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ECR 39 07

Reference code

ECR 39 07

Title

Royal Patents: Grant of land in Eton

Level

Item

Date

20 December 1441

Content description

Grant to Alice, late the wife of John Houesworth, and Margaret, late the wife of John Water, of a parcel of a curtilage, sometime of Roger March, lying on the west end of the same curtilage between a tenement of the said Margaret on the south and a tenement of John Norffolk on the north and extending to the ditch of the meadow called Southmede in Eton, and containing in length 70 feet and in breadth 50 feet. To hold in perpetuity in exchange for a moiety of one curtilage lying in Eton between a tenement sometime of Walter Clay on the south and a tenement of Robert Goodgrome on the north, containing 80 feet in length and 24 feet in breadth and extending from the King's way leading through the middle of Eton towards the College of the Blessed Mary. With warranty. Dated at Eltham. By the King.

The Great Seal, green wax, on blue and red silk cords. Slightly chipped at the bottom right hand of the obverse. Ornamental penwork on the top line.

Publication note

Cal. Patent Rolls, 1441 to 1446, p.38
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