[722] Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., vol. xix.
[723] For the St. Johns, see pp. 362 and 380. For Sir John Yorke, pp. 285 and 381, and Selden Society, Court of Requests, Inhabitants of Whitby v. Yorke, 1553: “Be yt remembred that the cause brought before the Queen’s Counsaill in her Majestie’s Court of Requests.... Ys now ordered by the saide Councill by thagreement of the saide Syr John who hathe promised that the saide parties aforenamed, and every one of them, shall have and quietly eujoye theyr tenements and holdings during the yeres and termes in theyr leases and copies yet enduring, paying theyr Rentes and ffermes accustomed.” For Lloyd and the tenants of Hewlington in Denbighshire, see pp. 302–303.
[724] S. P. D., Ch. I., cccxlii., No. 47.
[725] Ibid., cccxiv., No. 29, and Appendix I., No. VIII.
[726] Ibid., cccclxxv., No. 72.
[727] Ibid., cccciv., No. 142.
[728] S. P. D., Ch. I., cl., No. 7.
[729] S. P. D., ccclxi., No. 15: “There are many thousand acres of heath and barren commons in England and Wales, not annually worth 6d. an acre, to which your Majesty has right of soil but no benefit thereby, which may be improved to a great value, cause plenty of provision, enrich many thousands, supply the poor.”
[730] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Modern Times, Part I., pp. 112–119.
[731] 39 Eliz., c. 2.