ANTIQUITIES. 



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benefice unto, expressly covenant- 

 ' ing or intending, that he so obtain- 

 ing the said benilit-ej shall freely 

 and clearly remit the said money so 

 borrowed ? 



68. lion; What and how many 

 benefices the master of this house 

 doth occupy, and keep in his own 

 hands ? 



69. Item ; Whether the same be- 

 nefices be appropriate and united 

 to this house by sutlicient authority ? 



70. Item; Whether the master of 

 tliis house doth make distributions 

 amongst the parishioners of the be- 

 nefices appropriate, and doth keep 

 and observe all and singular other 

 provisions and ordinances specified 

 and expressed in the appropriations 

 of the same benefices ? 

 Exhibcant omnes et shigulas Appro- 



pri'otioncSy una cum Ordinationibns 

 ef doUUionibu.i I'icuriutimm. 



71. Item; Whether he do. pro- 

 mote unto such benefices as be of 

 his gift, sufficient and able persons in 

 learning, manners, and virtue ? 



72. Item ; Whether any brother 

 of this house do serve any parish 

 church, being appropriate and united 

 to the same, and how man}' churclies 

 aj)propriate be so served ? 



73. hem ; Whether the master of 

 this house hath and possesseth any 

 benefice with cure, or any other 

 dignity with his abbey ? 

 Siuluiuud tale habci, Dispensationem 



cxliibcdl. 



74. Item; Whether the master of 

 this house, at any time since he was 

 first made abbot, or master, did 

 know or believe that he was bus- 

 pendcd, or excommunicated, either 

 by the law, or by any judge ; and 

 whether he, knowin;^ or supposing 

 Limself so to be, did sing mass in 

 the mean time, and before he was 

 absolved ? 



In visitatione Monialium ad praemis- 

 su addanlur hc'c. 



75. Item; Whether this monas- 

 tery hath good and sufficient enclo- 

 sure, and whether the doors and 

 windows be diligently kept shut, so 

 that no man can have entry into the 

 same, or any part thereof, at in 

 convenient times ? 



Propter quod necessarium crit Vi- 

 sitatori circmnire monasieriiim, ac 

 videre.) ac rimare disposUionem 

 a;dt/iciorum, et an sint aliqua loca 

 pervia per qius secrete intrari pos- 

 si( ; et una secum habeat abbatis- 

 snm cum dnabus aut tribiis senio- 

 ribus monialibus, a qiiibus turn in- 

 ierroget, an ostia monasterii sin^. 

 gulis quibusque noctibus sub clavi~ 

 bus cluusa teneantur, et qua: earum 

 monialium senis confectarum., vel 

 an abbas ipsa eluvium custodians 

 tempore nocturno habeant et tc- 

 ntant : nam non est tutum clavium 

 cusiodiam junioribus committere. 



76. Item; Whether strangers, 

 men or women, useth commonly to 

 have communication with the sis- 

 ters of this house, without license 

 of the abbess or prioress, specially 

 in secret places, and in the absence 

 of their sisters : 



77. Item; Whether any sister of 

 this house were professed for any 

 manner of compulsion of her friends 

 and kinsfolk, or by the abbess or 

 prioress ? 



78. Item ; Whether any of the 

 sisters of this house usc(;h to go forth, 

 any whither out of the precinct 

 thereof, without special licence of 

 their abbess or prioress ? 



79. Item; Whether any sister 

 doth use her habit continually out 

 of her cell ? 



80. Item ; Wherein every one of 

 you occujjicth herself, beside the 

 time of divine service ? 



81. Item;. 



