42 PAPEllS, ETC. 



On the lOth of April, 1349, John Cryspyn, chaplain, 

 was presented to the Church of ßovyngton ; and on the 

 same day Robert Cox, chaplain, was presented to the 

 vicarage of Pypminster."^" 



On the 25th of November, 1349, a solemn sentence 

 was pronounced in the cemetery of the Conventual Church. 

 After an investigation before John de Sydehale, Canon 

 of Wells, the commissary specially appointed by the 

 Bishop, Roger de Warmwille, of levele, was adjudged to 

 do penance for various delinquencies of a very atrocioua 

 character. With bare head and feet he was thrice to 

 make circuit of the church of levele, and during the cele- 

 bration of high mass was to hold a wax candle of one pound 

 weight, and at the conclusion of the penance to offer it at 

 the high altar. The priest officiating was then to state 

 to the clergy and people present the cause of the punish- 

 ment. This was also to be done thrice in the public 

 market, and in several churches of the diocese. He was in 

 conclusion, after sundry scourgings, to pay to the Bishop 

 twenty pounds Sterling, as bail for future good behaviour, 

 and to go on pilgrimage to the shrine of S. Thomas at 

 Canterbury. Such was the mode in which the Church 

 punished wealthy offenders in the fourteenth centuiy — 

 a mode personally to the culprit most distasteful, and 

 thorougly appreciated by the Community at large.f 



On the 22nd of June, 1350, the Prior and Convent 

 presented John Cryspyn to Nihenhyde ; and, on the same 

 day, William Wysman to Rovyngton, and Richard Heryng 

 to the vicarage of Putmynster, by exchange.J 



* MS. Harl. 6965, p. 207. 



t MS. Harl. 6965, pp. 211, 212. 



: MS. Harl.6965, p. 212. 



