ätYNCUIN BUCKLAND TKIOriY. 63 



On the Ist of August, 1538, Katerina Bourgcher, 

 Prioress, and Convent granted to the same Alexander 

 Pophara, for good counsel and faitliful Service, an annuity 

 of six pounds thlrteen Shillings and fourpence, issuing from 

 all their lands and tenements in theparish of Northpetherton, 

 to be paid in equal portions at the feasts of Michaelmas, 

 Christmas, Easter and S. John the Baptist. After non- 

 payment for a-month, he mlght enter and distrain on the 

 lands in the parlsh of Northepetherton. This also, with 

 arrears from the Dlssolutlon, was ordered by the Court of 

 Augmentation, on the same day as that of the previous Order, 

 the 7th of November, 1539.* 



On the Ist of Augast, 1538, Katerina Bourgheyr, 

 Prioress, and Convent granted to William Porteman, of 

 Orchard, gentleman, in return for good counsel already and 

 thereafter to be glven, an annuity of twentysix Shillings and 

 eightpence, issuing from their manor of Northpetherton, and 

 from all their lands and tenements withln that parlsh, to be 

 paid yearly at Älichaelmas. Here we have another instance 

 of the extortions by Submission to which theReligious Houses 

 were obllged to secure the favour of the powerful, and also 

 of the gross venallty which characterized those who could 

 without shame appropriate such infamous gains. No wonder 

 that these were the men who soon afterwards were the fore- 

 most to struggle for the spoil. Non-payment for a month 

 was to empower him to enter and distrain. This also was 

 ordered to be continued for his lifo, together with arrears 

 from the Dlssolutlon, on the 4th of July, 1539. f 



ün the 2nd of October, 1538, an Indenture was made 

 between " Dame Kateryn Bourcher, Priorisse of the House 

 of Suster Buckland, and the Covent of the same House, 



* Ordersand Decrees, vol. vi, ff. iiiixxxYi,iiiixxxvib. 

 t Orders and Decrees,'vt)l. \., ff. iiicxxxiiiib, iiicxxxv. 



