equal to about 1,000/. of our present money, and that William de Langford was abated 121. 4s. Id. of his said rent.* Three years after the taking of this inquisition, and in the thirteenth year of his reign, A . D . 1340, king Edward the Third in consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds, which the prior of the Hospital promised to pay him towards the expense of his expedition into France, granted to the said prior all the residue of the Temple then remaining in the king's hands, to hold, together with the cemetery, cloisters, and the other sanctified places, to the said prior and his brethren, and their successors, of the king and his heirs, for charitable purposes, for ever.f From the above grant it appears that the porter of the Temple received sixty shillings and tenpence per annum, and twopence a day wages, which were to be paid him by the Hospitallers. At this period Philip Thane was prior of the Hospital; and he appears to have exerted himself to impart to the celebration of divine service in the Temple Church, the dignity and the splendour it possessed in the time of the Templars. He, with the unanimous consent and approbation of the whole chapter of the Hospital, granted to Brother Hugh de Lichefeld, priest, and to his successors, guardians of the Temple Church, towards the improvement of the lights and the celebration of divine service therein, all the land called Ficketzfeld, and the garden called Cotterell Garden ;$ and two years afterwards he made α further grant, to the said Hugh and his successors, of a thousand fagots a year to be cut of the wood of Lilleston, and carried to the New Temple to keep up the fire in the said church.§ * In memorandi» Scacc. inter recorda de Termino Sancii Hilarii, 11. E. 3. in officio Remembratoria Thceaurarii. t Pat. 12. E. 3. p. 2. m. 22. Dtigi, Monastieon, voi. vii. p. 810, 811. X Ex registr. Sancii JohaririMJeraa. icJ.lt 1. a. uoy i Monart, tom. vi. part 2, p. 832. Ibid, ad ann. 1341.