Reference
ABCP21-27
Title
Tithe; Samuel Hopkins, vicar, v. Barber;
Date free text
17 Dec.1639
Production date
From: 1639 To: 1639
Scope and Content
copy of recovery, 1583; demandant: John Rechford; tenant: Nicholas Garner: vouchee: Thomas Barber. moiety of Pulloxhill rectory;
rough drafts of documents in case; (2)
extracts from proceedings; (3)
the vicarage of Pulloxhill had 1/3 of the tithes of corn, but defendant alleges that Hopkins ought to receive no benefit thereby. Before the dissolution these came to Dunstable Priory, who leased it to Thomas Wye (who was to pay the vicar £3 6s.8d.). At the dissolution, all tithes came to Henry V111, who granted them by letters patent to (blank); subsequently they came to Trinity College, Cambridge who passed the same in fee simple to Christian Barber (great grandmother of Thomas); she left moieties to her sons Thomas & Robert; then one moiety came to Thomas (father of Thomas Barber), thus to Thomas Barber; the other to Abraham (father of William Barber), thence to Margaret, mother of William, thus to William Barber. (Pulloxhill)
Level of description
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