350 COMPOSITION BETWEEN THE VICAR OF GLTJVIA8 



Tkan SLATION. 



Composition between the Vicar of Gluvias and the Burgesses of 



Penryn upon the Chantry of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin 



Mary of Penryn aforesaid. 



48e it remembered dftbat SMbereas between Sir Stephen Perpetual 

 Yicar of the parish church of Saint Grluvias near Penryn 

 of one part and the Commonalty of Burgesses and other 

 the townsmen living in the Borough of Penryn of the 

 other part matter of dissension had arisen upon a certain 

 Chantry which the aforesaid Burgesses claimed to have 

 in the Chapel of the Blessed Mary of Penryn at their 

 expenses and upon offerings made in the Chapel aforesaid 

 and upon legacies left to the said chapel, also upon the 

 upper garment which the same Yicar claimed to have 

 from every one dying in the Borough aforesaid, due (as 

 he asserts) by authority of ancient custom. At length the 

 said Vicar in person and the said Commonalty of Bur- 

 gesses of the town of Penryn aforesaid by Sir Andrew 

 de Penryn, Vicar of the collegiate church of Glasney, 

 Syndic and Proctor of the Commonalty aforesaid (the tenor 

 of whose Procuratory from word to word is contained 

 below) spontaneously appeared before us the Official of 

 the Peculiar Jurisdiction of the Venerable Father in 

 Christ the Lord Bishop [of Exeter], sitting in the said 

 Lord Bishop's Court constituted at Grlasney for a Tribunal 

 on Friday next after the Feast of Saint Faith Virgin in 

 the year of Our Lord one thousand three hundred and 

 twenty two and before us the Official aforesaid, of certain 

 knowledge, intervening between the said parties as Author 

 of peace upon the claims contentions and dissensions 

 abovesaid, of their own free will acknowledged peace to 

 be thus reformed, that is to say, through the whole year — 

 the days above* written excepted, n amely ; Christmas- 

 day with the morrow, Easter-day with the morrow, "Whit 

 Sunday with the morrow, the Feast-day of All-Saints with 

 the morrow, the day of the Circumcision, the day of the 

 Epiphany, the day of the Ascension of Our Lord — with- 



* Obviously for under " written. 



