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- 1539-1546 (Creation)
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Letter, no year, Adam Sowgate, Ospringe, Kent, to John Taylor SJC Master, asking to be assigned the parsonage of Ospringe.
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- Adam Sowgate was tenant of Elverland, Kent at this time (see the Register of Evidences for Kent fols 1 ff.)
- 1552, Edward Sowgate was tenant of Ospringe (Baker-Mayor, History of St John's vol I. p. 375).
- Thomas Hawkins, yeoman of the guard, of Boughton Blean, had a lease of Ospringe Parsonage 2 may 1539, and again for 10 years from Michaelmas 1549. (Baker-Mayor, History of St John's vol I. p. 335; 366).
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Ryght worshypfull after dew commendation, this is to certyffye your worshippe and the hole campayne of the fellowes, that yMy Hawkyns and I am agreyd for the parsonage, yf so be that your maystershypp wylbe so favorable to me with the consent of hole compayne, that I may have your favour, and a letter from you to Mr Hawkyns, that yt is your mynd that I have preferment before any other, and in so doynge you shll bynde me to do for you any pleasure that lyeth in me to do as knoweth the holy goest how have you in his tuition, from Osprynge the xxviijth day of Oxtober
by yours to his little power
Adam Sowgate