OR1086-1140

Payne versus Harris, Smith, Phillips and Matthew; and cases related thereto:- Bredyman and Phillips versus Smith et al. Bredyman versus Southwell, Bayley and Power Smith versus Harris, Bredyman, Southwell, Sidley, Matthew, Phillips, Audley.

1583-1616

From: 1583 To: 1616

These cases are extremely complicated. They arise from the financial embarrassment and transactions of Edmund Bredyman ( son of George), and from the difficulties in which these involved his property and those who purchased it. Their main interest in this collection is with regard to the manor of Podington, purchased by William Payne of Southwell in 1585 and quitclaimed to him by Edmund Bredyman in 1594 (see OR7 and OR13), but previously involved in a lease by Edmund Bredyman to Edward Dickenson. As far as they can be disentangled, the threads appear to be briefly as follows. Edmund Bredyman, seised in fee of the manor of Podington, became bound to Richard Smyth for £4,000 by two statutes staple. He sold the manor to Thomas Southwell. Southwell in 1583-4 bought in the statutes of Smith. Southwell sold the manor of Podington to William Payne in 1585. Bredyman is said to have sold other parcels to Payne, and to have covenanted that he should be freed from all encumbrances. He became “a man of smale abilitie and soe remayneth”. Meanwhile Thomas Southwell left the statutes staple to his brother Richard, and left the country. Richard Southwell’s son married a daughter of Serjeant Harris. Thomas Southwell appears to have bought the Bredyman property in the west country (see OR488); and so it appears to have been agreed by Harris and Southwell that the west country lands should not be involved in the disputed statutes staple. Meanwhile Thomas Phillips produced a lease (alleged by Payne to be fraudulent) made by Edmund Bredyman to Edward Dickinson before the conveyance to Southwell . Phillips was a collector of customs and subsidies in the port of London; he got into debt and died. (He had married Edward Dickinson’s widow). Meanwhile in 1582-3 Thomas Southwell had acknowledged a statute staple of £3,000 to Thomas Wilmer. Wilmer assigned this to the Queen in payment of Phillips’ debts “it had lyen longe hidden and never styrred upp till then of late”. The eventual outcome seems to have been that the manor of Podington was discharged from these various claims.

series

Payne, William,
Bredyman, Edmund,
Bredyman, George,
Dickinson, Edward,
Smyth, Richard,
Southwell, Thomas,
Southwell, Richard,
Harris, Thomas,
Phillips, Thomas,
Wilmer, Thomas,
Sidley, John,
Audley, Thomas,
Mathew, John

Manor of Podington, Southwell, sergeant at law