Monday  next  before  F.  of  SS.  Perpetua  and  Felicitas  [7  March],
Boxford  (Robert),  draper. — To  be  buried  in  S.  Paul's  church-
yard called  "  Pardounchirchehawe."  One  moiety  of  his  movable
goods  he  leaves  to  Clemence  his  wife  by  way  of  her  share  of  his
goods,  and  out  of  the  residue  he  makes  divers  bequests  to  the
fabric  of  S.  Paul's  and  of  the  church  of  S.  Vedast,  to  poor  prisoners
in  Neugate  and  Ludgate,  to  the  Prior,  Canons,  &c,  of  S.  Mary

1  An  Eastern  name  for  the  collected  3  See  Part  I.  p.  607,  note  1.
general  epistles.  *  Cowdham  (the   name  is  variously

2  Or  Legend  of  the  Saints ;  a  book  of  spelt  Codeham,  Cudham,  and  Coldham),
the  acts  of  the  saints  read  throughout  co.  Kent  (Hasted's  '  Hist,  of  Kent,'  vol.  i.
the  year  on  certain  days  in  the  offices  p.  118).
of  the  Western  Church.
A.D.
1392-3.
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A.D.
1392-3.
de  Overee  in  Suthwerk,  the  Master  of  the  College  of  S.  Laurence
Pounteneye  near  Candelwykstrete,  the  ministers  of  the  church  of
S.  Mary  Magdalen  de  Suthwerk ;  also  for  the  repair  of  roads  in
the  neighbourhood  of  London,  and  for  distribution  among  the
poor  and  infirm  lying  "  bedreden "  in  the  City  and  suburbs,
&c.  Bequests  also  to  John  Prentis  his  brother,  John  Gribbes,
William  Symme,  and  others.  A  certain  rent  issuing  from  a
tenement  called  "  le  cok  on  the  hoop "  in  the  parish  of  S.  Giles
without  Crepulgate  to  be  sold  to  pay  his  debts.  Dated  at  the
priory  aforesaid,  the  Feast  of  the  Purification  of  V.  Mary  [2  Feb.],
16  Richard  II.  [a.d.  1392-3].— Also  to  old  Thomas,  the  bellringer
of  the  priory,  three  shillings  and  fourpence.  Roll  121  (145).
