Counterpart of demise, 23 August, 14 Henry VIII, by William, abbot of Cleffe, and...

Counterpart of demise, 23 August, 14 Henry VIII, by William, abbot of Cleffe, and the convent of the same, to Barnard Dovell, of Olde Cleffe, and 'Johane,' his now wife, for the term of their lives in survivorship, of two corn mills 'without the abbaye yate of the said Monasterye,' with a 'Mille house,' 'the Fysshe ponde,' with a garden beside it, 'a pece of the long medowe,' containing 3a. on the south of the mill, a close called 'the Myllers More,' lying 'a long as the fysche ponde of the saide monasterye goith,'with a garden adjoining, and three cottages, all 'sett and lyeing in Waschesford 'in the parish of Olde Clyffe; also of a close called 'Lyngosse close,' which 'one Lyngosse' held, two closes called 'Sextons closes otherwise called Fowlebrige,' and the reversion of a cottage in Wasshesford' wherein Agnes Dovell moder to the said Barnard nowe dwellith,' and with 'the Perche close,' 'Sextons close,' 'too furse closes,' 'Mestowe' close, 'Morlese' close, and meadow called 'Vernaker medowe' which the said Agnes holds for life; rent, 4l., and after the death of the said Agnes 26s. 8d. more; the premises shall remain after the death of Barnard and 'Johanne' to his 'eldyst issue male' surviving, for life, at the same rent, or in default to 'suche issue female' as he 'shall happen to have one lyeff,' for life, with reversion thereafter to the abbot and convent; 'too of the best bestes' to be paid 'in name of a relieffe'; further the abbot and convent grant to the said Barnard and Johanne, 'and to one of the childreyn of the said Barnard which shall happe to be in the said remayndre lxxx fote of grounde in lenght and forty fote of brede of grounde next adjoyneng to the grete Oke which standith and growith by the highwaye ayenst the said milles to thentent that they may ther at their pleasure edifie a shamelse apon the same'; rent, 8d.; attorneys to deliver seisin, George Michell and Thomas Hye. Somerset.

Memorandum indented annexed with covenants by the abbot and convent that their tenants shall continue to do suit to the mills, etc. Endorsed: Irrotulatn inter Memoranda de anno sexto regis Edwardi sexti. Somerset.