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BEDFORD, Grey Friers st. Indenture, 20 June, 30 Hen. VIII. Thomas Mender, the warden, and convent of the Grey Friers, Bedford, lease to William Clark of Renhale a close called 'Bishop's Close' for twenty years, at an annual rent of 20s.

Thomas Bray, senior, of Cadington, co. Herts., husbandman, sells to William Deyne of Luton, yeoman, a messuage situated in Churche Streete. Dated 6 March, 4 Ed. VI.

WOTTON. Memorandum from Stephen Estwicke of Wotton , that he has received from William Dernier or Dormer of London a deed dated 3 Eliz., concerning lands at 23 April, Wotton. Dated 3 Feb., 20 Eliz. .

Indenture dated 6 Oct., 17 Hen. VII, by which John Thornton, the prior, and convent of Wallingford, engage to deliver to William Adene the elder, of Wallingford , on the 1st of May, 1503, at the latest, 100 quarters of malt for a certain sum of money received.

Bond by which John Thornton, the prior, and convent of Wallingford, under a penalty of £20, agree to pay to John, the abbot of Reading , £15 by three yearly instalments. Dated at their chapter-house, 13 May, 18 Hen. VII.

A receipt given by Henry, the abbot of Rewley , to the prior of Wallingford for 51s. 4 1/2d. for the first half of a subsidy granted to the king by convocation. Dated 21 Oct., 20 Hen. VII.

Indenture made 12 April, 21 Hen. VII, by which Henry prior, and convent of Wallingford, demise to John Hygg a tenement with a garden adjacent for 40 years.

Receipt given by the prior and convent of Ledes to the prior of Wallingford for 2s., being the first half of a subsidy granted to the king by the clergy of Canterbury, from the church of Newyntone. Dated 2 May, 1512.

An acknowledgment of Henry, abbot of Rewley , and the convent there, collectors of the first half of the subsidy in the archdeaconry of Oxford in the last convocation of the clergy, granted to the king, to have received of the prior of Wallingford, for their spiritualities and temporalities, 102s. 9d. Dated 10 May, 4 Hen. VIII.

An acknowledgment given by the prior of the Blessed Mary and St. Nicholas of Ledes, Canterbury diocese, collectors of the second half of a subsidy granted by the clergy to the king 6 Feb. 1511, to the prior of Wallingford for 2s. in Newinton. Dated 12 Dec., 1512.

John Clare, the prior, and convent of Wallingford demise to John Hanson the whole of their land, and an island in the suburb of Wallingford, for 31 years, at an annual rent of 6s. 8d. Dated 18 Nov., 7 Hen. VIII.

A paper containing a covenant for reparations of all the buildings granted, &c. Signed Griffith Payne , and endorsed for roomes in Wallingford. Cent. xvi.

REMENHAM. Agnes Stokfeld of Redyng grants to Henry Hethercote, yeoman, and others, a messuage, 20 acres of arable land, 6 acres of meadow, 5 acres of pasture, and a little island in the parish of Remenham. Dated at Remenham, 26 Feb., 1 Hen. VIII.

Exchequer Constat for £23 6s. 8d. for one year's profits of the King's manor of Shaw, viz. for the year 36 and 37 Hen. VIII.

SHAW. Exchequer Constat for £23 6s. 8d. for the farm of the manor of Shawe, in New Windsor, held by Nicholas Good . Dated 6 Feb., 30 Hen. VIII.

STRETLEY. Deed reciting letters patent, dated 24 April, 15 Elizabeth, by which a messuage and appurtenances in Stretley, parcel of the possessions of sir Francis Englefield, kt., then in her Majesties hands by forfeiture of the said Francis, by his going out of the kingdom, were granted to one Griffith Barton , from whom they came to Andrew Blunden , Humphrey Purcell, and Arthur Nedeham, and by them are again granted to the Crown. Dated 20 Nov., 27 Eliz.