Transcript:Birmingham Archaeological Society. Transactions, excursions, and reports/1890/Burton Dassett Church

Transactions, Excursions, and Reports,
For the Year 1890.

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Burton Dassett Church.

By Jethro A. Cossins.

26th February, 1890.

There is no more beautiful bit of Warwickshire than that remarkable group of semi-detached rounded hills, in a south-eastern nook of the county, among the hollows and coombes of which lie the villages of Burton Dassett, Farnborough, and Avon Dassett. These eminences are separated from Edge Hills by a wide valley stretching in a south-westerly direction towards Kineton and the valley of the Red Horse.

The most direct and easy way to get to Burton Dassett is by the Great Western Railway to Fenny Compton station ; and by the way, it is interesting to note the change of character and conformation in the face of the country in passing from the red sandstone and clay of North Warwickshire to the liassic formation of the south, the lower beds of which are seen to great advantage in the deep cutting near Harbury.

Three miles further on, at Fenny Compton, where one leaves the train to walk or drive to Burton Dassett, the change of character is very complete and striking. The buildings here are all of the local warm-coloured ferruginous marlstone, and have an air of antiquity which is hardly ever acquired by brickwork, even when it is of far greater age.

I think the change is a very agreeable one, as there is to me a great charm in feeling the close relationship between the buildings, and the adjacent hills from which the materials were drawn ; and in the subtle harmony of colour that exists between the soil, the roads, the walls, and the thatched roofs ; giving a unity of character which is never so complete where artificial materials such as bricks and tiles, with their rectangular lines and uniform surfaces, are the building materials generally used. [page 19]

Elm trees, too, have a natural affinity for, and go wonderfully well with these stone built, and thatched villages. There are grand groups of these trees in every little valley about the district, in the immediate neighbourhoods of the villages and hamlets.

I am by no means blind to the beauty of the old weatherworn farm houses and cottages of brickwork in the more northern parts of the county, when well toned by time ; and more especially when peeping out from amidst abundant foliage ; but modern brickwork in a rural landscape remains for at least fifty or sixty years an ugly and inharmonious blot.

From Fenny Compton to Burton Dassett the walk, either through the fields or by the road, is a delightful one. I have done it in all seasons of the year and in all kinds of weather, and have always, more or less, enjoyed it.

A pedestrian should go first to the top of the hill immediately above the church, from whence he will obtain a panoramic view not to be surpassed in the Midlands. To the south-west, at a distance of three miles, is the spot where the battle of Edge Hill was fought on the 23rd of October, 1642 ; beyond are Kineton and the vale of the Red Horse ; Harbury and Southam lie to the north ; the Napton and Shugborough hills to the north-east ; whilst nearer are Radway, and the Edge Hills ; and close by, the other hills of the Burton group, the most conspicuous of which is the Beacon Hill, with its ancient circular beacon tower and picturesque old windmill. Immediately beneath stands the subject of my paper, the church of Dassett Magna ; far below, and yet so near that it would almost be possible to throw a stone from the top of the hill on which we are supposed to be standing, to the leaded roof of the tower.

On regarding it and its immediate surroundings more particularly, one is surprised to find that there is nothing like a village near this large and capacious church. Only the vicarage and a farm house, with their respective outbuildings and corn stacks, can be distinguished among the foliage.

The church was thus isolated in the 14th of Henry VII., by Edward Belknap, the then Lord of the Manor, a man of much consequence, and held in great esteem by the King, who, on account of his acceptable services, by a special patent dated 14th of April, 24th of his reign, “ granted him immunity from being troubled or questioned for that enclosure and depopulation which he had made in this Lordship contrary to the statute in the third year of his reign.” This depopulation was the destruction, of the town of Dassett Magna.

The parish is large and straggling, and included at the time of the Norman Conquest—as it still does—four small hamlets, Great Dassett, Hardwick, Knightcote, and Northend ; each of which had a priest, and some, if not all of them, chapels. Dugdale says of Hardwick : “ There hath anciently been a chapel here dedicated to St. Leonard, but now it is ruinous, the village being wholly depopulated.” [page 20]

At Little Dassett are still considerable remains of a chapel, parts of which are certainly as old as the 14th century ; and at Northend is a cottage traditionally said to occupy the site of a chapel. But there can be no doubt that Dassett Magna always was the principal place, and that its church was the mother church to all these hamlets.

