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 THE ANCESTOR 263 grocer, and Nicholas Heynes, capper, overseers of the same testament, of the second part, and John Bonde, mayor, and the community of the City of Coventre of the third part, and Thomas Waren the Master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, etc., of the fourth part : Whereby the said Master brethren and sisters of the aforesaid Guild of Corpus Christi covenant that they w^ill ' yerely for ever on the second day of the moneth of August cause an Obite to be kept in the parishe churche of St. Mighell in the said Cite for the soules of the said John Saunders and Letyse, Agnes and Alice his wifFes, as is comenly usid for men of worshipe in the seid Cite, with dirige over nyghte and masse of the morov^e with x preistes iii clerks and ii children, every prieste to have iii«., every clerke ii^. and every child a peny.' (Ibid. p. 147) 1527, March 22. — Agreement between Sir William Sandys, knight. Lord Sandys, Lord Chamberlain, and Walter Hungerford esquire, son and heir of Edward Hungerford knight, late deceased, for a marriage between the latter and Alice, one of the daughters of the former, before the feast of the Ascension. Walter Hungerford undertakes to settle manors and lands to the yearly value of 100/. Lord Sandys undertakes to pay 600 marks,^ viz. 400 at the day of marriage, and 200 at Michael- mas following. He also undertakes to find meat and drink for such as shall happen to be at the marriage. He further undertakes to * gyve to the saide Water for the daye of the saide maryage one gowne of crymson velwet and one other gowne of blacke velwet, one jacket of blacke velwet and one other jacket of blacke satten, one dublet of crymson satten and one other dublet of blacke satten,' and to give to his daughter for the day of the said marriage 'one gowne of crymson velwet and one other gowne of blacke velwet, one kirtyll of crymson sattyn and one other of blacke satten, and all other ornaments as to the hed of the said Alice for the said daye of mariage shall appertayne.' CEarl of Radnor's MSS.' p. 162) ' For all this it fared with poor Longford ^ no otherwise then with that Daemoniack, who after it had been exorcised was quickly repossessed by viler devils then formerly haunted it, for instead of soldiers of for- tune, and some honest cavaliers, there were put in by order of Parlia- ment a knavish committee of clowns of neither fortune nor under- standing, who first pillaged the house of whatsoever the former guests had left, or could be torn from doors, or walls, or windows, and then moved the Parliament that the house should be slighted for being a dangerous place. As the storms of civil dissension broke away, and our days cleared up by degrees, my Lord Coleraine, having weathered so many difficult points both as to law and conscience as had greatly impoverished his 1 i.e. £^00. ^ Longford Castle, Salisbury.