38 PAPJSRS, ETC. 



for the fiiture. They were to find provIslon and attend- 

 ance for three or four days and uights for the servants of 

 the Prior comhig with five or six horses twice a year on 

 Visitation to the said Preceptory, or for holding courts there. 

 The aforesaid farmer and his assigns were to have housebote, 

 fyrebote, ploughbote, cartbote, hedgebote, harobote, and 

 foldebote, in and of the woods and underwoods of the said 

 Preceptory by reasonable assignment and without waste. 

 It was stipulated also that the Prior and his servants were 

 to visit the said Preceptory whenever they pleased, and to 

 hold courts and make leases ; the farmer and his assigns to 

 have the profits of the said courts, and to restore at the 

 end of the term all the rolls of the courts, and leases, old 

 and new, which should come to their hands during the 

 interval. The farmer and his assigns were not to release 

 their status in the Preceptory to any other holder without 

 the licence of the Prior. If the rcnt went back, in part or 

 in all, for two months after the dates above specified, it 

 was to be lawful for the Prior to re-enter and take posses- 

 sion. If the profits of the contributions were suspended, 

 the farmer and his assigns were to be allowed the differ- 

 ence, and to pay those monies only which they should 

 actually receive. John Vernay bound himself to the Per- 

 formance of these agreements under a boud of two hundred 

 pounds Sterling ; and also that at the end of the term 

 he and his assigns should surrender to the Preceptor of 

 Buclande all the Ornaments of the chapel there, with all the 

 stock living and dead. The document was signed with the 

 seals of the Prior and of John Vernay aforesaid, and was 

 " dated in our House of Clerkenwell, by London, in our 

 Assembly holden there on the twentieth day of January, 

 in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundredth." * 

 * MS. Lansd. 200, ff. Ixxxiiii, Ixxxiiii b. Appendix, No. XVIII. 



