THE following is Stevens's Account of this Monastery, in his Continuation of the Monasticon, as selected from different authorities.

"The Charter-House, or rather Chartreux Monastery of Carthusians, London, was founded," says Stowe, "by Sir Walter Manny, Knt. a stranger born, lord of the town of Manny, in the diocese of Cambray, in the Netherlands, who, for service done to King Edward the IIId., was made Knight of the Garter.

"This House he founded upon this occasion. A great pestilence entering this island, began first in Dorsetshire, then proceeded into Devonshire, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, and, at length, came to London, and spread over all England, making such havock, that scarce the tenth person, of all sorts, was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forc'd to appoint certain fields for burials. Hereupon Ralph Stratford, bishop of London, in the year 1348, bought a piece of ground, call'd No Man's Land, which he enclos'd with a brick wall, and dedicated for burial of the dead, building thereon a proper chapel, which was afterwards enlarg'd, and made a dwelling-house, and the burying plot a fair garden, retaining the old name of Pardon Church-yard. "About this time, in the year 1349, the aforesaid Sir Walter Manny, in respect of the danger that might befal in a time of so great a plague and infection, purchas'd thirteen acres and a rod of ground, adjoining to the said No Man's Land, and lying in a place call'd Spittle-Croft, because it belong'd to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, since that call'd the New Church Haw, and caus'd it to be consecrated by the said bishop of London to the use of burials.

"In this plot of ground there were in that year more than 50,000 persons bury'd, as I have read in the charters of Edward the IIId.

"I have also seen, and read, an inscription fix'd on a stone cross, sometime standing in the same church-yard, which was in Latin, the English whereof was to this effect.

"In the year of our Lord 1349, a great pestilence then prevailing, this Church-yard was consecrated, in which, and within the enclosure of this monastery, there were bury'd above 50,000 bodies of the dead, besides many others from that time to this, to whose souls God be propitious. Amen.' "In consideration of the number of Christian people here bury'd, the said Walter Manny caus'd first a chapel to be built, where, for the space of 23 years, offerings were made, and it is to be noted, that above 100,000 bodies of Christian people had been bury'd in that church-yard, for the said knight had purchased that place for the burial of poor people, travellers, and others, that were diseas'd, to re

a See Stow's Survey, p. 477.

b Sir Walter de Manny bequeathed his body for burial at the Charter-House, by his will dated St. Andr. day, 1371, proved in April, 1372. Reg. Wittleseye archiep. Cantuar. fol. 121. Sir Robert Launde, Knt. and citizen of London, had previously bequeathed his body to be

main for ever. Whereupon an order was taken for the avoiding of contention between the parsons of churches and that house, viz. That the bodies should be carry'd to the church where they were parishioners, or dy'd, and after the funeral service done, had to the place where they should be bury'd.

"And in the year 1371, he caus'd there to be founded an house of Carthusian monks, which he will'd to be call'd the Salutation, and that one of the monks should be call'd prior; and he gave them the said place of 13 acres and a rod of land, with the chapel and houses there built for their habitation. He also gave them the 3 acres of land, lying without the walls, on the north part, betwixt the lands of the abbat of Westminster, and the lands of the prior of St. John; which 3 acres being purchas'd, inclos 'd, and dedicated by Ralph Stratford, bishop of London, remain'd a long time by the name of Pardon Church-yard, and serv'd for burying of such as were executed for felonies, who were usually fetch'd thither in a close cart, bal'd over, and cover'd with black, having a plain white cross thwarting, and at the foreend a St. John's cross without, and within a bell ringing by the shaking of the cart, whereby the same might be heard when it pass'd, and this was call'd the friery-cart, which belong'd to St. John's, and had the privilege of sanctuary.b

"This monastery at the Suppression, in 29 Hen. VIII. was valu'd at 6421. Os. 44d. per annum.

"This dissolv'd Charter-House, by West Smithfield, coming after the said Dissolution to the possession of Thomas, earl of Suffolk, being spacious, and having good gardens, and many appurtenances belonging to it, Mr. Thomas Sutton thought a proper place to build an hospital. He had before resolv'd to build the same at Hallingbury Bouchers, in Essex, for poor men and children, a school-master and usher to teach the said children to read and write, as also the Latin and Greek grammar, with a preacher and a master to govern the whole. To this purpose he had already procur'd an act of parliament for empowering of him to do the

same.

