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	5139
	Collection
	The Seyer, Jefferies and Ellacombe Collections, with some additions The records have been catalogued in the following order: 5139/1-113 Small case of deeds (once Mr Seyers'); 5139/114-188 Large case (formerly Mr Seyers'); 5139/189, 189a, 189b Deeds added to the Museum collection in 1895, 1898 and 1900; 5139/190-243 Deeds - Jefferies Collection - Large case; 5139/244-278 Large case (Ellacombe Collection); 5139/279-280 New deed case - deeds presented by Alderman Fox; 5139/281-333 New deed case - Jefferies Collection; 5139/334-446 New case - Ellacombe Collection; 5139/447-469 Additional Seyer deeds; 5139/470 Deed discovered in the Library; 5139/471 Deed presented by E J Gibbons; 5139/472-484 Deeds presented in 1902, 1903 and 1904; 5139/485-500 Deeds exhibited in the Museum Please note that only numbers 5139/1-193 match the numbering of Latimer's original catalogue of the collection. Please see the entry for 5139/501 for full details. Note: For 5139/238 (and perhaps other deeds) see 'Earldom of Gloucester Charters' edited by Robert B Patterson, Oxford 1973, though the transcript leaves out the first sentence which shows it to be an 'Inspeximus'; see also http://deeds.library.utoronto.ca/charters/00810179
	Transferred from City Museum & Art Gallery in 1949
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	Original manuscript catalogue volume on shelves in workroom behind searchroom (given reference 5139/501 in 2019)

Thomas Ruff, of Temple Street, grants to John Gilbert two marks of rent out of a house in Radeclive Strete Price £20 Grant from Mary, widow of John de Beanneys, to Richard husband of Eufemia, her daughter, of half a house in St James's Grant from Thomas son of 'Mathie Rufi' of Radeclive to John de Beauveis [spelt on back Beauvais] of his land towards St James's Rent 6/8 and a lb of cummin as a relief on change of heirs Agnes widow of Robert Gansel quits claim to a third part of seven acres of land, held by John de Saldemere of the Prior of St James Alicia Camme daughter their of Henry, to Robert de Bathe Conveyance of a house on the [?] extending from the street to the Froom Thomas Litegrom to Richard de Tylloy, burgess of Bristol Conveyance and quitclaim of land in the hundred de la Berthorne, between the way called Cheselane and land of the Prior of St James Inquisiton taken before the mayor, at which Alan de Merkesbury proves his age on the oath of twelve men (Missing) See notes below Hugh de Langebrugge to Robert Beauflour Grant of a plot of ground on Bristol Bridge, charged with a seal of 13/4d to the Corporation Lease from the Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury to Roger Diare and Agnes his wife, for their lives, of a house in Wynche Street, extending behind to the wall of the town Rent 10s/ yearly payable to the Prior of St James Florence Pokerel to Gilbert Pokerel Surrender of a capital messuage in Tucker Street and a plot of ground adjoining Grant by Richard II to the Abbey of Tewkesbury to hold the church of St Philips (worth 12 marks a year) in appropriation, such advowson being held by the Crown as of the Castle of Bristol, now belonging to Anne, the Kings wife, for life John Ayllard, son and heir of Richard, to Richard Flaonchant Conveyance of all his land in the street in Bristol and the building and thereon, opposite the Draperie (in High Street) at a reserved rent of 30s and 3 3/4d landgable Gilbert Scrivare to Richard de Lichesfeld Grant of land in Baluanestret, with several reserved rents The same land is granted in another deed in the same year Walter Camme, chaplain, son of Henry, late of Bristol Grant of half a house in the Drapery (in High Street) with a celar in front and a selda above Reserved rent 5/ and 3 3/4d landgable The Drapery on the endorsement is styled Alto Vico Bond from Alexander Roper to Thomas Russell in £100 as security for his conveying to Russell a house etc in St Stephen's churchyard John Horncastel, son of John, burgess of Bristol to William Seward of Cheddre and Agnes Horncastel his sister Grant of a house on the Kay between St Lawrence's and St Giles's gate; a house in Frombruggestret, a house in Knyfsmythe Stret; three shops in Brad Stret; a house on the Kay adjoining a lane called Baftewalles a house in St Nicholas Street, a house in Knyfsmuthestret; and a house in High Street in the Draperia Alice de Wryngton to Philip le Longe Grant of a house in St Nicholas Street, and a small plot of ground there called Le Erber John de Wryngton to Walter le Hurst, burgess of Bristol, of a house in St Nicholastret, and also a small plot of ground called the Erber opposite the said house Robert de Wryngton, having bought of Gilbert Pokerell a plot of land in Toukare Street, near to a way called Bafte Avenue, and agreed to pay 3s yearly to the lords of the fee, covenants that if he makes default in payment Pokerell shall be entitled to distrain for it The Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury to John Heyward and Christina his wife Lease for 60 years of a house in Temple Street adjoining Houndelone Rent 20s Grant by the Abbot of Tewkesbury to Nicholas Roper of one acre of land in Rubea terra [Redland], near Bristol 'Roger de Bristoll, Weydar', of Hereford, formerly servant of Richard le Waydar, burgess of Bristol, grants to Gilbert Pokerel a house in Tucker St (also Fallon') which he had by the will of Richard de Wayder, paying a rent of 3s yearly to the lords of the fee Thomas le Teler to William Selke, rector of All Saints Grant of land and house in Scadepulle Street, extending backwards to the Laghe dich, as the neighbouring lands do Humfray le Foleur to Symound de Beauchamp Lease for ten years of a house and land at Rouge terre [Redland], in the suburbs of Bristol, adjoining land of Wat de la Pole Walter le Touker to Symound de Beauchamp, Grant of land in Redelonde in the suburb of Bristol John Frompton to Robert Cheddre, William Cheddre senior, and others of Bristol Grant of two houses in Tucker Street, another house near the Abon, and other houses Roger le Proute, of Bristol to Gilbert Pokerel, fuller, Grant of land in the parish of Temple near "Ponte Comitisse", and adjoining the sevier Abon; paying the usual dues to the lords of the fee Grant by the mayor and Commonalty of Bristol to the Prior and monks of Witham, of two houses on Bristol Bridge, reserving the usual rents and services Walter Palmer to Richard de Biauveis Grant of land in Lato Prato [Broadmead] extending thence to the street running by the side of St James's church-yard William son of William Warwyth, late burgess of Bristol, to William Canynges and John Bathe of Bristol and others Grant of a house in Westburye Lane, extending from the lane to the Lawe Dich Settlement of a dispute arising from the failure of William Adrian burgess of Bristol to pay a quitrent of two measures of ale, due to the prior of St James, issuing out of a house in the parish of St Peter William le Porter to William de Thriddelond, cordwainer, Bristol Grant of all his tenements, excepting two shops, in Lowanesmead Henry Wyvelescombe and Thomas Denebawd, of Bristol, to John Bathe Grant of a house in Temple Street, together with a void plot of ground with tenements built thereon, lying near the Rekkns, toward the common wall Nicholas Rever and John de Payneswyke, burgesses of Bristol executors of Robert Holhurst of Bristol (who, by the custom of the town was entitled to bequeath his estate there to whomsoever he chose) to John de Wryngton Conveyance of a house in Seyntenicholastrete, and a plot of ground opposite to it called the Erber Lease by the prior of St James's monastery, Bristol to John Mortok, for life, of a curtilage in the market on payment of 8d per annum, and of 3 acres of arable land outside Lafford's Gate upon Berehulle on payment of 2d/ yearly Mortok paid 10d/ for entrance and swore fealty to the Prior and his successors Richard heir of Thomas de la Redelond confirms to Emma his father's widow, half an acre of land for life, paying to the priory of St James 6 1/2 d per annum John, son of Walter Veys, burgess of Bristol to Richard Estmer of Bristol Grant of a shop, with cellar and solar behind in the Draparia in Bristol, paying the usual dues to the lord of the fee Hawisa Aylward to the Prior and monks of St James of Bristol. Gift of a house leading from Aylward's Gate towards St James's [indorsed 'Sent James' Backe'] The Friars Hospitallers of St Bartholomew of Froom Bridge to Hugh de Wytteney Grant of two plots of land which Robert Franceis had held, on St Michaels Hill Rent 12d yearly The Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury to Simon Halewey, his wife and son Lease for their lives of a house and shop in High Street between a house called Ropseld and St Mary's Street rent payable to Prior of St James 64d/ yearly Robert le Tayllour to Henry de Camme, burgess of Bristol Grant of his shop etc in the Draperia Isabella Monjoye daughter of Radulphus, to her son Robert Gift of two houses in St Nicholas Street, on this side the bridge of Havene, paying the usual dues to the lords of the fee Roger Darnell, son of Walter, burgess of Bristol to his mother Christina Lease for life of a warehouse in Coren Street which she had given to him Another deed to same same effect as that in (5139/44) Roger Darnell, son of Walter, burgess of Bristol to his mother Christina Lease for life of a warehouse in Coren Street which she had given to him Gilbert Pokerell to Nicholas de Frompton, burgess of Bristol of a house in Tucker Street and a plot of ground adjoining a street leading towards the premises called Bafte avenue John Kemys, of Knolle, son: to Matthew Smythe Conveyance of meadows or pastures called Ridglyns, and also of a house both in the county of the city of Bristol Richard Poulshin burgess of Bristol and Margaret his wife to Galfrid Beauflour, of Bristol and Agnes his wife Grant of aula and the shops, in Toukarestret, Westburylane, Thomas Street and chewhere- one near Countesslep [Thomas Babcary Street] Award of William Daventre Esq, feodarius of the great court of the Honour of Gloucester and Robert Grene, subfeodarius of the same court Reciting that the Steward of the Honour, when holding court at Bristol, demanded entertainment for his officers, [?retainer] and horses at St James's Priory for a night and a day; that the Abbot of Tewkesbury and the Prior had complained of this custom, that the steward had thereupon summoned them to show their title to their lands Lady Elizabet[h] le Desfrencer, holder of the Honour, having appointed Daventre and Grene to inquire with the rights of the monks, they affirm that the titles of the convents were derived from Robert Earl of Gloucester, and abolish the wicked custom complained of Mariot Wynton to John Russel, burgess of Bristol Grant of a shop in Baluenstret Ysolda widow of John Selarii Gift to the church and monks of St James of a house near the new Froom Gate David Harryes, citizen and grocer, of Bristol to Robert Bulter merchant, Bristol Grant, in consideration of £10, of a house and parcel of land called an orchard, now in Bulter's occupation, in Pile Street, and extending from the street, in front, to Redcliff mede behind Laurence, son of Roger Balmony to Richard le Lichisfeld Grant of land and houses in Baluonestrete Eva Selebrond to Richard Manegodesfeld Lease for 60 years of land and a house in the suburbs of Bristol paying 3 3/4d landgable rent, and 3d yearly to St James's Priory Nicholas son of Benedict, nephew of Roger Folin to William Cordewanere and Roger his brother Grant of land in Corn Street adjoining that of Richard the moneyer Reserved rent 13s4d yearly Richard de Berneys to Thomas de Weston Release from all claims and actions concerning land at Henton Russel The Abbot of Tewkesbury to Richard Worcetre, prior of St James, Bristol Power of attorney to take possession of the church of St Philip and James and receive the tithes etc, that church having been appropriated to the monastery by Thomas Bishop of Worcester and confirmed by his chapter John Cheddre to John Bernard and Alice his wife lease of a house in Scatepulle Street for their lives, with leave to pull down a 'mercunum' Humfray le Touker and Helena his wife to Symon Beauchamp Grant of land in Redland, extending from Rekkestrete to Wonwelond, and adjoining land of Wal de la Pole Paying 6d yearly to St James's Priory and rendering the customary services to it Matilda Aylward to the Prior and Convent of St James Free gift of a house in the street leading from the Aylwards Gate to St James's [indorsed 'Turn-again lane'] and also 2s/ rent The Abbot and monks of Tewkesbury to Roger Pluf of Bristol Lease in a house in Wynchestret for 70 years at a rent of 70s/ Roger to build within four years a hall and chambers, and also six ? with a portico John de Hamptone, son and heir of Thomas de Hamptone, and Idonie, daughter of John Pollard, to John Douce, burgess of Bristol Grant of a house with two shops and a cellar, situate in Corn Street John de Draycote of Redefynch, Thomas de Wyke and John de Barton and Elizabeth his wife Release and renunciation of their right to the land and houses in Tucker Street purchased by Robert de Wryngton from Gilbert Pokerel Gilbert Pokerel, senior, to Isabelle his daughter Grant of 5 shillings rent issuing out of a house in Tucker Street (Missing) See notes below Isabella widow of Garfield Horncastel, burgess of Bristol, to Robert Snowe Release and quit claim to a house and warehouse in St Nicholas Street John Waleys, chaplain to John son of Robert Bathe, burgess of Bristol Grant of three shops with a curtillage adjoining, on St Augustine's Back John Hood's power of attorney to R Hope and another, to place Henry Wyvelescombe and Thomas Deneband in full possession of a house in Temple Street and some land near the Reckes Gilbert son of Gilbert Pokerel, grants to his father and mother for their lives, a lease of a stone chamber behind his father's house in Tucker Street, with a plot of ground Another renunciation by Thomas de Wyke of his right to an estate in Tucker Street bought by Robert Wryngton from Gilbert Pokerel Similar renunciation [to that in (5139/70)] by John de Baron and Elizabeth his wife Heliseous Jeusse, Edm Segeford, Richard Tappe and John Leylond to the Priory of Witham Grant of two houses in St Nicholas Street, adjoining a house belonging to the priory in which Robert Thorn dwells, and also adjoining a house called Baker's Hall Alice daughter of Aland de Wryngton to Alan son of Robert de Wryngton, late burgess of Bristol 30 shillings rent issuing to out of a house in High Street, formerly the Drapery Nicholas Veel of Swonhugre and Robert de Egeton Exchange of lands, part of which, called de la Hulle, adjoined land of the Abbey of St Augustine, Bristol Adam Devereurs and Anneyse his wife to Symond le Beauchamp Grant of all their lands at La Redlond, and other land Hugh Hope, chaplain, to John Wynchestre Grant of a chamber situate at the back part of a shop standing on the common gout in Lewynesmede John Wynchestre, tanner, Bristol to John Stone Grant of rent and services from a house and shop in Lowenesmede, and the same from another house adjoining, and from a shop and solar in Worschipstrete Also the reversion of the tenements after the death of the tenants At a county court of Wenthlok, Monmouthshire, held at Newport before the steward of Hugh de Audeleye Earl of Gloucester and the sheriff, the Abbot of Tewkesbury was attached for toll on forty head of cattle passing through Newport But the Abbot claims exemption and produces the charters of Rolf Fitzhayme, William Earl of Gloucester and the Kings Henry and Edward Robert heir of Robert de Kerdif to William Selke, rector of All Saints, Bristol Grant of a rent of 2d issuing out of a house in Scadepulle, St Stephen's, the boundaries of which extend backwards to the Laghedich Consideration 20d William son of William Douce, late burgess of Bristol to John Bount, of Bristol Grant of a house and celar in Cornstret, adjoining the tenement of Doms Sir Nicholas Burnel William Draper to John Bathe, burgess of Bristol Grant of a house in Redeclyue