16 The Society's MSS. 



In the following year Jolin Lyvedeu passes out of our sight, 

 appropriately enough after the grant to him of a papal indulgence. 



30. 

 3 April, 1477. Certificate by John, abbot of Abendon, papal collector, 

 &c., of a Jubilee indulgence granted to John Lyveden, 

 esquire, and Avice his wife, of the diocese of Salisbury. Salisbury, 3 

 April, 1477. 



No. 29. 



Nineteen years later the family of Westley was in residence at 

 Brixton Deverel and in possession, as appears by the various 

 settlements, &c., which follow, of all those lands in Whitecliff and 

 elsewhere previously held by John Lyveden and his predecessors. 

 John Westley, the first of them (No. 31) is elsewhere (No. 35) 

 described as cousin and heir of Kichard Panys and Alice his wife, 

 and was entitled as such to certain tenements in Bristol. As such 

 heir it may be that he acquired the Wiltshire property, but there 

 is no proof of it in these papers, nor any indication of a connexion 

 between Kichard and Alice and the family of Lyveden, whose own 

 Bristol origin^ as we have seen, is only a matter of surmise. 



The following document, in which John Westley is mentioned 

 for the first time, is one of the most interesting in the collection. 

 The endorsement clearly indicates the difficulty of securing the 

 services of a priest in parishes so remote. 



31. 

 23 March, Bond by John Hewlett, rector of the parish church of 

 1495 — 6. Brixston Deverell, co. Wilts, to John Westley [and J 

 Peter Stantor, of Bryxston aforesaid, gentlemen, in 40^. 

 at Christmas next, conditioned as follows : — 



" The condicion of this obligacion is suche that if so be the within 

 wretyn Syr John Hewlett permute or resygne his benyfice within the 

 space of iij yere aftyr the dat' within wretyn that then this obligacion 

 stand in his strength and effect and if he do not then this obligacon is 

 of no valew." 23 March, 11 Henry VII. 



No. 30. 



It seems probable, by the dates which can be recovered of hi& 

 descendants, that this John Westley was born about 1450. 

 Tropenell in his cartulary inserts a charter, " falsely and fraudu- 

 lently made" by Eichard Page, of Warminster, gentleman, ta 



