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^cinct 33arlic v. Enisl)t anli others. 



Chancery Decree, 37 Henry VIII.— 1545. 



Communicated hy W. F. Lawrence, M.P. 



Chancery Decree Eoll No. 3, entry No. 102—37 Henry VIII. Public 

 Record Office. 



" Judic intr^l Be it remembed that in the Terme of the Holy TrenitieThat is 

 Seinctbarbe !-to saie the eight daie of June in the seven and thirtith yere of 

 et Knight, j the moste noble reigne of our sovereigne Lord Henry the eight 

 by the grace of God King of Englond France and Irelond Defender of the 

 Faithe, and of the Churche of Inglond and also of Irelond in erthe the supreme 

 Red / In the mater in variaunce depending before the Kinges said Highnes 

 in his raoste Honorable Courte of Chauncery betwene William Seinctbarbe 

 Esquire Prouost of the Prouostship of God and our blissed Lady Seincte Mary 

 the Virgen and Seincte Edmund the Confessor in the Citie of Newe Sarum 

 in the Countie of Wiltes playntyff and William Knyght and other defendaunts 

 of for and concerning the Manor of Alderston with the appurtenances in the 

 said Countie of Wiltes and of and for syxe meses and syxe hundreth acres of 

 londe wood mede and pasture with th' appurtenances in Alderston aforsaid 

 White Paroche Honyngton and in the Citie of Newe Sarum in the saide 

 Countie of Wiltes And also of and for the Rectories psonages and churches 

 of White Paroche and White Churche with ther appurtenances in the said 

 Counties of Wiltes and Dors being vnited and appropriatid vnto the said 

 Prouostship with all the oblacions tithes arrerages of tithes and oblacions and 

 with all the glebelondes and other effects and comodities to the same belonging 

 Wherunto aunswer being made by the said William Knyght that he helde 

 the said Manor of Alderston and psonage of Whit Paroche with ther ap- 

 purtenances by vertue of a certen lease made by Indenture bering date the 

 laste daie of Septembr in the xxix"" yere of the reigne of our soueraigne 

 Lord the King vnto oon Edmunde Davye for term of certen yeres yet to come 

 by oon John Goughe late Prouost of the saide house predecessor of the said 

 complaynant Whiche said Edmunde Davyes estate in the said Manor and 

 psonage of Whit Paroche the said William Knyghte hadd and the said lease 

 deteyned in his handes for the preseruacion of his estate therunto accordingly. 

 And therupon the bill aunswer and replicacion made and exhibited in the 

 said Courte of Chauncerye by the said parties being redd harde and ripely 

 vnderstoude after sight and reding of diuerse euidence chres, and regesters 

 of the fondacions of the said Prouostship vpon good consideracions and by 

 th'assent and consente of bothe parties It is ordered adiudged and decreed 

 by the right honorable Sir Thomas Wriothesley Knight Lord Wriothesley 

 and Lord Chauncellor of Inglonde And by the said Courte of Chauncerye and 



