| Description | Party: John de Cotyngham, succentor of Lichfield Cathedral; the college ('Cetus') of vicars [choral] of Lichfield Cathedral
Party: the prior and convent or chapter of Coventry Cathedral Priory
The succentor and vicars [choral] have appropriated the church of Penn [Staffordshire]. Pending ('attendentes') the agreement of Coventry Cathedral Priory, they have, with the consent of Roger [Northburgh], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and the deputy dean ('locum tenentis Decani ') and chapter of Lichfield, granted the priory an annual pension of 3s 4d from the fruits and profits of the church, payable at Coventry Cathedral Priory. The priory will pay the sacrist and vicars of Lichfield an annual payment of 40s, of which half is to be paid to the vicars and the other half is for food to be distributed to the poor, in accordance with the plan ('propositum') of Mgr William de mancestr', late dean of Lichfield, and the custom observed at the cathedral. The vicars grant that if the pension is not paid, the priory may retain the amount from the vicars' half of the payment. Dated 5 Jul at Haywood by the bishop and 10 Jul by the dean and chapter and vicars. Monogram on the dean and chapter's seal tag.
Endorsed with description in 14th cent hands. |