NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Assignment of dower in the presence of
the escheator,
Thomas
Compeworth
,
Henry
Michell, attorney
and deputy of
William
Wylde
and other executors of the
will of
Henry
de
Bello Monte
, and
Thomas
Gerveys, attorney
, and other friends of
John
Cressy
son of
John
Cressy
.
Dodford.
22 June. [
Compeworth].
The following buildings within the site of the manor of Dodford:
a chamber called `le nurcerye' with 1/3 garden east of it and separate use of a latrine next
the chamber; `le olde deyhous' with free ingress and egress by the door at the end of the
hall there; `le spynnynghous' with a piece of land annexed to it containing 20 feet on the
east side of the hall with free entry and exit by the doors of the hall at permitted and
convenient times; a small kitchen on the north side of the large kitchen; `le deyhous' on
the north side of the hall, the chamber above it and a little building west of it; `le
carterstable' next `le garet'; `le baillyschambre' with 1/3 garden south of it called `le
rekeyerde'; a grange next the churchyard called `le whetebern'; 4 bays of the
`shepynhous' abutting the king's highway on the east with free ingress and egress by
all the doors to the places named above. Annual value of all the above nil.Also within the site, separate use whenever and as often as she requires it of the
following:
`le bakehous', brewern, malt-kiln, `larderhous' and well with free ingress and egress;
the principal pond in the orchard whenever she needs to draw water for brewing and
other necessities with free ingress and egress by the gates, ways and paths to it formerly
reserved to the executors of
Henry
de
Bello Monte
and heir of
John
Cressy
, doing as
little damage as possible to the young fish in it when fishing from the banks; 1/3 profits of
the bakehouse or oven, water-mill and dovecot provided that she satisfies the executors
of Henry and the heir of
John
Cressy
in the matter of repairs to them; `le Overforyerd'
and `le Netherforyerd' for keeping her animals, grinding her corn and all her other
needs, provided that the executors of
Henry
de
Bello Monte
and
John
Cressy
son and
heir of
John
Cressy
are disturbed as little as possible by her occupation of them.
Also within the site: a granary in `le garnerhouse' on the north side next the door
leading to the room above, and the empty [?dovecot] in the same building extending the
breadth of the granary from the north to the west with free entry and exit; a lower
chamber between `le garnerhous' and `le swyncote'; a building called `le boterie' behind
the door of the hall of the lodge in `Dodesfordwode'; 1/3 fishery in the great pond next `le
herber' with nets and other equipment for fishing;
1/3 orchard west of the site of the manor and 1/3 of the same orchard in the west part of `le
asshyerde' as delineated by metes and bounds, annual value 2s. 6d.; 1/3 garden next the
churchyard opposite the belfry on the east; 1/3 pasture in the east part of `le herber' as
shown by metes and bounds; a piece of pasture called `Bullokeslesowe'; another pasture
called `le churchyerde'; a piece of wood in `Dodfordwode' lying in `Foxholes' and `le
Castell' as far as `le Brodemore' as appears by metes and bounds; and 1/3 lodge there
containing 3 bays on the east side called `bullokeshouse', annual value 13s.
