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A18506 The Charterhouse with the last vvill and testament of Thomas Sutton Esquire. Taken out of the Prerogatiue Court, according to the true originall. Sutton, Thomas, 1532-1611. aut 1614 (1614) STC 5056; ESTC S107783 15,930 54

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said Towne of Hallingbury Bouchers such an house for an Hospital as is immediately before remembred and that the said House should be called The Hospitall of King Iames founded in Hallingbury in the Countie of Essex at the humble Petition and at the onely costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And that the Archbishop of Canterbury that then was and other Reuerend Praelats of this Realm and their Successors in their seuerall Seas the right Honorable Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and such as should succeed after him to be Lo Chancellors or L Keepers of the Great Seale of England the Lord Treasurer that then was those that should succeed in that Office with diuers other select persons both of the Clergie and Laity in such manner as you shall find them set downe in the said Volume of Reports whereunto I referre you were by the said Act of Parliament elected nominated and appointed the first and present Gouernours of the Lands possessions reuenues and goods of the said Hospitall But afterwards vpon more mature deliberation finding this great Mansion of the Charterhouse farre more conuenient for his purpose then that of Hallingburie could bee Hee was an earnest sutor to my Lord of Suffolk to buy that House of him acquainting his Lordship with the change of his minde concerning Hallingburie and his great affection to make the Charter-house his Hospitall To this Petition of his it is not to bee doubted but that my Lord gaue the more ready and willing way because the chiefe end thereof was the glorie of God and the reliefe and comfort of a great number of poore people Long the matter was not debated betweene them but the price being concluded the Bargaine and sale was assured The summe disbursed for this purchase came to thirteene thousand pounds which was paid down in hand before the conueyance was sealed Hauing thus assured the state of this great House to him and his Heyres He makes humble suite to his Maiestie to grant him licence to erect and establish his intended Hospitall and Grammat Schoole and other his godly charitable vses in the said late dissolued Charterhouse as in a more cōmodious place then that of Hallingbury Herevnto the King readily yeelded being graciously affected to so charitable a worke The better therfore to encourage and enable this Heroicall Gentleman to prosequute this good minde to the full perfection it pleased his Maiestie out of his most Royall disposition to grant his Letters patents vnto him thereby authorising him to the vses last mentioned as in his Letters pattents more fully appeareth Now therefore with alacritie this busines goes forwards The Reuerend Father in God George now Arch-bishop of Canterbury Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England Robert Earle of Salisburie Lord high Treasurer of England Iohn the elect Bishop of London Lancelot now Bishop of Ely Sir Edward Cooke Knight cheefe Iustice of the common pleas Sir Thomas Foster Knight one of his Maiesties Iustices of the common plees Sir Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet Atturney generall Iohn Ouerall now Deane of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London George Mountaine Deane of the Collegiat Church of Westminster Henry Thursby Esquire one of the Masters of the Chancerle Geffrey Nightingale Esquire Richard Sutton Esquire Iohn Law Gentleman Thomas Browne Gentleman and the Master of the Hospitall of King Iames founded in Charterhouse within the Countie of Middlesex at the humble Petition and the onely costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire are elected nominated and ordained by the Kings most excellent Maiestie in his Letters Patents granted as aforesaid the first Gouernors of the Lands Possessions Reuenues and Goods of the said Hospitall of King Iames founded in Charterhouse And further power is giuen to the said Gouernours as you may find more at large in the said Letters Patents Herevpon diuers Lands by him formerly purchased are made and past ouer to this Hospitall for maintenance of the poore people there to be relieued Preparation is made for fit lodgings and other necessaries and all things goe onwards with as conuenient speed as may be to the wished end Now for the Readers better information and content it will not be amisse to set downe what Lands they were and in what Counties which were made ouer and annexed by Maister Sutton to the said Hospitall Thus therefore they are named as they follow in order viz. All those his Mannors and Lordships of Southminster Norton Little Hallingbury alias Hallingbury Bouchers and Much Stanbridge in the County of Essex with all their and euery of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoeuer Also all those his Mannors and Lordships of Bastingthorpe alias Buslingthorpe and Dunnesby in the County of Lincolne with their euery of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoeuer Also those his Mannors of Salthorp alias Saltrop alias Haltrop Chilton and Blackgroue in the County of Wilts with their and euery of their rights members and appurtenances and also all those his lands pasture grounds called Blackgroue containing by estimation two hundred acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Blackgroue and Wroughton in the said County of Wilts and also all that his Mannor of Missenden otherwise called the Mannor of Missunden in the Parishes of Wroughton Lydierde and Tregose in the said County of Wilts with all his rights members and appurtenances And all that his Mannor of Elcombe and Parke called Elcombe Parke with the appurtenances in the said County of Wilts Also All that his Mannor of Watlescote alias Wiglescete alias Wiglescete with the appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And also All that his Mannor of Wescote alias Wesete with the appurtenances in the said County of Wilts and also al those his lands and pastures containing by estimation 100. acres of land 60. acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Wiglescote Wroughton in the said County of Wilts and All that his Mannor of Vffcote with the appurtenances in the said County of Wilts and also al those his two Messuages one thousand acres of land two thousand acres of pasture three hundred acres of Meadow and three hundred acres of wood with the appurtenances in Brodehinton in the said County of Wilts And also All those the Mannors and Lordships of Campes alias Campes Castle otherwise called Castle Campes with the appurtenances scituare lying being and extending in the Counties of Cambridge and Essex or in either of them or elsewhere within the Realme of England And also all that his Mannor of Balsham in the County of Cambridge with all singular the rights members appurtenances thereof whatsoeuer And also All those his Messuages and Lands scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Hackuey and Tottenham in the County of Middlesex or in either of them with their and euery of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoeuer which said Messuage was lately purchased of Sir William Bowyer Knight the said Lands in Tottenham