ERDBURY, in Warwickshire. [ 265]

RAlph de Sadle was a principal Benefactor to the Canons of this House. An. 1232. Alexander then Bishop of Coventry and Litch∣feild, order'd the following Settlement between the Prior of Erdbury, and the Vicar of Dercet, and their Successors, viz. that the Vicar should have all the Altarage of the said Church, and Tith-Corn of eight yards Land in Radewey, and of two yard Land in Derced in the Demeans of the said Prior, with a House, &c. That the Vicar of the said Church [ 266] should be a Priest and not of any lesser Order, and shall have an Associate constantly, and a Deacon, who together with him shall officiate in the said Church, the Vicar to bear all usual Charges except the Repairs of the Chancel, for which the Prior and he are to joyn proportionably. This Monastery being decay'd in its Revenues, King Henry the VI. An. 23. granted the Prior and Convent License to obtain and receive Lands and Tenements to the value of one hundred Marks without fine to the King.

[Valued at 94 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum.]