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572 and ffishing weres and with the waren of conys and with all manner proufites and oommodites and other thinges whatsoever they be in any manner of wise to the foreseid manor belonging or apperteigning. To have and to holde the foreseid manor with the appurtenaunces to the foreseid most reverend ifader in God Thomas Wulcy Archebissliop of Yorke and to his assignes ifro the ifest of the Nativite of Saint John Baptist last past before the date hereof unto thend and terme of lxxxxix yeres than next folowing and fully to be ended and paying therfor yerely to the seid priour and his suecessours in the tresoury of there hous of seynt Johns of Clarkenwell beside London fifty poundes sterling at the ifestes of the purification of our Lady and of Seynt Barnabe thappostle by even porcions.” The lease goes on to make an allowance of £4 13s. 4d. for the maintenance of a priest for the chapel and continues with provisions for due repair of the buildings, wears, etc., and penalties in case of non-payment of rent, etc. The schedule attached to the lease is interesting :—“ In the Chapel First a chalesse of silver, a pix of copur for the sacrament, ij alter clothes, a corporaxe, ij candlestikes of laton, a masse booke, a porteux, a pewterbotil for wyne, a crewet of pewter, a crosse of tynne, a paxbrede of tree, an alter clothe of whyte and blue lyke unto armyn, an ymage of our lord of tree, an ymage of our lady of tree, an ymage of saint John, an ymage of saint Nicholas, an ymage of the crosse paynted on a borde, ij alterelothes, ij pewes with a chest of wynscott, an holy waterstok of laton with a stryngel of laton, ij bells in the toure one of them broken. Of bedsteddis in all xxti, eleven tourned chyars. In the parlour a table of Estriche bourde with ij tristells. In the haule ij tables dormant and con long table with ij tristells, a close cup board, iiij fou.rmes, iiij barres of yron about the harthe. In the kechen a pot of bras cent v galons, a cadron sett in the fournace cent xx galons, a spyt of yron, ij awndyrons a trevet, ij mortem of marbil, a cawdron of iij galons, a sterner of laton, a fiesshe hoke, a frying pan, ij pailes, a barre of iron in the kechen to hange on pottes, a grete salting troughe, a steping fatte, an heire of the kyin of xxiii yerdes, ij gretebynnes in the kechyn, a bynne in the buttry, a knedying troughe. In the stable a pitchfork, a dongfork. A