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 262 THE ANCESTOR was negus produced in plenty, and the gentlemen threw it all over the room, broke eight bowls, and went off in a rage, swearing there should never be another ball at those rooms ; but Wiltshire having made proper submissions they have passed it by, and the balls go on there as usual. Collet had carried himself off before upon some affront he had received, of which he has had plenty this winter, and since that night hath re- signed his office to one Derrick, a little Irishman, to whom they say the rooms are to allow fifty pounds a year. If that is the case, it is no hard matter to prognosticate what authority he will gain, and how far it will be attended to.' (Ibid. p. 97) Grant of a Corrody to Richard le Spicer by his Son 6 Edward III. [1332]. — Agreement whereby Henry Le Spicer and his wife Mary grant to Richard Le Spicer, father of the said Henry, a yearly rent of fifty shillings issuing ifrom a tenement in Smytheford Street in Coventre, and further grant to the same Richard for his life a sufficiency of meat and drink at his own table like that provided for the grantors, and a fit place for his bed in the same grantors' own tenement, and fit clothes for the same bed, and a robe of fit cloth to be received by him yearly at St. Andrew's Feast with fit fur for an over- tunic, and in every second year a winter coat with a cap and suitable fur at the Feast of St. Michael, and a summer over-tunic at the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, and also a yearly livery of two pairs of linen clothes and four pairs of list shoes, and six pairs of shoes. Coventry Corporation Records,' p. 137) Grant of a Corrody for Life in the Priory of Coventre to Alice the Wife of Thomas de Radewey 1335. — Agreement between Henry the Prior and the Convent of the cathedral church of Coventre of the one part, and Thomas de Radewey of Keresleye and his wife Alice, formerly the wife of Roger Locard, of the other part : whereby the said Thomas and Alice give to the said Prior and Convent certain lands etc., in the towns of Coventre, Coundeline and Radeford, and the said Prior and Convent grant in return to the said Alice for her life a corrody in their priory, viz., to receive daily ' unum panem album qui vocatur Michs et unam lagenam cerevisie conventualis,' etc., and also grant to her a place of abode in a cottage with a curtilage in St. Nicholas Street. (Ibid. p. 137) Provision for such an Obit as was ' Comenly usid for Men OF WoRSHiPE ' IN Coventre 12 Henry VIII., October 6th [1520]. — Indenture of an agreement between Thomas White, Master of the Guild of Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas and the brethren and sisters of the same Guild of the first part, and Letyse the widow and executrix of the testament of John Saunders late of Coventre, capper and alderman, and John Clerk,