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there are two sharp-pointed gothic niches ; one of these pro- 

 bably was the place under which these masses were per- 

 formed; and there is the more reason to suppose as much, 

 because, till within these thirty years, this space was fenced 

 off with gothic wooden railing, and was known by the name of 

 the south chancel. 8 



The solicitude expressed by the donor plainly shews her 

 piety and firm persuasion of the efficacy of prayers for the 

 dead; for she seems to have made every provision for the 

 payment of the sum stipulated within the appointed time ; 

 and to have felt much anxiety lest her death, or the neglect of 

 her executors or assigns, might frustrate her intentions. 

 " Et si contingat me in solucione predicte pecunie annis pre- 

 " dictis in parte aut in toto deficere, quod absit ; concedo et 



" obligo pro me et assignatis meis, quod Vice- Comes 



" Oxon et qui pro tempore fuerint, per omnes terras 



" et tenements, et omnia bona mea mobilia et immobilia ubi- 

 " cunque in balliva sua fuerint inventa ad solucionem pre- 

 " dictam faciendam possent nos compellere." And again 

 " Et si contingat dictos religiosos labores seu expensas facere 

 " circa predictam pecuniam, seu circa partem dicte pecunie ; 

 " volo quod dictorum religiosorum impense et labores levantur 

 " ita quod predicto priori vel uni canonicorum suorum super - 

 " hiis simplici verbo credatur sine alterius honore probacionis: 

 " et quod utrique predictorum virorum in unam marcam 

 " argenti pro cujuslibet distrincione super me facienda tenear. 

 " Dat. apud Wareborn die sabati proxima ante festum St. 

 " Hard evangeliste, anno regni regis Edwardi tertio de- 

 "cimo."* 



But the reader perhaps would wish to be better informed 



8 For what is said more respecting this chantry see Letter III. of these 

 Antiquities. Mention is made of a Nicholas Lang-risk, capellanus de 

 Skiborne, in the time of Henry VIII. Was he chantry-chaplain to Ela 

 Lntigspee, whose masses were probably continued to the time of the 

 reformation ? More will be said of this person hereafter. 



* Ancient deeds are often dated on a Sunday, having been executed in 

 churches and church-yards for the sake of notoriety, and for the con- 

 veniency of procuring several witnesses to attest. 



