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corporation, and having their common seal. And 

 a college with a common hall, where they lived. 



IV. The chantry lands appropriated to the 

 chantry priests (who had also a common house, 

 where they lived), besides the particular endow- 

 ments of the altars where they served. 



V. "Our Lady's lands;" estates so called, 

 being appropriated to the fabric. 



This was the old constitution. But, upon the 

 surrender of the Church and all its lands into 

 the hands of King Henry VIII. he refounded 

 it, and made it one body corporate, by the name 

 of the " Chapter of Southwell.'' 



So that all the vicar's lands and chantry lands 

 (which were yet in the Church) were laid in 

 common with the chapter's lands, and managed 

 by them. It is true, the chantry lands and rents 

 were afterwards ^seized by King Edward VI. 

 and disposed of otherwise ; but, in the reign of 

 Queen Mary, the chapter recovered them all by 

 law* ; forasmuch, as at the refoundation, all 



* Some particular rents were not looked after as they ought 

 to have been at that time. One, for instance, of 20 marks per 

 annum, charged upon Battersea estate, by Archbishop Booth, 

 when he gave it to the see for maintaining two chantries, which 

 he founded in Southwell, was given by King Edward, at the 

 dissolution of chantries, to the school at Guildford, and never 

 was recovered to the Church. Archbishop Sharp was sensible, 

 that if every one had their right, the Chapter of Southwell 



