| Description | From: Simon Langham, archbishop of Canterbury
The churches of Eastry and Monkton, with their chapels, had been appropriated to the prior and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral Priory until Archbishop Baldwin seized them, kept the rights of collation and left the priory a moiety of the income from each church for its almonry. Subesquently, Archbishop Simon Islip, the archbishop's immediate predecessor, restored the churches to the priory. The churches have since fallen vacant, Eastry by the rector's departure and Monkton by the rector's death, and the priory has taken possession of them and has asked the archbishop to create vicarages.
The archbishop establishes a vicarage at Eastry and assigns a portion for the vicar's maintenance. The vicar is to have a hall with 2 chambers, a kitchen and a curtilage with a close within the messuage of the portion which was of the almoner. Details of income assigned to the vicar from offerings, legacies, tithes and other sources as specified, including lesser tithes from the priory's manor of Lydden [in Worth] and an annual payment of 5 marks from the priory. The income of the vicarage, with the payment of 5 marks, is valued at £20 and is assessed at £10 for taxation purposes. The vicar shall provide a chaplain for the chapel of Worth. He is to provide him with processional candles and surplices, pay for binding of the books and look after them. The vicar shall support all financial burdens which the rector used to pay, but the priory shall be responsible for maintaining the chancels of Eastry church and the chapel of Worth and providing a chaplain for the chapel of Shingleton [in Eastry]. The priory shall also pay the vicar an annual payment of 40s for the maintenance of the parish clerk.
Given at Ford ('le Ford') [in Hoath, Kent].
Endorsed with descriptions in late 14th and 18th cent hands. |