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Reference Number705:134 BA1531/76/101
Hierarchy Browser NumberP1531/1/76/101
TitleRemise and quitclaim by Richard Crompe junior
DescriptionTo Richard Frewen of Forthey, for himself and his heirs in perpetuity, of all possible right and claim in one and a half acres of arable land lying in Northfield (Le Northefeld), with appurtenances, as situated there and marked by metes and bounds.Clause excluding future claims. Warranty clause. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: James Knottesford, then bailiff there, Roger Frewen of Forthey, William Baughe, John Baughe, John Grove and many others.
Dated at Hanley.

Seal: red wax, device of a plain shield, legend illegible.
Dorse : lands in Northfeld Walter Frewen.

1. Presumably there must always have been some method of defining a tenant's land in the open fields, as is found in meadowland (e.g note 1), although the conventions were generally not incorporated into by-laws until the middle of the sixteenth century. Some bundles of strips might be defined by an unploughed balk, or by a hedge as the practice of enclosing increased, but stones or wooden stakes were commonly used as "metes and bounds" ; and Ault, Open Field Farming

[Ref. 220 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])]
Date29 September 1491
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