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Chapel and " our barn," probably a tithe barn, and measure 

 only 2 perches long by 2 perches wide, and pay an annual 

 rent of 8 pence. These rents are " for all service and 

 exaction for said burgages which said free tenants and 

 their heirs have for ever." It is over these few last words 

 that the disputes arose, as will be shown later on. 



The " Inspeximus " of the Charter by Bishop Roger has no 

 date whatever, and only an exhaustive examination of the 

 periods when the witnesses to it were all alive will give the 

 precise date, between 1315 and 1330 (during which years 

 Roger de Mortival was Bishop of Salisbury), when the 

 document could have been confirmed. 



Henry Lyneden's contention is that he now holds a burgage 

 which Bishop Richard granted to John Bradford, and was 

 therefore free from all services and exactions. 



To this the Bishop replies that the Charter only extended 

 to the exoneration of the tenants from doing the services 

 mentioned in the Charter. 



Some of the Plaintiffs go rather fully into the question of 

 the situation of Newland, and say that the Castle is situate 

 within the site of the manor of Sherborne, within the precincts 

 of which manor there is an ancient vill of Sherborne bounded 

 by ancient metes and bounds, and that there are within the 

 precincts of the said manor divers hamlets outside the ancient 

 vill of Sherborne, viz., West Burton, East Burton, Holnest, 

 Wotton, Gromeslee, Pyneford, Woborn, and Thornyford. 

 Adjacent and contiguous to, but outside the bounds of the 

 ancient vill, are three places called Coumbe, North Coumbe, 

 and Nywelond, in which three places were men living for a 

 long time who brewed ale for sale, and that Bishop Richard 

 granted certain burgages of different dimensions, paying for 

 them various rents " for all services and exactions," and 

 that the said Bishop had a Court with View of Frankpledge 

 to be held at the Cross in the middle of the place of 

 Nywelond by his Seneschall, to which Court the men of 

 Nywelond holding burgages there came and not elsewhere, 

 and were amerced and punished, and it was here the men of 



