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BATLEY. The answer of Thomas Smalwood of Topliffe, late minister of Batley, co. York, to the information of sir Jefferie Palmer, kt., attorney-general, denying his having ever acted under the late authorities, but acknowledging that in 1656 he received three sums of money for augmentation of his maintenance as minister of Batley. Sworn at Leeds, 9 Dec. 1662.

BARMBY upon DUN. Inventory of all the goods of William Rydlyngton of Bramwith in the parish of Barnbe upon Doune , 'praised' after his death, by four honest men, 7 November, 1540.

BOLTON. Indenture dated 8 May, 22 Hen. VIII, by which William Golthropp of Schepley, gent. and Thomas Golthropp his cousin and heir and Alys his wife demise to Roger Hanson of Derfelde, yeoman a close with two leys, 9 acres of arable land and one acre of meadow in Bolton, for 14 years, paying annually 14s.

Marriage settlement by which Robert Clowdisley of Leeds, co. York, in consideration of a marriage between his son Timothy and Mary Negus, daugther of Thomas Negus of Higham Ferrers , grants a half burgage or tenement in Briggate, Leeds. Dated 25 May, 1652.

Indenture dated ... January, 12 Charles I (reciting a previous grant of the manor of Leeds, Yorkshire, from King James), witnessing that Robert Rownthwait of Leeds, clothier, in consideration of the receipt of £11, sells and confirms to Philip Dilworth of the same place, chapman, a parcel of land, with 2 tenements, in the west part of Leeds bridge within the manor of Leeds, paying to the king the usual and accustomed services.

An indenture made the l0th of April, 25th year of Q. Elizabeth, between the rt. hon. William lord Eure of the one part, and Richard Medd , Robert Bell , and Christabell White , of the second part, witnesseth that lord Eure has demised to Richard Medd , Robert Bell , and Christabell White two closes called Potter's and White's closes, with a cottage, for 21 years, or during the life of Ralph Eure, son and heir of lord Eure.

FENWICK. Indenture of lease by Isabell of Crofte, prioress of Wallingwellez (Notts.) to George Hastynges, esq. lord of Fenwyk , of all the tithes etc. of the manor and town of Fenwyk, for the term of their joint lives at an annual rent of £3. 30 June, 23 Henry VII. Attested by William Foxholes, notary. [Printed in the Monasticon.]

ROSSE. Indenture made 7 March, 6 James I, by which sir William Cecill, lord Burghley , grants to sir Robert Dormer , sir John Dormer , and sir William Dormer , an annual rent-charge of £240 issuing out of the manor of Rosse in the county of York, for 10 years, or during the lives of sir John Hobart , Barbara his wife, and John their son.

BURTON. Condition of a bond by which John Staynton is bound in £100 to Laurence Kay that if he do not pay a sum of 18 marks at the feast of St. John the Baptist next, then he shall make a feoffment of all the lands which were William Perot 's in Thornby in the parish of Byrton for 24 marks. Dated 11 March, 12 Henry VI.

ROTHWELL. Indenture between William Calverley , John Burton , Richard Pek , Water Baildon , and Thomas Gargrave , esqs., feoffees of William Watson , of one part, and George Box, esq., of the other part, witnesseth that the said feoffees have demised to George Box a close and 100 acres of land in Lofthouse near Rothwell for six years, paying 6 marks yearly. Dated 24 November, 10 Hen. VII.

YARM. Agreement between Henry Bentley , on one part and Robert Bowes and Jane his wife on the other, respecting a burgage in Yarom let to Nicholas Pearcson ; 27 Sept. 1622. (Slightly mutilated and in small part effaced) .

Indenture made 12 Jan., 1603, by which Mathew ⟨Hutton⟩ , archbishop of York , leases to Edward Croft of the city of York a messuage or tenement in the flesh shambles in the city of York, for 21 years, at the yearly rent of 13/4d.

Award by Dr Hugh Weston, Dr William Cliff, and Mr William Grinestede, in arbitration between the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and John Thorneton, vicar of Leeds, concerning £10 annual pension from the church of Leeds, parcel of the possessions of the dissolved priory of Holy Trinity, York, granted by Henry VIII to Christ Church on 11 Dec. 1546. John to pay the pension from henceforth with arrears of £16. Dated 24 Nov. 1 Mary [1553].

Will of Elizabeth Smith of Selby, Yorkshire, 29 Jan 1681 [N.S.], proved 29 Jul 1681, with seal of the Official of Prerogative Court of York

Indenture between Thomas Root, silkweaver of Selby, and his wife Margaret, 25 Jan 1693, concerning a messuage or tenement in Cruce parish [St. Crux], Great Shambles, York, with personal seals attached.

