The following sub-paragraph numbers are those given by Essex Record Office to a large amount of images, sometimes random rather than consecutive, that I requested from their SEAX records. Copyright prevents me from using the images on this website so transcription is the sole alternative but, as text, does allow the viewer to search.

SA 36/22/1 Barry Tate, Joy Lafferty, Hilda Tate - a transcript of this recording is catalogued

SA 37/7/1  21 May 1975 THE HISTORY OF HENHAM BY JOYCE M. WINMILL

Old Essex Farmhouse Recipes 31 minutes 17 seconds: Old Essex Farmhouse Recipes: a talk to the Debden
Women’s Social Club by Joyce M. Winmill.

[1] Introduction, with music (song: ‘Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie’)

[2] Definition of farmhouse; the farmhouse kitchen

[3] Recipe books; cookery books - Mrs Beaton, Anne Cobbett; recipe for cleaning a silk dress; section on ‘cooking for the Poor’

[4] Utensils, pots and pans; recipe for Mrs Stallybrass’s cake; recipe to ice ‘a great cake’; recipe to ice tarts; pickling and preserving; wines - recipe for gooseberry wine; mead - recipe

[5] Syllabub; puddings - ‘Little Plumb Puddings’; recipes for blacking; cough mixtures and medicines

[6] Recipes for cooking meat; inventory of pots, pans, utensils; recipe for pomatum; recipe for rich plum cake; extract from book by Alison Utley

[7] Kitchens

[8] Outro, with music

The History of HENHAM consists of four cassettes. This recording is Side B of Tape 4. Copyright: Old School Community Association, HENHAM CD-R [copied from C60 cassette - no Dolby] Essex Sound and Video Archive

3  SA 37/6/1   Old Essex, Debden and HENHAM Maps:
a talk given to the Debden Women’s Social Club by Joyce M. Winmill in 1974
[1] Introduction, with music
[2] Map making in early times; early maps of England; estate maps; Tudor nautical maps; Elizabethan county and estate maps
[3] John Norden’s map of Essex 1594; Little Dunmow 1631, Samuel Walker; Blore map of Essex 1645, including arms of Earls of Essex
[4] Logan’s prospect of Cambridge; Debden and Broxted 1748; Chapman and Andre map of Essex 1777
[5] Two Stort navigation schemes 1790; HENHAM tithe map and award; HENHAM enclosure map 1850; 1st edition Ordnance Survey - Debden village 1897; HENHAM village 1877; county map; North-East London and Epping Forest map for cycling 1914

4  SA 37/5/1  Mrs Gray Talks of her Childhood / The History of HENHAM Church / Baby Owls ‘Learning to Hoot’ 1974 - 1977

5  SA 37/4/1  1977 Joyce Winmill Talks to Walter and Jessie Cornell
[1] Introduction, with music
[2] Walter’s work at a private house in Radwinter; work with poultry for Mrs Foster; Mr Weir’s farm; horses
[3] Farm machinery; Walter’s family; Jessie’s family
[4] Open fireplace; pickling; grandmother and grandfather (HENHAM postman)
[5] Making bread; other jobs done by grandfather
[6] Grandfather played the flute - musical Sunday afternoons at the chapel; tractor driving - monotony, listening to skylark, thinking about hymns and sermon heard on Sunday; hymns; birds - seagulls
[7] Horkey; Mr Weir; presents from employer
[8] Dress bought from Miss Gardner; HENHAM Lodge - Stanley Marshall, shepherd; harvest; World War II bomb
[9] Christmas; walked to Newport for a doctor; Christmas meal, including rabbit pudding; wedding; Aunt Lily
[10] Eating apples in bed [interview ends]; music

6  SA 37/2/1  1974 Fields and Footpaths of HENHAM

7  SA 37/1/1  1973 Rogues and Vagabonds of HENHAM
[2] Early history of the village; strip farming; records - Quarter Sessions, manorial, parish records
[3] Inns and alehouses; Maysent family; Maysent charity; poaching; trades, occupations
[4] Theft; houses of correction; illegitimate children; quarrels between neighbours
[5] Digging up of roads; weights and measures; larceny - use of latin in records; Turner family; workhouse
[6] Workhouse accounts, poor relief; vagrancy
[7] Relief; complaint about man in chicken house
[8] Brick cottages which contain a secret hiding place; drovers’ road, pounds for animals; smuggling
[9] The HENHAM Dragon; incident of rag-and-bone man’s horse which bolted through the village [recording ends with more music

10  SA 37/3/1  1973 Joyce Winmill Talks to Mrs Gray
SIDE A: Old Mead 1926
[1] Introduction, with music
[2] Old Mead; horses
[3] Men who worked on the farm; sheep; work of horseman; laundry
[4] Garden; moat; sale of the estate
[5] Cartshed and hovel; water supply; barns and stables; scullery; servants; spring cleaning
[6] Husband [end of interview]
[7] Music [Vaughan Williams?]
SIDE B: Mrs Gray Arrives in HENHAM 1937
[8] Introduction, with music [Vaughan Williams, 'The Folk Song Suite']
[9] Parsonage Farm in 1937; impressions of HENHAM; Pimlett family; men who worked on the farm; pony; meadows
[10] Churchyard trees; stock kept on the farm; harvest - unusually cold day; children’s part in harvest; Sheepcote Lane
[11] Poem about the English lane; Sheepcote Lane; plants and flowers; Great Ladle field - watching ploughing
[12] Wild flowers; plants in moat; birds; cat

SA 37 1973-1977 THE HISTORY OF HENHAM BY JOYCE M. WINMILL
A collection of talks and interviews made by Joyce M. Winmill relating to the history of HENHAM and surrounding villages.

SA 37/1/2  THE HISTORY OF HENHAM BY JOYCE M. WINMILL Master copy of SA 37/1/1 and SA 37/2/1 Not to be produced  TDK D90 cassette

SA 37/3/2  THE HISTORY OF HENHAM BY JOYCE M. WINMILL Master copy of SA 37/3/1 TDK D60 cassette Not to be produced

SA 37/4/2  THE HISTORY OF HENHAM BY JOYCE M. WINMILL Master copy of SA 37/4/1 and SA 37/5/1 Not to be produced TDK D90 cassette

SA 37/6/2  THE HISTORY OF HENHAM BY JOYCE M. WINMILL  Master copy of SA 37/6/1 and SA 37/7/1 Not to be produced TDK D60 cassette



SALE/A319A  Sale catalogue
30 June 1922 Elsenham Hall Estate, 2,121 acres comprising Elsenham Hall, Elsenham, 93 acres; Elsenham Stud Farm, Elsenham, 63 acres; Broom Farm, HENHAM, 139 acres; Elsenham School and premises; Pennington Hall Farm, HENHAM, 68 acres; HENHAM Mill Farm, HENHAM, 121 acres; Sandy Mount, HENHAM, 1 acre; Greenend Farm, HENHAM, 271 acres; Pledgdon Hall Farm, HENHAM, 220 acres; The White Horse, Pledgdon Green, 2 acres; Pledgdon Green Farm, 123 acres; Keeper’s Cottage, Pledgdon Green; Loppingdale Farm, Elsenham, 242 acres; The Kennels, near Gaunts End, Elsenham, 3 acres; The Home Farm, Elsenham, 494 acres; New House Farm, Elsenham, 190 acres. With estate map and photographs

SALE  B1574 1889. The Shortgrove Estate, Newport, Widdington, Debden, Wendens Ambo, Wicken Bonhunt, Saffron Walden and Arkesden, including Manor but not house of Michens with the Rectory, Arkesden; Hobs Aerie Farm, Arkesden, 332 acres; Pledgdon Hall Farm, Broxted and Hempstead, 383 acres; Manor but not house of Rockells, Wiggputts and Coggeshalls, Elmdon; Broom Farm, Henham, 144 acres; The Coach and Horses public house, Newport; The Three Tuns beer house, Newport; The Home and Parsonage Farms, Newport, 723 acres; The Hospital Farm, Newport and Widdington, 191 acres; Martins and Ringers Farms, Newport and Widdington 251 acres; steam and water mill, Newport; Manor (but not house) of Newport Pond, Newport; Sparrows End Farm, Newport, 63 acres; dwelling house and windmill, Newport; Shortgrove Mansion house, woodlands etc, Saffron Walden, 209 acres; Manor of Shortgrove Hall and Wicken Hall; Manor of Brooke Walden; Clanver End Farm, Wendens Ambo, 135 acres; Hobs Curie Farm, Wendens Ambo, 332 acres; steam and water mill and tower windmill, Wendens Ambo; Manor of Wendens, Wendens Ambo; Wicken Lower Farm, 130 acres and Wicken Hall Farm, 318 acres, Wicken Bonhunt; Manor (not house) of Mole Hall, Widdington

SALE  B1909

Thursday 11th July 1918 at The Chequers Hotel, Bishops Stortford. Desirable small farm, part freehold, part copyhold, known as ‘Bacon’s Farm comprising convenient farmhouse, farm homestead and the enclosures of arable and pasture land, the whole containing about 34 acres.

Farmhouse – lath and plaster built with tiled roof, containing 2v sitting rooms, kitchen, dairy, and 5 bedrooms, garden, orchard, well stocked with fruit trees. Farm homestead comprises weatherboarded and plaster built barn with thatched roof, cart horse stable for 3 horses, cow-house for 4 cows, 3 piggeries, cart shed, and henhouse and the various enclosures of fertile arable and Pasture land the whole containing 34a 1r. 6p .The property is now in the possession of Mr R. Wright, as quarterly tenant, at £56.10.0. per annum, but possession will be given on completion of the purchase.
Lot 1 – the title to the lots shall commence as follows – as to the freehold portion of Lot 1, with a  Indenture of Conveyance dated the 19 Sept. 1899; as to a moiety of the copyhold portion of Lot 1, with the Admission of Beatrice Mary Louisa Marshall, Blanche Eliza Annie Marshall, and Mabel May Marshall, in the Manor of Henham Hall, on the 3rd Jan 1883, and as to the remaining moiety of the copyhold portion of lot 1 with the admissions of the same persons in the said manor on the 29 Sept. 1899..

