74 PAPEUS, ETC. 



and lOd., issuing from the manor of Buckloiid, formerly 

 belonglng to the late Monasteiy of Bucklond, just novv 

 dissolved. We have already seen this John Worth in the 

 character of Receiver of rents and pensions from Northe- 

 pederton and Pawlett.* 



Some time elapsed beforc the bulk of the property was 

 disposed of. A "ßequest to purchase" the site of the Priory 

 and the Rectory and tithes of Mighelchurch was submitted 

 to the king, signed " W. Essex," and bearing date the llth 

 of March, 35th Hen. VIII., 1544. To the enumeration of 

 the various portions of the domaln, which will presently 

 be detailed in the grant, the Auditor, Mathew Colte- 

 hirste, whose duty it was to examine the terms of the 

 Request, and to report upon any charges on the estates, 

 appended the following note.f — " What coinoditie the 

 ffermf;;' hereof taketh aboue the annual Kent I knowe not. 

 It'm the kynges grace is charged w"' cvj^ viij'' for the 

 stipend of a preeste serving Cure at Sancte Michaeli 

 Chapell being w^in a q^rter of a myle of the seid scite. 

 where they wedde & crisen & burith in the Churche Yarde 

 of the seid late Pryory. & so is like to be charged. vnlesse 

 the seid Chapell be annexed to the Chapell of a Coinoundry 

 of Sancte Johncs adionyng to the seid scite : there is no 

 more landes w'in ij myles pertcynyng to the seid J^riory. 

 the Comaundry of Bucklande parcell of Sancte Jones 

 adioneth to the same. P'Mathiam Coltehirste Audit'." In 

 the margin we are told that " The superfluous howsys 

 there where sold to the seid fFermer [Edward Rogers] at 

 the tyme of the dissolucyon of the howse." The woods on 

 the estate are reported as follows : — Roden Coppies, 3 



* Carl:» Miscell. in Off. Eec. vol. 7, n. 28. 

 t Part, for Grauts, Off. Aug. The letters printed ia italics are repre- 

 sented in the original by marks of contraclion. 



