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reduced to beggary, had not the Bishop of Winchester interposed 

 in his favour, and with great humanity insisted on a provision for 

 him for life. The reason for this difference seems to have been, 

 that, in the first case, though in years, he might have been hale and 

 capable of taking his share in the duty of the convent : in the 

 second, he was broken with age, and no longer equal to the 

 functions of a canon. 



Impressed with this idea, the bishop very benevolently interceded 

 in his favour, and laid his injunctions on the new-elected prior in 

 the following manner. 



Fol. 56. " In Dei nomine Amen. Nos Willmus, &c., consider- 

 antes Petrum Berne," late prior, " in adininistratione spiritualium 

 et temporalium prioratus laudabiliter vixisse et rexisse ; ipsumque 

 senio et corporis debilitate confractum ; ne in opprobrium religionis 

 mendicari cogatitr ; eidem annuam pensionem a Domino Johanne 



LEADEN TAP. 



Sharpe, alias Glastonbury, priore moderno," and his successors, 

 and, from the priory or church, to be pa^ed every year during his 

 life, " de voluntate et ex consensu expressis " of the said John 

 Sharpe " sub ea que sequitur forma verborum assignamus : " 



ist. That the said prior and his successors, for the time being, 

 honeste exhibebunt of the fruits and profits of the priorship, "eidem 

 esculenta et poculenta," while he remained in the priory " sub 

 consimili portione eorundem prout convenientur priori," for the 

 time being, ministrari contigerit; and in like manner uni famulo, 

 whom he should choose to wait on him, as to the servientibus of 

 the prior. 



Item. " Invenient seu exhibebunt eidem imam honestam 

 cameram," in the priory, "cum socalibus necessariis seu oppor- 

 tunis ad eundem." 



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