46 OKIGIXAL DOCUMENTS.

XX*. Item, lego Johannl Brown Carcctario x". Item, lego Willelmo West V. niarcas. Item, lego fratri Tlioma! Ilortou iili'^. Item, lego Waltero Clerico ecclesia} de Warnoford vi^ viii^'. Item, volo quod expensa3 funeraria; fiant ad dlspositionem executoniiii mcorum. Item, lego execu- toribus meis cuilibet eorum xx. marcas. Item, volo et humiliter supplico quod dominus meus Revercndus Episcopus Wyntoniensis supervideat et adjuvet executores meos in executione testament! mei. llujus autem testament! me! ordlno, facio, et constituo executores meos Maglstrum Adam de Wygemcre, dominum Potrum do Mundet'ord, Kectorem Eccles!£B de Earde, et dominum Robcrtum Madhcrst, Vicarium de Bernham, ac etiam Ilugonem Ilakkere. Residuum vero omnium bonorum meorum lego secundum dlspositionem executorum meorum. Tbe testator, Luke de Ponynges, younger brotber of Micbael de Ponynges wbo took a distinguished part in the wars of Edward III., married Isabella, widow of Henry de Burgbersb, as stated in Dugdalc's Baronage (vol. ii. p. 13G). But in the " Ilistoria fundationis Prioratus de Boxgrave, et fundatoris stemma,"- she is called the widow of Bartholomew de Burghersh. She was younger sister, and ultimately heiress of Edmund de St. John, of Basing, the last descendant in the male line of William, son and heir of Adam de Port, who assumed tbe name of St. John, from his mother Mabel, granddaughter and heiress of Roger de St. John.^ The testator's purpose with regard to his burial in the Church of Boxgrave Priory, of which he was regarded as patron, and to which the St. Johns had been for several generations such liberal benefactors, would seem not to have been carried out. He subsequently changed his mind as to the disposal of his body ; and having expressed a desire to be buried in the Parish Church of Warneford, Hants, and that fact having been established by evidence to the Bishop's satisfaction, the will, with that exception, was proved at Southwark, on 4th July, I'MiJ, as appears by an entry in the Register preceding that of the will. Shortly afterwards, the Prior of Boxgrave, in the name of himself and his convent, by a S|)ccial in.strument entered on the Register immediately after the will, renounced all their right to the sepulture of the body, which entry is as follows : — " Subsequenteniue xxvii. die mensis Julii Anno Domini mccclxxvi. in castro Reverendl in Christo patris et domini, domini Willclmi Dei gratia Wynton' Episcopi apud Farnham, Indictione xiiii. pontiticatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini, domini Gregorii, divina providentia Papa) xi'"' anno vi*o, Constitutus jiersonaliter rcligiosus vir, frater Johannes de Londa, prior prioratus beata; Marian de IJoxgrave priudicti Ciccstrensis, quandam rcnun- ciationem in scriptis redactam publico jterlegit, cujus tenor talis est : — In Dei nomine amen. Ego .Johannes de Londa, Prior Prioratus beatiu Mariiu de Uoxgravc Ciccstrensis diocesis, nomine meo et oonventus ejusdem Prioratus, omni juri [xic], si quod habui vel habeo, ad sepelienduni corpus domini Luca) de Ponynges, militis, defuncti, ex legato ipsius in testamento Huo relicto sive facto, dum in huiuania agebat laiigueiis in extremis pure, spontc, et absolute renuncio in hiis scriptis, et omni [sic] juria renicdio [sic] michi et dicto conventui eomjietenti [sic] in hac parte : Rccognovit insupcr idem j)rior pubiiee et exprcsse, ex (piibusdam informa- ' Duf^dalo, Moil. Anj;. vol. iv. p. 'il'i, ' Soe Arphtcologic.-il .Iiuini.'il, Vol. l.. Calp>'« c-diiioii. p. 2.'»y.