By Harold Brakspear, F.8.A. 



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seigneur de lacham dautrepart Ceo est asavoir qe les avauntdites abbesse e 

 covent o lour successeres frount feare e parfeare une chapele de nostre Dame 

 en lour abbey e de lacoke Quele chapele se joynt a lour haut Eglise de mesme 

 labbeye E si serra La chapele de la longure de ( ynkaunte e neof pez e de la 

 largesce de vynt e cynke e demi E serront en lavauntdite chapele quatre 

 fenestres Ceo est asavoir en chescun gable une fenestre si large com la une est 

 feate e chevie e lautre com elle est comencee serra bien feat e finie e en Le 

 forein costee de lavauntdite chapele la une soit telle com elle est feat e chevie 

 e lautre si large com elle est comencee serra feat e finie de bone overaigue e 

 covenable E serront les avauntdites fenestres covenablement ferrees e verrees 

 E serra le veul mur abatuz de la poynte des deus fenestres qe furent e parerent 

 le jour de la fesaunce de cest escript en le mur avauntdit taunke a la renge 

 table prochein de soutz les bas de memes les fenestres E serront deus arches 

 feates la ou le mur issi serra abatuz si large ceo est asavoir com bien e 

 enseurement purra estre soeffers entre les deus rachemenz issi qe la veille 

 voute purra estre sawne sanz peril E frount les avauntditz abbesse e covent 

 o lour successeres feare le comble de mesme la chapele de bon merym e 

 covenable overaygue E de tel manere coumble commenz plerra a lavauntditz 

 abbesse e covent o lour successeres E serra lavauntdite chapele ceo est asavoir 

 le comble covert de plum bein e covenablement E serra le coumble de denz 

 lavauntdite chapele tot bien laumbresche e depeynt." 1 



The rest of the agreement refers to the time allowed for the 



1 This is the covenant made between Lady Johanna de Mounfort Abbess 

 of Lacoke and the convent of the same place of the one part, and Sir John 

 Bluet, lord of Lackham, of the other part. — That is to say the aforesaid Abbess 

 and convent or their successors will cause to be made and perfected a chapel 

 of Our Lady adjoining their high church in their abbey of Lacoke — And the 

 chapel shall be thus, of length fifty-nine feet and of breadth twenty-five and a 

 half — and there shall be in the said chapel four windows, namely in each 

 gable one window, the one so large as is made and finished, and the other 

 as it is begun shall be well made and finished, and in the further side 

 of the said chapel the one to be such as is made and finished and the 

 other as large as it is begun shall be made and finished of good and suitable 

 work, and the aforesaid windows shall be suitably ironed and glazed. And 

 the old wall shall be taken down from the apex of the two windows, which 

 were in the wall aforesaid and appeared on the making of this script, as far as 

 the string-course next below the sills of the same windows, and two arches 

 shall be made there, where the wall shall be taken down as large as can well 

 and safely be allowed between the two buttresses, that is to say where the 

 old arch [window arch] can be sawn without danger. And the aforesaid 

 Abbess and convent or their successors shall cause the roof of the said chapel 

 to be made of good timber and suitable workmanship, and a roof of such kind 

 as shall please the aforesaid Abbess and convent or their successors. And 

 the aforesaid chapel, that is to say the roof, shall be well and suitably covered 

 with lead and within the aforesaid chapel, the roof shall be all well ceiled 

 and painted. 



