| Description | Party: Thomas Bourchier, cardinal priest of St Cyriac in Thermis, archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate; Henry Bourchier, earl of Essex, brother of Thomas Bourchier, cardinal priest of St Cyriac in Thermis, archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate
Party: William Sellyng, I, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
[Document damaged. Several areas of text lost or illegible. Many details taken from registered version, cited below.] On 8 Feb 1473, the archbishop granted the priory his lordship and priory of Panfield in Essex. In return, the cathedral priory will include him in its masses and prayers for benefactors after his death. The cathedral priory promises that after the archbishop's death, it will celebrate the office of the dead for him on the day of his burial and will celebrate a requiem mass for his soul, the souls of his parents and friends and the souls of all the faithful departed on the morrow. Each year, on the anniversary of his death, the priory will cause the office of the dead to be celebrated for him as is the custom on the anniversaries of archbishops, with a requiem mass on the morrow for his soul, the souls of 'Dominus' William Bourgchier and 'Domina' Anne, countess of Stafford, his wife, Thomas and Henry's parents, and the souls of all the faithful departed. The priory's manor warden shall distribute 8s 4d in money to 100 poor people, 1d each, on the day of the archbishop's anniversary. Immediately after the archbishop's burial, the prior, subprior or precentor shall assign one of the monks who is a priest each week to celebrate mass daily as specified for the archbishop's soul and the other souls at St Stephen's altar to the north of the cathedral church, and the monk who has this duty shall receive 20d from the profits of Panfield Priory, which mass shall be called 'Bourghchiers masse'. The priory binds itself to Henry in 100s to perform all these things, the money to be paid if it defaults in any respect for 1 month. Right of distraint in Panfield Priory to recover this money. The priory shall be quit of the 100s if it loses the manor of Panfield and the prior shall not be personally liable.
Given at Canterbury. |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, indented at top, pieces torn away at top left and top right, seal tag torn away, several
smaller holes, dirty, creased, stained |