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On the SOth March, 1592, Wm. Tipper and Robert Da-we, of 

 London, received all that four acres arable in Campis de Stoughton, 

 formerly belonging to the West Chantry, and all the tenths from 

 the West Chantry lands, which included le old wood alias le old 

 parke adjoining le Sande, and the parcel of land called Court 

 Hayes, adjoining Mudglowe.* There were also the Chantry lands 

 gathered for the Guild or Fraternity. These — returned as worth 

 £8 17s. 6d. per annum, from which a rent of 28s. lid. was pay- 

 able to the Dean and Chapter of Wells ; for the Chantry house 

 3d. ; and for a piece of land called Suckeland 6d., leaving nett 

 £7 7s. lOd.— wera sold to Wm. Smythe, 22nd June, 1563, the 

 purchase-money at 30 years' purchase being X221 15s., half of 

 which was to be paid down, and the other half in fourteen days.t 

 Smyth apparently did not complete his purchase, as on 24th Aug. 

 in the same year this property, with other land in Dewstone or 

 Dowstone in Cornwall formerly belonging to the Priory or 

 Hospital of St. John in Bridgwater, was granted to Wm. Lovett 

 and Thomas Bright ; and in 1564, Wm. Revett received the rent 

 of two shillings for Jesus Masse, arising from land called 

 Chaterlye.i 



The tithes and advowscn did not pass with the manors. In 

 5 Edward VI., 8th May, Thomas Clarke, John Mawdley, and 

 Walter Cretyng, with whom was Alex. Popham, Avere appointed 

 Commissioners to enquire into the profits of the Deanery, erected 

 in 1 Edward VI., and they found that it was charged, after the 

 death of Polidorus Vii'gilius, Archdeacon, " wyche is yett lyving 

 and enjoyethe all the p'fitts," with the payment yearly to the 

 four Prebends, called les Wedmores, of ,£4 each, to the Vicars of 

 the stalls each 20s , to the Vicar of the Prebend of Huish 40s., 

 to the Vicar-Choral of the Dean's stall 54s. 5d., together 



• Patent, 34 Eliz., part iv., Roll, 1,382, mems. 36, 45, 46. 

 t Augmentation Office, Particulars for Grants, 5 Eliz. 

 X Augmentation Office, Particulars for Grants, 6 Eliz. 