Here were certainly held the market on every Friday, and the annual fair on the eve of St. James the Apostle and two days after, both the markets and the fair having been granted by charter of the 51st year of Henry III. to Bartholomew de Sudeley, the then Lord of the Manor ; it was for this reason also called Chipping Dassett, even down to Dugdale's time.

The first actual record we have of the church is as its forming a part of the original endowment of the monastery built by Ralph de Sudeley at Erdbury, near Nuneaton, for Canons regular of St. Augustine, in the time of Henry II., and the next, when a vicar was ordained to the church in 1232 by Alex de Savensby, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. I have here a copy of the original form of institution, of that date, (See page 28.) and others of the ordination of many of the vicars from the 13th century downwards, most of which have been obtained from the Episcopal Registers of the Diocese of Lichfield, and for the use of which I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. H. Wilkinson, the present incumbent.

I have also obtained copies of various other documents from the public records, all of which are here for your inspection, but as they throw but very little light on the history of the fabric of the church I need hardly refer more particularly to them, but will proceed at once to a description of the building itself.

From the ground plan of the church, made in 1886, you will see that it covers a large area, and that it includes all the parts and divisions ordinarily comprised in the plan of a church of the first class. It has a chancel of unusual length ; nave of three bays, with wide north and south aisles ; north and south transepts ; a bold and massive western tower ; and a north porch.

It is built entirely of the rather coarse marlstone from the neighbouring hills, I think very probably from the Gredenton Hill as the surface there shews everywhere signs of old quarrying. The colour is very varying, a yellowish brown prevailing, but running into greenish grays, and reds. The walling is in rough irregular courses, with wide mortar joints.

The church stands out with fine effect from a back-ground of elms to the south-west, and to the north-west ; and from the steep hill to the eastward.

Its general proportions, long and low, with nearly flat roofs, are such as best suit a mountainous or hilly district, for example, the churches of Westmoreland and Cumberland, generally of remarkable long and low proportions, suit the surrounding scenery admirably. The square topped, sturdy tower, too, is of a character and proportion well suited to its situation. [page 21]

On account of the rapid fall of the ground from east to west, the floors of the interior all incline very considerably in the same direction ; they are also stepped up, in several stages, the level of the floor at the east end of the chancel being seven feet above that at the west end of the nave.

The steeply sloping site conduces very much to the distinctive character of both the exterior and the interior, but more especially to the latter, for on entering by the west door the effect of this great rising of level from west to east is very striking ; and the view of the interior is in many other respects remarkable : the great length and breadth of the plan ; the very finely proportioned chancel arch, with the flight of six steps beneath it ; the nave arcades, with the unique arrangement of carvings on and over the capitals ; and the graceful arches at the least ends of the aisles, affording a view through them into the transepts ; all conduce to make this one of the most interesting and beautiful churches of the county.

The smaller details of the building will be found to be not less interesting than might be expected from the first general view. Like almost all old churches it has been enlarged and altered from time to time, and there is but little difficulty in reading its history from its details. I will therefore begin with the earliest page of the subject before us.

Although, as I have said, there are good reasons for believing that a church existed at Dassett Magna before the Norman Conquest, we can only infer that it was so, because in Doomsday Book a priest only is mentioned : but we know there was a church of some considerable pretensions here in the 12th century, because the north and south doors are Norman. They are the only surviving memorials of a church of the 12th century, and in their general proportions and arrangements are very much alike. That on the south is in the best condition, and is rather more elaborately finished than the other. It has a semi-circular arch with a bold roll moulding, and a heavy label mould enriched with a diaper pattern. The jambs have attached shafts with cushioned capitals and simple moulded bases. The north door differs from it only in having rounded pellets carved on the slope of the label in place of the diaper.

But I do not believe either of these doorways to be in its original position, as it is extremely improbable that the primitive Norman edifice was as wide as the present church, I therefore think that when it was re-built on a larger scale about a century after, these doorways, remaining in good condition, were re-used as entrances to the new aisles.

The Norman church must have been built whilst the de Sudeleys held the manor, which was, as Dugdale supposed, until somewhere about 1236.

Next in date to the Norman doorways comes the fine chancel arch, which was built during the period of transition from Norman to early English, probably somewhere between 1180 and 1190. The details are distinctly Transitional, the [page 22] banded shafts have capitals carved with stiff conventional tufted foliage of a French rather than an English character, and heavy square abacuses ; the sections of the arch mouldings are also characteristic of the Transitional period.

