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acknowledgment by the dean and chapter that the 40s rent purchased by them from laurence son of robert son of brian in st mary at hill (de hyll) and St Botolph billingsgate parishs was acquired with money bequeathed by richard, late archdeacon of colchester, to sustain a chantry priest in st paul’s
sep 1216x oct 1217
seal: large round red – st paul’s seal
[[[ecsp 213. Ordinance by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's that the quitrent of forty shillings, which had been purchased with the money bequeathed by Richard, archdeacon of Colchester, for the support of a chaplain for his chantry, should be entirely devoted to this use.
Date: c. Sept. 1216-17.1
MSS. : A. 16/160 (original) ; Liber A, fo. 22b (No. 210).
Universis sancte matris ecclesie -fluids ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit decanus 7 capitulum ecclesie sancti Pauli Lond' salutem. Nouen t uniuersitas uestra quod redditus quadraginta solidorum quem emimus de Laurentio filio Roberti filii Briani . sicut continetur in carta ipsius Laurentii quam habemus in thesauro nostro . in parochia sancte Marie de HYlla 7 in parochia sancti Botulfi 3 uersus Billingesgate in Londonia emptus est de pecunia karissimi fratris nostri Ricardi bone memorie quondam archidiaconi Colecestrie relicta 7 assignata in testamento suo huic ecclesie ad sustentacionem unius capellani perpetuo diuina celebraturi in ecclesia sancti Pauli pro anima ipsius Ricardi 7 pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum specialiter 7 precipue adhoc deputati . ita quod ipsum predictum redditum quadraginta solidorum nullo modo 4 poterimus nec debemus minuere nec ad alios usus transferre nisi ad sustentacionem dicti capellani perpetuo instituendi per decanum 7 capitulum ipsius ecclesie in predicta ecclesia ut dictum est diuina celebraturi . Si quis huic nostre ordinacioni in aliquo contra ieret vel dictum redditum minuerit vel ad alios usus quam dictum est transtulerit . indignationem dei omnipotentis 7 beate Marie 7 apostolorum Petri 7 Pauli 7 sanctorum quorum reliquie in ecclesia beati Pauli continentur 7 omnium sanctorum 7 clericorum dei nouen t se incursurum. Et hanc sentenciam fecit Geruasius tunc decanus presentibus executoribus dicti testamenti Willelmo de Hely 5 thesaurario . Regina/do 7 Roberto capellanis eiusdem ecclesie . in capitulo sancti Pauli . presente choro.
Endorsed : (1) calla Laurencii fil Roberti de. xl. sol' in parochia sancte
Marie de Hilla 7 sancti Botulfi de Billingesgate [13th century].
(2) London (c. 1300).
(3) Cantaria Ricardi Glouc' archidiaconi Colecestrie [14th century]. 139. C. .CLIP.
Size : x 4". Capitular seal, attached to tag.
1 For the dates of Gervase of Heybridge's uncanonical tenure of the deanery see H. G. Richardson : Letters of the Legate Guala, in E.H.R. Vol. xlviii, p. 254.
2 Punctuation standardized. See no. 211 above, note.
3 Liber A: Botulph’
4 ibid: modo omitted.
5 ibid. Ely |