240 AN ANCIENT BILL IN CHANCERY. 



ioners against the power and authority of the Church, but he was 

 strong enough to threaten to arrest any person of any other parish 

 who should come to buy the tithes which he and his " afiynyte " 

 would not purchase. 



About fifteen guineas per ton appears to have been the price 

 paid for tin in those days. 



Copy of Bill. 



To the right rev'ent Fader in God and my full gracious Lord 

 the Bisshop of Excestre, Chaunceller of Englond. 



Mekely bisecheth unto your gracious Lordship your pore 

 oratour John Gody, p'son of the p'issh church of Lannyvet in the 

 counte of Cornewaile, in your diocyse of Excestre, that where oon 

 Thomas Harry of the said p'issh tynner, of his wikked and 

 malicious disposicion ayenst GoD and holy chirche, w'outen eny 

 cause or mater of right, erronyously hath doon divers grete 

 wronges riottes offences and trespasses to your seid oratour and 

 his seid chirche, as in the articles foUowyng hit apperith : 



First, where your seid oratour asked of the seid Thomas the due- 

 tees of his seid chirche, the same Thomas with other of his affynyte 

 made a confedracy and ordonance that no p'soue of the seid p'issh 

 shuld bye no maner of tithing of the same your oratour, nor re- 

 ceyve theime into their hous, upon payn of lesyng of xls. to be 

 paid to the comon store of the seid chirche ; and also ordeyned 

 that if eny p'sone of eny other p'issh come into the seid p'issh to 

 bye eny of the seid tithes, than he to be put under arrest, &c. 



Also the seid Thomas by the covyne of his affinite ordeyned 

 and did proclayme in the seid chirche oponly upon a Sonday that 

 no p'sone shuld offer with eny dede cors there but onely oon p'sone ; 

 and that p'sone to offer but oon masse peny, where ev'y p'sone 

 there after their devocion used to offer. 



Also where your seid oratour was arrayed and disposed upon 

 a Sonday to goo to masse the seid Thomas and the other evil dis- 

 posed of his affinite put your seid oratour in such drede of his lif 

 by manasse and thretenyng, for fere whereof he put of his clothe 

 ^nd went from thens to Bodmyn and there seid masse. 



Also because your seid oratour asked the right and duete of 

 Lis seid chirche, the seid Thomas and the malicious disposed 



