1354-01-19, Walter Westminster

Order to cause proclamation to be made all who use measures in buying and selling shall bring them to castle and have them made to agree with the measures there as it was ordained in the parliament held at Westminster on the of St. Hilary in the 25th year of the reign, that all measures, to wit, bushel, the half bushel, the peck, gallon, pottle and quart throughout realm should agree with the king's standard, and that each quarter should contain 8 bushels by the standard, and each measure should be streeked and not heaped up, saving rents and ferms of the lords who used to use such measures before these times, wherefore the king has caused a bushel, gallon and pottle to be newly made in conformity with the standard and sent to the said castle for the easement of the men of the county. [Federa.] Enrolment of deed of appropriation by William, bishop of Winchester, to Joan, abbess of Romeseye, in the diocese of Winchester, and the convent of that place, on account of its poverty and debts, owing to the slenderness of its possessions, the sterility of its lands, the wasting of its groves, the diminution or withdrawal of rents due and established, the lack of tenants through the late pestilence, the building and repair of the houses of the monastery, ruinous by age, and the exaction of tenths and other tributes, so that unless a remedy was provided the monastery would have suffered irreparable desolation, of the prebend of St. Laurence in their church of Romeseye, which Sir John de Nubbeleye, clerk, now holds, of their patronage in his diocese, with the royal assent and that of his chapter, and for the right of patronage or advowson of the prebendal church of Edyngdon in the church of the monastery of Romeseye, with the chapel of Bradeleye annexed thereto or dependent thereupon in the diocese of Salisbury, and for a messuage and 2 acres of land in Edyngdon, granted him for a chantry of certain chaplains celebrating in that prebendal church, to be founded and endowed by the bishop, from which right of patronage or advowson the abbess and convent have derived little or no advantage: the bishop has acquired various tenements, messuages, lands, rents and meadows which formerly belonged to John le Rede and others in the town of Romeseye, near them and their monastery, at great cost, and has conferred them with other things, rights and possessions on the said monastery, by the king's licence, as is fully contained in his charter, in consideration of which benefits the abbess and convent have granted that the bishop shall share for ever in all the prayers and benefices performed in the monastery, and that one of the chaplains of the monastery shall be bound to celebrate yearly on the feast of St. James in the conventual church the mass Salus populi for the safe estate of the bishop during his life, the abbess and convent being present during the same, chanting the collect Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui vivorum et mortuorum and other collects suitable for the living, and after the bishop's death the abbess and convent shall yearly celebrate his anniversary, chanting the office of the dead before vespers in the monastery and Placebo and Dirige and on the morrow the Requiem mass for the dead, the abbess and convent being present at all due offices and masses for his soul and for the souls of the present king, when dead, of his progenitors, kings of England, and of all the faithful departed, with the collect Inclina domine aurem tuam and the other beginning Deus qui inter apostolicos and other suitable ones; in order that the abbess and convent may more readily perform these duties they grant of their free will that on the days when the mass for the living and the dead and the said anniversary are celebrated, 10 marks shall be distributed to the religious celebrating or to those who are lawfully hindered from being present, of the issues of the messuages, lands, rents, meadows and other premises, and from the same issues the abbess shall pay to every chaplain celebrating in the monastery 18s. 4d. for his stipend, which the incumbent . 103 prebendal church of Edyngdon, presenting such chaplain, has paid, according to the custom of the monastery, and for his suitable maintenance as in the livery of the victuals of one nun of monastery, of the goods thereof, in relief of the accustomed charge, so the incumbent of the said prebendal church shall be discharged of all payment of the yearly pension of 13s. 4d.; but if the abbess convent do not fulfil the premises, they grant that the bishop of or the official of Winchester, whether the see be filled or shall compel them to fulfil the premises by ecclesiastical censures day to day, and they expressly renounce by these presents all allegations, appeals, defences, or reclamations, and if they withdrawn the premises, have not fulfilled them or have unjustly wilfully appealed, or have been disobedient in anything, they grant they are bound to pay 100s. to the alms of the bishop or of the for each wilful and unjust withdrawal, claim and disobedience in and 40s. in aid of the Holy Land. Dated in their chapter 8 July 1351. of grant by Joan, abbess of Romeseye and the convent of place to William de Edyndon, bishop of Winchester, of a messuage 2 acres of land in Edyndon and the advowson of the prebendal church co. Wilts, and of the chapel of Bradeleye annexed thereto, all their appurtenances. Witnesses: Sir John de Wyntonia, sheriff Sir John de Popham, Sir Philip Daundeleye, Sir de Pageham, knights, William de Overton, Robert de Seint- Peter de Pershute, Nicholas atte Beare. Dated in their chapter 23 March, 25 Edward III. of letter of attorney by Joan Gerveys, abbess of Romeseye, the convent of that place to Sir William de Meere, vicar of Stupel to cause William de Edyndon, bishop of Winchester, to have of a messuage and 2 acres of land with the advowson of Edyndon co. Wilts, with all appurtenances and the goods and chattels found in accordance with the tenor of the charter thereupon. Dated 10 April, 25 Edward III. of grant by Joan abbess of Romesy and the convent to John of licence to grant a messuage and a virgate of land in which are held of them, to the warden and chaplains of a certain in the prebendal church of Edyngdon, to be newly founded bishop of Winchester, to celebrate divine service there, in with the bishop's ordnance, to hold in frank almoin, with to the said warden and chaplains to receive the messuage and from John and to hold them in frank almoin notwithstanding the of mortmain. Dated in their chapter house at Romesy, 20 June, III. of letter of attorney by Joan Jervays, abbess of Romeseye, the convent of that place, to William de Mere, vicar of Asshton, or de Certeseye to put John de Edyndon in full seisin of two messuages 2 virgates of land in the town of Edyndon, which the said John and Sampson lately held. Dated.Romeseye, Wednesday after St. Gregory 25 Edward III. that the abbess and convent on 1 May acknowledged the deeds and charter in their full chapter at Romeseye, before John by virtue of a writ to him which is on the files of this year. Enrolment of deed testifying that whereas a deed made between William bishop of Winchester and Joan abbess of Romeseye and the conyent of that place contains that if the bishop or any one in his name grant them lands or rents to the value of 101. yearly by reasonable extent, and appropriate them to their church of Romeseye, with warranty clause of the bishop or those by whom the gift is made, then a charter of grant of a messuage, 2 acres of land and of the advowson of Edyndon church with the chapel of Bradeleye annexed thereto, made by the abbess and convent to the bishop, shall remain in force, but otherwise it shall not, as is fully contained in the indenture made thereupon, the abbess and convent have received from Roger de Haywod, in the bishop's name and at his cost, lands and rents in Romeseye to the value of 10/. yearly, by Roger's deed and feoffment, with warranty clause, and they acknowledge that all the conditions named in the indenture which concern the bishop have been fulfilled within the term limited in that indenture, wherefore they grant that the charter concerning the messuage, land, adyowson and chapel aforesaid shall remain in force, and they further release to the bishop all their right and claim in the same. Dated in their chapter house of Romeseye, Monday after SS. Processus and Martinian, 25 Edward III.