The History of Lynn, Vol. 1 [of 2]Richards, William
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The History of Lynn, Vol. 1 [of 2]
Richards, William
Fens, The (England); King's Lynn (England)
[11.] When any one shall be received into the said guild, he shall
promise in the hands of the said alderman on his faith, that he will
be obedient unto the said alderman and his officers of the guild for
the time being, in all lawful and honest things touching their
office, and that he will faithfully observe, as far as he is able,
all the lawful ordinances which, for the good rule and government of
the said guild, and honourable support of the said chaplains, and the
alms and good works of the said guild, are already made, or shall be
made hereafter.
[12.] It was ordained on Wednesday in the week of Pentecost in the
7. of Edward {462a} that the brethren should keep a general
Morwespech {462b} three times a year; to wit, on Friday in Whitsun
week, on Friday after the exaltation of the Holy Cross, and on Friday
on the first week of Lent.
[13.] Likewise it was ordained, by common consent, that the alderman
and his brethren should take care that a solemn mass should be
celebrated for the soul of John de Grey, formerly bishop of Norwich,
who first obtained the liberty of the said guild; viz. on the feast
of the holy Trinity, where every one of the brethren was to make an
offering of an halfpenny, and if any one made default, he was to give
one sextary of wine to the alms of the said house and gild.
[14.] And on Friday on the week of Pentecost in the 44. Edward III.
[1370] Thomas de Bockisham then alderman of, &c. it was agreed
unanimously that all the brethren who were well in town should meet
at Vespers at St. Margaret’s church, and should hear together Vespers
and Placebo for the soul of the aforesaid king John and John [de]
Grey bishop of Norwich, and on the day following, on the feast of the
holy Trinity, they should all be there present, and hear the mass
said of the holy Trinity, and, immediately after that, the mass for
the dead, by note, for the souls aforesaid.
[15.] On Friday on the week of Pentecost, in the 23 Edward 3. it was
provided by common assent, for ever, that no brother ought to buy or
sell any millstones, or marble stones, brought to Lynn to be sold, as
long as the scabini of this house would buy them for the profit of
the guild and pay for them to the full, and if any one brother should
act contrary hereto, he should for ever be deprived of the society.
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