And it is butt an esy cure to kepe, ffor ther ar natt past xx^ti persons
to be yerly howselyd.[326-2]
The parsonage stant be a fresh ryver syde.
And ther is a good markett town callyd Alysham, within ij. myle off the
parsonage.
And the cyte of Norwych is within vj. myle off the parsonage.
And the see is within x. myle off the parsonage.
And if a parson cam now, and warr presentyd, institute, and inducte, he
shuld have by the lawe all the cropp that is now growyng, that was eryd
and sowyn off the old parsons cost, growyng on the parsonage landes now,
as his own good, and all the tyth off all maner graynys off the maner,
londes, and tenantes londes,[326-3] towardes his charges off the fyrst
frutes. And if it ware innyd it war (the crop now growyng)[326-4] worth
his first frutes.
[327-1]He that hath this benefice, and he were a pore man, myght have
lycens to have service be side.
The Beshop ought not to have the valew of this cropp for the arrerages
of the fyrst fruttes that Sir Thomas Everard, last parson of Oxned, oght
to the Bysshop whan he died, for the said Sir Thomas Everard was bond to
the Bisshop in an obligacion for the said frutes, and the said Sir
Thomas Everard, for to defraude the Bysshop and oder men that he owid
mony to, gaff a way his gooddes to serten persons, qwech persons toke a
way the said goodes, and also durres and wyndow of the said parsonage;
and it is though that both the Bysshop and the patron myght take accions
a gayns the said persons.
[Footnote 325-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this
document is shown by the following mutilated endorsement: ‘. . . .
. . . . . . parsonage of Oxnede made xxxj. Julii, A^o xviij^o E.
iiij^ti.’ The first words were doubtless ‘The value of,’ or
something to that effect; but the paper is mutilated.]
[Footnote 326-1: ‘William Paston, Justice, qwan he.’ These words
are a correction, interlined, in the hand of William Paston, the
uncle of Sir John. The text stood originally, ‘And my hosbond and
I whan we.’]
[Footnote 326-2: _i.e._ to receive the sacrament.]
[Footnote 326-3: _Off the maner londes and tenantes londes._ These
words are interlined by William Paston.]
[Footnote 326-4: This parenthesis is an interlineation by William
Paston.]
[Footnote 327-1: What follows is in William Paston’s hand.]
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