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It would appear elther tliat this agreement was not 

 observed, and that the alternative provided for came into 

 Operation, or that a transfer was effected with permission of 

 the lesöors ; for so early as the lOth of March, 1507-8, at an 

 " Assembly," holden on that day at the House at Clerken- 

 well, nnder the presidency of Thomas Docwra, Prior of 

 England, assisted by Brother John Tong, Preceptor of 

 Eibston, Mount S. John, and Carbrok ; Brother Thomas 

 ShefFeld, Preceptor of Bruerlay and Shengay ; Brother 

 Lancellot Docwra, Preceptor of Dynmore and Temple- 

 combe ; Brother John Eawson, Preceptor of Swynfelde ; 

 and Brother Thomas Golyn, Preceptor of Baddisford and 

 Dynglay, a lease of the Preceptory was granted to Edmund 

 Myl, of Wellysj gentleman, and to Anna his wife, together 

 with the manors of Bodmescomb and Cove, in the county 

 of Devon. The terms of the lease are precisely similar to 

 those already detailed, save that the special mention is 

 omitted of Alexander Vernay, the Chaplain of Bodmes- 

 comb, who may be supposed to have departed this life 

 during the interval.* 



Once more a Confirmation was granted to the Sisters of 

 their early privilege which has been so often before us. 

 It is a document of a most curious kind, and especially so 

 when we consider it with reference to the character of him 

 from whom it came. In the second year of his reign, 

 King Henry VIII. addressed letters of " inspeximus " to 

 his beloved in Christ Thomas Docwra, Prior of the Hospital 

 in England, recounting the terms of the previous letters, 

 and granting through him to the Prioress and Sisters of 

 Bucland a hundred and fifty-six cartloads of wood every 

 year, from his park of Petherton, on the ground of their 



* MS. CoU. Claud. E. VI. ff. liiib, liiii. 



