1526 Survey & Rents

Certificatt of William Paultett and John Mordaunt knights and Edmund Knyghtley and Thomas Bonham esquires and John Burgoyn and Roger Wygston gents. Commissioners appoynted by the kynges highnes for the surveying and viewyng of the maners of Grafton Hertwell Crike and Cley Cotton, appointed by commission at our Paleys of Westminster the last day of Februarie in the seventeenth yere of our reign, 28th February 1525/26.
Commissioners to inquire: What every acre wolbe worth by yere to be leten.

Item: of the verye value of all wooddes groves and underwooddes.

Item: yf the woodys shold be sold felled and destroyed then of what yerely value the groundys where the seid woodys growe wolbe.

Item: what hurte shulde growe to the kynges towyns and milles adjoinyng or to kinges tenaunts yf all the woodys were destroyed.

Item: what wood sales be made by loppyng, croppyng or fellyng downe to the grounde.

Item: what quantitie of grounde maye be emproved within the lordship levyng sufficient comen to the tenaunts.

Item: what nombre of acres the kynges highnes hath within the lordshippes and maners.

Item: what townshippes or personnes clayme to have comen there and with what maner of cattall they shuld use commen there.

Item: whether any person doe encroach uppon the kyng in usyng ther comen.

Item: what new encroachments have been maide.

Item: in what case all and singuler the howses and tenements and other buyldynges in the said lorshippes and manours doo standing concerniyng the reparacions.

Item: what royalties knyghtes fees advowsons foundacions of abbeys bondmen and other advantages pleasures and commodities doo belong to the said lordshippes manours lands and tenements.

Rental made there 19th day of April 1526. Grafton.

Tenants at will.
John Fermor holds 1 messuage, 1 croft of 2 acres adjoining, 1 dovecot, 46 acres arable land, 4 acres meadow, lord does repairs. 40s.p.a. Common for 5 horses, 10 bull calves and heifers and 40 sheep.

James Badyngton 1 messuage with croft adjoining of 1 acre, moiety of pasture called Stokyng of 5 acres, 45 acres arable. Lord does repairs. 44s. p.a. common

Thomas Lumbarde 45 acres arable, 3 acres meadow, lord does repairs. 23s. p.a. common

William Penred 1 messuage with croft 3 acre adjoining, lord does repairs, 20s. p.a. no common

Robert Jackson 1 messuage with croft 1 acre adjoining, 45 acres arable and 3 acres meadow, 5 acres being moeity of pasture called Stokyng, lord does repairs 44s. p.a. common.

John Whalley 1 messuage with croft adjoining of 1 acre, 45 acres arable and 4 acres meadow, lord does repairs 43s. p.a.

The same John Whalley 1 croft with messuage formerly built thereon now in decay, croft adjoining, the land formerly pertaining to the said messuage is inclosed within the lord's pasture. He pays nothing to the lord for the said croft because it is in decay and worth nothing.

John Whalley 1 pasture called Blakelonde 7 acres, 13s-4d p.a.

Richard Holman pasture called New close next to the park there, 25 acres, 26s.-8d p.a.

George Shitilworth 1 cottage with 1 hempland of half a rod, no common, rent nothing p.a.

John Barnarde 1 cottage with croft half an acre adjoining, no common

Richard Balle 1 cottage, croft half an acre adjoining, no common

Nicholas Hough 1 cottage, croft 1 and a half acres adjoining, no common

Rents of tenants at will: £12-16s.
The firmarius holds: 1 pasture 30 acres called Little Park 60s. p.a., pasture called Twyforde felde and other parcels adjoining 350 acres £40-10s-8d p.a., meadow called Lethemede of 13 acres 50s. p.a., meadow called Denmarc Hadds 6s.-8d. p.a., meadow called Bosman meadowe of 30 acres 100s. p.a., meadow called Twynforde Mede 14 acres 46s-8d. p.a., meadow called Long Mede of 21 acres 70s p.a.
Total £57-4s.
Total of rental of Grafton manor £70 p.a.
Tithes payable to rector of Grafton church £10 p.a.

Demesne of Grafton manor.
The saied park conteyneth 102 acres and 1 rod, every acre worth to be letten 12d, the dere distroyed and the woode saved £102
There is within the saied park a grove of tymber of 10 acres every acre worth to be sold £10, £100
Copice of underwoode of 4 yeres, 15 acres worth at 16 yeres grouthe 20s, £15
Three other copices of underwode with oute the parke now of 8 yeres grouthe, one called Rediche 17 acres, one called Sallowes 15 acres and the thirde called the Wyche 14 acres which maketh in all 46 acres, £46.
The herbage is worth by the yere the dere and woode saved 20s.

The lodge by the said Park is in decay.
The patronage of the church belongeth to the lord worth £10 p.a.
The tenements there be in sore decay.
The lord is charged with all maner of reparacions there except thakyng with straw.
There is one common pasture called Redehay of 50 acres.
There is no woode growyng upon the tenements there to kepe and mayntayne the reparacions of the same.
The tenaunts clayme to have common in a grownd called The Styes in Aldryngton lordship.
The said Edmund Knyghtley claymeth to have to hym and his heres 5 acres of land inclosed within the park of Grafton by the auncestres of the lorde Marques and wrongfully withholden from the said Edmunde.