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Remains of an Anglo-Norman Building

receivable from divers lands and tenements with their appurtenances in Suthwark aforesaid by the hands of divers tenants there; and of a third part of one tenement, one acre of land, and one acre of meadow, with the appurtenances, in Suthwark aforesaid, and in Camberwell in the county aforesaid; and that they had issue Edmund Lenthall esquire, and that afterwards the said Margaret died; after whose death the said Roland held the said third part of a third part of the tolls and customs aforesaid, and the third part of the rents of the tenements, land, and meadow aforesaid, for the term of his life, by the law of England; and the reversion thereof, after the decease of the said Roland, belonged to the said Edmund and his heirs for ever; and that afterwards the said Edmund died without heirs of his body; and the said Roland also died seized of such estate as aforesaid; and that John then Duke of Norfolk and George Neville were cousins and next heirs of the said Edmund: that is to say, the said duke was the son of John late Duke of Norfolk, the son of Elizabeth late Duchess of Norfolk, one of the sisters and next heirs of Thomas late Earl of Arundel, brother of the aforesaid Margaret, mother of the said Edmund (Lenthall); and the aforesaid George (Neville) was the son of Elizabeth late Lady Bergavenny, daughter of Richard late Earl of Worcester, son of Joan late Lady of Bergavenny, another sister and heir of the said Thomas late Earl of Arundel. And the jury found that the then Duke of Norfolk was of the age of thirty years and more, and that the said George (Neville) was of the age of seventeen years at the feast of the Nativity of our Lord then last.

The jurors further found that Clement Bysshopp was late seized in his demesne as of fee of one tenement, with a garden adjoining, and the rest of the appurtenances, in the parish of St. Olave in Suthwark, which he held of John Duke of Norfolk, Edward Lord of Bergavenny, and the aforesaid Roland Lenthall knight, by fealty and the rent of 13s. 4d. sterling, payable yearly at the feasts of Easter and Michaelmas by equal portions; and being so seized, that he demised and delivered the said tenement, with the garden and appurtenances, to John Tasburgh, John Stokes clerk, and one Agnes Jenkyn, to have and to hold to the same John Tasburgh, John Stokes, and Agnes, and the heirs and assigns of the said John Tasburgh and John Stokes for ever. By virtue of which demise and delivery the aforesaid John Tasburgh, John Stokes, and Agnes were seized of the said tenement, garden, and appurtenances; viz., the said John Tasburgh and John Stokes in their demesne as of fee, and the said Agnes in her demesne as a freehold tenement; and the jury further found that afterwards the said John Tasburgh and John Stokes, during the continuance of their estate of and in the said