MYNCHIN BUCKLAND PKIORY. 21 



be procurator and administrator of the estates belonging to 

 the Hospital in the diocese of Bath and Wells.* 



In the year 1328, an amlcable arrangement was after 

 some delay arrived at between Geoffrey Samuel and William 

 his son on the one part, and the Prioress Isabella la Louwe 

 and Convent on the other, touching the celebration of 

 Divine Service in their chapel of Lokyngton, in their parish 

 of Kilmersdon. It was agreed that the Prioress and 

 Convent, for themselves and their successors, should grant 

 to the aforesaid Geoffrey and William, the celebration in 

 the aforesaid chapel, on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 

 to be performed by the perpetual Vicar of Kilmersdon, in 

 return for a tenement which the Prioress and Convent held 

 of the fee of the aforesaid Geoffi'ey and William. To the 

 constant maintenance of this celebration, Geoffrey and 

 William bound themselves and their heirs in one quarter of 

 com, to be paid every year to the said Vicar from their 

 manor of Lokyngton. The confirmation was dated the 

 19th of November, 1328-1 



On the 28th of August in the following year, 1329, died 

 Thoraas L'Archier, Prior of England. He gave to the 

 Sisters of Buckland a yearly pension of forty Shillings, to 

 be drawn for ever from the manor of Hidon, a limb of 

 Templecomb.J 



During the same year, the Preceptor and Sisters were 

 obliged to call in the aid of their ecclesiastical superiors 

 against the harsh measures of Master Richard de Thistel- 

 den, their diocesan's official. The latter had called upon 

 them to exhibit their title to the churches of Northpeder- 

 ton, Durston, Halse, Bromfeld, and Kynemersden, in the 



* Archer, e Reg. Drok. 159. 



t MS. Harl, 0961, p. 132. 



t MS. Colt. E. VI. f. 1ß7b. Appendix, No. XV. 



