234 The Society's MSS. Quidhampton. 



documents were stored, the "abstract" is silent; and among the I 

 MSS. presented to the Society by Mr. Mullings a solitary receipt ij 

 is all that occurs to illustrate its history : — 



No. 51. 

 9 Nov. Nono die Novembris A E. R. Caroli secundo 

 1626. 



Salthroppe SS. Beceved the daye & yeare above wrytten of William I 

 in Coin' "Wiltes Yorke ffarmer there the iuste somme of ffortye & Eight >i 

 shillinges for the arrerages of a rent of Two shillinges per 

 annum due & payable to his Ma ,vr forth of the said ffarme in the right 

 of his highnes Dutchy of Lancaster being in arrere for Twenty ffowre- 

 yeres ended att the feast of S' Mychaell the Arkangell last past In 

 wytnes whereof I have herevnto sett my hand & the Seale of myne offyce 

 the daye & yere first above wrytten 



per me Ed : Maskelyne ffeodarium Domini 

 Regis Ducatus sui Lancastrie in comitatu. 

 predicto. 



Seal, faint impression on payer over ivax. 



Endorsed. An Acquyttance for M r . W 1 ". Yorke. 



No. 135. 



Cockhakis alias Quintens in Costowe. 



"We turn, next under guidance of the "abstract," to other, and 

 earlier, acquisitions made by the Benet family in this neigh- 

 bourhood, viz. : — (1) the ancient holding in Costowe, in the 

 parish of Wroughton, of the Quintan family, (2) the ancient 

 holding in the same place of the abbots of Stanley. 



We know that by letters patent 7th June, 28 Henry VII (153fS 

 the King granted inter alia the manors of Mydgehall, Studley an 

 Costowe, parcels of the possessions of the late dissolved abbey of 

 Stanley, to Edward, viscount Beauchamp, and Anne, his wife, 

 with remainders over. It is a fair inference from what follows that 

 the abbey estate in Costowe was, at that time, in lease to one John 

 Sadler. In July, 1539, this same John Sadler took a lease for 

 long term, from Michael Quintin of a messuage and yard land in 

 Costowe called " Cokharys," as appears by the document (No. 52) 

 first below. This is, without doubt, the same property which, by 

 the description of a toft in Wroughton with its appurtenances in 