"Afterwards finding this Charter-House to be much more convenient for his purpose than the before intended place at Hallingbury, he prevailed with the earl to sell the said Charter-House, for which he paid him down 13,000Z. in hand. Next he obtain'd the king's letters patents for performing the same at the Charter-House, which had been before granted by act of parliament for Hallingbury.

"For the maintenance of this hospital, the said Mr. Sutton gave his manors and lordships of Southminster, Norton, Little-Hallingbury, alias Hallingbury__Bouchers, and Much Stanbridge, in the county of Essex. The manors

buried here in 1367. See Ducarel's Excerpts from the Lamb. Reg. vol. xii. p. 766.

This was the clear income. The gross revenue as returned in the 26th Hen. VIII. was 7361. 28. 7d.

and lordships of Bastingthorpe, alias Bustingthorpe, and Dunnesby, in the county of Lincoln. The manors and lordships of Salthorp, alias Saltrop, alias Haltrop Chilton and Blackgrave, in the county of Wilts; and also his lands and pasture-grounds, call'd Blackgrave, containing, by estimation, 200 acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Blackgrove and Wroughton, in the said county of Wilts; and also in his manor of Missenden, otherwise Missunden, in the parishes of Wroughton Lidieride and Tregose, in the said county. All his manor of Elcomb, and a park call'd Elcomb Park, in the said county. All his manor of Watelescote, alias Wiglescete, alias Wigleskete, in the same county. All his manner of Westcote, alias Westcete, with the appurtenances, and all those his lands and pastures, containing, by estimation, 100 acres of land, and 60 acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Wiglescote and Wroughton; and all his manor of Uscote, with the appurtenances; and also his two messuages and 1000 acres of land, 2000 acres of pasture, 300 acres of meadow, and 300 acres of wood, with the appurtenances, in Brodehinton, in the said county of Wilts. All the manors and lordships of Camps, alias Campes Castel, otherwise call'd Castel Campes, with the appurtenances, situate, lying, being, and extending in the counties of Cambridge and Essex, or in either of them, or elsewhere within the realm of England. His manor of Balsham, in the county of Cambridge. And all his messuages and lands which are in the parishes of Hackney and Tottenham, in the county of Middlesex, or in either of them. And all and singular the manors, lordships, messuages, lands, tenements, reversions, services, meadows, pastures, woods, advowsons, patronages of churches and hereditaments of the said Thomas Sutton whatsoever; situate, lying, or being within the said counties of Essex, Lincoln, Wilts, Cambridge, and Middlesex; or in any of them, with all and every their rights, members, and appurtenances whatsoever. Except all his manors and lordships of Littlebury and Haddestock, with their appurtenances, in the county of Essex.

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"By legacy, he left towards the building of his intended hospital, chapel, and school-house, 5000l. if he liv'd not to see it perform'd in his life-time. Besides, he gave into the Besides, he gave into the treasury or storehouse of the same intended hospital, to begin their stock with, and to defend the rights of the house, 10907. To every one of his feoffees, put in trust about his intended hospital, 267. 13s. 4d. To other pious uses he left many legacies, which do not belong to this place.

"His hospital consisting of a master, governors, a preacher, a free-school, with a master and usher, eighty poor people and forty scholars, maintained with sufficient clothing, meat, drink, lodging, and wages; beside officers and ministers to attend on them, and the number to increase, according as the revenues upon the expiration of the leases

increas'd.

"This hospital was finish'd, and possession taken of it by the persons intended, on the 3d of October, 1614."

To what has been said above from Stow, we will here add what follows from Newcourt, vol. i. p. 578.

"It is to be noted, that the bull which was obtain'd of Pope Urban the Vth. at the petition of the prior and convent of this house, for the uniting some ecclesiastical benefices to it, to the value of 2001. per annum, bears date at Rome, on the day before the ides of December, in the first year of his pontificate, which was in the year 1362, so that, though it be generally said, by Stow and others who have written of this house, that it was founded by Sir Walter de Manny, in the year 1371, it appears plainly by the said bull, that this house of Carthusians, was founded by the said Sir Walter Manny, and Michael de Northburg, bishop of London, and not by the said Walter alone; and that it was founded, and a prior and convent there settled before the date of the said bull, which must be in or before the year 1362, though the letters patents above mention'd of Edward the IIId. whereby he granted license to the said Walter de Manny, to found the house of Carthusian monks, and to give and assign to the prior and monks there, 20 acres of land, &c. together with the chapel and other houses built upon the same, bear date in the 45th year of his reign, on the 6th of February, Haropf. Hist. Angl. p. 544. Fun. Mon. p. 433. Herne, Dom. Carth. f. 83. Dugd. Bar. tom. ii. p. 150.