Street, extending behind to the Abon; and also a garden in the suburb near Ellebrugge, adjoining to the water of Ellebrugge Missing See notes below Gilbert Pokerel to Gilbert his son Grant of a house in Tucker Street, in Holy Cross of Temple parish Rendering, after the decease of the grantor and his wife 2s/ per annum to Temple Church for masses for their souls Richard Estmere, burgess of Bristol to John Horncastel, vintner Grant of a house with celars and solars in the Drapery in High Street Robergia Yonge, daughter of John le Yonge, of Bristol to William Roleghe, chaplain Grant of a burgage in Redeclevestreet Nicholas de Acton to Robert de Holhurst, burgess of Bristol Grant for the life of Ado de Acton of a celar and a rent of 15s/5d issuing out of a house in St Nicholas Street The Prior of Witham to John Maltmon, power of attorney to take seizin of an annual rent of 7 marks issuing out of a house and shop in St Nicholas Street which Simon Canynge and Margaret his wife hold for their lives Robert Snow, burgess of Bristol to Robert Martyn and John Bernard Power of attorney to put Robert de Holhurst in possession of a house in St Nicholas Street John Snow, son of Robert to R de Holhurst Release of all his right to a house in St Nicholas Street Robert de Lydyard grants to Walter Pollard a moiety of the wall of his houses in Corn Street Price 100s Agnes daughter of Aylward de Juvenis [?Young] with the assent of Amicia her daughter, grants to Margery, another daughter, land and a house situate in the corner opposite to St James's churchyard; for which William Fitz Nicholas "nepos meus" gave 20s/ sterling and acquitted her lands of Judaism Henry King, clerk and burgess of Bristol to Walter de Merkesburi, his wife and two sons Lease for their lives of a house and land in Toukere Street at a rent of 13s 4d The lessees to build a house on the land Licence of mortmain from William Canynges, mayor, and the Community of Bristol for the Priory of Witham to hold eight houses in Touker Street A Fine between John Langerische, Prior of Witham, querant, and John Yong and Johanna his wife, deforciants concerning a house and three shops in High Street The cause was removed from the King's Court on account of the liberties of Bristol and the fine passed before Walter Derby, mayor, and Thomas Sampson, sheriff in Gildhall Nicholas, brother of John, son and heir of O de Acton to Robert de Holhurst Grant of a celar in Nicholas Street and a house in that street where Robert H lives Gilbert Pokerel to Nicholas de Frompton, burgess of Bristol Having sold to the latter a shop in Toukarne Stret, Gilbert gives permission to let him put corbels in the wall of the house where he now lives to raise the shop higher Grant of two houses in St Nicholas Street John Arthur esq to Philip Grene, grocer of Bristol Bond for the payment of 53s4d at the following Easter 1489 Apr 19 The Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury to John Brueton carpenter, Bristol Lease of a plot of ground in Castel Strete, near Newgate extending behind to the town wall; and of another plot of ground opposite St Peter's church Term 60 years Rent, payable to St James's Priory 3s4d The Abbot of Margam to John Hugges Lease of house and land in the street called la Redelond, term 70 years Rent 2s The Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury to John Walsh Esq of Olveston Lease for eighty years of a stable and land near the gate of St James's Priory, of Longmede and other lands about StokeCroft; of the tithes of Stapleton, and of the tithe of hay in the East and West marsh of St Philip A chaplain to be provided for Stapleton church Several rents reserved Harry Pountfreyt, son of Adm Pountfreyt, late Burgess of Bristol, to William Hawker, Thomas Garenter, Walter Bacheler, Simon Canynges and Margaret his wife Release and quit claim to a house in St Nicholas' Street with celar and solar adjoining Gilbert Pokerel to Nicholas de Fromptone, burgess of Bristol Grant of a shop in Toukarnestret, and a plot of ground there near the way called Bafteavenue, doing service to the lords of the fee, and paying 5 shillings yearly to the grantor Isabella, wife of Gilbert Pokerel to Nicholas de Fromptone, releasing him from the payment of the 5s/ rent issuing out of his house near Cuntasseslupe Thomas Cole of Thridlonde and Elena his wife to Walter de Taunton, burgess of Bristol Release and quit claim of half a house in Lowennesmede, extending to the Froom Fragment of 'the Rentall of Dame Katerine Browne, prioresse of the house of mare maudelen By Bristow' A rent of 8/ is received for a tenement 'new bild at Frogge Lane that beldam bulle holdyth', and 10/ for 'the grounde that Forsters Almyshouse standythe upon' Walter Merkesburgh and Robert at Hay to Thomas Pryntz, John Selwyn, and William Rusley Grant of an annual rent of one penny, issuing out of a meadow called Brodecroft, held by John Syngulday of Bristol, bowcher, for a [?term] of years; and also the reversion of the said meadow after the end of Syngulday's lease The grantors warrant it against all men Robert at Hay alone grants a meadow called Brodecroft, held by John Syngulday of Bristol, bowcher, to Thomas Pryntz, John Selwyn, and William Rusley and warrants it against the Abbot of Westminster John Hakeston to Robert, William and Roger Cheddre, all of Bristol Grant of a house in Toukerstret John Veys' power of attorney to give seizin of the property in the Drapery sold by him Chirograph of a Fine Robert Seward and Thomas Babecary querent and Geoffry Beauflour and Agnes his wife deforciants, concerning two houses in the suburbs of Bristol Beauflour secures £10 Robert Seward and Thomas Babbecary to Geoffrey Beauflour Release and quit claim to two houses with celars solars and shops on the bridge of [?Abbon], adjoining the tower there; and also to another house in the same place Hugh de Langebrugg to Henry de Frompton Power of attorney to give seisin to Robert Beauflour of a plot of ground on Bristol Bridge, granted to him, with other lands on the bridge, by the mayor and commonalty of Bristol William Hawkes, Thomas Garenter, Walter Bacheler and Simon Canynges to Henry Pountfret Grant of a rent of 52s issuing out of a house in St Nicholas Street and a celar there with solars above Grant him also 4d by way of seisin John Bount, burgess of Bristol to Adam Pountefreyt, burgess of Bristol Grant of a rent of 40s issuing out of a house in Cornstret adjoining the house of Dom Nicholas Burnel, knight, and also the house itself after the death of Thomas Copere and Alice his wife Idonea widow of Richard Ganseil, senator to the church of the Blessed Mary and St James, of Bristol and the monks of the same Grant of Seven acres of land in the Marsh, called Sceldemere for the souls of herself and family Grants the monks also a villein named John with all his litter (family) Walter Taunton and John Lange, proctors of the Chapel of the Assumption on Avon Bridge to Geoffry Beauflour Grant of a rent of 2 shillings issuing out of a tenement of his in Tucker Street Walter de la Pipe to Adam de Eggleshale Grant of a house in the marsh of St Stephen, in Scadpullestret, and extending from that street to the river Froom behind; paying dues to the lord of the fee John, son and heir of O de Acton to Robert de Holhurst Grant of a celar and house in St Nicholas Street Proceedings under a fine in the Guildhall, Bristol Richard Dryare and Johanna his wife against Henry Wyveliscombe, John Fulbroke, Walter Hert and Walter Bacheler, concerning a house in Bristol The King's precipe to the Sheriff of Bristol ordering Richard Diere and Johanna his wife to restore a house in Bristol to Isabella Arthur [See Related Material] Richard Estmere, burgess of Bristol to John Horncastel, vintner Grant of a house with celars and solars in the Drapery in High Street Robergia, daughter of John le Yong of Bristol to John Bathe, burgess of Bristol Grant of a burgage in Redeclyvestret Reginald and Pagan Cornubiens [?Cornish] burgesses of Bristol to John de Leye, of Bristol Grant of land and a house in St Nicholas Street, reserving an annual rent of one silver penny or a pair of white gloves to the grantors, of 15s 5d yearly to the heirs of Elena widow of William Fitz Nicholas, and of 15d due to the King of Hockeday for Landgable Alice widow of Richard Legat, formerly Burgess of Bristol to Adam Colesbourn of Oxford Lease for life of a house on the Were, extending from the street backwards to the Froom, at a rental of 8s/ Queen Johanna, widow of Henry IV to the Mayor and bailiffs of Bristol As the Abbot of Tewkesbury and the Prior of St Jakes have been accustomed to be paid out of the farm of the town - £14 10 to the abbot for tithes, and 60s to the prior for the rent of the mills of the town, and as these ancient payments are still due Order is given to the civic offices to make such payments in future which will be credited to them when they account to the Queen for the farm John Seymour, burgess of Bristol, and Margaret his wife to the Monastery of Tewkesbury Surrender of a rent of 3 shillings issuing out of a plot of ground opposite St Peter's Church, extending from the street to Castle Street behind Florence, formerly wife of Gilbert Pokerel, burgess of Bristol to Nicholas de Frompton, weaver, Bristol Grant of a house in Tucker Street, and a piece of ground adjoining, near Bafte aven John [?Conyr] to Robert Cheddre of Bristol Grant of a rent of 26 marks yearly, issuing out of lands and houses in Bristol and Hatherleye in Gloucestershire, granted to him by Sir Richard de Acton, John Veys and another James Cockys, burgess of Bristol to Alice, widow of William Wodeford of Bristol Grant of an annual rent of 14 marks issuing out of all his houses and lands in Baldewyn and Mersh streets Chirograph of a Fine levied in the Guildhall before William Canyngns, mayor, and John Viel, sheriff William son of Henry Frompton acknowledges two houses in the suburb of Bristol to belong to Adam Pountfreyt, receiving £40 Agreement between the Abbot of Tewkesbury, Isabella la Whyte of Bristuynt, Thomas le Whyte, parson of Cold Ashton, and John atte Celere John Stone, burgess of Bristol, having the King's licence, grants to Richard Wyrcetre, Prior of St James's and his successors, two houses in Lewynesmede, extending behind to the Froom, and also a shop in Worship Street, for the celebration of mass daily at the altar of St Thomas in St James's William Hauker, chaplain, and Walter Bacheler to Simon Canynges, burgess of Bristol and Margaret his wife and John their son Lease for their lives of a house with celar and solar in St Nicholas' Street, and a shop in the same street Rent £4 13 4 John Horncastel, vintner of Bristol, to Richard Estmere and Agnes his wife Lease of a house with celarys and solarys before and behind, situated in the Drapery, in High Street Rent £2 Philip Dovenysh [?'corviser'], to John Webbe of Westerleigh Grant of a house etc in Lowynysmede David Down, of Bristol touker to [? ____ ] Power of attorney to give livery a seisin to Robert de Bathe of a house in Redeclyuestret Confirmation by Robert Fitz Alen, Archbishop of Canterbury, of the right of the Abbey of Tewkesbury to the church of St Philip and James, under the grant of Henry Bishop of Worcester, such right having been questioned by Walter Blakeford, chaplain unduly appointed Adam le Toukare to Walter de la Pole Grant of a croft at La Redlonde, paying to grantors a rose at Midsummer and sixpence yearly to the priory of St James The same to the same, Grant of a herbary in la Redelonde Adam de Heli clerk of William Earl of Robert fil Swein of various houses etc 'in feriade Brist' Roger Darmel to John Kift, burgess of Bristol Grant of a Celar [warehouse] in Corn Street William Canynges, John Bathe, Roger Crook and Thomas Carenter to the Prior and Convent of Witham Grant of a house in Westburylane, extending from that lane backward to the Lawedich Extract from the Court roll of the manor of Dirhum and Hentone The homagers present (inter alia) that the mayor and commonalty of Bristol are free tenants, and are suit to the count, but had made default, wherefore they were amerced 6d Elizabeth Went, prioress of St Mary Magdalene's convent, Bristol, to John Smyth, merchant, London, and Margaret his wife Grant of a croft called Mawdelyn croft, in the lordship of Codrington, after the death of the present tenant, Isobel Brugge Rent 3s/4d John Stone, burgess of Bristol to Thomas Peris, barcatori (bangeman) and Johanna his wife Lease for their lives of a house and shop in Lewenysmede Rent 40s Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth granting permission to George Wynter Esq and Anne his wife to alienate to Christ, Baker and William Komer(?) a moiety of the lands etc of St James's monastery, situate in Westbury, Horfield Mangotsfield, Stapleton, Acton, and numerous other places, and of half the advowson of St James, St Michael, St John, Christchurch and St Nicholas's churches in Bristol John de Wycombe, burgess of Bristol, to Geoffry Beauflour and Agnes his wife (grantor's daughter) Grant of two houses and two shops in Bristol Bridge adjoining the tower thereon, also of other property on the same Thomas le Blount to [John the Cook of the prior of] St James's Bristol Grant of a pair of gloves received yearly from John Welissote out of certain land in the suburb extending from the street in front to the cemetery of the monks of St James's behind Gilbert Pokerel, senior, burgess of Bristol to Gilbert his son Grant of a stone chamber behind his dwelling house in Tucker Street and a plot of ground adjoining John son of Walter de la Pole to Simon de Bello Campo (Beauchamp) Grant of a rent of 4 shillings issuing out a house etc at La Redelonde Gilbert Pokerel, senechals to Thomas Hany Power of attorney to give siezin under deed No (5139/148) Henry Brayne Esq to his son Robert Brayne, Thomas Morgan John Morgan, Thomas, George and John Brayne and Thomas Carpenter Grant, in trust, of a mansion adjoining the gate of St James's late Priory, and certain lands at Stokes Croft and the neighbourhood, also Greenes Mill, Ashley, and lands at Little Deane, Gloucester:, to the use of (grantor's) wife and her assigns John de [?Tokintoune] and John Cook grant, for the salvation of their souls and those of their parents and successors, the sum of 3s 5 3/4d issuing out of a house in Redelonde for the purpose of providing incense for the daily celebration of mass at the altar of St Mary in St James's church Philip de Longe, burgess of Bristol, to Thomas Dencbawe Power of attorney to deliver seisin to Adam Pountfreit of a house and a plot of land called Le Erber in Seyntiscolastret (sic) At the Court of Thomas Storton Thomas, son and heir of William Chauntrell and Emmote his wife, to Elisha Jeusse, chaplain, Edmund Seggeford, Richard Tappe and John Leylond Grant of two tenements in St Nicholas' Street, adjoining to a house occupied by Robert Thorne and belonging to Witham Priory, and also adjoining a house of Richard Vaghan's called le Bakers hall Roger de Waterford, with the consent of his wife, to Reginald de Bath Grant of a rent of 2 shillings issuing rent of a house in Baluinstrete, saving a pound of cummin to the Priory of St James William Daleweye to [? ] of Holy Cross, Temple and John Peautrer Grant of a house in Baldewyn St Richard Venator (Hunter) and Idonea his wife to the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St James and the monks thereof Grant in pure alms of seven acres of land in the marsh under Cadbrook in a field called Scealdmere, and further gift of a serf John, son of Ailwin with all his sequala (family) Indenture made between the Prior and Convent of Witham and Thomas Felter John Felter and Richard Weteweder, in termination of a dispute between the two parties concerning the half of a wall and a leaden gutter between their respective properties in Redcliff Street, extending thence to the Avon Witnessed by Thomas Knapp, mayor, John Bannebir sheriff, Richard Hanforde John Berton, bailiff, William Canyngs, John Folbrok, Henry Wyvelescombe William Selke, chaplain, to the church of All Saints Bristol Grant in pure alms for finding a lamp to burn nightly in that