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themselves and so hathe shortened the dctt as they thowght mett for there pur- 

 pose : these thyngs consydered, I humblye beseehe your honore to have regard 

 unto these paresones, for that they be most credabell mene, and these men as 

 barythe more charges yn the towne to the quene and other nesesarye charges, 

 one of them, more then all the Companye, before wrvUn thys mater ys beffore 

 Master chanselar yn yowr Cowrt, wherefore I humblye desyr you to move Master 

 chanselar yn yt : the cawse whye I wryte so ernestlye ys that the paryche hath 

 a good openyon yn me thynkyng that by your good lordshep's faver towards me 

 that I may do them some pleshur there yn : thus, beyng over myche bowld 

 wythe your good lordshep, I comyt yovi and all yours to the everlastyng God. 

 Amen. From the Devyse thys present Moiidaye, beying the xv tn of January, 

 by the hand of your poore humbell Sarvant, 



THOMAS HALL. 



Endorsed, "unto the Slight honorabell and mye Spechyall 

 good lord of Snlysbury drlyrer thys," and in a different 

 hand " The Church Flate of the Devises." 



Rectors of Devizes. 



The following Notices of the Rectors of Devizes have been 

 carefully collected from various sources. 



A. D. 



1310. October 22. John cle Aune, clerk, was presented by the 

 Lady Margaret [the Queen Dowager, daughter of Philip 

 ~K. of France, and 2nd wife of Edward I.] to the Church 

 of Devises. 



1312. August 8. Master Thomas de Yeongeflete was presented 

 by the same Queen on the resignation of John de Aune. 



Among the Tower Records are several notices of this Rector. In 1316 [8 

 Edw. II.] he petitions the King concerning the Tithe of Hay in the Meadow of 

 the Park of Devizes, which he and his predecessors have been accustomed to 

 receive — and which Meadow is now turned into Pasture, and sold to divers 

 men of the adjacent country for feeding their Beasts — and which Tithe is 

 newly subtracted — whereupon he prays a remedy. On receipt of this, the 

 King issues a Commission (dated March 5,) to John de Foxle, John Bleuit, and 

 William de Harden, or two of them, to make an enquiry as to whether the late 

 King [Edward I.], at the time when the Park was in his hands, was accus- 

 tomed to give Tithes of the Hay, &c. And let the Inquisition be made in the 

 presence of the Parson, if, being warned, he will to be present — and the Inqui- 

 sition be returned before the King. 



The Inquisition was accordingly made at Devizes on Thursday the morrow 

 of St. Barnabas the Apostle, before John de Foxle, John Bleuit, and William 

 de Harden, on the oath of John Grey, John Bowclark, Henry le Hert, Walter 

 Bochard, John Goscelyn, William Burel, William Codyshe, John Kylle, 

 Richard le Foghel, John le Pret, Richard Walesale, Richard Sage, Roger le 

 Foghel, Walter Atte Wyk, AVilliam Flore, John Atte Wyk, Nicholas le Luyght, 



