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payable in equal portlons at the Festivals of the Purification 

 of the Blessed Virgin and of S. Barnabas the Apostle. 

 Besides this, the foUowing stipulation s (to us the fiir more 

 interesting part of the transaction) were to be most strictly 

 observed. The aforesaid farmer and bis assigns were to 

 provide due and honest hospitality in the Preceptory, at 

 their own expence ; and also, at their own expence, to find, 

 aecording to the ancient order, five chaplains, two of whom, 

 Chaplains of the Gross, or two others whom the Prior should 

 depute, were to be assigned to places in the Church of the 

 Sisters at Buclande, one in tiie Chapel of the Preceptory, 

 one at Bodmescumbe, and one at Durston, for the 

 continual celebration of Divine Service. They were 

 also to find maintenance and a Chamber for one chaplain 

 of the Prioress, and maintenance for the Steward of her 

 House and for his servant, with two cartloads of hay, every 

 year of the term. They were to give to Alexander Vernay, 

 Chaplain of Bodmescomb, whose appointment we have 

 already noticed, a chamber with his fuel there, and 

 eight marcs Sterling as stipend, and for his food and 

 raiment, aecording to the tenor of the agrcement previously 

 made with him. Besides this they were to pay to the 

 Prioress and Convent yearly for their customary pension 

 the sum of £22, and to the steward of the courts pertaining 

 to the Said Preceptory his regulär salary. Still further, 

 they were to bear all other ordinary and extraordinary 

 burdens incumbent on the Preceptory until the end of the 

 term, the alds to the treasury at Rhodos excepted. They 

 were to keep the buildings, walls, enclosures, hedges, &c., 

 in good rcpair, and to return them in as sound a State as 

 they received them. If any of the buildings should become 

 ruinous during the term, the Prior was to rebuild them, and 

 the farmer and his assigns were to repair and maintain them 



