[255] Public Record Office. Particulars for Grants, 10 Jan., 37 Hen. viii. Sir William Paget.
Request to exchange (1) [lined through]. Lands appointed unto the King by Sir Will. Paget, viz., farm of the manor or late hospital of Kepeyere (Durham); (2) [lined through] in exchange for farm of the manor of Nantwich; farm of the demesne of Burton-on-Trent with site of the late college, and the demesne lands pertaining.
[Kepier is described in the Aug. Off. Misc. Book, 400, as being in the county of York: it is in Easington Ward, co. Durham. The Hospital there was surrendered and granted to Sir William Paget 36 Hen. viij.]
[256] Cf. supra, pp. 158, 168.
[257] William Scudamore was John Scudamore’s son. He acted as Clerk to Robert Burgoyn, one of the Commissioners for Northamptonshire, etc. (cf. Wright’s Letters, p. 281).
[258] i.e., never.
[259] John Lambert had held this office under the Abbey at the time of Valor Ecclesiasticus (cf. supra, p. 90).
[260] The details of the expenses incurred by Goodrick and Scudamore in the journey from London to Burton and back are most interesting, showing as they do the cost of meals, etc., at the various places where they stayed. It may be compared with the “book of accounts” of Lenthall, auditor of the attainted lands, in his journey from London to the North in 1541. (Letters and Papers, xvi, 1490.)
[261] One of Cromwell’s men was named Thomas Palmer (cf. Letters and Papers, xiv, Pt. I, 1039, 1060).
[262] Brickhill is near Fenny-Stratford.