“The money to be paid in hand viz before the xxvi of Maie 1557. The King and Quenes ma.. do dischardge the purchacer of all thinges and incumbraunces made or don by their majesties except leases. The purchacer to have the ’ssues from the fest of Th’ annuncyation of our Lady last past. The purchaser to discharge the King and Quenes majesties of all fees and reprises goying out of the premisses. The tenure in socage. The purchacer to be bound for the woodes. The leade and belles to be excepted. Ex. Willm Petre. Fraunceis Inglefield. Jo Bakere.” These were the closes in Paddington then, which belonged to Lord Sands; and it will be seen by this memorandum, and by the patent, that although this land was considered a part of Chelsea manor, it was no part of Chelsea parish at that time. {39} In 1536, Lord Sands alienated the advowson of Chelsea and his manor of Chelsea to the King, in exchange for other lands. By the words of this transfer, which is printed from the original document in Faulkner’s Chelsea, {40} we find, that the hereditaments conveyed to the King lay “in the parish of Chelcheth aforesaid and Paddington.” And in “A peticular booke of Chelsey manor 1554,” relative to the possessions of Queen Katherine, we find these four closes “in Paddington,” mentioned as having been then let at four pounds per annum, to Henry White. Faulkner speaks of the transfer of the manor of Chelsea to Edward the sixth by the Duke of Northumberland, and of other surrenders backwards and forwards; but neither in his works nor in Lysons can I find anything about Dr. Thomas Hues’ purchase; or one word about his gift to Merton. Neither can I find any notice of this liberal bequest in any of the Histories of the University of Oxford which I have examined. What “arrangement,” then has been come to respecting this property? Are any learned fellows or poor scholars benefitted by this physician’s bequest? Or, is this estate like the other portion of the Lady Margaret’s gift, safely lodged in private hands? I must confess that I am not able to answer these questions. But it would appear that the large and valuable estates bequeathed by the Countess of Richmond and Dr. Hues do not include the whole of the “College Land” in Paddington. Lysons in his Environs, and Chalmers in his History of the University of Oxford, tell us that the Manor of Malurees, “consisting of some houses and about one hundred and twenty acres of land,” situated in the parishes of Willesden, Paddington, Chelsea, and Fulham, was surrendered by Thomas Chichele to King Henry the sixth, who granted it to the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College in Oxford; and this grant has not been wholly lost to this College, for I believe that down to the present day a rent is paid to All Souls for some portion of this land. One of the most important preliminaries to the great Reformation was the institution of a new valuation of church property.