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socage as of the manor of East Greenwich. In 26 Hen. VIII, 
William Holloway, Prior, &c., granted to Richard Chapman* 
upon the determination of a lease held by John Cogan of all 
the lands, pastures, &c., except the Sheaphouse, &c., and 
the pasturing of the 360 or ewe flock, but he was obliged to 
have 100 sheep going with the ewe flock. “For this lease 
he paid a fine of £13 6s. 8d. and a rent of £10 per ann. 
This document also relates to a pasture upon Lansdown called 
Otelands afterwards the occasion of a long lawsuit, and to a 
certain grant due for a shepherd by name of a lyverye which 
is leased to Richard Chapman for 60 years. 
In 27 Eliz. a grant+ was made to Anthony Collins of tithes 
growing extra firmann of Lansdown in the parishes of Langridge 
and Weston pertaining to the free chapel of St. Lawrence late in 
the tenure of John Macie,} clerk, and also of all that ruined 
chapel of St. Lawrence, late in the tenure of Hugh Ridge. 
A lawsuit,§ Pitt 7. Attwood, occurred (7 James I) concerning the 
bounds and right of feeding on the Down, and several places are 
mentioned which I have not yet been able to identify, and among 
them is a long wall or embankment dividing the two properties 
which seems to have run from near the chapel to the opposite 
side of the Down, and this was the spot to which, I imagine, 
Waller retreated, when forced from his original position. 
The Camp on Stoke Down has been called Oliver’s Camp from 
a tradition that Cromwell’s Army lay there the night before the 
battle ; but Waller must have been nearly as far from the spot as 
Cromwell himself. His army during the day had been marching 
on the right of the Gloucester (Lansdown) Road and Collier’s Lane 
above Woolley, or through the village itself, whilst the Royalists, 
* Harl MSS., 3970, fol. toa. 
+ [1585 a.D.] Pat: Roll, 27 Eliz., Part 1, m 39 
t John Macie was rector of Weston 1549-1596. 
§ Excheq. : Bills and Answers, Jas. I., Som., 110203 
