The Society's MSS. Quidhampton. 232 



Abstracts of both documents are appended :— 



Complaint of David Waterhouse and Elizabeth his wife one of the 

 daughters of Thomas Crane, late of Newton Tony, co. "Wilts, esq. 

 Whereas the said David and Elizabeth in the right of the said 

 Elizabeth are seised in fee simple or of some other estate of inheri- 

 tance of the reversion of the manor or farm of Quidhampton in the 

 said county by force of a conveyance thereof made by the said 

 Thomas Crane in his lifetime and before the marriage between the 

 said David and Elizabeth of the reversion thereof to divers persons 

 " to your said orators unknowne " to the use of the said Elizabeth 

 Waterhouse by the name of Elizabeth Crane and her heirs for ever 

 or to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten or of some other estate 

 of inheritance " as your said orators doubt not sufficiently to prove 

 in this honourable court " ; in which assurance or conveyance there 

 is said to be contained a proviso whereby the said Thomas Crane 

 during a certain time therein limited upon payment or tender of a 

 certain sum of money at the fount stone in the Temple Church might 

 revoke or alter the said uses so limited as aforesaid to the said Elizabeth ; 

 Now it is that, notwithstanding the said Thomas Crane nor any other 

 for him, did not make any such tender or payment of intent to revoke 

 or alter the said uses, one Eoger Cope of London, glasier, combining and 

 confederating with some other persons " to your oratours unknown ' r 

 how to disinherit and defraud the said Elizabeth of the said reversion and 

 to entitle some others thereto have agreed amongst themselves to give 

 out and publish, and the said Eoger doth give out that the said Thomas 

 Crane did within these three years last past, being as is said within the 

 time in the said conveyance limited, revoke the said use and that the 

 said Roger Cope did tender or pay for or in the name of the said Thomas 

 Crane the said sum at the said place to the intent that the use so 

 limited to the said Elizabeth might be revoked and made void ; whereas 

 in truth there never was within that time any such tender or payment 

 of money at the said place made by the said Eoger, as he the said 

 Eoger hath divers times protested to the said David Waterhouse and 

 particularly about the beginning of December last in the presence of 

 divers credible witnesses, before whom, being required to speak the truth 

 concerning the premisses to be writ down and his mark to be set to it, 

 as he would be ready to justify upon his oath, he answered in sort fol- 

 lowing, viz, being asked whether he was witness at any tender or 

 payment of money by Thomas Crane late of Newton Tony, esq. within 

 two or three years then last past at the font stone in the Temple Church, 

 he said that he was not of his certain remembrance ; being likewise 

 asked whether he did, within the time, at the place aforesaid or any 

 other place, at the request and in the name of the said Thomas, tender 

 or pay any such sum, he said likewise of his certain knowledge he did 

 not, but said that about two years then last past one Mr. William Lockey 

 did intreat the said Eoger to go with him into the said Temple Church 

 to be witness to some money that was to be paid or received by the said 



