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the Churchyard of our Ladye in Newmarket. Item I 

 bequeth to the High Altar ther 2,^. 4^. Item to Anne 

 my wife my hous, & the Scoppis from this tyme to 

 the term of 24 yeares, & then to go to Rob*, my son : 

 and my son WilHam to have the ground & the Shops 

 from the Parlor to the Turner's shops. Item to 

 Elizabeth my daughter the Tenement that my Mother 

 holds, after her decease, & then after her decease 

 to my sister Johan Clarke till the sum of 40^'. be 

 paid her children to be heirs one to the other in 

 case of decease without heirs, & in case they all die 

 without heirs, That Richard my brother have the 

 whole paying out of the said goodes yerly for the 

 health of my father, my own, & my friends souls for 

 20 years, 20 shillings. Item I will that my brother 

 doe make, yf he possesse y' a dore throwe the 

 Schoppis into the Market after the old custums. Item 

 I do appoint W™. Buttel my Ex^ These witnesses, 

 Sir Albert Harris Parson &c. 



" Endorsed. ' Probat fiul coram nobis Diu Archi 

 Sudbm. 7. Maij. 1527.'" 



In the year 1589 a suit was instituted in the High 

 Court of Chancery by Henry Greene, Robert Greene, 

 Thomas Greene, and Haggas Greene, sons of Richard 

 Greene, deceased, against Theodor Goodwyn, to re- 

 deem the Swan Inn, situated in the Cambridgeshire 

 part of the town, and ten acres of land " in the fields 

 of Ditton," which had been mortgaged by Richard 

 Greene, father of the plaintiffs, to Thomas Frankes, 

 for the delivery of a certain quantity of malt, from 

 which we may deduce that malting was a somewhat 



