1328-10-25, Salisbury

Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to interfurther with the temporalities of the priory of Raveneston by reason present voidance, otherwise than was heretofore usual, and to restore to the canons any issues received therefrom, as Peter Chacepore, keeper of the wardrobe of Henry III., bought from Saer de Wahull all the latter's land in Raveneston, with the chief messuage and advowson of the church of that town, avd after Peter's death they devolved by inheritance upon Hugh Chacepore, his brother and heir, and Hugh rendered them to Henry III. by the assent and will of Walter de Wahull, son and heir of the said Saer, who held them in chief of the said king immediately, and the said king, being mindful of Peter's long service and continuous labour in his service, and that he died in his service, for the health of his soul and the souls of his ancestors and heirs and for the health of the souls of the said Peter and of Hugh de Vinon[ia], his uncle, who had also long served him, and for the health of the souls of their uncestors and heirs, granted the said land, messuage, and advowson by his charter to the prior and canons regular of St. Augustine about to dwell at Raveneston, in frank almoin, on condition that one of them should celebrate in the priory [a mass] of the Virgin daily and two of them should celebrate divine service for the souls of his ancestors and for his soul, and for the souls of the said Peter and Hugh and other faithful dead, and be willed that when the possessious of the prior and canons increased, their number should be increased accordingly, and that they should be intendent solely to the diocesan of the place and to no other house of religion in spiritualities by reason of subjection, and he willed that upon the voidance of the priory neither he nor his heirs nor any of their bailiffs, although he was the founder and patron of the priory, should have thereafter any administration of the goods of the priory, and should not pat their hands upon the custody thereof, but that the canons should have the care and custody and administration of the goods pertaining to the priory during voidance without impediment, so that neither he nor his heirs nor their bailiffs should claim anything in the priory during voidance except that the eanons should seek licence of election from him or his heirs, or from those to whom they should commit the custody of the realm if they were outside the realm, and that after the election the assent of the king or his heirs or those having the custody of the realm should be required, so that the canons should not go out of the realm to seek licence to elect or to receive royal assent to the election, but should freely elect a prior from themselves, and should present the election for examination to the diocesan in the manner of other conventual churches, who should make ordinance concerning the election as required canonically, as is contained in the said charter.