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MEASHAM. Indenture made 20 Oct., 33 Elizabeth, by which the right honourable Henry, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in consideration of a sum of money paid to him by sir George Hastings of Copishill, co. Leicester , grants all the tithes, glebe land, &c. in Messam, co. Derby, belonging to the rectory of Repingdon in the said county.

Indenture dated 1 April, 16 James I, by which the right honourable Henry, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in consideration of the good services of Edward Carpenter , servant of the said earl, have granted to him for his life and three years after, a messuage and tenement standing upon part of the parsonage of Mesam, co. Derby, for an annual rent of 20s.

WINSTER. Indenture witnessing that William de Birchover demises to Richard Gerard and Agnes his wife 3 messuages, half a bovate of land, 3 acres of land, with a meadow adjoining in Wynster, paying annually for the same 17d. of silver. Dated at Winster the Thursday next after the feast of the beheading of St. John the baptist, 8 Ed. III.

Richard Gerard grants to William de Birchovere three messuages, the half of one bovate and three acres of land in Wynster. Also he gave the same William all his goods moveable and immoveable in the same tenement at the time of the making of this charter. Dated at Wynster the Monday on the feast of the beheading of St. John the baptist, 8 Ed. III.

PACKINGTON, co. LEICESTER, and MEASHAM, co. DERBY. Exemplification of a decree between Henry, earl of Huntingdon, plaintiff, and Thomas Pestell, clerk, defendant, concerning the claim to the tythes of the parsonages of Packington on the heath, and Mesam, in the counties of Leicester and Derby. Dated at Westminster, 29 January, 4 Chas. I.

STOUGHTON, PAKYNGTON, BILLESDEN, ASHBY de la ZOUCH, &c. Letters patent of K. Ed. VI, granting to Francis, earl of Huntingdon, and Thomas Hasylwood , the rectories of Stoughton, Pakyngton with its vicarage, Billesden with its vicarage, Ashby de la Zouch and its vicarage, together with lands, houses, &c. in Stoughton, Pakyngton, Snybston, Billesden, Asshby de la Zouch, Colwarby, Blakefordeby, Alton, and Assheby, in the county of Leicester; also the chantry of the B.V.M. of Aller, co. Somerset; also 4 messuages, &c. in Frisbye, co. Leicester, to hold the game to their use for ever. Dated at Westminster, 2 Jan., 3 of his reign.