SALE B2104  1836  Tuesday 9 August at the cock. 6 lots – part of the Stallibrass estate

Lot 1 - dwelling house near the cock, recently occupied by the late proprietor. Timber built sash fronted freehold messuage or dwelling house having a keeping room, parlour, 3 beds, pantry ,scullery, & c together with stable, chaise house, wood house, and other out buildings, yard, large garden inclosed by a lofty brick and stone wall, planted with young and choice fruit trees and also 3 timber built tenements  adjoining now in the several occupation of William Musgrove, Thomas day, and Mary Chapman, at rents altogether amounting to £13 per annum. manuscript -£195 Phipps

Lot 2 - a substantial brick built sash fronted freehold messuage containing 3 upper and 3 lower rooms, with out buildings and appurtenances, also a timber built freehold cottage or tenement and appurtenances adjoining . this lot is in the occ. Of the widow heard, and William woodcock, at an annual rent together of £9.8.0d. manuscript £106 Stallibrass Charles.

Lot 3 - 2 timber built freehold cottages situate on the side of the road leading to Debden, with barn, garden and other appurtenances, in the occupation of William Clayden, and Amelia Rickett, at a rent together of £5.4s.0d per annum. Manuscript not. £66 Fiske

Lot 4 - two other recently erected brick stone and timber built freehold tenements adjoining lot 3 with garden and appurtenances now in hand. manu- £64 Cheffins

Lot 5 - 3 timber built cottages with gardens and appurtenances situated at a new street in the several occupations of William Neville, Elizabeth knight, and Thomas prior, at rents amounting altogether 0f £7.16s.0d per annum. Aldo another timber built tenement opposite the above, with garden and appurtenances, in the occupation of Thomas Clayden at a yearly rent of £ 1.19.0d. this lot is Copyhold of the manor of Henham hall, and subject to a customary fine o n death  or alienation, and an annual Rent of 1s. 7d. manu - £45 Phipps

Lot 6 - a piece or parcel of excellent arable land lying in Platt Field, containing 3 acres, more or less, now in hand. Land Tax 5s.0d per annum.

 

SALE  B2105 1855 Friday 6th July at the cock

A small desirable property situate near the church. The property comprises a substantial timber built tenement, containing 2 upper and 2 lower rooms,  & c., timber built double barn, large productive garden and appurtenances, containing about half an acre, more or less, now in the occupation of Thomas Prior whose term of tenancy expires at Michaelmas next. The property adjoins the estate of J. Baxendale Esq on the south and east, and that of Messrs. Joyce and Perry on the north and west.

SALE B2106

Wednesday may 21st 1879 at the Chequers Inn, Bishops Stortford. The estate is copyhold of the manor of Henham Hall, and is subject to a customary Fine on death or alienation, and a small annual quit rent.

Desirable estate  comprising two timber built and thatched cottages with gardens eligibly situate on the side of the road leading from the village to Debden, in the occupation of Arthur Sage and George Clark, at rents amounting together to £6.12s.0d per annum. manu £60 John Newman

SALE B2107 Friday march 16th 1882 at rose and crown inn, Henham by direction of the executors of the late Mr John little

Desirable estate comprising 2 substantial cottages in 5 tenements with gardens situate in the village.

Lot 1 - a convenient timber built and thatched  cottage in 3 tens, containing 9 upper and lower rooms, with slated and tiled outbuildings, and oven, and gardens in front and rear, advantageously situate in the village, on the north side of the road leading to Chickney, and in the several occupations of Alfred Little, John Chapman, and James Barker, at rents amounting together (exclusive of garden in rear ) to £9.2s.0d per annum.

Lot 2 - a well-built timber and slated cottage in 2 tens, adjoining the last lot, containing 8 upper and lower rooms, with outbuildings and yard at back, and gardens to front, in the tenure of Henry Barltrop and Abraham Dennison, at annual rents together, (including the use of oven, and a piece of garden ground in rear of lot 1) of £7.0s.0d. A right of way as marked out over the east side of Lot 1 is reserved to the purchaser of this lot. The foregoing property is held of the manor of Henham Hall, subject to a yearly Quit-Rent of 1s.. The title shall commence with the admission of Edward Bright in the year 1835 doc says ‘particulars and conditions of sale of property at Henham, Essex J.M. Richardson, Much Hadham, Herts; title to commence from Dec. 1848.

SALE B2108

Wednesday 4th Oct. 1882 at the Chequers Inn, Bishop Stortford A desirable freehold estate with possession comprising a timber built and thatched cottage with outbuildings and large garden . eligibly situate abutting upon Wood End Green, containing 0a 2r0p (more or less) late in the occupation of Alfred Bentley

SALE/B2301 1896 Dwelling houses and shares, bill of sale of property in Henham
SALE/B4036
1896 Henham Estate, 1,662 acres comprising Brayshots Farm with Little Henham Hall Farm, 455 acres; Green End Farm, 298 acres; Parsonage Farm, 323 acres; The Lodge Farm, 514 acres; rectorial tithe rent charge; wheelwright's shop, blacksmith's shop, The Cock Inn and several acres of arable land in Ugley. With plan

SALE B5190

Mr Thomas Wright shown as contact at top of sale sheet.

Auction Thursday May 12th 1898 at The George Hotel, Bishops Stortford. In convenient lots by the direction of Salisbury Baxendale Esq.

Dwelling House, with a lofty grocers shop, pair of semi-detached residences with gardens, messuage with convenient farm homestead and hoppet, and an enclosure of pasture land; nursery grounds, pasture, 19 messuages and cottages with gardens, the whole producing £ 185 per annum.

Blacksmiths and builder’s workshops, with yard and pasture, in hand, ; also 21 parcels of common field land let at £ 10 per annum.

 

Lot 1 – a timber-built, plaster, and thatched freehold cottage with tiled porch entrance containing 3 beds, 3 lower rooms, large garden, and yard with tiled wash house, bake office , and wc, let to George Barltrop, at a rental of £7.16s per annum, pleasantly situated on the west side of the road, with good frontage to the Green, and separated therefrom by a palisade fence in front. The purchaser will have the right to draw soft water from the dumb well upon Lot 2., on his paying one third of the cost of keeping the well in repair.

Lot 2 - 2 similar thatched freehold cottages immediately adjoining Lot 1, also with porch entrances, each having 3 bedrooms and 2 lower rooms, large piece of garden ground, with iron-roofed wash house, wood barn, and 2 wcs, in the occupation of Thomas Suckling and Alfred White, at rents amounting together to £ 10.8s per annum, this lot has a very extensive frontage to the green. This lot will be sold subject to the owner or purchaser of Lot 1 having the right to draw water from the dumb well upon this lot on his paying one third of the cost of keeping the well in repair. The quick hedge dividing Lots 1 and 2 will be sold with Lot 2.

Lot 3 - 4 brick-fronted and tiled freehold cottages, each having 2 upper and 2 lower rooms, large gardens and offices in the rear, with convenient side approach on the west, and small gardens with palisade fence in front, pleasantly situate abutting upon Church Street, in the several occupations of J. Shed, Widow Spurgeon, J. Dennison, and G. Warner, at rents amounting annually to £19.10s.

Lot 4 – a timber–built, plaster, and slated freehold messuage, containing 2 bedrooms, 2 front sitting rooms, and kitchen, with garden, slated wood shed and wc, let to Mrs Rochdale at £5. 4s per annum, also a plot of productive garden ground adjoining on the west, well suited for building purposes, with a good frontage to the road, let to George Bush at 20s per annum, making together a rental of £6. 4s per annum. The fences on the west and north will be sold with this lot.

Lot 5 – a thatched freehold cottage of 4 rooms, with barns, large garden, and small orchard in the rear, let to John Boyton, at a rental of £ 4. 11s per annum, desirably situate adjoining Lot 4, and abutting upon the Green . The fences on the west and north will be sold with this Lot.

SALE/B5277 1955 - 1965 sale catalogue re Peddars, Henham
SALE B 7572

1986. Sale catalogue. Tudor Hall, Pledgdon Green. About 10.5 acres. Price guide £ 225,000

SALE B 8511

1995. Sale of Poplar Hall. Price guide  £ 290,000

SALE B 9052

Aug. 1998. Sale of The Glebe House, Crow Street. Price guide £ 585,000

SALE/C36 1975 Bury Cottage, Henham with photograph
SALE/D23 1975 Bury Cottage, Henham with photograph
SALE/D520 1977 The Glebe House, Henham, 1.25 acres, a 16th century property with swimming pool
SALE/D803 1980 Mondis, Henham with photograph
SALE/D1523 1990. Greenend Farm, Henham, with 2 barns for conversion With location plan and block plan
SALE/E127 1978 Ship Cottage, The Row, Henham with photograph

 


T/P 110/82 1777-1826 HENHAM miscellaneous cuttings

 

T/A 116     MINUTES OF MANORS OF HENHAM AND PLEGDON WITH CANNONS IN HENHAM 

T/A 116/1 1571-1574 Minute Book of Manors of HENHAM and Pledgdon with Cannons in HENHAM, 1571-74. (12 sheets) [Originals in Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MSS B318]

T/A 196/1  CATALOGUE OF MILDMAY RECORDS IN HAMPSHIRE RECORD OFFICE Catalogue of the Mildmay family papers deposited by Col.M. Wallington in the Hampshire Record Office (typescript) 

For microfilm of some of these documents see T/A 259 (the typescript is marked up where the document has been filmed) (see T/A 484 for surplus Mildmay material in Hants. R.O.) HENHAM

T/A 316/266 1682 COPY OF CALENDAR OF ESSEX RECORDS IN BODLEIAN LIBRARY Elsenham, HENHAM, Stansted Mountfitchet, 1682 Final concord 

T/B 345/7 1826 COPIES AND MICROFILM OF RECORDS OF HENHAM ESTATE
Microfilm of deeds of property in Holbeach, Lincolnshire belonging to the monastery of Croyland alias Crowland


