Temple.
_Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln._--In searching
through the registers of the bishops of Lincoln, the following curious
entries met my eye:
"_Smoke-farthings._--Commissio domini episcopi ad levandum le Smoke
farthinges, alias dict. Lincoln farthinges a nostris Archidiaconatus
nostri Leycestriæ: subditis ad utilitatem nostræ matricis ecclesiæ
Cath. Linc. sponsæ nostræ convertend., dicti Smoke farthinges
conceduntur ad constructionem campanili ecclesiæ prebendalis Sanctæ
Margaretæ Leycestr. 1444."
The above entry occurs at fo. 48. of the register of William Alnewick,
Bishop of Lincoln.
"A^o 1450. _Testamentum domini Thomæ Cumberworth, militis._--In the
name of Gode and to his loveyng, Amen. I, Thomas Cumbyrworth, knyght,
the xv day of Feberer, the yere of oure Lord m^lcccc and L. in clere
mynde and hele of body, blyssed be Gode, ordan my last wyll on this
wyse folowyng. Furst, I gyff my sawle to God, my Lorde and my
Redemptur, and my wrechid body to be beryd in a chiffe w^towte any
kyste in the northyle of the parych kirke of Someretby be my wyfe, and
I wyll my body ly still, my mowth opyn, untild xxiiij owrys, and after
laid on bere w[t]towtyn any thyng y^ropon to coverit bot a sheit and a
blak cloth, w^t a white crose of cloth of golde, but I wyl my kyste be
made and stande by, and at my bereall giff it to hym that fillis my
grave; also I gif my blissid Lord God for my mortuary there I am bered
my best hors."
This entry occurs at fo. 43. of the register of Marmaduke Lumley, Bishop of
Lincoln.