By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson. 



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and of our successors in our Church of Sarum, and of the Archdeacon 

 of Sarum for the time being, in lieu of fees upon Institutions and 

 Inductions to the said Church of Rowley alias Wittenham, the 

 following payments, viz., viii pence to ourselves and our Successors 

 Bishops of Sarum, viii pence to the Dean and Chapter of Sarum, 

 and also viii pence to the Archdeacon of Sarum, for the time being, 

 to be well and truly paid every year after the Union aforesaid upon 

 the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (25 March), 

 by the Rector of the said Church of Farley Hungerford and his 

 successors for ever in the same. Saving always in all things our 

 Episcopal rights and those of our Archdeacon in the rents profits 

 and charges from the said Church of Rowley alias Wittenham due 

 and accustomed from ancient times; saving also the dignity and 

 diocesan privilege of our Church of Sarum as well as the bounds and 

 precincts of our Diocese from all violation whatever. 



" And we pray you that on the completion of this act, ye will 

 vouchsafe to communicate to us, whatsoever ye shall have done 

 therein by your Letters Patent ensealed with your seal, embodying 

 within them, the contents of these presents. 



" Given under our Seal for Temporalities 1 at our Manor of Rem- 

 mesbury 2 22nd September A.D. 1428, in the first year of our con- 

 secration. 



" Provided further that the Books, Vestments, and other or- 

 naments of the said Church of Rowley alihs Wittenham shall re- 

 main in the said Church, to be preserved without any alienation 

 whatsoever. 



"And Whereas upon the receipt of these Letters from our 

 Reverend Brother Robert, Bishop of Sarum, it hath been set forth 

 and declared to us upon the part of the aforesaid Noble Lord Walter 

 Hungerford Lord of Heytesbury and Homet, Patron of both 



1 " Sigillum ad causas: " meaning the particular seal used by Ecclesiastics in 

 office, Chapters, &o., in executing deeds relating to matters of worldly business* 

 This custom existed in the previous century, the 14th. "Pour 1c tempore] " is 

 the explanation given in the preface to "Collection de Sceaux." Faris, 1863. 



2 Ramsbury, in the North-east of Wiltshire: from A.D. 009 to A.D. 1075 

 the seat of a distinct Bishoprick : after that, and at the time of the date of this 

 document, one of the residences of the Bishop of Sarum. 