T/A 418/2/21  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/1/7] Assizes held at Chelmsford 13 July 1559
CALENDAR OF PRISONERS in the Goal. Discharged (ex’) (all for felony or suspicion of felony except where otherwise stated:- John Claker taken at HENHAM


T/A 418/19/6  2 June 1571 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/13/5] Assizes held at Chelmsford 12 July 1571 - Indictment of Thomas Woodwards and Philip Gyle, both of HENHAM yeoman, broke into the house of William Thourowgood of Matching, broke the chest there and stole seven “sprons” and five “neckechers” worth 8s., “twoe smokes” worth 2s., another garmant worth 12d. and 16s. 11d, in money, belonging to Amy Thourowgood. Both plead not guilty, not guilty. [ASS 35/13/5/6]

T/A 418/19/13  19 May 1571  Indictment Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/13/5]
Assizes held at Chelmsford 12 July 1571 - Indictment of Thomas Wodward and Philip Gyle, both of HENHAM yeoman broke into the house of Edward Marshall at Thorley and stole “a cote” worth 13s.4d., a jerkin (duploid’) worth 5s., a hat worth 3s.4d. and five “silver ringes” worth 5s., belonging to Thomas  Russell. Both Plead not guilty; not guilty. [ASS 35/13/5/13]

T/A 418/45/16  30 April 1586 Calendar of Essex Assize File (ASS 35/28/2) Assizes held at Witham 11 July 1586 - Indictment of Agnes Cursalle of HENHAM spinster at Walden, stole “a womans rede pettocot” worth 6d. and three “peces of lynnen called neckyngers” worth 4d., belonging to Tho. Meller. Pleads not guilty; not guilty. (Ass 35/28/2/16) 

T/A 418/66/27  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/42/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 6 March 1600
Indictment of Henry Payne of Aldham gent, 5 November 40 Eliz., at HENHAM on the highway assaulted Thomas Whytfeld and took £5 from him. Pleads not guilty; acquitted.[ASS 35/42/1/27] 


T/A 418/100/43  Indictment Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/68/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 17 July 1626 - Indictment of Robert Lake of Takeley labourer at HENHAM stole a calfe worth 5s., belonging to Thomas Parke. At large. Witness: Thomas Parke. [ASS 35/68/2/43] 

T/A 418/100/51  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/68/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 17 July 1626.
Indictment of  William Longe of HENHAM 20 February 1 Chas. I, Kept tippling houses without licence. [ASS 35/68/2/51] 

T/A 418/101/104  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/69/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 12 March 1627
Writ of atrachias for William Longe of HENHAM to answer for transgressions. Autumn 2 Charles I. Return, not found. [ASS 35/69/1/104]

T/A 418/102/84  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/69/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 9 July 1627
Writ of attrachias for William Longe of HENHAM to answer for trespasses etc. Autumn 2 Cha. I. [ASS 35/69/2/84] 

T/A 418/103/112  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/70/1] Assizes held at Brentwood 10 March 1628Writ of Attachias, for William Longe of HENHAM to answer for contempts etc. For Autumn 2 Charles I. Return, not found. [ASS 35/70/1/112]

T/A 418/104/118  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/71/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 18 March 1629
Writ of attachias for William Longe of HENHAM to answer for contempt etc. For Lent 3 Chas. I. Return, not found. [ASS 35/71/2/118]


T/A 418/105/81  18 March 1629 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/71/3] Assizes held at Chelmsford 13 July 1629 - Writ of attachias for Wm. Long of HENHAM. Proclamation made Lent 3 Chas. I. Return, not found. [ASS 35/71/3/81]

T/A 418/106/94  13 July 1629 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/72/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 10 March 1630
Writ of attachias for William Long of HENHAM. Proclamation made Lent 2 Chas.I. As above. [ASS 35/72/1/94]


T/A 418/107/88  10 March 1630 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/72/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 7 July 1630 - Writ of Attachias for William Longe of HENHAM labourer, to answer for contempt. Proclamation made lent 2 and 3 Chas. I. As above. (ASS 35/72/2/88) 


T/A 418/108/8  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/73/1] Assizes held at Brentwood 17 March 1631
Indictment of Edward Greene of HENHAM yeoman and Jone his wife1 April 6 Chas. I, did “not repaire” to the parish church for 3 months. [ASS 35/73/1/8]

T/A 418/108/139 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/73/1] Assizes held at Brentwood 17 March 1631. Writ of attachiri facias for William Longe of HENHAM, labourer, to answer for contempt. Proclamation made 2 & 3 Chas.I. As above. (ASS 35/73/1/139)  

T/A 418/112/4  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/76/3] Assizes held at Chelmsford 9 July 1634 - As above, Gregory Isham gentleman gave information that John Southen of Kings Langley, co. Herts., clerk, having the benefice there from 20b March 9 Chas.I for 51 weeks by the demise of Simon Snell vicar of HENHAM, had occupied the vicarage & c. there, and taken £31 13s.4d. for which he should forfeit £102 - that is 40s. a week. (ASS 35/76/3/4)  

T/A 418/113/45  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/77/1] Assizes held at Witham 13 July 1635
Writ of Distringas for George Rowning alias Snelling gent., Robert Coxe alias Greene gent., both of Stratford Langthorne and James Browne of HENHAM yeo., as above. Proclamation made Autumn 10 Chas. I. Dated 9 July 10 Chas. I. (ASS 35/77/1/45) 


T/A 418/114/46  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/78/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 7 March 1636
Writ of Venire facias for Thomas Hayward apparitor, Henry Wood butcher, James Browne bricklayer, all of HENHAM and John Bates of Hallingbury, to answer for contempt. Proclamation made Autumn 11 Chas. I. Return, nothing by which they could be attached. (ASS 35/78/1/46) 


T/A 418/114/56  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/78/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 7 March 1636
Writ of Capias for George Rownynge alias Snelling gent., Robert Coxe alias Greene gent., both of Stratford Langthorne and James Browne of HENHAM yeo., to answer for contempt. Proclamation made Autumn 10 Chas. I. As above. (ASS 35/78/1/56) 

T/A 418/115/52  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/78/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 25 July 1636 Writ of Capias for George Rownynge alias Snelling of Stratford Lengthorne gentleman and Robert Coxe alias Greene of the same, gentleman and James Browne of HENHAM yeo, to answer for contempt. For Autumn 10 Return, not found. (ASS 35/78/2/52) 

T/A 418/115/77  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/78/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 25 July 1636
By an Inquisition taken at [illegible] on 4 July 11 Chas.I, it was found that Thomas Haywood of HENHAM apparitor, 1 June 10 Chas.I, and on other days before and since, had placed “Horsedung” on the road leading from HENHAM to Newport, thereby obstructing the road and making the air unhealthy. Writ of distringas made. Issues, 20s.6d. (ASS 35/78/2/77) 


T/A 418/129/37  1 August 1646 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/88/9 ] indictments ‘for trespass, etc.’ ? at Assizes held March 1647 - Indictment, The highway in Pledgdon Hamlet between Thaxted and Bishops Stortford, was in great decay. The inhabitants of HENHAM should mend it. (ASS 35/88/9/37)


T/A 418/130/49  1 April 1647 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/89/4, 6] Gaol Delivery held at Brentwood 11 August 1647 - Indictment, The highway in Pledgdon Hamlet between Broxted and Bishops Stortford, was in great decay. The inhabitants of HENHAM should mend it. (ASS 35/88/6/32)


T/A 418/132/30  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/89/6] ? Assizes held at Brentwood 15 September 1648 -Indictment, The highway  “President” (Pledgdon) hamlet leading from Broxted to Bishops Stortford, 1 March 23 Chas.I, was in great decay. The inhabitants of HENHAM should mend it. (ASS 35/89/6/30) 

T/A 418/134/36  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/90/7] Assizes held at Chelmsford 26 July 1649
Indictment of William Evans of Wimbish labourer at Little HENHAM about 2 a.m. broke into the house of Richard Stands and stole a hat worth 10s., a silver hatband worth 5s., a pair of boots worth 10s, a tablecloth worth 5s., four napkins worth 4s., two wallets worth 2s., an apron worth 16d., a yard and a half of bonelace worth 6s., half an ell of holland worth 4s., “one paire of pinsorrs” worth 6d., and an awl worth 2d. Pleads not guilty; not guilty. Witness: Richard Stands. (ASS 35/90/7/36


T/A 418/134/71  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/90/7] Assizes held at Chelmsford 26 July 1649 - Indictment, The highway in Pledgdon (in HENHAM) leading between Thaxted and Bishop’s Stortford was decayed. The inhabitants of HENHAM should repair it. (ASS 35/90/7/71) 

T/A 418/141/59  1 February 1652 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/94/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 24 March 1653 - Indictment of William Guy of “Little HENHAM” [?Little Henny]  labourer, there stole “two paire of iron fettors” worth 6d. and a piece of iron worth 2d., belonging to William Wright. Pleads not guilty; guilty; whipped. Witness: Wm. Wright. (ASS 35/94/1/59)


T/A 418/142/30 Indictment Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/94] Assizes held (?) Summer 1653 - Indictment of Nicholas Staynes of HENHAM victualler, 20 July & c. permitted disorderly persons to use his house for tippling. etc. [ASS 35/94/T/30] 

T/A 418/144/47  1 March 1654 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/95/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 19 July 1654 - Indictment of That a ditch in the parish of HENHAM adjoining the marshland of Nathaniel Sydends butcher, was filled with end, etc., as above. The said Sydens should empty and cleanes it. [ASS 35/95/2/47]

T/A 418/151/4 CALENDAR OF ESSEX ASSIZE RECORDS Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/99/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 26 July 1658 JURY LIST, Robert Poole, Thomas Clarke and John Cooke of HENHAM

T/A 418/151/4  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/99/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 26 July 1658
JURY LIST, Robert Poole, Thomas Clarke and John Cooke of HENHAM, Thomas Francklyn and Nathaniel Wright of Wimbish, John White, Nicholas Rand and John Kinge of Birchanger, the rest as no.2. [ASS 35/99/2/4] 

