TAUNTüN PRIORY. 17 



and as it is one of more than ordinary interest for the 

 general reader, a literal translation may not be unac- 

 ceptable. 



"Walter, Bishop of Bath and Wells, ordains and ap- 

 points that Master Simon de Lym, vicar of the chapel of 

 S. Mary ]\Iagdalene, Tanten, the parish church appro- 

 priated to the Priory of SS. Peter and Paul at Tanton, 

 as vicar incumbent and instituted in the same, shall every 

 week in the year reeeive twenty-one canonical loaves, and 

 forty-two conventual flagons of ale, and seven loaves, that 

 is to say of boulted flour, of the same weight as the canon- 

 ical loaves, and two loaves of finest white bread, and seven 

 flagons of best ale ; and shall reeeive every year of the said 

 Prior and Convent fifteen marcs of silver ; and six cart- 

 loads of hay, and seven busheis of oats every week for his 

 horse, and two Shillings for the shoeing of his horse every 

 year ; and shall reeeive freely all legacies made to him in 

 the pai'ish ; and have the same houses and curtilages as 

 those belonging to his predecessors, with the following 

 eure and charge ; namely, that he shall serve at his own 

 cost, by himself and his curates, the chapel of S. Mary 

 Magdalene of Tanton, of Trendle (TruU), of the Castle, 

 and of Föns S. George (Wilton), in the sacraments and 

 other Divine offices of the church ; with this addition, 

 that he shall find a priest constantly resident for the Ser- 

 vice at Trendle. Also we ordain that for the aid of the 

 said vicar and his successors, to whom the eure of souls of 

 the whole parish of the said parish church is specially com- 

 mitted by the ordinary of the place, and on whom it falls, 

 the said Prior and his successors shall perpetually provide 

 for himself and his successors for the Performance of Divine 

 Service by one secular priest for the chapels of Stoke and 

 of Eiston (Ruishton) which are sufficiently contiguous, and 



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