We now come to an important epoch in the church's history. In the time of King John, but I cannot learn in what year, the church was given by Ralph de Sudeley to the Priory of Arbury (which he had just built) as a part of the endowment, together with two hundred acres of land lying here in Dassett ; and the present nave and aisles were certainly built at about the same time, either by the newly created and endowed Priory, or by de Sudeley himself just before he gave it to that house. The walls and windows of the north aisle and transept, and the north arcade, are probably all of this time. The south aisle, I think, was begun somewhat later, but not much, for its western window of coupled lancets scarcely differs from that of the north aisle.

The south arcade, however, is certainly suggestive of a rather later date, and it may be noticed that the stone was left above the capitals, rounded, or as carvers say “ bosted,” as a preparation for carvings like those on the north side.

The north aisle and transept retain, with one exception, all their lancet windows in a nearly perfect condition : they are grouped in couplets in the west ends of both aisles, and in the westernmost bay, and in a triplet in the eastern-most bay. In the gable of the north transept are four lancets within an enclosing arch, the interval between the heads of the two central lights and the enclosing arch pierced by a circle, thus affording an admirable example of the dawn of window tracery. All these grouped lancets have segmental pointed rear arches. The north-west view of the church is therefore a very noteworthy and instructive example of an extremely interesting period of Gothic architecture. The lancets on the south side have given place to later windows, but have left enough traces to shew that they were much the same as in the north aisle.

It appears to be probable that the chancel arch of Transitional character of which I have lately spoken, was built before the time of the gift of the church by Ralph de Sudeley, but there can be very little doubt that the general re-arrangment and enlargement of the plan, as we now see it from within and from without, was effected, as I have already said, just before or immediately after the gift of the church to the Priory of Erdbury.

I should very much like to settle with some degree of probability what was the arrangement of the roofs at that time ; had each a separate ridge, or were they roofed by lean-tos? I incline to the opinion that the latter was the arrangement, but there is nothing left to shew us for certain.

We cannot say what the chancel was like at this time as the greater part of the walls and of the windows are of a somewhat later date, and the roof is quite modern. Of the tower, if there was one in the first half of the 13th century, we can know nothing, as that existing is not older than the early part of the 14th, [page 23] and was built whilst the previous roof of the nave existed ; the lines of two previous roofs can be distinctly traced on the eastern side of the tower.

The steep pitched roofs were probably not pulled down until late in the 15th century, when, in common with so many hundreds of other churches in all parts of the country, they were removed, a clerestory was carried up over the walls of the nave, and roofs, nearly flat, were placed on the nave, transepts, and aisles.

There are many reasons for believing that the south clerestory became dilapidated in the 17th century, and that it was then rebuilt with plain square headed Elizabethan windows as we see it now ; the roofs of nave and aisles were probably repaired at the same time.

The chancel is mainly of quite the end of the 13th or the early part of the 14th century. The eastern window is of four lights with interlacing tracery all plain and uncusped. The north-east and south-east windows are of the same general character, of two lights, with arches of the same radius as the main arch, which is very acutely pointed. The other side windows are each two lights, and have flowing decorated tracery ; in the lower part of that in the south-west corner is a low-side window with a rebate and hooks for a shutter.

With the exception of the roof and the clerestory, the interior, at the end of the 13th century, must have looked much as it does at present ; there were the arcades, the grouped lancets, and the chancel and transept arches, but there were also, what are unfortunately lost to us, the rood screen, and the parclose screens enclosing the transept and other chapels.

At about this period there were at least three altars ; the high altar at the east end of the chancel, on the south of which are a plain sedile and piscina, an altar in the north transept, and one in the south aisle on the western side of the arch to the transept. There is a very good trefoil arched piscina in the south wall of the aisle ; and another in the north transept, with an aumbry, which retains a very ancient if not the original door ; and it is more than probable there was yet another altar in the south transept.

One of the ancient stone altar slabs had been standing on its edge for a long time in the south transept ; it retains the five incised crosses in good preservation, but it could not have been the high altar, because it is less by two feet than the proper length. It has been refixed where it very probably once stood, beneath the east window in the north transept.

