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A30253	A case concerning the buying of bishops lands with, the lawfulness thereof and the difference between the contractors for sale of those lands, and the corporation of VVells, ordered, Anno. 1650, to be reported to the then Parliament / with the necessity thereof, since fallen upon Dr. Burges.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5670; ESTC R11486	85,757	85

one of the Burgesses of the same City or Burrough to be our true and lawful Atturnies for us and in our names to treat contract and agree with the Honorable Committee of Contractors for the sale of all Bishops lands within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of VVales for the purchasing of the Inheritance of the Royalty of the Liberty of the City or Burrough of VVells as also of the hundred of Wells and VVells-Forum and the two Fairs of Priddy and Binegar within the said Hundred Hereby ratifying confirming and allowing all and whatsoever our said Atturnies or any two of them shall do for us in the premises In witness whereof we have set our Seal of Maioralty of the said City the fourth day of December in the 23 yeer of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charls by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Kings Defender of the Faith c. And in the yeer of our Lord 1647. Thomas Salmon Maior Barthol Cox Tho. Jones VVilliam Baron VVill. VVest Richard Casbeard VVill. Smith Robert Hill Robert Thomas John Web. Hugh Merefield William Hiat Robert Hurman Robert Hole William Atwel Joseph Gallington Joseph Plummer Josias Cook This Letter of Attorny which inabled any two of the therein named Attornies to Contract being received one of them adventured single upon the work and Contracted as followeth Die Mercurii 15 Decem. 1647. AGreed with the Contractors for the Purchase of the Royalties of Wells and Wells forum in the County of Somerset Welby Contract mentioned in the Particular thereof delivered in under the hand of the Register and also for the Bayliff-wick of the Town and Forum of Wells aforesaid with all and singular the Fairs Markets Clerkship of the Market and Profits thereof and all other things to the said Bayliff-wick pertaining And also for the Office of Stewardship for the Town of Wells aforesaid and all Profits and Advantages thereunto belonging mentioned also in the said Particular at the rate of Twenty Years Purchase for the present improved yearly values of all the said premises amounting in toto to the sum of nineteen pounds and ten shillings in Possession And for an improvement of value upon the said Bayliff-wick after the determination of three Lives in being at the rate of four yeers Purchase for the said increase of value being five pounds thirteen shillings and four pence in Reversion I say agreed accordingly on the behalf of the Corporation of Wells Per me John Casbeard This Contract so refers to the first Particular that without sight of that no man can say punctually what was purchased but rather what not was purchased till that particular be produced And whereas the Contract mentions the Bayliff-wick to be but 5 l. 13 s. 4 d. improvement after three Lives in being it agreeth not with the Survey which saith it is 40 l. per annum This Contract lay as the Contractors thought sleeping from the 15 of December till the 15 of March following In which time the Agents of Wells slept not for they being told by somebody that if they could but get the first Particular out of the Registers hands and draw up and return another in the room they might get much more into their Purchase and Conveyance then they had indeed Contracted for Which some imployed in this Purchase accordingly did And in room of the first Particular the Particular here following without any new Contract or warrant from the Contractors was thrust in and brought to the Contractors March 15. to signe The Contractors being by Ordinance of Parliament to look no further then to the Registers hand affixed to the Particular for their Warrant to signe the Contract made thereupon they then used not to have the whole read again but onely the sums for the Purchase to be paid how much in Possession and how much in Reversion and how many yeers Purchase for both Which done they signed it and gave their Warrant to the Trustees for passing a Conveyance accordingly The last Particular which the Contractors signed in March 1647. ran thus Parcel of the Possessions of the late Bishoprick of Bath and Wells Com. Somers The last partilar for the Corporation THe Royaltie of the City or Burrough of Wells and of the forraine Fee Bayliff-wick or Hundred of Wells commonly called Wells and Wells Forum with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereof in the County of Somerset together with the said Hundred And also the Courts and Courts of Record or Court and Courts of Pleas Hundred Courts Views of Frank-Pledge and whatsoever to view of Frank-Pledge appertaineth Court Leets Courts Baron and other Courts to be holden from three weeks to three weeks or otherwise holden or to be holden from time to time within the City or Burrough of Wells and the Liberties thereof or within the Hundred of Wells and Wells Forum aforesaid Together with the Guild Hall and the ground and soil thereof wherein the said Courts are usually holden And the prison or prison House thereunto adjoyning And all Fines Issues and amercements requisites and profits as well at the said Courts and every of them as at the Sessions of the Peace holden from time to time at the City or Burrough of Wells aforesaid And also all Fines for License of Alienation and post-Fines and all other Fines Forfeitures Issues and Amercements at the Assizes or elsewhere before whatsoever Judge or Justices either in the High Court of Chancery the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas or of Exchequer due and payable or happening from time to time to be due and payable by any person or persons within the County of Somerset aforesaid And also the Bayliwick and Office of Bayliff of Wells and of the Hundred of Wells and Wells-Forum aforesaid And of the said Liberty of the said Bishop of Bath and Wells within the said County of Somerset And also full Power and Authority to keep the aforesaid Courts and every of them and the accustomed Writs and Process of the aforesaid Courts and Courts of Record to be from time to time issued and awarded To bear Test in the name of the Maior of the said City or Burrough for the time being successively And to be kept by the Maior or Recorder or by the Steward of the said Maior Masters and Burgesses of the said City or Burrough and their successors for the time being and such other Officers of the said Maior Masters and Burgesses and their successors for ever to be from time to time attendant upon the said Courts and to serve and execute the Writs and Processes of the said Courts and other matters and things in the said Courts as were usually attendant in and upon the said Courts in the time of the late Bishops there And also power to distrain for all sums of mony due and payable for or by reason of the said premises And all other remedies and means for the having receiving levying or enjoying the premises or any

