Release

Reference Number: BC/6/2/1/5/97
Level of Description: Item
Title: Release
Date: 2 Sep 1392
Extent: Extent: 1 item
Description: 1 Cristina Compe, widow of John Compe, citizen of Bath, after her decease and that of John Bath alias Hendman, and of Alice, his wife, daughter of John Compe
2 The Mayor and Commonalty of Bath
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A cottage with a garden in the street called Paynstwechen, situate between a cottage of the said Mayor and Commonalty, on the north, and a cottage of the Blessed Mary within the Northgate, on the south. To hold the same after their death for the maintenance of a lamp burning every day in the chapel of the Blessed Mary de Stalls, at the first mass there to be celebrated for the souls of John Compe, Cristina, his wife, John Bath alias Hendman, and Alice, his wife; and if the lamp is not maintained, from that time the cottage and garden shall remain to the proctors of the church of the B.M. de Stalls for the time being in order to maintain the lamp in manner and form abovesaid.
Witnesses: Robert Waspray, Mayor; John Serne; Sewald Franceys; Richard Thorne; John Hayward.
Dated at Bath, Monday before the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 16 Ric. II.
Language: Latin

Former Reference number BC151/5/97