Dugd. Hist. St. Paul's, p. 34.

• Tanner says, "The site" of the Charter-House " was first granted

which was the year 1371, from whence, I suppose, they have dated the foundation of this house.

"This bishop Michael, who dy'd in 1361, by his will gave 2000. for the founding, building, and finishing of this house of Carthusians, according to the form and fashion proper for that order, in a certain place call'd New-ChurchHaw, where then stood a church dedicated to the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin; which place, with the patronage thereof, he purchas'd of Sir Walter Manny, as it is said; and to the said house, when fully perfected, he appointed that his two best silver basons should be deliver'd, to serve at the altar there, with a vessel of silver enamell'd, in which the host used to be put, as also another vessel of silver for holy water, and a silver bell.

"To the better accomplishing of this pious work, and most ample endowment of this house, he likewise devis'd all his leases whatsoever, for the term of four years after his decease; and moreover all his rents and tenements, which he possess'd within the city of London, with whatsoever reversions he had likewise in that city, he likewise gave thereunto for ever, some few excepted. Hereunto he also added the total number of all his divinity books, not otherwise dispos'd of, with the two best vestments he had, bequeathing the perpetual patronage thereof to his successors, bishops of London; and desiring, with all humility, that they would have a special regard to the building and compleating of this eminent work."

"Harpsfield tells us, that this house was endow'd with great privileges and immunities, by King Edward III. Richard II. and other succeeding princes, by which the religious men were exempted from all publick rates and taxes to the king.

b

"Sir Walter Manny, who had a summons to parliament among the barons of this realm, from 21 Edw. III. till 44 of that king's reign inclusive, by his testament, bearing date at London, upon St. Andrew's Day, anno 1371, bequeath'd his body to be bury'd in the midst of the choir of the Carthusians, near West-Smithfield, and ordain'd that a tomb of alabaster, with his image, as a knight, and his arms thereon, should be made for him like that of Sir John Beauchamp, in the cathedral of St. Paul's, London, as a remembrance of him, and that men might pray for his soul; and among other debts, in his said will, he appointed an old debt, which the king ow'd him, by bills of his wardrobe, to be given to the prior and monks of this house, if it could be had; and whereas there was due to him from the prince, from the time he had been Prince of Wales, the sum of 100 marks per annum for his salary, as governor of Hardelagh Castle, he bequeathed the one half thereof to the said prior and monks of the Charter-House, and departing this life upon the Thursday following the feast of St. Hilary, in 46 Edward III. 1371, was bury'd here in his own church, much lamented, says Weaver, by the king and nobility, and commons of England; and his obsequies were perform'd with great solemnity, notwithstanding, by his will, he had order'd his burial to be without any great pomp, King Edward the IIId. himself, and all his children, with the greatest prelates and barons of England, being present.d

"After the dissolution, King Henry VIII. bestow'd this monastery and that of the Holy Trinity, now call'd Duke's Place, in London, upon Sir Thomas Audley, speaker of that parliament which dissolv'd the religious houses. It passed from him to his sole daughter and heiress, by marriage, to Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and so by descent to Thomas earl of Suffolk, of whom Thomas Sutton, Esq. purchas'd it, by the name of Howard-House, otherwise call'd the late dissolv'd Charter-House, near Smithfield, in Middlesex, consisting of four or five courts, a wilderness, gardens, orchards, and walks thereunto belonging, with Pardon Church-yard, and the two messuages adjoining, call'd Willbeck, with all buildings, &c. known to belong to the said house, or other mention'd premises, paying down. for the same 13,000l. May 9, Jac. 9, 1611; and on the 22d of June following settled an hospital here, which he design'd before to have founded in the parish of Hallingbury Bouchers, in Essex, for which he had gotten an act of parliament.* not (as is said) to Sir Thomas Audley, but to Sir Edward North, Knight, 36 Hen. VIII. and 1 Mariæ." In a note to the mention of Sir Thomas Audley, he adds, " So Mr. Herne, but quære. The grants to Sir Edward North appear upon the patent rolls of those years. Mr. Herne is cer

"After the death of the said Thomas Sutton, there being an attempt made by Simon Baxter, the said Mr. Sutton's only sister's son, as next heir of the founder, to overthrow the incorporation and foundation of this hospital; the case, after it had been pleaded by counsel learned in the law, on both sides, was solemnly argu'd in the Exchequer Chamber, by all the judges of the land, except the lord chief justice of the King's Bench, who was then sick, and judg'd for the defendants, the governors of the hospital; and after this, there was an act of parliament procur'd in the 3d of King Charles the First, for the confirmation of the settlement thereof, to put it beyond all question.

