Catalogue description Short title: Bury St Edmund's School v Goodding. Plaintiffs: The town of Bury St...

Short title: Bury St Edmund's School v Goodding.

Plaintiffs: The town of Bury St Edmund's, by Robert Golding esquire, Robert Mawe, Anthony Payne, Henry Collings, William Coke, Roger Barber, Thomas Downdy, Richard Walker, Thomas Goodriche the elder, Thomas Rocket, Thomas Harmond, Robert Sparke, Francis Mounford, Edward Francys and William Fairecloughe alias Faircliffe , governor of the free grammar school of King Edward VI in Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk.

Defendants: Edward Gooding alias Goodwyn, Robert Knappe, one Stratton widow, John Merrelles, Thomas Lewyer and William Dawes.

Subject: Bill to quiet possession. The chantry of Kirkton alias Shotley with the appurtenances and lands and tenements called Hauslet, Stirpe, Houles, Crowes. Tenements and Cokes situate in Kirkton alias Shotley and in Chelympton alias Chelmson [Chelmondiston], Suffolk, to which the said chantry some time belonging; or parcel of the possessions of the said late chantry held by the plaintiffs in right of the said grammar school, being founded and incorporated by King Edward VI, by his letters patent, by the name of the governors of the possessions, revenues and goods of the free grammar school of King Edward VI in St Edmund's Bury. And also a capital messuage and garden in Shotley, late in the occupation of John Davers, by the endowment and grant of the said letters patent..

Document type: [pleadings].

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