Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . diminution whatever;but John Cook was bound not toalienate, sell, or give it away, but to keep it for himself, orforfeit all (f. 196). The liberty here given to a stranger to build a house forhimself within the precincts of the abbey is unusual, but ofcourse the profitable reversion was looked for. There was still a want of money, which the £40 paiddown did not fully satisfy, and the very next day AbbotThomas and the convent borrowed fourscore pounds ster-ling from Henry de Eston of East Tisted, for the b
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . diminution whatever;but John Cook was bound not toalienate, sell, or give it away, but to keep it for himself, orforfeit all (f. 196). The liberty here given to a stranger to build a house forhimself within the precincts of the abbey is unusual, but ofcourse the profitable reversion was looked for. There was still a want of money, which the £40 paiddown did not fully satisfy, and the very next day AbbotThomas and the convent borrowed fourscore pounds ster-ling from Henry de Eston of East Tisted, for the benefit ofthe church and its release from difficulties (ad ardua negociaecclesie et utilitatem exj^ediendd). This was to be repaid by£20 yearly, and for such repayment they pledged all theirgoods moveable and immoveable wherever they might befound (f. 195). In the following year a memorable incident in the annalsof the abbey occurred, when King Edward II visited it, anddated from hence a letter to the Pope concerning his journey from Petworth to Porchester, the king lodged. DUREFORD ABBEY. 77 here on Saturday, September 8, 1324, on which day theexpenses of his household amounted to £10. 6s. 0|^.38 The royal visit does not seem to have brought increasedprosperity, and perhaps the reception of a king may havebrought its own burdens. At any rate, money was stillwanted, and for this purpose the bounty of the foundersdescendants was now called into action. Walter Hoese cameforward in fulfilment of his ancestors injunctions, and gave100 marcs (£66. 13s. 4d.) for the permanent good of theconvent (in utilitatem dorms f/ostre sen monasterii nostri per-petuam), and a new canonry was in consequence Dureford, on the day of Saints Fabian and Sebastian () in the year of our Lord 1327, Thomas, by divine permis-sion, Abbot of Dureford, made a solemn agreement39 withthe Abbot of Hyde, giving to him, or in his default to thePrior of Hyde, the right of presenting to
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