Stratford-upon-Avon: Guild of the Holy Cross: Deed

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Grant, indented, by John Hannys, master, Thomas Balsale, Reginald Fleccher, William Ireton, Roger Pachet, John Hale, John Haseley and their brethren, aldermen, John Gilbert, junior, and Robert Hall `iremonger', proctors of the Gild of the Holy Cross, etc. of Stratford upon Aven, to Master William Cook (The name is written over an erasure), chaplain late of Cissetur, for term of life, in sickness and in health, of a priestly office (unum sacerdotale servicium) of celebrating mass in the chapel of the Gild for the brothers and sisters of the said Gild living as well as dead, with a stipend of 7 marks yearly, a chamber above that which John Dyvet, chaplain, lately inhabited and his part of the garden within the manse of the said Gild with the fruit thereof and free ingress and egress thereto. Also yearly one yard of cloth of the colour `de le lyverey' of the Gild as other brethren and sisters have, and his dinner at the feast of the Gild and a proportionate share of the garden within the manse of the Gild according to the number of the chaplains there And the said Master William Cook on his part shall keep and fulfil all and singular the constitutions written in the register of the said Gild Witnesses: William Bole, John Holanton, and Rouland Vance, `bocher', `subballivi' there, John Mayell, Robert Hobday and others Dated at Stratford in the hall of the Gild, Monday next after the feast of St. Thomas the Martyr, A.D.1461 Seal lost