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'A deed to continue the trust':
(i) Ste. Shepherd sr. of Lower Gravenhurst, yeo.
Thos. Hall of Ion, yeo.;
(ii) Wm. Hanscombe of Shillington, gent.;
Wm. Burr jr. of Shillington;
-- the manor of Shephoo;
(recites:-) order made at Bedford 9 August 1613
by commissioners appointed under the great seal
under act of 43 Eliz.c.4 to redress misapplication
of charitable funds; and as a result of inquisition
at Ampthill 9 January 1613
feoffment: 1 December 1613
(i) Jn. Shephard,Wm.Millward,Pet.Lucas of Over Gravenhurst;
(ii) Wm. Whitbread, Jn. Millward, Wm. Field of same;
to the use of Harry Gray, kt., Fra. Ventris, Jn. Osborne,
of Chicksands, Fra. Crawley of Bedford, Hen. Pigott
of Lr. Gravenhurst, Ric. Daniell of Silsoe, Thos.
Shephard of Maulden, Thos. Leventhorpe of Meppershall,
Wm. Whitbread of Ion, Wm. Millward, Pet. Lucas, Jn. Shephard
and Jn. Millward of Upper Gravenhurst; Thos. Field of
Hexton; Ric. Stringer & Wm. Barber of Meppershall;
Thos. Howson and Jn. Hanscombe of Shillington;
to maintain a minister at the free chapel of Upper
Gravenhurst, to repair the chapel and steeple and
bridges, and for such other common town charges as
the inhabitants shall think fit;
feoffment: 14 January 1652/3
(i) Hen. Pygott esq. of Lower Gravenhurst,
Thos. Howson of Shillington, gent.;
(ii) Jn. Shephard of Upper Gravenhurst, yeo.;
Wm. Field of the same, yeo.;
to the use of Jn. Piggott, Wm. Allen sr. & jr.,
Nich. Ansell of Ickleford, Wm. Wheeler sr. & jr. of
Silsoe, Jn. Walker & Wm. Hanscombe of Shillington,
Jn. Shepherd jr., Hen. Shepherd, Thos. Hall, Thos.
Wheeler, Wm. Chester of Upper Gravenhurst, Ste.
Shepherd of Lr. Gravenhurst, Thos. Ansell jr. of
Ickleford, Wm. Daniell of Silsoe, Hen. Dalderne
of Offley;
on trust as before;)
to the use of Wm. Daniell of Silsoe, Ste. Shepherd jr.,
of Hunts., Fra. Mathew and Robt. Hanscombe, Jn. Burrow jr.,
Thos. Coleman, Thos. Fowler, Wm. Hanscombe jr., Shillington,
Hen. Dalderne of Offley, Herts., Jn. Compton of Clophill,
Jn. Hamond, Jn. Shepherd of Pirton, Ric. Lilley, Lr.Stondon,
Chas. Nicholls jr., Hitchin, Ed. Butterfield, Thos. Hayward sr.,
Thos. Downe sr. & jr., Jn. Hayward, jr., of Upper Gravenhurst;
in trust as before;
witn. Chas. Nicholls, Edw. Green, Luke Rogers, Th. Boneham;
seals on tags (2) broken.