e of which said hamlets there were chapels of ease, the
several cures thereof belonging to the said College or Free Chapel Royal.

In all this litigation it was a question much agitated whether, as all
the prebendaries with the Dean and the Sacrist constituted one entire
body, any single prebendary could demise his annual portion of the said
general tithes without the consent of the whole body.

The defendant Leveson was accused of having contrived secret conveyances
of many parcels of the said tithes and lands for the benefit of his own
family, some of the properties having been sold for large sums of money,
and the church revenues defrauded thereby. Also that he had so altered
and confounded the buildings, fences, and boundaries of the church lands,
and so mixed them up with his own inherited lands, that it had become
impossible to discern or distinguish which were the original possessions
of the College; possessions which at the Domesday Survey had extended to
3,000 acres, besides the lordship of Lutley, near Halesowen.

Dr. Oliver states that in his time (1836) there remained some "houses and
lands now belonging to the prebendaries and Sacrist, which are leased out
for lives."

The "corpses" of the six prebends are supposed to have consisted of the
tithes of their respective districts in Willenhall, Hilton, Hatherton,
Fetherston, Monmore, and Wobaston.

The Rev. Richard Ames, Curate of Bilston for 46 years (1684-1730), makes
the following record:--

1723, December 9th.--The Reverd. Mr. Wm. Craddock, Rector of
Donnington (Salop), was installed Prebendary of Willenhall, he having
resigned that of Hatherston. The mandate for his installmt. was
directed to me (ye Senior Prebendary) by ye Rt. Hon'ble George, Lord
Willoughby de Broke, Deane of o'r Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton,
and of Windsor; I being constituted locum tenens.

On ye 10th December, 1723, by virtue of an'r mandate to me, directed
by ye same Ld. Willoughby de Broke, ye same Mr. Wm. Craddock was by
me put in possession of ye Sacrist's Stall, both which places became
vacant by ye death of Mr. Hinton. He (Mr. Craddock) was also
constituted principal official.

In 1836, when Dr. Oliver wrote his history of the church, the Chapter of
the College consisted of the Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart, D.D. (Dean), the
Rev. R. Ellison, M.A., prebendary of Willenhall, and the other
prebendaries (of Kinvaston, Hilton, Fe