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GOODYER 



Readons. And have distrained certaine Cattell of his deponente for Arrearage 

 of rent of abowte fyve pownds, supposes to be done unto the said Queen 

 Elizabeth for which this deponent entered into bande in the some of [blank] 

 pounds, upon condicon either to paie the money, the then next Tearme 

 folowinge, or otherwise to discharge yt, whereupon the Corte beinge moved, iS; 

 fyndinge this deponent to be Tenante unto the said Ouene Eliz. oi all Weston 

 farme, under a certaine Rent, by reason of the Recuzancie of the said Vachell, 

 and that the said Reasone was but a small parcell of the said \\ eston farme, 

 And that this deponent, by the covenants of his Lease during the Recuzancie 

 of the said Vachell, was to be discharged of all Rents &: charge payinge the 

 Rente reaserved in his Lease, the said Corte therupon detayned the said 

 deponents bande, & toke order for the staye of the leavyinge of the said 

 Arrearage duringe the said Vachell Recuzancie. Siihence w'^*' tyme the 

 said Vachell being deade, And the said Weston farm being in the possession 

 of Sir Thomas Bilson Knight. And then the said Weston farm being discharged 

 of Recuzancie, there hath been leavied by the Sherif at sundry tymes the some of 

 Nyne pounds &. tenne shillings by xx*' shillinge on ye pound only, under coloure 

 of the said deponents bande, which was taken for the said supposed Arrearage. 

 And yet none (notwithstanding so much payed, as aforesaid) theare is a newe 

 seisure, diverted to the said Sherif for the leavyinge of abowte six poundes, owte 

 of the said Lands called Readons, for the same Arrearage. 



And this deponent further saieth, that he hath not beane Tenante, unto the 

 said Readons sihence the ende of his said Lease, which ys now about some 

 tenne yeares last past, and yet being tenant unto some other part of Weston 

 farme, by reason of the said bande (wch was only taken for the said Arrearage 

 of Readon) he this deponent with some other of the possessors of Weston farme, 

 hath alreadie payed Nyne poundes & tenne shillings, besides twoe shillinge at 

 any sevall tyme of seisure, to the Sherif his Bailies, w"^"^ cometh unto xviii* more. 



[MS. f. 5. 



[Weston is a tithing in the parish of Buriton whicli seems to have been, to some 

 extent, co-extensive with the manor of West Maplcdurham. According to the authorities 

 quoted in the Victoia County History of Hampshire, iii, p. 90, Stephen Vachell was part 

 lord of Weston in 1579- In September 1600 he forfeited two-thirds of his lands and 

 possessions for recusancy, and in December 1600 the queen granted the cnpital messuage 

 called Weston farm and lands in the parish of Buriton to Arthur Hide, for a term of 

 21 years. It is doubtful, however, whether Arthur Hide ever gained possession 

 of the manor, for in 1598 Vachell and others conveyed it to Nicholas Hunt and his wife, 

 from whom in 1607 Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Winchester, purchased it. After the 

 purchase Weston formed part of the manor of West Mapledurham.] 



Draft of a Petition from the Tithing of Weston concerning 



payments toivards repair of Redbridge. In handivriting 



of Jo Jin Goodyer. 



The names of those who were to goe to paie viij* towards the repairinge of 

 Redbridge beinge recpiired of the Inhabitants of this Tything, after they had paid 

 their proportionable hereinafter said rights as anciently they have don. 



S'" Tho: Bilson John sen. 



Hen: Bl: Tho: Wyse 



Hen: Vok Tho: Kent 



Jo. Tayler W'": Hall [or Hull] 



who made with one accord this answer, that the inhabitants of the Upper half 

 hundred of Pinchdeane have alwaies hetherto paid two parts and the Lower 

 half hundred but one pte of the said impostes uppon the sd Hundred, towards 

 the repations of the sd Bridge, and that they of the sd Tything of Weston have 

 latelie paid [blank] being their pte of the said third parte. 



And that nowe they refuse to paie the sd S" beinge a some imposted in them, 

 apportionable with the somes imposed on the other parts of the before said 

 lower half hundred, . . . the lower half hundred equall in payment with the 

 Upp , which they never did. And tliat they pray to have their case heard 



