ECR 48 061
Reference code
ECR 48 061
Title
Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: Exchequer documents Day v. Blunt
Level
Item
Date
late 1638
Extent & medium
9 folios
Content description
In the Exchequer.
William Day v. Sir Charles Blunt et al., for the recovery of the rights of the Church. 1639.
Michaelmas 1638. Bill to the Barons of the Exchequer of William Day, clerk, vicar of Maplederham, debtor to the crown, for the first fruits of his living and in divers other great sums. About 50 or 60 years ago one Mr Mathewes was presented to the vicarage, and being very negligent of the preservation of the rights of the same, suffered Sir Richard Blunt, Knight, to encroach upon it and take away the glebe lands or a great part thereof, and divert or wholly stop up diverse ways for carts appertaining to the vicarage, and enclose waste and other open ground where the vicars had common of pasture. Mathewes died about 1630 and was succeeded by Mr Smith, who could obtain nothing of Sir Charles Blunt and was forced to sue him, but being poor got nothing thereby. He died (in 1635) and was succeeded by Daniel Collins for one year, who was followed by Day. Sir Charles Blunt by casual and indirect means has got into his hands the original composition or endowment of the vicarage under the seals of the Provost and Fellows and of the vicar, as of other evidences which may set out such lands as are part of the glebes, divers parcels of which he has entered and imparked, defacing the bounds thereof whereby they might be known from the demesnes. He confederates with his farmers, Thomas Martin and Francis Whithill, to refuse to pay any tythes on the manors. The loss to the vicarage is three or four score pounds.
William Day prays for a writ of subpoena to Blunt, Martin and Whithill to answer the foregoing.
William Day v. Sir Charles Blunt et al., for the recovery of the rights of the Church. 1639.
Michaelmas 1638. Bill to the Barons of the Exchequer of William Day, clerk, vicar of Maplederham, debtor to the crown, for the first fruits of his living and in divers other great sums. About 50 or 60 years ago one Mr Mathewes was presented to the vicarage, and being very negligent of the preservation of the rights of the same, suffered Sir Richard Blunt, Knight, to encroach upon it and take away the glebe lands or a great part thereof, and divert or wholly stop up diverse ways for carts appertaining to the vicarage, and enclose waste and other open ground where the vicars had common of pasture. Mathewes died about 1630 and was succeeded by Mr Smith, who could obtain nothing of Sir Charles Blunt and was forced to sue him, but being poor got nothing thereby. He died (in 1635) and was succeeded by Daniel Collins for one year, who was followed by Day. Sir Charles Blunt by casual and indirect means has got into his hands the original composition or endowment of the vicarage under the seals of the Provost and Fellows and of the vicar, as of other evidences which may set out such lands as are part of the glebes, divers parcels of which he has entered and imparked, defacing the bounds thereof whereby they might be known from the demesnes. He confederates with his farmers, Thomas Martin and Francis Whithill, to refuse to pay any tythes on the manors. The loss to the vicarage is three or four score pounds.
William Day prays for a writ of subpoena to Blunt, Martin and Whithill to answer the foregoing.
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