Scope and Content
Manor of Aspley Guise, with appurtenances in parishes of Aspley Guise, Woburn and Birchmore (General words include sheep gate and fold courses for sheep, mines, mine pitts, mills)
Messuage formerly in occupation Edward Sadler, esquire, late husband of Anne [Norwicke], with orchard, 2 gardens, 2 tofts, 2 closes (12 acres)
Middle Pasture, 52 acres, lately divided into two parts
Fawkener's Grove
Woodenode closes, 14 acres
Capital Messuage with garden, orchard, 2 closes (12 acres)
Little Pasture, alias Little Field (26 acres)
2 closes called Powedges (10 acres)
14 acres meadow
120 acres arable in occupation Thomas Chibnall, gentleman
Messuage and 60 acres pasture in occupation J Pancoste
Messuage in Birchmore, Woburn and 50 acres arable and 20 acres pasture, in occupation J Collins
400 acres wood with soil thereof, late in occupation Thomas Chibnall, gentleman
Waste land called the Warren
Exceptions from the grant:
6 acres heath ground, late parcel of Aspley Heath, sold by Raphe Norwich and wife Anne to H Chardge of Wavendon
All messuages and lands in Aspley which William Farr the elder late held by copy of court roll by custom of the manor, and sold by Raphe Norwich and wife Anne to William Farr the younger of Aspley, husbandman
2 messuages in occupation J Collins, Joan Allen, widow, and Edmund Harding, with lands belonging, lately conveyed by Edward Sadler and wife Anne to Edmund Harding
1 acre arable in field next Holcot Millnes:-
...½ acre in Thornton Furlong
...½ acre in Lynes Croft Furlong
Plot of ground between messuage of William Ward and messuage in occupation Raphe Backar
Plot with a ley at the end of it, adjoining messuage sometime in occupation Jasper Hodson
½ acre between Rye Peece of Aspley Wood Corner next Hogsty House
conveyed by Edward Sadler and Anne to Edmund Harding
Messuage with appurtenances and lands, lately held by Martin Kynge by copy of court roll
Messuage with appurtenances and lands, lately held by Edmund Tillcock by copy of court roll, and afterwards by Thomas Kynge
Tenement with appurtenant lands, lately held by Thomas Tyddesdale by copy of court roll
21 acres arable and 6 acres meadow, lately belonging to the messuage lately in occupation Edward Sadler and afterwards in occupation Edmund Harding, by virtue of a purchase thereof by him made from Raphe Norwich and Anne his wife
6 acres meadow in Broad Mead in occupation J Spurling
Close called Salforde Pasture in occupation J Spurling
Parcel of mead in occupation H Chardge of Wavendon
Blackwell Close, 18 acres, lately conveyed by Raphe Norwich and Anne to Thomas Kynge
Leases already made:
Lease for 21 years - Rent £5: 5 July 1578
Edward Sadler and wife Anne to J Pancost of Husborne Crawley, husbandman
Carnyshe Field alias Pigges Park, 60 acres
All lands and tenements sometime in occupation J Carter
Lease for 21 years - Rent 6s..8d and 2 capons : 17 February 1587/8
Raphe Norwich and wife Anne, and Lee Sadler, son and heir apparent of Anne, deceased, to Jasper Hudson of Aspley, husbandman
Messuage
Close adjoining, 1 acre
5 acres, 1½ swathes meadow, pasture and arable
Common for 3 beasts or kyne in the Fen and 3 on the hills
Common for 15 sheep
Demise for 5,000 years: 2 February 1585/6
Ralph Norwich and wife Anne to Robert Fitzhugh of Wavendon, gentleman
8 acres wood and heath ground, part of Aspley Heath
24 acres wood and heath ground, part of Aspley Heath adjoining above 8 acres
Lease for 41 years or lives of lessees – Rent 6s..3½d: 21 February 1588
Ralph Norwich and wife Anne, and Lee Sadler to Richard Tillcock of Aspley Guise and wife Agnes
Messuage in occupation of lessees, and lands
Covenant by grantee to save grantors harmless from an annuity of £20 issuing out of part of the premises to Thomas Hillsden of Chalgrave, yeoman, by Edward Ayres of Middle Temple, London, gentleman, and William Payne of Poddington, gentleman, by fine between Edward Ayres and William Payne, plaintiffs, and of Edward Sadler and wife Anne, Thomas Smalpage and Thomas Hillsden, deforciants.