"Of this hospital there are 16 governors, of which the master is always to be one, which are incorporated by the name of The Governors of the Lands, Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospital of King James, founded in the Charter-House, within the County of Middlesex, at the humble petition, and only cost and charges of Thomas Sutton, Esquire. These governors are usually prime ministers of state, and prelates of the church; and when any one happens to die, another is to be chosen within two months, by the voices of the major part.

"The hospital consists of a master, a preacher, a freeschool, with a head master, and a second master, and eighty decay'd gentlemen, who have been soldiers. So it was intended at first, but there are more of a meaner sort of decay'd persons put in these persons are chosen by particular governors, every one in their turn, only the king puts in two in his course, the queen and the duke of York one each.

"There are also 44 boys at school, chosen by the same persons, and after the same manner as the pensioners; they are only capable of admission between the years of 10 and 15, and are to continue in the house but 8 years at most. This also was intended for the sons of poor gentlemen, but that also is as it happens.

"Such as go from hence to the universities, of which they allow to the number of 29, have 20%. a piece per annum, duly paid quarterly, which continues 8 years; such as go out apprentices have 401.

"The number kept in the year 1677, was 185 persons, besides the 29 scholars at the universities, and the standing council of the house, and several other persons who are mention'd in the first establishment, as physician, register,

receiver, &c.

8971. 13s. 94d. 53917. 13s. 8d.

"Both together amount to tainly mistaken in making this Sir Thomas Audley speaker of the parliament which dissolved the Religious Houses. Dr. Bearcroft saith it was first granted June 12th, 1542, to John Bridges and Thomas Hale for their joint lives; and April 14th, 1555, to Sir Edward North, who was made a baron 1 Mariæ: his son Roger, Lord North, sold it May 31st, 1565, to the Duke of Norfolk for 2500l., whose son Thomas Howard earl of Suffolk sold it 9 Jacobi to Thomas Sutton, Esq. for 13,000l." Notit. Monast. Midd. viii. 3.

In the Abstracts of the Originalia, 36 Hen. VIII. p. 3, we have, "Lond. Rex 23 die Apr. concessit Edw. North mil. Domum et Scitum nuper Priorat. Carthus. Lond. ac etiam caput et originalem fontem unius Canalis sive Aquæductus situat. in quodam campo in parochia de Islyngton voc. CONDYTE FIELD." ro. 34.

"The nineteenth day of June," says Hall, in the 27th of Henry VIII. "were three Monkes of the Charterhouse hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyborne, and their quarters set up about London, for deniyng the Kyng to be Supreme Head of the Churche. Their names were Exmewe, Myddlemore, and Neudigate. These men, when they were arrained at Westminster, behaved themselves very stiffly and stubbornly; for hearing their Inditement read, how traiterously they had spoken against the King's Majesty, his crown and dignity, they neither blushed nor bashed at it, but very foolishly and hypocritically knowledged their treason, which maliciously they avouched, having no learning for their defence; but rather, being asked divers questions, they used a malicious silence, thinking, as by their examinations afterward in the Tower of London it did appear, for so they said, that they thought those men, which were the Lord Cromwell and other that then sat upon them in judgment, to be heretics and not of the church of God, and therefore not worthy to be either answered or spoken unto. And therefore, as they deserved, they received as you have heard before." Hall's Chron. edit. 1809, p. 817.

