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ECR 48 159

Reference code

ECR 48 159

Title

Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: Decree in suit Blount v. Day

Level

Item

Date

17 January 1662

Extent & medium

27 folios

Content description

In Chancery.
Walter Blount v. William Day, concerning Lyster's Hospital.
Decree, at Eye, co. Oxford, by Sir Thomas Rich, baronet, William Barker, Anthony Barker, and Thomas Knight, esquires, and Ambrose Freeman and John Eales, gentlemen, Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal for the execution of the Statute for Charitable Uses of 43 Elizabeth, ordering Walter Blunt to pay the churchwardens of Mapledurham £80 for the arrears of the 2s a week due to the six poor people of Lyster's hospital, and £10 damages for the prosecution of their case. Henceforth the 2s is to be paid weekly according to the endowment.
By an inquistion taken at Henley on Thames on 10 December 1661 before the same, the misuse of the funds of the Hospital had been ascertained (more or less as set out in the letter of Knight to Rich, ECR 48 260).
Copy of the record, examined by Edward Bulstrode, a clerk of the Petty Bag.
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