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270 THE ANCESTOR Ay^g- Bill (23 July 163 1 ) of Robert Audley of Great Graunsden, co. Hunts, gent. Answer (2 Aug. 163 1) of Thomas Hasslefoote of London, vintner. Concerning a mortgage made by complainant to defendant of part of the lands belonging to his manor of Great Graunsden. Ay^g- Bill (16 June 163 1 ) of William Avery of Byshopps Itchingeton, co. Warwick, gent. Answers (22 June 163 i) of John Tolson, D.D., provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and Robert Forward, a fellow of the same College, and of Edward Ashworth, gent., William Clarke, gent., and William Busby, yeoman. Concerning the customs of the manor of Shennyngeton, co. Glouc. The compt. declares that the provost of Oriel refused to admit him to a copyhold because his mother married one Palmer instead of John Webster, a servant of the College. Richard Compton, who on 3 June 9 Eliz. had a lease for three lives of a messuage and lands in the manor=: Elizabeth Compton deceased The Avery:

Anne Compton

married to Avery before deaths of her father and sister. Died 4 March 1629 William Avery gent, s. and h., compt.

William Palmer

A-^ Bill (21 Nov. 1646) of Ralph Ashe of Chesterfield, co. Derby, mercer, and George Ashe of the same town, butcher, exors. of the will of Godfrey Ashe of Chesterfield, shoemaker, their late brother, on behalf of themselves and of Ellen and Elizabeth and other children, sons and daughters of the testator. Answer (18 Jan. 1646) of Frances Ashe, widow, Anthony Senyor and Francis Alsopp. Alleged concealment by the defendants of the estate of Godfrey Ashe, deceased. The said Godfrey being a widower with the aforesaid children married the said Frances the defendant, who was then Frances Yeald, a widow with children of her own. A2V Bill (16 March 1646) of John Atkins of St. Giles in the Fields, co. Middlesex, an infant, by Robert lies of the same parish, mealman, his father- in-law and guardian. A fragment only concerning the estate of John Banfield of St. Martin's in the Fields, citizen and draper of London, who made a will 22 March 1635, and died within a week of that date, leaving Anne Banfield his widow.