Reference
P22/25/1/1
Title
CONVEYANCE (Bargain, sale and feoffment)
i) Henry Cheyney, Toddington, kt. Charles Glemham, Toddington, esq.
ii) Peter White, clerk, Thos Dickons, gent., Jn Tamier, Geo. Edwardes, Jn. Cawne, senior, Rich Deere, Wm Palmer, Hen Mawpas, yeomen, all of Wilstead
Date free text
2 Feb 1572
Production date
From: 1572 To: 1572
Scope and Content
By (i) to (ii). for 20 [?s], of
... pightle in Wilstead, late in tenancy of Jn Cawnell, senior, formerly given for the maintenance of a lamp in Wilstead church
... a messuage in Wilstead called "the Church house"
... an acre of meadow called Stewardes, lately belonging to the dissolved monastery of Elstow
... an acre of meadow in Wilstead, occupied by Wm. Warner, formerly given for the maintenance of a light in Wilstead church
... 1r land called ["Torche rood] late in the tenure of the said William Warner, given for a light in the church
To be held in as ample a manner as Queen Elizabeth by her letters patent of December 1571 granted them to Wm James of [- - - ] gent. and Jn Graye of Nettlestede, Suffolk gent, in fee farm, and as Wm James and Jn Graye granted them to (i) on 12 Dec 1571.
The property is of the annual value of 6d., and is to be held from the Queen as of the manor of East Greenwich, at the following rents: ... the pightle in the occ. of Jn Cawnell ld;
... the house and 3a. 1r. in Wilstead called Church house, 1a. called Stewards acre, 1r. called Torch rode 4d.;
...1a. meadow in Wilstead called Perches acre 1d.
Witn. Thos Cheny, Robt Newdigate, Edw Burwell;
Witn. to livery of seisin Geo. Purser, Wm. Tomson, Wm - - Jn Bernwell.
Schedule attached:
"This Cedule indented made the seconde Daie of Februarye in the xiij th yere of the reigne of our soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth the quenes maiestie that nowe is indented herewith annexed made by the saide Sir Henry Cheyney knight and Charles Glemham esquier unto Petre White and to his Cofeoffees named in the same foeffament of the premisses therin mencioned, and how the rentes issues and profittes comyng therof shalbe used bestowed and ymployed from henceforthe forever viz. First that the same rentes issues and proffittes commyng and growing of the same premisses shalbe converted bestowed and ymployed upon the necessarie reparacions of th bodie of the parishe Churche of Wilshampstede aforesaide and upon the messuage or tenement there called the Churche house named in the same feoffament from tyme to tyme as often as nede shall require by the said feoffees or the more parte of them or by the heires of the survivor or survivors of them with the good advise Counsell and assent of the Churchewardens there for the tyme being And also that it shalbe laufull to and for the mynistre parishe Clerk there for the tyme being or any other inhabitaunt there mete for that purpose with the like Consent to teache and bring upp yong children in vertuous disciplyne educacion and maners within the saide house called the Churchehouse, and further that it shalbe laufull to and for the parochians there forever to have the use of the same house for their poore bridalles Churche ales and other laufull assemblies and metinges at all laufull and convenyent tyme and tymes"
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