ECR 57 079
Reference code
ECR 57 079
Title
Oakley and Clapham, Bedfordshire: Breviate of complaint
Level
Item
Date
26 September 1614
Extent & medium
2 folios
Content description
Documents in the College case, 1638.
Document numbered 7.
Breviate. John Faldoe, gentleman, plaintiff, Humfrey Taylor, William Lavender, defendants.
Complaint that on 26th September 1614 at Clapham in Oakeley the defendants did carry away five loads of wheat belonging to the plaintiff, and five loads of rye, twenty loads of barley, twenty loads of pease and four loads of oats, beinge tythes set forth from the rest of the nine parts, to his damage £100. Trespass proved by Thomas Chamberleyne, John Gidden, John Gale.
Noted Non Culp'.
The plaintiff's title to the rectory impropriate of Oakeley by the Letters Patent of 30th August 1547 and the College lease of 1st August 1613 for 21 years to Faldoe is set out.
The defendants agree that the corn in question is the tythe of corn growing in Clapham, but say that Clapham is not within the parish of Oakeley but is a rectory impropriate and parish of itself, and that the corn is tythe belonging to that rectory. Henry VIII, being seized of the rectory of Clapham by the dissolution of the Priory of Caldwell, granted it by Letters Patent of 30th March 1545 to Henry Awdelye and John Mayenard (recited). The defendants claim under the grant.
From a note in the Augmentation Office, it appears that the error of regarding Clapham as a separate rectory began with a lease of 20 Henry VIII. No such rectory was ever heard of before. There follows the disproof of the defendants' title and proof of the plaintiffs. Clapham was now church but a chapel of ease of Oakeley. The "legier booke" of the Priory of Caldwell and exemplifications of records in the Exchequer and at Lincoln show that Clapham was only a chapel.
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Document numbered 7.
Breviate. John Faldoe, gentleman, plaintiff, Humfrey Taylor, William Lavender, defendants.
Complaint that on 26th September 1614 at Clapham in Oakeley the defendants did carry away five loads of wheat belonging to the plaintiff, and five loads of rye, twenty loads of barley, twenty loads of pease and four loads of oats, beinge tythes set forth from the rest of the nine parts, to his damage £100. Trespass proved by Thomas Chamberleyne, John Gidden, John Gale.
Noted Non Culp'.
The plaintiff's title to the rectory impropriate of Oakeley by the Letters Patent of 30th August 1547 and the College lease of 1st August 1613 for 21 years to Faldoe is set out.
The defendants agree that the corn in question is the tythe of corn growing in Clapham, but say that Clapham is not within the parish of Oakeley but is a rectory impropriate and parish of itself, and that the corn is tythe belonging to that rectory. Henry VIII, being seized of the rectory of Clapham by the dissolution of the Priory of Caldwell, granted it by Letters Patent of 30th March 1545 to Henry Awdelye and John Mayenard (recited). The defendants claim under the grant.
From a note in the Augmentation Office, it appears that the error of regarding Clapham as a separate rectory began with a lease of 20 Henry VIII. No such rectory was ever heard of before. There follows the disproof of the defendants' title and proof of the plaintiffs. Clapham was now church but a chapel of ease of Oakeley. The "legier booke" of the Priory of Caldwell and exemplifications of records in the Exchequer and at Lincoln show that Clapham was only a chapel.
Full extract in hard copy catalogue.
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