Documents relating to mortuary rights in Little Comberton (Worcestershire). 1. Letters...

Documents relating to mortuary rights in Little Comberton (Worcestershire).

1. Letters patent of Thomas [de Pyriton], abbot of Pershore (Worcestershire), and the convent there, having appropriated to their own uses the parish church of Holy Cross, appointing Adam de Upton', their proctor, to warn Master William Allot, rector of the chapel of the vill of Little Comberton, subject to the parish church of Holy Cross, to seek out and exhume the body or remains of Cecilia Maynard in that church or churchyard and cause it to be removed to the parish church of Holy Cross, allowing the abbot and convent to receive all that should have been due to them by reason of her death. Pershore, 15 February 1342/3.

2. Notarial instrument recording that on 25 August 1344, at the rectory manse of Little Comberton before Master William Allot, rector of the chapel of the same vill, subject to the parish church of Holy Cross, Pershore, in the presence of Peter Ricardi Beaugrant, clerk of the diocese of Worcester, public notary, and Brother William de Clebury, monk and sacrist of Pershore, and Adam de Upton', clerk, Sir Robert de Amyas, rector of Great Comberton (Worcestershire), then dean of Pershore, sealed letters with the seal of the dean of St. Marcy Arches, London, official of the court of Canterbury, concerning the burial of Edith le Thacchere of Little Comberton, ordering her body or remains to be borne to the parish church of Holy Cross, Pershore, upon which he ordered Walter de Frome, then priest of the chapel of Little Comberton, to carry this out. Walter was aided in the exhumation by John Fynch, clerk of the same chapel, and many others. The reburial ceremony was presided over by Thomas de Pyriton, then abbot of Pershore, and a mortuary payment of sixpence was made to the sub-sacrist, John de Longedon'. Present at the reburial were William de Cleobury, John de Longedon', monks of Pershore, and Sirs Richard Folhardy, Walter de Bediford and Thomas de la Bruwere, priests of Worcester diocese, and Adam de Upton', clerk, Nicholas called"la Coke" and Peter, the notary.

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