The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey Vol I., Nr. 265, S. 368
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The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey Vol I., Nr. 265, S. 368


LXXX. Scriptum Willielmi Wolf* de vicaria de Whalleye per ipsum non augenda.
NIUERSIS sanete matris ecclesie filijs presentes literas inspecturis, Willmus dictus le Wolf de Kyrke- lanton perpetuus vicarius ecclesie de -Whalleye Couentr.
* This was the first vicar under the miserable endowment of Bishop Northburgh. He is supposed by Dr. Whitaker to have been a native of Church Lawton, in Cheshire; but as this supposition is grounded merely on the similarity of names, it is at least as probable that he was a native of Kirklington, in Yorkshire. He suc ceeded Richard de Swyneflet, the last vicar under Bishop Langton's endowment.
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et Lich. diocesis, salutem in dño sempiternam. Habita considera- tione ad immensa et innumera beneficia per viros religiosos dños meos Abbatem et conuentum monastery Loci Benedicti de Whalleye ordinis Cisterciensis, dicte diocesis, mihi liberaliter facta et impensa, volens eisdem obsequium gratitudinis impendere, ac quantum in me est omnimodam litem pro temporibus futuris inter dictos religiosos et me prefatum Willmum super augmentatione dicte vicarie de Whalleye amicabiliter precauere. Sacrosanctis inspectis euangelijs et in verbo sacerdotij non ad hoc coactus, sed mea mera et spon-tanea voluntate ductus, hoc unum eisdem promitto et fide media veraciter assero, quod ex nunc pro meo perpetuo dictos religiosos super augmentatione dicte vicarie de Whalleye per me dictum Willmum non inquietabo nee per alios quoscunq. quouis colore clam vel palam inquietare seu grauare aliqualiter procurabo, aliquid ab eisdem exigendo contra formam ordinationis venerabilis in Cristo patris dru Bogeri de Norburgh, Couentr. et Lich. episcopi, de eadem vicaria anno dñi m.ccc.xxx. cum cause cognitione factaim, una cum confirmationibus capitulorum nostrorum Couentr. et Lich, super eadem ordinatione postmodo subsecutis. Et ad maiorem huius rei euidentiam presentibus sigillum meum apposui in testimonium pre- missorum. Dat. apud Whalleye xij. kaln. Nouembr. in festo xi. mill. virginum anno dñi m.ccc.xxxvi.
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