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Indentures in English witnessing that George Neville lord of Bergavenny has sold to Thomas Cumberford , for £580, his manor of Wyggynton, to the value of £28/13/4 a year, free of all charges whatsoever. 10 May ⟨1513.⟩

Thomas Cumberford Esq., of Cumberford is bound to George Nevell Lord of Borgevenny, kt., in £400, payable at Easter. (Latin.) 16 Feb. ⟨1520.⟩ The condition of the bond is that if T. C. keep the award of Master Cuthbert Tunstall, master of the Kingis Recordes and Rollys, Sir Robert Brudenell , and Sir Lewes Pollard , kts., two of the king’s Justices, touching the right to the manor of Wiggington; and if the said arbitration cannot end the dispute he is to stand by the award of Cardinal Wolsey .

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.