1441-12-09, Dogmersfield

Whereas Henry, archbishop of Canterbury, John, bishop of Bath and Wells, John, bishop of St. Asaph, William, bishop of Salisbury, William, earl of Suffolk, John Somerseth, Thomas Bekyngton, Richard Andrewe, Adam Moleyns, clerks, John Hampton, James Fenys, esquires, and William Tresham, being seised to them and their heirs of the advowson of the alien priory of Goldeclyve in the march of Wales, by colour of letters patent, presented John Twenyng, monk of the abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester, to the bishop of Llandaff, by whom he was inducted to the said priory and is still prior; the king, wishing to favour the abbot and convent of the church of St. Mary, Tewkesbury, has granted licence for the above-named to grant in mortmain the said advowson, held in chief, to the abbot and convent of the said church, wherein is buried the body of Isabel, late countess of Warwick and prioress of that place, late the wife of Richard, earl of Warwick, and for the abbot to appropriate the said priory with all lands, meadows, woods, feeding grounds, pastures, rents, reversions, farms and services thereto belonging, after the death, resignation or deposition of the said John Twenyng, with knights fees, advowsons of churches and other ecclesiastical benefices, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, fines, ransoms, amercements, tenths, oblations, obventions, pensions, portions,apports,rights, franchises, liberties, privileges, quittances, immunities, courts, profits, commodities and emoluments to the priory belonging, to find in the same priory a religious man of the Benedictine Order, who shall be prior thereof, to be presented or removed therefrom at the will of the abbot and convent, and to nominate two other religious men, brethren of the priory, to celebrate divine service daily therein for the good estate of the king in his life and for his soul after death, and for the souls of the said countess and of all the faithful departed, and to receive fit sustenance from the abbot and convent according to the ordinance of the executors of her will in this behalf; licence also for the abbot and convent and their successors to sue the Pope and his successors for bulls and other letters for ratification hereof and for them and their proctors to accept the same and accomplish all contained therein without impeachment. By K. ete.