Catalogue description Grant of an obit; The warden and brothers of the convent of Friars Minor in Winchelsea, with the licence and assent of Brother Vincent Boys, their minister in England, to Vincent Vynch and his wife Isabella

The brother celebrating the mass of the Virgin at the high altar shall pray (prayers specified) for their good estate while they live, and their souls after their death, and the souls of their forbears. Their obit will be celebrated every year after their death, saying on the vigil the exequies of the dead, and on the morrow the mass of requiem. Their names shall be written in the gilt book of the convent amongst the chief benefactors, mentioned every week in chapter before the brothers and inserted in the margin of the missal at the canon or next to the remembrance of the living. That this charter be read every year at the chapter.

Dated at a provincial chapter held at Shrewsbury

Endorsed: 1069; 458; Phillipps 31734

This document is referred to in A G Little, Franciscan Papers, Lists and Documents (Manchester, 1943), pp 119, 215. For the seal see Little (ed), Franciscan History and Legend in English Mediaeval Art, Brit Soc Franciscan Studies 19 (1937) p 84. The document was sold at Sotheby's, 30 Jun 1936, lot 458; for other documents from the same sale, see note to AMS 5789/44.