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Certificate of the town Gild of JUtalmesburp. 



chescun temps qascun dcuient Burgeys 

 a demurrer deinz inesine la Burgh il 

 iurra qil serra foial et loial a nostre 

 Seigneur le Roi et a cez beires et qil ne 

 ferra rienz qe purra turner en disherit- 

 ance de mesmes Burgeisez et cominalte 

 touchant lez fraunchisez Suzditz. Et 

 lez Burgeisez auantditz veiantz le grant 

 et graciouse done et conferment le Roi 

 Athelston en son temps firent edefier 

 une chapell en honour de dieu et Seint 

 Johan le Baptist en quell chapell estoit 

 ordeignez par lez ditz Burgeises qe 

 perpetuelement seroit un chapelleyn 

 pur chaunter chescun iour pur lez almes 

 le Roi Athelston et dame Mauld Sa 

 compaigne et lez almes du (sic) Roies 

 dengleterre et pur lez almes de lez 

 Burgeisez de mesme la ville et de lour 

 progenitours et successours et pur lez 

 almes dez bienfesours a mesme la ville 

 Et apres la deces de chescun chapelleyn 

 un autre serra eslieu par lez ditz Bur- 

 geisez et mys en la dite chapelle en 

 dewe forme et issi demurer pur sa vie 

 le quell chapelleyn issint ordeigne ad 

 estee et chaunte pur lez almes Suzditz 

 et de toutz cristianes tout temps puis 

 encea. A quell chapeleyn et sez Suc- 

 cessours hommes et femmes ascuns en 

 lour testament ont deuisez et ascuns 

 sanz testament par don ont doner partie 

 deuant temps de memorie et partie puis 

 et louge temps deuant lestatut de re- 

 ligiouses terres et tenemenz en eide et 

 sustinances de mesme la (sic) chapelleyn 

 pur acomplier cell grant almoigne qency 

 bon mauere feust comence les queux 

 terres et tenemenz montent par an a 

 quarant et Sis Soldz en tout. Et purceo 

 qe le dit chapelleyn ne poet Suffisaunte- 

 ment viure de cell rent le Aldreman et 

 lez Burgeises de mesme le Burgh donent 

 a luy le remenant de lour biens propres. 

 Et auxi ordeigneront deuant temps de 

 memorie pur mesme le chapelleyn un 

 mancione a luy et cez Successours Et 

 autres biens pur Seruer en la dite cha- 



frorn time whereof memory runs not to 

 the contrary that every time that any- 

 one becomes a burgess to live in the 

 same borough he shall swear that he 

 will be faithful and loyal to our lord the 

 king and to his heirs and that he will 

 do nothing which can turn to the dis- 

 inheritance of the same burgesses and 

 commonalty touching the abovesaid 

 franchises. And the burgesses aforesaid 

 considering the great and gracious gift 

 and conferment of king Athelston in 

 his time had a chapel built in honour of 

 God and St. John the Baptist in which 

 chapel was ordained by the said bur- 

 gesses that perpetually should be a 

 chaplain to sing every day for the souls 

 of king Athelston and dame Maud his 

 spouse, and the souls of the kings of 

 England, and for the souls of the bur- 

 gesses of the same town and of their pro- 

 genitors and successors and for the souls 

 of the benefactors of the same town. 

 And after the decease of every chaplain 

 another shall be chosen by the said 

 burgesses and put in the said chapel in 

 due form, and there to stay for his life, 

 the which chaplain thus ordained has 

 been and sung for the souls abovesaid 

 and all Christian souls all time since 

 after. To which chaplain and his suc- 

 cessors men and women some in their 

 wills have devised and some without 

 wills by gift have given, some before 

 time of memory,and some since, and long 

 time before the statute of the religious, 

 lands and tenements in aid and susti- 

 nence of the same chaplain for the 

 accomplishment of this great charity 

 which in such good manner was begun. 

 The which lands and tenements amount 

 by year to forty and six shillings in all. 

 And because that the said chaplain 

 cannot sufficiently live of this rent the 

 alderman and burgesses of the same 

 borough give him the remainder out 

 of their own goods. And also ordained 

 before time of memory for the same 



