| Description | To Roger Frewen of Forthey and Elizabeth his wife : whereas Roger Frewen of Forthey in the parish of Hanley, County Worcester (Wigorn '), by a charter dated at Hanley on 29 August 1504, had granted to [the five trustees] all his lands and tenements, rents, reversions, services, hereditaments and possessions with all appurtenances lying in the lordship and fee of Hanley, to be held to them, their heirs and assigns, in perpetuity, of the chief lord of the fee by the services due from the property and lawfully accustomed, for the use and benefit (ad usum et commodum) of the said Roger Frewyn during his life, in accordance with his will: now [the trustees] at the instance of Roger have delivered to him, their cofeoffee, and Elizabeth his wife the whole of that messuage or tenement in which the said Roger lives, with all its lands, meadows, pastures and pasture rights and other appurtenances, and all the other lands and tenements, rents, reversions and services, meadows, pastures and pasture rights with all appurtenances in Hanley in the area commonly called Above the Broke, beyond the stream called Lesseford on the west, which recently by the above charter they had among other tenements of the gift and feoffment of the said Roger, except a parcel of land or pasture with appurtenances called Whelers Grene, lying on the west of the stream called Lesseford; to be held to the said Roger and Elizabeth and the heirs and assigns of Roger, in perpetuity, of the chief lord of the fee by the services due from the property and lawfully accustomed. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: [none given].
Dated at Hanley.
Seal: brown wax (1) illegible; (2) illegible; (3) device of letter R surmounted by a crown; (4) lost; (5) lost.
1. This charter has not been found.
2. This is the first charter explicitly to show trustees holding land ad usum et commodumad opus et usum) for another named person, although there have been several which clearly involve trustees : see Introduction, p xx.
3. Lesseford is not located, although it seems from the description here to run north-south, which would make it probably a section of Pool brook; there is a Lesseford bridge in the vicarage terrier of 1545 (WCRO BA 1531 Ref 705.134/31).
[Ref. 254 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])] |