180 The Society’s MSS.—Chisledon and Draycot. 
Et ulterius damus et per presentes concedimus prefato Johanni Bridges omnia 
exitus redditus reverciones et proficua predictorum maneriorum rectorie grangie 
mesuagiorm terrarum tenementorum et ceterorum omnium et singulorum 
pYemissorum superius expressorum et specificatorum cum pertinenciis a festo 
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo preterito hucusque proveniencia sive crescencia 
Habendum eidem Johanni ex dono nostro absque compoto . . . Et ulterius 
de ampliori gracia nostra volumus ac auctoritate nostra regia qua fungimur pro 
nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris per presentes concedimus prefato Johanni 
Bridges heredibus et assignatis suis quod idem Johannes heredes et assignati sui ~ 
de cetero imperpetuum habebunt tenebunt et gaudebunt et in usus suos proprios — 
convertant ac habere tenere et gaudere et in usus suos proprios convertere valeant 
et possint dictam rectoriam et ecclesiam de Chuselden ac omnes et singulos — 
terras glebas mesuagia tenementa prata pasturas decimas oblaciones proficua et 
emolumenta quecunque eidem rectorie et ecclesie quo quo modo spectancia et — 
pertinencia adeo plene et integre ac in tam amplis modo et forma prout ultimus 
abbas de nuper monasterio de Hyde et ejusdem loci conventus . . . predictam 
rectoriam et ecclesiam ac predictas decimas . . . habuerunt . . . aliqua 
lege statuto actu ordinacione constitucione prohibicione restriccione vel consue- 
tudine incontrarium inde antehac habito facto ordinato edito usitato seu proviso — 
aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante volumus 
eciam . . . In cujus &c. T. R. apud Westmonasterium xxiij die Aprilis — 
anno regni regis Henrici Octavi Anglie &e. Tricesimo Secundo. 
“Convenit cum Recordo et examinatur per me Ricardum Broughton.” | 
Endorsed :— The copy of the Kinges letters pattentes for 
Burdrop Chisselton & Hodson.” 
Englishmen have always been adepts in revolution according to 
the forms of law. The utmost anxiety was shown by King 
Henry VIII. to procure the surrender by the abbot and convent in 
every case of their houses. But, if such surrenders were valid, 
other acts as solemnly performed by the same bodies, prior to their 
surrenders, were equally of good effect. A lease, for instance, for 
term of years with rent reserved, granted under the conventual seal 
—such in a host of cases, was the obstacle discovered after the 
surrender was complete to the King’s full enjoyment of his new 
source of revenue. His grantees of abbey lands took their bargains — 
subject to the same drawbacks. Thus the grant to Edmund ~ 
_ Brydges, esq., of the manor of Minty, 8th May, 1544, was subject 
to leases for twenty-one, sixty, sixty-one, seventy, and eighty-nine — 
years, ranging in date between 2nd August, 1537, and 12th May, — 
1540, affecting, apparently, the whole of the demesne lands of the 
manor, and all apparently, except the last, granted under the con- 
ventual seal. The manor and rectory of Purton, together with the — 
