Deed

Indenture 'tripertite' dated 20 Sept. 30 Henry VIII between Mr. William Fleshemonger, Dean of Chichester, and Elys Bradshawe, Mayor, and the citizens and burgesses of Chichester (no third party). In consideration of William Fleshmonger's payment of 600 marks towards the redemption of £32. 3 s. 7¾ d. of their fee farm, the City be deed dated 1 Dec. 29 Henry VIII (1537) granted him an annuity of £13. 6 s. 8 d. charged on their property, with power of distraint; this he now gives to the Mayor on condition of giving a priest £4 a year and meat and drink at his table to celebrate according to the annexed schedule at the Jesus altar on the north side of the 'body' of the Cathedral, and also 23 s. 4 d. for his obit, to be kept during his life on St. Margaret's day (20 July) with Mass of requiem on the morrow, and after his death on the day of it, or as near as conveniently may be. He shall also pay to the Dean and Chapter 40 s. a year to buy the choristers 'shurtes, hoses, shoys', and other necessaries, and to the schoolmaster 3 s. 4 d.; the Mayor shall have the balance, £6. In case of neglect to perform this, the City, after twenty days' warning from the Dean and Chapter shall forfeit the annuity to the heirs of William Fleshmonger as from the Michaelmas following. Sealed interchangeably. Schedule. I, William Fleshmonger, require of the Mayor of Chichester that he see that the priest by him admitted, or his deputy, celebrate the Jesus Mass by note every Sunday; holyday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to begin soon after the first peal to Our Lady Mass, and to end before Our Lady Mass begins. Save in case of lawful impediment, the priest shall be present daily at Prime, processions, and Evensong, and, if it conveniently can be, at High Mass. Every Friday (Good Friday excepted) the choristers are to keep the Jesus Mass by note, and, after Our Lady Mass, are to say daily, half on the north side and half on the south of the Jesus Chapel, Deus Misereatur (Ps. 67), De Profundis (Ps. 130), and the collect Fidelium, and end with (in Latin) 'May the souls of William, late Dean of Chichester, of William and Agnes his parents, and of all faithful departed, rest in peace'. The Mayor and all ex-Mayors shall be present at my obit at the distribution ordained hereafter, the shares of those absent from Dirige and Mass, and the balance, less 5 d. for the priest, shall be given to the poor present. There shall be given, to the Dean 16 d., the Canons residen[tiary] 3 s., the prebendary of Hyghley, Bishop Shurborne's four prebendaries, and the Subdean 3 s., the two King's chaplains 8 d., nine Vicars serving priests' stalls 4 s. 6 d., seven other Vicars 2 s. 4 d., Bishop Shurbornes' four clerks and his bedesman 20 d., St. George priest and Ockehurste's [chantry] priest 8 d., the verger 2 d., eight choristers 8 d., two sextons 6 d., four bellringers 8 d., for waste of lights burning at Dirige and Mass 4 d., to the Mayor, if present 12 d., to seven ex-Mayors 2 s. 4 d., to the 'Sergandes' of the City, 4 d., to the City bedesman for his premonition 2 d. (20 Sept. 1538).