Reference
OR1007
Title
Letter from Raffe Farrowe to Thomas Tayller, “keeper of my lord’s pastures at Wymington”, and to all “my lord’s tenants” there, in connection with a dispute which has apparently arisen in connection with “the tenth milk” on the advent of the new parson.
Date free text
16 May 1557.
Production date
From: 1557 To: 1557
Scope and Content
“My lord’s receiver” says that the order as to which lord, parson and tenants were all in agreement is “in Roullyd in your courtts”, and this order should hold. But as “my lorde cannot kepe all thyngs in mynd, at his comyng home he wyll speke with my lorde, and yf the newe parson have gottyn anye letter of my lorde for to breke those good orders ..... or to breke anye olde ansyent costome of my lord’s demayne lands, that then Master Receiver wyll speke with my lorde in that behalfe.”
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