the fifth of April 1649. to be then read and also to be read the eighth of May 1650. before the said Committee without any alteration so far as I can remember and then Ordered to be Reported to the Parliament unless c. as in the said Order And on the 20th instant offered to the Commissioners for removing Obstructions to be proceeded upon Edw. Noel That he had Warrant for this Endorsement beside the Command of the present Commissioners further appears by the Books of that Committee of Parliament kept by the said Mr Noel wherein is entred this following Remembrance Die Jovis 5 April 1649. COlonel Harvie delivered in his Report concerning the Contractors and the Town of Wells according to former Order of this Committee which Report was read On which day this Order also was made and after sent to Wells Die Jovis 5 April 1649. At the Committee of Parliament for removing Obstructions in the Sale of Bishops Lands UPon hearing the business the 27 of February last between the Town of Wells and the Contractors for Sale of Bishops Lands And upon the Confession of John Casebeard Agent for the Town then present it appeared That both the Contract signed by the said Casebeard in behalf of the Town and the last Particular drawn up without Warrant by which the Contractors were surprised and the State abused do refer to the first Particular upon which the Contract was made which first Particular was taken away by Casebeard and others from the Contractors and will not now be found It is therefore Ordered that the said John Casebeard and Thomas Salmon the then Mayor of Wells be forthwith summoned to attend this Committee within ten days after notice hereof in Sir Edward Bruncards House in the old Palace at Westminster And there produce the said first Particular upon which the said Contract was made and to shew by what Deputation from the Town and by vvhat VVarrant the last Particular afterwards offered to and signed by the Contractors vvas drawn up and signed after the first Contract made And hereof they are not to fail By this it is evident how unwilling the Committee of Parliament vvas to use extremity in hastning a Report to the House in that they vvould not so much as then Order the Report to be made to the Parliament but only summoned two Agents of the Town to appear before themselves to give Account of their miscarriages thereby intending to awaken the Town to make satisfaction by a Reconveyance vvithout further trouble John Casebeard and Thomas Salmon being served vvith the Order of Summons Mr Salmon procured a Letter of Attorney from the Corporation vvhich ran thus Letter of Atturney from the Town the 24. of April 1649. KNow all men by these presents That we the Mayor Masters and Burgesses of the City or Burrough of Wells in the County of Somerset by this present Writing indented have constituted ordained and appointed And by these presents do constitute ordain and appoint our Trusty and vvell beloved friends Thomas Salmon one of the Magistrates of the said City or Burrough and Justice of Peace within the same Robert Morgan another Magistrate of the said City or Burrough William Smith one of the capital Burgesses of the same City or Burrough and John Casebeard Gent. or any three or two of them to be our true and lawful Atturneys for us and in our names to appear before the honourable Committee for removing of Obstructions in the Sale of Bishops Lauds And with them for us and in our names to Answer to vvhat shall be objected against us by the said Contractors of the said Lands for the purchase of certain Royalties and Liberties contracted for with them for or concerning the said Purchase by us or our Agent or Agents As also to treat compound and finally to end and determine any Controversies Suites or demands arising or which may arise by reason of the same Purchase so far forth and in as ample manner as though vve vvere personally present Ratifying confirming and allowing all and vvhatsoever our said Attorney or any three or two of them shall do for us in the premises * * This Letter of D●putation was exhibited to the Doctor and a Copy left with him which was examined by two VVitnesses with the Original one of which was a publike Notary In witness whereof We the said Mayor Masters and Burgesses have hereunto set our common Seal the 14 day of April in the yeer of our Lord God 1649. And to the other part thereof remaining with the said Mayor Masters and Burgesses the said Thomas Salmon Robert Morgan William Smith and John Casebeard have set their Hands and Seals the day and yeer above written Upon this Mr Salmon and Mr Morgan came to London But both the Contractors and the Committee of Parliament then told them that now they must apply themselves to Doctor Burges Purchaser of the Mannor of Wells and reconvey to him vvhat they had so unduly gotten into their Conveyance and which he had now both bought and paid for And here began the first business between the Doctor and that Corporation For Mr Salmon hereupon came to Dr Burges and made agreement with him according to what had been agitated in and declared by the said Committee of Parliament and desired it might be put into vvriting promising that he and Mr Morgan would sign it When the Agreement was drawn up Mr Salmon and Mr Morgan came again to the Doctor who read over the whole unto them and no exception was taken to it Only Mr Morgan desired that whereas the Paper then read mentioned a Deed to be afterwards sealed by the Corporation to Dr Burges as it should be advised and prepared by his Counsel according to that present Agreement that before sealing it might be perused by Lislibone Long then Esquire now Knight and Recorder of London not to alter the Agreement but to satisfie the Corporation that the Deed was according to their then present Agreement To this the Doctor innocently but improvidently yeelded and so in the issue all came to Nothing The Agreement was this WHereas the Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrough and City of Wells in the County of Somerset have bought sundry parcels of the possessions of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells which are mentioned to be sold unto them by the Trustees for the Sale of Bishop Lands or by five or more of them in and by one Indenture bearing date the 22 day of March Anno Dom. 1647. And vvhereas Cornelius Burges of London Doctor in Divinity hath likewise bought sundry other parcels of the Possessions of the late Bishoprick of Bath and Wells which are mentioned to be sold unto him by the said Trustees or by five or more of them in and by one other Indenture bearing date the 24 of March 1648. Now for as much as by reason of some vvords and expressions in the said Indentures sundry differences and Suites may possibly arise