" sabbati sancti, in benedictione cerei Paschalis, & fontis, & aurora diei Pasche, in officio Resurrectionis Domini, necnon Vesperis & Vigiliis festorum sanctæ Trinitatis, & Dedicationis ipsius Ecclesiæ Conventualis. Pro quibus prænominatis inter partes prædictas contentiones variæ & discordiæ eorumd. occasione subortæ, & lites quamplurimæ per prius suscitatæ fuerint except. &c. "

" NOS pii patris more, filiorum nostror. quieti & tranquillitati volentes, qua possumus cantela, prospicere, zizania, emulationes, odia ab eisd. rejicere, viamque litium & causarum anfractus præcludere, ac pacis & concordiæ ipsis materiam summo ope ministrare; ac sperantes in Dominio, quod ipso co-operante ad majorem quietem ac tranquillitatem eorumd. Parochianorum, fontem baptismalem & cætera solemnia prælibat. in dict. Ecclesia sive Capella sanctæ Katerine, ex dictor. Prioris & Conventus consensu, habere poterint temporib. profuturis nostra mediante solicitudine paternali, & Jurisperitorum nobis assistentium sano consilio, per compositionem inde modo meliori & convenientiori inter partes prædictas, per nos solidius faciend. ad caritatem Domini ex eo tempore felicitèr revocand."

"NOS, tam eosd. Priorem & Conventum, quam Parochianos prædictos in domo Capitulari præfat. Ecclesiæ Conventualis coram nobis personaliter fecimus comparere. Qui quidem Prior & Conventus, necnon Parochiani hujusmodi pro bono pacis super omnib. & singulis premissis, ordinationi, dispositioni, sive definitioni & voluntati nostris, se simpliciter spontè, absolutè, & concorditer submiserunt; renuntiantes expressè omnib. litigiis & querelis motis super hiis hactenus, & movendis; ac etiam processibus circa ea pendentibus & futuris; & ad observand. inviolabiliter ordinationem hujusmodi super hiis per nos faciend. corporale præstiterunt juramentum."

"Universorum ergo filiorum nostrorum prædictor. Concordia, pacis desiderio & voluntaria submissione gavisi, submissiones & renunciationes necnon Ordinationem hujusmodi super hiis per nos faciend. ut prefertur, acceptantes & admittentes, inspectis & intellectis Prioris & Conventus prædictor. Privilegiis, Literis, Munimentis, Evidentiis, Informationibus & cæteris omnibus, hinc inde probationum generibus, Christi nomine invocato, ordinand. super præmissis duximus in hunc modum, videlic."

"Volumus & ordinamus, Quod Fons baptismalis in Ecclesia sive Capella Scte. Caterine supradicta de novo erigatur pro pueris batizandis, ac aliis ibid. necessariis, seu opportunis faciendis. Ita quod iidem parochiani, qui sunt & qui erunt, pro tempore, fontem baptismalem, & cætera solemnia, & cætera prælibata, super quibus discordiæ atque lites olim suborte fuerant, ut prefertur, habere poterunt perpetuis futuris temporibus in Ecclesiâ sive Capella surpadict. Etiam quod Parochiani prædicti ad ipsam Ecclesiam Conventualem, in ipsius Sanctæ Trinitatis, necnon Dedicationis ejusdem Conventualis Ecclesiæ Festivitatibus, in Crastino Sancti Bartholomei Apostoli singulis annis contingenti annuatim accedant, ipsamque in subjectionis & recognizationis signum humiliter veneraturi, singuli saltem in eisdem festivitatibus Sanctæ Trinitatis & Dedicationis hujusmodi, singulos denarios, obolos seu quadrantes oblaturi humiliter & devotè, si autem alias dict. Ecclesiæ sive Capelle Sancte Katherine Dedicationis solemnitatem in ead. Ecclesia sive Capella iidem Parochiani celebrare voluerunt, eorundem Parochianorum devotioni & voluntati benevolè non obstamus. Imò potius affectu annuimus paternali."

