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1618 - Survey of Grove in Hastingleigh

 transcribed - but there could be errors.

 (I have since found there is a similar transcription in Brian Berry's book Hastingleigh 1000 - 2000; so please compare

the two transcriptions as reading olde english writing is not an exact science)

 

Grove - A Survey of the tenants of the

said manor with what land they hould

and by what yearely rent and services

there made and taken the  seaven and

twentith day of July in the sixteenth

 yeare of King James of England - 1618 

Thomas Owden

Henry 8^th - twas Mounts land [In Henry VIIIs reign the land belonged to man surname Mount]

2^nd [C.1555] and 3^rd [C.1556] of Mary  [in the reign of Queen Mary]

29^th [C.1587] and 38^th [C.1596] of Elizabeth [in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I]

1 messuage and 1 acre of land called Crouch Croft

Thomas Owden houlds freely of this manor and

messuage in Hastingleigh and one at X more or lesse

called Crouch Croft abutting and apon the land of

Henry Berrye West and to the lands of

Lushington North and to the ?kings street East and

south and the yearely rent is  2.9 and it is heriotable.

 

A messuage is a dwelling house, its adjacent buildings and surrounding land.

 

Roger Epps

28^th yeare [C.1537] of Henry 8^th  twas John Bulfinches Land

29^th [C.1538] 32^nd [C.1541] years of Henry

2^nd [C.1555] and 3^rd [C.1556] of Mary

29^th [C.1587] and 38^th [C.1596] of Elizabeth

One close called Mabbclose containing 3 acres and a half

Roger Epps holds of this manor freely one close called

Mabbclose containing and by estimation three acres

And an halfe of land lying next to the manor of Combe

towards the north and the street towards

the south and east and lyeth at cowlecrosse  and

twas sometimes Thomas Owdons and the yearely

rent is 4d ob Heriot ?nd ?attid and suit of court.

 

Ob Heriot ? means the property becomes the possession of the landlord

upon the death of the tenant and cannot be passed on in the tenants will.

 

Henry Jupit

[there is some script relating to 17^th [C.1526] and 26^th [C.1535] year

of Henry Viiis reign, but is not clear to read]

1^st, 21^st and 26^th of Elizabeth [C.1558, C.1579, C.1584]

Certain lands called Stapull       [Probably what is now known as Staple]

Henry Jupit doth hould freely certain lands in

Hastingleigh called Stapull lying in Stapull

whereapon a tenement is nowe builded but of

antient time a barne was only thereupon which is

yet standing and abuts East apon John Potts land

and apon the land of Thomas Sharp South and

the  kings high street West and the demeasnes

of the manor of combe North by Ffoaltye and the

yearely rent of 12 d Ob and it is heriotable

This land was sometimes Dunkins and before

Smith and before that ?Avis Ffordred.

1710 June 9^th ? By the acknowledgement of John Browning the

Present tenant. The field out of which this  

rent issues  is called Fflock Ffield and rents

about three acres.

 

John Skelton

5^th of Henry 8 [C.1514]

26^th [C.1535]

31^st [C.1540]

26^th [C.1584] of Elizabeth

A messuage and 20 acres of ground

John Skelton houldes freely ?certain lands in Hastingleigh

And twenty acres more or lesse of ground thereunto

belonging , the house and orchard abutting apon the

kings high street towards the west and the lands of

Christopher Dallye towards the South and the lands 

Doth lye together and abut apon the demeasnes of

the manor of Combe towards the South and apon

Christopher Dallies land towards the west and a common

Highway goinge through the said lands and were

sometimes the land of Park and after Bakers and

After of Lewis and the yearely rent is 17d and one

Hen and a quarter of a hen and seventeen eggs

And it is heriotable

 

William Atwood

5^th [C.1514] of Henry Viii

29^th [C.1538]

31^st[C. 1540]

12^th of Jacobi [James] [C.1615]

4 acres of land

William Atwood houlds freely a piece of land

containinge four acres more or lesse lying next

Ceovedane or Covedane and --?--the

Yearely rent is 4d ob and it is heriotable

and it abutts  [lines are blank]

 

Henry Berrye

A tenement called Heymer and 8 acres of land

 

Thomas Berrye doth houlde freely of this manor

One tenement sometimes Fforstall and before Borhams

And it is called Heymer and it lieth in Hastingleigh

?Adioyninge to the Kings highway leading from Wye

To Elmestead and an other highway is west to the

Said house and here are eight acres more or lesse

Of land which are hould on of this manor belonging

To the said tenement in one parcel of the which said

Tenement doth stand and abut upon the house and

Land of James ?Owdye In part and upon the lands

Of          Lushington in part an other parcel

Hereof assigned south upon the kings highway

Leading from Elmestead to Wye.

 

And adioyned apon the land of     Lushington east

And an other  parcel contains four acres or

Thereaboute and ioyned to the place aforesaid, and to

The kings highway west and north and to the

Land of      Lushington south and east and an

Other place conteyning an  acre and an halfe adioyned

Apon the kings highway leading from Elmestead

To Wye  south and to the lands of Thomas Ffriend

South and west and to Ashmenfields lands on

the north and to the lands of Thomas Skelton

east and the yearely rent is 2s 3d,     two henns

and ffive and twentye eggs suite of court and

hariott.