Burton Dassett at the beginning of the 14th century must have become an important and thriving place, with its fine Church, its weekly market and its annual three days fair. The village wake is still held on St. James' day, and the present Vicar, the Rev. H. Wilkinson, holds the opinion that the Church was dedicated to St. James. Dugdale however says it was All Saints, and it is so said in “ Ecton's Thesaurus.” I wish I could find out for certain what was the original dedication. [page 24]

The tower was the most important of the additions to the Church in the 14th century, this is very bold, severe, and massive ; the belfry windows are of a somewhat unusual character for the period, having trefoil headed lights within a square opening with a label moulding. The buttresses are placed diagonally, and are well proportioned ; the parapet is quite plain. On the western side is a large well moulded doorway, and over it a window of two lights with flowing tracery. The arch opening from the tower to the nave consists of a number of splayed courses, all of which, excepting the first, die into the piers. There is a stair turret at the north-east corner, opening from the nave.

The next addition of importance was the north porch. The outer arch is a flattish ogee, an usual form for an arch of so wide a span. It is ornamented with the characteristic ball flower ornament, and has a label with carved finial. The porch is probably of about the same time as the 14th century windows in the sides of the chancel, the extreme points of the arches of which are also re-curved, making them slightly ogival. It seems to be not improbable that the additions of the 14th century last described were made by the Thomas Boteler whom John de Sudeley, dying without issue, made his heir in the 41st year of Edward III., A.D. 1366.

It would indeed have been a singular thing if the busy church builders of the 15th century had not made alterations and additions to this structure. I have spoken of the great change that was made in the 15th century by the substitution of a clerestory, and a flat roof for the previous steeply pitched roof. In this century was also added a very good window on the east side of the south transept, and later on, two very poorly designed windows on the south side of the aisle. The roofs of the 15th century were of a very ordinary type, but I am by no means sure that the tie beams had not formed a part of the previous high pitched roof. I have found several instances in Warwickshire churches of such an adaptation.

The roof of the north aisle was of a rather more elaborate description than the other, some of the spandrils were filled in with tracery ; all these roofs had become more or less rotten, and in several places were actually falling in. The church has lately been repaired, as far as the funds at the command of the vicar and churchwardens would permit. But the most scrupulous care has been taken to preserve every fragment of old material where it was possible, and the old plaster has been left on the walls. It was found to have been richly painted on every part, in two or three layers, the latest being the usual 16th and 17th century scroll frames enclosing texts.

A part of the staircase from the north transept to the rood screen exists, and the 13th century door to the loft was discovered close to the chancel arch. Slight indications of the position of an older staircase are also apparent on the exterior. [page 25]

The Church unfortunately retains none of its old pavements in situ ; previously to the repairs lately executed, the central gangway was paved with tiles of the 14th century, laid to a steep incline which everybody supposed to be the original gradient, but when the dilapidated deal pews and wooden floor of the 18th century had been removed, remains of steps were found which had evidently extended across the Church in a line with the western walls of the transept, and there were other indications which made it appear probable that the slopes and levels were altered at the time when the 18th century pews were fixed.

Fortunately some small patches of the old tiles remained beneath at their original levels, so the floors were again laid as they certainly were before the pews were put in, and almost certainly, as they were in the 13th or 14th century ; the ancient tiles were refixed, and although they are much broken, and but a very few of them retain any ornamental devices, the effect is extremely good, and there is no doubt they will last another 200 years. I have preserved sketches of some of those on which devices remain. The new paving in the aisles is of old and new Hornton stone laid in random courses. When the gradients were newly set out, many things that had been very puzzling gradually became clear ; the builders were thus enabled to adjust the raised platforms on the east side of the north transept to suit the height of the piscina, and to receive the altar ; and the lines of the original positions of the steps under the chancel arch, and the sloped and stepped floors of the whole length of the chancel and transepts were clearly revealed by the lines of the whitewash on the plaster and stonework of the walls.

Fragments of three of the very interesting oak benches of the 14th century remained, and were with great difficulty made up again for use in the chancel.

The Communion table is very good and well designed, of oak, with turned legs, and carved rails bearing the date 1618, and the initials J. S.

The font was modern, and of plaster, but an old cylindrical bowl found in the neighbourhood, was supposed to be the old font, and has been remounted on a stem and base in the north aisle.

The Church chest bears the initials W. L. and T. H. (for William Ladbrook and Thomas Heritage), and the date 1719.

The old lead on the roof of the nave had been very much patched, one sheet bore the churchwardens initials, and the date 1650, and another other initials and the date 1700.