"In the fourteenth vol. of Rymer's Fœdera, is the prior and convent of London's renunciation of the pope's authority, and owning of King Henry the VIIIth. as head of the church, sign'd by William Trafford, the prior, and 19 of his convent, nine others possitively refusing to sign. The names of those here said to have sign'd, were William Trafford, prior, Edmund Sterne, vicar, John Revel, Bartholomew Burgoyn, each of these three distinguish'd with the title of dominus, Thomas Clay, Robert Cardyn, D. Thomas Barringham, John Boleyn, William Wayte, procurator, Richard Byllingsley, John Thompson, John Huse, Evererd Dygby, Thomas Baker, John Nicholson, William Broke, John Enys, Thomas Owen, Robert Howell, Oliver Babmanson. Those that refus'd to sign were, D. Thomas Johnson, D. Richard Bere, D. Thomas Grene, here stil'd monks profess'd; John Davy, reserendary, Robert Salt, William Greenwood, Thomas Redyng, Thomas Shryne, Walter Pierson, William Horne, call'd here, converse. Now, with all possible deference to a worthy author, for whom I have the greatest respect, I must, for the sake of truth observe, he has been led into a mistake, I suppose, by relying on the collections of others. His History of Abbies, vol. ii. p. 126. tells us, that John Houghton, prior of the Carthusians, London, subscrib'd to the king's supremacy, on the 29th of May, 26 Hen. VIII. whereas it is evident, that this very prior was hang'd and quarter'd at Tyburn, on the 27th of April, 1535, 27 Hen. VIII. and one of his quarters set up at his own gate, for opposing the king's supremacy. Humphrey Middlemore, whom he makes to have sign'd at the same time, as also William Exmewe, and Sebastian Newdigate, to have sign'd on the 6th of June, 1534, suffer'd the same death as the prior had done, and for the same cause, on the 18th of June, 1535, as may be seen in Stow, p. 571 and 572. Richard Bere, John Davy, Thomas Johnson, Thomas Green, Thomas Shryne, Walter Pierson, Robert Salt, and Thomas Redyng, nam'd also by him among those that subscrib'd, dy'd all of them in prison, for denying the supremacy, in June and July the same year aforesaid; and William Horn, another of them, was executed on the 4th of August following. That these were recusants may be seen in Rymer, vol. xiv. p. 589. Nor is it to be wonder'd, that so able an antiquary should be led into an error, for in those days, when these things happen'd, many forgeries were spread abroad, to delude the multitude, as has been often practis'd since, and as will be made appear in several parts of this work. The commissioners or visitors appointed to carry on the work King Henry the VIIIth. had in hand,

Ellis, in his Original Letters illustrative of English History, has printed one from Thomas Bedyll to Lord Cromwell, preserved in the Cottonian Collection of MSS. Cleop. E. iv. fol. 217. It is as follows:

My very good Lord, after my moost hertie commendations it shall please your Lordship to understand that the Monks of the Charter House here at London, which were committed to Newgate for thair traiterous behavor long tyme continued against the King's Grace be almoos depeched by the hand of God; as it may appear to you by this byll inclosed. Whereof considering thair behavor and the hole matter, I am not sory, but wold that all such as love not the King's Highnes and his worldly honor were in like caas. My Lord (as ye may) I desir you in the way of charite, and none otherwise, to be good Lord to the Prior of the said Charter House, which is as honeste a man as ever was in that habite (or els I am much deceyved), and is one which never offended the King's Grace by disobedience of his lawes, but hath labored very sore continually for the reformacion of his brethren, and now at the last, at my exhortation and instigation, constantly moved and finally persuaded his brethren to surrender thair House, lands, and goods into the King's hands, and to trust only to his mercy and grace. I beseche you, my Lord, that the said Prior may be so entreated by your help, that he be not sory, and repent that he hath fered and folowed your sore words and my gentill exhortation made unto him to surrender his said House; and think that he might have kept the same, if your Lordship and I had not led him to the said surrender. But suerly (I beleve) that I knowe the man so well that how soever he be ordered he woll be contented without grudge. He is a man of suche charite as I have not seen the like. As touching the House of the Charter House I pray God, if it shall please the Kyng to alter it, that it may be turned into a better use (seeing it is in the face of the world), and muche communication wol run thereof throughout this realme; for London is the common county

NUM. II.

Bulla Urbani Papæ.

