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On the 14th of Februaiy, 1361-2, William Wysman 

 was preseiited to the cliurch of Ronyngton.* 



On the lOth of May, 1362, William de Essch was pre- 

 sented to the church of Thm-lokeston, void by the death 

 of Ralph Mareschal.f 



On the 17th of the same month, W^illlam Donekyn 

 was presented to the vicarage of Nyhenhude, void by the 

 resignation of William de Esse.J 



On the 29th of December, 1377, Prior Walter de 

 Grateley soleranly resigned his office in the Chapter House 

 of the Conventual Church. He had long been sufferiog 

 from the infirmities of age, and his House required a 

 younger and more active head. There is a memorandum 

 in the register of the famous William de Wykeham, Bishop 

 of Winchester, which is of special iuterest as furnishing 

 the names of the entire body of the Canons, fifteen in 

 number, on this important though melancholy occasion. 

 It is there stated that on the 29th day of December, 1377, 

 the seventh year of the pontificate of Pope Gregory XL, 

 there appeared, in the Chapter House of the Conventual 

 Church of the Priory of SS. Peter and Paul, at Taunton, 

 Master Thoraas Spert, the oflScial of John, Bishop of Bath 

 and Wells, and specially deputed as his Commissary, Henry 

 Persay and Walter Clopton, deputed by the Lord William, 

 Bishop of Winchester, together with Thomas Duffeld, 

 clerlc, of the diocese of Sarum, notary public, in the pre- 

 sence of Brothers Walter Grateley, Prior, John Kynges- 

 bury, sub-prior, Walter Cook, cellarer, Peter Ilmynstre, 

 sacristan, John Cley, precentor, Thomas Ilmynstre, Walter 

 Gone, Thomas Grey, Roger Stacy, Thomas Askham, 



* MS. Harl. 6964, p. 141. 

 t MS. Harl. 6964, p. 148. 

 t MS. Harl. 6964, p. 149. 



