Scope and Content
-- A messuage and 1½ acres next the highway from Wicken church to Newport, south;
-- several small enclosed pieces of land, contiguous (close of 8 acres, Brownes pightle, 1 acre, 4 acres pasture, 5 acres pasture, 1 acre meadow, 3 acres part arable, part pasture; croft, 2 acres; croft, 3 acres; close, 1 acre; another close, 1 acre; croft, 1 acre); the chief abuttals are:-
North on the highway from Wicken to Newport;
South “laye breatche”, horse leys, way to the common meadow;
East common meadow; way to horse leys, Reynolds Field;
West horse leys; way to horse leys;
-- parcels in the open fields:-
in Dodnall Field;
(3 acres, 1 acre, 1½ acres, ½ acre, 3 acres, 2½ acres,2 acres, 2 acres, 2½ acres); abutting north on a footway from Clavering to Walden, on Foxon lane, and on Lerrye Field in Newport; abutting east on a pasture called Wickhole;
in a field called the Holme:
(1 acre, 1 acre, 1 acre); abutting on the lord’s land called “no man’s acar”.
in a common field called Est crofte:
(3 half- acres, 2½ acres in the same shott, 3 half- acres, 3 acres, 1 acre, 2 acres, 3 roods); abutting south on the highway from Wicken to Newport;
in Reynolds field:
(3½ acres, 1 acre, 1 acre); abutting north on the highway from Wicken to Newport;
in the common meadow
(2½ acres, 3 roods) abutting north on Lampytt croft;
in Smythes Field:
(6 acres, 3 acres, 1 acre, 1 rood); abutting east on the highway from Wicken to Newport, north on Grynsted lane,
Owners or occupiers of adjoining lands; lord of Wicken, lord of Bonant, parson of Wicken, hospital of Newport, John Howland senior, William Howland, Jeffrey Nightingale gentleman, John Bull, Robert Thompson, Ralph Thompson, Joan Payntwell, “ diverse men”.
It is agreed that (i) will have the right of hawking, hunting and fowling; and that (ii) will assure to (i) a yearly rent charge or annuity of 5 marks.
Witnesses.. William Fingale, Ralph Leygh,William Barlee (?), Matthew Gyppes, John Laught [?on], John Howland senior, William Howland, John Bell, George Motte. 1 May 1589.