T/A 418/151/24  5 March 1657 Indictment Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/99/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 26 July 1658 - Indictment, The highway in HENHAM leading from Broxted to Stansted Mountfitchet, was broken and in great decay. The inhabitants of the hamlet of (?) Pleisden should mend it. [ASS 35/99/2/24] 

T/A 418/152/56  26 June 1658  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/100/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 1 August 1659 -

26 June 1658 - Indictment of Edward Martlake of Henham yeoman [Peter Sadler sen., of West Bergholt yeo., Richard Pilgrim of the same, yeo., struck through], Thomas Went, Robert Gosnell and John Pryor, all of Langam yeoman, kept tippling houses where disorderly persons assembled, etc. Witnesses: Peter Sadler, Rich. Pilgrim. [ASS 35/100/2/56]

T/A 418/152/57  26 June 1658 Indictment Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/100/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 1 August 1659 - Indictment of Sarah Rand spinster and [blank] acon  wid., of HENHAM,  kept tippling house without licence. [ass 35/100/2/57]

T/A 418/156/70  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/103/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 19 July 1662.
Indictment of Thomas Browne of HENHAM labourer 14 April 14 Charles II, there about 3 p.m. broke into the house of Susan Mortlocke wid., not one being therein, and stole a doublet worth 5s., a pair of Breeches worth 5s., a cloth coat worth 10s., a cloth cloak worth 10s., seven falling hands worth 2s. and a shirt worth 2s., belonging to Robert Wolley gentleman Pleads not guilty; guilty, to be hanged. Witnesses: Susan Mortlocke, Robert Wolley, Simon Howard, John Smith. [ASS 35/103/2/70]

T/A 418/156/71 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/103/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 19 July 1662. 
Indictment of Thomas Browne of HENHAM, labourer 23 February 14 Charles Ii, there about 2 a.m. broke into the house of James Coult and stole two brass kettles worth 30s., a brass skillet worth 4s., four pewter dishes worth 8s., a pairs of linen sheets worth 40s., two shirts worth 5s., two mocks worth 5s., a pair of boots (corearum) worth 8s. and a pair of stockings worth 2s. Pleads not guilty; guilty, to be hanged.

Witness: James Coult. [ASS 35/103/2/71]


T/A 418/170/43  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/111/1-2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 14 March 1670
Presentment of John Younge, Henah Younge, Tho. Muncke sen., all of HENHAM 18 July 21 Chas. II, had absented themselves from church. [ASS 111/2/20]


T/A 418/171/70  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/111/3] Assizes held at Brentwood 18 July 1670
Return of constables for HENHAM.

Licenced alehouse keepers:- Alice Perrin wid., Tho. Perrin, John Brand, Rich. Stanes., Tho. Muncke sen., the wife of Rich. Younge, John Younge and Hannah Younge, son and daughter of the said Richard, had absented themselves from church.

Wm. Bush
John Graye

constables [ASS 35/111/3/70]

T/A 418/171/70 CALENDAR OF ESSEX ASSIZE RECORDS  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/111/3] Assizes held at Brentwood 18 July 1670  Return of constables for HENHAM. Licenced alehouse keepers:- Alice Perrin wid., Tho. Perrin, John Brand, Rich. Stanes. Tho. Muncke sen., the wife of Rich. Younge, John Younge and Hanna Younge, son and daughter of the said Richard, had absented themselves from church


T/A 418/173/61  27 March 1671. Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/112/3] Assizes held at Brentwood 26 July 1671 - Constables’ presentments for “PLEGDON” [in HENHAM], 27 March 1671,

Tuer Crabe and John Wakefield keep licenced alehouses.
Tho.Waylett sells beer without licence.
Mr. Geo. Wilson “a silenced minister liveth within our cunstabley”. [ASS 35//112/2/61]

Tuer Crabe, constables

T/A 418/173/91  27 March 1671q. Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/112/3] Assizes held at Brentwood 26 July 1671 - Constables’ presentments for HENHAM. 27 March 1671,

Alice Perrin, Tho. Perrin, John Brand and Rich. Stanes keep licenced alehouses.

Tho. Munke sen. and his wife, the wife of Rich. Younge, Joan Younge and John Gyver, surveyor of the highways, warned to appear etc.

John Grays
Wm. Bush

constables [ASS 35/112/2/91]

T/A 418/173/111  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/112/3] Assizes held at Brentwood 26 July 1671
Presentment of Daniel Burles husbandman and John Tally of Hazeleigh, Tho. Muckfiel, Richard Yong, John and Hannah Yong,all of HENHAM 19 March 23 Chas. II and on 2 other Sundays following, absented themselves from church from church. [ASS 325/112/2/111] 


T/A 418/174/10  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/113/2] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 4 March 1672.
Presentment of Tho. Muncke sen., Rich.Yonge, John Yonge and Hannah Yonge, all of HENHAM 9 July 23 Chas.II, being a Sunday, absented themselves from church. [ASS 35/112///2/10]

T/A 418/175/53  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/113/3] Assizes held at Chelmsford 15 July 1672

Constables` presentments for HENHAM. 1 March 1671/2.

Tho. Munke senior and his wife, the wife of Richard Younge, John Younge and Hannah Younge absent themselves from church.

Rich. Hoye, Robert Hamond, constables [Ass 35/113/2/53]

T/A 418/175/72  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/113/3] Assizes held at Chelmsford 15 July 1672
Presentment of Thomas Muncke sen., Richard Yonge, John Yonge, and Hannah Yonge, all of HENHAM 18 February 23 [?] Charles II, being Sunday, and for two others, did not go to church. [Ass 35/113/2/72]


T/A 418/184/52  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/118/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 21 July 1677
Presentment of Josias Muncke jun., Nicholas Hamond jun., and Elizabeth Robson all of HENHAM  5 March 29 Charles II, refused to work [Ass 35/118/2/52] 


T/A 418/185/36  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/119/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 2 March 1678
Jurors between the King and the Prisoners etc:- UTTLESFORD:- Simon Archer of HENHAM [chief constable]

 
T/A 418/191/37  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/123/2] Assizes held of Chelmsford 6 March 1682
Jurors between the King and the prisoners:  James Collin and Nicholas Marting of HENHAM 


T/A 418/193/14  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/124/1] Gaol Delivery held at Chelmsford 18 July 1683. Names of jurors to try between the King and the prisoners:-

[Names of Hundreds obliterated.] Elmsttead; [UTTLESFORD]:- 
William Davie of HENHAM, [illegible] 

T/A 418/194/33  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/125/1] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 3 March 1684. Presentment of  Wm. Hall, James Colt, John Hill, Henry Squire, William Rush, Mich. Smith, Ralph Pomfrett, all of HENHAM: 24 May 35 [Chas. II] and for a month following, did not go to church. [ASS 35/124/1/33]


T/A 418/194/34  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/125/1] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 3 March 1684.
Presentment of  Wm. Hall, James Colt, John Hills, Henry Squire, William ush, Mich. Smith, Ralph Pomfrett and Jane Cr… wid., all of HENHAM 1 July 35 Chas. II and for two other Sundays, had not been to church. [Faded at edge and torn.] [ASS 35/124/13


T/A 418/195/11  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/125/2] ‘Sessions held at Chelmsford 7 July 1684
Presentment of  John Giffin of HENHAM 17 February 36 Charles II and for the two following Sundays, had not been to church. Billa vera. * submitted. [ASS 35/125/9/11] 

T/A 418/195/42 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/125/2] ‘Sessions held at Chelmsford 7 July 1684   - Indictment of James Butterfield of Wanstead and Francis Richardson of  HENHAM, 9 February 36 Charles II, and continuously since, kept common tippling houses without licence. [ASS 35/125/9/42] 


T/A 418/196/7  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/126/2] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 9 March 1685.
Presentment of Henry Squire, William Bush, John [?] Hills and William Halls, all of HENHAM 7 June 36 Charles II and for a month following, did not go to church. Billa vera. [ASS 35/126/2/7]

T/A 418/196/21  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/126/2] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 9 March 1685
Presentment of  Sara Richardson, Susan Purkin and Mary Browne of HENHAM sprs., 10 June [36] Charles II and before and since, refused to work. [Faded in pars.] [ASS 35/126/2/21] 

T/A 418/196/27 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/126/2] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 9 March 1685
Presentment of John Morgan of Rainham, Ralph Douthwaite of Manningtree, William Keene of Clavering, John Bush and ste. Gurton of “Pledgdon” [in HENHAM], John Palmer of Barking, Fennel Mathewes, James Butterfield and William Brigman of Wanstead, Math. Speller, Francis Richardson, both of HENHAM and George Carter of Great Chesterford, 11 June 36 Charles II and continuously since, each had kept “a common tipling house” without licence. [ASS 35/126/2/27

T/A 418/199/14  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/126/3-4] ‘Sessions’ held at Chelmsford 31 August 1685 - Indictment of Henry Squire and w., William Bush and w. and John Hills, all of HENHAM, George Gillbey of Widdington, 9 . 1 James II, “did not repaire” to church for 1 month. [ASS 35/126/3/14] 

T/A 418/216/27  Indictment Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/136/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 6 March 1695 - Indictment of John Taylor of HENHAM labourer, 25 Nov. 6 William III, there stole a pair of flaxen sheets worth 10s., a blanket worth 3s., a coverlet worth 5s., two brass kettles  worth 8s. and a brass pot worth 16s., belonging to Robert Hamond. At large. witnesses: Robert Hamond, Henry Sandford. [ASS 35/136/1/27]


T/A 418/222/23  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/139/1] Assizes held at Chelmsford 16 March 1698 - presentment of Rebecca Bland of HENHAM spr., 10 July 9 William III and before and since, refused to work. [ASS 35/139/1/23] 

T/A 418/224/16 Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/140/1] Assize held at Chelmsford 15 March 1699
Presentment The highway in “HENHAM-on-the Hill” leading from there to Bishops Stortford for 200 yards, 1 August 10 William III, was and is in great decay. The inhabitants of HENHAM to mend it. [ASS 35/140/1/16]

