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Remembrances for the Parsons of Barwick:—

1. “There is a portion of tithes to be paied out of Barwick, w^ch was due to the Priorie at Lewis and now to the Exchecquer of eleven shillings. tis paiable at St. Thomas. Mr. Stempe of Lewes is now receiver, anno 1619. he is to have 4d. for his acquittance. he is to come and fetch it, or send his seruant w^th an acquittance to you. or else give notise to you of the day of receipt.

2.“The tenths are to be paied upon St. Thomas vid^t. £21. 6s. 8d. to the Bishop’s collector, when he shall give notice. and 4d. for the Acquittance, Mr. Thomas Register of Lewes is now collector.

3. “ The procurations are to be paied at the Archdeacon’s visitation to himselfe or his deputie vjs. 8d., three weekes after Easter, w^ch is now the custome of this Archdea: Mr. D° Buckenham. And for your yeerelie Synodalls w^ch comonlie is at Michaellmas 1s. 6d. to him that supplies the Bishop’s place, or his collector. Now Bishop D° Carleton, Anno Primo Transl.

4. “The Bishop is to have his procurations everie third yeere vid. 4s. paied at the day of his visitation at Lewes, in w^ch. Deanerie Barwick is reckned."

Upon reference to the 'Monasticon', v, 2, I do not find in the index to the MS. Lewes Chartulary any mention of Ber- wick as a place where the priory of St. Pancras had property. But in the enumeration of lands, rectories, &c., granted to Lord Cromwell, in the Originalia Roll, “South berwyke' occurs, as it does again in the 'Abstract of Fines’ (A.D. 1537), as one of the places where the prior had “tenements and rents." In the 'Valor Ecclesiasticus’ also, we find “Berwicke. Porcio decimarum ibidem per annum 0. 13s. 4d." These, no doubt, all relate to the portion of tithes referred to in the text, which had at last settled into an annual pay- ment of 11s. to the crown, upon Henry the Eighth’s seizure of the possessions of the priory. The payment has long been discontinued altogether.

Synodals, the annual payment due from every parochia minister to the bishop, in honour of his cathedral church, his see or seat, and in token of subjection to it, were originally paid at the bishop’s synod, or assembly of his clergy. Procurations, intended to defray the expenses of visitations, and chargeable upon the inferior clergy, were anciently paid in kind, the clergy “procuring” victuals and other accommoda- tions; afterwards they were commuted into a fixed money payment.

5. “ The Church of Chichester pretends a certain right to a portion of tithes, or rather pension of monie, to be paied by the Parson to them. But

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