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heir.* John died in 1593, and by Inquisition, taken at Ilmyster 

 6th October, he was declared oAvner of Mudsley manor, held in 

 capite at the 20th part of a Knights Fee, the value per annum 

 £10.t He was succeeded by his son, Sir Jervoisor Gervais, who, 

 with the consent of Katherine his wife, sold the manor, 19 th 

 Feb., 1597, to Edward Cottington.J On the 9th Feb. a portion, 

 consisting of 150 acres of land, with common of pasture in 

 Wedmore, Mark More and Godney More, was sold by Sir Jervois 

 to John Langworth, Dr. in Theology, the value £6, the fine 40s.§ 

 In 1 600, 2nd Sept. Cottington sold the manor to Richard Bridges, 

 of Scampton, Lincolnshire, the fine, the value and the belongings 

 being the same as in his own purchase. || For some reason 

 Bridges got this sale confirmed by patent, 3rd Dec, 1609, a 

 document which is one long constant reiteration and repetition, 

 and especially securing to him all the manor of Mudsley, to be 

 held in the same full manner as the Earl of Pembroke, the Duke 

 of Somerset, or as the Dean of Wells held it.lT 



Besides these manors and lands, there were the Chantry endow- 

 ments which came also to the Crown, and which suggest the con- 

 stant absorption of the small holder by the ever watchful big dry 

 sponge. In 1587, 28th Sept., Charles Bagehott and Barth 

 Yardley, of London, gentlemen, received the lands of the Chantry 

 called the West Chantry, some seventeen small parcels, of two, 

 three and four acres each, and the two acres (arable) in the close 

 called King's Close in Wedmore, and all that little house of ours 

 called Le Weste Chantrye House with belongings, adjoining the 

 church cemetery there to the North. A small quit rent of a few 

 pence was reserved on each lot. ft 



* Inquisition Post Mortem, 6 Eliz. , No. 158. 

 t Inquisition Post Mortem, 35 Eliz., part ii.. No. 133. 



J Alienation Licenses, 39 Eliz., fol. 196. 



§ Alienation Licenses, 39 Eliz., fol. 195. 



II Alienation Licenses, 42 Eliz., fol 211. 

 T Patent, 7 Jas. I., part xxxiii , Roll 1821, mem. 31. 

 ft Patent, 29 Eliz., part iii., Roll 1288, mems. 23, 24. 



