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Reference Number705:134 BA1531/76/64
Hierarchy Browser NumberP1531/1/76/64
TitleCharter of Richard Stocke, William Hanley and John Tele
DescriptionGiving to Richard Lachemer four selions of arable land, of which three selions lie in length between the land of the said Richard Lachemer on the east and that of Richard Baron on the west and in breadth between the path (semitam) coming from Tobhull Lachemer on the north and the land of the said Richard Lachemer on the south;and the other selion lies in length between the land of the prior of Little Malvern called Huntewykeon the south and that of Richard Lachemer on the north and in breadth betwen the land of Richard Baron on the west and that of Roger Bagger on the east; all of which land they recently had of the gift and feoffment of John Cade in the field called Lachmerisfeldein Hanley; to be held to Richard, his heirs and assigns, in perpetuity, of the chief lord of the fee by the services due from the land and lawfully accustomed. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: Nicholas Hanley, Thomas Wyeth vicar of Hanley, William Freywyn bailiff, William Fyssher, Nicholas Crabbe and many others.
Dated at Hanley.

Seal: red wax (1) illegible; (2) device of letter W (Lombardic); (3) illegible.

Tobhull, recorded as in 1638, appears to have been just to the north of Quay Lane (WCRO BA 1531 Ref 705.134/6). This is an unusual reference to Lachemer as a place; but see also Huntewyke, probably originally the dairy farm of the huntsman (M. Gelling, pers comm), may have belonged to Little Malvern as rectory land. An Old English place name in the east of the manor related to hunting is a reminder that some of what was later choice arable land was wooded in the pre-Conquest period; the two of Hanley were no doubt hunting enclosures for the Saxon thegn, Brictric (Introduction, p xii; see also Toomey, Medieval Woodland Manor, 26-7).

[Ref. 171 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])]
Date29 May 1469
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