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Confirmation of their possessions in the diocese of Worcester to T⟨ewkesbury⟩ , by the bishop of Worcester. 20 Sept. 1520. The (i) parish church of T⟨ewkesbury⟩ , with the chapels of Northampton, Byshleye, Estchurch, Oxyndey, Tredyntone, Abbot’s Wasseborne, (ii) church of St. James, Bristol, with the chapels of Stapultone, Mangodesfelde, (iii) parish church of Marsfelde, (iv) parish churches of Ampney Sancte Crucis, of Thornbury, of Fayrford, (v) church of Stanweye, with the chapels of Lemyngton, Stanley, (vi) priory of Derehurst, (vii) parish church of Estlache S. Andrew’s, (viii) parish church of Wotton under Egge, (ix) parish church of Preston upon Sture, (xi) parish church of Little Compton, (xi) all tithes of Fayrford, (xii) 2 parts of the tithes of Aldertone and Ayelesdone, (xiii) and of Lower Swale, (xiv) ½ tithes of the lordship of Whyghtfeld in the parish of Derehurst, (xv) all tithes of the lordship late of Frederick of Hodynton in the same, (xvi) tithes of one hide in Gretton in the parish of Winchcombe, (xvii) the greater tithes late of William Hersfeld in the parish of H. (xviii) from the church of St. [not given] Bristol, 11/- (xix) from the church of Holy Trinity, Bristol, 10/- (xx) from the church of St. John ” 10/- (xxi) from the church of SS. Philip and James, Bristol, 13/4 (xxii) from the church of S. Michael, Bristol, 4/- S. Andrew, Bristol, 1 lb. of wax, (xxiii) from the church of Estleche S. Andrew, 30/- (xxiv) from the church of Shenyndone, 13/4 (xxv) from the church of A...creston, 4/- (xxvi) from the church of Welleford, 20/-

Letters patent of Robert Johnson, bachelor of laws, official of the bishop of Worcester , stating that at the request of Richard Marshall, S.T.P., dean of Oxford , he caused the Worcester episcopal archives to be searched on 14 Jan. 1555, by Wm. Warmsey, notary public, who found: 4 ⟨July or August⟩ 1555.

• (i) Ordination of Silvester, bp. of Worcester , for the churches of Wotton and Preston-upon-Stour, appropriated to the abbey of Tewkesbury, assessing the church at £34, and providing for pensions from Wotton of 13/- to the bishop, 6/8 to the Dean and chapter, ¼ to the archdeacon, and from Preston 7/-, ¾, and ¼ respectively. Dated 15 April, 1555.
• (ii) License of Henry VII to Sir John Mordaunt, kt., William Grevill, sergeant-at-law, and Walter Rowdon , to grant the advowson of Wotton to Tewksbury. Dated 12 May (rectius 12 March), 1497.
• (iii) Letters patent of Maurice lord Berkeley, proclaiming the recovery of right against him in the advowson. Dated 7 July, 1504.
• (iv) Confirmation by the prior &c. of S. Mary’s, Worcester, 3 May, 1555.
• (v) Confirmation by Thomas Rowthell, archdeacon of Gloucester , 10 June, 1555