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To John Soda for sundry medicines and conserves by him made 

 for my lord and lady and 3 children .. .. 0 31 10 



Anthony do Jeroinbassatn for 4 Howboys of him bought .. 100s. Od 



For a case of lether for my lord's poleax . . . . 0 2 4 



For 9 skins and 2 doz. packthread to begin a fishing net for my 

 lord .. .. . .. .. 0 10 0 



To Thomas Alsop for losinges [lozenges], treacle and other poticary 

 stuff for my lord .. .. .. 0 20 2 



8. Receipts. 



Of Mr. William Button of Alton 19 April for my Lord's aker of 

 wood in the Forest of Savernak, of the Queen's Grace's Copse . . 0 43 4 



Received of the Prior of St. Margarett's by Marlborough for my 

 Lord's [fee for being highe stuarde to tha Howse, for one hole yere 0 13 4 



Received for the tithing hay* of the portions belonging to Bedwyn 

 that my lord hath, as hereafter, viz. : 



first, for the portion of West Grafton . . 0 13 4 



Do. of East Grafton 

 Do. of West-combe 

 Do, of Crofton 

 Do. for Martin 



0 10 0 



0 13 4 



0 3 8 



0 2 0 



Reed, my lord's fee for the Constableship of the Castle of Brystowe 



Reed, for the release of a steer taken in the Forest as a strayer. . 



Receved of Gorway of Bedwyn for one porker that was messeled 

 \_measled~] not holsome to be etten in the house 



Receyved of a olde outside of a gowne of frysadew of the goodes 

 of my olde mistriss 



Received for iij olde horses comprised in theinventorie of my olde 

 maister Sir John Seymour the one called Huddleston, another 

 Vycary, and the balde baye Thiller 



Received in redy money at the calling unto God's mercy of the 

 late worshipfull Lady, dame Elizabeth Seymour decessed 



Reed, of the right worshipfull Lady Margery Seymor for one 

 quarter's borde for her Ladyshipp and her famyly att £20 the year. 



[The Protector's Mother, ,] 



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42 



4 



14 



3 



4 



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12 



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8 



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•This relates to the tithe of Great Bedwyn parish held by the Protector by lease from the Dean 

 and Chapter of Sarum. Among other memoranda relating to this subject (which seems to have been 

 one very fertile of disputes) there is one, that the Dean and Chapter of Sarum used to claim the 

 tithes of all the King's forests in Wilts under (as they alleged) a grant from King Henry the 

 Second. 



The manor of Grafton was bought by the Earl of Hertford of Thomas Barnardiston in 28 Henry 

 VIII., for £441 3s. lOd. 



In 37 Henry VIII., (1545) he bought from Sir Edward Darrell all his lease interest in Wexcombe, 

 Bedwyn, and Burbidge ; and obtained the reversion from the crown. Some quarel afterwards fell 

 out about this ; and as a marginal note on an old paper relative to it speaks ot Sir Edward Dorrell as a 

 common cozener ; and of his having been " brought before the Star-Chamber for abusing Hyde." 



Out of Wexcombe Manor £35 annual rent was at that time paid to the Sheriff of W r ilts for the 

 crown, 



