| Description | Sign and seal of Joh. ffoleshill.
Witness to sealing, Sam, Dawson, T. Banester.
Dimensions of house, etc., 5½ yards broad, 35 yards long, with cross building at the end.
The interesting feature of these deeds is the number of dialect words they contain. Doddells (DR0429/108) - pollard trees. To "stock" underwood to pull it up by the roots. Another word sometimes occurring in these deeds is "tynsell" - underwood, thus Hawes (DR0429/108) is to allow sufficient "tynsell" for mounding. "Hedgebote" (DR0429/114) - the right of taking wood for hedges from another's property. Shoar (DR0429/117) is not found under this form in the Dialect Dictionary, but "Shorer" - an outhouse against another building.
Will. Hawes, to whom Churchgrove was granted, lies buried with Ursula, his wife, in Solihull Church, having lived in the fear of Christ, so his epitaph declares, "to aged days." He was probably the builder of Hillfield Hall, Solihull, as his and his wife's initials are over the entrance door, with a Latin inscription, meaning "Here we are guests; in Heaven citizens." I have always heard that the late Archbishop of New York was descened from the Potters of Coventry, if so, Tho. Potter (DR0429/113) would be an ancestor.
Dated: 18 Oct, 40 Eliz. (1593) |