Cold-Ashby. Thomas, prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , leases to Thomas abbot of Pipewell the rectory of Coldeashby for 90 years at £8 a year. On the death of the present vicar, Sir William Simond , they shall also have the vicarage for a further £10 a year. D⟨aventry⟩ may distrain for either of these rents, and if they are not paid within 10 weeks of the due time D⟨aventry⟩ shall receive a fine of 20/-. For every Sunday on which the prior and convent of D⟨aventry⟩ are not ’rehersed and praied for’ in the Church, they shall receive a fine of 12d. 20 March 1492.

Fawsley. John Clerk, mayor of Northampton , William Austyn, gentleman man, Thomas Hunt, draper, William Heyrope , and William May late mayor, recite an affidavit of Thomas Arnold of D⟨aventry⟩ , scrivener, then 4 score years and more, that when 23 years or more he knew one William Tewe of Falwesle living in the lordship of the prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , in F⟨alwesle⟩, which lordship he had at farm. There was then a piece of land ‘called Wynetpece now baynt’ in the Park abutting against Wynnethill and Rynehill, with a meadow at the south end called Wynnet Mede, broadening out from a rood on the west to a headland on the east. William also had a piece of his farm between Tarbard’s way sometime of John Badby . There had never been more than one farm in the prior’s lordship, of which Robert Young , John Frynde , and William Sroyft were tenants, having ‘meses’ and parts of the ‘ledes’ with the roods lying next to those of the prior. Also John Jones and John Curteys held 2 cottages and certain acres of the prior, but all these tenancies reached back to a date before Richard took the lordship to farm. There was no ‘several ground’ nor pasture in F⟨alwesle⟩, before Richard’s farm, except a piece called Holywell and another called Sewell, which were several from Candlemas to Michaelmas. 26 Sept. ⟨1483.⟩

Oxford, St. Martin’s Memorandum, in English, of an agreement made 24 September 1 Ric. III. at Oxford in the presence of William Waynflete, bp. of Winchester, between St. F. and Magdalen College. The Priory is to pay (i) 2/2 rent for a messuage and curtilage lying by the East gate by the Priory gate, (ii) 2/- rent for a ‘way’ towards the ground of St. F. (iii) 2/- rent for a stair between two shops in St. Martin’s parish, (iv) 2/- for repairs to a tenement of the prior ‘beside the Carfax, the College having lost 10 years’ profit from it. (v) 8/8 rent for a house by the town wall in the parish of St. Ebbe. The College is to pay (i) 5/8 rent for a house called Swynebrok, late Thomas Hall’s house in the parish of Allhallows. (ii) 5/8 for a hall called Yng Hall in St. Mary’s parish. (iii) 3/5 for a house in the parish of St. Michael in the south. (iv) 8/8 for a house on the north side of the church in the parish of Allhallows. (v) 3/4 for a house by a way leading from the high road to a grange of the priory. (vi) 76/8 for the price of timber cut and carried off thence by the College. (vii) (sum not stated) for timber, faggots, stones, and lime, witheld by the College from the first foundation unto this time. An exchange was made for a house in St. Ebbe’s against the west side of the churchyard on the north side of the street leading to Frideswide Hall, for a piece of land in St. John’s at the east end of Crope lane. The College are to have a house belonging to the Priory above the College tenement on the north side of Carfax, for which the Priory are to have the whole fishing in the Cherwell from the East bridge to the King’s Mill, leaving to the College their right of free passage. The College are to see that no trees overhang on their side that might hinder river traffic or fishing. The priory hold a house and garden in St. Ebbe’s by exchange for a garden in Cat Street, which Lucy Glover (and now John Asshendon Glover) held, and for a little garden that Richard Leke holds. This indenture is not to be prejudicial to the priory’s right to a quit-rent from a house called ‘Feyre Yeomannys Housse’ in St. Mary Magdalen’s. The College have returned the day of the delivery of this indenture a bond of £40 in which the Priory was bound to them. 24 Sept. ⟨1483.⟩

Ilbury [Oxon.]. Indenture by which John lord Zouche sells to John Bustard his lands in Ilbury, for £48. 9 January ⟨1529.⟩

‘Right Wor: our very hartie commendations, remembred. Yt may please you to understand that wee have hard and considerid of the cause of Daventrie Lease at large, and in the presence of your solicitor Mr. Powel Isaack did desire the benifit of our former Agreement from which he himself fled when he should have performed yt; but wee supposing his Lease not voydable but Avoyded, though he desire[d] to confer with you yet wee thought good to signifie unto you that wee are resolved to pas at Lease unto you thereof so as provision for our house be made according to the statute of improvement. And that the royalties and Courte be ascentire (?) unto us And that you can in some reasonable sort satisfie the sayd Isaak And other tenants to whome he standeth bound in Covenants as in your Lrs. you have formerly promised unto us. And so wee hartely comend you unto the Tuition of almighte God. From Oxon this 12th of Julie 1589.’ (Copy of a letter to the Dean.) 12 July 1598.

