The Annals of WillenhallHackwood, Frederick William
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The Annals of Willenhall
Hackwood, Frederick William
Willenhall (Walsall, England)
Wee therefore by verteue of the said Commission dyd award a pcept to
the Sheriffe of the said Countye to somon foure and twentye good and
lawfull men of his Baylywicke to be before Us at Lichfeilde the
xxijth day of Marche laste paste and did also send a precepte to one
Jane Lane Widdow and to Thomas Lane Esquire that claymed intereste in
the pmisses to bee before Us att the same day and place to sett forth
theire and either of theire tytles (yf they had anie) to the said
pmisses att wch daye and place by virtue of the said pcepte to the
sayde Sheriffe dyrected as aforesaid a full Jury dyd appeare and
Councell on the behalfe of Mrs. Lane and the said Thomas Lane dyd
alsoe appear before Us and thereupon wee pceeded to sweare the Jurye
who bringe sworne and chardged to inquire of the pmisses after long
evidence and examinacon of many witnesses on both pts the said Jurors
gave up theire verdicte in such sorte as by an Inquisition hereunto
annexed Sealed and subscribed (wch wee doe herewith all ctyfye unto
yor Lordshippe into the highe Courte of Chancery) maie appear; that
is to say that a pcell of pasture or land called Marchyhills alias
Bessalls in Bentley aforesaid, of ye yeerlie value of fyve pounds,
was before the fourth yeere of Kinge Edward the Sixth given to
Nicholas Hellyn and Richard Whorwood gent., John Podmore Willm Greene
Willm Whitmore and William Podmore and their heires to bee Imployed
to saye devine service in the Chappell of Willenhall aforesaid for
the ease of the Inhabyants there being farre remoote from their prshe
Church of Wolverhampton in the said Countye that the pffits of the
said lands were from Anno quarto of Kinge Edwarde the sixte so
imployed as aforesaid by the space of dyvers yeeres of the said Jane
Lane and Thomas Lane and their Tenants And that the same have been
misemployed by the space of one whole yeere now laste paste and more
all wch pmisses considered wee doe order and decree at Lichfeilde
aforesaid by verteue of the said Comission in manner and form
followinge That is to saie that the said pcell of groundes and all
ye rents revenues yssues and pffitts thereof shall for ever hereafter
bee imployed and bestowed upon and towards the maynetaynance of a
Curate or Chaplyne for the tyme being to saie devine service in the
said Chappell for the ease of the Inhabitants there and that John
Wilkes of Willenhall in the said Countye gent, Willm Flemynge als
Greene of Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, Leonard Tomkis of
Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, John Bate of Willenhall in the
said Countye yeoman, Richard Bate of Willenhall in the saide Countye
yeoman, Willm Baylie of Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, and
Willm Brindley of Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, theire
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