70 The Will of Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, A.D. 1342. 
Item lego Prioratui de Elsham iux? 
Barton de Humbre in dioc Lincolnien 
cuius ffratrer existo obligacom eorum de 
vi mare michi debit ab eisdem et quingue 
mare de pecuniis meis ad reparacoem 
ecclie vt omes viri Religiosi superius 
nominat et hii de Elsh'm specialibus in 
eorum missis deuocius orare dignentur 
proanima mea et domini Radulphi nuper 
Bathonien Epi parentumque meorum 
firatrum benefactorumque et omnium 
fidelium defunctoru ac aliorum prespeci- 
ficatorum. 
Item lego tantam pecuniarum sumam 
distribui inter presbiteros secularesOxon 
et Religiosos ibm quibus superius nil 
legatur qd statim post mortem meam ibi 
pro anima mea et omniu defuctorum 
celebrari poterint mille misse. Item et 
talem pecuniarum summam distribui 
volo inter Religiosos et alios apud Sarum. 
que sufficiant ad mille missas celebrand 
sub eadem conditione. Item apud 
Brystoll et apud Well ac in partibus 
duobus hiis propinquiis et lego tot pe- 
cunias cum quibus in hiis eae omibus 
non in singulis eciam mille misse dici 
poterint pro anima mea et animabus 
superius expressatis sub condicionibus 
tantumodo predcis quod scilicet bona mea 
aliunde sufficiant ad perficiend volun- 
tatem meam in p’senti testamento meo 
in aliis expressatam. 
. Item tribus domibus Cartusien in 
Sellewode scilicet et Henton iuxta 
Also,I leave to the Priory of Elsham,* 
near Barton-on-Humber, in Lincoln 
diocese, of which I am a brother, their 
bond for six marks, which is owing to 
me from them, and five marks of my 
money, for the repair of their Church, 
so that all the religious persons above- 
mentioned, and those of Elsham may 
think fit in their special masses to pray 
more devoutly for my soul, and for that 
of Ralph,t lately Bishop of Bath, and 
for the souls of my parents and brothers 
and benefactors, and for the souls of all 
the faithful departed and other afore- 
mentioned persons. 
Also, I leave a sufficient sum of 
money to be distributed amongst the 
secular priests of Oxford, and religious 
persons there, to whom nothing is left 
above, on condition that immediately 
after my death one thousand masses 
may be celebrated there for my soul and 
for the souls of all the departed; and 
also, E wish that a similar sum of money 
be distributed amongst religious and 
other persons at Sarum, sufficient to 
celebrate one thousand masses on the 
same condition; also at Bristol, and 
at Wells, and in the neighbourhood of 
those two places. And I leave so 
much money as shall be sufficient to 
cause also one thousand masses to be 
said, not in one, but in all those places, 
for my soul, and the souls above des- 
cribed, only on the conditions above- 
mentioned, provided that my property 
from all other sources be sufficient to 
carry out my wishes as expressed in 
other places in my present Will. 
Also, to three Carthusian houses, that 
is to say, to those in Sellwood f and in 
* Hisham. The testator bad been Dean of York. The House of Augustinian 
canons there was begun by Beatrix de Amundeville in A.D. 1166. 
+ See note on Ralph Erghum (p. 57.) 
{This must have been the Carthusian house at Witham, once within 
Sellwood Forest, which was removed from Hethorp, Gloucestershire, 1227—32 
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