RETIREMENT | |
Subject: | Grant of a corrody by Cirencester abbey |
Original source: | Cirencester Cartulary, MS. Register B, f.62 |
Transcription in: | Mary Devine, ed. The Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey, Gloucestershire, vol.3, London: Oxford University Press, 1977, 811. |
Original language: | Latin |
Location: | Cirencester |
Date: | 1310 |
TRANSLATION
Memorandum that in full hallmoot of Cirencester, held on 24 October 1310, an agreement was made between Adam, the lord abbot of Cirencester, and the convent of the abbey on one side and John son and heir of the late Thomas de Baudynton on the other. Which is, that in front of the hallmoot John, on behalf of himself and his heirs in perpetuity, turned over to the abbot all the tenements, lands, and rents in the town of Cirencester, its fields, and the fields of Chesterton that he acquired by inheritance from his late father Thomas de Baudynton; for the abbot and convent to have and to hold forever. For their part, the abbot and convent in compensation for this surrender have granted to John, for as long as he shall live, the following. That is, a place with a bed and other conveniences in a certain chamber built into the abbey's great gateway. Each day a white conventual loaf and a brown conventual loaf, with broth and two dishes of whatever happens [to be cooked] that day for the free servants [of the abbey]; and each Saturday 4 gallons of conventual ale and four gallons of the ale called chaplain's ale, received from the abbey brewhouse. For clothing and shoes and other things he needs to purchase, 20s. received from our treasury each year on 29 September, for as long as he lives. Furthermore they have granted his boy-servant each day a loaf called white bread, with broth and garnishes such as for grooms of free servants. If it should happen that John is unwilling or unable to warranty those tenements, rents, and lands to the abbot and convent, all those above items granted to him shall altogether be withdrawn. In witness of which matter the parties have each in turn appended their seals to the indenture. |
NOTES
"hallmoot"
"Chesterton"
"conventual"
"warranty" |
Created: August 18, 2001. Last update: November 23, 2002 | © Stephen Alsford, 2001-2003 |