| Description | To William Hanley, yeoman,of the parish of Hanley, county Worcester (Wigorn'), son of Henry Hanley of the same parish, recently deceased, and his heirs and assigns, of all possible right, title, claim and interest in all his messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, pasture rights, rents and services with all appurtenances in the lordship and parish of Hanley, [all of] which once belonged to Henry Audeley. Clause excluding future claims. Warranty clause. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: [none given].
Dated at : [no place given].: red wax, fragment, illegible.
1. These are the first examples of yeomen in the Hanley documents; for yeoman as an economic classification, at a level below the gentry. This was presumably not the main branch of the Hanley family, which still held the forestership and the submanor of Hanley Hall. Nicholas Hanley was forester, and he is described as a gentleman , while Thomas de Hanley had been esquire
2. This deed was probably not written at Hanley, but perhaps at Isleworth; it is in a very clear "bastard" hand, not otherwise seen in the archive (Hector, Handwriting, XIII, XIVa). Richard Audeley and his father do not occur again and were probably not Hanley natives.
[Ref. 183 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])] |