church, for the benefit of the souls of his father, mother, ancestors and successors, a rent of 2s yearly bought of R Kerdif Thomas Lamier (executor of John Bernard, of Bristol, chosen by the Bishop of Worcester's commissary and admitted by Roger Turtle , mayor, the executors named in Bernard's will having refused to act) To Hugh le Holdere, tailor Conveyance of a house in Scatespulle Street, Bernard having directed by his will, according to the custom in the liberty of the town, that the money arising from such sale should be devoted to the purchase of masses Alan de Merkesburi of Bristol to Robert de Wryngton, of Bristol Grant of a house in Touker Street Alicia Mansel to the Priory of St James - Release and quit claim, in consideration of 3s/6d, of a reserved rent of twopence payable out of a curtilage in la Redelande, near the causeway leading to Beggar's Well Robert Mountjoye, burgess of Bristol, to Adam Pountefroyte, of Bristol Grant of a celar, with a solar built above it, in St Nicholas' Street The Mayor and Commonalty of Bristol to Robert Beauflour Grant forever of a shop on the bridge of Abon, paying the rent of 13s 4d Bond of Robert Brayn Esq, of Saint James, Bristol in £200 for the payment of £100 to Matthewe Smythe, on All Saints Day, 1564, at the font of the Temple Church, London, between 2 and 4 o' clock in the afternoon Arthur Kemys of Bedmystre, gentleman, to Philippe Grene, of Bristol grocer Recepit for £16 7s 4d in full satisfaction of 225 marks due to Kemys for the ward of marriage of his nephew John Isouda, widow of Hugh de Cahreston to William Selke, rector of the church of All Saints Bristol Grant of land and buildings in Scadepulle extending from the street in front to Lagedich behind Reserving to the heirs of Robert de Kardif 2 shillings yearly, and to the grantor a pair of gloves as a penny Consideration money, £2 Eufemia, daughter of John Beaneys, and William her son to Robert Pistore Lease for sixteen years of a house and curtilage, with vineyard, and also of two houses lying in a street called la Sante (or Cance) toward the priory of St James, reserving a celar and a [?parrtam distpnsam] Rent 13s/4d yearly Robert de Wryngton to Agnes de Merkesburi, widow of Walter Lease for her life of a house in Toukare-Stret Rent 16s/ yearly John Wynchestre, tanner, of Bristol to John Stone, of Bristol Grant of a shop in Worsschipstret held by William Bedel, butcher, and of two houses in Lowenismede The Abbot of Tewkesbury to Simon Haleway, burgess of Bristol his wife and son Lease for their lives of a house in High Street, bounded on one side by St Marys'tret Rent 64s/ Henry Braine, lord of St James', and Robert his son and heir to William Edon (who signs his name Eten) his wife and daughter Lease for the three lives of a house and garden surrounded by a wall, situated on Brandon Hill Rent, a chick at Michaelmas [Sep 29] Chirograph of a fine Jeronimus Songer, complainant and John Kemys deforciants concerning houses and land in Bristol Kemys receives £240 Hawise, Countess of Gloucester (wife of Earl William) to St James's church, Bristol Gift of a burgage in the New Borough (Newport) The executors of John Kyng, burgess of Bristol to Nicholas le Hokaire Grant of a house in the suburbs of Bristol William Earl of Gloucester to the monastery of St James, Bristol Grant of his land at Esseley (Ashley), and of the fair which he had at Bristol in Whitsun-week Also the tenth penny receivable from his mills in the New Borough in Wales (Newport) and the tenth penny of the rent of that town and the same amount from a forest, and from mills at [?Woth] [[?] Seyer makes it 'Eboth'] [?Rumia] and Stapleton And all his tithes outside the borough of Bristol which belong to his Berton, and the tenth penny of the pigs' pannage and of the cows herbage and various other petty revenues, pannage in the wood of [?Kingeswda] etc And the water of the Frome, fishing etc, from the bridge at Stapleton to the mill at Leowenath Extract from Court Roll of the manor of Saint James, Bristol, Sir William Compton Steward of the monastery Surrender by Agnes Cory, widow, of lands and a house near Stokes Croft, and a new lease for lives granted to her son on payment of a fine of £10 The Abbot and convent of Tewkesbury, to John William alias Bythell, of Bristol, brewer, and his wife and son Lease for their lives of a house belonging to St James's priory, situate in Lewyn's mede, extending backwards to the wall of the Friars Minors Together with a spring of which another tenant of the monks shall have the use, and a path six feet wide reaching to the common gout of the priory; by which path the lessee shall built a wall, the Prior finding stones and lime Rent 20s, payable to the Priory Fine, property in Bristol and Mangotsfield Twelve deeds and leases relating to land at North Langley and Langley Burrel, Wiltshire Isabel, widow of Richard Arthur to Edm and John Frensch Power of attorney to give seisin of a house in Redeclyve Street, extending backwards to the Abbon, to St [?Hywekscombe] and others Bond of Robert de Bath, burgess of Bristol, tot he mayor etc of Bath, in £10, to leave them in peaceable possession of a house in Walcote Street Bond of Robert Brayne Esq of Bristol, to William Rede, for £300, to assure the performance of [?cruenants] Release of Isabella Adam Barren to the Priory of St James Grant, after his death or after becoming a monk, of a rent of sixpence issuing out of a curtilage in Baluenstret of William de Cayrdif; also a pound of cumin for grantor's life For which the monks have received him and all his relatives living and dead etc John Hood burgess of Bristol to Dom John Waleys, priest Grant [?Quit claim] of three shops with a curtilage annxed on St Augustine's Back William (illegible) and Christina his wife of Bristol to the Prior of St James' Lease of house and land for a term of years Henry Bishop of Worcester to the Dean of Bristol, the sectors of Trinity and St Werburghs and the priest of St James' parish stating that the bishop had been induced to grant a license for consecrating a piece of ground for a burial place for St John's parish; but having been since informed by the Abbot of Tewkesbury and others that the parishoners of St Johns used to bury in St James's cemetery, he revokes the license, and forbids any one to consecrate the ground or use it as a burial place The Dean is to signify anything which may be done in the matter under his seal of office Elena, relict of Ade de Wynton, clericus, late burgess of Bristol, to Benedict de Wellis, burgess of Bristol, grant of a rent of 20 shillings issuing out of a house in Radeclyve Street with appurtenances extending to the Abone, in the occupation of Ralph Actesburrie, and in the fee of Lord Thomas de Berckely Yielding a rose yearly for ever Aslam Frensch, fletcher (arrowmaker) and Burgess of Bristol to Walter Martyn coburgess Release and quitclaim to the half of a messuage in Redeclyvestret, between 1 tenement of John Barstaple and that of Sir Thomas Walsch, and extends to the Avon behind Harry Lampany of Bristol, tanner, to Allyn Hill, merchant Lease for 21 years, of a house and two cellars upon the Quay Fine 40s Rent £3 13 4 Edmond Weston Esq of Oldland, Gloucester: to Thomas Rowland of Bristol merchant Conveyance in consideration of £280 10s 4 of three houses in Small Street (of which one is a great messuage, now in the tenure of William Young merchant); a tenement garden and orchard on St Michael's Hill (bounded on the south by the garden of Nicholas Thorne gent); a tenement adjoining to the crowd of St Nicholas Church; two void pieces of ground in St Stephen's parish extending from Marsh Street to the Quay; a void piece of ground on St Augustine's Back with a lime kiln therein extending to the lands of the hospital of the Gaunts; a tenement in Christmas Street; ten tenements and seven gardens in the Rackhayes, St Nicholas Parish, with other void ground and gardens there; and a rent charge of 13s 4d issuing from lands etc formerly of John Esterfielde of Bristol merchant, but now belonging to the almshouse of the three kings of Colleyine Bartholomew Tabor of Blandford Dorset and Sara his wife (only daughter and heir of Thomas Rowland mentioned in 5139/190 and Elizabeth his wife sometime the wife of Richard Langford, then of Rowland, and lastly of Francis James, DCL) to Thomas Hopkins of Bristol merchant Conveyance in consideration of £800 of the great house in Small Street described in 5139/190 'late in the tenure of the said Francis James' and the two tenements adjoining it; also three other houses in Small Street, two houses in Christmas Street, ten houses in the Rackhayes, two gardens on St Michael's Hill, the ground and the limekiln on St Augustine's Back now converted into a garden, and the above rent charge of 13s 4d Memorandum of livery of seizin added Court Leet of the Manor of Pembridge Admission of the Rev George Bengough, son of Henry deceased, as customary tenant Dr Ironside, Bishop of Bristol, Sir Thomas Brydges of Keynsham, patron of St Mary le Port, and the Rev Robert Forsith, incumbant of that parish, to Elizabeth Stretton,of London, widow Reciting that 16 years since, during the recent usurpation the church became vacant and so continued for several years; during which period the feofees of the parish entered upon the parsonage house and a piece of then void ground adjoining, and granted a lease of them to Thomas Harris, of Bristol brewer, father of Mrs Stretton, for 61 years; whereupon Harris built two tenements on the void ground extending from the church porch to the upper end of the church, and the buildings were then inhabited by four traders - two grocers, an ironmonger and a tailor New lease now granted by the bishop, patron, and parson, for 51 years, at a yearly rent, payable to the parson, of 42s Letter of Administration to Mary Weaver, sister of John Weaver, of Bristol, lately deceased in Maryland Indenture between James Crofte, of Bristol, gent, and two London lawyers, declaring that Crofte had lately levied a fine on his capital house and garden in the parish of St Werburgh, but that the true intent and meaning of that act was to the only use and behoof of himself John Lock, of Bristol merchant, to George Gibbes of Bristol, brewer Conveyance by feoffment, of one acre of meadow ground lying in Redcliffe mead, in the parish of Bedminster Consideration, £18 Certificate of seizin endorsed Exemplification of the Recovery Roll, concerning houses and a garden in the town of Bristol (indorsed 'Smal Street') Appointment of Thomas Watson, of Bristol, gent, as a commission to take affidavits in the Western counties, Bristol, Gloucester etc Sir John Hungerford to John Rowland of Bristol, merchant Grant of three houses and two gardens in Small Street, also a garden adjoining Church Lane, St Michael's Hill Robert Foley, son and heir of Robert Foley of Stourbridge, deceased and others to Timothy Parkes, of Bristol Lease for a year accompanying a Release of the great house, gardens and stable in Small Street, successively in the occupation of John Dowle, Thomas Hopkins, Richard Holworthy, James Croft, Robert Foley the father and now of Robert the son Bartholomew Tabor of Blandford, Dorset and Sara his wife, only daughter of Thomas Rowlande merchant, Bristol deceased and Elizabeth (nee Slocombe) his wife (who after Rowland's death became wife of Francis James DCL) to Thomas Hopkins of Bristol merchant Conveyance in consideration of £800; of the great house described above 'late in the tenure of the said Francis James', also of five other houses in Small Street, two in Christmas Street, two in Marsh Street, ten (with seven gardens) in the Rackhay, a garden on St Michael's Hill, another on St Augustines Back, and a yearly rent of 13s/4d issuing out of the almshouse of the Three Kings of Cullen Thomas Rowland, of Bristol merchant, to Thomas Slocumbe of Bristol alderman, settlement of the above property in view of the marriage of Rowland to Elizabeth Langford, Slocumbe's daughter Chirograph of a Fine Thomas Rowland querent and Edm Weston Esq, Ann his wife, and other deforciants concerning 18 houses etc in the parishes of Wesbury, St Michaels, St Nicholas, St Stephen, St Augustin and St Thomas Rowland gives the deforciants 400 marks Dr Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Bristol, Sir Thomas Brydges of Keynsham, patron of St Mary le Port, and George Willington, parson of that church to John Gamlen, of Bristol cordwainer Reciting that during the usurpation, and about 16 years since, when the living was void, the feoffees of the parish, leased two pieces of void ground near the church to Gamlen and another person, who built erections thereon, of which one messuage now remains Lease to Gamlen of this ground and house for 38 years at a rent of £4 2s payable to the parson Indenture between Francis Aldworth of Bristol merchant son and heir of John, deceased, Alderman Robert Aldworth, and others Reciting that a Recovery had been recently suffered concerning certain lands at Congresbury etc belonging to Francis Declaration that such recovery was only for the better assuring of his estate Indenture between Sir Thomas Gore, of Barrow, Sherriff of Somerset and John Lockyer of Irelchester, gent, undersheriff Covenants by the latter for the due performance of his office Bond of Edward Davis, keeper of the gaol at Ivelchester, and others to Sir Thomas Gore for the due performance of his office Institution by the Bishop's Official Principal of Hugh Waterman MA to the rectory of St Mary de foro, alias St Mary le port, vacant by the resignation of Josiah Pleydell James Croft of Bristol merchant to Robert Foley of Stourbridge Esq Lease for a year, accompanying a conveyance, of the great house, two gardens and a stable in Small Street, successively in the occupation of John Dowle, Thomas Hopkins, Richard Holworthy and son of Croft Chirograph of a fine between Foley and Croft to assume the title of the above property Croft receives £100 Writ of Summons to Thomas Cave, William Elton, John Clark and James Harford to answer William Whitehead in a plea of trespass Will of William Cooke, of Bristol chirurgeon (Probate) Leaves his house property in Froglane, Redcliff Street and Congresbury to his wife Temperance, for life, and afterwards to his daughters Margaret and Temperance Conveyance of the great house in Small Street by Robert Foley to Timothy Parker Thomas Snow [Crewe], late of Wotton under Edge, Elizabeth his wife and Thomas his son to Thomas Walford of Kingswood, with clothier Release and quitclaim of their interest in three houses and certain lands in Kingswood William Turney and Joan his wife to William Sewy Grant of half the manor of Tatewyk, Gloucestershire Rent 106 s 8d Bond in £6000 from Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farley Castle, Sir John Seymour, of Bitton, Sir Robert Cooke of Hynam, Gloucestershire Edward Stevens, of Sodbury, William Capell, of Wrington, Richard Cole of Nailsea, Clement Walker, of Charterhouse Hydon and others, to Richard Aldworth and other Bristol merchants, for the repayment of £3000 in six weeks Covenants by William Holland of Bristol gent and Dorothy his wife that they will forthwith levy a fine to assure their right to one half of the rectory of Olveston, (held on a lease for lives) Alderman Richard Aldworth and Hugh Browne, and 14 other persons, feoffees of All Saints Church lands to Giles Gough, of Bristol whittawer Lease (after the expiration of a lease still held for three lives) of a house in High Street called the Green Lattice adjoining at the back a capital messuage Known as the New Inn Rent £24 Joane Lacye, of Bristol widow, coheir of William Tyndall, late of Bristol merchant to Richard Cole of Bristol mercer Reciting that the [?confursation], in 1555, sold to Tyndall a close of pasture within the limits of the lately dissolved house of Grey Friars, extends from Bartholomew Lane on the west into a lane of St James's in the east; and also a void piece of land adjoining the above on the north, and extending from a house occupied by one Jay towards a pinion late parcel of the quire of the Friar's church the grantors reserving a rent of 40s for