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"And also I will, &c. that if the said pryst or his successors, of the crime of incontinency or any other grievous vice or notable dishonesty of his body, be convicted as aforesaid, and will not amend (which God forbid) but return again unto the forsaid crymes, &c. after monition given, that the said pryst so convicted, &c. to be expelled, nor remedy of expellation against the premises to be of value, and another pryst &c. to be presented."

The priest to repair all houses, edifices, &c.

"Also I will that the said pryst every yere herefutor to come upon the yere-day and anniversary of me the said Edmund, specially to kepe upon suche of the month as it shall happen me to die.... with the whole service ordained for the dead for ever. Item I will that on the same yere-day the said pryst shall deliver and distribute in manner following:

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“To the parish pryst of St. Laurens ministering about the said anniversary xiid.

"And to the xij prysts masses and other divine services there doing vjs.

"To the parishe clarke of the said church xiid. and to the other vj clarkes there syngyng and servyng God xijd. equally among them.

"To xij children ther syngyng and serving God xijd.

"To the sexton and ryngyne of the bells vjd. "To xij poore indigent persons of the said parish to pray for my sowle and the sowles abovesaid ijs.

"And to the two bailiffs of Ippeswich xiijs. & iiijd. that is to say to every one of them to offer at the said anniversary xijd. and to controwle the said anniversary vjs. viijd.

"Moreover I will, &c. that the name of our sovereign Lord the Kyng, the Queene, the name of the said

Edmund and the names of the forsaid Thomas Wulcy and William Daundy among the quick, during our lives, and also the name of Ann, Robert and Jone among the dead on a table shall be written, and the same tabyl by the said pryst ordained openly upon the awlter of St. Thomas Martyr, &c. to be sett to the intent that every day the said pryst in his mass shall pray for the p'sperity of our said sovereign Lord the Kyng and the said Edmund the founder, &c. &c."

Daundy then appoints James Crawford to be the first pryst, for the term of his natural life.

He assigns a mansion or dwelling for his use."All that my messuage of late now builded, and the garden thereunto annexed, with a certaine lane and all its appurtenances scituate in the parish of St. Laurens aforsaid—yt is to say between the tenement of the said Edmund Daundy in part, and the tenement called the Crown in part, on the north part, and the cottage of Thomas Baldry now occupied for a horse stabull in part, and the tenement of Robert Goodwyn in part, and the tenement of Henry Stannard in part, on the south part, whoes easte head abutteth upon the tenement of Thomas Baron Smyth, and the west heade abutteth upon the Kynges highe strete, and also for the fyndinge of the said James and his successors to have and to hold all my lands and tenements with their appurtenances in Sprowton and Stoke next Ippiswiche, that is to say :-"

Then follows an enumeration of the several pieces of land with their abuttals and two messuages called Cooks and.... amounting to above 100 acres. Among the abuttals, the most remarkable are "Great Gogoney and Littel Gogoney"-" 15 acres, the south head abutting on the common way and a small medow of the chauntry in part, and upon a medow pertaining to the parson of the church of Coldewell in part."

The founder then concludes:-" And whereas I the forsaid Edmund at this my firste foundation have delyvered to the said James now pryst of the sayd chauntry, a masse book, two complete vestyments and a book called a coucher for massys and other divine service to be sayd by the sayd James and his successours, for the confirmation whereof and to his successor in competent manner for to leve and to deliver the said James hath found to us and our executors sufficient surety and taken thereupon a bodily othe. And in case it should chance the sayd books and vestyments and other ornaments through his fault or negligence to be alienate, or fall into decaye, and that for reparation, mayntenance and bettering of the said. mansion and dwellinghouse, every pryst of the forsaid chauntry shall lay up and leve yerely iiijs. and iiijd. starlyng of the said lands and tenements in a box locked with two keyes thereunto ordayned, whereof the one keye to remayn with the forsaid pryst and the other with the wardens of St. Laurens. I will also that every pryst of the said chauntry shall leve to his successor xls. lawful money of Ingland, for the expenses, costs and charges of the said successors to be don and sustayned about his p'sentation, admysion, institution and induction, to the which effect, I the said Edmund hath delivered unto the said James Crawford xls. upon his sufficient surety for that intent made with me, willing and stablyshing that every pryst shall fynde likewise sureties unto the wardens of St. Laurens."

