[Footnote: This appears from
the following charter, which it seems worth while to quote: "Pateat
universis... quod nos Robertas de Feletone, Miles, et Hawigia uxor
mea concessimus ... Alicie filie Thome de Rucham... Totum ius
nostrum... in terris... dicte Alicie... in Rucham, que ... habuimus
de dono et dimissione Johannis filii Roberti de Thyrsforde in Rucham
_ante diuorstium_ (sic) _inter eundem Johannem et dictam_ Aliciam
factum... Omnia munimenta et scripta que de dicto tenemento habuimus
eidem Alicie quiete reddidimus... Datum apud Lucham die Dom:
prox: post Annunc: B Mar: Virg: Anno R. R. Edw: fit. Reg. Henr:
tricessimotertio" (28 March, 1305).--_Rougham Charter_, No. 157.]
John of Thyrsfordhad not been married more than a year or two when he
had had enough of it. Whether at the time of his marriage he was
already a _cleric_, I cannot tell, but I know that on October
10, 1301, he was a priest, and that on that day he was instituted to
the vicarage of Rougham, having been already divorced from poor
little Alice. As for Alice--if I understand the case, she never could
marry, however much she may have wished it; she had no children to
comfort her; she became by-and-by the great lady of Rougham, and
there she lived on for nearly fifty years. Her husband, the vicar,
lived on too--on what terms of intimacy I am unable to say.
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