RESEARCH NOTES FROM ENGLAND FOUR©
Edited by Robert Hedges VIIII
Last modified: May 2000
Charter of Reginald Kynot of Edmonton in fee simple without warranty and (1290) date made to Goeffery son of Robert de la Forde of 1d rent from tenement of Nicholas Wynton, namely an acre of meadow in Edmonton, in the marsh there, lying in the place called Chiploshot, between the meadow of John de la Heg(ge) and that of (Sir) Robert North . . .(Aquilon)
Charter of Roger Sprik in fee simple w/ warrant and acquittance without date made in
William de la Forde (later William atte Forde) of all the land lying close by the messuage
of John de la Hegh, except dowerland (excepta dota) in Edmonton, and of a messuage (meswidz; dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned) which
John le Coupere held next to 'Blakemanneswell', to be held of the chief lords of the fee
by paying to the donor 1d pa (per annum).
Charter of John Patrik in fee simple with warranty made at Edmonton, 25 Jul 1322,
to William de Causton of 7d rent issuing from a croft in Edmonton called "Bullokespightel'
which was formally of John atte Hegge lying between the field formally of William atte Forde
called 'Jonesfeld Gilberd' in the east and the highway in the west.
Witnesses: John atte Merssh, William atte Ford, William le Vykere, John Castle,
John atte Strete, and many others.
Charter of William Wiliot of Edmonton in fee simple with warranty made at Edmonton,
16 Aug 1335, to William de Causton of 10 acres of land and 1.5 acres of pasture in Edmonton
which descended to him after the death of Emma wife of Thomas Wiliot, his mother, of which 2
acres lie in the field called 'Langhed" between the land of Roger Depham in the north and the
land of the prior of Holy Trinity, London, John de Wilhale and John atte Hegge in the south
extending from the land of Edmund Pymme and Thomas Rowe in the east and the lands of
William de Causton in the west .. . (followed by various tracts of small size, with
landmarks named for total amount chartered)
And they say that William Hedges of Burford, baker, who from the aforesaid
lord king now on the sixth day of October in the said fourth year of the
reign of the same lord king (1513) held at rent one messuage [i.e.small-holding]
and four virgates [120 acres] of arable land containing therein eighty acres
of arable land in the aforesaid Burford in the aforesaid county, which lands
were to be ploughed and sown and with that messuage demised [i.e. 'rented'
here] and occupied for the whole of the above mentioned time. On the
aforesaid day in the aforesaid year he caused that messuage to be laid waste
and ruined. And those holdings are valued at thirty-eight shillings a year,
and the lord king is hence taking possession [? it ought to mean this, but
the phrase is vague] within his domain in accordance with his feudal right.<
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