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merchant. Kecites that said Eichard had certain evidences, muniments, 

 and writings made to him by Eichard Sharp, son and heir of Thomas 

 Sharp, late of Dublin, merchant, of certain messuages and lands in 

 Dublin, all which he gave to said master and wardens, to remain in 

 their custody, to the behoof of the said fraternity. The said Eichard 

 Talbot releases all his right in them on condition that every priest 

 who shall do God service upon S. Anne's Eent in the church of 

 S. Audoen shall yearly on the Sunday before the feast of S. Earnabe 

 the apostle, keep his (said Eichard's) obit, with solemn mass and 

 diriffe by plain song, in perpetuity. The bellman of said city for the 

 time being to go the Saturday next before S. Earnabe's day, according 

 to the old laudable custom, to the old station places appointed and 

 limited within said city, to "bid" a pater noster and ave for the 

 souls of said Eichard, his wife, children, and their sequels, and such 

 as they are bound to pray for, jointly and severally. If said priests, 

 or any of them in time to come, do not well and truly keep yearly 

 said obit, with the bellman going the Saturday before at the time 

 appointed, except sickness "let" any of them, or for some other 

 reason, then it shall be lawful to enter on the premises, and distrain 

 for 5s. yearly rent, without any contradiction of the gild, the distress 

 to be divided among poor people. 



6. (68) Deed dated 28 September, 1531, whereby Nicholas 



28 Sept. QwETTEOD of Dublin, merchant, master of S. Anne's gild, 

 1531. Thomas Phyllype and Henry Tayllor, wardens, grant to sir 

 Thomas More, chaplain, the service of a chantry priest, in 

 ■St. Audoen' s church, as at the altar of S. Katherine's chapel in same, as 

 far forth as God shall give him grace and bodily health, at a salary of 

 4 marks a year. The gild to find him his table honestly, according to 

 the degree of a priest, as well when he is sick as when he is whole, 

 yearly and daily during his life, or four marks as he shall elect ; also a 

 chamber wherein he may lie, that is, the nearest chamber on the right 

 hand next the entry, or coming in to Cromlyng,^ which sir William 

 Gafne had last, and which the master and wardens will not allow to 

 become ruinous. The gild to find all necessary ornaments, also bread, 

 wine, and wax. In their default, said sir Thomas to be at liberty to 

 distrain on the gild premises in the city of Dublin or the county of the 

 same. 



^ See p. 27 ; also Deed No. 124. This was the name of a messuage close to 

 the steeple of S. Audoen' s Church. 