T/A 418/227/2  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/141/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 24 July 1700
Indictment of  John Newland of HENHAM yeoman, 20 February 12 William III, as above. Ignoramus. [ASS
35/141/2/2] 

T/A 418/244/1  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/151/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 11 July 1711 - Indictment of Sam. Smith of “HENHAM on the Hill” clerk, 1 June 10 Anne and continuously since, had obstructed a stream near the highway leading from “the Town Street” to Elsenham. Witness:Tho. Surry. [See also no.17.] [ASS 35/151/2/1]

Indictment of Edward Martlake of HENHAM yeoman [Peter Sadler sen., of West Bergholt yeo., Richard Pilgrim of the same, yeo., struck through], Thomas Went, Robert Gosnell and John Pryor, all of Langam yeoman, kept tippling houses where disorderly persons assembled, etc. Witnesses: Peter Sadler, Rich. Pilgrim. [ASS 35/100/2/56]


T/A 418/244/17  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/151/2] Assizes held at Chelmsford 11 July 1711 Presentment of Sam. Smith of “HENHAM-on-the-Hill” clerk, 1 June 10 Anne continuously since, obstructed a stream near the highway leading from the Town Street there to Elsingham ‘with a great quantity of earth” which caused the stream to overflow the highway. [See also no.1] [ASS 35/151/2/17] 


T/A 418/247/49  Calendar of Essex Assize File [ASS 35/153/6] Assizes held at Chelmsford 25 March 1713 - Indictment of Geo. Guryver of HENHAM yeo., 15 July 11 Anne, kept a greyhound, “to course deer or hare”. [ASS 35/153/6/49] 


T/A 428/1/140 CALENDAR OF ESSEX DOCUMENTS IN KING’S BENCH INDICTMENTS
Calender of KING’S BENCH INDICTMENTS ANCIENT 726

136. General Sessions of the Peace held at Chelmsford on 6 October 6 James I

The jurors, John Motte of Shalford and Stephen Page of West Hanningfield gents., John Parke of Gestingthorpe, Thomas Springs of Wethersfield, Henry Harrington of Sible Hedingham, George Kinge of Margaret Roothing, William Felide of High Easter, Christopher Pake of Prittlewell, John Greene of Rawreth, John Coleman of Bradwell, Thomas Thrustle of Runwell, Geoffrey Potter of White Colne, William Fuller of West Bergholt, Robert Gowldam of Rainham, John Gaywood of Tollesbury, Richard Gilver of Barking, William Comynges of Dagenham, Robert Bonney of Witham, Robert Keys of Nazeing and William Raymond of HENHAM, say that Thomas Darcey of Tiptree gent., Richard Munden, Robert Passfield, Peter Whitehead, all of the same yeomen, John Taylor of Totham Yeo., Nicholas Burges of Witham yeoman and William Sharpe of London gent., gathering other malefactors unknown, armed with daggers, staves, etc., on 25 July 6 James I at Tiptree assaulted John Tabram, etc.


T/A 625 MICROFILM OF HENHAM PARISH BOOK

T/A 625/1 Microfilm of HENHAM Parish Book 1782-1845 Chiefly Vestry Minutes and Accounts

T/A 641/5  1833-1853 Copies of Sir Stephen Glynne’s notes on churches Vol. 25:  HENHAM

T/A 656/1  Microfilm of Essex Sale Catalogues 1861-1901 (B.L. Cat. refs. Addl. MSS. 60257)  Manor of HENHAM (1896). Originals deposited at British Library


T/A 857/1  1835  EXTRACTS FROM CATALOGUE OF BATTLE ABBEY AND WEBSTER FAMILY RECORDS IN HUNTINGTON LIBRARY.
Extracts from descriptive catalogue of the muniments of Battle Abbey and Webster family papers, offered for sale in 1835. Extracts describe records of manor of Ongar, 1290-1700, and manor of Lenham [recte
HENHAM], 1630-1635

The original records are in the possession of the Huntington Library, U.S.A, these photocopies were  presented by Sunex Record Office
 

T/B 133/11  23 December 1775 COPIES OF DEEDS OF `ROSE AND CROWN’, HEMPSTEAD

Records in private custody. Assignment of Mortgage for £120

(i) Lawrence Warner of HENHAM, yeo., exor, of estate of w. Eliz., formerly Elizabeth Wright;

(ii) Nathan Bird of Hempstead, carpenter;

(iii) Thomas Wolfe of Saffron Walden

Messuage in occupation of John Turpin in Hempstead near the pound between lands of William Harvey on N. and messuage in occupation of Wm. Ward, belonging to poor of Hempstead on S., abutting E. on highway leading from Radwinter to Steeple Bumpstead

T/B 285 CALENDAR AND COPY OF DEEDS OF HENHAM ESTATE


T/B 285/1  1618-1879  CALENDAR AND COPY OF DEEDS OF HENHAM ESTATE
Calender of deeds of the HENHAM Estate (Radcliffe Wright, Feake, and Baxendale families) [with index to properties]. Records in private custody


T/B 285/2  1839-1859 Xerox of rental of manor of HENHAM Hall (number 317 on calendar of deeds, T/B 285/1)


T/B 285/3  1839-1859 Xerox of quit-rental of manor of the Rectory of HENHAM alias Pledgdon Cannons (number 318 on calendar of deeds, T/B 285/1)

T/B 285/4  1860 CALENDAR AND COPY OF DEEDS OF HENHAM ESTATE
Xerox of sale catalogue of Lt. HENHAM Lodge Farm (number 129A on calendar of deeds, T/B 285/1)


T/B 285/5  1877 CALENDAR AND COPY OF DEEDS OF HENHAM ESTATE Xerox of sale particular of Wood End Green Farm, HENHAM (number 293 on calendar of deeds, T/B 285/1) [see note in calendar] Records in private custody


T/B 285/6  1862 CALENDAR AND COPY OF DEEDS OF HENHAM ESTATE Records in private custody

Xerox of sale particular of inter alia field called Sparleys in HENHAM (number 312 on calendar of deeds, T/B 285/1)


T/B 285/7  Xerox of 1849 sketch map of Wood End Farm, HENHAM (number 216 on calendar of deeds, T/B 285/1)


T/B 285/8 1864 Print of plan of Lt. HENHAM Hall Farm (attached to T/B 285/1 no. 303)


T/B 345 COPIES AND MICROFILM OF RECORDS OF HENHAM ESTATE

T/B 345/1  1700 - 1729 Copies of deeds and letters with transcripts relating chiefly to the HENHAM Estate Includes letter of Samuel Smith, Vicar of HENHAM, to Richard Harrison, Steward of the Manor, concerning abuses in... the HENHAM Courts 1728, letter from Samuel Feake to Richard Harrison confirming writer's purchase of the HENHAM estate "without Broom Farm" 1729, copy of the will of George Dennis of HENHAM, dated 8 June 1733 [no registered copy in E.R.O.] For calendar of deeds of HENHAM Estate, see T/B 285/1

T/B 345/2  1662-1729 Microfilm of deeds of HENHAM properties. Messuages copyhold of the manor HENHAM Hall, note on will of Thomas Measant of HENHAM (died 6 November 1660), drafts of roll recording courts baran of HENHAM Hall 1725, 2 letters of Richard Harrison steward of manor, and 1 of Samuel Smith, vicar of HENHAM, relating to estate, 1729

T/B 345/3  1724,1809 COPIES AND MICROFILM OF RECORDS OF HENHAM ESTATE
Microfilm of deeds of Sheering - Parcel called Gill Hawkins Hoppett with meadow (half an acre), public house known as the Crown , all copyhold of the manor of Sheering Hall

T/B 345/4 1677-1682 COPIES AND MICROFILM OF RECORDS OF HENHAM ESTATE
Microfilm of bonds of members of Feake family (of Dorking, co. Surr.)


T/B 345/5 1696 Microfilm of deeds of 2 messuages in Twyford, Berkshire


T/B 345/6  1661-1740 COPIES AND MICROFILM OF RECORDS OF HENHAM ESTATE - Microfilm of deeds of messuage in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire (abuttals given) 

T/B 345/8  1442-1574 COPIES AND MICROFILM OF RECORDS OF HENHAM ESTATE Microfilm of deeds of property in Walkinstead als. Godstone, Tandridge, Lingfield, Oxted and Horne, Surrey


T/B 587/4  1793-1795 PATTISSON FAMILY LETTERS ETC. - Photocopies of letters:

from Daniel Bocking, nonconformist minister of HENHAM, to [Jacob Pattisson], June 1793

T/G 66  MICROFILM OF ESSEX SECTION OF BOYD’S MARRIAGE INDEX HENHAM 1539- 1837

T/G 124/1 GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON SWORDER FAMILY

Genealogical notes on the Sworder family, compiled by C.B. Sworder. Extracts from parish registers and other parish records, archdeaconry records, marriage licences, manorial records, minutes of River Stort Commissioners and monumental inscriptions, relating to the following parishes:  HENHAM


T/G 190/1  PEDIGREE OF PENNINGTON FAMILY - Photocopy of printed pedigree of Pennington family of HENHAM and Chigwell and of Amersham (co. Bucks.) and Philadelphia, U.S.A. 


T/G 228/1  1551-1663 NOTES ON DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM TOWSE OF TAKELEY
Notes on descendants of William Towse of Takeley, sergeant-at-law (bap. 1551) chiefly from Takeley and HENHAM : 1551-c. 1663. A fuller pedigree is deposited with the History of Parliament Trust

 

T/P 111  Parish history - Notes and transcripts of documents concerning to Henham
J. Frost, aged 17yrs, found guilty & hanged for
of the rape of Sarah Wilkinson aged 60-70 yrs

 

T/P 111/1 NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO HENHAM - 1530-1907

Notes and transcripts for the history of the parish of HENHAM from:

(i) documents in the Essex Record Office, including Archdeaconry Visitation and Act Books, 1633-1708, notes on field names from D/DB T618-621, transcript of D/DQi 126, alehouse recognizances, 1769-1763

(ii) public records, mostly printed, and other sources - transcript of survey of HENHAM, 1530 (P.R.O., L.R. 2/214 ff. 365-366), court rolls 15171-4 (see also T/A 116), brief extracts from parish registers re
clergy, and notes thereon from act books of Bishops of Rochester and St. Albans, 1847-1907; printed sources include will of Thurston, from D. Whitelock, Anglo-Saxon Wills , 1930, pp. 84-84.

