Depositions as to the late abbot of Glastonbury (Somerset) [Richard Whiting] taken...

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1544 Apr 24

Depositions as to the late abbot of Glastonbury (Somerset) [Richard Whiting] taken at Wells (Somerset) before Nicholas Fitzjames esq and John Mawdleyn' gent, king's surveyors.

• Sir Thomas Way, priest, 68, formerly monk of Glastonbury, deposes that he knows of no reason why the late abbot ought to have delivered £100 to Robert Burges, or that he delivered it, and that Robert married a niece of the late abbot. Sir Thomas used to serve the late abbot as his chaplain and often heard the late abbot say that Robert should not lose out due to the costs he had to incur in repairing the decay to his house at Mells (Somerset), and that such costs should be allowed to him;
• Thomas Whyting' of Pilton (Somerset), 63, deposes that Robert Burges married the niece of the late abbot but bestowed nothing upon her or promised anything. However, Robert took a tenement from the late abbot in Mells with two mills which at the time were in great decay, delivered £100 to him and requested that he make the repairs. In so doing, Robert incurred costs of about 300 marks;
• John Gent of Leigh (Somerset), mason, 40, deposes that he worked on the mills and weirs, and that £60 and more was bestowed upon the repairs, and that he made a buttery in the tenement of Robert Burges;
• Thomas Harrys of Mells, carpenter, 50, deposes that the tenement and mills were in great decay, and that for his labour he received £7 from Burges. He also received £10 for repairing the grist mill. William Palmer, mason, received £6 13s. 4d. from Burges for repairing the house and one of the mills and repair to stonework, and £6 for making further repairs to a house, and 40s. for making a mantle;
• Robert Cradok of Nunney (Somerset), carpenter, 70, deposes that he and John Stourton of Nunney, received about £80 from Robert Burges of Mells for making thirteen timber feldes in his tenement at Mells, and for other timber work;
• John Clyves of Cranmore (Somerset), 60, and Walter Clyves of Redlynch (Somerset), 40, depose that they worked as masons on the mill and part of the tenement of Robert Burges in Mells, for which they received £13 in ready money.

The associated interrogatories have not survived.

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