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Charles, Lord Stourton, fyc. 



shipes. Writen at Bonham the laste day of Julij by yo r Lordeshippes to 

 coraaunde 



Roger Basyng, Rychard Samwell, John Dyer, Roger Mawdley, 

 Baenabe Lye, John Owen, Wylliam Stacy. 



William Lord Stourton's Will was once more brought before the 

 Court of Chancery and again Bishop Gardiner decided in favour of 

 Charles Stourton. Mr. Chafyn of Mere was a debtor, in the sum 

 of £40, to the estate of the testator. Agnes Ryce claimed it as 

 part of the personalty. Mr. Chafyn paid, or pretended to have 

 paid it to her, and producing her receipt as a discharge, refused to 

 pay it to Charles Stourton, who thereupon filed a bill. In the 

 Decree, November 1553, the Chancellor pronounced Chafyn and 

 Agnes Ryce to have been guilty of covin, or deceitful compact, 

 and condemned Chafyn to pay the debt to Charles Lord Stourton 

 together with all the costs of the suit. 



The Decree was as follows : — 



(No. 25.) 18th Nov., 1553. Decree in Chancery, Lord Stourton and Thomas 

 Chaffyn.* 



Where matter in variaunce hath longe dependid in this honorable Courte of 

 Chauncery betwene the honorable Charles Stourton Knyght Lord Stourton, 

 playntyf and admynyster of the goodes and catalles of Wilim late Lord 

 Stourton his father deceassed on thone partie, and Thomas Chaffyn of Mere in the 

 countie of Wilt gent, defend' on thother partie, for and concerning a certen debte 

 of £lxxx due by the said Thomas Chaffyn unto the said Charles Lord Stourton 

 uppon an obligacon wherein the said Chaffyn stode bounden unto the said 

 William Lord Stourton for the payment of the said foure score poundes ; *** It 

 manyfestly appered unto the said Courte by dyvers witnesses brought in on the 

 behalf of the said Lord Stourton complaynaunte, that the said sume of fourescore 

 poundes ought to be paide unto the said complaynaunt as administratour of the 

 gooddes and cattalles of the said William Lord Stourton his father as is afore- 

 said, and albe it in the aunswere of the said defendaunte it is alledged that the 

 said obligacon or dede obligatorie was delyvered by the said William Lord 

 Stourton father of this complaynaunt to thandes of one Willm. Hartgill safely 

 to be kepte to thuse of one Agnes Rise, to whome as it also is alledged in the 

 said aunswere of the said defendaunte the said obligacon or dede obligatory 

 was by the said William Lord Stourton by his last will and testament gyven, 

 yett forasmoche as the said Charles Lord Stourton bathe disproved and made 

 voyed the said supposed will of his father by sentence diffynytive, and for that 

 also that it appered to this honorable Courte by dyvers wittenesses brought in 

 on the part and behalfe of the said Charles Lord Stourton that the said Chaffyn 

 confessed the debte and became debter unto the said Charles Lord Stourton for 

 the said foure score poundes, though here in this Courte the said Thomas 



* Judgment Rolls, Court of Chancery, 5th part, Philip and Mary, Article 72. 