"But because it is not in man but in God to forsee and p'vide all things, and often tymes it fortuneth that that wh in the begynning was thought to be p'fytable afterwards is found not to be so, therefore I will and reserve to me the said Edmund Daundy only the

liberty and power to enterprete, augment, dymynish and to chaunge, reforme and to add to the same, and correcte and amende all and singular ordynaunces and statutes made by me, also other ordynaunces, and to be made, created and stablyshed by the tenor of these presents. In witness and testimony of all and singular the premisses unto this my present ordynaunce indented, the one part remayneth with me the said Edmund, the other part with the pryst forsaid, and the third part, &c. &c."

This deed is dated the last day of November "in the syxt year of our sovarayne Lorde Kynge Hennery the Eight after the Conquest, and in the yere of our Lord God 1514."

Previously to the period when the King's Visitors made their appearance, the officials of the parish had performed a portion of their injunctions, although not all; for not only were the fine windows filled with painted glass, but the walls were covered with allegorical pictures of which the ecclesiastics of the period made much account. It is useless now to enquire into the fate of the glass removed by the zeal of those who were anxious to do the bidding of the King's majesty, or to mourn over its loss. Probably, though the document recording the re-glazing of the church does not mention the fact, the effigies of sainted personages and other designs filling the windows were ruthlessly battered to pieces, and as is sometimes the case, the fragments were probably gathered together and buried in the churchyard.* The. annexed document discloses some curious particulars connected with the windows and the building.

* The stained glass from the windows of one of the Sudbury Churches, was thus buried and found accidentally not many years since.

"An D'n 1547. Seynt Lawrens P'ishe in Ippsswiche. Ffor as moche as my lorde bysshope of Norwich hathe deligated onto us that the kyng's majesties plesure and commandment ys that we shuld make them styfycathes unto hym of the sale of all suche ornaments, plate, jewells, and bells as we have solde or alienated out of the p'ishe churche. the money thereof ys imployed onto whiche precept all trewe and faythfull subjetts ar most boundyn to obs've and fulfill and obey.

And to what use

Ples it you to understand that befor the Kynges vicitors was here we had soll'd p'te off our plate wiche was p'seynted onto them, and synce they war here we soll'd mor, the value thereof and weight of unc ys this :

A cros, a payer of censors, and a shippe, ij pair of chalis w the patents (patens) and other small thyngs, the hole weyght ten score and seven unc at iiij" and viij the unc, the sum of money received for the same xvliij. vjs.

Bells we have sold none.

.....

Ornaments, we have sold a cope and a shryne or sepultrye of tymber and gylte wt ye tabernacle of ye same for ... .....ix. Item we have sold ffower hundreythe weight of latyn and bras at xviij the hundreythe s'm

iijli xijs. Item we have sold every banner clothes and other olde steyned cloths for ......

S'm total.................... lxij1i. vs.

xxviij.

Item our whyght lynen clothes and others that dyd hang before the candelbeame and other Immages we have gyvyn to

the pore.

Also we do sertify that for the bestowynge of the money above saide we have ffynyshed and fulfylled the place in our churche wher the Image did stond, and cast whyted and paved our churche whiche hathe cost us in lyme and sond and lv3. viijd.

masons...

Item we have fynyshed and writyn the walls of the sayde churche wythe texts of the Scrypture and wiche cost us to the paynt .... liijs. iiijd.

.......

Item we have in our churche and chancell ix glas wyndows of fayned storyse contrary to the king's majesties injouncions whiche we have bargayned for to be glaced w' whyght glas ffor the wiche we have payd and must paye for the said glas.....xij1i.

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