APPENDIX XIV. 



BILL OF SIR HENRY LEE AGAINST ROBERT BOLITOUT AND 

 THOMAS LOUND. ANSWER OF THOMAS LOUND. 



Excheq. Q. R. Bills, Answers etc. Elizabeth, Norfolk, no. 32. 



To the Right Honorable the lorde highe treasorour of Englonde Chauncelor 

 and barons of the quenes maiesties eschelquer. 



Norfolk. Humblie sheweth and on the behalf of our soveraigne Ladie the 

 quenes maiestie enformeth your honors Sir Henrie lee knight that whereas the 

 quenes maiestie and her noble progenitors is and longe tyme hath ben seazed 

 as in the right of her crowne amongest other mannors of and in the mannor 

 of Forncett in the countie of Norfolk unto the which mannor tyme out of memorie 

 of man their have ben and yet are divers and sundrie villens and niefes regardaunt, 

 of whom the quenes maiestie and her most noble progenitors have ben seazed 

 as of her and their villens and niefes regardaunt to her said manhor of Forncett, 

 and whereas also by vertue of the quenes maiesties comission sealed with the 

 seale of her grades courte of her eschequer directed unto one Thomas Heron 

 esquier her maiestie hath appoynted the said Thomas Heron to make a survey 

 vew serch and enquire of all and singuler her maiesties bondemen and niefes 

 in bloude regardaunte unto any of her maiesties mannors and of all bondemen 

 and niefes in grosse to her belonginge and of their goodes, cattells, landes, 

 tenements, and hereditaments aswell by the vew and serche of courte rolles 

 evidences and writinges as also by the othes of the quenes maiesties tenauntes 

 or by the examinacion of witnesses uppon their othes or by any other waie or 

 meanes as shalbe thought expedient by the said Thomas Heron as more at large 

 doth and maie appere by the said comission. So yt is yf yt maie please your 

 honors that all thought yt doth most evidentlie and playnelie apere aswell by the 

 vew and sight of court rolles concerninge the said mannor of Forncett as also 

 by divers other waies and meanes that Robert Bolytoutt of Forncett afforesaid and 

 Thomas Lound of Martham in the countie of Norfolk are the quenes maiesties 

 bondemen regardaunt to her said mannor of Forncett yet they and eyther of them 

 have and doe refuse to acknowledge and confesse their said bondage to the quenes 

 majestic and to doe such services to the quenes maiestie as they ought and are 

 bounde to doe to the utter disinherison of the quenes maiestie her heires and 

 successors yf some remedie by this honorable courte be not in this behalfe 

 provided wherefore maie yt please your honors the premisses considered to award 

 out of this honorable courte the quenes maiesties writte of sub pena to be directed 

 unto the said Robert Bolitoutt and Thomas Lound comaundinge them and eyther 



