Cndnavi. 405 



iij closes the whiclie conteyne in theyiu self an c acres and more lying in 

 Foxhani in the hundred of Chippenham in the Shire of Wilteshire and of 

 xvj acres of heirable lande and an halfe acre of niede in Foxham abouesaid 

 and so seased of grete trust enfeffed therin John Mompesson esquyer Wauter 

 Samborne esquyer and John Cryklad esquyer to haue and to holde to theym 

 and to their heires for euerniore by vertue of the whiche they were therof 

 seased in their demeane as in fee to thentent that they and eueryche of 

 theym shulde refetfe your said beseker when by hym they were requyred the 

 whiche youre said beseker ofte tymes requyred the said John Mompesson 

 Wauter and John Cryklad to refeffe youre said beseker and the said John 

 Mompesson and Wauter at all tymes haue be redy to make refeffement and 

 the said John Cryklad so to do refuseth but afturward the said John Cryklad 

 ymagyned to disceyve and disheiret youre said beseker made a newe dede 

 in the name of your said beseker unto hym and unto John Hayward his 

 seruaunt to theym and to their heires for euermore and made the said John 

 Hayward by his dede to relesse unto the said John Cryklad all his right title 

 and possession that he had in the said landez and afterward the said John 

 Cryklad all tlie trees and wode groying in the said landes kut downe sold 

 and caried awey in disheritaunce of youre said beseker and dayly manesseth 

 and threteth youre said beseker that yf he come unto the said tenementes or 

 entre in eny parcell of theym that he shall dye Wherefore please it unto 

 your goode and gracious lordship the premisses graciouslj' and tenderly 

 to consyder and howe that the said John Cryklad yerely hath take the 

 issuez and profittez of the said landes and tenementez by the space of viij 

 yere and more the whiche amounteth to the somme of xvj.li. and more and 

 nowe the said John Cryklad ys by youre commaundement in the prison of 

 Flete of our soueraygne lord and that it please your gracious lordship that 

 he may be send aftur and to appere a fore j'ou and to answer to the premisses 

 and to be reuled as consciens faith and lawe requyren and yf he woll not so 

 to be reuled then to be remitted unto the said prison ther to abyde unto the 

 tyme that he by your gracious lordship woll be reuled as consciens faith and 

 lawe requyreth for the love of God and in the wey of charite. 



Endorsed : — Infrascriptus Johannes Cryklad dimissus est de curia quietus 

 sine die ex assensu partis querentis per informacionem Whittokesmede. 



Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 32, no. 126. 



Except, perhaps, iu the case of the manor of Laiigridge, all 

 parties to the dispute appear, so far, to have accepted the settlement 

 made by Thomas Cricklade as valid. It was doubtless in accordance 

 with this settlement that John Cricklade was required by the 

 court to re-enfeoff his nephew of the manors of Cadenham and 

 Studley iu fee. But was there any ground for supposing that 

 either Thomas, in right of his wife, or Alice Cricklade, in her own 

 light after his death, was possessed of an estate in any of these 

 lands in fee ? If they were not, could they by any settlement 



