Reference
X180/2
Title
Exemplification of a decree in the Court of Exchequer
Date free text
14 May 1683, 27 June 1683
Production date
From: 1683 To: 1683
Scope and Content
Plaintiff's case:- Charles Leigh exhibited a bill against Thomas Chadd setting forth that James Duporte DD parson and prebendary of Leighton Buzzard, was entitled to the tithes or corn, grain, hay, wool and lambs, and in 18 July 1677 he demised these to Charles Leigh for the lives of the latter, his wife Anne and daughter Alice at £76.13s4d rent per annum; to the vicar £12 per annum. The defendant is owner and occupier of several pieces of land, meadow and pasture in Heath and Reach, and sowed and reaped great quantitites of corn, and had great quantities of grass, and made the same into hay, and carried away all the said corn, grain & hay without setting forth the tenth part therof or making any composition; he also kept several sheep and had great quantities of wool and many lambs. In 1680 plaintiff applied in vain for his tithes.
Defendant's case: - Defendent said that he had about 7 acres in Heath and Reach sown with barley; the tithes wer taken by one John Tayler, who farms them from the plaintiff. He also holds from William Duncombe, gentleman, a messuage with other land and pasture called Nares & Gledlyes within the said vills, but did not set out the tithes, since he understands that the land is tithe-free, having fomerly belonged to Dunstable Priory, passing to the Crown at the Dissolution, and since transferred to William Duncombe.
The case was heard in the Exchequer Court, and on the reading of several ancient records in the Augmentation Office, whereby it appears that the lands did belong to the late dissolved monastery of Dunstable, it was ordered that the plaintiff's bill should be dismissed with costs.
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