ewes f or other 
sheep as my executors shall feel disposed, 
which shall continue at the disposal of 
the parishioners and churchwardens of 
that Church for the time being, for the 
holding of my anniversary there for 
ever: viz.:—that on a certain day to 
be fixed in every year, there be held 
there at night vigils of the dead, and 
in the morning ten masses by ten priests, 
of which three shall be specially per- 
formed, each of which priests shall 
receive 12d. at each of those times, 
_ ¥*Tlchester, on river Yeo or Ivel. A house of friars preachers was founded 
before 11 Ed. I. The site of the Grey Friars here was granted to William 
Hodges, 37 Henry VIII. Tanner's Notitia. 
A similar bequest to a chantry at Enford is mentioned, Wiltshire 
Archeological Magazine, vol. ii., p. 129, whereby “ one thousand sheep were 
left by John Westley (vicar, 1472—1494) to support one priest—of which sheep 
‘six hundred and eighty died, whereupon one Parson Burde gave five hundred 
md seventy-eight sheep towards the increase of the said stock, which were 
(2 Ed. VI.) priced at 16d. apiece, and so letten to divers men for the yearly rent 
of £7 14s.6d.” Another version, gives a slightly different number, and says 
they were let to two men at 2d. a head. 
The next entry in the inventory of Church goods, Wiltshire Archeological 
Magazine, vol. xii., p. 375, mentions a bequest of six hundred wether sheep to 
e chantrey at Maiden Bradley, for one chaplain, valued at £9 per hundred, the 
rent of which was £6 6s. 6d., to'be paid during five years from 36 Henry VIII, 
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