Indenture of demise by William, abbot of Clyve (Cliva) and the convent of the same,...

Indenture of demise by William, abbot of Clyve (Cliva) and the convent of the same, to George Prous and Joan his wife, and John, Hugh, William, Joan and Thomas, their children, for the term of their lives in survivorship, of their grange in Crowdon, with its appurtenances and the wood adjacent in the parish of Oldeclyve, which John Prous, of Crowdon, held before, oak and ash excepted, and also of the tithe of sheaves to the grange belonging, at a rent of 3l. for the grange, 26s. 8d. for the tithe of sheaves, and 10s. 4d. for small tithes (decimis minutis); they shall find dinner and supper (prandium et cenam) at the grange once a year for the abbot and twenty men, secular and regular, in attendance on him, between Michaelmas and the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle; they shall have 'housbote haybote fyrebote and ploughbote' to the value of 40s.; they shall keep the house, etc. in repair; they shall do suit of court of the manor of Oldeclyve twice a year; they shall give their best beast for heriot; and they shall do suit to the lord's mill at Wayschford; attorneys to deliver seisin, Henry Dovell and John Stone. Witnesses, Baldwin Malet, esquire, William Gebyns, Thomas Hie. Somerset. 24 May, 9 Henry VIII. Note at foot: 160a. land, 24a. wood, 12a. meadow.