60 Kington St. Michael. [The Priory. 



tion of all goods spiritual and temporal : reserving the rights and 

 dignity of us and our Cathedral Church. In witness whereof we 

 have affixed our Seal, atour Manor of Remmesbury, 9 April, 1492." 

 Then follow two other Mandates, one to the Archdeacon of 

 Wilts for installing the New Prioress ; and the other to the Sub- 

 prioress and Convent, to receive and obey her. 



Liber Obitualis. 

 The Book or K^lendar of Obits of Kington St. Mary's Priory. 



Being a Register of Founders, Brethren,^ Sisters, and others. 

 Benefactors, whose names were appointed to be mentioned in the 

 Prayers of the Convent upon the Days of their respective Deaths. 

 Drawn out anew by Katharine Moleyns, Prioress there : in Lent 

 1493. (9 Hen. VII.) 



(To the Obituary are prefixed copies of the following Formularies.) 



I. " The Order to resseyve Brothers and Sisters and the sufiragea 

 of the Religious there. 



II. "The Order to resseyve a Minchin there." 



(The above are too long for insertion. The next is translated 

 from the Latin.) 



III. "Commendations to prayer in the Conventual Chapter for 

 Benefactors living or dead." 



"For the Living." 



" I commend to you, amongst the living, the Chief PontiiF .... and all 

 the Cardinals, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bp. of Sarum oiir Ordinary, 

 the Bishop of Winton, the Abbot of Glaston, the Abbess of Shaftesbury, and all 

 our Convent : specially them that labour and sei-ve in our Church. Likewise 

 the weU being of aU who give a helping hand to our Lord. Likewise" [A. B., 

 the particular person whose Obit was kept]. 



1 The Chaplain was the onlj' " Brother" resident in the House : but it was 

 the custom to pay to influential friends, lay as well as clerical, the compliment 

 of making them Honorary Brethren: or, as the phrase ran, " admitting them 

 into the Fraternity of the Convent." See in the Book of Obits, \mder January 12. 



2 From the Manuscripts of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, purchased at his 

 decease by King George I., presented by him to the University of Cambridge, and 

 now in the Public Library there. A list of ancient and forgotten names is not 

 perhaps in itself of much importance ; but as a samj)le of a class of Monastical 

 Records not often met -with, a ' ' Book of Obits" may not be wholly void of interest. 