 
T/P 114/8  1796-1859 COLLECTION OF NOTES, CUTTINGS AND PRINTS FOR HISTORY OF ESSEX BY ALFRED JOHN DUNKIN -  HENHAM, drawings of spur and armorial tile found 1810, poem, 1856;


T/P 181/6/20 1894-1936 Cuttle Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to HENHAM

T/P 195/17  c.1710-1730 MS.HISTORY OF ESSEX COMPILED BY WILLIAM HOLMAN

Holman’s MS History of Uttlesford Hundred -
6. Widdington,
7. HENHAM, 8. Elsenham  


T/P 250/7  Photographs and notes on Birds Farm, HENHAM (TL 545287: 2) 
T/P 287  PHOTOGRAPH, NOTES ETC. OF WALL PAINTING IN HENHAM  

T/P 287/1  c.1683-1969 Photograph of wall painting of the Lord’s Prayer, c. 1683,
found in the attic of a cottage in Church Street, HENHAM, when the building suffered bomb damage, 1944; notes on its discovery and opinion on painting, 1969

T/R 118  MICROFILMS OF HENHAM PARISH REGISTERS 
T/R 118/1  1539-1741 Henham parish registers -microfilm of register of baptisms, marriages and burials
T/R 118/2  1741-1812 Henham parish registers -microfilm of register of baptisms, marriages and burials
T/R 118/3  1754-1781 Henham parish registers -microfilm of register of marriages and banns
T/R 118/4  1782-1812 Henham parish registers -microfilm of register of marriages and banns
T/R 118/5  1813-1848 Henham parish registers -microfilm of baptism register
T/R 118/6  1848-1890 Henham parish registers -microfilm of baptism register
T/R 118/7  1890-1970 Henham parish registers -microfilm of baptism register
T/R 118/8  1813-1878 Henham parish registers -microfilm of burial register
T/R 118/9    1878-1973 Henham parish registers - microfilm of burial register
T/R 118/10  1813-1837 Henham parish registers - microfilm of marriage register
T/R 118/11  1837-1949 Henham parish registers - microfilm of marriage register

T/R 168/9  1538-1837 Microfilm of transcripts of parish registers of HENHAM (mar. 1539-1837) 

TS 481/1  1575-1728 TRANSCRIPTS OF INVENTORIES
Stencilled copy of typescript transcript of D/Dk F2/1-12, comprising inventories of: Daniel Willey of HENHAM, 1705 (D/DK F2/12). Another copy (D/DK F2/13) at E.R.O. Chelmsford

T/Z 25/481  Essays contributed for the competition, `My Father and Mother’, (1963)  AGE CONCERN ESSAYS - Mr. W. Bush, Great Waltham (HENHAM and Bedfordshire) 

T/Z 25/4053  AGE CONCERN ESSAYS - Essays presented for the competition ‘My Father’ 1996-1997.  Mr. Gillespie of HENHAM born 14th July 1924. Father was born to a family ‘in service’ and eventually worked his way up the ranks to become a butler/valet, serving quite a few famous men 


T/Z 95/2  1966 Discovery of inscription at Yew Tree Cottage, HENHAM

T/Z 151/74  1999 MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS RECORDED BY ESSEX SOCIETY FOR FAMILY HISTORY Monumental inscriptions at the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden include that for Revd. William Campbell, Vicar of HENHAM, 1796


T/Z 223/1 List of Churchwardens of St Mary the Virgin, HENHAM, 1548-1980 Taken from printed sources, HENHAM parish registers and Vestry minutes, Visitation records of the Archdeacon of Colchester, Rawlinson MSS in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

T/Z 343/1  1988 BENSKINS BREWERY CALENDAR - Benskins Brewery calendar for 1988,  including reproductions of photographs taken c.1877, of the following public houses:  The Cock, HENHAM 

T/Z 388/1  c.1970-1980 SURVEY OF ESSEX MONUMENTAL BRASSES AND MEMORIALS Ms Survey of Essex monumental brasses and memorials in revision of A list of Monumental Brasses in the British Islesby Mill Stephenson, B.Z., F.S.A. (1926), conducted by volunteers on behalf of the Monumental Brass Society c.1970-1980

Survey forms inc. Record of Church Searched, Indent Report for each known brass and Discovery Report where necessary; physical details of brasses given. Churches for which forms have been completed: HENHAM


T/Z 408/19  1909 SAFFRON WALDEN ROADSHOW PHOTOGRAPHS - Copy postcard of `The School, HENHAM’; original, by Broughall of HENHAM Post Office, postmarked 1909 [No original in E.R.O. Postcard Collection] [Roadshow negative 2/8A, 9A] 86 x 136 mm. 


T/Z 408/20  Copy postcard of `The Post Office HENHAM’, with pony and trap [No original in E.R.O. Postcard Collection] [Roadshow negatives 2/10A, 11A] 86 x 137 mm. 

T/Z 408/21  SAFFRON WALDEN ROADSHOW PHOTOGRAPHS
Copy postcard of HENHAM by A. Maxwell, photographer, of Bishops Stortford; buildings on right identified as blacksmith’s by owner of original, which is postmarked 1906. [No original in E.R.O. Postcard Collection]. [Roadshow negatives 2/12A, 13A] 86 x 137 mm.


T/Z 408/22  c.1911 SAFFRON WALDEN ROADSHOW PHOTOGRAPHS - Copy postcard of HENHAM; identified by owner of original as High Street, with Bell Inn on left [For duplicate original see E.R.O. Postcard Collection, HENHAM20]. [Roadshow negatives 2/14A, 15A] 86 x 137 mm.

T/Z 408/23  SAFFRON WALDEN ROADSHAW PHOTOGRAPHS - Copy postcard of house in `Plantation Road, HENHAM’; identified by owner of original as Bacons, the house having been bombed in World War II and the road having been renamed Crow Street. [No original in E.R.O. Postcard Collection]. Roadshow negatives 2/16A, 17A] 86 x 137 mm


T/Z 408/24  1911 SAFFRON WALDEN ROADSHOW PHOTOGRAPHS

Copy postcard of `HENHAM Congregational Chapel’; according to the owner to the original, which is postmarked 1911, the man shown at the Chapel’s gate is its minister, the Revd. John Farley, and the Chapel itself was demolished c.1978. [For records of the chapel see D/NC 36; these include, at D/NC36/10, a copy of a further example of the present postcard, but E.R.O. holds no duplicate original] [Roadshow negatives 2/18A, 19A] 85 x 137 mm.


T/Z 408/25  Copy postcard of HENHAM; identified by owner of original at Wood End Green. [No original in E.R.O. Postcard Collection] [Roadshow negatives 2/20A, 21A] 86 x 137 mm.   


T/Z 408/26  Copy group wedding photograph identified by owner of original as reception at Parsonage Farm, HENHAM, for Thomas Fairhurst and Alice. Pimblett, 12 July 1905; on right, vicar of HENHAM Joseph Monk …


T/Z 488/1   1997 Historic Buildings Case Study of O.S.C.A.
The Old School Community Association, HENHAM by Russell Thake of Anglia Polytechnic University for B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Quantity Surveying Year 3.

The building was originally HENHAM village school opened in 1876 and closed in July 1975. The building was subsequently converted and used for a variety of community activities. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the conversion process, its impact locally and the benefits to local heritage and culture. Includes colour photographs and plan.


T/Z 494/11 2002-2003 Descriptions of heraldic shields in churches of Newport and Stansted Deanery. Descriptions of shields (i.e. achievements of arms on monuments, brasses, furnishings etc.) in the Anglican churches of Newport and Stansted Deanery, recorded at various dates between 2000 and 2003.Comprises: Clavering, Arkesden, HENHAM, Elsenham, Manuden, Newport, Quendon, Rickling, Wicken Bonhunt, Widdington, and Birchanger. Noted that other parishes have no heraldic shields. Church of St Mary the Virgin HENHAM  Descriptions of shields (i.e. achievements of arms on monuments, brasses, furnishings etc.), recorded in 2003 by Peter B

 

D/DB T257  1717 Deed - two messuage, cottage and 14 acres land (Final Concord) in Finchingfield, HENHAM and Asheldham

                          
D/DB T619  1662-1831 Several Deeds of a messuage called Attwoods & land, copyhold of The Manor of Henham -

1. This Indenture was made the fifth day of April in the forty second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two between Richard Leach of Henham in the County of Essex, gentleman and Susanna his wife (late Susanna Foster, widow) of the one part and Thomas Nottage of Henham aforesaid, shopkeeper, of the other part. By a Surrender dated the twenty seventh day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety four Susanna, alias Susanna Foster, widow, a customary tenant of the manor of Henham Hall in the said County of Essex. By the Surrender, Richard Leach and Susanna his wife contracted with the Thomas Nottage for the absolute sale and conveyance to him and his heirs of the customary or copyhold lands, hereditaments and premises. This comprised one acre of land lying upon Bury Hill in a Common field called Platts field and all that one acre and a half of land lying in Platts field aforesaid abutting upon a lane called Platts Lane on the east part holden of the said .manor by Copy of Court Roll and all ways, rights, commons, members and appurtenances whatsoever to the same premises belonging) for seventy pounds. Witnessed: Thomas Hall and Joseph Shepherd

 

