and graunted to the maister and scolers of the same college and their successours, for their exhibicion and sustentacion, the manors of Malketon, Melreth, and Beache, with dyvers londs, tenements, rents, reversions, and services, in Malton, Melreth, Beache, Whaddon, Knesworth, Hogyngton, Orwell, and Baryngton, in the countie of Cambrigge; the maner of Ditesworth with th'appurtenaunces, with divers londs and tenements in Ditesworth, Kegworth, Hathern, and Watton, with the advousons of the churches of Malketon, Kegworth, and Sutton de Bonyngton, in the countie of Leycester, and the manor of Roydon in the countie of Essex, to have to theym and their successours for evermore; and also obteyned license to the same maister and scolers and their successors, to appropre to them and their successours the saide church of Malketon, and also the churches of Fendrayton, Helpeston, and Navenby, as in the same lettres patents more playnly apperith; which churches. of Malketon, Fendrayton, and Helpeston, we have causid actually to be impropried, by assent and consent of the ordynaries and of all other havyng therin interest, unto the same maister and scolers and their successours, aftir due forme and processe of the lawe in that parte requisite: also we have, by the Kyng's licence, and by auctoritie, assent, and consent, of the ordinary and of all other having interest, united, annexed, and appropried for ever the parisshe churche of Manberer in Wales, within the diocese of Seynt David, to the said maister, scolers, and their succesItem, we have, by the Pope's auctoritie and the King's special graunte and licence, yeven unto the same maister, scolers, and their successors, the abbey of Creyke in the diocese of Norwich, with the purtenances, which was in the King's hands as dissolvyd and extincte. All which maners, londs, and

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tenements, and other the premisses, we late purchased and provided to the same entent: and will therfore and specially desir and requyre the said maister and scolers and their successours, to cause and see our foundacion of our said college to be truely observed and kepte, according to the statuts and ordynances by us therof made, and to be made, and according to our will, mynde, and entent, as they will therfore answere bifore Almighty God at the dredefull daye of fynall jugeament. And also we specially desire and requyre our executors and every of them, that they, according to the confidence and truste that we have putt in them and in every of them, to see and cause, as ferr as in theym is or shalbe, saide 111 daily masses to be said and doon, and the anniversary, with the said lights, distribucion of almes, to be holden and kepte, and the said converse to be provided and kepte in the said monastery, and the said annuities to be truely content and paid to every of the said reders and prechars, according to our will, mynde, and entent, aforesaid; and also to see and cause the maister and scolers of the said college called Crist's College, to be orderid, rewlid, and governed according to our saide will, mynde, and entent, and according to the said statuts and ordinaunces; and also to see and cause all our testament and last will to be truely executed and performyd in every behalf, as they will answer before Almighty God at the dredfull daie of finall jugement. And also we, in moost humble and hertie wise, praye and beseche the said King our Soverain Lord and moost deere Son, for the most tendre and singular love that we bear, and would have born to hym, to see and cause our said will therein, and in all other things, to be truely executed and performed.

And whereas we the said Princesse, by our deede bering date the first day of Aprill last past the xx

yere of the reigne of our most dere Sonne King Henry the VIIth, have enfeoffed the right reverend Fader in God John Bisshop of Rochester, Hugh Bisshop of Excester, and other, of and in our maners of Maxey and Torpell in the countie of North', to have to theym and their heyres, upon confidence thereof to performe our last will; and whereas the said Bisshoppes and their cofeoffez sithen that, at our speciall request and desire, have divised and graunted to William Ratcliff, David Cecile, and Thomas Williams of Stamford a felde, and a close by side Crakelolme late in the tenure of James Mandesley, within the Lordship of Maxey, to have and to holde to theym and to their assignes, during the lif of Margaret White, anchores in the House of Nones beside Stamford; to th'use and entent that the same William Ratcliff, David, and Thomas, and their assignes, shall take and dispose th'issues and profitts therof to and for the exhibucion and fynding of the said anchores, and of a honest woman to attende upon hir during her lif. And also we have geven and graunted to our servant Edithe Fowler late the wif of Thomas Fowler, widow, certyn parcells of the said manors, londs, and tenements, to the yerely valow by estimacion of xli. And also we have geven and graunted to our servant Elizabeth Massey divers other parcells of the said maners, londs, and tenements, to the yerely valow, by estimacion, of vi li. XIII. Id. And also to our servant Richard Stukley and Margarete his wif, to the lenger lyver of theym, certeyn other parcells of the saide maners, londs, and tenements, to the yerely valow, by estimacion, of I li. And also have geven and graunted to our servant Henry Ludley certeyn other parcels of the said maners, londs, and tenements, to the yerely valow, by estimacion, of as by their severall graunts therof more playnly apperith. All which dimises and graunts made by the

