| Description | Letters Patent of Henry VIII granting Thomas Hawkins alias Fysher, in consideration of the sum of £240 17s 6d delivered to the treasury of the Court of Augmentations, the site, circuit, neighbourhood and precincts late of the Priory of St Sepulchre of Warwick, with its houses, buildings, structures, gardens, orchards, ponds, vineries, waters, fisheries, fish-traps, land, soil, and hereditaments within its site in the tenure of Phillip Sheldon and John Raye, together with 3 closes of land called Redde, or Roode, Closes in the tenure of Thomas Eburall, a close of land called "Lynnenhillfelde" [Linen Hill Field] in the tenure of Ralph Townsende, a close of land or pasture called the Grove in the tenure of Henry Eyre and Phillip Sheldon, land and pasture called Colver Close, with adjoining close in the tenure of Lewis Smarte, land and pasture called Combewell, meadows called Garnyshe, or Garnush, Meadow and Trappes Meadow, and a pasture called "Lynnenfelde" [Linen Field] in the tenure of Thomas Breese, a close of land called Tenter Close, all in the tenure of Thomas Eburall, a meadow called Alder Meadow in the tenure of Robert Oken, a meadow called Frog Mil Meadow in the tenure of John Raye, two meadows called Palfrey Meadow and Trappes Meadow in the tenure of Henry Eyer and Phillip Sheldon, all of which lands were in the parishes of St Mary and St Nicholas, Warwick and formerly belonging to the Priory, reserving to the King all bells and lead of the buildings (except for guttering and windows), the property to be held in socage for the annual rent of 26 shillings 9 and a half pence.
Dated at Westminster, 24 Sep 38 Hen VIII.
Endorsed with brief title descriptions, date and numbered "1." in ink.
Great Seal: brown, broken, with most missing but two parts attached by cord.
Includes portrait of Henry VIII in top left hand corner. |