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the rent of the said grounde and withhold the same from the said 

 parish Church of Allestry till the tyme of his death which was on the 

 nineteenth day of March then last, And that after his death William 

 Mundy Esq Son and Heire of the said John Mundy possessed 

 himselfe of the said grounde and withhold the same from the said 

 Church of Allestry till he dyed, which was the Two and Twentieth 

 day of September last past, after whose death Francis Mundy 

 Esq Son and Heire of the said William Mundy possessed himself 

 of the said Sawcy Hill and was then in possession thereof and still 

 withholds the same from the said Church, And it is further found 

 by the Jurors aforesaid upon Oath, That there is a certain Cottage 

 House in Allestry aforesaid with A Yard, Orchard, backside, and 

 Garden, One piece of Meadow in Mickle Meadow by Estimation 

 Two Acres, and A halfe of Arrable Land, to wit, One Land there- 

 of in the Abbey feild containing Three Roods, and Three Lands 

 thereof being Three Roods in the Heltfeild ; One had (head) land in 

 Croshill feild conteyneing halfe an Acre, and One had land halfe 

 an Acre in Broadfeild, And one beast gate or grasse in the cow- 

 pasture lying within Allestry aforesaid All which have likewise 

 tyme whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary belonged, 

 and the Rents thereof, (till about nine years sinse) byn Imployed 

 towards repaire of the said parish Church of Allestry, Asappeareth 

 to the said Jury by Antient Witnesses Examined by the said 

 Commissioners in evidence to the said Jurors and alsoe by a Lease 

 thereof made the Foure and Twentieth day of June in the Tenth 



; yeare of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles the first by Nicholas 

 Collyer and William Sadler then Churchwardens of the said 

 Parish Church of Allestry with the consent of the Cheifest 

 Inhabitants, to one Thomas Peate, for one and Twenty yeares, 



\ under the yearely Rent of Forty Shillings payable the Second of 

 February and the second of July by equall portions, And that at 



^ after the expiration of that Lease the then Churchwardens in 

 consideration of a Fyne of Foure and Twenty pounds (which was 



flaid out in repairs of the said Church) made a new Lease to the 



1 said Peate for his life and foure yeares after, which last Lease 

 tpired above nine yeares since And then the aforesaid John 

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