When the inventory and valuation of the Church goods took place in the sixth year of Edward VI. they were as follows :— [page 26]

AUGMENTATION OFFICE, MISCELLANEOUS BOOK, VOL. 513.
HUNDRED OF KINETON, CO. WARWICK.

fo. 27.

fo. 32d. Darset magna

Itm there—j chalice—iiij^or belles a saunce belle

iiij^or vestmentϱ silke

one cope silke

ij corporacϱ

ij towellϱ

a crosse bras

ij candlestickes brasse

a censor bras

Beginning fo. 3.

Com Warr

The Inventory and certificate of all the goodes plate iuels belles and other ornaments of all and ev^ŋy the churches chapells guyldes brotherhedes and fraternyties w^tin the said Countie s^rveyed and vewed by Sr George Throkm^ŋton knight John Digby and Thomas Marowe esquires by vertue of comission to them w^th other on that behalf directed bearing date xvj^th daie of Maij in the sixt yeare of the Reigne of o^r Sou^ŋeigne Lorde Edwarde the Sixt by the grace of God king of England ffrance and Ireland defender of the faithe and in earthe of the Churche of England and Ireland the sup^ŋme head.

There is now a good peal of six bells, all made by Bagley of Charcome in 1686.

On the 4th bell is—

“ BE IT KNOWN TO ALL THAT DO ME SEE,
THAT BAGLEY OF CHARCOME MADE ME.”

On the 6th—

“ CANTITATE DOMINO CANTICUM NOVUM.”

I am sorry to say the bells were very badly hung, and the stonework of the tower has been shamefully cut about to admit the bell cages. The peal cannot now be safely rung, but we have reason to hope that the bells will be shortly re-hung, and the tower repaired and strengthened.

Sepulchral Monuments.

In the gable wall of the north transept, beneath the window, is a sepulchral recess with segmental pointed arch, the jambs have small shafts with moulded capitals and bases ; within the recess, and level with the floor, is a coffin lid of an early form, but without inscription or device. The coffin beneath probably contains the body of the re-builder of the church in the 13th century, or at least of the founder of this chantry chapel. [page 27]

On the east wall of the same transept there is a tablet with small Corinthian columns of Purbeck marble, supporting an entablature on which rest three shields with arms ; between the columns is a rectangular panel with the inscription following, surrounded by twelve shields of arms :—

“ Hereunder lieth the Bodies of John Temple of Stowe | in y^e County of Buck—Esquier one of y^e Lords of this Mano^r | and of Susan his wife who was y^e daughter and cohiere | of Thomas Spencer of Everton in the County of Northⁿ | Esquier who had issue sixe sonnes and sixe daughters as | here may appeare, the said Jo. Temple deceased y^e IX^th day of | May 1603. Beinge of LXI yeres and the said Susan Deceased | the   day of   being of the age of   yeres.”

“ Cur liberos hic plurimos
Cur hic amicos plurimos
Et plurimos pecunias
Vir scire cur reliquerit
Tempellus ad plures abiit.”

The shields bear the arms of the following :—

1. George Temple (died young)
2. Sir Tho. Temple and Sandes.
3. Saunders and Temple
4. Risley and Temple
5. John Temple (and another)
6. Sir Al. Temple and Somers
7. Will Temple (and another)
8. Pet. Temple and Kendal.
9. Fiennes and Temple
10. Farmer and Temple
11. Sir Ni. Parker and Temple
12. Sir Thomas Denton and Temple

There is an altar tomb in the north transept on the top of which is a slab of stone bearing the “ sinkings ” which probably held the brasses of Peter Temple and his wife ; as Dugdale describes a “ marble where have been two portraitures in brass,” and gives the epitaph following :—

“ Here under this stone lyeth the body of | Peter Temple Esquier, who departed | out of this world at Stowe in the County | of Buckingham the XVII day of May | Anno.”

“ Whose soul God hath in his blessed keeping.”

In the south transept is an altar tomb with the Epitaphs following :—

On the south side—

HIC JACET CORPVS ANNÆ
SWAIN JOHANIS SWAIN VXORIS
SEPVLTA FVIT SEXTO DIE
AVGVSTI 1677 ET ÆTATIS
SVÆ 70 [page 28]

On the north side—

MEMORIA JOANNIS
SWAIN GENOROS //// QVI
SEPVLTVS FVIT DECIMO
QVARTO DIE APRILIS 1668
ÆTATIS SVIE 78

There are many gravestones forming a part of the pavement, more especially in the south transept.

