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and carneftly enjoins them that, with all due fpeed and diligence, 
they Ihould proceed to the eleftion of proper perfons to fill up the 
vacancies, under pain of the greater excommunication. 
In Item 17th. the prior and canons are accufed of fulfering, 
through negledr, notorious dilapidations to take place among their 
manerial houfes and tenements, and in the walls and enclofures of 
the convent itfelf, to the fliame and fcandalof the inftitution ; they 
are therefore enjoined, under pain of fufpenfion, to repair all de- 
fects within the fpace of fix months. 
Item 1 8th. charges them v.'ith grievoufly burthcning the faid 
Priory by means of fales, and grants of U-veries" and eorrod/es^. 
The bifliop, in ife^n xpth, accufes the canons of neglett and 
omiffion with refpecft to their perpetual ebantry-fervkes. 
Item 20th. The vifitor here conjures the prior and canons not 
to withhold their original alms, " elceniofymts \ ' nor thofe that they 
were enjoined to diftribute for the good of the fouls of founders 
and benefaftors : he alfo firiftly orders that the fragments and 
broken viduals, both from the hall of their prior and their common 
refedlory fhould be carefully collefted together by their eleemofy- 
narius, and given to the poor without any diminution ; the officer 
to be fufpended for negled or omiffion. 
^ " Liberationes, or Uberatura, allowances of corn, &c. to fervants, M'mered at 
" certain times, and in certain quantities, as dotties were among the allowances from 
«' religious houfes to their dependants. See the corrodies granted by Crqyland abbey. 
Hifl. ofCroyland, Appendix, N" XXXI V, 
*' It is not improbable that the word in after-ages came to be confined to the uniform 
" of the retainers or fervants of the great, who were hence calkd liuery fernjants.'" 
Sir Joh7i Ctdlurns Hijl. of Hatvjled. 
f A corrodj is an allowance to a fervant living in an abbey or priory. 
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