So THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book YIIT. 



Mercer Richard Castle and John Haberow their heires 

 and Assignes according to y'' Contract and agreem'"' 

 aboue mentioned To haue and to hold vnto the said 

 John Oakey Tobias Bridge W''' Neale Francis Free- 

 man Christopher Mercer Trustees or any of them by 

 the said Acts or any of them are enabled to Convey 

 the same discharged of all demands paym*" Trusts 

 Accompts and incombraunces as amply as is enacted 

 and provided by the acts of Parliament aforesaid in 

 that behalfe dated the 21"' day of October 1650. 



{Signed) "William Roberts 

 " Ric: Saltonstall 

 " Ri. Sydenham 



"Jo. HUMFREY 



" These are to certifie y" said Trustees 

 y*" this 1^'ticular w*'' all Tf*'ceedings there- 

 vpon as it is thus finished is entered & 

 Reg'' by mee y'' 3'^ of November 1651. 



{Signed) " John Wheatly Dep* Reg'" 



Swaffham-Bulbeck lies about five miles west of New- 

 market. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, before 

 the reign of John, by the Bulbeck family ; at the time of its 

 dissolution, in the reign of Henry VIII., it was occupied by a 

 prioress and eight nuns : its revenues were then estimated at 

 £\0 per annum. In 1538, Henry VIII. gave the priory estate 

 to the Bishop of Ely and his successors, in exchange for other 

 lands. The manor of Swaffham-Bulbeck, which belonged 

 at an early period to the family of Bulbeck, passed by a 

 female heir to the Veres, Earls of Oxford, who possessed it 

 for many generations. This manor, by the name of Michell- 

 hall in Swaffham, subsequently passed to the Hammond 



