364 On the Appropriation of the Rectory of Lacock. 



Michaelmas of that year the Abbess and Convent entered into a 

 bond to Sir John Bluet to finish the chapel before Michaelmas, 

 1319, under penalty of 200 marks, which sum, if they performed 

 their bargain, was to be applied towards the cost of the work. 

 This bond is preserved in the Record Office, and is printed in the 

 Appendix (No. XI.). By 1315, however, either they found them- 

 selves unable to carry out their obligation, or some change was 

 introduced into the plan, and a new agreement, now preserved at 

 Lacock, and printed in vol. xvi. of the Magazine, p. 350, was drawn 

 up on the Thursday after St. Bartholomew (Aug. 24th), 1315. 

 Two bonds bearing date the Saturday after the Nativity of the 

 Virgin (Sept. 8th), 1315, provided for the completion of two-thirds 

 of the work under penalty of £88 18s., and of the remaining one- 

 third under penalty of £44 9s., are now in the Kecord Office. 1 No 

 dates are specified in these bonds, but in the agreement itself 

 eight and four. years respectively are mentioned for the completion 

 of the two portions of the work. As we have no record to the 

 contrary, it may be assumed that the chapel was finished within 

 the time specified; i.e., before July 7th, 1328. 



In 1318 Nicholas Skarpenham was presented to the Vicarage, 

 but no settled arrangement had been made for the permanent 

 endowment of the charge. Power had been reserved by the 

 instrument of appropriation in 1312 to "ordain " the Vicarage, in 

 case of it not being done by the patron, and thus we find in 1337, 

 the Bishop of Salisbury (Robert Wy ville) issuing his " ordinationes " 

 which were duly copied into the Older Cartulary, p. 3b, from which 

 they are here printed (Appendix, No. XIV.). The chief points may 

 thus be summarized : — The Vicarage was to consist of (1) the 

 " manse " or dwelling-house ; (2) ten acres of arable land ; (3) 

 right of pasture to the annual value of at least twenty pence ; (4) 

 the oblations of all kinds both in the Parish Church and the Chapel 

 of Lackham ; (5) the small tithes, including those of wool and 

 lambs, of cheese and milk, of cows, calves, foals, young pigs, geese, 

 hemp, and flax ; (6) the tithe of all mills in the parish ; (7) an 



1 Court of Wards, Deeds, &c, Box 94 E, 21, 107. App. XII. and XIII. 