2. Court held for the Manor of Henham Hall on the 30th April 1810 under the Surrender of James Ginn Searle and the customary messuage or tenement with the barns, stables, outhouses, buildings, yards, gardens, orchards and appurtenances thereunto belonging and four pieces or parcels of customary arable and pasture land belonging and adjoining called 'Parkcrofts' containing by estimation eight acres more or less formerly in the occupation of .. Collins, widow or her assigns situate, living and being in Henham and abutting upon Wood End Green upon the south part and being between Henham Park on the east and lands formerly of James William Clark on the north and west parts and also all that piece of customary land being in a common field called Platts Field within the parish of Henham .. containing by estimation three acres more or less next lands sometime of Thatcher Woollen on the east part and a footway leading from the town of Henham to Henham windmill on the west part one head thereof abutting upon land formerly of George Browne on the north part, and also one parcel of land called 'Longcroft' containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land adjoining in Platts field next or near 'Longcroft' hedge containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land called the Seven Rood piece being upon Bury Hill in a field called Platts field containing by estimation seven roods more or less, one piece of land being in Platts field called the Hill piece containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land being in the same field called Platts field at Hayes Corner containing one acre and a half as the said messuage or tenement lands and premises are situate lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and were formerly in the tenure or occupation of James Bacon, his undertenants or assigns and to all which last described hereditaments and premises (amongst others) the said Thomas Nottage was admitted to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said Manor on the third day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven under the surrender of Samuel Strode and also all that one acre of land being upon Bury Hill in a common field called Platts field and all that one acre and a half of land being in Platts field aforesaid abutting upon a lane called Platts Lane on the east part holden of the said Manor by copy of Court Roll (to which said last described two pieces or parcels of land the said Thomas Nottage was admitted to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said manor on the twelfth of May one thousand eight hundred and two under the Surrender of a Richard Leach and Susanna his wife and also all that customary or copyhold .. or .. piece or parcel of land formerly pasture and now arable with the appurtenances in Henham aforesaid containing by estimation one acre and a half more or less next the freehold orchard formerly of John Newland towards the north formerly in the occupation of Nathan Nottage and also all the usual and accustomed wants and passages in, by and over the orchard late of the said John Newland to and from the said close of land (to which said late described hereditaments the said Thomas Nottage was admitted tenant to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said Manor on the twenty-sixth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety three as the only son and heir of the said Nathan Nottage his father deceased and also all that piece or parcel of customary or copyhold arable land being in the said Common field called Platts field upon Bury Hill in Henham aforesaid containing by estimation four acres more or less with the rights, commons and appurtenances thereto belonging to which said last described piece or parcel of land the said Thomas Nottage was admitted to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said Manor on the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixteen under the Surrender of Hester Canning, George Welsh and James Gavine (?) and also all and every other the customary or copyhold messuages or tenements, lands and hereditaments and premises late of the said Thomas Nottage deceased held of the said Manor by copy of Court Roll with their appurtenances save and except a cot intended to be hereby bargained and sold or ... all that messuage or tenement with the yard, orchard and garden in Henham aforesaid with their and every of their appurtenances abutting on Wood End Green aforesaid now or late in the occupation of ... Cracknell and ... Fuller (?) and comprised in the purchase by the said Thomas Nottage deceased from the said James Ginn Searle and also save and except all that customary or copyhold messuage or tenement with the barn since converted into a tenement with the yard and garden thereto belonging situate near Wood End Green aforesaid now or late in the occupation of George Gu.. , Thomas Richard and .. Richard and formerly the estate of the said Nathan Nottage as the said messuage or tenement, barns, stables, .. and buildings, toft lands and hereditaments hereinbefore mentioned and intended to be hereby bargained and sold are situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and were late in the tenure or occupation of the said Thomas Nottage deceased except certain lands which were intended to be exchanged by the said Thomas Nottage with William Canning and which said last mentioned lands now are or late were in the tenure of the said William Canning his undertenants or assigns .. as the said messuage or tenement and buildings, toft lands and hereditaments late in the occupation of the said Thomas Nottage deceased now are in the tenure or occupation of Thomas Nottage his son, his undertenants or assigns or however otherwise the said messuage or tenement, barns, stables, yards and buildings, lands and hereditaments are named, .. or described abutted or bounded tenanted or occupied together with all houses, outhouses, .. , barns, stables, buildings, ways, paths, passages, trees, woods, underwood, hedges, ditches, fences, waters, watercourses, .., rights of .., privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the said hereditaments and premises or any part or parcel thereof belonging or in anyways appertaining or now or at anytime hereforeto accepted, reputed, deemed or taken as part parcel or member thereof or of any part thereof and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders yearly and other rents, ... and profits thereof and all the estate .... use trust possession gain and demand whatsoever both at law and in .. of him the said James Pavitt the said messuage or tenement ... unto the said Joseph Perry .....of James Ginn Searle ....

3. .. Him and his heirs at a Court held for the said Manor on the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ten under the Surrender and also all that customary messuage or tenement with the barns, stables, outhouses, buildings, lands, gardens, orchards and appurtenances thereunto belonging and four pieces or parcels of customary arable and pasture land thereunto belonging and adjoining called 'Parkcrofts' containing by estimation eight acres more or less formerly in the occupation .. Collins, widow or her assigns situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and abutting upon Wood End Green upon the south part and being between Henham Park on the east and lands formerly of James Hellam Clark on the north and west parts and also all that piece of customary land lying in a common field called Platts field within the parish of Henham aforesaid or on containing by estimation three acres more or less next lands sometime of Thatcher Woollen on the east part and a footway leading from the town of Henham to Henham Windmill on the west part one head thereof abutting upon land formerly of George Browne on the north part and also one parcel of land called 'Longcroft' containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land called the Seven Rood Piece lying upon Bury Hill in a field called Platts field containing by estimation seven roods more or less, one piece of land lying in Platts field aforesaid called the Hill piece containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land lying in the said field called Platts field at Hayes Corner containing one acre and an half as the said messuage or tenement, lands and premises are situate lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and were formerly in the tenure or occupation of James Bacon, his undertenants or assigns and to an which last described hereditaments and premises (amongst others) the said Thomas Nottage was admitted to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said Manor on the third day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven under the Surrender of Samuel Strode and also all that one acre of land lying upon Bury Hill a Common field called Platts field and all that one acre and a half of land lying in Platts field aforesaid abutting upon a lane called Platts Lane on the east part holden of the said manor by copy of Court Roll (to which said last described two pieces or parcels of land the said Thomas Nottage was admitted to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said manor on the twelfth of May one thousand eight hundred and two under the Surrender of a Richard Leach and Susanna his wife) and also all that customary or copyhold moor or inclosed piece or parcel of land formerly pasture and now arable with the appurtenances in Henham aforesaid containing by estimation one acre and a half more or less being next the freehold orchard formerly of John Newland towards the north formerly in the occupation of Nathan Nottage and also all the usual and accustomed ways and passages in, by and over the orchard late of the said John Newland to and from the said close of land (to which said late described hereditaments the said Thomas Nottage was admitted tenant to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said manor on the twenty-sixth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three as the only son and heir of the said Nathan Nottage his father deceased and also all that piece or parcel of customary or copyhold arable land being in the said Common field called Platts field upon Bury Hill in Henham aforesaid containing by estimation four acres more or less with the rights, commons and appurtenances thereto belonging to which said last described piece or parcel of land the said Thomas Nottage was admitted to him and his heirs at a Court held for the said manor on the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixteen under the Surrender of Hester Canning, George Welch and James Gavin also all and every other the customary or copyhold messuages or tenements, lands, hereditaments and premises late of the said Thomas Nottage the deceased held of the said manor by copy of the Court Roll with their appurtenances save and except as not intended to be hereby bargained and sold or ... all that messuage or tenement with yard, orchard and garden in Henham aforesaid with their and every of their appurtenances abutting on Wood End Green aforesaid now or late in the occupation of ... Cracknell and Fuller (?) and comprised in the purchase by the said Thomas Nottage deceased from the said James Ginn Searle and also save and except all that customary or copyhold messuage or tenement with the barn since converted into a tenement with the yard and garden thereto belonging situate near Wood End Green aforesaid now or late in the occupation of George Guwen, Thomas Richard and .. Richard and formerly the estate of the said Nathan Nottage as the said messuage or tenement, barns, stables, .. and buildings, toft lands and hereditaments hereinbefore mentioned and intended to be hereby bargained and sold are situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and were late in the tenure or occupation of the said Thomas Nottage deceased except certain lands which were intended to be exchanged by the said Thomas Nottage with William Canning and which said last mentioned lands now are or late were in the tenure of the said William Canning, his undertenants or assigns .. as the said messuage or tenements and buildings, toft lands and hereditaments late in the occupation of the said Thomas Nottage deceased now are in the tenure or occupation of Thomas Nottage his son, his undertenants or assigns or whosoever otherwise the said messuage or tenement, barns, stables, yards and buildings, lands and hereditaments are called, known or described abutted or bounded, tenanted or occupied together with all houses, outhouses, edifices, barns, stables, buildings, ways, paths, passages, trees, woods, underwood, hedges, ditches, courses, waters, watercourses, commons, rights of commons, privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the said hereditaments and premises or any part or parcel thereof belonging or in anyways appertaining or now or at anytime heretofore accepted, reputed, deemed or taken as part parcel or member thereof or of any part thereof dub the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders yearly and other rents, issues and profits thereof and all the estate ,rights, tithe ...... use, trust, property, possession, gain and demand whatsoever both at law and in equity of him the said James Pavitt of in to or out of the said messuage or tenement, lands, hereditaments and premises and every and any part or parcel thereof and all deeds, evidences and writings whatsoever in anyways relating to the said hereditaments and premises or any part thereof now in the custody or power of the said James Pavitt or which he can ... by without suit at law or in equity to have and to hold the said messuage or tenement, lands, hereditaments and premises hereinbefore mentioned and intended to be hereby bargained and sold with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said Joseph Perry and his heirs to the only proper and absolute use and behoof of the said Joseph Perry, his heirs and assigns for ever at the will of the Lord according to the custom of the said manor and subject to the rents, services and customs therefore due and of right accustomed and the said James Pavitt doth hereby for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators covenant and declare with and to the said Joseph Perry, his heirs and assigns that he the said James Pavitt hath not done, committed, permitted or suffered any act, deed or thing whatsoever whereby the said messuage or tenement, lands, hereditaments and premises hereby bargained and sold or intended so to be or any of them or any part thereof are is can or may be charged, impeached, incumbered or affected in tithe, estate or otherwise howsoever In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first before written.

