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The Society's MSS. — OMsledon and Dray cot. 



Et ulterius damus et per presentes concedimus prefato Johanni Bridges omnia 

 exitus redditus reverciones et proficua predictoruua rnaueriorum rectorie grangie 

 mesuagiorra terrarum tenementorum et ceterorurn omnium et singulorum 

 premissorum superius expressorum et specificatorum cum pertinenciis a festo 

 Sancti Micliaelis Archangeli ultimo preterito hucusque proveniencia sive crescencia 

 Habendum eidem Johanni ex dono nostro absque compoto Et ulterius 



de ampliori gracia nostra volumus ac auctoritate nostra regia qua fungimur pro 

 nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris per presentes concedimus prefato Johanni 

 Bridges heredibus et assignatis suis quod idem Johannes heredes et assignati sui 

 de cetero imperpetuum habebunt tenebunt et gaudebunt et in usus suos proprios 

 convertant ac habere tenere et gaudere et in usus suos proprios convertere valeant 

 et possint dictam rectoriam et ecclesiam de Chuselden ac omnes et singulos 

 terras glebas mesuagia tenementa prata pasturas decimas oblaciones proficua et 

 emolumenta quecunque eidem rectorie et ecclesie quo quo modo spectancia et 

 pertinencia adeo plene et integre ac in tarn amplis modo et forma prout ultimus 

 abbas de nuper monasterio de Hyde et ejusdem loci conventus . . . predictam 

 rectoriam et ecclesiam ac predictas decimas . . . habuerunt . . . aliqua 

 lege statuto actu ordinacione constitucione prohibicione restriccione vel consue- 

 tudine incontrarium inde antehac habito facto ordinato edito usitato seu proviso 

 aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante volumus 

 eciam ... In cujus &c. T. 11. apud Westmonasterium xxiij die Aprilis 

 anno regni regis Henrici Octavi Anglie &c. Tricesimo Secundo. 



" Gonvenit cum Recordo et examinatur per me Ricardum Broughton." 



Endorsed : — " The copy of the Kinges letters pattentes for 

 Burdrop Chisselton & Hodson." 



Englishmen have always been adepts in revolution according to 

 the forms of law. The utmost anxiety was shown by King 

 Henry VIII. to procure the surrender by the abbot and convent in 

 every case of their houses. But, if such surrenders were valid, 

 other acts as solemnly performed by the same bodies, prior to their 

 surrenders, were equally of good effect. A lease, for instance, for 

 term of years with rent reserved, granted under the conventual seal 

 — such in a host of cases, was the obstacle discovered after the 

 surrender was complete to the King's full enjoyment of his new 

 source of revenue. His grantees of abbey lands took their bargains 

 subject to the same drawbacks. Thus the grant to Edmund 

 Brydges, esq., of the manor of Minty, 8th May, 1544, was subject 

 to leases for twenty-one, sixty, sixty-one, seventy, and eighty-nine 

 years, ranging in date between 2nd August, 1537, and 12th May, 

 1540, affecting, apparently, the whole of the demesne lands of the 

 manor, and all apparently, except the last, granted under the con- 

 ventual seal. The manor and rectory of Purton, together with the 