16 May ⟨1561.⟩ Agreement in English between the dean and canons of Windsor (with their bond in Latin, of 100 marks) and Ch. Ch., by which they agree to keep the award made by Edmund Plowden Esq., touching the tithes called Beckharvest-tithes in Chalgrove. (See MS. Ch. Oxon. 142b) Similar agreement with Roger Quartermain of Chalgrove, yeoman, and William Standissche of Oxford, gent. ⟨Same date.⟩

Good Mr. Deane , least I should seeme forgetfulle of my good frends to whom I ame for many causes undeservedly behoulden, I have at the last sent you myne opinion of the lease of Churche-Cowley whereof you delivered mee a coppie. ‘In which I note three things fitt to be considered. First, what the case is: Secondly, what the lawe is: and thirdly, what manour of proceedings are fittest to be used against the tennaunt. 1. What the case is. For the firste I finde it as harde to searche out the truth of the case, as beinge searched oute to determine the points of lawe, but consideringe the coppye of the lease with other Writings which I have receaved sithence of my Cosin, Mr. Doctor Thornton , I finde your case to be this. Hen 8. an° 27. R. K. Abbott by reccomendacion, but not by election of the Monastery of O⟨seney⟩ : in the Countie of Oxon’ by Indenture bearinge date 15 Martii an°. 27°. H. 8. with the assent of the Covent demiseth unto H. R. and L. his wife the mannour of Church-Cowley in the said countie of Oxon’, and divers other lands. Habend to the said H., K. his wyfe, F. and L. theire daughters and to the longest liver of them immediately after and as soone as a certaine lease graunted to Jo: of … and Isa: his wyfe of Cowley aforesaid is fully ended and expyred, by death, forfaiture surrender or otherwise, unto the ende and terme of 31 yeares. An°. 29°. In December an° 29° H. 8. a Conge deslier or licence to elect an Abbot to the saied Monastery is graunted, the said R. L. is elected, the Kinge in Januarie followinge assenteth to the election, and in Februarye the temporalities are restored. R. K. now Abbot by election by Indenture bearinge date 14 Aprilis eodem an° H. 8. viz: 29° with the assent of the Covent recitinge the former lease confirmeth the same, and doeth farther by the same Indenture geive, demise and graunte unto the saied H. and K. his wyfe, F. and L. theire daughters (but sheweth not what hee doth geive or demise) habend’ to them and every of them for the terme of the saied [sic] yeeres (with a space) after the forme and effecte in the saied former Indentures specified and declared. The said Abbot and Covent doe further by the same Indenture demise graunt and to ferme let unto the saied H. R. the saied Mannour of Church Cowley and the saied other lands Habend’ to him the saied H. and his assignes immediately and as soone as the said lease made unto the saied H. and K. his wife for the terme of 31 yeeres dated 15 Martii an° 27 H. 8. shall happen to expire and ende, unto the ende and terme of 68 yeeres yeildinge rent. an°. 31°. The saied Abbot in an° 31. H. 8. by the name of R. K. Reoven Episcopi commendatorie of the Abbey of our blessed Ladye of O. in the countie of Oxon’ with the assent of the Covent by deede under theire common scale doth surrender the Abbey and all the lands there unto belonginge unto the Kinge; which is confirmed by statute of 31 H. 8. ⟨f. 1d.⟩ After, the Kinge by his letters patent graunteth the Mannour of Church-Cowley inter alia to the Deane and Chapter of the Cathedral Churche of Christ in Oxon’ and to theire successors. Thus far goethe your Case. 2. what the lawe is. The pointe where you desire to be resolved is, whether this Lease of the 14th of Aprille an° 29°. H. 8. bee a good lease against the Deane and Chapter or not. To which I answere shortly, that it is a voyed Lease in all: or not good for any more then Seaven yeares to come in Apriell next. Whether it bee voied in all or no, I stand doubtfulle, but that it can not bee good for any more then Seaven yeeres in Aprille next, I ame resolute. For the pointe which hath carried awaye your conceipt, I take yt it will not helpe you, or I finde that at the makinge of the lease in 29° he was an Abbot by election and not by commendacion: as ys conceaved: and whether he weare then Episco: Reoven’ (Whether it be materiall in common law, to make him onelie a commandatorie Abbot, though he were elect, because he was at that tyme also Episc. Revens’.) or not, I thinck in our Law it will not be greately materialle. But the pointe whereupon I finde helpe for you is this. The first Lease made by R. K. in Marche an° 27°. H. 8. for 31 yeeres in revercion: was a meere voyed Lease bycause hee was then but a Commendatory and had no power to make such a Lease. And when hee after in 29°. H. 8. beinge a perfitt Abbot doeth confirme this Lease, that confirmacion is likewise voied for that a voyed Lease can never bee made good by confirmation. And when hee goeth on and saieth that he doeth geive demise and graunt, these bee good Woords to have made a new demise, yf he had expressed, what he did geive, demise, and graunte. And when he saieth Habendum for the terme of the said … Yeeres (with a space) after the forme and effect in the saied former Indenture specified and declared: I thinke that the terme should have beene expressed in certaine, and that the reference to the former Indenture is cleerely nought. Then the Lease for 31 yeeres beinge voyed, this is your Case. A Lease is made for 68 yeeres to beginne uppon the expiracion of a voied lease: when this shall beginne that is your pointe. The grounde of Lawe is, that yf a lease for … yeeres have not a certaine tyme when it shall beginne and when it shall ende, then it is voyed. The meaning was that this Lease should beginne, when the voyed Lease by effluxion of tyme shoulde have ended, but by Law this can not bee, for that a voyed Lease hath no tyme to beginne nor no tyme to ende. Then the second Lease must either bee voied, or else the Lawe must appoint a tyme when it shall beginne. Also the Lawe then, when it shall beginne, and the answere is plaine: yf it shall beginne at all, it must beginne from the makinge. And then from the 14 of Apriell an° 29° H. 8. which was in the yeare 1537 to the 14th of Apriell an° 39 Eliz. in the yeere 1597, are iuste three-score yeeres and so of this Lease in Apriell next are seaven yeeres to come. 3. What maner of proceeding is fittest to be used against the tenent. Now for your proceedinge against the Tennaunt, yf you shall resolve to attempt suite, then I have formerly directed a course yf you thinke good to deale with the tennaunt by waye of mediatis, then you can better advise yourselfe, then I can direct: if you would have mee to confer with any other, I can like verie well of it. The coppie of the lease which I receaved of you togeather with the other writings which I received of my cosin Thornton I have sent you by this bearer. I have likewise sent you the court Rolle of Daventree: which I wishe should bee kept amongst your evidences of Daventree, that you maye have recourse to your Rolles as you shall have occasion. 4. Whither our leete at Daventrie be loste by non use, or no. For the court Leete at Daventree I would bee glad to keepe it when I maye bee assisted by your selfe or by somme of the Chapter. You see how much wee have beene resisted when we have doen no more than we have good authoritie in Lawe to doe: what shall I looke for them, yf I goe alone to doe that which I knowe I can not instefie; I doubt that in extremitie of Lawe, you have lost your Leete by not usinge it, and therefore I would wishe that Mr. Attorney weare first made acquainted with it, and that at Easter you should keepe bothe a leete and a courte Baron. And thus havinge troubled you over longe, I hartely wishe you all comfortable happinesse in Christ Jesus. Grayes Inne this of October 1597°. Your Wor’ assuredly in what he can.

