Guild of the Holy Cross: Grants and leases

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Indenture of lease, from William Smythe, master of the Gild of the Trinity, our Lady the Virgin and the Nativity of St. John Baptist, of Stratford vppon Avin, with the assent of William Clopton of Clopton, esq., Thomas Taylor, Richard Lord, Hughe Ranoldes, Henry Samwell, Richard Lyghtfott, Henry Hyll, Richard Quyny, aldermen and William Benett and Richard Marchawld, proctors of the same Gild, to Thomas Badjar of Bydford Graunge, mercer, of two tenements in Stratford in the Churche Strett, then in the tenure of Thomas Gylbard, `daystar', for 70 years at an annual rent of 20 shillings `Dated made and sealyd yevin', 1 November, 32 Henry VIII Seal lost