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104 Richard Kyghley, Rauffe Bradshaw, Esq., Robert Kyghley, servant of the said Richard, Rauff Hormeston, gent., William Nayler, James Houghton, and others did reserve and take all the profits of the "Ester boke" of the said benefice, amounting to £30; and further that, by command of the said parson, Rauff Browne of Ince, Hugh Scott, James Sherington, Nicholas Standysshe and James Dolphyn, "persons of cruell demeanor, in ryotous and forceable maner, wyth the nomber of x persons unknowen," entered the glebe lands of the said parsonage, 1st April, 31 Hen. VII. (1540), and did "forceably and rioutously convert and turne the erthe of the said glebe landys, and dothe yett kepe the possessyon" of the same, driving his beasts and cattle into the common highway. He further asserted that the said Richard Kyghley promised to seal an indenture jointly with the patron and ordinary of the said benefice, by reason of which promise the said Ketchyn made diligent suit to Sir Thomas Langton, knight, the said patron, for the sealing and delivery of the said indenture, to the said orator's "grette labour and charge." Sir Thomas Langton perceiving the parson to be content, sealed the said indenture, but when it was delivered to the said Kyghley that he might seal it as his deed, he refused to do so, and further, the said Richard declared that the said John should no longer enjoy the said lease, but should be "put out from exercising the same." In answer to this Richard Kyghley declares that the defendant's bill is untrue, and denies that he, for the assurance of the said lease, promised to seal an indenture jointly with the patron of the said benefice, or that John Ketchyn, by reason of any such promise, made suit to Sir Thomas Langton, the said patron, for the sealing and delivery of such indenture.

This is followed by another bill of complaint by Richard Kyghley, in which he recapitulates all that he had previously stated, and affirms that he made no promise to seal the said indenture, although importuned to do so by Sir Thomas Langton, John Ketchyn, and Robert Hatton. In answer to this. Sir Thomas Langton, knight, John Ketchyn and Robert Hatton