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sum of five pounds. ALSO the said Master and Fellows of the said Saint Katharine College or Hall aforesaid promise and grant for them and their successors by these presents to the said Master and Fellows of the aforesaid King's College or Hall and to their successors and to the said Master, Wardens and Fellowship of Merchant Tailors and to their successors that as often as the said penalties, or any of the same, so forfeited shall fortune to be left unpaid and uncontented unto the said Master and Fellows of the said King's College or Hall or to their successors by the space of fourteen days after the forfeiture of the same, that then and as often it shall be lawful to the said Master and Fellows of the said King's College or Hall and to their successors to enter and distrain for the said penalties and for every of the same so forfeited in all the manors, lands and tenements of the said Master and Fellows of Saint Katharine College or Hall aforesaid lying within the said University of Cambridge and in the towns of Coton, Over, Badburgham and Barton within the county of Cambridge, and in any part and parcel of the same, and elsewhere within the realm of England, and the same distress to retain and keep without any replevy or any other suit making for the deliverance of the same, till the said penalties so forfeited with all reasonable costs in that behalf sustained be fully contented and paid to the said Master and Fellows of the said King's College or Hall or to their successors. And for default of taking of the said distress by the said Master and Fellows of the said King's College or Hall or by their successors for the said penalties by the space of one month, that then and as often it shall be lawful to the said Master, Wardens and Fellowship of Merchant Tailors and to their successors to enter into the said manors and to the other premises, and to distrain for the same penalties and for every of the same, and the same distress to retain and keep in form aforesaid, till they and their successors be fully content and paid and satisfied of the said penalties so forfeited, and the arrearages of the same with their reasonable costs and expences sustained in that behalf. IN WITNESS whereof

the foresaid Master and Fellows of the College or Hall of Saint Katharine, and also the foresaid Master or Custos of the King's College or Hall and the Fellows of the same place, and also the foresaid Master of the craft of Merchant Tailors and the Fellowship of the same, to every part of this indenture tripartite have severally set their common seals the day and year above specified.

XI. THE COMPOSITION OF WILLIAM TAYLARD.

HÆC indentura facta inter Johannem Wardall, clericum, magistrum sive custodem collegii sive aulæ sanctæ Katerinæ virginis de Cantebrigia et ejusdem collegii sive aulæ socios ex una parte, et Elizabetham Taylard, viduam, nuper uxorem Willielmi Taylard dum vixit de Duddyngton in comitatu Huntingdoniensi, armigeri, Willielmum Taylard, clericum, et Johannem Taylard, filios prædicti Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, et Elizabethæ, ac co-executores testamenti et ultimæ voluntatis prædicti Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, cum præfata Elizabetha ex altera parte, testatur quod, cum præfati Elizabetha, Willielmus Taylard, clericus, et Johannes Taylard dederunt et præ manibus solverunt præfatis magistro et sociis collegii sive aulæ supradictæ centum libras bonæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ ad edificationem, reparationem et manutenentionem collegii sive aulæ supradictæ, et ad alia onera ejusdem collegii subportanda, quas quidem centum libras prædictas Willielmus Taylard, armiger, in vita sua præ manibus solvit et deliberavit præfatis executoribus suis ad opus et usum supradictum, et ad disponendum secundum discretionem prædictorum magistri et sociorum collegii sive aulæ supradictæ et successorum suorum. Et prædicti magister et socii collegii supradicti bonum zelum, donationem, gratitudinem et munificentiam prædictam considerantes, votivis jocundisque animis de suis bonis spiritualibus eisdem Willielmo Taylard, armigero, et Elizabethæ, Willielmo Taylard, clerico, et

Johanni Taylard concedere volentes, nulla juris pacto aut conventione præcedente, concesserunt ac per præsentes convenerunt pro se et successoribus suis quod ipsi et successores sui singulis annis de cætero in perpetuum diem anniversarii prædicti Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, observabunt in capella sanctæ Katerinæ infra collegium prædictum existente, videlicet cum exequiis in vigilia Transfigurationis Domini, et cum missa de Transfiguratione in dicto festo solemniter in choro et cantico, et cum alia missa de requiem sine choro et cantico, in eodem festo observari et celebrari facient in perpetuum. Et cum præfati Elizabetha, Willielmus Taylard, clericus, Johannes Taylard, ab hac luce migraverint, seu eorum aliquis migraverit, tunc prædicti magister et socii collegii prædicti convenerunt et concesserunt pro se et successoribus suis per præsentes quod ipsi et successores sui singulis annis supradictis diem anniversarium eorundem Elizabethæ, Willielmi Taylard et Johannis Taylard et eorum cujuslibet defuncti simul cum anniversario prædicti Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, cum exequiis et missis supradictis celebrent et celebrari facient in forma supradicta singulis annis in perpetuum. Et quod ipsi et successores sui singulis annis supradictis in eisdem exequiis distribuent et distribui facient tresdecim solidos et quatuor denarios sterling forma sequente, videlicet, magistro ejusdem collegii sive deputato suo præsenti in eisdem exequiis et missa viginti denarios et cuilibet clerico bibliotistæ quatuor denarios, et ad emendationem repasti ipsorum magistri et sociorum ejusdem collegii in prandio dicti festi Transfigurationis tres solidos et quatuor denarios; et quod residuum tunc remanet de prædicta summa tresdecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum annuatim tunc et ibidem distribuent vel distribui facient inter socios prædicti collegii sive aulæ præsentes in eisdem exequiis et missis æqualiter inter eos, ita quod unusquisque eorum de eodem residuo æqualiter accipiat. Et ulterius prædicti magister et socii collegii supradicti concesserunt et per præsentes convenerunt pro se et successoribus suis quod ipsi et successores sui singulis ebdomadis, cum celebretur missa de requiem pro