the former and of 13/4 for the latter plot Conveyance of the estate to Cole in consideration of £30 Henry, Earl of Worcester to Edward Mason, of Monmouth, gent Lease for 21 years of three pieces of land between Monmouth and Radbrook Rent £5, and a couple of fat capons, and the usual lord's service with horses and oxen Will of Joan Tanner of Monmouth Detailed bequests of apparel and furniture John Wheeler of Great Jernemouth Norfolk to Leonard Holmes Confirmation of a feoffment to Holmes of a house in Jernemouth Chirograph of a Fine Arthur Taylor and another querent, and Robert Price and others deforciants Houses and gardens in Temple St Thomas, and St James's parishes Price and others secure £100 Francis Hardinge, of Shercott, Wilts to Robert Mychell of Marlbrough Lease for three lives of a house in the High Street, Marlborough, Rent £2 Alderman John Browne to Thomas Fraise, sailor, of Bristol Lease for two lives of a house in Marsh Street Rent 13/4 Queen Elizabeth, as Duchess of Lancaster, to Francis Jauncy Renewed lease of land at Over Asperton, Herefordshire Christ Kenne Esq of Ken, Somerset to John Garland alias Tovy and his two sons of Long Ashton Lease for their lives of house, land, wood etc, parcel of the manor of Ayshton Thaynes, situate at Rowneham together 'with the part of the said common recovery in the passage of Rowneham' Rent 18 shillings Indenture of apprenticeship William [?Goughe] of Burbage Savage, Wiltshire to George Aly of Marlborough, carriyer (Copy) Exemplification of a common recovery Houses, lands etc, at Butcombe, Nempnett, Wrington, Blagdon and other places, Somerset John Pester and Richard Deane against John Seward Indenture of Apprenticeship: William Goughe, son of William, late of Marlborough, to Robert Mychell of Marlbro', goldsmith, Term 9 years Mychell to give two suits of cloaths, one for hoildays the other for working days, at the end of the term Henry, Earl of Worcester to Edward Mason of Monmouth, gent Lease for 21 years of land at Dixton Rent 20/ and two fat capons, and rendering service to the lord with horses and oxen Thomas Partridge of Lernard Stanley, Gloucestershire, yeoman to Agnes Cloterboke, widow, of the same place Grant for 1000 years of a house, garden, and a quarter of one yard of land, called Newark, Cousins settlement of the property on the sons of Agnes in tail male, who may successively claim it in the parish church during divine service by paying one shilling to the minister for the poor Reserved rent one penny The Abbot and Convent of St Augustine's to the Fraternity of Kalendaries, Bristol Permission to erect a house on the north wall of the church of All Saints, for their habitation To be 30 feet in length, and 23 in breadth towards Corn Street, but the floor of the church not to be narrowed or lessened John [Carpenter], bishop of Worcester, to John [?Henlaw], prior of the Kalendaries of Bristol Reciting that John Chaunceler and Edith his wife, of Keynsham, had given 100 marks for the rebuilding of the ruinous tenements, of the Kalendaries Directs that the prior, in return, shall preach four special sermons yearly, two at Keynsham, one at St Augustine's Abbey or at the cross near it and one at Redcliff church, in which the people were to be urged to pray in the Chauncelery and for their souls after death, the fraternity being also required to [?aepeal] certain collects from them The Bishop executed the deed at Westbury, the Kalendaries in their chapterhouse, and the mayor William Canynges adds the confirmation of the corporation Walter, abbot of St Augustines, to the Kalendaries, reciting deed no. 5139/233, reciting also that the prior and Richard Haddon, executors of the will of John Haddon and Cecilia his wife, for the good of the latters' souls had glazed curtain windows of All Saints church and affected other work. Licence to rebuild a house over the Lady Chapel in the North side of the church, with a gutter on the north side, in a street called le Oldcornstret 'Sir' Thomas Tyson, parson of St Stephens, and the churchwardens and feoffees of that parish Reciting that the above parties as well as the rest of the parishoners, were agreed that it would be to their common advantage and commodity if an exchange were made of a part of the chancel of the church with part of the nave thereof Tyson therefore surrenders 'all the lower part of the chancel or guire...' in length north and south 18 foote...and in bredth12 foote from the lower end and step of the chancel' In consideration of which, the churchwardens etc give up to the parson 'all that hier pte of the southe ile...being p'cell of the navye or body of the church ...ernteyning in bredth est and west ten foote and a half clere from the vestrie door there downwards into a newe p'ticion there made and as now yt is abreddy enclosed...and doth conteyne in length 19 foote from the southwall unto the other old chauncell home northwarde' To be taken and accompted for ever as part of the chauncell, for burials and otherwise, with all profits therefrom Confirmation of the exchange in (5139/236a) by Dr Bullingham , Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol David, chaplain of the church of St Stephen; William, chaplain of St Peters and Walter Tanner, executors of Margaret, daughter of Roger Fitz Stephen, to the monks of St James's Bristol Grant of eighteen pence yearly, issuing out of a house in Scadapull Street for an anniversary Mass for the donor and her father and mother Inspeximus of the Abbot and Convent of Gloucester, of a charter from William Earl of Gloucester dated 2 Ides January, 1148 The earl granted to Tewkesbury abbey, for the good of his soul and of the souls of his ancestors, all those churches that belonged to Robert the chaplain, son of Hamon, the Earl's grandfather The churches comprise St Peter, Holy Trinity (Christchurch), St Michael and St James in Bristol and a great many others Robert de Leya to Hugh de Penne, rector of Stanton (Oxford) Grant of ten selions of arable land near the land of Sir William de Harecourt; and 3 acres and 1 rood of arable land in the field of Leya Paying yearly 5 1/2d Consideration received 39s/6d Thomas de St Walter (probably Walerious) to William son of Nicholas de Leia Restores 20 acres of land recently cultivated, that his father took from Leia's father To be held of grantor and his heirs free of service, Leia paying 2 marks of silver Mandate of [Bishop] Reginald of Bath protecting the possessions of the Carthusians of Witham against wilful alienation, encroachment or other violation, and ordaining, with the consent of the chapter of Wells, that their lands and livestock in the parish of Cheddar should henceforth be quit of tithes, oblations and other customary dues The Lady Margery de Basingg, widow of Sir Robt, to Henry Burkre of Malynes Grant and quitclaim of 8 marks of yearly rent from six shops held by John de Southroymmes, chandler, in the Old Jewry in London; and also of all right to a house in the lane and parish of St Martin Orgar, London Francis Codrington of Bristol, merchant to Arthur Smythe of Bristol merchant and Ellen his wife late the wife of John Rowlond, merchant Acknowledgement that Codrington has received of the Smythes five potts of evidences (deeds) belonging to the estate of Thomas Rowland, now living, son of Thomas deceased, in Small Street or elsewhere Codrington to pay the Smythes 20s yearly until Rowlond is of age Feoffment from William Jeyne, of Bristol merchant, to John Suche, of a house, Corn Street Conveyance by Edward Dyer, of Weston, Somt, to John Morse, of Banwell of a house etc at Churchill and Winscombe Consideration £22 Further assurance of the same estate by feoffment Feoffment from Thomas Edwards, of Bristol gent, to John Symond of Hutton, Somerset, of half an acre of ground at Clapton (Carrying out an agreement made by the parties when Edwards recently purchased the manor of Clapton from Sir John Smith Baronet Edward Gorges and John Pigott Robert Browne, of Bristol, haberdasher to Henry Slye of Bristol sopemaker Conveyance of a house on Bristol Bridge Price £60 Similar conveyance to (5139/247a) in Latin Mary Bubb of Bristol, widow, to Francis Knight of London, John Knight the younger, and Edward Browne, gent both of Bristol Lease for a year (accompanying a conveyance) of a corner house in High Street, situate between the Bull tavern and St Nicholas Street Christopher Tovey of Bristol sopemaker to Thomas Edwards of Tickenham, clerk and Elizabeth his wife, only sister of John Slye of Bristol gent, deceased Lease for 2 1/2 years of a kitchen and buttery lying over the back part of a cellar or vault belonging to a tenement on Bristol Bridge in which Tovey's late father dwelt Rent 1d William Martin of Hanham, gent, and Thomas M of Bristol, sopemaker, his son to John Baker, of Bristol merchant Lease for a year (accompanying a conveyance) of a house and land at Hanham Jeremy Holway of Bristol merchant to Robert Latimer of Roade, Somerset, clerk and Sarah his wife (niece of the late Sarah Kitchen of Bristol) Lease for a year (accompanying a conveyance) to Sarah of a close of land at Doynton Conveyance and feoffment from James Baylie of Bristol merchant and to William Jeyne of Bristol merchant, of a house in Corn Street Thomas Long of Upton Noble, Somerset to William Judde of Brenton Somerset Lease accompanying a conveyance of a moiety of a house and lands called Tibbett Farm at Sciston, Gloucestershire Edward Morgan of Downsey, Wilts, to Henry Slye of Bristol, Sopemaker Feoffment of a house at the end of Bristol Bridge in a street vulgarly called Radcliff Street With a bond in £200 from Morgan to perform covenants William Hinton of Cirencester, Woolcomber to Edward Beirt of Naylsworth, clothworker Assignment of a lease for 900 years (granted 25th Elizabeth [1582 Nov 17 - 1583 Nov 16]) of a house and garden at Naylsworth Sir Ranuffe Sadleyer of Stonedene Herefordshire, Chancellor of the Duchy to David Harrys junior, of Bristol, gent Conveyance (for £32) of two houses in Bristol, one in Wine Street adjoining Newgate gaol and the other in Fysher Lane, adjoining a house of the Tailiors' Company John Northall of Bristol gent, to William Yeman of Bristol, grocer, whose daughter Northall had married Reciting a deed made on the previous day conveying six houses in Christ Church, All Hallows, St Stephen's and St Leonards to Yemans and others Declaration that the only intention of the deed was to carry through a recovery of the estate for the benefit of Northall, his wife and their heirs Henry Slye, of Bristol, sopemaker toWilliam Pester, gent and John Smyth both of Bristol Conveyance of four houses on or near Bristol Bridge (one occupied by Robert Rogers, alderman) a house in Corn Street near All Hallows Pipe, two houses in Tucker Street (one near the Pelican) a lodge and part of a garden in Pile Street, and an orchard adjoining Temple Gate Nominal consideration Counterpart of (5139/258a) John Whytte of Bedminster and Alys his wife to John Northall of Bristol Illegible Bond for £400 from John Whighte to John Northall supposed to relate to the above deed Reciting that Whighte had received £195 and was to receive £95 more from Northall for the purchase of his brewhouse etc in Wine Street, let at £8 13 4 and a house adjoining let at 50s Covenant to convey the same in the fee simple before Lady Day next 1550 Mar 25 Henry Slye of Bristol, William Pytt of Bristol woollen draper and Edward Batten of Bristol gent Reciting that Slye had recently levied a fine of five houses on or near Bristol Bridge and on the property in Corn, Tucker and Pile Street mentioned in No (5139/262) Declaration that the sole object of the fine was to assure the estate to his mother for life and afterwards to himself Bond for £100 from Michael Sourdeley of Bristol apothecary, to Slye and his wife, to fulfil covenants Edmond Moyses, of London, haberdasher to Robert Browne of Bristol haberdasher Conveyance (for £30) of a house on Bristol Bridge, purchased by Moyses from Miles Wilson, but formerly belonging to Phillippe Halle, gent Further assurance of a house on Bristol Bridge, purchased by Moyses from Miles Wilson, but formerly belonging to Phillippe Halle, gent by feoffment Institution by the Bishop of Gloucester's Commissary (Dr Leigh) of Thomas Brooks DD to the rectory of Westcott, Gloucestershire William Wardforde of Bristol brewer to George Snugge of Bristol merchant Conveyance (for £140) of a house and gardeine in Baldwyne Street, another new built house with gardeine in the same street, and five houses in Marsh Street Henry Brayne of London, Esquire to William Appowell of Bristol, merchant son of the King's pursuivant Conveyance (for £16 16 8d) of a house in Corn St, between the house of John Smyth merchant (formerly belonging to Bath Abbey) on the west, a house belonging to the Kalendaries of Bristol on the east, and a house called Walsors In on the south Covenant by Brayne to Execute further assurances of the state Henry Brayne of London, Esquire to William Appowell of Bristol, merchant son of the King's pursuivant Feoffment (in consideration of £16 5s) of of a house in Corn St, between the house of John Smyth merchant (formerly belonging to Bath Abbey) on the west a house belonging to the Kalendaries of Bristol on the east, and a house called Walsors In on the south, which is now stated to have formerly belonged to the Priory of St James Livery of a seisin Thomas Apowell, parson of Tillysford, Somerset, heir of William Apowell of Bristol deceased to James Baylye of Bristol merchant Conveyance (for £18) of the above house Declaration by Humphry Hooke of Bristol merchant that in 1650 Sir John Seymour of Bitton and other members of his family mortgaged to Giles Earl of Bristol gent for £1100 his manor and lands at North Stoke, and that this mortgage had since been transferred to Hooke, but that the latter's name was used solely for and on behalf of his grandfather, Humphry Hook senior Declaration by the above named Giles Earle that the mortgage made in his name was really to the use and behalf of John Creswick of Bristol who advanced the money to Seymour Transfer of the mortgage in (5139/269) from Earle to Hooke junior Thomas Younge, of Banwell, Somerset and Johane his wife to William Prowse of Churchill, gent Conveyance by feoffment (consideration £60) of a house at Churchill, formerly belonging to John Morse of London Mrs Younge's brother John Northall of Bristol gent, and William Yeaman of Bristol grocer, to Charles Baugh of Bristol, glover Declaration that although a fine was recently levied of a house in Wine Street by Northall and Yeaman, it was not designed to destroy Baugh's interest in the estate Quitclaim from William Geere of London to George Swanley of Wainsworth, Surrey, of his rights to the manor place or mansion house or late Priory house of St James, Bristol, assigned on the previous Apr 1 by Allan....