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"2. He is to assist the Catholiques not otherwise provyded for in the 

 parish of Long Preston and Gigleswick, continuing amongst them a 

 week in everie month, and for other three weekes he is to assist such 

 as are not provyded for in the parish of Great Mitton and Laythgream, 

 and resyde amongst them. 



" 3. If it shall please God, eyther Mr. Shirburn or his wyfe do dye, 

 and the other survyve, one of the Masses which were to be sayd for the 

 living shall be whoUie employed for his or her soul soe departing, and 

 the second for the lyving miist be said for the survyvor with a com- 

 memoration for the rest, but when the survyvor shall die also, then ye 

 2nd Massa. shall also be employed solely for the benefit of his or her 

 soul ; soe of the three Masses one shaU be sayd then for the husband, 

 another for the wyfe's soul, and the third for the good of their grand- 

 daughter Isabell Townley, lyving or dead, and of their posterity living, 

 that they may serve God lawdable ever. In all a memento for their 

 faithful departed friends. 



"4. If any of the donor's children dye, the parents sm-vyving, the 

 Mass for the departed friends shall be sayd for itt, a yeare, with a 

 commemoration of the faitliful departed. 



"5. If it should please God that more children than one dye in one 

 yeare, the parents siu-vyving, when he has finished a trental for that 

 which dyed first, hee shaU begyn another for the second, and, that 

 done, shall goe about to make vpp the Masses to a yeare's proportion. 



" 6. Itt is left to the priest's discretion what he will to take out of 

 the Masses for the lyving for any child that shall die after the decease 

 of both their parents. 



"7. Hee shall keep the anniversarye of their nearest fi-iends, which 

 they themselves (the MS. is here torn), keepe their owne and their 

 children (M.S. torn). 



"8. Itt is left to the discretion of the priest, if more trentals than 

 one be uppon hande, to intercept the trental he is sayini/ when some 

 special occasion happens for remembering the others, soe reparation 

 bee made in due tyme. Alsoe instead of saying one Masse a weeke 

 when death happens, hee is desyred rather to saye, as consequently as 

 hee can, the proportion of Masses allotted to each one respectively 



