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22 Apr 32 Henry VIII (1540)

From: 1539 To: 1540

Henry VIII to Richard Longe, knight reciting grant by Act of Parliament of 28 June 31 Henry VIII (1539) to Richard Longe of the preceptory or lordship of Shyngay alias Synggeye, Cambridgeshire, with all manors, messuages, lands etc., and rectories, advowsons, tithes, oblations etc., view of frankpledge and courts to be held by fifth part of a knights fee and £17..10s..6d per annum - reversion of all said preceptory etc., and all its appurtenances in Shyngay, and 100 named places in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Buckinghamshire, including Hardwick to be held of a whole knights fee and rent of £17..10s..6d per annum as fully and entirely as they were held by William Preston, knight, now prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, or Thomas Dyngley, knight, lately attainted of high treason, late commander of the preceptory no fee to be paid for letters patent Latin

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Henry VIII,
Longe, Richard,
Preston, William,
Dyngley, Thomas

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