| Description | Giving to John Cavill junior of Hanley all their lands and tenements, meadows, pastures and pasture rights, rents, reversions and services, hedges, gardens and ditches, with all appurtenances, situated and lying in various places in the vill, fields, meadows and lordship of Hanley or elsewhere in the county of Worcester (Wigorn'), which they recently had along with John Carpenter of Welland (Wenland), Richard Carpenter of Hanley, William Bawghe, William Serde and John Hykman of Hanley, [all] now deceased, of the gift and feoffment of Richard Wodwarde likewise deceased; to be held to the said John Cavill junior, his heirs and assigns, in perpetuity, of the chief lords of those fees by the services due from the property and lawfully accustomed. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: John Cavill senior, Thomas Benett, John Grove, Edmund Suffeld, William Suffeld, Richard Wodwarde, William Bagger and many others.
Dated at Hanley.
Seal: (on divided tag) (1) lost; (2) red wax, device of six point star.
(The name Smythe (presumably the scribe) is written in the ornament of the capital S of the first word (Sciant); the same also in 1. This is the first occurrence in the charters of the name Hanley Castle, which is however seen earlier in the estreats of 1478-9. It may have been applied first by outsiders, to distinguish it from, for example, Hanley William and Hanley Child. See also note 1 (Hanley Spencer) and note 1 (Potters Hanley).
Item 245 in Toomey, 'Records of Hanley Castle', WHS 2001 |