With the exception of the old benches before mentioned, and some others rudely made of fragments of old oak, the sittings were deal pews of the last century.

None of the ancient gable crosses remain.

Many of the massive carved gravestones in the churchyard, of the 17th century and later, are curiously designed and carved, and well worthy of notice.

The Registers and the Churchwardens' Accounts are of comparatively recent date.

In the first vol. of “ Archæologia,” p. 1, there is an account and an engraving of a curious painting on a board of the arms and badge of the Belknaps, once fixed above the chancel arch. “ Ar. on a bend cotised argent, three eaglets displayed of the same, with a fiery beacon proper or. on a griffin vert. for a crest.”

Ordinatio Vicariæ De Dercet, 1232.

Omnibus Christi Fidelibus praesens scriptum inspecturis vel audituris, Alexander dei Gratia Coventrensis et Lichfeldensis episcopus salutem in domino, ex injuncto nobis curæ pastoralis officio, universis quos officii nostri cura contingit, paterna tenemur solicitudine providere ; precipue tamen illos fovere tenemur caritatis amplexu, quos et paupertas premit et religionis honestas deo reddit acceptos ; hinc est quod nos ad præsentationem dilectorum in Christo filiorum Hugonis dicti Prioris de Erdbury, et Radulphi de Suleya Militis, admisimus dilectum filium nostrum Enoc sacerdotem ad vicariam ecclesiæ omnium sanctorum de Dercet majoris ; quam vicariam communi assensu prædictorum Hugonis dicti Prioris de Erdbury, et Radulphi de Suleya Militis, sic taxavimus et ordinavimus ; viz., Quod dictus Enoc, et vicarius qui pro tempore fuerit, habeant totum alteragium præfatæ ecclesiæ, cum pertenentiis suis insuper et decimas garbarum octo virgatarum terræ in Villa de Radeweya, et decimas garbarum duarum carucatarum terræ in Villa de Derced, de domonico prioris antedicti ; et decimam dimidiæ virgatæ terræ, quam Aluredus homo dicti prioris, tempore confectionis præsentis instrumenti ; et decimam octo acrarum quas cotarii dicti prioris eo tempore tenebant, et medietatem decimarum feni sine diminutione. Habeat etiam vicarius domos quæ sitæ sunt in dominico ecclesæ præter horreum et bovarium, secundum divisionem muri, quem præcipimus ibidem fieri ad divisionem arearum prioris et vicarii. Erit autem idem vicarius sacerdos, et non minoris ordinis et præsentabitur nobis vel successoribus nostris de communi assensu prioris et dicti Rudulphi vel successorum suorum, qui pro tempore fuerint ; prioris scilicet tamquam rectoris ecclesiæ et Radulphi vel haeredum suorum tamquem patroni ; quod si forte præsentaverint alium quam sacerdotem idoneum, eo ipso sint ea vice praesentandi jure privati in posterum tamen ipsis priore jure servato, salvo etiam nobis et successoribus nostris per omnia jure pontificali et parochiali. Habebit autem idem vicarius [page 29] alium socium capellanum honestum perpetuo, et diaconum, qui cum ipso deserviat ecclesiæ memoratæ ; substinebit etiam idem vicarius omnia honera ecclesiæ debita et consueta præterquam si forte cancellum fuerit reparandum vel libri ex toto defuerint, ad haec conferant prior et vicarius, pro portionibus ipso contingentibus, ut autem haec nostra taxatio et ordinatio stabiles perpetuo, et inconcussæ perseverint eas sigilli nostri munimine duximus roborandus. Acta anno gratiæ milesimo ducentesimo trigesimo secundo, mense maio, hiis testibus, Magistro Willielmo de Monemuta, Decano Lichfeldensi, Magistro Richardo de Gloucestria Thesaurario Lichfeldensi, Willielm quondam Abbate de Stanlega, Radulpho de Sulega Patrono Dictæ Ecclesia, Johanne Basset Milite. Hugone Rectore Ecclesiæ de Avenederced Richardo Sacerdote de Cobintona, Henrico Fratre Suo, Magistro Simone Perdriz, Magistro Alexandro Blundo, Nigello Filio Mabiliæ, Philippo Blundo, et Multis Aliis.

(Mon. Angl.)