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 92 Tavistock Records. [issi-ss

Attorn ies — Richard Tvvigge and Robert Hollavvay. Wit- nesses — Nicholas Glanvill, Robert Moore, Roger Upcott, John Redstone, Edward Kechynge, John Kechynge the younger. Aug. i. 23 ElizabetJi. [Armorial seals of ffitz and Grylls.]

[1585] John ffytz, esquier, with William Houghton, Nicholas Glandvile, Robert Moore, Edward Denys, Roger Vpcote, Thomas Libbe, Richard Drake, and Thomas Sowton — ' selectid and chosen the eighte men by gen'all assent & consent of the pishe of Tauistock to be Sup- uisors and dispensatours to & for the behouf and vse of the saide Churche & pishe of Tauistock & of the poore people of the same, and also of the lazar and poore people of the hospitall there, namelie for appointinge, doinge, vsinge, dispensinge, and ordringe the yerelie Revenewes pfitts lands tenem*^ goods chattells and other afifares that any waie touche belong or concerne the said Churche & pishe . . . whearas John Batte prior of y*^ hospitall or Lazar howsse of S* marie magdalene and S* Theobald of Tavistock,' and ' the bretheryn and sustern ' by deed 20th August 27 Eliz. leased to Fitz and the eight men — for 1000 years — the mawdelyn Chapell with the chappell haie to the same belonging, also the three closes called the mawdelyn park, with one garden adjoining on the north part of the hospital house, and the east of the lazar lane, now in the tenure of John ffytz or his assigns, and also one meadow called the mawdelyn meade, near the water of Lambourne : In consideration of ^10 for the Relief and mayntenaunce of the lazaars and poore people aforeseid and other purposes expressed in the deed ; also of the increase of more yearly rent for the like use than of old ; also in respect of giving up the old interest and term in the mawdelyn meade,' — the aforesaid eight men, &c., assign to John ffytz the younger, ' sonne and heir apparent of John ffytz,' for 60 years at 33s. 4d. rent, the mawdelyn chapell, chapel haie, mawdelyn parke, and garden north of the hospital house, reserving paths to and from the houses of the hospital or lazaars on the north side of the chappell haie, and against the west end of the house ' lately ' called the mawdelyn chapell. Witnesses — Walter Masters, Robert Harcomb, Richard Glanvill, Edward Lybbe, Thomas Hole, Gregory Gay. Sept. 23. 27 ElizabetJi.

[This is ffytz's counterpart, and bears a seal with the device of a centaur on a shell.]

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