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him 011 the 6tli of February, 1541, an annulty of fifty 

 Shillings and arrears.* 



On the lOth of February, 1538, the Prior and Convent 

 granted to John Bytford, Bachelor of Arts, an annuity of 

 five marcs Sterling, issuing from the lands and tenements of 

 their manor of Myddyldon, with power to distrain ; main- 

 tenance in eatables and drinkables at the table of the 

 Prior, and for his serving boy with the boys of the chapel ; 

 a sufficient Chamber which one Eoger Worthe aforetime 

 had ; wood for his fire in the aforesaid Chamber, to be 

 delivered every day at the door thereof ; a white loaf and a 

 quart of conventual ale every night, and two candles to be 

 supplied for the said chamber, or wheresoever eise it might 

 please the said John ; and four ells of woollen cloth " pro 

 libario suo," of the value of five Shillings per eil. This was 

 given " for good service and diligence in teaching and 

 instructing our novices and the whole Convent in the 

 rudiments of grammar and other kinds of literature." So 

 much for monastic ignorance, on which it is too generally 

 the fashion to dllate. Taunton Priory was in fact one of 

 the schools in which knowledge exercised her sway, and 

 John Bytford was her honoured teacher. The Court of 

 Augmentation adjudged him, in lieu of this grant, an 

 annuity of five pounds for life, with arrears, on the 17th 

 of November, 1539,t 



On the 25 th of June, 1538, the Prior and Convent 

 granted to John Cars the office of Bailiff of Dulverton, 

 Buggethole, and Lewcote ; a rent of three pounds Sterling, 

 issuing from their rents and tenements in Dulverton ; ten 

 cartloads of fuel, as much as four yoke of oxen could draw 



* Eurolments, vol. vii., f. xxviii. 

 t Eurolments, vol. vi. ff. clxxxviib, clxxxviii b. 



