He prays his feoffees nevertheless to do his will, that is to enfeoff the heir of his body if he has one, but if not to enfeoff his right heirs of Higham Ferrers. |
The Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved. |
The Sunday market was renting land owned by the feoffees, an ancient feudal society with land rights. |
There continued to be some central leadership, most notably in the secretive Feoffees for Impropriations. |
Cash for the work has been provided by Richard Kenyon, chairman of what is still known as the Feoffees of Bond's Hospital Estates Charity. |
Before the Statute of Wills, many people used feoffees to dispose of their land, something that fell under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor anyway. |