ECR 39 95
Reference code
ECR 39 95
Title
Royal Patents: Confirmation of grants of land
Level
Item
Date
30 May 1449
Content description
Confirmation, in frankalmoign, with the authority of Parliament, to the Provost and College of Eton of the following grants: 9 April 1446 of the reversion of two parts of the Crane and Wharve [Wharf] and lands and tenements in the ward of the Vintry in London, which Derike Pile then held for his life, also of the third part which Jaquetta late wife of the duke of Bedford then held in dower; 14 November 1448 of waters and fisheries in the Thames, with the ground and bottom thereof, lately surrendered by the burgesses of New Windsor; 21 November 1448 of the manors of Benestede [Banstead] and Wauton on the hill [Walton], with the park and warren there and all lands and tenements in Charlewode [Charlwood], co. Surrey, and the advowson of the church of Wauton on the hill, which John Merston and Rose, his wife, held for their lives in survivorship; 6 February 1449 of a house in Eton in which John Spicer lately dwelt, which the crown had from John Wolfe, Hugh Dyer and Richard Burton; 6 February 1449 ratification of a grant by Hugh Ayllewyn, of 1 April 1448, to the College of the messuage in Eton in which he lately dwelt; 6 February 1449 of the reversion of a messuage in Eton in which John Moddyng lately dwelt and Agnes, his widow, holds for life, granted to the crown by the said John Wolfe, Hugh Ayllewyn alias Dier and Richard Burton; 9 February 1449 of 15 acres of arable in Eton, late parcels of the purparty of Richard Lovell, esquire, deceased, son and heir of Margaret, sister and one of the heirs of John Hundrecombe, Knight, which lie between the toft called Coldnorton on the west and the King's way leading from Eton towards the hamlet called le Slowe [Slough] on the east and land of the Provost and College, sometime of Oliver de Burdeux, and the land of Nicholas Whaddon on the south and the land of the prior and convent of Merton and the ditch called Coldnortondyche on the north, which the crown had from Nicholas Clopton; 11 February 1449 of 2.5 acres of arable in Eton which the crown had from Richard Grove and Elizabeth, his wife. Witnesses: the archbishop, the bishops of Winchester, Lincoln, Carlisle, Ely, Salisbury, Bath and Wells, Worcester, Chichester, Norwich, Coventry and Lichfield, Rochester, St Asaph and Bangor, the abbots of Westminster, St Alban's, Gloucester, Abyndon [Abingdon], Beaulieu, Redyng [Reading], Selby, Shrewsbury, St Augustine’s Canterbury and Hide by Winchester, the dukes of Exeter, Buckingham and Suffolk, the earls of Arundel, Devon, Salisbury, Oxford and Northumberland, the viscounts Beaumont and d’Eu, Thomas de Roos, Thomas de Clyfford, Edmund Grey de Ruthyn, William de Lovell, Ralph de Cromwell, John Sutton de Dudley, John de Lysle, Robert de Moleyns, Ralph de Sudeley, John de Beauchamp, James de Say, Richard de Rivers, John de Stourton and Henry de Vessy, Knights. Given at Westminster, by petition in Parliament.
The Great (Golden) Seal, green wax, on plaited purple, blue and white silk cords and gold thread. Ornamental penwork on top line.
The Great (Golden) Seal, green wax, on plaited purple, blue and white silk cords and gold thread. Ornamental penwork on top line.
Existence and location of copies
Enrolled on the K.R. Memoranda Roll among the recorda of Hilary 32 Hen.VI [Public Record Office E.159/230]
There is a copy of this document on ECR 39/108
There is a copy of this document on ECR 39/108
Publication note
The Latin text is printed in Rotuli Parliamentorum vol.V pp.159-161 and in Heywood and Wright The Ancient Laws...for King’s College and Eton College, pp.465-473
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