1476-02-06, Westminster
Licence for Thomas Fitz William the younger or his heirs or executors found a perpetual chantry of two chaplains to celebrate divine service at the altar of St. Mary in the parish church of St. Wilfrid, Alford, Lincoln, for the good estate of the king and William Hastynges, knight, Hastlinges, knight, the said Thomas and John Lowe and for their after death and the souls of Robert Smyth late of Alford and Matilda wife, to be called the chaplains of the chantry of Corpus Christi in the church, and for the said chaplains to acquire in mortmain, after inlands, rents and annuities, not held in chief, to the value of 101. for their sustenance. By p.s. and for 30/. paid in the hanaper.
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