Parson's charity, Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee of, 465.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Cromwell (Oliver), as a feoffee of Parson's Charity, Ely, 465.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

John Hand was a feoffee for many years, and during his time executed, as was usual, the office of collector or treasurer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference

Buckley's Hospital (a fifteenth-century foundation here), and whatever a feoffee may be he is not the kind of man to toy with in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919] Reference

The appointment of Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee does not appear in any of the documents now remaining with the governors of the charity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference

There is in Ely, where Cromwell for some years resided, an extensive charity known as Parson's Charity, of which he was a feoffee or governor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference

Firstly, because I have already accepted the picture which you regarded as mine or its equivalent, in place of the one that was mine and is now yours; and, secondly, because my friend the feoffee has already bought it, the one that was yours and is now mine, or rather his (you know what I mean, don't you?), and I haven't the heart to ask him to return it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919] Reference

If the tenant in capite made a feoffment, he became immediate lord of his feoffee, and as to the king a mediate lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The Father took such a complacency and had such a confidence in him that he constituted him the great feoffee in trust for mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

But if Whiteacre was then held by a dis - seisor, so as that the feoffee could not enter, the entry upon Blackacre does not inure to both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]] Reference

A statute of 1290 permits any freeman to part with his land, the feoffee to hold of the same lord and by the same services as his feoffor held.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Of land directly acquired from the king, the person to whom the grant or feoffment was made, the feoffee, held as tenant in capite of the Crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The mode of doing this was by a feoffment to the use of the feoffor's last will, and the feoffee being considered as seized of the use, not of the land, could devise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

He was in that year feoffee collector for twelve poor alms-people living in Clement-Dane's Church-Yard; whose pensions I in his absence paid weekly, to his and the parish's great satisfaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681] Reference

There are, at least, a score of similar instances: the ancestral sacrifices seem to refer rather to posterity, whilst those to gods of the land and grain appear more connected with rights as feoffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient China Simplified] Reference

I. A., the feoffor, reserved to himself no estate or reversion in the land, but the seignory only, with the rent and services, by virtue of which he might again become entitled to the land by escheat, as for want of heirs of the feoffee, or by forfeiture, as for felony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Sup - pofe an adverfary action againft tenant in tail who has a warranty, and he makes a feoffment in fee with warranty, or has levied a fine with warranty, and die feoffee or co - nufee vouch the tenant in tail, he may make ufe of his warranty, and yet « he was not feifed of the eftate-tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;] Reference

The gate-house contained a sitting-room and three bedrooms (one hardly bigger than a box-cupboard); but a building adjoined it which had been the old Franciscans 'refectory, though now it was divided by common planking into two floors, the lower serving for a feoffee office, while the upper was supposed to be a muniment-room, in charge of the feoffees' clerk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Stars] Reference

On Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee of Parson's Charity, Ely, 465.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

40 £Iiz. by Sir Matthew Anmdell, the then Biirviv - itig feoffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ...] Reference

1635 to the year 1641 Cromwell was a feoffee or governor, and took an active part in the management of the affairs of the charity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference

/a», feu tenemenium illudde capitali domino per eadtm fervhole, or part of the land, and of what eflate, whereupon the feoffee was driven to plead t6 his great charge and trouble, and therefore upon conference "had with the kings oncers, and the judges, it was ordained, that feeing the kings tenant could not alien without licence, for if he did, he (hould pay a fine, that for a licence to be obtained, the king fhould have the third part of the value of the land, which was holdcn reafonable, and the feoffee (hould pay the fame becaufe his land was otherwife to be charged, and he rid of the trouble and charge by the writ of quo titulo inprejfus eft\ and jf the alienation was without licence, then a reafonaole fine by the ftatute, was to be paid by 'the alienee, which they refolvcd to be one yeares value, which ever fincc conftantly and continually hath bccne cbferved and paid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many ...] Reference