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Grant from John Hall, of Hookenorton, co. Oxon, yeoman, to Oliver Lyghttefoot, Master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist of `Stretteford super Haven' William Phillippes, Richard Lord, Philip Kyngges, Matthew Edwarddes and Thomas Phillippes and their successors, burgesses, wardens and keepers of the bridge and roads of the same town, of a tenement in Stratford, in `Woodestrett', between tenements of Agnes Samuell and Nicholas Dyar of Snyttrefeld. Witnesses: Master Thomas Ketulbee, chief bailiff of Stratford, William Sharpe, senior and Richard Lyghttefoott, constables, and Richard Bromeley and Richard Cooper, under-bailiffs. Dated: Hookenorton, 14 December 11 Henry VIII With fragment of seal. With power of attorney, of the same date, to Richard Roberttes and William Sharpe, senior, of Stratford, to give seisin; and a declaration of uses, viz. that the above-named and their successors, `as Burges Brygewardens and kepers of the highe ways of the towne of Stretteford, schalle yeerly and perpetualle geve unto the poore pepulle of the almes howse of Strettford aforseyd iis in the feste of Sheore Thursdaye(Shere Thursday - Thursday before Easter, so called because on this day the clergy sheared or shaved their heads and clipped their beards to make themselves `honest' (Hampson, Medii Aevi Kalendarium, ii, p. 358)) and the residue to manteyne and kepe the bryge of Strettford and other ways ther abowutt the seyd towne for the helthe of the sowlle of the [seyd] John Halle and alle Crysten, and also to the Curatte of Stretteford viii supd; yearly to regester hys name in the beyd roolle and to say every quarter a mass of requiem for hym and all crysten'.