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So it seems all of them subscribed not. Neither is the 

 Master of St. Johns name in the begining of the decree. The 

 inhabitants parties to the decree are 98 and defendants 4 in 

 all 102. So more are made parties to the articles than are to 

 the decree which makes me thinke it a counterfeet copie. " 



(D) u I conceive the parsonage of Cottenham to be improved by 

 the Composition. 



1. The inclosures granted to the parson by the same is worth 

 ;XXX per an. 



2. The benefit of keeping 20 milch cows upon the common 

 X per an. 



3. His Easter booke improved by poundes per an. 



4. Tithe corn improved LX per an. " 



u This is a copie of the note was given me by Jo. Wright. " 



(E) " Dr. Fleming was Instituted into Cottenham vndecimo aprilis 

 1581. 



Robert Telnie quinto Februarie 1601. " 



III. A copy of the Articles of Agreement is inserted in the Decree 

 in Chancery probably from the paper copy. 



IV. About the time of the last law trial, concerning matters more 

 or less connected with these 4i Articles, " (circa 1820.), the 

 articles were printed. A few copies of this (incorrect) edition 

 exist : and also what is most likely the written copy made for 

 the printing of the book. 



The first two of the above mentioned copies have been carefully 

 collated for this edition of the " Articles of Agreement." 



STRETHAM PAPERS 



The Rector of Stretham, in the Isle of Ely, has in his custody a 

 number of papers of the 16th and 17th centuries, relating for the 

 most part to the tithes and common-lands of that place and of the 

 Chapelry of Thetford, and to a long succession of disputes and law 

 suits arising therefrom, covering the greater part of the 17th 

 century. 



