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is a most curious one. Tlie abbot and monks are called tbe 
proprietaries of the parish church, or church served by a curate, 
of St. Olave. For the future it is to be regarded as a parish 
chm’ch, and the parishioners are to build, repair it, and find the 
necessary ornaments, except for the chancel. The outer wall 
on the north side of the nave is to be rebuilt after the pattern 
of the outer wall on the south side. The parishioners are to 
build and repair the church, v/hich is now in ruin, before 
Michaelmas, 1468, with the follov/ing help from the abbejx 
The monks are to give them twenty large oak trees and 10/. in 
money ; also vestments for priest, deacon, and sub-deacon for 
festivals ; two other suits for Sundays and holydays; also three 
copes, and a chalice and paten of silver, by next Easter; they 
are also to see that the church is consecrated within the 
three months next following ; to provide a font, and a cemetery 
properly enclosed. The parishioners for the future are to receive 
all legacies and gifts to the fabric. 
On the tvv^enty-fifth of March following, the last day of the 
year, 1466, according to the then reckoning of time, there was a 
service in the chapel of St. Mary, at the east end of St. Olave’s, 
and which was evidently used as the parish church for the time 
being. At this service Simon Ward, a monk of St. Mary’s, 
as the representative of his brethren, recited in English the 
terms of the Archbishop’s recent award, and, in the presence of 
many of the parishioners, paid over £10 in gold into the hands 
of Eobert Plompton, Thomas G-irssop, Eichard Wasdall, and 
John Yinter, wendens or keepers of the fabric of St. Olave’s. 
He also gave them a vestment of green cloth of gold for festivals, 
to be worn by priest, deacon, and sub-deacon ; another vest¬ 
ment of the same material and colour for Sundaj^s, and one of 
a substance called “ Burd-Alexandre,” probably from Alex¬ 
andria, for holy days ; also three copes, one of green cloth of 
gold, and the other two of green “ Burd-Alexandre,” together 
with a chalice and paten of silver gilt. When the monks had 
made up their minds to do their cliitj^, they did it well. 
From this most curious document we see the creation of a 
parish church, so changed from the preceding structure that it 
was necessary to consecrate it. The earlier building was 
