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Fine by which George Nevyle, kt., lord of Bergevenny, grants to Rouland Hylle , Richard Wylsone , Thomas Lee , William Cotton , and William Hylle , John Gratewood , and Thomas Dyremayne , a rent of £29 in Wyggyntone, Hoppas Cotton, Cumberford, and Tamworth. For this they gave him £600. (Both halves of the indenture are preserved.) ⟨27 Jan.⟩ 1534.

Letters patent of Humfraye Cumberforthe, gentleman, son and heir of the late Thomas C⟨umberforthe⟩ , gentleman, Whereas Roland Hill granted to Sir Thomas Pope the rent of £29 arising out of the manors of W⟨igginton⟩ &c., 24 messuages, a water-mill, 1000 acres of land, 120 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 5 acres of woode, 160 acres of ‘Furres and Hethe’, and £16 rent for fishing rights in the water of Tame, in W⟨igginton⟩ , Hoppas, C⟨umberford⟩ , Cotton, and Tamworth, of which rents H. C. is now owner, H. C. now confirms them to Sir Thomas Pope. 31 May ⟨1541.⟩

Indenture on paper, in English, witnessing that Richard Duke, gent., Clerk of the treasury of the Court of Augmentations , has received from Sir Thomas Pope, kt., one box containing ‘syxtene pece of evidens, writinges, obligaciones and munyments’, concerning a rent of £29 from the manors of Wiggington, and Comberford (Staff.) and divers lands and tenements in W⟨igginton⟩ and C⟨omberford⟩ , Hoppas Cotton, and Tamworth, which the said Sir Thomas lately sold to the King. (Signed Tho: Pope.) 10 Dec. 1545.