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him for life. The reafon for this difference feems to have been, 
that, in the firfl cafe, though in years, he might have been hale 
and capable of taking his fhare in the duty of the convent ; in the 
fecond, he was broken with age, and no longer equal to the func- 
tions of a canon. 
Imprefled with this idea the bifliop very benevolently interceded 
in his favour, and laid his injundlions on the new-ele6led prior in 
the following manner. 
Fol. 56. " In Dei nomine Amen. Nos IVillmus, &c. confide- 
*' rantes Tetnmi Berne " late prior " in adminiftratione fpiritualium 
" et temporalium prioratus laudabiliter vixiffe et rexiffe ; ipfumque 
fenio et corporis debilitate confraftum; ne in opprobrium 
" religionis mendicarl cogatur ; — eidem annuam penfionem a Domino 
*^ Johame Sharps alias Glaftonbury, priore moderno," and his fuc- 
ceflbrs, and, from the Priory or church, to be payed every year 
during his life, *' de voluntate et ex confenfu expreffis" of the 
faid yohn Sharpy " fub ea que fequitur forma verborum — aflig- 
namus : 
I ft. That the faid prior and his fucceflbrs, for the time being, 
honcjle exhibebunt of the fruits and profits of the priorfliip, " eidem 
efculenta et poculenta," while he remained in the Priory fub 
confimili portione eorundem prout convenienter priori," for the 
time being, miniftrart contigeril ; and in like manner un'i famulOf 
whom he fliould chufe to wait on him, as to the fervientibus of 
the prior. 
Itc-n. " Invcnient feu exhibebunt eidem unam honeftam cnme- 
*' la.n" in the Priory, " cum focalibus necelfariis feu opportunis 
*' ad euiidem. 
Item. 
