284 The Society's MSS. Quidhampton. 



and Thomas Brickenden their heires and assignes for ever All that 

 the Mannor of Costow with the rights &c. cum pertinenciis in com* 

 "Wilts' and all houses outhouses &c. and comons in Costow and Wroughton 

 in corn' Wilts' To hold to the said Thomas Bennett W m . Stede and 

 Thomas Brickenden their heires and assignes for ever To the only proper 

 use and behoofe of the said Thomas Bennett W m . Stede and Thomas 

 Brickenden their heirs and assignes for ever with a clause of warranty 

 against the s d Geo : (sic) Gregory and his heires and other proper cove- 

 nants. 



(82) 

 20 Ap 11 1650. The particular account and agreement of D r Bennett 

 M'- Mathew Bennet and M>- Colston. 



(83) 

 30 11 ' Sept' 1658. By Deed Indented William Stede of Harrietshain 

 in the County of Kent D r - of Lawes (reciteing therein that whereas 

 Mathew Bennett of Harlington in the county of Middx' cler' Michael 

 Benet of Sudbury in the county of Northampton cler' Joseph Colston of 

 London, gent' and Thomas Gregory son and heire of Francis Gregory 

 late of Greys Inne Esq 1 " deceased by their deeds inrolled bearing date 

 the ll ,h day of Dec r - 1640 for the consideracions therein expressed did 

 grant bargayne sell and confirme unto Thomas Bennett of S' Benetts 

 Paul's wharfe D*- of Lawes to the s d . W ra . Stede and Tho : Brickenden 

 the younger and their heires and assignes for ever All that the Mannor 

 Farme or Grainge of Costow with all messuages &c. cum pertinenciis and 

 all the estate of the s d . Tho : Gregory To hold to the said Tho : Bennett 

 W m . Stede and Tho : Brickenden their heires and assignes for ever And 

 further reciteing that the said Brickenden was dead by means whereof 

 the right title and interest to the premisses was vested in the said Thomas 

 Bennett and William Stede the survivors and their heires, in and by 

 which said Deed Poll (sic.) the said W m . Stede in performance of the trust 

 in him reposed by the said Tho : Bennett upon the purchase of the 

 premisses as aforesaid and other consideracions Did for him and his 

 heires and assignes for ever remise release and quitt claym unto the s d . 

 Tho : Bennett his heires and assignes for ever All and Singular his 

 right title &c. of in and to the said mannor and premisses. 



Studley Grange. 

 The purchase of apparently about one-ninth of the Grange of 

 Studley, for economic convenience, part of such lands lying inter- 

 spersed with his own, by Dr. Benet, is not illustrated in the 

 " abstract." To this we hope to recur. The documents which 

 immediately follow concern the redemption by the respective 

 purchasers of the Grange, in their proper proportions, of a rent 

 charged upon it : — 



