Appendix 3 Corrodians’ donations, corrodies and conditions
Temple Bruer
William Rynel of South Witham: to receive for life in the same house 3d. daily for his food, one mark yearly for other necessaries, and an old garment of the brethren at Christmas yearly, 2d. daily for the food of his groom, 5s. yearly for the stipend of his groom, who is to serve in the house; for one messuage and 24 acres of land and meadow in South Witham; and to give them at his death one mark.*
Walter de Thorp: clerk, to receive for life in the same house 3d. daily for his food and one mark yearly.*
Robert de Swinethorpe: to receive for life in the same house 3d. daily for his food and 60s. of yearly pension; for 120 marks that he gave to the Templars.*
Henry Jubel: to receive for life in the same house 2d. daily for his food.†
Robert de Carleton, of Cranwell: to receive yearly in the same house 3d. daily for food and 2d. for the food of his groom, one mark yearly for his robe and one mark yearly for shoeleather.*
Robert le Mareschal of Rowston: to receive for life in the same house 2d. daily for food, 10s. yearly for his robe, and 5s. yearly stipend, and to serve as a free servant in the house as long as he is able, and when he is no longer able, he is to receive only his food.*
William, son of Richard de Temple: to receive in the same house 2d. daily for food, 10s. yearly for his robe, 40d. yearly for his tunic, and 5s. yearly for other necessaries.*
Richard de Mohun: to receive food for life in the same house 2d. daily for food.†
Robert de Everwykshire: to receive for life in the above manor 2d. daily for his groom’s food.*
Alice, daughter of Robert de Swinethorpe: to receive for life in that house seven white loaves, three esquires’ loaves, five flagons of the better ale of the same house, and seven dishes of meat and fish to be received on Saturday for the following week, and an extra dish of meat or fish of the best course of the brethren at Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, Midsummer, the Assumption, and All Saints, and three stones of cheese yearly, and an old garment of the brothers at Christmas; in consideration of 20 marks that her father Robert de Swinethorpe gave to the Templars and for the release that he made them of 40s. yearly for a pension of 100s.*
Giles de Witham: to receive 2d. daily for his food, 10s. yearly for his robe, and 5s. yearly for his shoe leather, and he is to serve in some free service as long as he is able, and if he is unable, then he is to have only his food for life, and a moiety of his goods are to remain at his death to the said house.*
Adam le Dorturer: to receive food for life in the same house 2d. daily for food.†
Roger de Hegham: knight, to receive an annual pension of five marks.†
Robert de Gunwardeby: clerk, to receive an annual pension of five marks.‡
William, son of Roger de Crescy, of Claypole: to receive for ever from the Templars’ house of South Witham 10s. yearly rent; for a messuage, 2 carucates of land, and 20 acres in South Witham, which the Templars held of him by his service.*
Willoughton
John de Wyntington: clerk, 3d. daily for his food and 20s. yearly for his robe and 20s. for other necessaries, and 2d. daily for his groom’s food and 5s. yearly for the other necessaries of his groom in consideration of 16 acres of land at Thevylby, a messuage and three acres of land at Methyngby, which he gave to the above manor, and he is to give 20s. to the manor at his death.*
Peter de Bedford: to receive in the manor of Willoughton 2d. daily for his food, 5s. yearly for his robe, 5s. yearly for other necessaries, and he is to serve as long as he is able, and a moiety of his goods are to remain to the manor at his death.*
Walter de Cawkell: to receive for life 2d. daily for his food, 5s. yearly for his robe, and 5s. for his stipend, and he is to serve in the said manor for as long as he is able, and when no longer able he is to receive his food and 5s. for his stipend only.*
Eagle
Robert de Gunwardeby: clerk, to receive for life in the manor of Eagle 3d. daily for food at the table of the brothers and 2d. daily for his groom’s food at the table of the squires, in consideration of 20 marks and 13 ½ acres of land with the reversion of a dower and 7d. of yearly rent that he gave to the Templars in Stotton […] to receive for life from the New Temple, London, a yearly pension of five marks and another pension of 2 ½ marks.‡
Thomas de Wygesle: chaplain, to receive food for life at the table of the brothers 3d. daily and 20s. yearly for his other necessaries.†
Richard Nightingale: to receive food for life at the table of the sergeants 2d. daily and 10s. for his yearly stipend.†
Nigel de Northscarle: to receive food for life at the table of the squires and 10s. yearly for his other necessaries.†
Alan de Swaynton: to receive food for life at the table of the squires 2d. daily.†
Richard de Northscarle: to receive food for life at the table of the squires 2d. daily and 10s. yearly for his other necessaries.†
John, son and heir of Richard de Weston: to receive yearly from the manor of Eagle a yearly pension of five marks, in consideration of his release to the Templars of lands in Eagle that they had of the gift of Richard and Agnes his mother.*
Agnes, late wife of Richard de Weston: to receive yearly for life from that manor 10 quarters of wheat, 10 quarters of barley, and at Martinmas two oxen or 20s., four pigs or 12s., six sheep or 9s., five hundreds of faggots or 10s., at the same time and at Easter for necessaries of the kitchen, five marks yearly for her robes; in consideration of 100 marks that she gave to the Templars and of a wood and 80 acres of land that her husband and she gave to them in Eagle.*
Aslackby
Richard de Garway: to receive for life in the house of Aslackby 2d. daily for his food, and a robe yearly of the suit of the free servants, and 5s. yearly, and to serve in some free service for as long as he is able, etc.*
Robert de Thurgarton: chaplain, to receive for life 3d. daily for his food, and 20s. yearly for his necessaries, and to serve as chaplain, and a moiety of his goods to remain to the house at his death.*
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Content - style replace: * As entered in the Close Rolls 1312.
Content - style replace: † As entered in the account of William de Spanneby 1308.
Content - style replace: ‡ There was a Robert de Gunwardeby recorded as a pensioner both at Temple Bruer and at Eagle in 1308. Both entries were for a clerk; however, they differed in the degree of generosity of the provision and in that the pension at Temple Bruer was awarded by Hugh de Perando and that at Eagle by Guy de Foresta. By 1311 there was a Robert de Gunwardeby recorded only in the account for Eagle.