ECR 39 11
Reference code
ECR 39 11
Title
Royal Patents: Grant of land in Eton to facilitate the building of Eton College
Level
Item
Date
31 January 1442
Content description
Grant in frankalmoign, in order that the building of the College may proceed more easily, to Henry Sever, Provost, and the College of Eton of a curtilage lying on the north of the cemetery of the church of the college, containing 60 feet in length and 30 feet in breadth, called Hundercombesgardyne, which the King lately bought from William Whaplade, Nicholas Clopton and John Faryndon; and a tenement, sometime of John Rolff, called Rolffeshawe, lying between the King's tenement on the south and the land of the College called le Werde on the north and extending from the King's way leading from Windesore to le Slough to the curtilage of the College; and a curtilage lying between a tenement sometime of Walter Clay on the south and a tenement late of Robert Goodgrome on the north; and 9d yearly rent issuing from the said tenement of the said Robert; and 6d yearly rent issuing from a tenement late of Thomas Pete and Alice, his wife; the said tenement, curtilage,and rents having been lately bought by the King from Thomas Jourdeley, son and heir of John Jourdeley, of Eton; also two tenements lying together in Eton, of which one was sometime of Richard Knyght and the other of William Haryes, lying between the cemetery of the church on the south and land sometime of Walter Clay on the north and extending from the King's way leading through the middle of Eton on the west to the said curtilage sometime of John Rundercombe on the east, which the King lately bought from Hugh Aylewyn alias Dyer; and a messuage with a curtilage adjacent in Eton between a messuage sometime of William Symond on one side and a messuage sometime of Peter Eltham on the other in breadth, extending in length from the way leading through the middle of Eton to a path lately leading towards the College, which messuage the King lately bought from Robert Goodgrome alias Benorthe; and a moiety of a curtilage in Eton lying between a messuage sometime of the said Walter Clay on the south and a tenement of the said Robert Goodgrome on the north, containing in length from the way leading through the middle of Eton 80 feet and in breadth 24 feet, which the King lately bought from Alice late the wife of John Houesworthe and Margaret late the wife of John Water of Eton; and a messuage in Eton between the land sometime of William Rolff on the east and the way leading through the middle of Eton on the west, the land sometime of the said William on the south and the said path lately leading towards the College on the north, which the King lately had by quitclaim of the said Thomas Pete and Alice, his wife, by a fine levied at Westminster at Michaelmas last before Richard Neuton and his fellow justices. Dated at Westminster, by the King.
The Great Seal, green wax, on plaited red and green silk cords. Ornamental penwork on top line.
The Great Seal, green wax, on plaited red and green silk cords. Ornamental penwork on top line.
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