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or carry froiu any of their Avoods in Dul verton, except 

 Mershe Wood ; and a robe or tunic of tlie livery of the 

 Said Prior and Convent, as the servitors of the said Prior 

 and Convent have. He obtained in lieu of this from the 

 Court of Augmentation, on the lOth of February, 1540, 

 an annuity of four poundö with arrears.* 



Shortly afterwards the Prior and Convent made a grant 

 to another of their instructors. On the 16th of September, 

 1538, they agreed to give to Thomas Foxe, their organist 

 and chapel master, an annual stipend of five pounds Ster- 

 ling, payable quarterly ; four cartloads of fuel from their 

 own woods, to be carted to his house at their expense ; a 

 house of theirs without fine next their tenement in Canon 

 Street, at a rent of six shilUngs and eight pence ; a govvn 

 or robe " ex libariis nostris optlmis ;" and maintenance 

 daily at the table of the cellarer or with the servants "ad 

 ultimam refectionem in aula." In return for this he was to 

 teach and instruct the boys in the musical part of Divine 

 Service daily in their chapel, and if any of the Canons 

 should be disposed to learn to play on the organ, the said 

 Thomas was to instruct him to the best of his ability. The 

 Augmentation Court ordered him in lieu thereof an an- 

 nuity of five pounds for hfe, with arrears, on the 20th of 

 June, 1539.t 



On the lOth of December, 1538, they granted to John 

 Tregonwell, Doctor of Laws, out of the special regard 

 which they entertained for him, an annuity of three pounds 

 charged on their manor of Dulverton. It would appear 

 that this regard was founded rather on the hopes of future 

 aid than on gratitude for Services already received. In the 

 present as in other instances, however, wherein we find 



* Enrolments, vol. iv. f. 117. 

 t Enrolments, vol. x. f. iiicxxiii b. 



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