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WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
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" redily devised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmew's beside Smythfeld, maistre
" of the workes of our said chapel!; and that the walles, doores, windowes, archies, and vaults, and
" ymages of the same our chapell within and without be paynted, garnished, and adourned, with our
" armcs, bagies, cognoissaunts, and other convenient paynting, in as goodlie and riche maner as such a
" worke requireth, and as to a king's worke apperteignetli. And for the more sure perfourmance and
" finishing of the premisses, and for the more rcdye paimerit of the monie necessary in that behalf,
" we have delivered in vedy monie before the hand the somme of V.MU. to the abbot, priour, and
" convent of our said Monasterie of Westminster, as by writing indented betwixt us and them, testi-
" fying (he same paiement and receipte, and bering date at Richemounte the thirtecnthc daie of the
" moonth of A prill, the xxiii yere of our reigne, it dooth more plainlie appiere: the same five thou-
" sand pounds and everie parcel thereof to be truly emploied and bestowed by the abbot of our said
" monasterie for the tyme being, about and upon the finishing and perfourmyng of the premisses from
" tyme to tyme, as nede shall require, by the advise, comptrollement, and on sight of such personnes
" as we in our life, and our executours after our decesse, yf they bee not doon in our life, shall depute
" and assign, without discontynuyng of the said workes or any parte of them, till they bee fully per-
" fourmed, finished, and accomplisshed. And that the said abbot of our said monasterie for the
" tyme being, be accomptable for the employing and bestowing of the said somme of V.MI1. upon
" the said workes to us in our life, and to our executours after our decesse, for such parcell thereof
" as shall reste not accompted for before that, and not emploied nor bestowed upon the saidc workes,
" after our decesse, as often and whensoever wee or they shall call him thereunto, as it is more largelie
" contayned in the said indentures. And in case the said V.M11. shall not suffice for the whole per-
" fourmance and accomplishment of the said workes, and everie parcell of them, and that they bee
" not perfitly finisshed by us in our life daies, we then wol, that our executours, from tyme to tyme,
" as neccssitie shall require, deliver to the said abbot for the tyme being as moche monie above the
" said V.M1I. as shall suffice for the perfitly finishing and perfourmyng of the said workes and everie
" part of them ; the same monie to be emploied and bestowed upon the perfitly finisshing and per-
" fourming of the said workes, by the said abbot for the tyme being, by the foresaied advise, over-
" sighte, comptrollement, and accomple, without desisting or discontynuyng the same workes in any
" wise, till they and everie parcell of them, as before is said, be fully and perfitly accomplisshed and
" perfourmed, in maner and forme before rehersed.
" Also we wol, that our executours, except it bee performed by ourself in our life, cause to be
" made for the overparte of the aultre, within the grate of our towmbe, a table of the length of the
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" redily devised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmew's beside Smythfeld, maistre
" of the workes of our said chapel!; and that the walles, doores, windowes, archies, and vaults, and
" ymages of the same our chapell within and without be paynted, garnished, and adourned, with our
" armcs, bagies, cognoissaunts, and other convenient paynting, in as goodlie and riche maner as such a
" worke requireth, and as to a king's worke apperteignetli. And for the more sure perfourmance and
" finishing of the premisses, and for the more rcdye paimerit of the monie necessary in that behalf,
" we have delivered in vedy monie before the hand the somme of V.MU. to the abbot, priour, and
" convent of our said Monasterie of Westminster, as by writing indented betwixt us and them, testi-
" fying (he same paiement and receipte, and bering date at Richemounte the thirtecnthc daie of the
" moonth of A prill, the xxiii yere of our reigne, it dooth more plainlie appiere: the same five thou-
" sand pounds and everie parcel thereof to be truly emploied and bestowed by the abbot of our said
" monasterie for the tyme being, about and upon the finishing and perfourmyng of the premisses from
" tyme to tyme, as nede shall require, by the advise, comptrollement, and on sight of such personnes
" as we in our life, and our executours after our decesse, yf they bee not doon in our life, shall depute
" and assign, without discontynuyng of the said workes or any parte of them, till they bee fully per-
" fourmed, finished, and accomplisshed. And that the said abbot of our said monasterie for the
" tyme being, be accomptable for the employing and bestowing of the said somme of V.MI1. upon
" the said workes to us in our life, and to our executours after our decesse, for such parcell thereof
" as shall reste not accompted for before that, and not emploied nor bestowed upon the saidc workes,
" after our decesse, as often and whensoever wee or they shall call him thereunto, as it is more largelie
" contayned in the said indentures. And in case the said V.M11. shall not suffice for the whole per-
" fourmance and accomplishment of the said workes, and everie parcell of them, and that they bee
" not perfitly finisshed by us in our life daies, we then wol, that our executours, from tyme to tyme,
" as neccssitie shall require, deliver to the said abbot for the tyme being as moche monie above the
" said V.M1I. as shall suffice for the perfitly finishing and perfourmyng of the said workes and everie
" part of them ; the same monie to be emploied and bestowed upon the perfitly finisshing and per-
" fourming of the said workes, by the said abbot for the tyme being, by the foresaied advise, over-
" sighte, comptrollement, and accomple, without desisting or discontynuyng the same workes in any
" wise, till they and everie parcell of them, as before is said, be fully and perfitly accomplisshed and
" perfourmed, in maner and forme before rehersed.
" Also we wol, that our executours, except it bee performed by ourself in our life, cause to be
" made for the overparte of the aultre, within the grate of our towmbe, a table of the length of the
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