1 1/2 knight's fee in Brockhall and Muscott formerly of
Robert
Tirwhit
, worth 150s. when it occurs;
the following demesne arable, meadow and pasture: 27 roods of arable in the east part
of `Stretfurlonge', annual value 4s. 6d.; 18 roods of arable in the south part of
`Brerefurlonge', annual value 2s. 3d.; 9 roods of arable in the west part of `le Farthyng'
and a piece of pasture in `le Launde cum Cotewell Leyes', annual value 3s. 4d.; 12 roods
of arable abutting `le Gretethorn' in `...mede', annual value 12d.; 2 roods of arable with
a headland on the west headland of those roods lying in `Fyveacres', annual value 3d.; 10
roods pasture in `Barneswell' next the king's highway, annual value 6d.; 49 roods of
arable with a close called `Midelstretefurlonge' opposite `Newenhamcrosse', annual
value 3s. 4d.; 44 roods of arable abutting `le herber', annual value 4s.; 40 roods of arable
in `le Lytelbrynk', annual value 3s. 4d.; a piece of pasture `betwene the dykes' next the
great pond, annual value 2d.; 1/3 piece of pasture in the north part of `Sydehale', annual
value 4s.; 11 roods of meadow in the south part of `le Sydehale', annual value 6s. 8d.; 10
roods of meadow in the south part of `Sixteneyerdes', annual value 8s.; 10 roods of
meadow in the south part of `le Eghteneyerdes', annual value 10s.; 9 roods of meadow in
the north part of `le Berearse', annual value 12d.; 2 1/2 a. meadow in `Cotespole', annual
value 6s.; and 1/2 a. meadow in `le Longerede', annual value 16d.;
the following rents:
from free tenants: 1/3 of 1/2 lb. pepper yearly at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist from
lands and tenements formerly held by
John
Davy
which
Henry
Michell
,
Roger
Knyght
,
Maud
Bailly
and others hold in Dodford, now worth 3d.; 2 1/2d. rent yearly from lands and
tenements formerly held by
John
Berughby
which
William
Cheneye
holds in `Over-heyford'; 8d. rent at Easter and 1 lb. pepper at Christmas from the messuage of
Henry
Michell
called `Wardeslonde'; 13s. 4d. rent yearly from lands and tenements of the
abbot of Pipewell
in Elkington paid at the two usual terms; 5s. rent at the same terms
from 1/3 tenement in Floore called `Todenham' now of
Thomas
Yonge
; 4s. rent at the
same terms from lands and tenements in Astrop formerly of
William
Bedford
but now of
Thomas
Somerton
and his wife
Emma, daughter and heir of
William
Bedford
; and 20d.rent at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions from lands and tenements in
Harlestone called `Burgeysthyng' now held by
Laurence
Dyne
;
from customary tenants: a messuage and virgate which
Thomas
Geskyn, the lord's neif
, holds in Dodford, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which
Henry
Geskyn, the lord's neif
, holds, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which
William
Geskyn, the lord's neif
, holds, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which
Henry
Davy
holds
at will, annual value 16s.; a messuage and virgate which
John
South
holds at will for 18s.
yearly; a messuage and 1/4 virgate which
Roger
Godewyn
holds at will for 8s. 6d. yearly; a
messuage and piece of arable which
William
Shaile
holds at will for 9s. yearly; a
messuage and 1/2 virgate which
Lettice
Webbe, the lord's neif
, holds for 9s. yearly; a
messuage and 1/2 virgate which
William
Gybbe
holds at will for 10s. 8d. yearly; 1/2 virgate
and a piece of arable which
Thomas
Geskyn
holds at will, annual value 10s.; a croft and
other arable lands which
Henry
Geskyn
holds at will for 11s. 8d. yearly; a piece of arable
which
John
South
holds at will for 4s. 6d. yearly; a messuage and virgate which
John
Trabber
holds for life for 16s. yearly; another messuage and virgate which the same John
holds, also for 16s. yearly; 3 a. arable which the same John holds at will, annual value
3s.; a cottage which
John
Botiller
holds at will for 2s. 2d. yearly; 14s. 6d. quit-rent yearly
at the usual terms from a messuage, virgate and 1/2 virgate which
William
Yonge
holds;
4d. annual rent at the same terms from a piece of arable called `Westlond' now held by
William
Maistre
; a toft which
William
Parnell
holds at will for 8d. yearly; and 1/2 a. arable
on `Shetysshbrok' abutting Brockhall, annual value 2d.;
1/3 perquisites of 2 views of frankpledge, provided that Christine pays the fees and
expenses due from her portion to the
duke of Lancaster
and his officials.