olas Hellyn and Richard Whorwood gent., John Podmore Willm Greene
Willm Whitmore and William Podmore and their heires to bee Imployed
to saye devine service in the Chappell of Willenhall aforesaid for
the ease of the Inhabyants there being farre remoote from their prshe
Church of Wolverhampton in the said Countye that the pffits of the
said lands were from Anno quarto of Kinge Edwarde the sixte so
imployed as aforesaid by the space of dyvers yeeres of the said Jane
Lane and Thomas Lane and their Tenants And that the same have been
misemployed by the space of one whole yeere now laste paste and more
all wch pmisses considered wee doe order and decree at Lichfeilde
aforesaid by verteue of the said Comission in manner and form
followinge That is to saie that the said pcell of groundes and all
ye rents revenues yssues and pffitts thereof shall for ever hereafter
bee imployed and bestowed upon and towards the maynetaynance of a
Curate or Chaplyne for the tyme being to saie devine service in the
said Chappell for the ease of the Inhabitants there and that John
Wilkes of Willenhall in the said Countye gent, Willm Flemynge als
Greene of Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, Leonard Tomkis of
Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, John Bate of Willenhall in the
said Countye yeoman, Richard Bate of Willenhall in the saide Countye
yeoman, Willm Baylie of Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, and
Willm Brindley of Willenhall in the said Countye yeoman, theire
heires and Assignes shall have and hold the said pmisses to the use
and entente aforesaid according to a former feoffm't thereof made and
shewed forth to the said Jury at the tyme of the same Inquisicon
taken and shall from tyme to tyme and at all tymes hereafter yeerelie
Imploye and bestowe the full value thereof upon and towards the
maynetaynance of a Curate or Chaplyne to saye devyne service in the
said Chappell.

As will be seen, the Decree states clearly that the yearly income of the
Bentley lands was to be used towards the maintenance of a Curate to say
Divine Service in the Chapel; this at once brought it under the
Charitable Uses Act, and removed it from liability to be confiscated
under 23, Henry VIII., c. 10., for perpetuating practices regarded as
superstitious and contrary to Reformation doctrines. It will be noted
that a "former feoffment" is mention