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THE 
ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
interposed in his favour, and witli great hnmanity insisted on a 
provision for him for life. The reason for this difference seems 
to have been, that, in the first case, though in years, he might 
have been hale and capable of taking his share in the duty of 
the convent ; in the second, he was broken with age, and no 
longer equal to the functions of a canon. 
Impressed with this idea the Ijishop very benevolently inter- 
ceded in his favour, and laid his injunctions on the new elected 
prior in the following manner. 
Eol. 56. " Jn Dei nomine Amen. Xos Willmus, &c. consider- 
antes Petrum Berne," late prior " in administratione spiritualium 
et temporalium prioratus laudabiliter vixisse et rexisse ; ipsum- 
que senio et corporis del)ilitate confractum ; ne in opprobrium 
religionis mcndicari cofjatur ; — eidem annuam peusionem a 
Domino Johanne Sharp, alias Glastonbury, priore moderno," 
and his successors, and, I'rom the Priory or church, to be paid 
every year during his life, "de voluntate et ex consensu ex- 
pressis " of the said John Sharp, " sub ea que sequitur forma 
verborum — assignamus : " 
1st. That the said prior and his successors, for the time being, 
honeste ejchihehunt of the fruits and profits of the priorship, 
" eidem esculenta et poculenta," while he remained in the Priory, 
" sub consimili portione eorundem prout convenienter priori," 
for the time being, ministrari contigerit ; and in like manner -m^u 
f amnio, whom he should choose to wait on him, as to the servi- 
entihus of the prior. 
Item. " Invenient sen exhibebunt eidem unam honestam 
cameram " in the Priory, " cum focalibus necessariis sen oppor- 
tunis ad eundem " 
Item. We will, ordain, &c. to the said P. Berne an annual 
pension of ten marks, from the revenue of the Priory, to be paid 
by the hands of the prior quarterly. 
The bishop decrees farther, that John Sharp, and his successors, 
shall take an oath to observe this injunction, and that before 
their installation. 
" Lecta et facta sunt hsec in quondam alto oratorio," belonging 
to the bishop at Suthwaltham, May 25, 1478, in the presence of 
John Sharp, who gave his assent, and then took the oath before 
