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HISTORY OF CAWTHORNE.

thwaite, Godfrey Ellison, and John Hawksworth, yeomen, of a charge upon these tithes to the use of the Minister or Preacher of the Church or Chapel of Cawthorne; and the portions of tithe sold by Green to the freeholders were sold subject to their share of this charge.

The Bosvile Chantry

has already been described (page 75): it only remains to give a full abstract of the original Foundation Deed, as it is given in Hunter (Vol. II. p. 238).

"Omnibus, &c. William Mirfield and Percival Cresacre, esqs. feoffees, together with Thomas Lord Clifford of Westmorland, Knight, now deceased, to the use of Isabella wife of Henry Langton Esq., and for performing the will of the said Isabel, of all lands in Cawthorne belonging to the said Isabel.

"At the request of Isabel, license and letters patent from the king were first obtained to the effect following: Henry (VI.) &c., to the to the Honour of God, the glorious Virgin Mary, and all Saints, at the special request of our beloved esquire Henry Langton and Isabel his wife have granted to them, Clifford, Mirfield, and Cresacre, that they may out of the special devotion which John Boswell, esq. deceased, late husband of the said Isabel, bore, and which Isabel now bears to the most glorious and untainted Virgin Mary, the Mother of God omnipotent, found one perpetual Chantry of one chaplain at the altar of the Virgin in the Chapel of St. Michael at Calthorn on the north side of the said Chapel, to pray every day for our good estate, and the good estate of Henry and Isabel while they live, and for our souls when we die, and specially for the soul of the said John Boswell, and the souls of his parents, ancestors, and benefactors of the said John and Isabel, and of all the faithful; to be for ever called The Chantry of John Boswell at the altar of St. Mary the Virgin in the Chapel of St. Michael at Calthorne, and the said chaplain to be corpus perpetuum, and in that name to plead and be inpleaded, &c.

"Further, that the three feoffees may settle on the said chaplain two acres of land which are held of us in capite and an annual rent