| Description | To Roger Frewyn of Forthey, Richard Trigge, William Baugh, William Hanley, John Frewen of Northend, John Baugh, Roger Frewen of Church End, Richard Lechemar, William Seerde, John Cavull and John Grove of Besford, their heirs and assigns, of all possible right and claim in one messuage with a garden adjoining in Hanley, with appurtenances, between the land of William Baron and the king's highway (viam regiam), recently in the tenure of Hugh Penrice, and of all their lands and tenements in Northfield (Le Northefelde) in Hanley, as is more fully specified in a recently executed charter of John Chambr' and Richard Baron. Clause excluding future claims. Sealing clause.
Witnesses: Master Thomas Wythe, vicar of the church of Hanley and notary public,Nicholas Hanley, James Knottesford, then bailiff of the said vill, Walter Baron, Richard Teele and many others.
Dated at Hanley.
Seal: two, both lost.
Dorse : the tenement in Churchend by Walter Barons.
1. The manor had come into the Crown in 1478, and new people begin to appear in Hanley who are Crown appointees; James Walwen and James Knottesford are examples. Another Walwen, Edward, was to be bailiff of Hanley Hall submanor in 1526, and the Knottesfords, who were officials on the estates of Great Malvern priory, were to be influential in Hanley over the next few decades (Toomey, Medieval Woodland Manor, 176-7).
2. This is the first mention in Hanley of a notarius publicus
[Ref. 212 in J. P. Toomey, Records of Hanley Castle (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 2001) [q.v. for additional details])] |