| Description | Giving to John Cavull senior of Hanley (Hanneley) four parcels of arable land and one parcel of meadow, with appurtenances, of which two of the four parcels of land lie in the field called Woddewardysfelde, between the lands recently belonging to James Woddeward on one side and those of Richard at Grove on the other, and extend from the land recently belonging to the said James as far as the field called Lantridge (Lanterugge); the third of the said four parcels of land lies in the same field called Woddewardysfeld, between the lands recently belonging to the said James on one side and those of John Yamans on the other, and extends from the land of the said John Cavull as far as the orchard recently belonging to the said James; the fourth of the said four parcels of land lies in the field called Le Vennecrofte, between the lands of John Hyggus on one side and those recently belonging to the said James on the other, and extends from the land of Thomas Cavull as far as the said field called Lantridge; and the parcel of meadow lies in the field called Le Clossefeld, between the lands of Thomas Brydde on one side and those recently belonging to the said James on the other, and extends from the land recently belonging to the said James as far as the field called Throhrugge to be held to the said John, his heirs and assigns, in perpetuity, of the chief lord of those fees by the services due from the land and lawfully accustomed. Warranty clause. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: Simon Hanneley. John Zerde, John Rogerus, Thomas Sandy, Thomas Cavull and others.
Dated at Hanley.
Seal: red wax, half surviving; device illegible.
1. The Wodeward family appears in the late thirteenth century, but their early history is obscured by the difficulty in distinguishing between, for example, John le Wodeward, John de Hanley and John le forester, who appear in the same deed in 1343. It is clear however that they held a submanor with a court, possibly as hereditary subforesters (note 1), and that their home ground included such places as Woddewardysfeld, Le Wodewardys, Wodewardsmeese), not necessarily separate locations. The late fifteenth century brought difficult times for the Wodewards, as for the Hanleys themselves, and the Cavulls seem to have been the main beneficiaries of their decline. The family name is not seen after 1512, and others may have followed Nicholas who had already emigrated to Ledbury by the mid-fifteenth century.
2.troh hrycge , (a tree) occurs in the boundary clause of the Anglo-Saxon charter for Powick, which places it on the northern edge of Hanley (Hooke, Worcestershire Charter Bounds, 209). There is a Trowlidge in Guarlford today, but some distance north of the Hanley boundary.
[Ref. 136 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])] |