(illegible) of London, Esq to Swanley William Gibbes of Bristol sopemaker to his son William of Bristol shoemaker Grant of a house and lands at Bitton William Gibbes of Bristol shoemaker to Richard Perre of Bristol shoemaker Reciting that Gibbes holds from Nicholas Thorne of Bristol merchant a lease of a house and land at Stapleton, and that he also holds in right of his wife, Margery, widow of John Tailor, a leasehold estate at Hanham Conveyance of both to Perre for the use and behoof of Gibbes' wife and his children John, Philipp, Richard, Harry, Anne and Judith William Gibbes, junior, of Bristol cordwainer to Robert Phillippes of Westbury, Wiltshire Lease, in consideration of £100, of the above estate at Hanham for three lives Thomas Younge, of Bristol grocer John Weston, of Winterbourne gent and William Jones of Hanham husbandman to William Gibbes of Bristol cordwainer Gibbes having, in accordance with a decree in Chancery, paid over £30 to Thomas son of John Tailor deceased (whose widow Gibbes had married) for his rights in a tenement at Hanham, Younge and the others give a bond in £100 that Thomas Tailor shall give a full acquittance on his coming of age Sir Gilbert Gerrard of the Pell Mall, Westminster to Sir Baynham Throckmorton of Huelsfield, Gloucestershire: Reciting that Charles 2d had by warrant appointed £1500 to be paid to Sir Gilbert and £1000 to be paid to Sir Nicholas [?Throckmorton], out of the first moneys to be received as compositions upon fines for trespasses in Kingswood Chase or for encroachments by the lords of the soil there Assignment to Sir Baynham of Gerrard's interest in the said warrant as regards the £1500 The Writ of Priory Seal granting £1500 to Gerrard and £1000 to [?Throckmorton], who had prayed for some relief 'in respect of' their services and sufferings for us and our royal father' Wednesday after the feast of St Gregory (March 18) Robert, son and heir of John Cartere, late burgess of Bristol, to Thomas Marche, Baldwin Milton and John Cornwail, tuckers and burgesses Realease of all his rights to a house etc in Temple Street, situate between the tenement late of Walter Kebbe and the tenement of the above Baldwin Milton and others, having the street in front and the Lawe Dich behind Grantor's seal being little known, the official seal of the mayor is added Thomas Farmer, of Laffords Gate, victualler, to John Elliott of Barton Regis, yeoman Bond in £200 to fulfil covenants in a lease granted by him to Elliott by a deed of the same date Sir Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire and Sir John Sydenham, of Brympton, Somerset Covenants by Poyntz to settle estates at Hill, Iron Acton, Tockington, Latteridge, Frampton Cotterell etc on the approaching marriage of his son John with Sydenham's daughter Ursula Susanna Veel of Bristol to Francis Parmiter of Tockington, gent Lease for fifty years (if Susanna shall so long live) of one moiety of the tithes of Tockington (such tithes formerly belonging to the College of Fardinghay, Leicestershire, having been purchased by her father, Thomas Veel, from Thomas Lloyd, of Bristol, brewer) Consideration £40 Indorsement by Parmiter that he was acting in the matter only in trust for Richard Hawksworth of Alveston, gent, to whom he assigns all his interest in the indenture Another indorsement: 'Nota bene Richard Hawksworth herein mentioned and his heir Walter Hawkesworth, who sold his right in these Tyths to St D were and are still Quakers though they did without scruple receive and use the Tyth fruits so many years' Andrew Boureman of Wells, Somerset: gent, to Thomas Webbe, of Beckington, Somerset:gent Bargain and sale of 'all that portion of tythes...arising out of...the parish of Tockington' formerly belonging to Fardinghay College and purchased by the vendor in 1586 from Thomas Hanbury of London Consideration £100 John Vanbrugh, of Whitehall, Middlesex, to (his sister) Victoria Vanbrugh, of St Margaret's, Westminster Grant in consideration of £100, of an annuity or rent charge of £20 a year, payable out of Vanbrugh's 'new erected theatre', for a term of thirty years if Victoria shall so long live An indorsement, stating that the writer had hitherto believed the annuity was for her life, having never before looked into the deed Having been 'receiving money' not my due...I leave this in hopes you will believe I did never designe to defroud you' Will of John Gore, of Bristol, gentleman devises all his lands and houses not otherwise bequeathed to his great grandson John, son of Paul Weston of Bristol grocer Leaves his great grand-daughter Elizabeth Weston his interest in a house called the Bear and Bedminster, and the sum of £100 Bequeaths £5 each to Henry Priest of Bristol butcher, his wife and two daughters £3 each to Alice Gunter and Elizabeth Morgan, widows, for mourning Devises to Benjamin Perrott of Bristol, glassmaker and Marmaduke Boudler of Bristol draper all the rest of his estate in trust for his grand-daughter Hannah Weston, wife of above Paul, for her sole use Great grandson to be sole executor [Codical also; see Notes below] Codicil ordering that the legacy of £100 to John Gore, of Bristol, gentlemans' great grand daughter shall not be paid until she marry or come of age If she die, the money to be paid to Mrs Weston Deed between Mary Holworthy, widow of Alderman Holworthy of Bristol James Croft of Bristol merchant and others Reciting that the alderman by his will of October 1643 had ordered the sale of his house in Small Street, the proceeds to be paid - one half to his wife, and the rest equally amongst his eight children, seven of whom were sons, and one of these was since dead under age Further reciting that Croft had purchased the house for £900 after many efforts had been made to sell it for more; and had paid £200 on account and given bond in £1000 for payment of the rest Agreement that if Crofte paid the remainder at certain fixed dates that his bond should become void Assignment by William Gibbons Esquire of Bristol, representative of William Gibbons Esquire deceased last surviving assignee under the bankruptcy of Richard Thomas and Paul Farr merchants Bristol (fiat issued in 1778) to George Gibbs, junior, and George Fisher, junior, merchants, new assignees under the bankruptcy, appointed for dealing with effects still undisposed of Thomas Mallard Herbert of Bedminster, woolstapler, son of Edward Herbert of Bedminster, woolstapler, deceased, to Henry Bengough Esquire of Bristol Release from the trusts of a marriage settlement made in 1792 on the marriage of Edward Herbert with Betty Smithfield of Henbury, both of whom had since died Documents enclosed referring to the will of Betty Herbert Richard Holworthy of Bristol merchant to Thomas Fownes of Plymouth and Richard Longe of Bristol merchants Reciting that Holworthy is about to marry Mary Blake of Plymouth, widow, with whom he is to have a marriage portion of £500 Undertaking by him to grant to her, if she should survive him, for the remainder of her life all that 'great messuage' with two gardens and a stable in Small Street, in his occupation lately occupied by William Young gent and some time by John Dowle and Thomas Hopkins gent Standing between a house now occupied by the said Hopkins on the south and a house occupied by Bartholomew Ellyot on the north and extending from Small Street to a house of [?____] Olyver and a garden of Sandefords on the west Further recital that Holworthy had, in 1607 Nov, purchased of John Barker of Bristol merchant one sixteenth of 'all manner of wynes called Pryse wines' due to the Crown but granted by Queen Elizabeth for 37 years to Sir John Young in 1571, and regranted by James I for a further term of 38 years to Hieron Ham and John Barker in 1603 Transfer of this estate to Fownes and Long, in trust to pay the receipts to Holworthy for life, then to his widow for life, and then to Holworthys heirs Jasper Cause, tanner, of Elbroad Street Bristol and Johane his wife to Mary Tooker, of Barrow Mortgage for £450 of a house and three limekilns near Cheese Lane, other land and houses in that locality occupied by Jacob Elton and others, and a farm at Lacock, Wiltshire Interest 6 per cent Nicholas Dupeine of Bristol, cook, executor of Jane widow of Gilbert Huband, barber surgeon, to Ralph Olliffe, alderman and John Romsey town clerk of Bristol Reciting [?Stuart] Olliffe and Romsey had that day become bound for the repayment, by Dupeine, of £100 to Sir Robert Cann, [?Baronet] Assignment to them of a lease of a plot of ground the corner of Castle Street and Peter Street, granted by the corporation to Edward Lockston in 1661 Sep, for 41 years on which two houses had since been built; also of two houses in Peter Street held on a lease for lives by the above Hubard; with power to the assignees to raise £150 on the estate, £100 to be paid to Sir R Cann and £50 to Dupeine as a loan Power of attorney from Christofer May of Charterhouse Hidon, Robert May, of Hutton, his brother, John May, of Codrington, also his brother, Alderman John Gonninge of Bristol and John his son, late sheriff to the three persons to deliver seizin of the manor and estate of Charterhouse and lands at Witham Friary, Bleadon, Cheddar and Priddy, to Clement Walker, of Westminster, to whom they had been that day granted sold and conveyed Henrie Hobson of Bristol, innholder to George Gibbes of Bristol, brewer Conveyance by feoffment of seven acres of meadow (lying in four parcels) part of a common meadow commonly known by the name of Redcliffe Mead, near St Mary's church Also of an orchard in or near Pile Street, near Temple Gate Consideration: £100 Anne Parker, daughter of Timothy Parker Esquire of Bristol deceased, to Edward Gore Esquire of Bristol Reciting an assignment of 1700 Sep, made previous to the marriage of Gore with Elizabeth Parker, widow (mother of Anne) whereby £1100 belonging to Miss Parker with certain moneys of Gore were placed in the hands of trustees Reciting also that in April 1699 Sir John Duddleslone Baronet and other feoffees of All Saints parish granted to Timothy Parker, on a lease for lives, a house in Small Street, situated between a house formerly occupied by Alderman Andrew Charleton and then by George Linnel, gent on the north and a closehouse and garden ground belonging to the house of Richard Holworthy, deceased, and afterwards of James Crofte, since of Anthony Gay, merchant and then of John Blackwell, mayor, being the inheritance of the said Timothy Parker, on the south; extending from Small Street on the east to the said garden ground on the west Further reciting that the above trustees since the death of Mrs Gore had paid over to her husband certain moneys, and that a sum of £150 was due from him to Miss Parker Conveyance to him, in consideration of the £150 of all her and the trustees' interest in the leasehold house in Small Street Assignment from Robert Brown of St Philips', carpenter, to Joseph Oliver, grocer and Miss Elizabeth Warren, both of Bristol, of his interest, in right of his wife, in a lease granted in [?1733] Sep by Thomas Warren, of Bristol tanner and Sir W Cann Baronet to Henry Fletcher of Bristol dyer (father in law to Brown) for three lives, of a house known as the Crown, situate in the street called St George's Street, also Stroite Street, in Southwark, in the parish of St Philip and Jacob Brown's wife the only life surviving Consideration £2 Timothy, Joshua and Hungerford Powell of Bristol, merchants to James Antrobus of Redcliff Hill, shoemaker, and others Lease for thirty nine years of a house in Dowry parade Rent £3 John Chock, of Bristol, boddice maker, to Daniel Burcombe, of Sodbury, baker and Mary his wife (widow of Chock's son John) Assignment for the benefit of Mrs Burcombe, of part of a property held under lease from the corporation, described in the original demise of 1656 as 'two stables situate in the inner green of the Castle of Bristol and a plot of ground behind the same, extending to the water of the Castle Ditch or full sea mark', on which houses had afterwards been built Francis Rogers of Bristol, merchant to Matthew Hunt, of Oldbury, Thornbury, yeoman Lease for seven years of Roger's five rocks in the Severn, and right of fishing in the Loadpool in Thornbury parish Rent £20 clear of taxes, and one salmon yearly in May John Henniker of Newton Hall, Essex to Joseph Vowles of Compton Martin, Somerset, yeoman Lease for the life of Vowles's son (after the termination of an existing lease for five lives) of a house and land, being part of a Tenement called Downe Woods in Compton Martin Consideration £25 Rent 6/8 Deed of which large pieces have been torn off endorsed 'James Hellier to Robert Swayne [of Bristol] in trust for Mr George Perry Assignment of a messuage and close of ground situate at Doynton...for a term of 1000 years to attend the inheritance' Exemplification of a Common Recovery Houses and land in all the parishes in Bristol, belonging apparently to James Taylor Ann Alexander of Bristol to William Cook of Bristol maltster Lease for 21 years of a house and garden in Redcliff Street Rent £10 10 Temperance Cooke, of Bristol, widow, to James Ogborne and Sarah his wife of Butcombe, Somerset Defeazance accompanying a mortgage for £500, of equal date, of a house and land at Butcombe Ann Parsons of Bristol, only child of Timothy Parker deceased to Edward Gore Esquire and Elizabeth his wife (Ann's mother) Reciting that Parker's widow, before her marriage with Gore, had in 1700 conveyed to trustees, for her daughter's use, the moiety of a moiety of certain houses belonging to her late husband, who died intestate; but that the property had not been sold; and that on an account being made, £700 were due to Ann for her share of her late father's personal estate Acknowledgement by her that Gore had paid her £700, and release from further claims as to personalty Lease and Release Fiennes Trotman Esquire of Siston Gloucestershire to Joseph Williams of Charlton, Gloucestershire yeoman Lease of a farm at Charlton, of 101 acres Rent £95 Receipt by the Dean and Chapter of Bristol to Thomas Walter, executor of the Rev Hugh Waterman, late prebendary of the cathedral, for £300, being a legacy bequeathed by him to the chapter for the augmentation of livings in their patronage Roger Kemis of Bedminster Esquire to Thomas Tomlinson of Bristol, innkeeper Conveyance, in consideration of £72, of a house and garden in West Street, Bedminster, an acre of land in Butts Lane, a stitche of land in Honeywell, an acre of meadow in Redcliff Mead, and three acres of land called Whitemead bounding on Deane Lane, Sheephouse Lease and the brook running to Treen Mills Samuel Lloyd Harford, Sir Richard Vaughan, Philip John Miles, John Scandret Harford, Charles Gray Harford, William Miles, William Henry Harford and Thomas Kington, junior, trading as 'Harfords and Bristol Brass and Copper Company' to three trustees acting for the Birmingham Mining and Copper Company Conveyance, in consideration of £400, of leasehold premises at Morriston, Glamorgan Another copy of the lease of Mr Powell of a house in Downy Parade The Bristol Brass and Copper Company (for partners, see notes below) to Richard Edmonds of New Cross Surrey Assignment in consideration of £2500, of leasehold works at Swansea called the Forest Copper Works Exemplification of the Recovery Roll Lands etc in St James's Bristol John Greene against Henry Milborne and another Articles of agreement executed previous to the marriage of the Rev Hugh Waterman, junior, vicar of Olveston, Gloucestershire with Margaret only daughter of Temperance Cooke of Bristol, widow Mrs Cooke undertakes to pay over £900 to Waterman's father (Rector of St Peters and Mary le Port) and another, who are to pay the interest to Waterman for life, then his wife for life, and then to children She further assigns her lease of a house in Redcliff Street to the like uses And as Margaret Cooke will possess a leasehold estate in the parish of Congresbury after her mother's death Waterman junior undertakes to assign his coming interest in it to the trustees, who are to pay the proceeds to himself for life, and then to his wife etc John Sherborne of Chew Magna to George Campbell of London Mortgage for £100 of 'one farundel of land of old Auster' at Chew Magna, held under a lease for lives granted by Sir C Kemeys Tynte of Halswell, Somerset John Greenfield of Bedminster, yeoman and John Lawford alderman and grocer, of Bristol, to Sir Hugh Smith Baronet KB of Long Ashton Witnesseth that in consideration of £47.10s and of an undertaking by Sir Hugh that he will convey to Greenfield three acres of Land at Knowle, Greenfield and Lawford grant and enfeoff to Sir Hugh three parcels of ground in the parish of Bedminster being part of Redcliff Meads (Two of the parcels were bounded by ground 'belonging to the late dissolved Hospital of St John Baptist in Bristol and now of Sir Hugh Smith') William Young of Bristol draper to Richard Holworthy of Bristol merchant Conveyance (for £600) of 'all that greate messuage' with two gardens etc, sometime in the tenure of John Dowle, gent., then of Thomas Hopkins and now of the said Young, situate in Smale Street, between a house now occupied by Hopkins on the south, and a house occupied by Batholomew Ellyott on the north, and the house of [?____] Olyver and the garden of [?