Staffords Case

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1794
Date01 January 1794
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 80 E.R. 595

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Staffords Case

michaelmas, 1609. staffords case. Anno Domini 1266. 51 H. 3. The Parsonage of Laxton, in the county of Northampton, wag appropriated to the Prior and Covent of Finshead and their successors, within which parish the said priory was scituated, not a mile distance asunder, and a vicarage was then endowed, after the said priory being consumed with fire, and their possessions diminished, and they grown exceeding poor, the said vicarage, by Richard the Bishop of Lincoln, Ordinary of the place, primo H. 6. was united, annexed, and consolidated to the said rectory and parsonage, to be holden to the prior and covent, and their successors, and thereby ordained, that they, and their successors, after the death of the then incumbent, should hold the things wherewith the vicarage was endowed in proper use, and they to serve the cure by a secular chaplain, or by one of their own cannons, as by an instrument or deed, bearing date in December, 1422. whereunto the said bishop caused the seal ad causas to be put, appeareth ; in which instrument or deed, these words, videlicet, vocatis omnibus, & singulis de jure in hac parte vocandis, ac servandis, in hac parte omnibus servandis, jurisque ordine requisit. plenitus servat, &c. were contained, as by this deed appeareth, which so continued, and the cure served accordingly, till by the statute of 31 H. 8. by force of their surrender, the premisses, as appropriate, came to the Crown, in such plight, as the prior and covent held, as by the statute appears ; it appeareth upon record in the Exchequer, that upon the suppression, a sallary of 100s. per annum, was allowed to a curate to serve the cure of the said parish-church of Laxton, and that there was not any endowed of a vicarage there, and the same continued till 7 Ed. 6. That the King by letters patents under the Great Seal of England, for money did grant to Sydney and Halswell, their heirs and assignes, totam rectoriam, & ecclesiam nostram de Laxton in comitatu Northampton, cum suis juribus, & pertinetitiis universis, nuper Prioratus de Finshead, &c. Ac unum messuagium, ae omnia terras, prata, pasturas & bareditamenta nostra, cum pertinentiis, modo vel nuper in tenure, sive occupatione Johannis Batchelor, & Richard! Lightfoot in Laxton, dicto nuper Prioratni de Finshead, &c. In as ample a manner as the prior had the same, and as it came to the Crown, from the said patentees...

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