Memorandum in English of 9 tenants in Maids Morton. 1639.

14 March ⟨1549.⟩ A bill [in English] witnessing that sir John Williams, kt, receiver of the Court of Augmentations , has received to the King’s use from George Owen Esq. £1028/7/2 for lands belonging to the late

• (i) chapel of S. […] in Cropredy, appurtenant to the chantry of St. John the Baptist in Fyfield.
• (ii) Parish church and chantry of S. Mary Magdalen, Oxford.
• (iii) Chantry of Our Lady in S. Giles’, Oxford.
• (iv) Guild of S. Nicholas in S. Mary’s Church, Oxford.
• (v) Chantry of Bampton.
• (vi) Chantry of Our Lady in Bray.
• (vii) Chantry of St. James in Chipping Norton.
• (viii) Chantry of St. John in the same.
• (ix) Chantry of St. Margaret in Woodstock.
• (x) Guild of Our Lady in Banbury.

Lease to Thomas Kent (who signs), prebendary of Ch. Ch., of their garden adjoining the Dean’s garden, lately occupied by Alexander Belsyre , sometime prebendary of Ch. Ch. and now farmed by Thomas. For 21 years from Midsummer last past. Rent: ‘Halfe an haunche of a Bucke, or a Syde thereof, or eight pence of lawfulle English money to a pottell of wyne, yf it be demaunded.’ 19 July ⟨1560⟩