ECR 13 946
Reference code
ECR 13 946
Title
Windsor, Berkshire: Copy of indenture
Level
Item
Date
3 May 1652
Content description
Copy of Indenture of 3 May 1652 between John Hales, late one of the senior fellows of Eton College, Richard Bateman, another senior fellow, William Smith, of Eaton, gentleman, and Anthony Barbar, late parishioner of the parish of Eton, on one part, and Francis Rowce, Provost of the College, Richard Bateman, John Bachiler, Joseph Symonds and George Goad, four of the senior fellows and William Smith esquire and other parishioners of Eton, on the other. Whereas John Bell, of Eaton, deceased, by indenture of 3 April 1639 granted Sir Henry Wootten, knight, Provost of the College, Thomas Wevar, John Hales, Daniell Collins and the above named Richard Bateman, then four of the senior fellows, William Norris, schoolmaster of the College, Davyd Stevens, clerk, Alexander Bradshawe, gentleman, William Smith, gentleman, and Roger Brag, gentleman, parishioners of Eaton, 2 messuages adjacent late in the occupation of Nicholas Sadlar, baker, and Christopher Cornish, lying in the Highe Streete of Newe Windsor, co. Berks, between the tenement then in the occupation of Edmund Hold, now of Joane Heath, widow, on the north, the Goswell on the west and the Highe Street on the east, with all their appurtenances, which he had purchased of Margery Purye, of Newe Windsor, widow, and Mathew Bell, of Eaton, gentleman for £70, of which £40 was given to the College on condition to pay 40s yearly to the use of the poor of the parish by the last will and testament of Mathew Page, a fellow of the College, and £30 was parcel of £40 given by John Chambers, another fellow, by his last will and testament, to the use of the said poor, which £30 since the time of the purchase is repaid to the Bursar of the College for the time being for the use of the said poor out of the rents of the said messuages and then remained in the hands of the Bursar together with £10 more for the seaid poor (with reservation only of the rent of £3 from Christopher Cornish, of New Windosr, who had been leased one of the messuages on 17 April 1626 for 31 years by Thomas Allen, Mathew Bust, Richard Bell, William Dee, Thomas Day and the said John Bell) a condition of the grant being that when the surviving feoffees are reduced to five or four, the said survivors shall convey the premises unto the Provost and College and four of the senior fellows and seven parishioners of Eaton as the Provost and College shal nominate, and whereas, of the said feoffees, only John Hales, Richard Bateman, Anthonie Barbur and William Smith now survive.
The said survivors now grant the premises to France Rowce and the other, on similar conditions.
The said survivors now grant the premises to France Rowce and the other, on similar conditions.
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