214 The Society's MSS. Qiddhampton. 



suo ut de feodo et jure tempore pacis tempore domini regis nunc capiendo 

 inde explecias ad valentiam &c. Et in que &c. Et inde producunt 

 sectam &c. Et predictus Ricardus Humfrey tenens per warantiam suam 

 defendit jus suum quando &c. Et dieit quo predictus Hugo non disseisivit 

 prefatum Eobertum et Eicardum Constable de manerio et tenementis 

 predictis cum pertinenciis prout iidem Eobertus et Eicardus per breve 

 et narracionem sua predicta superius supponunt Et de hoc ponit se 

 super patriam &c. Et predicti Eobertus et Eicardus Constable petunt 

 licenciam inde interloquendi Et habent &c. Et postea iidem Eobertus 

 et Eicardus Constable reveniunt hie in curiam eodem termino in propriis 

 personis suis Et predictus Ricardus Humfrey licet solempniter exactus 

 non revenit set in comtemptu curie recessit Et defaltam facit Ideo 

 consideratum est quod predicti Eobertus et Eicardus Constable recuperent 

 seisinam suam versus prefatum Eicardum Spenser de manerio et tene- 

 mentis predictis cum pertinenciis Et quod idem Ricardus habeat de 

 terra predictorum Willelmi et Sare ad valenciam &c. Et quod iidem 

 Willelmus et Sara ulterius habeant de terra predicti Eicardi Humfrey 

 ad valenciam &c. Et idem Eicardus in misericordia &c. Et super 

 hoc predicti Eobertus et Eicardus Constable petunt breve domini 

 regis vicecomiti comitatus predicti dirigendum de habere faciendo eis 

 plenariam seisinam de manerio et tenementis predictis cum pertinenciis 

 Et eis conceditur retornabile hie in crastino sancte Trinitatis &c. Que 

 omnia et singula ad requisicionem predictorum Eoberti et Eicardi 

 Constable tenore presentiurn duximus exemplificanda. In cujus rei 

 testimonium sigillum nostrum ad brevia in Banco predicto sigillanda 

 deputatum presentibus apponi fecimus. Teste Edmundo Anderson 

 apud Westmonasterium primo die Junii anno regni nostri Anglie Francie 

 et Hibernie primo et Scocie tricesimo sexto 



Brownlowe. 

 Fragment of seal of the Common Pleas. 



No. 112. 



It appears by the foregoing documents that in May, 1603, Eichard 

 Spenser acquired the manor of Quidhampton in fee. He had 

 previously, in 1600, purchased certain lands convenient to be held 

 with it, and which have, ever since, been so held, as appears by 

 the documents immediately following. 



Cancoukt Fields. 

 By indenture, 31 Aug., 21 Elizabeth [1586], John Weare alias 

 Browne, and Thomas Weare alias Browne, his son, sold the lands, 

 as under, to Anthony Diston. The original indenture was not 

 forthcoming at the time of the making of the " Abstract " : that 

 there was such an indenture executed appears by a recital in the 

 document last below of this series. Diston having purchased the 