_____] Sandford on the west Indorsement of livery of seizin by Edward Batten, attorney (Colston's grandfather) Indenture (names illegible),[?formal declaration] by the burgesses and commonalty of Ilminster of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin and Stephen Lushington DCL as members of Parliament Gabriel Sherman, mayor of Bristol and Walter [?Dcyos] of Bristol merchant to James Crofte of Bristol merchant Conveyance to Crofte in consideration of £900 of the great house in Small Street formerly Young's and afterwards Holworthy's and now occupied by Joseph Jackson merchant Elizabeth widow of William Pepwell, gent and Michael Pepwell of Bristol merchant, her son, to Thomas Gunnynge, senior, of Tatwick; Gloucestershire: Alis his wife and John his son Lease for 3 lives in consideration of 200 marks of the site of the manor of Tatwyke and its appurtinances Rent £7 14 4 Acknowledgement of numerous owners and occupiers of river side land in the parish of Bitton that their claims for compensation etc had been fully discharged by the company for making the Avon navigable from Bath to Hanham The Hon John Spencer to Charles Vanbrugh Esquire of Greenwich Assignment of £2200 of South Sea Company's stock (part of £19000 if such stock standing in the name of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, but really Spencer's) for securing the repayment of a loan of £1100 Lady Vanbrugh, widow of Sir John, and Charles, her only son, to Ann widow of Charles Vanbrugh Esquire Lease for 75 years of coach houses and stables at Mary's Hill, East Greenwich Rent £1 10 Sir John Newton of Barrs Court, Gloucestershire and Grace his wife to Robert Vowles of Badgeworth Somerset Feoffment (for £72) of two pieces of land at Badgeworth and Wedmore, in the manor of Badgeworth The feoffees of Compton Dando parish, Somerset, to Benjamin Taylor of Publow, tanner Lease for two lives of a cottage and garden Earl Poulett to Susannah Wimpenny of Cleve, Yatton Lease of a new house, garden and three yards of ground at Cleve, for two lives William Reeve merchant to Daniel White, blockmaker and ironmonger, both of Bristol Lease of a house and workshop on the Key, St Stephen's parish, for 21 years Rent £40 George Dighton of Bristol, brewer, to his brother, William, also of Bristol, brewer Reciting the purchase by their mother of a little parrock of pasture near Kingsdown, adjoining ground known as Kendall's Mead, and a pool and paddock near the closes called the Montagues Reciting also that the mother in her will directed her trustees to conevy two houses in Lewin's Mead to her son William, while a recently built house on the paddock near the pool at the Lower Montagues, was bequeathed to her daughter Katherine Bound for life, remainder to Mrs Bound's eldest child for life, and remainder in fee to William The deed then witnessed that George with his co. trustee Thomas Horne, prebendary of the cathedral, in fulfilment of the will, do release and convey to William two houses in Lewins Mead and the house and paddock near the aforesaid pool Agreement made between Thomas Albert of Worcester gent, and Martha his wife, Nathaniel Wade of Bristol Esquire and others, that for the purpose of barring entails and remainders and vesting a clear estate in Albert , a fine and recovery shall be levied and suffered of all the that capital house within the precincts of Bristol Castle in the tenure of Arthur Hart Esq with the gardens and orchards belonging to it 'the entrance into which is out of the late Castle Green, now called Tower Street', bounded on the south by two gardens of Thomas Goldney deceased and the Froom next to the Weir and the Castle Ditch on the north and east Thomas Hopkins of Bristol, merchant, to William Younge of Bristol, draper Feoffment conveying the great house in Small Street garden and stable lately occupied by John Dowle, gent, and now by the said Hopkins Consideration £600 Grant by the Mayor and corporation of Bristol to Henry Lloyd and Abraham Elton sheriffs (in consideration of £167 for which they have given a bond) of the wharfage duties on goods entering inwards or outwards from Bristish ports, and of the town customs, town duties petty duties and sheriffs duties on goods imported from or exported to foreign parts (the wharfage dues on foreign goods held by the Merchants Society excepted Also all tolls, estrays fines forfeitures etc usually farmed by the sheriffs (not executed) John Yeamans, senior, George Mason and Abraham Elton, of Bristol merchants (executors of Edward Tilly, whitetawer, deceased) to the feoffees of St Peters (numerous names) Reciting that the feoffees two days before, in consideration of £105 had granted the executors a lease for 100 years at a peppercorn rent of a house in Broadmead occupied by Edward Green tanner The executors now redemise the property to the feoffees in consideration of a rent of £9 yearly for 21 years, and of a peppercorn for the rest of the term Another copy of the lease of Messrs Powell of a house in Dowry Parade Will of John Heylyn of Bristol merchant To be buried in a vault purchased by him in St Stephens, where a monument is to be erected, the inscription of which he formulates Devises estates at Frampton Cotterell and Iron Acton to his children in tail male; failing children to his uncle Henry of [?No] Carolina and to his children in tail; remainder to John, eldest son, of uncle Edward; remainder to Edward, another son, remainder to Charles, another son, remainder to Henry another son, remainder to children of John in tail etc To Bristol Infirmary, £500, To the parish of St Stephen £50, to be invested for a yearly distribution of bread To his wife Elizabeth his chariot and horses, (if any) £100 for mourning £500 for one year's housekeeping, his cellar of wines and wearing apparel, and the use of furniture china etc for life Also a copyhold estate in Essex for life (He had settled two estates in Suffolk upon her as jointure) Somes legacies for mourning 'I do hereby give to the library in King Street...Bristol, under the direction of the mayors etc...all my late father Dr Heylyn's Manuscripts and Manuscript sermons and all my Library of printed books which I judge may be about 1400 in number And I desire the corporation will permit the Bureau Book Case in which I usually keep my books of account to be deposited in the said Library to contain all my Manuscript books old letters papers and books of account etc for my executors ...to have recourse to when they think proper And I give to the librarian five guineas for his case of the same ' Gives to each two guineas and to each porter one guinea who shall belong to the Copper Warehouse in which he is a partner Residue to be divided equally amongst his children, if none, to eleven of his relatives equally Will of John Heylyn, citizen and saddler, London, (grandfather of John Freeman junior) Three preferment deeds of the Rev Dr Heylyn (father of John Heylyn junior) with autographs of Dr Gibson, Bishop of London A deed referring to an estate at Peckham of Dr Heylyn's Queen Elizabeth's license to John Seymour Esquire and Thomas Seymour to alienate the manor of Gastling alias Frampton Cottrell, and lands in Westerleigh to Gabriel White Esquire and John Webbe Award of Edward Batten and Matthew Cable of Bristol, gent to whom had been referred the disputes existing between Henry Gibbes executor of William Gibbes, brewer, and Phillipp Gibbes, draper Letters of administration to William Gibbes and Margery his wife (alias Taylor) in the estate of John Taylor deceased Robert Brayne Esquire of St James's near Bristol to William Gibbes, senior of Bristol sopemaker Conveyance by feoffment of a house and a virgate of land at (Hanham) the parish of Bitton, late in the occupation of John Tailor jun Livery of seisin indorsed John Poope, gent to Henry Brayne (father of above) Conveyance by feoffment (for £20) of the above estate, part of the lands of the late abbey of Lacock, granted to Pope by Henry [?8] Letters patent of Henry 8th granting the manor of Charterhouse Hipton, Somerset, part of the lands of the late convent at Witham to Robert Maye Consideration £784 18 Acknowledgement by Thomas Taylor of Hanham of the receipt of £30 due to him from William Gibbes of Bristol Margere Lacy, widow, of Hanham to her brother in law John Lacy junior of London clothworker Release of all debts etc from the beginning of the world to that date John Pope of London, gent, to John Taylor junior, of Hanham Lease for lives of a tenement and one yarde of land John Weston of Westbury to William Gibbes of Bristol cordwainer Bond in £100 to abide the issue of an arbitration to which Thomas Tuillor and Thomas Younge are parties Dame Penelope Newton and John, her son to Nycollas Fox of Bristol saddler Lease (in consideration of £125) for three lives of Conham Mead (7 acres) Rent 7s William Brage, of Crix Essex toWilliam Aleyn of Bristol, merchant Lease for a year (accompanying a conveyance) of the Grange estate in the parish of Bitton Thomas Taylor of Hannam Quit claim and release of tenements in the possession of William Gibbes of Bristol cordwainer Berkeley Seymour Esquire of Bitton to Charles Bave M D Thomas Attwood and Ralph Allen, all of Bath Sale (for £12) of the tithes arising from the land taken in Bitton parish for rendering the Avon navigable from Bath to Hanham Mills Robt Brayne, of St James's, Bristol to William Gibbes senior of Bristol sopmaker Another conveyance of the property described in deed no (5139/336) Philipp Gibbes draper heir apparent of William Gibbes, brewer deceased, to Henry Gibbes, brewer of all Bristol, conveyance, in consideration of £110, of his house and land in Bitton; and also his two houses in Marie Porte Street Exemplification of a Common Recovery by Henry Slyz and Johanna his wife against Edward Morgan, of two houses in Bristol Gervais Newton of Harptry, Somerset; his brother Sir John of Barrs Court Baronet, Jane Sacheverell (their sister) John Selwick and Penelope his wife (another sister), Frances and Eleanor Newton (sisters) and Mary Marwood (neice), to Edward Lassells of London, merchant Lease for a year (accompanying a conveyance) of the manor of and mansion of Southley Buckinghamshire Gervas Newton 2nd son of the late Sir John of Barrs Court to Stephen Weston of Easton, Buckinghamshire Reciting that in the preceding April Sir John mortgaged to Weston for £1000, the manor of Southley, Buckinghamshire and that Sir John, at his death, was indebted to Francis Woodward, of Grimsby, Gloucestershire in £500 being part of the wedding portion promised to him on his marriage with Sir John's daughter Dorothy Weston having undertaken to pay this sum, Gervas further mortgages the Southley estate as security for repayment Thomas Stephens Esquire of Little Sodbury to William Blathwayt, Clerk of the Priory Council Mortgage for £1000 of the manor and lordship of Old Sodbury Inquisition at the Lamb inn, Lawfords Gate, concerning one of Francis Creswicke's lawsuits respecting Kingswood Probate of Will of Jane Slye of Bristol widow Bequeaths to Henry, son of her son John her pound salt of silver guilt, 3 silver bowls gilt, her second best bed and a quantity of household stuff; also for life a house on the Bridge, paying a rent of 1d to his father Gives 20s/ to Edmond Slye of Temple Street; to Ann Whitson a silver casting bottle, to Bridget Whitson a ring, to Goodwife Willett her russet cassocke, to Thomas Kedgewyne a silver trencher salt, to others, small legacies; to the poor of the city £5, to the hospital £5, for purchasing bedding Her son John to be heir to her lands and executor The two overseers of the will and their wives to have sufficient puke cloth of 20s a yard to make them gownes for her funeral, and her son to apparel six men and 18 women in black frieze for the same occasion Exlemplification of a judgement in an ejectment case Maria Meredith complainant House in St James's Parish, Bristol Exemplification of a judgement in an ejectment case Maria Meredith complainant House in St James's parish Bristol (Copy) lease and release Undertaking by the vestrymen of St John's, Bristol (of whom Abraham Elton is one) to produce the original deeds of which (5139/357a) are copies, if required Mary Bubb of Bristol, widow, and Edward Browne late of Bristol now of London to Elias Barrett junior of Marshfield Lease (accompanying a conveyance) of a corner house in High Street, bounded by the Bull tavern on one side and St Nicholas Street on the other - held under a conveyance dated [1553 - 1554] from the Corporation of Bristol at a fee farm rent of £3 11 8 Samuel Nathen of Alderley, Gloucestershire and his sister Mary, widow of Thomas Hill, to Thomas, so of the latter Assignment of estates at Horsby and elsewhere, vested in trust by Hill the father for the benefit of his son John Whittuck of Hanham, gent, to Joan Crew of Oldland, widow Lease for three lives of cottages and land at Oldland Rent 10s/ Will of John Spicer, bequeathing part of the above estate, bought from Crew Samuel Whittuck of Hanham, gent, to Sampson Morton of Oldland Lease in reversion of the above premises Agreement between Henry Wasborough of Horfield, gent, Edward Smyth of Frocester, clerk and Edward Hancock of Bristol clerk Nicholas Read of Bristol gent, and Nicholas Read of Bitton, gent to Arthur Farmer of Bristol, brewer Conveyance by feoffment (consideration £1090) of a house called Trumplinge and several pieces of land in Bitton, purchased by the Reads in 1632 from Lord Berkeley Nicholas Read of Bristol gent, and Nicholas Read of Bitton, gent to Arthur Farmer of Bristol, brewer Conveyance by feoffment (for £280) of additional plots of land at Bitton, acquired as before John Northall of Bristol, gent, son of Rowland, son of John, deceased and William Yeaman of Bristol grocer to Henry Gibbes, of Bristol, gent Conveyance by feoffment (for £525) of three houses in Wine Street, one occupied by Gibbes George Wynter of Dirham, Gloucestershire: to Sir Charles Blount of Maple Dirham, Oxon and William Whittington of Coldeston, Gloucestershire (copy) settlement of estates of Dirham and Henton also Hinton; also of the manor of St James's, Bristol, the rectory of St Philip, Bristol, and all other property in these places, with the object of continuing the estate in the name and blood of the Wynters, and to prevent it falling to issues female The trustees to pay the profits to Wynter for life, then to his first and other sons in tail male In default of males, to his brothers, John, Benedict, Henry, Cecil, successively and to their sons in tail; in default; the estate to go to grantors uncle William, of Clapton Somerset and to his sons in tail, then to Robert, Edward William and Frederick, sons of Sir Edward Wynter of Lydney, successively in tail male In default of all, to grantor's right heirs Livery of seisin executed same day Sir Thomas Day and Anne his wife Nathaniel Day senior and Hester his wife, Nathaniel junior, heir of Nathaniel, and Elizabeth his wife, all of Bristol to John Travers and John Baldwin (Elizabeth's trustees) Reciting a decree in a pending Chancery suit and that Nathaniel junior, on his recent marriage with Elizabeth Warren - both being minors - had received £1612 10s, as her portion The two elder Days and their wives undertake to forthwith levy a fine in favour of the trustees of the house called the Red Lyon in Redcliff Street, near St Thomas's Church (The Bear inn, the Wyredrawers' Hall, the Well House, and the house lately occupied by Ezekiel Longman are mentioned in the boundaries) in order that the property might be settled on the young couple and their heirs [An order enclosed; see notes below] An order by the Master in Chancery in which Nathaniel Day senior, is styled Major, and Nathaniel Junior is said to have paid £1500 to his father on being admitted to one half of his business Complicated deed, reciting that two traders in Bath had mortgaged estates for £1350, borrowed from three ladies one of whom was Miss Elizabeth Banks of Bristol; and had then advanced £1500 on mortgage of an estate at Charlcombe borrowing the difference of £150 from Thomas Edwards of Bristol Declaration by trustees, of whom Robert Gate, Robert Henley and Thomas Coules of Bristol are three, that the £1500, when prepaid shall be divided amongst the parties interested Francis Creswicke