fundatore prædicti collegii, ipse qui celebrat in memento ejusdem missæ memorabit et orabit pro anima dicti Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, et post obitum dictorum Elizabethæ, Willielmi Taylard, clerici, et Johannis Taylard memorabit et orabit similiter pro animabus eorum; Et quod singulis ebdomadis prædictus dicet in eadem missa hanc orationem Inclina Domine aurem tuam, &c. ut animam famuli tui Willielmi, &c.; et post decessum prædictorum Elizabethæ, Willielmi Taylard, clerici, et Johannis Taylard, singulis ebdomadis supradictis quod tunc dicat in eadem oratione Inclina Domine aurem tuam, &c. ut animæ famulorum famularumque tuarum quas, &c. perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturis. Et si contingat dictum magistrum sive socios collegii supradicti, vel successores suos, in aliqua conventione, concessione, promissione, solutione et agreamento supradicto per biennios deficere, tunc volunt et concedunt iidem magister et socii collegii supradicti per præsentes pro se et successoribus suis quod totiens quotiens, ut casus sic accidit, ad forisfaciendum præfatis Elizabethæ, Willielmo Taylard, clerico, et Johanni Taylard, vel eorum uni aut eorum certo attornato, hæredibus, executoribus vel assignatis eorum, aut hæredibus præfati Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, vel eorum uni, aut suo certo attornato, hæredibus, executoribus vel assignatis eorum quadraginta solidos sterling. Et quod tunc et toties bene licebit præfatis Elizabethæ, Willielmo Taylard, clerico, et Johanni Taylard, vel eorum uni, aut suo certo attornato, hæredibus, executoribus vel assignatis eorum, aut hæredibus præfati Willielmi Taylard, armigeri, vel eorum uni, aut suo certo attornato, hæredibus, executoribus vel assignatis eorum, in omnibus terris et tenementis, redditibus et servitiis prædicto collegio sive aulæ pertinentibus sive spectantibus cum suis pertinentiis in villa et campis de Whightewell in comitatu Cantabrigiæ situatis et in qualibet parcella earundem intrare, et ibidem distringere et districtiones sic captas licite asportare, effugare, abcariare et penes se retinere quousque de prædictis quadraginta solidis nomine pœnæ, ut præfertur, concessis et forisfactis una cum arreragiis ejusdem, si quæ fuerint, eis plenarie finitis, satis

factis et persolutis. In cujus rei testimonium tam prædicti magister et socii collegii supradicti sigillum suum commune, quam prædicti Elizabetha, Willielmus Taylard, clericus, et Johannes Taylard sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt. Datum vicesimo sexto die mensis Octobris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo quinto; et anno regni regis Henrici septimi post conquestum Angliæ vicesimo primo.

XII. FOUNDATION OF A FELLOWSHIP, Aug. 20, 1506.

OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus, ad quos præsens scriptum tripartitum indentatum pervenerit, Ricardus Balderston, clericus, magister collegii sive aulæ sanctæ Katerinæ, et ejusdem collegii consocii salutem in Domino sempiternam; Cum nostri dilecti Willielmus Stokdall, clericus, Elizabetha Hermanson, Robertus Sympson, clericus, et Ricardus Abbot dederunt, concesserunt et per eorum cartam confirmaverunt nobis præfatis magistro et consociis ac nostris successoribus ibidem in perpetuum unum tenementum cum suis pertinentiis, vocatum Shotyeres, in villa de Leyre Breton in comitatu Essex, et aliud tenementum, quondam Ricardi Anger, in villa de Barton in comitatu Cantabrigiæ, una cum tenemento, vocato Cleves, et suis pertinentiis, situato et jacente in villa de Whytwell in prædicto comitatu Cantabrigiæ, cum omnibus terris et tenementis, pratis, pascuis, pasturis, redditibus et servitiis, una cum omnibus et omnimodis boscis, subboscis, viis, aquis, semitis, piscariis, vinariis, stagnis, sepibus et fossatis, ac omnibus et singulis suis pertinentiis prædictis tenementis aut eorum alicui pertinentibus seu quovismodo spectantibus. Et nos, prædicti magister et consocii, gratitudinem et munificentiam prædictam intime considerantes, votivis jocundisque animis de nostris bonis spiritualibus eisdem recompensare volentes, concedimus ac licentiam damus, pro nobis et successoribus nostris, per præsentes, quod bene liceat et licebit præfato Roberto Sympson unum socium in ordine sacerdotali adtunc

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