Rights and Liberties of Parishioners Threatened: … First of all, let its relate what the Charity Commissioners have to say about the Play Park, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 15th March 1909: “By indenture, bearing date let of May, 1597, between Thomas Bridges, esquire, of the one part, and Henry Clifford, esquire, and twenty two others, of the other part; the said Thomas Bridges, for the consideration of £150, as also for divers other good considerations, granted unto the parties of the second part, and their heirs, a market, to be weekly kept and holden, every Saturday throughout the year within the town and borough of Chudleigh, and the two market houses, situate in Chudleigh, and two fairs, yearly to be kept in Chudleigh, at such days and times in the year as the same had been heretofore used by virtue of any letters patent there-of granted, with all courts, tolls. benefits, and advantages, unto the said market and fairs belonging; and also, A SPORTING OR PLAYING PLACE, containing by estimation, three acres, adjoining to the churchyard of Chudleigh.” It will appear from our account of Pinsent’s school, that a portion of the SPORTING OR ‘PLAYING PLACE, amounting to one acre, was appropriated for the site of a schoolhouse and premises under that foundation, the residue lies open, and is still used as a PLACE OF RECREATION by the parishioners … … In the above it will be seen what the Play Park was intended for, which a small minority want to put aside …
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DRO0054 Combe: John Pynsent: 1598 – xxxx