Folio: 286. Honor of Bolyngbrok [Bolingbroke], in one box, marked by the letter C....

Folio: 286. Honor of Bolyngbrok [Bolingbroke], in one box, marked by the letter C. Agreement.

First party: The mother church of St Peter of Halton.

Second party: The chapel of St Lawrence, situated in the parish church.

Place or subject: Made by R, the abbot, and the convent of Nehus [Newsham], and Gilbert de Beningwurd [Benniworth] in the chapel of Newsham. Gilbert with his wife and family, and those coming upon them and making their stay, and their heirs, similarly, when they stay in Haltun [Halton], will go to that church to hear divine service on ten feast days a year, namely at Christmas, the Purification of St Mary, Palm Sunday, the Adoration of the Cross, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, the feast-day of St Peter and Paul, All Saints and All Souls. If they cannot set out due to certain difficulties on those ten days to come to church, it will lawful for them to hear service in the chapel, but all their oblation is to be borne to the mother church by the clerk of the same church. On the day on which that man comes to church, nothing is to exacted from him for the chapel. But on other days Gilbert and his heirs are to cause the chapel to be served by their own chaplain at their will, excepting baptisms, marriages, purification, confession, and communion, unless in the article of death and when the priest of the church cannot come. Their chaplain cannot receive any other parishioners to the detriment of the church or extort from them on their deathbed any benefit in the name of testament. This chapel will be free and quit, saving the right of the mother church.

County: [Lincolnshire].

Additional people: Witnesses: Jordan, abbot of Thorent' [Thornton]; Gilo de Gaula; Richard de Hotrinham; John, son of Walter de Kilmingholm [Killingholme]; Walter de Ridefort; Henry de Bilighet; William son of Berard; William Bernert, knights; Nicholas de Biford; Peter, son of Gilo de Gaula; Randulph de Huet; and Ralph de Bidefort.

Undated.

For the original charter see: DL 25/325