Scope and Content
i) Gravely Norton, Offley, Hertfordshire, esquire, and wife Helen
ii) Ralph Skynner, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, gentleman
iii) Thomas Coppyn, Marketcell, Hertfordshire, esquire
John Skynner, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, gentleman
Deed to lead the uses of a fine and recovery
... the manor of Sharpenhoe alias Sharpenhow
... capital messuage called the Bury Howse in Sharpenhoe in Streatly, with all barns, stables, malthouses and other outhouses, orchards, moats, ponds and backsides
... closes called Pinfold close, Mudwall close, Well close, Kitchen close, the three closes lying about the moat, Eles croft, the Corn close, Heyles mead with High Croft, Little Mount meadow, the Great Mount with the springe or hedge-grove of wood within the same, Deanes close, Gosse close
... 169 acres arable and leys in the common fields of Sharpenhow under and beneath the Hills of which the Further Hasewells is part; 80 acres arable above the Hills; 14 acres arable demised by Richard Norton, gentleman, deceased, to Matthew Denton
... Hither Hasewells meadow, meadow or pasture called heydons, balks, hedge-greens, hills, hillgrounds and wastegrounds
all of which are part of the manor of Sharpenhoe
... messuage or tenement in Streatley and Sharpenhoe called Adams Lands; close called Chappell pightle with the lane leading to it; land called Abbotts land, late part of the possessions of Woburn Abbey; cottage or tenement and close of pasture called Kings containing 2 acres in Sharpenhoe now or late in the tenure of John Spiggens
all of which are in Streatley, Sharpenhoe, Sundon, Harlington and Barton
... all manner of tithes of corn or grain etc. belonging to the rectory, church or parsonage of Streatley arising from land within the endship or hamlet of Sharpenhoe, or lands above or beneath the hills, which William Norton, gentleman, Richard Allwey and Robert Norton, gentleman, did once receive, and of all other lands of i) within Streatley now in the tenure of ii), or which were once in the tenure of Robert Norton or of William Sames of Offley, Hertfordshire, containing c. 86 acres arable, and all other tithes of corn and grain once conveyed by George Barber alias Grigg and Richard Barber alias Grigg, son and heir of George, to Luke Norton, esquire, and wife Lettice, the father and mother of Gravely Norton, and to the same Gravely Norton
the recovery to be to the uses of Thomas Coppyn and Ralph Skynner their heirs and assigns for ever
signed: all parties
witnesses: William Burre, John Wright, Henry Shepperde, Robert Rumbolde, Oliver Warner, Henry Phillippis, Gravely Chester, John Draper