acres more or less to the above Trustees, "to have and to hold to the use and behoof of the Minister of Cawthorne for the time being and the succeeding Ministers incumbent there from time to time for ever, for their better support and livelihood and maintenance, such interest estate and termes for years as the said tenant George Dixon hath being reserved, which rents shall at all times hereafter be employed to the uses and purposes above mentioned."
A memorandum on the back states that the tenant on lease, "George Dixon, did attorney to Willm Greene for and on behalf of himself and the other feoffees by the payment of six pounds of attornment"—this attorning being the professing of a lessee to become the tenant of the new owner.
For this nine acres of land left in trust for the Living, the Incumbent seems never to have received more than the six pounds a year for which it happened at the time to be let on lease to this George Dixon. This six pounds is now among the payments made to the Vicar by the owner of Cannon Hall, to whose estate these closes have by negligence, as it would seem, become annexed,
There is something told of the Barnabas Oley, B.D., who left the Living the tithes of the Rowleys (Rough-leys) at Jowit-house, in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. As a composition for this, Mr. John Stanhope used to pay sixteen shillings, and Mr. John Lindley, one pound: but the said Tithes having been commuted, a Rent Charge in lieu thereof has been awarded and apportioned, by which the said John Spencer Stanhope, Esquire, now pays the sum of one pound, and, by the subsequent purchase of the above property of John Lindley, the further sum of one pound and five shillings annually. (Terrier of 1873.)
This Barnabas Oley, B.D., who was born at Kirkthorpe nr. Wakefield, where his father was Vicar, was turned out of his Fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, and the Vicarage of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, April 4, 1644. Some time before this he had led the party which conveyed the Plate and money gathered in Cambridge for the King. "At the same time that he was turned out of his fellowship, he was also plundered. As for his Vicarage of Gransden,