of Hanham Court, Esquire to James Marmion, goldsmith of London Reciting the grant of Kingswood Chase to Sir B Throckmorton for 60 years, his mortgage of it for £350 to Mary Baskett, and her transfer of the mortgage to Creswicke and two others Conveyance, in consideration of £270 of Creswicke's third share Agreements between Francis Creswicke Thomas Stubbs of Stapleton gent, and Stephen Chapman of Bristol, gent, the joint purchasers of the lease of Throckmorton [5139/278a], for the management of Kingswood, the deer, etc John Fox of Marshfield, clerk, and Elizabeth his wife to Thomas Edwards of Shrevingham, Berkshire, son of Mrs Fox Gift of a leasehold kitchen and buttery with cockloft, lying over the back of a cellar belonging to a house on or near Bristol Bridge, purchased by Mrs Fox whilst a widow of C Tovey's heirs Indenture between William Edwards Esquire, and George Weare, grocer of Bristol, Thomas Hodges of High Littleton, gent, and Thomas Edwards Esquire Henry Walter, draper, and Thomas Weare, senior, mercer, all of Bristol Reciting that Weare senior held a lease of the prebend of Bitton, tithes etc Settlement of Beach farm, Bitton, part of the estate, for the benefit of his grand-daughter, child of his late eldest son Sir Theodor Newton of Barres Court to Avis wife of Thomas Meade Lease for lives of a cottage at Hanham Rent 2s 5d John Craven of Bristol, tobacconist Conveyance (for £51) by feoffment of the house in Ballan Street in which Craven lives Edmund Bond of Elsmore, St Briavels' to Samuel Whittuck of Oldland, coal miner Grant for 21 years of the right of coaling in the royalty of Gee Moor, alias Joyce Moor Rent 2s/ for each 20s/ of coal raised Richard Jones of Hannam Esquire to John Bush of Bitton, yeoman Conveyance by feoffment (for £14) of two closes as parrocks of land Sir Charles Kemys Baronet cousin and heir of Ann Kemeys of Nash Somerset; Baroness Kinsale, widow, and Thomas Edwards of Bristol and John Codrington of Wraxall Esquire Reciting accounts of the estate of Ann Kemeys including a mortgage of Nash House to Edwards, and another for £2000 A new mortgage of £2716 made to Codrington to pay off Edwards and other creditors William Foord junior of Broadwell, Monmouth to Thomas Edwards junior, and others of London Reciting that Rodmore house and lands at St Briavels were formerly mortgaged to Sir William Hayman (of Bristol) for £1250, and that Hayman's widow and Edwards, who had married his only child, had foreclosed the mortgage, when the estate was sold to Foord for £1130 Foord now mortgages the estate to Edwards and his trustees for the amount of the purchase money Probate of will and codicil of Sir John Newton of Barrs Court, Baronet Leaves all his estates in Lincoln and Gloucestershire to his second son, Gervas, (his eldest being dead) Copy of codicil enclosed John Seymour, late of Bitton and William Jones of Westerleigh to John England of Bristol merchant and Andrew Innys of Bristol gent Conveyance (for £1230) of the manor and estate of North Stoke, excepting certain houses, in one of which, called Walkers, Sir John Seymour, John's grandsire formerly lived John Seymour, senior of Bitton Esquire Sir John Newton John Berkley Esquire of Stoke and Thomas Edwards of Bristol, Seymour being about to marry Hester Newton, daughter of Sir John who gives her £1000, covenants to transfer to trustees his lease of the prebend of Bitton as his wifes joynture John Seymour to George Baron of London, merchant Mortgage for £1000 of the manor and estate of North Stoke, at 6 per cent Further mortgage of the manor and estate of North Stoke for £350 Seymour and Baron to Thomas Earle of Bristol merchant Reciting that half the first lean was advanced by Earle, who had since lent Seymour £350 more on which no interest had been paid Transfer of Baron's share to Earle and a new mortgage effected to Earle for £1420 John Seymour, heir of Thomas, heir of Sir John to Thomas Earle senior and Thomas Earle junior, of Bristol Conveyance of the latter of the manor house of North Stoke, lands etc Consideration £3110 Giles Earle of Bristol gent to Humphry Hooke of Bristol, merchant Reciting a mortgage deed for £1100 on the North Stoke manor executed by Sir John Seymour to Earle in the previous February, and declaring that the loan so advanced was really the money of Hooke Assignment of the estate to the latter Rate or assessment (for ship money?) made on the tything men of Hanham and Oldland by two county justices Sir Walter Denys, of Gloucestershire county: to John tailor of Seison Grant of a tenement called [?Prekars] for lives Consideration £20 Rent 33s 4d Sir William Hatton, son of the late Lord Chancellor to James Howper of Meryet, Somerset and Francis Whittington of Ivythorne, Somerset Convayance to Howper (for £425) of one fourth of the lordship and manor of Strete, formerly held by the Abbey of Glaston, and afterwards by Edward Duke of Somerset, with the appertaining lands; and conveyance to Whittington (for £1375) of the remaining three fourths Undertaking that the purchases shall be saved harmless as regards the great debt due from the late Sir Christopher Hatton to the Crown Thomas Bayley of Hambrook, to Nathaniel Wade Esq, Thomas Edwards Esquire, Henry Lloyd, merchant, Richard Bayly, soapmaker, all of Bristol, and several others Conveyance by feoffment (for 20s) of 25 perches of land at Frenchay Abstract title of the Codrington family to the manor of Dodington Viscount Fitzharding and Edward Gorges of Wraxall Esquire, trustees of Henry Winter of Clapton deceased to Thomas Speed merchant, Nathaniel Haggatt Esquire and Robert Yate, merchant, all of Bristol Conveyance to Speed of a number of closes of land at Clapton Consideration £568, which Gorges is to make use of as part of the marriage portion of Winter's only daughter, Katherine Thomas Edwards of Bristol, gent to Thomas Walter of Stapleton, gent Conveyance (for £10 15s) of a small portion of land at Stapleton Alderman Henry Gibbes of Wine Street Bristol William, his son, of Southwark, merchant, and Jonathan Blackwell and Francis Yeamans of Bristol, gent Settlement on intended marriage of William with Sarah daughter of Roger Clissold of Bristol vintner, deceased. Blackwell, who had married Sarah's mother, having paid £800 to young Gibbs, the latter and his father undertake to vest in Blackwell and Yeamans by means of a fine, three houses in Wine Street, two fronting the street, and one, formerly a brewhouse, in a lane behind them, with their appurtenancy except a penthouse adjoining Henry Gibbs' dwelling house and Tower Lane (Thomas Harris, brewer, occupied one of the fronthouses) The profits to be enjoyed by William Gibb's wife, if she survived him, in lieu of dower Simmons from the Court of Chancery to Peter, Thomas, and William Huntington and William Trubody in a case of Henry Creswicke v Sir John Newton Josias Robins, clockmaker to John Naish, coalminer, both of Bitton Mortgage for £25 of a cottage etc in Kingswood, near the Fish pond there Assignment of the mortgage for £25 of a cottage etc in Kingswood, near the Fish pond there, to Thomas Edwards of Bristol, Esquire, who lends an additional sum of £15 to Robins Henry Mugleworth of Bristol soapmaker to John Burridge of Lyme and Henry Walter of Bristol, woolen draper Settlement, in view of Mugleworth's intended marriage with Mary daughter of Henry Gibbs of Bristol merchant of two houses and some plots of land at Lower Easton Edward Parker and John Whittington, churchwardens of Bitton with Thomas Collett and Charles James, carpenter Agreement for the taking down and reconstruction of the roof of Bitton church for £100 Samuel Codrington of Bridgwater and Richard Browning of Bristol, mercer (executors of Richard Codrington, Bristol, mercer) to Thomas Goldney of Bristol, merchant Reciting that Richard Christmas, of Bristol deceased whose executors were mortgagees for £1200 of an estate at Kingston Seymour, had left £1150 to his grand children named Ayliff and that the trust had since been transferred to Codrington's executors, and that arrears of interest had accrued since the death of the mortgagor (Samuel Tyson, once of Bristol) Assignment of the mortgage for £1200 to Goldney in order to pay off the legatees Thomas Smith of Soley, Wiltshire, to Sir Francis Seymour of Marlborough Settlement of lands at Yatesbury on a marriage between Charles, heir apparent of Sir Francis, and Mary, only child of Smith Exlemplification of the recovery of a house in Bristol [?____] Edwards against William Gibbs and Robert Leeke Diones Gibbs of Bristol spinster, and others Deed transferring to the trustees for Miss Gibbs an interest for 450 years in an estate on which she had lent £1500 on mortgage Thomas Stephens of Little Sodbury Esquire, his only son, Edward, of Lygrove, William Kingscott of Kingscott, Somerset Codrington of Dodington and Thomas Edwards and Nathaniel Wade of Bristol Reciting that Stephen's estate being greatly burdened with debts he had sought to marry his son to an heiress so as to wife off his disabilities and that in 1693, such a marriage had been effected with Sarah Burthog of Bowden, Devon who had £5000 A settlement of the manor of Little Sodbury, the advowson to the church, extensive lands there, the borough of Chipping Sodbury, lands at Old Sodbury etc was made on the young couple Nevertheless, Stephens still being in debt, had raised various sums of money by granting leases and by mortgages, and actions at law had arisen thereon To settle which the deed vests the profits of the markets and fairs at Chipping Sodbury and other property at Edwards, Wade, and others who are to apply the receipts towards paying off the mortgages Ann Bayly, widow of Benjamin of Bristol clerk Joseph Creswicke junior of Westbury on Trym, son of the late Alderman Joseph, and Jos Edwards of Bristol, gent Assignment of Edwards to a mortgage of £153 (balance of £400 borrowed by Ald Creswicke on his house and lands at Stoke) Marriage settlement made between John Selleck Esquire of Stanton Drew and Penelope daughter of the late Sir John Newton of Barrs Court Reciting that Penelope had a fortune of £1000, and that Selleck possessed the rectory and rectory house of Staunton Drew, a farm at Otterford, Somerset and other estates, Sellick takes the £1000 and settles the property on his wife for life if she survives him Baroness Middleton, of Middleton, Alexander Colston of Filkins, Oxford and Sophia his wife and Jarrit Smith of Bristol to Jane Pritchard of Westerleigh Lease for lives (in reversion) of a house and garden at Nibley Probate copy of the Will of Humphry Hooke of Bristol, merchant The testator, writing his own will states that he is near 78 years of age Gives £10 each to St Stephen's parish, the merchants Almshouse, the poor of Kingsweston, and the parish in the east street of Chichester 'in which I was born', £3 each to the ministers of God's word in Bristol; and to Mefor Towgood Stanfast, Williamson, Bruerton and Freeman To his daughter Elizabeth Creswicke £1200 to daughter Sarah Hellier £1000, to grandson Humphry £300, and to his son Thomas, £100; to granddaughter Dorothy Aldworth, £50; grandson Thomas Hooke £200, grandchildren William and Josias 'a couple of most stubborn and unruly boys' £40 each, to their brother Jacob, 'in hope he may prove better', £100 to grandchildren Mary and Cecily Elbridge, £150 each and to Sarah and Giles Elbridge £100 Giles to relinquish his interest in a city bond or the £100 to be divided amongst his sisters; to grandson William Cann £50; to brother Edward Hooke £100 'to be paid him quarterly, that is £25 a quarter after my decease'; to sister in law Alice Gostlett, £100; to his 'sons' Creswick, Collins, Hellier, Southwood and Jackson to grandsons Robert Aldworth, Humphry Hooke and Thomas Hooke and their sister Mary , £12 each to buy mourning; to Henry James,minister of St Stephen's £5 for funeral dues, the clerk of 40s/, sexton 20s/ Confirms the settlement of his property in Bristol and his mansion and little manor at Kingsweston 'which I bought of Mr Toby Edmonds', and a house at Laurence Weston, on the heirs of his son Thomas; The manor of Kingsweston, Ayton's farm, and Hardings' farm, 'all which I bought of Sir John Writer' to his wife for life, remainder to grandson Humphry Hooke and his heirs male, remainder to testators heirs male The manor of Frampton on Severn and lands there to his wife for life, remainder to 'my said grandson Thomas Hooke, son of Mrs Jackson and his heirs male, remainder to grandson Humphry and his heirs male, remainder as before The manors of Elveston, Norwick and Redwick and three fourths of the manor of Frampton Cotterell, and the manor of Midsomer Norton to grandson Humphry and his heirs male, remainder to his own heirs Two houses in Broad Street Bristol leased from the Tailors' Company, a house in Grope Lane and some land at Norwick and Redwick, to wife for life, and then to Humphry All his personal estate to wife, his executrix Reverting to the 'unruly boys', he increases their legacies £60 each 'in hope of amendment' and leaves William a house and land at Kingsweston and Josias two houses there for their lives, subject to an existing leasehold interest Several small legacies to servants and friends The Corporation of Bristol, owing testator about £550, and he having lent £100 at this request to the county of Somerset, and about £30 to the Chamberlain, he leaves the whole to the Corporation provided they will undertake to continue his accustomed gift of 4s/ weekly to the poor of St Stephens, together with 4s/ weekly more to buy coal for the same poor, 'and what remaineth I give to the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth' To grandaughter Mary Hooke £400 in lieu of a previous legacy, crossed out as not to his mind To grandson Jacob Hooke for life the reversion of a house at Elverton Dated 1658 Jun 25 Josiah Creswicke of Westbury on Trym, gent to Thomas Warren of Bristol, merchant Creswick, having borrowed £400 on mortgage of a house in Corn Street covenants, in order to dock the entail, to levy a fine of it, together with four houses in Broadmead and St James's Back, to secure Warren's loan Jarvais [signature 'Gervas] Newton of Harptry, Somerset; Sir John Newton of Barrs Court, Jane Sacheverell, widow, John Selwick of Stanton Drew and Penelope his wife, Frances Newton and Eleanor Newton, and Mary daughter of William and Mary Marwood (all being descendants of the late Sir John Newton) to Edward Lascelles of London merchant Reciting that £5000 were due to various (named) descendants of Sir John, and that other debts were unpaid Conveyance from Gervas to Lascelles for £6850 of the manor of Southley, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, with the manor house at Datchett and a large estate in land Covenants by Gervas to levy a fine, and to pay off two mortgages for £1500 William Edwards of London, Esquire, and Alexander Ready of Fairford gent and Sophia his wife (daughter of Thomas and Mary Edwards) to George Townsend of London, gent Reciting Edward Colston's bequest of £5000 to purchase lands for the benefit of his niece Mary Edwards, but charged with £2000 for the benefit of her daughter Sophia (now Ready's wife) on her marriage, which took place in Feb 1736 Also reciting that the trustees had purchased from the Duke of Chandos three new houses between Albermarle and Bond Streets, standing on the site of the former Clarendon House, afterwards Albermarle House Conveyance by Edwards, surviving trustee, to Townsend of the estate, in trust for Mary Edwards, so that Sophia's £2000 might be raised by mortgage Assignment by James Borthwick of Bristol water closet maker to Benjamin and John Bartlett Hill of Clifton, lead and shot manufacturers, of certain debts due to him, as security for his debt of £113 due to the Hills 'A Rental' of the lands etc of the parish of St Mary Redcliffe for this year, showing the amounts received from each property Settlement of £357 2s 10d Four per Cents, the property of Miss Henrietta Busby, of Bristol previous to her marriage with Joseph Wright of Bristol, accountant John Cicil of Bristol wierdrawer to Margaret Young of Bristol, widow Feoffment conveyance