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said Bisshopps and other their co-feoffez to all the said persones, we the saide Princesse, by our severall deeds sealed with the seale of our armes, have ratified, approved, and confermed, as in the same deeds more playnely apperith. And for the further suertie of the parties to whom the saide graunts and confirmacions be made, we will and declare, by this our present testament and last will, that all and every of the same persones have and enjoye severally all the said londs and tenements conteyned and specified in the same graunts and confirmacions, according to the tenors and effects of the same. And we in most humble wise praye and beseche the King our Soverain Lorde and most deere Son to give his gracious assente to the same; and to suffre them, and every of them, to have and enjoye the same, according to our saide will, mynde, and entent. Item, we will, that our executors, assone as they convenyently maye aftir our decesse, doo make, or cause to be made, in the chapell there as our body shalbe interred, a convenyent tombe by their discrecions; and oon aulter, or 11, in the same chapell, for the said 11 chauntery masses there perpetually to be said at the howres and tymes and with all suche prayers and observaunces as is afore rehersed.

Item, where we have licence of the said King our most deere Son, by his lettres patents graunten unto us and our executors, to establishe and founde a perpetuall chauntery of oon preest in the college of Wymborn, and to geve to hym and to his successors londs and tenements to the yerely [value] of xli; We will, that if we founde not the said chauntery in our lif, that then our executors, assone as they convenyently maye aftir our decesse, shall establish and founde the same chauntery of oon perpetual preest in the same college, there to kepe contynuall residence and to teche frely gramer. And we will, that all the

londs and tenements called Fosters, which be purchaced in Currey-Revell, which be of the yerely valow of vinili., be sold by our executors to pay our detts or last will, and to be disposid in charitable works of pitie and mercy for the wele of our soule.

And whereas we the said Princesse, in the tyme of the reigne of King Edward the IIIIth, obteyned his Lettres Patents of licence to put in feoffament, and by reason of the same licence dide put in feoffament, our maners of Martok, Currey-Ryvell, Kyngesbury, and Quene-Camell, in the same countie of Somerset, with the hundred of Bulston, Abdike, and Horethorn, in the same countie, and our bourghes of Samford Peverell, and the hundreth of Allerton, with th'appurtenances, in the countie of Devon, to Robert bisshop of Bathe, Sir Raynold Bray knyght, and others, to have to theym and their heyres, to th'use and entent therof to performe our last will; which Bisshop and his cofeoffes, by reason of the licence which the said King our Soverain Lord and most deere Son graunted unto theym at our desire by his lettres patents the vith yere of his reigne, made astate of all the said maners and other the premisses to Richard bisshop of London, and Richard Skipton clerke, to have to theym and their heyres in fee; which bisshop and Richard Skipton, by reason of the same lettres patents, made astate of all the same maners and other the premisses to the right reverend fader in God Richard than bisshop of Excester now Bisshop of Wynchester, Elies Daubeney of Dawbeney knyght, William Smyth than deane of Seynt Stephens nowe bisshop of Lincoln, Thomas Lovell knyght, William Hodie knyght, and Richard Emson, yet lyving, and other decessed, in fee, to th' entent therof to performe our last will; by vertue wherof the said bisshop of Wynchester and his cofeoffez be thereof seasid in fee to the same use and entent: We the said Princesse will and declare by