of the said Towns and Hambletts came to be in the severall holdings of the said severall defendants and others who hold the same in Fee Farm of his Majestie, and no severall rates sett upon their severall parts: By reason whereof, and for that there was a difference amongst the said defendants how to apportion the said payments, and who ought to pay the same, The said Pensions of the said Vicar of Silkstone and of the Curate of Cawthorne have been behinde and tinpaide since the said 5 and 20th March 1611, as by the said Bill of Complaint amongst other things therein contayned more at large it may and doth appear, Unto which Bill all the defendants before named made divers joynte and severall answers, By which said answers all the said defendants did submit and yield themselves to paie their proportionable part of the saide pensions and stipends according to the proportion of that they have, saving Matthew Wentworth Esquire [and others] **
"It was ordered and decreed that Commissioners appointed by the Court should apportion the severall rates of payment which those who then held or should thereafter hold the said privie tithes of Cawthorne should for ever thereafter paie, all such somes of money as they should be rated unto by the said Commissioners, to the Curate of Cawthorne for the tyme being. And also that the said Commissioners be authorized to call all the Fee fanners of the said privie tythes of Cawthorne before them, and to conferr and intreate with all the said Fee farmers particulate to that end to draw them to some good Rate and proportion towards the augmentation of the said stipends, to the end to procure a Preacher to be their minister, and what severall augmentation every severall Fee farmer would give out of every severall parte of the said tythes and premises which they do joyntly or severally holde, to the end the same might be certified unto this Court and remain of Record for ever: And it was further ordered and decreed that the Curate of Cawthorne for the tyme being should for ever thereafter be provided and placed by those who for the tyme being should paye the said augmentation which should be paid above the said ancient stipend of Four pounds thirteen shillings four pence, or bysoe many of them as should for the time being paie the greater part thereof, soe
