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468. Confirmation by Nicholas [de Sigillo], archdeacon of Huntingdon, of the perpetual vicarage of the church of Datchworth (Herts.) to Elias the clerk at the request of Abbot Laurence of Westminster and of Richard [of Ilchester], archdeacon of Poitiers, rector of that church. Elias is to pay two aurei a year to Richard and if Richard leaves the said church or dies Elias is to pay the two aurei to the abbey. No more is ever to be asked of him. [c. 1164 x Dec. 1166]
Nicholaus Huntend' archidiaconus omnibus ad quos littere presentes pervenerint, salutem. Dilecto clerico nostro Elie utiliter in posterum providere cupientes venerabilium amicorum nostrorum Laurentii abbatis Westmonasterii et Domini Ricardi Pictaviensis archidiaconi petitione, perpetuam ecclesiam de Dachwrth vicariam in perpetuam elemosinam ei concedimus et presentis scripti testimonio confirmamus; ita scilicet quod predictus Elyas ecclesiam illam possideat cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et cum omni integritate fructuum, et reddet annuatim predicto Ricardo Pictaviensi archidiacono, qui eiusdem ecclesie persona constitutus est, duos aureos tantum; si vero Ricardus Pictaviensis archidiaconus eidem ecclesie cessen t vel decesserit prescripto tenore et conditione idem Elias ecclesie Westmonasterii annuatim reddet illos duos aureos et ecclesiam illam habebit, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et cum omni illa fructuum integritate quam prius earn possidebat, et ita quod ab eo quamdiu vixerit nichil preter hos duos aureos de jure exigi possit. Hec itaque conventio, scripto et sigillo abbatis et conventus Westmonasterii confirmata est. Hiis testibus: Willelmo filio Martini; Magistro Jordan(); Magistro Hugone, et Thoma, clerico et tom ato, et Radulfo, clerico Exonensi.
MS: WAD, f. 380v.
Rubric: Scriptum Nicholai archidiaconi Huntingdon' super redditum duorum aureorum de ecclesia de Dachwurth. Date: As foi- 222, which is related.
Note: In 222, the pension is of two besants. The term aureus (a gold coin) was frequently used to denote the besant (R. E. Latham, Revised Medieval Latin Word List (1965), 38. See also H Med Exch., 294-5). |