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decease de un nommé Robert Lake, pour y celle l’avoir et tenir le 
dit suppliant, avec les droits, peruffiz, et emolumens quelconques 
et y appurtentes, durant le terme de sa vie. Et il priera Dieu 
pour vous, que par sa sainte grace vous doient bonne vie et longue. 
13 September, 1431.” 
[endorsed] “R. H. We have granted this bill.” 
The French of the above, being antiquated, may need a trans- 
lation. 
“To our sovereign lord the King :—Your humble liege servant 
Thomas Hill, valet of the cellar to our sovereign lady the Queen, 
humbly prays you, of your benign grace, to give and grant to him 
a corrody in the Abbey of Malmesbury, now vacant, in your hands, 
by the death of a person named Robert Lake, to hold the same 
unto your said suppliant, with all rights, profits, and emoluments 
whatsoever thereunto appertaining, during the term of his life. 
And he will pray that, by the Heavenly grace, you may be en- 
dowed with a long and prosperous life.” 
The Corrody or alimony above alluded to, “within the Monastery 
of Malmesbury,” was granted by K. Richard ITI. to John Morice 
otherwise Turke [Har/. MS. 433]. It is, no doubt, the same 
which, amongst the liabilities recited in the valuation of this 
Abbey, made in the time of Henry VIII., reappears as a perquisite 
claimed by the Longs of Draycote under the following form: “To 
Sir Henry Long, Knight, and his heirs for ever, a corrody of seven 
white loaves and seven conventual flagons of beer, to be allowed 
out of the Abbey of Malmesbury every week; estimated at the 
annual value of 60 shillings.” [ Vad. Ecel. Wilt. p. 122}. 
There were other “Sustentations” of similar kind, in the gift of 
the Crown, at Glastonbury, Eynsham, Spalding, &e. 
J. WAYLEN. 
