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shall be in arrear, it shall be .fully lawful to the aforesaid Walter and his 

 assigns as for rent or pension so for the aforesaid penalty if it be in arrear 

 and not paid, in the aforesaid manor, and out of any parcel of it to distrain 

 and the distrained goods so taken to remove and retain so long as the whole 

 aforesaid entire rent or pension shall be in arrear, and the penalty or penalties 

 for defect of payment of the said rent as is aforesaid, until the full debt shall 

 have been satisfied and paid. Provided always that if it happens that the 

 said Walter die before the aforesaid term thereupon the aforesaid payment of 

 rent ceases and the arrears that exist after the death of the said Walter as to 

 any aforesaid term shall neither be levied nor leviable nor paid, nor to be 

 paid, for that we the aforesaid warden and scholars and our successors may 

 thenceforward be quit and exonerated in possession. Yet so that the rents 

 that are in arrear in the lifetime of the aforesaid Walter in time approximate, 

 although before any term fully complete when he shall happen to die, the 

 executors of the same Walter shall be fully paid. In testimony of which 

 matter we the aforesaid Warden and Scholars of one part of these indentures 

 which remain in the possession of Mr. Walter have set to our seal in our 

 chapter house ; but to the other part of these indentures held and remaining 

 with the said Warden and scholars the aforesaid Walter set his seal dated the 

 14th February in the year of King Henry the Sixth after the conquest of 

 England the 18th. 



Know all that the Warden and Scholars of the college called St. Mary 

 College of Wynchester at Wynton to be held, and to be by these presents 

 firmly bound to Walter Trangoff, Archdeacon of Cornwall in .£200 sterling to 

 be paid to the same Walter or to his certain Attorney on the feast of Easter 

 next to be after the present date without further delay of payment whatsoever 

 well and faithfully to be made : we bind ourselves and our successors by these 

 presents. In witness of which thing our corporate seal in our present chapter 

 house is appended, dated 15th day of February in the year of the reign of 

 King Henry 6th after the Conquest of England the 18th. 



The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bound Warden 

 and scholars and their successors pay or cause to be paid to the aforesaid 

 Walter and his assigns every year .£20 sterling at the feasts of Easter and St. 

 Michael in equal portions or at one month after either feast aforesaid during 

 the term unto 20 years under a certain manner, form, and condition as in 

 certain indentures between the aforesaid Warden & Scholars of the one part 

 and of the aforesaid Walter of the other part made very fully contains, then 

 the present obligation goes for nothing; otherwise it remains in force and vigour. 



And it is to be remembered that the aforesaid Warden came into the King s 

 Chancery at Westminster the 22 d day of November in the present year, and 

 recognised the indenture and the preceding writing and all the contents in 

 the same in the form aforesaid. 



Archdeacon Trengoff had been arch priest of the oratory at 

 Barton, which was in the parish of Whippingham, in the Isle of 

 Wight. In 1439 the Warden of Winchester obtained the endow- 

 ments of the oratory for Winchester College. Cardinal Beaufort 



