394 Cadnrnn. 



fore your lordship in the Chauncery of our soueraygn lord at the monthe of 

 Seynt Michell next cunimyng there to answer vnto the premissez and to 

 have and receyue at that tynie of and in the premissez and yn everyche of 



them suche as trought lawe feyth and goode conscience shall require 



for the loue of God and yn the wey of parfite cherite. 



C Willelraus Bryan de Wescote in comitatu Buk' gentihnan. 

 Pleg' de pros' < Willelmus . . . ton de Stafford in comitatu Stafford' 

 v. gentilman. 



Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 26, no. 250. 



The next document is a further bill by John Cricklade, the 

 younger, also addressed to the bishop of Winchester, and ap- 

 parently of even date with the foregoing. It is stated in subsequent 

 proceedings (31, 152) to have been sued in 36 Henry 6, that is to 

 say, between 1st September, 1457, and 31st August, 1458. The 

 bishop to whom it is addressed became chancellor in October, 1457. 

 The writ, prayed for by the bill, is to be made returnable at 

 Michaelmas. Therefore this bill belongs presumably to 1458. 

 The petitioner states that he has now come to the age of fifteen 

 years. It would seem, accordingly, that he was born in or about 

 1443. In an answer printed below (31, 153) he is stated to have 

 been still under age on 16th September, 1463. 



Following on the "bill" come the "answer" of the defendants, 

 and the " replication " of the plaintiff'. 



To the ryght reverend Fader yn God my ryght wor.shipfull 

 goode and gracius lord Busshop of Wynchestre Chaunceller of 

 Englonde 

 Berecheth mekely John Cryklade cosyn & heyre to Thomas Cryklade nowe 

 ded that is to wete son of Robert son to the sayd Thomas that where the 

 same Thomas Criklade was seysed of diuers maners londis and tenementes 

 in the countez of Wiltes' and Somers' that ys to say of the maner of Langregge 

 with the advowson tliere to longyng yn the Schyr of Somers' the maners of 

 Caddenam k, Stodely yn the Schyr of Wiltes' with xx mesls v carues of lond 

 . . . hundreth acr' pasture xl acr' of wode yn the Townys of Krykelade 

 & Stotheley in the sayd Schir' of Wiltes wyth th[appur]t' yn his demene as 

 of fee And so ther of seysed for grete feyth & trust that the sayd Thomas 

 hadd unto on' John Criklade his son' Watir Sambourne nowe alyue & to 

 diuers other now dede enfeffed theym of the sayd maners londes & tenementes 

 to haue & to holde to them & to ther heires for euermor' to the use & behofe 

 of the sayd Thomas & his heires A nd to the entente to yef accompte of the 

 issues prolite.s & reueuues of the sayd maners londes & tenementes fro the 

 day of the deth of the sayd Thomas & Alice bis wvf un to the day of the 



