Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe. 



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figured for ever, I having took sykeness" (through ill-treatment it 

 would appear) " a xiii. or xiv. yere's swyng, whereby I am dis- 

 figured in person, and shall be whilst I live." 



" Item, he bought me agene : so he bought me and sold me, as a 

 beste, agenst all right and lawe." 



"Item, he kept from me by deceit thirty yeres together and 

 more xl.li. worthe of lyveloode, in a towne called Wighton of the 

 TVolde, in Yorkshire." 



" Item, he kept from me, agens all lawe and right two manors — 

 that is to say, Oxendon and Hamthwayte, &c." 



" Item, plate and stuffe of mine, the which is specified in mine 

 owne fadris testament to me^ bequeathed, which my seide father 

 Fastolf had ever to his use, &c." 



" Item, further strop and waste of mine inheritance, which is v. 

 hundred marks worth by the yere, the which has been in the hands 

 of my seid father (-in-law) 53 yeres." 



AEMS OF SIR JOHN FASTOLF, AT CAISTOB. CASTLE. 



The unlucky Stephen seems to have obtained no redress from 

 bifl griping father-in-law while alive, nor from the executors of 

 the latter after his decease in 1459; when at length he entered 

 into the long-delayed possession of his maternal estates, being 

 above the age of sixty himself. 