for £200 of a house in Redcliff Street Isaac Elton of Stapleton and Henry Hobhouse of Clifton Esquires Declaration that three shares (out of 193) in the tontine of the Tontine Warehouses are the property of Benjamin Hill of Bristol, plumber (£64 5s were paid for each share, and £9 5s more were paid on each for the making of cellars, removing the Conduit and erecting cranes) Bond of John Wilding (signature Willding) of Kingsweston, on his intended marriage with Susannah, daughter of John Hill of Shirehampton, hooper, deceased that he will settle £400 upon her, in consideration of her marriage portion Elizabeth Bartlett of Bristol heiress of Joshua, Esquire, deceased to her mother Susanna Reciting that Elizabeth by her father's will became possessed of large estates in Hampshire subject to an annuity to her mother of £100, that on her selling those estates her mother had freed them from this incumbrance, and that, to make a better provision for her mother, she laid out £4000 in the purchase of £6896 11s Three per Cents Declaration that her trustee shall pay £200 yearly to her mother for life Benjamin Hill of Bristol plumber, to William Dyer, of Wraxhall, Somerset, tanner Lease for 14 years of a house and tanyard etc at Wraxall Rent £21 Francis Paynter of St Buryan Cornwall to Thomas Dyer, late of Abbots Leigh, now of Fayland, tanner Lease for 21 years of a house and tanyard at Fayland Rent 16 guineas The Corporation of Bristol to Benjamin Hill of Bristol, plumber Renewal of lives of a lease granted to Benjamin's father Thomas of a close called the Jews Church yard, bounded by Brandon Hill and land called the Jews' acre Fine £13 Rent £4 John Bartlett Hill of Bristol, shot maker to James Perry of Bristol merchant Lease for 14 years of a house in King Square Rent £52 10s William Dimmock of Hanham, yeoman, to John Webb of Doynton, gardener Reciting that Dimmock holds a lease for lives from Thomas Trye Esquire of a house and land at Wilsburgh, alias Willsbridge, and that he had now agreed for the absolute purchase of the estate for £25 Assignment of the lease to Webb as trustee to prevent a merger of the lease Copartnership deed (imperfect) between Benjamin Hill of Bristol plumber and others for smelting lead ore etc at Ponclars, Glamorgan Gedion Edmonds of Clyst St George, Devon to John Parr of Exeter, merchant Conveyance for £550 of the advowson of Clyst St George John Parr, son of John Parr, to Robert Parr, clerk Assignment of the advowson Enclosing two later fines relating to the same rectory Nicholas Roe to Rev Richard Rous Lease of the above rectory, tithes etc for 40 years Rent £130 Mortgage for £200 by Rous Reciting Roe's purchase for the advowson in 1770 for £1050 Grant of next presentation of Clyst St Mary by Samuel Taner to William Rows William Osborn, Giles Webb and wife, and Giles Haynes and wife all of Downthorn alias Doynton Gloucestershire Agreement to levy a fine of a house, grist mill etc at Doynton Exemplification of a Recovery Richard Wakeman against William Hutchunson Estates, Cold Ashton Articles of marriage previous to to the union of [Colonel] John Seymour, senior of Bitton to Hester daughter of Sir John Newton of Barrs Court George Swanley complt, William Geere Esquire and others deforciants Houses etc in St Michael's and St James's parishes, Bristol Swanley gives £100 Another copy of (5139/434): George Swanley complt, William Geere Esqurie and others deforciants Houses etc in St Michael's and St James's parishes, Bristol Swanley gives £100 George Swanley complt, William Geere Esqurie and others deforciants, Lands in St Michaels, St James and St Philips Swanley gives £800 John Northall complainant John Whyght and wife defts Three houses in Christchurch parish, Bristol Northall gives £223 Another copy (of 5139/437a): John Northall complainant John Whyght and wife defts Three houses in Christchurch parish, Bristol Northall gives £223 Thomas Whitson complt Ann Whitson and another deforciants Two houses in St James's Whitson gives £160 John Gibbs and S Morgan compts William Gibbs and wife deforciants Three houses in Christchurch parish John and Stephen give £240 Sir John Smith Baronet complt John Romsey and Anne his wife deforciants Lands at Aylemington alias Almington Sir John gives £200 Sir John Smith Baronet complt John Romsey and Anne his wife deforciants The manor of Ashton Philipps, houses, mill, lands, woods etc in Long Ashton and Whitchurch Sir John gives £1200 William Pitt and Edward Batten complainants Henry Slye deforciants Houses, gardens, etc in All Saints, St Thomas and Redcliff parishes Pitt and Batten give £80 Thomas Richardson and Andrew Innys complainants Francis Creswicke deforciants Houses, land etc at Midsomer Norton Thomas and Andrew give £200 Robert King and William Bennett complainants, Lawford Cole and wife deforciants Rent of £116 issuing from land and houses in St James's and St Philip's Bristol Robert and William give £2520 William Claxton and Richard Farewell compts George Winter, his wife and John Winter deforciants Three houses etc in St Nicholas and St James's, and two houses, land etc at Dirham and St Philip's William and Richard give £400 Exemplification of a recovery of an estate in Bristol William Earl of Gloucester to the monks of St James's Bristol Grant, for the welfare of himself and family, and for the good of the soul of his father, buried in their church, of a tenth of the rent of his mill at Rumia Adam de Heli to Robert fil, Suein and Cristiane his wife Grant of various and land in the fair (feria) of Bristol [the Old Market?] held by tenants named in the deed Another charter granting houses in the fair of Bristol to Robert, fil Sweun (only) This is witnessed by the Countess and Robert their son Robert filius Sweni to Baldwin Albo (White) Grant, for his services, of half a burgage in the Earl's Fair of Bristol Rendering 12d yearly Asselina, with the consent of her heirs to Walter, the porter of the Gate of St James's Priory Grant of certain land situated between the street called Redelond and Irish mead, and near certain land of the cook of the priory Rendering yearly a pair of gloves or one farthing Thomas, prior of St James's, to Hugh Michel Grant in perpetuity of land in Scadepulle Street (Marsh Street) lying between land that was Sampson Cornubiens' [?Cornish] and land that was John Holegrove's Rendering yearly 2/ to the Priory John Tike to Walter Tinctorius [Dyer] Grant of land with buildings in Brodemede, adjoining land late of Henry Aylward Rendering yearly 16s/, and also a landgable of 7d due to the Priory of St James Alicia widow of John Bernarde to Hugh le Holdere, tailor, all of Brsitol Quit Claim to a tenement in Sentespullestrete, sold to him by Thomas Launier, her husband's executor Agnes, widow of Walter de Merkesbury to Robert de Wryngtone Grant of a messuage in Toukare Street John de Wycombe to Geoffry Beauflour and Agnes his wife, all of Bristol Grant of six houses and shops, and a cellar, on Bristol Bridge 'Compotus' rendered to Tewkesbury Abbey by brother William de Bristoll Chamberlain [of St James's Priory?] for the year ending Michaelmas [Sep 29] Richard Poulesham and wife to Geoffry Beauflour and wife Grant of nine halls with tenements and shops in Tucker Street adjoining Westbury Lane, also a hall in Marsh Street, and tenements in St Thomas Street near Houndenelane, and two rents of 6s/ and 4s/ issuing out of houses near Counteslep Walter Taunton and John Lange, Proctors of the Chapel of the Assumption on Bristol Bridge to Geoffry Beauflour Grant of a rent of 10d issuing out of a house in Tucker Street Maurice, Lord de Berkeley, to the Carthusian Priory at Wytham Grant of two tenements and a rent of 10s in 'Toukerestrete', notwithstanding the Statue of Mortmain Copy of the Court Roll of the manor of the lord Richard Wircestre, Prior of St James's certifying that John Cole and Agnes his wife appeared and took for a term of 60 years at a rent of 14s a tenement and shop in Lewynesmede, adjoining the wall of the Friary, and two half acres of land in Redelonde [manor] juxta les Barrez, one at the Beggerwel, and the other 'ad summum finem de Erlesmede' Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury confirms the right of the Abbey of Tewkesbury to the advowson of St Philips Church Bristol Copy of Letters Patent, reciting that in the 14th year of Edward III (1340) an Act of Parliament was passed forbidding the officers of the royal household from taking any corn, hay, cattle or carriages belonging to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, or other beneficed clergy The Abbot of Tewkesbury having complained that he and his tenants had been illegally despoiled by the royal officiers, the King orders that the law shall be strictly obeyed John Barryers [also Barriers] merchant, to John White, bellmaker, and wife, all of Bristol Lease for 95 years of 7 tenements and a garden in the Old Market, bounded by property of St Philips Church John Gay [-] and the Priories of Maiden Bradley and St James Rent 33s/4d William Jaye and the Common Council to Robert Adams, tanner and late Mayor of Bristol In consideration of 20s/ Grant of a piece of ground near the Castle Mill, 19 feet by 10, on which Adams had built a house, also of a landgable of 6d yearly and a further rent of 6d formerly payable to St James's Priory Rendering one silver penny yearly Henry Brayne Esquire [tailor] to Robert Adams, tanner In consideration of £8 Grant of a house and two gardens, situated between the Castle Mill and the bridge called Froom Bridge near Marshal Street, having the Weir in front, and the Froom behind, which estate formerly belonging to St James's Priory, was granted with the rest to Brayne by [?Henry VIII Jan 2 ___] William Chester, mayor, and the Common Council to Robert Adams (spelt Adamys) In consideration of £4 Grant of a piece of vacant ground near the Castle Mill William Chester, mayor, and the Common Council to Robert Adams (spelt Adamys) Quitclaim to a piece of vacant ground near the Castle Mill Robert Brayne, of St James', Bristol to Johanna Farrand of London Bond for the payment at Easter of £300 In default, Brayne consents that the penalty provided by the Staple for the recovery of debts shall run against him Certificate of Richard Wassebourne, Notary public that on Aug 30 William Bourton rector of St Philip and James, Bristol, came before him and declared intention, on account of his infirmity to resign his living Prior of St James's, acting for the Abbot of Tewkesbury also appeared, and took peaceful possession of the vacant church Also that on the following Sunday, Aug 31, the facts were announced in the church before nearly all the parishoners Confirmation by Thomas Button, Bishop of Exeter, of a charter dated on Candlemas Day, 1283 [Feb 2], granted by his predecessor, Peter Quivel, to the Cistercian Abbey of Ford, by which the Convent, for its better sustentation, was given the advowson of the church of Payhembury John Talbott Esquire of Brugg[north] Salop, and Eleanor his wife, heiress of Sir Thomas Baskerville deceased, to Gyles Adams of Bourton on the Water, and seven other yeomen or husbandmen in the same district Reciting that by a previous indenture the Talbotts had granted to Adams and the others the manor of Nawnton upon Cotswold They now further grant all the title deeds relating to the estate Hugh Broke Esquire of Long Ashton to John Barnes of Bristol, tucker Confirmation of grant of two tenements and two gardens in Tucker Street, otherwise Counterslip Chirograph of Fine relating above property, John Barnes being awarded possession from Richard Ketchym and Susanna his wife, for which he pays them £40 Two abstracts of title relating to above property from the later of which it appears that shortly before March 1684, a brewhouse on the estate had been converted into a Sugar House, and that there were two sugar houses there in 1784 James, son of James Day, of Bristol merchant to Peter Day, merchant Indenture of apprenticeship for seven years Purchased Dec 1402 Robert Charme to Nicholas Hastyng, tanner, both burgesses of Bristol Grant of a tenement and curtilage on the north side of Lewynesmede between a tenement of Peter [?Hame] and a garden of David Benet Rosa, widow of Richard Assh to the above Hastyng Release and quit claim to a house in Lewennesmede, adjoining a house of the Abbey of Tewkesbury Three probates of the will of Nicholas Hastyng, tanner, with will annexed Margery widow of Nicholas Hastyng, tanner, to John Haleway, burgess of Bristol Grant of the house in Lewenesmede acquired by deed No. 560 Thomas Slye to John Sherp both burgesses of Bristol Quit Claim to a house in Broad Street, standing between the houses of Lord de Burnell and Isabella Vyell Deed of exchange between John Lock and John Evans of land in Somerset Indentures of a fine made in The King's Bench Thomas Hopkins being complainant and Mark Bartholomew and Sarah Tabot deforciants of houses etc in The parishes of St Werburgh, St Michael, St Nicholas, St Stephen, St Augustine, St Thomas Exemplification of the Recovery Roll, William Hopkins, Robert Mursley, demandants Houses in St Werburgh, Stephen, Augustine, Thomas and Lawrence, Bristol Indenture of a Fine: Property in St Werburg Assignment by Mary Starkey of Bedminster to Charles Wells of Bristol of the lease of a house in East Street Bedminster, held under Sir John [?Smith], Baronet William Earl of Gloucester to the monks of St James's, Bristol Grant of land at Asseley [Ashley]; also his yearly fair at Bristol held in the Octave of Pentecost William Earl of Gloucester to his bailiff and prepositior of Bristol ordering that the monks of Tewkesbury shall receive their accustomed thithes of the town of Bristol and of the fair as market at the feast of St Michael as in the time of his father, Robert the Consul Confirmation by Simon Bishop of Worcester to the abbey of Tewkesbury of various grants of churches, tithes, and other ecclesiastical benefices formerly given by Robert FitzHamon and others to that monastery. Among the churches mentioned are Thornbury, Marshfield, and Fairford; also St Peter's, Bristol, which is stated as traditionally received to the oldest of all the Bristol churches St James's church is mentioned as about to be built Charter of Inspeximus by Edward I, reciting a charter of Henry II confirming the gifts of William Earl of Gloucester to St James's Priory, including the lands at Ashley and the Pentecost fair at Bristol; also several churches Charter of Inspeximus of Edward IV, confirming the donations of William Earl of Gloucester to the Priory of St James, Bristol Letters patent Edward III to Thomas and Bristina or their heirs Galfridus, son of Galfridus Cissor of Cirencester to Walter Marshall and wife Emma Grant of land in Cirencester Walter Payne of Crowcombe, Somerset, heir of John Jweyn-Webbe of Bristol to William Selwode of Bristol and Nathilda his wife Grant of land in Temple Street (Rekplace) and rejection of claims against Father's estate John Hakeston of Bristol to William Wodeford and John Bount Bond for £400 prior to voyage by John Hakeston Henry Jones, Vicar General of the Bishop of Bristol to Edmund Tucker Licence to practice surgery in diocese Roger Juvenis (Young) to Cecilia, wife of William Pollard, lease of a house outside St John's gate To pay [?2/rent] at the Feast of St Michael; 12d at Easter and 12d at All Saints Letters patent of Elizabeth to Mary Sandamore, granting her an annuity of £100 This was first granted to Sebastian Cabot and afterwards to William Worthington and is to take effect on the death of the latter Instrument in Bristol court by which William Rede, son of Thomas Rede of Barmarthew in Wales and executor of his will, repudiates all claims upon his father's estate by Thomas Melreth of Horton, Buckinghamshire Marriage licences of John Williams and Rosina Lacey Married at St John the Baptist, Bristol Consent of Prior Robert and the convent of Bath to the foundation of a cell at the church of St John the Baptist at 'Northbinne'[Glastonbury] Special pardon granted to Henry Berkeley of Yarlington in Somerset, soldier Catalogue of mss at Bristol Museum & Reference Library by John Latimer