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faithful Service — we need uot stay to surmise its nature — 

 rendered by tliese dutiful adherents; and the somewhat 

 dubious favour is added of permission to hold the property 

 as fully, freely, and entirely as the late owners had done, 

 and to enjoy it as much as they. Finally, that the 

 lands were to be held by them as tenants in capite, by the 

 Service of a twentieth part of one knight's fee, and an 

 annual rent of seventeen shllUngs and eleven pence, to be 

 paid at Michaehnas in every year : all profits and rents 

 to commence from the Feast of the Annunciation last past. 

 Witness the hing at Westmiuster, the 13th day of June.* 

 Other portions of the property were given to various 

 persons about the same time. ^^'illiam Chapleyn and John 

 Selvvood obtained, on the 5th of March, 1545, a grant of 

 lands, teuements, gardens, cottages, and burgages situated 

 outside the East-gate in Taunton, and in Canon Strete, 

 Middel Strete, and Seint James Strete, in the parishes of 

 S. Mary Magdalene, S. James, and ^Yestmonkton. Also 

 lands called Baldewynslande, and others lying near to 

 Crechburgh Hill within the last nained parish ; land 

 situated north of the Chapel of S. Margaret, then or lately 

 in the occupation of divers poor people of the Spittelhouse 

 there ; land called Seint Poles Chapell in the west part of 

 the said town of Taunton, in the parish of Hill Busshopp; 

 and land called Seint Leouardes Chapell in the northem 

 part, in the parish of S. James, all formerly belonging to 

 the Priory.f To Alexander Pophara and William Halley 

 were grauted lands in Thurlebare, West Hatche, and Upp 

 Hatche, together with the messuage and tenement of 

 Playstrete, and the manor and demesne of Tobrydge in 



* Fat. 36 Hen. VIII., p. 21, m. 1-1 (38). Orig. 36 Hen. YIII., 6 pars, 

 rot. 25. Rep. Orig. B.M. Add. MS. 6366, p. 90. 



t Orig. 36 Ilen. VIII., 4 pars, rot. 93. 



