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his wife, and Thomas their son. Agnes and Thomas having died, and William alone surviving, Halse the younger now leases the property in reversion to Trowte on the lives of his daughters Elynor and Jane Trowte, lessee to do service to the courts of Halse in the manor of White- church, and two 'harvest jorneys' yearly on the manor, or paying 8d. at Hals's election. Witnesses — John Rowe, Roger Sowton, William Beele, Gregory Geles. April 20. 44 ElizabctJi.

[Seal of Hals — a death's head, with motto AD VITAM VIA MORS.]

[1602] Lease by John Skawen, William Grylls, Walter Masters, William Kedlie, John Gove, Peter Edgcombe, and John Moore, gentlemen, Walter Trowte, William Burges, and Mathew Edgcombe, pyshioners of the pyshe of Tavis- tocke. Whereas John Bate, late pryor of the Maudlin and the bretheren and sistren, did Aug. 20, the 'seaven and twentieth yeare of the moste happie Raigne of oure Dreade Soveraigne Ladye Elizabeth,' grant, &c., for looo years a little tenement & garden in fiford St. in tenure of Marten Roundall and other properties : Since when John ffytz, William Houghton, Nicholas Glanvile, Edward Denys, Roger Vppcott, Richard Drake, & Thomas Sowton died — and Robert Moore & Thomas Lybbe ' them overly ved, whoe enioyed the whole pmissis by waye of surviuorshippe,' and upon request of the churchwardens did Sept. 10, 42 Elizabeth, set over to the above, with Richard Brewen and Walter Kedlie, deceased : Now these feoffees, in con- sideration of ^3 paid them by John Nycholls, of Tamerton ffollyett, professor of physicke, being the Arrearages of an Incombe and certn Rents formerlie due for thaforesaid tenement, &c., now or late in the occupation of Walter Palmer, grant a lease of the same to the said John Nycholls, on the lives of William Nycholls, Thomas Nycholls, and Katheren Nycholls, his children. Wit- nesses — Nicholas Watts, Samuel Sumpter. Signed 'John Nicolls.' July 10. 44 Elizabeth.

[1603] Lease by Charles Grylls and Thomas Lybbe, gentlemen, of messuage and garden upon the Cause in the West street, to William Gawde, of Berefferrers, on the lives of his sons Richard, Thomas, and George, £\ being paid in consideration to Nicholas Harry and Gregory Hamlyn, churchwardens. Witnesses — Robert Moore,

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