By the llev. Chr. Wordsioorth. 557 



Marleburgh quod ipsa quandam Cantariam perpetuam l . . . im- 

 perpetuum similiter licenciam dederimus specialem. Statuto de terris 

 et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis edito non obstante 

 prout in litteris nostris patentibus inde confectis plenius continetur. 

 Nos volentes concessionibus nostris predictum effectum debito man- 

 cipari concessimus et licenciam dedimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris 

 quantum in nobis est prelate Isabelle quod ipsa sex messuagia duo 

 tofta quadraginta acras terre duodecim acras prati et sex marcatas 

 redditus cum pertinenciis in Marleburgh' et Oggeburn' sancti Gfeorgii 

 que ad septem marcas nouem solidos et octo denarios extenduntur per 

 annum et que de aliis quam de nobis tenentur, sicut per inquisicionem 

 inde coram Johanne Dewale Esceatore nostro in comitatu Wiltes de 

 mandato nostro captum et in cancellariam nostram retornatam, est 

 compertum, dare possit et assignare Capellano Cantarie predicte ha- 

 bend' sibi et successoribus suis imperpetuum in valorem octo marcarum 

 per annum in partem satisfaccionis duodecim marcatarum terrarum tene- 

 mentum et redditum per annum eidem Capellano et successoribus suis 

 per nos nuper adquirend' concessimus. Et eidem Capellano quod ipse 

 messuagia tofta terram pratum et redditum predicta cum pertinenciis 

 a prefata Isabella recipere possit et tenere sibi et successoribus suis 

 sicut predictum est imperpetuum tenore presencium similiter licenciam 

 dedimus specialem Statuto predicto non obstante. Nolentes quod 

 predicta Isabella vel heredes sui seu predictus Capellanus vel suc- 

 cessors sui racione statuti predicti per nos vel heredes nostros Justici- 

 aries Esceatores Vicecomites aut alios Balliuos seu ministros nostros 

 vel heredum nostrorum quoscunque inde occasionenter molestantur in 

 aliquo seu graventur. In cuius rei testimonium has litteras nostras 

 fieri fecimus patentes. 



Teste Eege apud Westmonasterium [die Mercurii] x. die Decembris 

 [A.D. 1449] . 



On Saturday, 19th December, 1450, Bishop Richard Beauchamp 

 held an ordination in St. Peter's, Marlborough, and another on 

 Saturday, 20th December, 1406. On the latter occasion the candi- 

 dates were : one acolyte and one subdeacon for the house of Eston 

 (Eoyal), five other subdeacons (for Forde Abbey, Exeter, and 

 Bath and Wells, and a vicar choral for Salisbury), three monks of 

 Malmesbury, and one other to the diaconate, and a priest for the 

 abbess and nuns of Lacock Abbey, and another priest for Forde 

 Abbey, Exeter, by letters dimissory. Beauchamp Beg., i. ff. 154, 

 191. Wolsey was ordained priest here on the Ember Saturday, 



1 The patent of 28 H. VI. (10 Dec, 1449) here recites the greater part of 

 that of the 24th year, which we do not repeat here, as it is given on the pre- 

 ceding pages, 555—6. 



2 " Molestentur " : Pat,, AD. 1446. 



