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rody consisted of regulär maintenance, day by day and 

 year by year during life, in eatables and drinkables for 

 himself at the table of the Prior, " ad mensam Prioris," and 

 for two servants at the table of the servitors, " ad mensam 

 valectorum," or an equlvalent if absent of two Shillings a 

 week ; six acres of their meadow called Hole Mede, in their 

 demesne lands, the produce of which to be cut and carried 

 for the Said John; a suflScient stable called the West Stahle 

 next to that commonly called the Gesten Stable ; twelve 

 busheis of beans and the same quantity of oats, or at his 

 pleasure eight pence for each bushel of beans and six pence 

 for each bushel of oats ; pasturage for four horses all the 

 year in their pasture called Carterlease ; a sufficient Cham- 

 ber called the Toure Chamber in the chapel, with an inner 

 Chamber and all other appurtenances ; sixteen cartloads of 

 firewood from their demesne woods called the Moure ; and 

 four ells of cloth for his livery, " pro libario suo," of the 

 value of six Shillings an eil. In case of non-performance 

 the Convent was to forfeit the sum of twenty Shillings, for 

 which the said John Wadham was empowered to distrain. 

 The Court of Augmentation allowed the said John, in 

 Alichaelmas Term, on the 25th of October, 1539, instead 

 of this corrody, the sum of seven pounds a year, with 

 arrears from the dIssolution of the House.* 



On the 3 Ist of December, 1537, the Prior and Convent 

 granted by special favour an annual benevolence to Wil- 

 liam Grendon, vicar of Nynehed, and one of the Canons 

 and brother of the House, consisting of a weekly delivery 

 of eight conventual loaves and of eight flagons of conven- 

 tual ale. In lieu of this the Augmentation Court allowed 



* Enrolments of Orders and Decrees in the Exchequer, Off. Aug., vol. vi., 

 f. clxxvii, clxxvii b. 