[Ex Autographo in Curia Augmentac.] URBANUS episcopus servus servorum Dei, dilectis filiis priori et conventui novæ domus matris Dei, propè Londonias, ordinis Cartusiensis, salutem, et apostolicam benedictionem. Exhibita nobis, pro parte vestra, petitio continebat, quod dudum felicis recordationis Clementi Papæ sexto prædecessori nostro, exposito, quod quondam Waltherus de Manny miles, Cameracensis dioecesis, tempore quo mortalitas hominum vigebat in partibus Anglicanis, locum, seu fundum quendam propè Londonias acquisiverat, quem, de licentia ordinarii, in cimiterium, pro sepultura pauperum, dedicari, et capellam in eodem fundo ædificari fecerat, opere sumptuoso; in quo collegium duodecim capellanorum, et unius qui præesset eisdem, ordinare de bonis propriis, et sufficienter dotare disposuerat; ac eidem prædecessori supplicato, ut eidem militi fundandi et dandi licentiam hujusmodi concedere dignaretur: idem prædecessor, archiepiscopo Cantuariensi et episcopo Londoniensi, non expressis nominibus, vel eorum alteri dando per suas litteras facultatem, collegium, juxta ordinationem utriusque, vel alterius ipsorum, de perpetuis capellanis vel ministris, usque ad dictum vel alium majorem numerum, prout eidem militi videretur, ac persona quæ eidem collegio præesset faciendum in dicta capella fundandi, dote tamen sufficienti, dictæ capellæ, de bonis ipsius militis, primitus assignata, jure parochialis ecclesiæ, et cujuslibet alterius semper salvo, ad instantiam ejusdem militis duxerat concedendum. Ac insuper uniendi, ea vice eidem collegio instituto prius et dotato, tria beneficia ecclesiastica in regno Angliæ consistentia, quorum fructus centum librarum sterlingorum summam, secundum taxationem decimæ, non excederunt, ad cujuscunque patronatum spectantia, patronorum ad id concensu accedente, prout in eisdem literis ejusdem prædecessoris plenius continetur. Et demum prout eadem petitio subjungebat, bonæ memoriæ Michael episcopus Londoniensis, et idem miles, prædicto collegio nondum instituto, conventum duplicem monachorum ordinis Cartusiensis, in loco prædicto, mutato proposito dicti militis, fundaverunt; quare nobis humiliter supplicari fecistis quatenus eisdem archiepiscopo, et episcopo, similem uniendi domui seu conventui vestro beneficia ecclesiastica cum cura, vel sine cura, ad summam ducentarum librarum sterlingorum, secundum taxationem decimæ ascendentia in dicto regno consistentia, ad quorumcumque etiam laicorum patronatum pertineant, dummodo patronorum ad id accedat assensus, et ipsa beneficia dictam summam non excedant, facultatem concedere dignaremur: nos igitur vestris in hac parte supplicationibus inclinati, venerabili fratri archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, uniendi, hac vice duntaxat, autoritate apostolica, ecclesias parochiales, seu beneficia ecclesiastica, ad quorumcunque etiam laicorum patronatum pertinentia, dummodo patronorum ad id accedat assensus, et jus patronatus post unionem vobis remaneat, ac eorum fructus, redditus, et proventus ducentarum librarum sterlingorum secundum taxationem decimæ, valorem annuum non excedant, dictosque priorem, et conventum, vel procuratores suos eorum nomine, post unionem hujusmodi, cedentibus vel decedentibus rectoribus ipsarum, et beneficiorum, qui tunc fuerint, vel alias beneficia ipsa quomodocunque dimittentibus; in beneficiorum, ac jurium, et pertinentiarum prædictorum corporalem possessionem inducendi, et defendendi inductos, amotis quibuslibet detentoribus ab eisdem, ac faciendi ipsis priori, et conventui, de ipsorum beneficiorum fructibus, redditibus, proventibus, congruas portiones ad ipsius archiepiscopi, vel ordinarii arbitrium (super quo ipsius archiepiscopi vel ordinarii conscientiam oneramus), taxandas, ex quibus si sint ecclesiæ parochiales, perpetui vicarii per priorem, qui erit pro tempore, et conventum dictæ domus, ad eadem beneficia præsentandi, commodè sustentari, jura episcopalia solvere, et alia eis incumbentia onera valeant supportare. Contradictores, auctoritate nostra appellatione postposita compescendo, non obstantibus, si aliquis super provisionibus sibi faciendis de hujusmodi, vel aliis beneficiis ecclesiasticis, in illis partibus, speciales vel generales, apostolicæ sedis, vel legatorum ejus literas impetravit, etiamsi per eas ad inhibitionem, reservationem, et decretum, vel alias quomodolibet sit processum: quas literas, et processus habitos, et quos per eos, post unionem hujusmodi, haberi contigerit, ad dicta beneficia volumus non extendi; sed nullum