400 Gadnam. 



the seid places desolate And ferthermore fel downe the grete wode of the 

 aeid places and som' solde and som' broght home to his owne place and 

 forthermore destroyed his pondes fysshengj'ii and doff house and in conclusion 

 destrued all that euer there was And forthermore by coueyn and subtyll 

 yraaginacions in a complysshing of his seid insaciable couetise hath graunted 

 diuers annuitees to diuers persones of the seid maners landes and tenementes 

 to the utter destruccion and disheritaunce of youre seid suppliaunt. And 

 howe be hit that youre seid suppliaunt cam to his full age of xxj yere iiij yere 

 agoo and more and hatlie ofle tymes required the seid John Criklade thelder 

 and Waltier Sambourne to refeffe hym of the seid londes and tenementes 

 accordyng to the wyll of the seid Thomas and they that to do have refused 

 and yet refuseth And also required the seid John Criklade to recompence 

 youre seide besecher for expenses duryng his nowne age accordyng to the 

 seid will and he that to do refuseth Wherfore please it youre gracious 

 lordshipp the premisses considered to graunte severall writtes of snh pena to 

 be directed to the seid John Criklade theelder and Walter to appere afore the 

 Kyng in his chauncerie at a certeyn day by you to be lymytted ther to do as 

 conscience will require at the reuerence of God and in waj' of charyte. 

 I Willelmus Weryot de Criklade yoraan 

 65 6 p s ^ Eicardus Edward de Downeamney yoman 



Early Chancery Proreedhiffs, Bundle 31, No. 154. 



This is the axiswere of John Crikelad thelder and Walter 

 Sambourne imto the bill of John Crikelad the younger. 

 The said John Crikelad thelder and Walter Sambourn' sayn by protestacon' 

 that the mater comprehended with in the said bill is not sufficiant to put 

 theym to answere but for their declaracion sayn that where it is supposed 

 by the said bill of the said John Crikelad the yonger that Thomas Crikelad 

 was seased of the manerez of Cadenham and Stodeley in the shire of 

 Wilteshire and of iiij meses v caruce of lande an c acr' of pastur' xl acr' of 

 wode with thappurtenaunce in the townes of Crikelad and Stodeley in the 

 said counte in his demesne as in fee and so seased of grete faith and truste 

 of all the said manerez landes and tenementez enfeffed the said John Crikelad 

 and Walter Sambourn' nowe alyve and other nowe dede the said John 

 Crikelad and Walter sayn as for the landez and tenementes in Crikelad 

 comprysed in the said bill that Thomas Crikelad in his bill specified fader to 

 the said John Crikelad thelder was seased in the said landez and tenementez 

 in his demesne as in fee and so seased gave the said landes and tenementez 

 to the said John Crikelade thelder to have and to hold to hym and to his 

 heirez of his body lawfully begoton' savyng the reversion' of the said landez 

 and tenementez to the said Thomas and his heirez by vertu of the whiche 

 gifte the said John Crikelad thelder was seased in his demesne as in fee taill 

 And after the said Thomas died in to whos possession Alice that was the wyf 

 of the said Thomas moder to the said John thelder by fyne relessed all hir 

 right and title that she had in the said landez and tenementez and bounde 

 hir and hir heirez to warant the said landez and tenementez to the said 

 John Crikelad thelder Without that the said John thelder was enfeffed in 

 the said landez and tenementez in eny other wj'se or to eny other entent to 

 perfourme eny entent or without that that the said Walter Sambourne were 



