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  1 48 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF j  
    1 until about April last past. Is ready to maintain and prove all —    
    the aforesaid matters to be true and prays to be dismissed with f   
    1 reasonable costs and charges wrongfully sustained. r_g_ f  
  1 " r Two years later, in May 1633, the Vicar of Portesham 3 1   
    had an action in Chancery with Elizabeth Poulet, widow and i  
    r relict of Sir john Poulet, late of Hydestreet, near the city of  
    - Winchester, Hampshire, Knight, deceased, also over tithes at  
    3 Portesham. , ·    
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    3 3 1 Likewise in January 1637-8 he had an action with one 1  
    1 — Anthony Stocker of Chilcompton, co. Somerset, Esq., also  
    over tithes at Portesham. li.  33 
    . » PORTISHAM VICARAGE ‘  
    ,3 1 The return of the commission, 1 6 50, was that the vicarage 33 3  
    was in the King’s books {,8 1 gs. 4d., that Sir ]ohn Paulet gave    W
    3 - by his will 20 nobles to the vicar, and since the Parliament 31  
  i has given Q-; or g of the impropriation of Affpuddle. The I  
  1 parsonage is worth {:120 per annum. Mr. Essex Paulet,    
  proprietor, and Mr. Weares receives the profits to his use. ii   
  3 Mr. Galpin, incumbent. Mr. Ash, an able preacher who   V l‘,,,‘   `—.3
  . wants but means, supplies the cure and has nothing for his Y  
  fi · salary but what he can get out of Affpuddle.-—-Hutchins’ · 53 ~   =_.;   
 1   Hist. J Dorset. » ,   .`__ I  
  3333 3  
  _ The following extract from Hutchins has some bearing     3
    `sss - ` 1 on the vexed question of the ownership of the Portisham tithes. ·   1 1
  There was a composition made between the Abbot and . _»i_ ‘   32 
    Convent of Abbotsbury, proprietors, and ·Thomas Churchill,   — T 1
  3 vicar (1474.-1490) by which it was agreed, and confirmed at    
  Sarum by the bishop (May 30, I476) that the vicar should   I 13 3
  have a mansion, garden, and curtilage on the north side of Q,    
  - the church, all oblations, etc., the tithes of lamb, wool, jieere,     3
  3;,3 i s etc., etc., tithes out of Ayslond, Aysmede, and Aysdown, etc., 1  
3s 3·%3 _ 3 a parcel of land called Twelve Acres, tithes of the parish of -   1
  3 _ ` 11 Corton, etc., etc., tithes in North Letterley, etc., 4.os. yearly, T, _
  Q gji .·__ 13 1 62 acres of arable land in the parish of Portisham, etc., and [   · 1
   1;; I 3 much besides. , 3  
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