Here is a charge of a purchase of three or four good Manors, and two good leases, & both got (for the most part) by the spoil of th'Hospital, except the price of some small Cottage, &c. For the purchase of three or four Manors, I never purchased any Manor in my life but the Manor of Saxmundehā in Suffolk, whereof I have yet but he moiety, nether shall have these fourteen or fifteen years, if one Mr Johnsons lease be available, as hitherto he hath enjoyed it by me: who have not disturbed his possession. The rent that he yieldeth for th'one half of the Demesnes is but xxx. shillings by year. The rent of the demesnes that I receive (although enhanced as far as the Tenant may live thereof) is yet but xxvi. pound by year. Th'other ⟨image 13⟩rents for Copyholds come yearly to a iij. pound or thereabouts, as I remember. So that the whole of that I receive cometh to little above xxx. pound by the year. To purchase this I sold of the inheritance my Father & grandfather left, as fair a house for a farm, not only as is in that town where it standeth, but in divers towns about, which had between eight or nine score Acres of arable land belonging unto it, with commons, meadow & pasture agreeable to the Farms in that country, by year more then three times worth the value that either my father or I received for it, & yet we received between eight and nine pounds yearly of clear rent discharged of all quit rents. That Mr Sutcliffe may the better enquire into it, the Farm is situate in Waddon in the county of Cambridge, seven miles from Cambridge, where I had also a coat with a close adjoining unto it, which I sold when I did sell th'other. Now where he sayeth I purchased my lands with my Hospital, I know not why he should so often term it my Hospital, rather then (as it is truly called) the Hospital of the Right honourable the Earle of Leicester: But this I know and profess constantly, that neither I nor any for me purchased one foot of land since I came to the Hospital: I sold an annuity in fee-simple of xii. pound x. shillings by year since I came thither, as my L. chief Justice of her Majesties common pleas doth well know, before whom I acknowledge a fine: Leases of the Hospital I never made but one only, for which the house & not I received thirty pounds.
Here is a charge of a purchase of three or foure good Mannors, and two good leases, & both gott (for the most part) by the spoile of t'Hospitall, except the price of some small Cottage, &c. For the purchase of three or foure Mannours, I neuer purchased any Mannour in my life but the Mannour of Saxmundehā in Suffolke, wherof I haue yet but he moitie, nether shal haue these fourtene or fiftene yeres, if one Mr Iohnsons lease be availeable, as hitherto he hath enioyed it by me: who haue not disturbed his possession. The rent that he yeeldeth for th'one half of the Demaines is but xxx. shillings by yeare. The rent of the demeines that I receiue (although enhanced as farre as the Tennant may liue thereof) is yet but xxvi. pound by yeare. Th'other ⟨image 13⟩rentes for Copieholdes come yearely to a iij. pound or thereabouts, as I remember. So that the whole of that I receiue cometh to litle aboue xxx. pound by the yeare. To purchase this I solde of the inheritance my Father & grandfather left, as faire a house for a farme, not only as is in that towne where it standeth, but in diuers townes about, which had betweene eight or nine skoare Acres of arrable land belonging vnto it, with commons, medow & pasture agreable to the Farmes in that countrey, by yeere more then three times worth the valew that either my father or I receiued for it, & yet we receiued betwene eight and nine pounds yearely of cleare rent discharged of all quitte rentes. That Mr Sutcliffe may the better enquire into it, the Farme is scituate in Waddon in the county of Cambridge, seauen miles from Cambridge, where I had also a coate with a close adioyning vnto it, which I solde when I did sell th'other. Now where hee saieth I purchased my landes with my Hospitall, I know not why he should so often terme it my Hospitall, rather then (as it is truly called) the Hospitall of the Right honorable the Earle of Leicester: But this I know and professe constantly, that neither I nor anie for me purchased one foote of lande since I came to the Hospitall: I soulde an annuitie in fee-simple of xii. pound x. shillings by yeare since I came thither, as my L. chief Iustice of her Maiesties comō pleas doth wel know, before whom I acknowledge a fine: Leases of the Hospitall I neuer made but one onely, for which the house & not I receiued thirtie poundes.