"Volumus etiam, quod in dicta Ecclesia sive Capella supra prædicta, non pulsetur ad hujusmodi officium Resurrectionis Dominicæ, quousque hujusmodi officium, in prædicta Conventuali Ecclesia, tempore solito, fuerit completum."

"Insuper volumus, ut eisdem Parochianis in Ecclesia sive Capella prædict. per unum ex Canonibus dict. Ecclesiæ Conventual. ad libitum Prioris ejusdem ponend. sive deputand. & ab ead. removend. continuò deserviatur, ut ante hanc novam Ordinationem consuevit fieri ab antiquo. Minstrat eisdem Parochianis Sacramenta & Sacramentalia universa, per se aut aliquem alium Canonicum, seu Presbyterum secularem, in sua Absentia deputand."

"Volumus etiam & ordinamus, quod iidem Prior & Conventus aliqua Ornamenta seu Onera dict. Ecclesiæ sive Capellæ de novo invenire seu supportare ratione hujusmodi nostræ ordinationis minimè teneantur: Nec ad id a quoquam inviti valeant coarctari. Et succesivè tam Prior & Conventus, quam Parochiani supradicti hanc nostram ordinationem acceptarunt & concorditer admiserunt: Necnon solemniter promiserunt eandem ordinationem perpetuò, ut presertur, inviolabiliter observare. In quorum fidem & testimonium premissorum præsentes literas, sive præsens publicum Instrumentum, prædict. nostram ordinationem, in se continentes sive continens, fieri; & per Robertum Notarium Publicum nostrumque scribam infra scriptum, subscribi & publicari mandavimus; nostrique sigilli jussimus appensione, communiri."

"Datum & actum in dicta Domo Capitulari sub anno ab Incarnatione Domini secundum cursam & computationem Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Mill. quadragintesimo [quadringentesimo] quarto decimo, Indictione octava, Pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo Patris & Domini nostri Dom. Johannis divina Providentia Papæ xxiii. anno quinto & mensis Novembris vicesimo nono. Præsentibus tunc ibid. venerabilibus & discretis viris, Magistris Johanne Swayn utriusque juris doctore, Cancellario nostro, & Petro Hynewyk, Rectore Parochialis Ecclesiæ de Chelmesford, Johanne Sudbury & Johanne Wryght, Clericis Notariis, aucte. Apostolica publicis London. & Norvicen. Dioc. & aliis in multitudine copiosa tunc ibid. præsentibus Testibus ad præmissa vocatis specialiter, & rogatis."

So that the Terms of this Composition were as follows: viz. That the said Parishioners of St. Katharine Christ's, or Creechurch, should have a Baptismal Font anew set up in their Church or Chapel for baptizing of Children, and to have other Solemnities to be there performed (about which such Contentions had before arisen among them) for all times hereafter. That they should resort to the Conventual Church on the Festivals and Dedications of the said Conventual Church in the Eve of Saint Bartholomew yearly. And there, in Token of their Submission and Acknowledgement, each should, in those Festivals, offer their Pence, Halfpence and Farthings. And that they might, if they pleased, keep the Dedication of St. Katharine in their own said Chapel or Church. Which he, the Bishop out of his Paternal Affection towards them, yielded unto. Further, That they might not ring the Bells on Easter Day, till the Office was finished at the Conventual Church. That one of the Canons, to be placed, or removed at the pleasure of the Prior, should serve in the said Chapel as was usual before this present Ordinance, to administer to the said Parishioners the Sacraments and Sacramentals, as anciently was done. That the Prior and Convent henceforth be not obliged to find the Ornaments, nor be at other Charges for the Chapel. All which Ordination and Composition the Prior and Convent and the said Parishioners had received, and promised inviolably to observe perpetually.]

I read, that Eustacius, the eighth Prior, about the Year 1264. because he would not deal with temporal Matters, instituted Theobald Fitz Juonis Alderman of Portsoken Ward under him; and that William Rising, Prior of Christ's Church, was