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MAYDEN BRADLEY, Wilts. Indenture made 6 Feb., 26 Hen. VIII, by which Richard Rydge, the abbot, and convent of Notteley lease to William Radisshe of Maydenbradley, co. Wilts. , and his two sons, the parsonage of Mayden Bradley, with appurtenances and tithes, fruits, and offerings from the feast of St. John the Baptist, for 41 years next ensuing, at an annual rent of £16.

AYLSHAM and FAKENHAM. Exchequer Constat extracted from the great roll of the pipe, [44 Edw. III], containing a grant of the manor of Wyghton with the hundred of Northgreneho and the manors of Aylesham and Fakenhamdam in co. Norfolk, the manor of Saham in county Cambridge, the manor of Whitgift, co. York, manor of Berton Bristol, co. Gloster, manor of Sevenhampton and Stratton, co. Wiltes, to Robert de Knolles and Constance his wife for the whole term of their lives at an annual rent of £745 7s. The acquittance is given to the prior and convent of Ely for £76 13s. 4d., being the reserved rent for a portion of the year due for the manor of Saham, co. Cambridge, committed to the said prior and convent, 26 Sept., [43 Edw. III], at a rent of £100 per annum.

GODSTOW (Abbey of). Reginald de Baelun , son of Reginald, Fitz-Count , and of Emelina de Baelun grants and confirms that donation which his father and mother made of their manor of Eaton to the church of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist and the nuns of Godestowe in frankalmoigne. (c. 1170-90).

George, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in performance of certain marriage covenants and agreements contained in an indenture dated 20 June, 24 Hen. VIII, grants to Reginald Pole, clerk, dean of Exeter , and others the manor of Aller and Allermore in co. Somerset, the manors of Penhale, Botreaux Castell, with the hundred of Wordevale, the manor of Lanaunt Botlete in co. Cornwall, the manors of Breteford, Brymble, Shawe, Somerford, Mawdyts, co. Wilts, the manors of Maperton, Hatherley, Clopton, Kylmersdon, and Walton, co. Somerset, manors of Ludgarshale and Bychyngton, co. Bucks. Dated 22 June, 25 Hen. VIII. [Signed, G. Huntyngdon ] .

HORSEY DOWNE. Indenture made 2 November, 8 James I, by which William Weldon of Shottisbrooke, co. Berks , and Margaret his wife sell to Robert Hobart of Cliffordes Inne, London, gent., certain messuages, lands, &c. in Horsey downe, known by the name of Purveys rents, for 99 years, at a pepper-corn rent. [English] .

BRUTFORD. John le Foul of Brutford and Joan his wife grant to William le Duyn and Christiana his wife, seven pence annual rent which Thomas Wrench was accustomed to pay for 1 1/2 acre of arable land in the field of Brutford, called Wytheforlang, and which the said Thomas has for his life by demise of Laurence "in the Lane". Dated at Brutford the Tuesday on the feast of St. Matthew, apostle, 6 Ed. III.

Henry Not and Agnes his wife, cousin and one of the heirs of William Wodehay , grant to John Park and Elizabeth his wife, all his lands, tenements, &c. which ought to descend to the said Agnes by the death of the said William Wodehay in Brutford. Dated at Brutford the Wednesday next before the feast of St. Dunstan, 3 Hen. IV.

Final concord made at Westminster on the octave of the Holy Trinity, 22 Rich. II, by which William Wodehay recognises that a third part of the manor of Stanlynch and a messuage and 14 acres, of meadow and 16 acres of pasture in Brytford belongs to Agnes, wife of Henry Not .

CHILTERNE. Letters patent of King Edward VI, dated at Westminster 20 Sept., 1st of his reign, granting various privileges to William Powlet, K.G., Lord St. John, and the manor of Chilterne in Wilts.

DOUNTON. William Walter of Dounton, co. Wilts, husbandman, grants to Richard Hugyn, esq., all his lands and tenements, &c. in Dounton. Dated at Dounton, 16 October, 30 Hen. VI.

CHIPPENHAM. Copy in 15th cent. of decree of Robert de Brantesim [a mistake for Brantestone?], official of Robert, bp. elect of Sarum , concerning the appropriation of the church of Chippenham to the use of the prior and convent of Farleigh, Wilts, and augmenting the vicarage with the tithes of Tyderington, the vicar paying for them 40s. yearly to Farleigh. Dated at Sarum, 16 Kl. May, 1272.

LAVINGTON (Bishops). Fine made at New Sarum on the morrow of St. Michael, 9 Ed. I, by which William, son of Geoffrey le Clerk of Lavynton , acknowledges the right of Robert, bishop of Salisbury and his church, to a messuage, hide, and 19 1/2 acres of land and 12s. annual rents in Lavynton, for which the said bishop paid to the said William 25 marks of silver.

LAVINGTON. Presentation by the dean and chapter of Ch. Ch. of John, to the vacant living of Lavington of Christopher Aborrowe, clerk. Dated 10 April, 9 Elizabeth.

MILDENHALL. Indenture made 29 November, 1727, by which Katherine Pococke of Mildenhall, widow, demises to Ralph Tabor of Mildenhall, yeoman, copyhold estates known as Burgesses in Mildenhall, Playsteed's, Grandie's and Bowsher's for one year, at a rent of £50. [The foot of this chirograph is in the P.R.O., Common Pleas, Feet of Fines, Series I (C.P. 25(1)). Case 252 File 24 No 2.] [English] .

NETHERAVEN. Fine made at Westminster, 26 Ed. III, and afterward on the quindene of St. Michael an. 28 between John Tot of Netheraven and Alice his wife, plaintiffs, and Roger le Sauser and Joan his wife, defendants, by which the said defendants acknowledge a messuage, 27 acres of land, 1 1/2 acre of meadow, and 20 sheep, in Netheraven, to belong to the said John; and the said plaintiffs quit-claim to the said Roger and Joan all right to a messuage, 20 1/2 acres of land, and 1 acre of meadow. For this quit-claim the said John and Alice gave to Roger and Joan 20 marks of silver.

OKEBOURN (Priory of). A receipt given by Ralph, rector of the church of St. Botulph without Aldrichegate, London , and collector of the annual tenths from the clergy for the king in the diocese of London, to the prior of Okeburn for £4 l0s. 2 1/2d., from the church of Ruisshlepe and from Donton, Fordhem, Wodeham Ferrers, etc. Dated London, 6 Feb. 1374.

STANLYNCH. Nicholas le Duyn grants to William le Duyn his brother the whole of two parts of the mill of Stanlinch, and also of the lands of 'La Mule croft' and Battescrofte, and half a virgate of land in Bereford, of which lands Joan , who was the wife of William le Duyn our father, holds the third part in name of dowry. Dated at Stanlynch on the feast of the Trinity, 12 Ed. II. [In the charter the name Duyn has been altered in ink to something like Boykin .] .