His successor was John Prentys, who was presented to the living in 1429 by the feoffees of the duchy of Lancaster.
Queen must admit the feoffees to their traverse, and to have the farm, &c.
Wilkes his brother of full age found his next heir, and a tenure in capite found, and now within the three months the said feoffees sued in the court of wards to be admitted to their traverse, and also to have the manor in farm until &c.
John Withers, one of the first feoffees and a justice of the peace, was a lot holder also.
Justices of the county courts were to fill vacancies among the feoffees and to appoint customs collectors.
At the time of the survey, the feoffees told Mercer "that he might proceed in his Buildings and Improvements on any the said Lots not before granted," promising that they would at any time make him "any Title they could lawfully pass.
This device enabled the feoffees to sell back the original lots--at L182 per lot--with new deeds drawn on the basis of the Savage survey.
On the same day John Withers and Matthew Thompson, both justices of the peace, were appointed "Feoffees in Trust.
Had the committee informally advised the feoffees that their cause would be rejected, suggesting, therefore, that they withdraw their petition?
William Fitzhugh of Stafford County) were appointed feoffees in 1707, and a new survey was made by Thomas Gregg.
Talk over this with your counsel; for if the feoffees be compelled to release in Chancery it will be nought, because of the estate they made before; so when you expect to be most quiet you will be most troubled.
The parson asserted that thefeoffees had put her in possession of the manors.
Sir Edmund was one of the first feoffees of the Manchester Grammar School.
In 1592 the feoffees had to guard their monopoly against the attack of Anthony Travis, who erected “a horse mill within the town.
Below it are enrolled three other deeds by the Countess and her feoffees to the Duke, dated 9th June, 12 Edw.
And they the said feoffeesto see conveyance made from them, when there remaineth but two of them, to others whom they shall think good to the use aforesaid.
In 1584 Nathaniel Arnold was one of the feoffees for Ann Girling’s donation.
That the town lands belonging to Lowestoft should be let by the year, or by leases not exceeding seven years, by the feoffees (the churchwardens for the time being, being two) and six other inhabitants.
By virtue of a provision in the Decree or award of these Commissioners, the surviving Feoffees were enabled to appoint new Feoffees in the places of the deceased ones.
The Decree then proceeds, as mentioned in the last chapter, to make provision for the filling up of vacancies in the number of Feoffeeswhenever the number may be reduced to three.
And the pernors shall have the same advantages and defenses as the feoffees or as if they were tenants.
Wilkes his brother of full age found his next heir, and a tenure in capite found, and now within the three months the said feoffees sued in the court of wards to be admitted to their traverse, and also to have the amnor in farm until &c.
Anyone serving the King in war may alienate his lands for the performance of his will, and if he dies, his feoffees or executors shall have the wardship of his heir and land.
John Shakespeare elder and younger are frequently mentioned in the Charters of Rowington as feoffees or as witnesses, and a John had a lease of the Harveys for twenty-one years in 1554.
Anyone serving the king in war may alienate his lands for the performance of his will, and if he dies, his feoffees or executors shall have the wardship of his heir and land.
And the receivers shall have the same advantages and defenses as the feoffees or as if they were tenants.
But yet I hope The feoffees may prove honest: I'll try them.
Well, I must trust The feoffees then: but they are honest men.
I know the other feoffees are as true And honest men as any are i' th' world.
Stay, sir, my estate Shall still be good; the feoffees will be honest.
And eight years afterwards the Chief Justice and his fellow feoffees granted this property also to the Abbot of Malmesbury.
The rent was then being paid to the Corporation of the City of London, who were probably feoffees of the bishopric of Lincoln; but in 1561 they purchased it of Edward VI.
At the time of the Restoration the Stanleys claimed the property of which they had been dispossessed by the Parliament, but made no difficulty about regranting to the feoffees that part of it occupied by the new School and Library.
In the Feoffeesrecords it is stated as follows: "1778.
The Feoffees of Rotherham successfully maintained that the bridge and chapel belonged to them, but that they had to be kept in repair at the expense of the West Riding.
Feoffees of the Fraternity of St. John Baptist, 17s.
If the conditions of the will were not fulfilled, the feoffees were to pay the profits to the burgesses for the repair of bridges, causeways, and highways within a mile of the town.
At the same time, one Lettice Jackson, a widow, vested in feoffees certain lands for the use of the new church of our Saviour in Rossendale.
The Vicar of Cirencester received payments from the Feoffees of the service of the Name of Jesus for the use of a chapel, L6; from the wardens of the service of St. Christopher, for the use of a chapel, L6 0s.
These accounts were laid before the feoffeesfrom time to time, and signed by them in testimony of their allowance.
The feoffees had then been incorporated by royal charter, under the title of "The Governors of the Lands and Possessions of the Poor of the City or Town of Ely.
The letter from Cromwell to Mr. John Hand, published in Cromwell's Memoirs of Cromwell, has not been in the possession of the feoffees for some years.
About the year 1639 a petition was filed in the Court of Chancery by one Thomas Fowler, on behalf of himself and others, inhabitants of Ely, against the feoffees of Parson's Charity, and a commission for charitable uses was issued.
The records of the proceedings if the feoffees of his time consist only of the collector's yearly accounts of monies received and expended, and do not show the appointments of the feoffees.
The office was usually taken by the feoffees in turn then, as at the present time; but Cromwell most probably was called to a higher sphere of action before his turn arrived.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feoffees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
