The Society's MSS. Quidhampton. 103 



et 'tenendum a die confeccionis presenciurn vsque ad eundem festurn 

 tunc proxirnurn sequens per unum annum integrum reddendo inde 

 predicto Boberto heredibus et assignatis suis ad festum Sancti Johannis 

 Baptiste tunc proximurn sequens viginti sex solidos et octo denarios ad 

 festum Sancti Miehaelis Archangeli tunc proximurn sequens viginti 

 sex solidos et octo denarios et duo quartaria frumenti puri et boni 

 bladi ad festum Omnium Sanctorum tunc proximurn sequens quatuor 

 quarteria frumenti puri et boni bladi ad festum Natalis Domini 

 tunc proximurn sequens viginti sex solidos et octo denarios ad 

 festum Annunciacionis beate Marie virginis tunc proximurn sequens 

 viginti sex solidos et octo denarios ad festum Natiuitatis Sancti 

 Johannis Baptiste tunc proximurn sequens viginti sex solidos et octo 

 denarios et ad festum Sancti Miehaelis Archangeli tunc proximurn 

 sequens viginti sex solidos et octo denarios et faciendo pro predicto 

 Boberto omnia onera predicto manerio quouismodo tangencia durante 

 termino predicto vsque ad festum Sancti Miehaelis tunc proximurn 

 sequens Et predictus Bobertus vult et concedit pro se et heredibus suis 

 quod predictus Johannes poterit seminare in anno proximo futuro ad 

 semen yemale et quadragesimale semen suum in terra predicta in 

 campo ut iacet et proficuum vesture bladorum predictorum ad volun- 

 tatem suam capere et cariare infra dominium predictum sine contra- 

 diccione alicuius durante termino predicto et a termino predicto vsque 

 festum Sancti Miehaelis tunc proximurn sequens Et si contingat quod 

 predicta firma a retro sit in parte vel in toto ad aliquem terminum per 

 octo dies bene liceat predicto Boberto heredibus et assignatis suis in 

 predictis terris pratis pascuis pasturis et redditibus ingredi et distringere 

 et districciones retinere donee de predicta firma plenarie fuerit sibi 

 satisfactum Et si contingat quod predicta firma aretro sit in parte vel 

 in toto ad aliquem terminum predictum per unum mensem bene liceat 

 predicto Roberto heredibus et assignatis suis in predictis terris pratis 

 pascuis pasturis et redditibus reingredi et in pristino statu retinere cum 

 omnibus bonis et catallis in eisdem inuentis sine contradiccione alicuius 

 In cuius rei testimonium partes predicte hiis indenturis sigilla sua 

 alternatim apposuerunt Hiis testibus Boberto Duenyssh Johanne Schour 

 Johanne Mascal Willelmo Bryght Johanne Stolas et aliis Data die et 

 anno supradictis. Fragment of seal. No. 96. 



The "title" at this point, upon examination in the seventeenth 

 century, was apparently considered defective, and recourse had to 

 the national records. The result is described in the " abstract " 

 as follows: — 



2 May, 12 Edw d . 4, 1472. Copy of an Inquisicion whereby it appears 

 that John Bussell was seized in his demesne as of fee (amongst other 

 lands) of One messuage and 100 acres of land cum jpertinenciis in 

 Quidhampton And that the said messuage and land in Quidhampton 

 were worth 100 s . per annum and were held of the Priory of Bradstock. 