4. An Indenture made the 14th January between James Pavitt of Clavering, Essex, shopkeeper the surviving executor and trustee for sale under the last will and testament (dated 8th August 1827) of Thomas Nottage late of Henham, Essex, auctioneer and appraiser, deceased, of the messuage or tenement and Joseph Perry of Clavering in which he appointed Thomas Living of Wicken Bonhunt, farmer, and James Pavitt together with his son George Nottage joint executors and trustees. The Will has a codicil dated 27th Feb. 1828 revoked the appointment of his son George Nottage and also the devise of his real estate. Thomas Living and James Pavitt sold Thomas Nottage's customary or copyhold messuage or tenement, lands and hereditaments by public auction 'at the sign of the Cock in Henham o the 10th July 1829. However, no person bid for the hereditaments and premises or any part so no sale was made. Thomas Living later died. James Pavitt contracted with Joseph Perry for the absolute sale of the customary or copyhold messuage or tenement etc for £2,000. The sale included two parcels of customary land lying in Platts field , one parcel called 'Johnsons' containing three roods and the other parcel called 'Lorkins' containing half an acre, and also one parcel of customary land called 'Sandpit' piece and lying in a common field called Platts field containing two acres, and one other piece or parcel of arable land also lying in Platts field containing one acre of three acres, and all of that toft or piece of ground whereon a tenement sometime stood with a garden and orchard thereto belonging (but which said tenement has been down a great number of years and the land formerly a garden and orchard laid into the pieces or parcels of pasture); also two parcels of pasture called 'Allewoods' containing about three acres, and two crofts of land containing about three acres also called 'Allewoods', and also one piece or parcel of arable land lying in a common field called Platts field upon Berry Hill there containing by estimation six acres as the same premises are situate and being in the parish of Henham and were formerly in the tenure or occupation of Richard Bush or his undertenants.

 

5. Reverse of above documents -

Note that Henham Hall Court was held on the 21st Oct. 1831; signed by William Stallibrass and Mynott Titchmarsh

James Pavitt confirms that he received £1,850 from Joseph Perry; witnessed by Thomas Probert and Robert Thurgood
Bargain and Sale by James Pavitt to Joseph Perry dated 14th Jan. 1831

 

6. The Manor of Henham Hall, The Special Court Baron of Samuel Ffeake esquire, Lord of the said Manor there holden in and for the same manor on Monday the twenty-seventh day of March in the ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith And in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine before Philip Martin, Gentleman Steward there ......

 

7. Mentions the details in 6. above including 'Johnsons', 'Low-risk', a customary piece of land called 'Salt Pit' of about two acres and lying in a common field called Platts field, a close of land arable and pasture called 'How Croft' of about six acres.

 

8. The Manor of Henham Hall. The general Court Baron and customary Court of Jonathan Cruse esquire and Ann his wife (late Ann Fake spinster) and of the Reverend Francis Tote, Clerk their surviving trustee and of Mary Feake spinster, Lords and Ladies of the said Manor there holden in and for the same matter on Friday the fourteenth day of December in the thirty-third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith and so forth. And in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two before Edward Wise, Gentleman Steward there. At this court it is presented by the said Homage upon their oaths that Samuel Shore the Elder, esquire, a late customary tenant of the said manor who held to him and his heirs for ever by Copy of Court Roll bearing date the twelfth day of August one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine one undivided moiety or half part (the whole in two equal parts to be divided) of all those two parcels of customary land lying in Platts field one parcel thereof called 'Johnsons' containing about three roods and the other parcel thereof called 'Lorkins' containing by estimation half an acre, and also of one parcel of customary land called by the name of 'Salt Pit' lying in a common field called Platts field containing by estimation two acres, and also of one close of land arable and pasture called 'Howcroft' containing by estimation six acres and also of one other piece or parcel of arable land lying in a common field called Platts field containing by estimation one acre, parcel of three acres, and also one piece or parcel of arable land lying in a common field called Copperton field containing by estimation four acres, and also one piece or parcel of arable land lying in a common field called Cotnam field containing by estimation four acres. Mentions 'Allewoods'.

 

9. The Manor of Henham Hall. The 12th August 1769 - mentions Francis Edmunds and Hannah Maria (nee Offlay) his wife; also George Guyver of Henham.

 

10. The Manor of Henham Hall. The 6th September 1753 - William Strode of Punsborn in the County of Hertford, esquire, one of the customary tenants of the manor .. surrendered to the Court the customary messuage or tenement with barns, stables, outhouses, buildings, malthouses, yards, gardens, orchards and appurtenances and four pieces or parcels of customary arable and pasture land thereunto belonging and adjoining called Park Crofts containing by estimation eight acres more or less formerly in the occupation of - Collins, widow ... situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and abutting upon Wood End Green upon the south part and lying between Henham park on the east and lands formerly of James Hollam Clerk on the north and west parts, and also all that piece of customary land lying in a common field called Platts field within Henham parish containing by estimation three acres more or less next the lands formerly of Martha Woolley on the east part and a footway leading from the town of Henham to Henham windmill on the west part one head thereof abutting upon the land late of George Browne on the north part and also one parcel of land called Long Croft containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land adjoining in Platts field next or near Long Croft hedge containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land called the Seven Rood piece lying upon Bury Hill in a field called Platts field containing by estimation seven roods more or less, one piece of land lying in Platts field aforesaid called the Mill field containing by estimation two acres and a half more or less, one piece of land lying in the said field called Platts field at Hayes Corner containing one acre and a half, one piece of land lying in a Common field called Hyde containing one acre between the lands formerly of Matthew Woolley, and also one parcel of land lying in a field called Cotnam field containing by estimation three acres and three roods or thereabouts lying between the lands formerly of John Wood and the said Matthew Woolley, and also one other parcel of land lying in a field called Little Cotnam field in a place called Lower Shott next the hedge on the north and against a field called Great Cotnam field containing by estimation two acres and a half and seven perches with their appurtenances as the said messuage or tenement, lands and premises are situate lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and now in the tenure or occupation of James Bacon, his undertenants or assigns and all other the customary
messuages or tenements, lands and hereditaments whatsoever of him the said William Strode holden of the manor aforesaid by Copy of Court Roll with their and every of their appurtenances and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders yearly and other rents, issues and profits of the said messuage or tenement, lands and premises and of every part and parcel thereof to the only use and behoof of Samuel Strode of the parish of St. George near Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex, esquire, his heirs and assigns for ever.


11. Friday 14th December 1792 - The Manor of Henham Hall.

13. All in Latin. As Curial Baron Henry Wright, Baron, ... 1662. Mentions 1660 and William Wright, John Stanes, Nicholas Stanes, Dorothy Mead, Copperton Field, George Browne, John Clarke, John Measant, Thomas Surridge of Wimbish.

D/DB T620  1672-1768 Deeds of a messuage & lands, copyhold of manor of HENHAM -

1. in Latin. Mentions John Stork, Henry Wright and Ann Wright. Dated 1672.

2. 10th May 1698 - Abstract of the title of Mrs. Mary Mead to a messuage and ten acres of land, part freehold and part copyhold in Henham in the County of Essex. Made between Thomas Mead the Elder and Thomas Mead the Younger (son and heir apparent of the said Thomas Mead the father) of the first part, Edward George of the second part and Susan George, widow, of the third part. Reciting that a marriage was then intended to be had between the said Thomas Mead the son and Susan George. In consideration of the marriage, both Thomas Meads did grant, bargain, sell, .. release and confirm to the said Edward George and his heirs all those three pieces or parcels of pasture and arable land with the appurts thereunto belonging called or known by the name of 'Coles' containing by estimation seven acres more or less lying and being in a certain endway called 'Crosstreet Green' in the parish of Henham aforesaid by lands belonging to the Rectory of Henham aforesaid and by lands sometime of James Brown and afterwards of Margaret Brown towards the north and by land of the said Thomas Mead toward the south abutting upon the king's highway leading from Henham aforesaid towards Stortford towards the east and upon lands belonging to the Rectory aforesaid towards the west as the said premises were then in the occupation of William Davey or his assigns.

3/4. A separate document mentions the land above being held of the Manor of Pledgdons Commons alias the Rectory of Henham and being of three acres and lying in a close called 'Cooles' alias 'Coles' in Henham in the tenure of William Davey. Continues: by indenture between Nathaniel Catlin (by his name and description therein mentioned, and Thomas Mead of Thaxted, butcher (only son and heir of the bodies of the aforesaid Thomas Mead the son and Susan his wife who was son and heir of the said Thomas Mead the Elder of the one part and Thomas Wolfe, gentleman of the other part. The property was one messuage, one malthouse, one kiln, one barn, one stable, one curtilage, one garden, six acres of land and four acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Walden and Henham. 8th Dec 1736 Thomas Mead was admitted (tenant to him and his heirs as the only son and heir of his father) to all that customary close of land called 'Coles' otherwise 'Cowells' by estimation three acres more or less with the appurts situate and being in the parish of Henham in the County of Essex.

5. 1775 Thomas Mead was admitted tenant to him and his heirs as only son and heir of Thomas Mead his father.

6. 1785 Mary Mead spinster was admitted tenant to her and her heirs on the death of her brother the said last-named Thomas Mead and as his only sister and heir.

7. 12th April 1672 The Manor of Henham Hall. Mary Stock, daughter of John Stock, was admitted on his Surrender for her life, heirs of her body with Rem's. to Henry Stock, son of said John Stock, and his heirs to a customary messuage or tenement, an orchard and yard and all edifices and appurtenances thereunto belonging

4th Oct. 1717 William Stubbins was admitted tenant to him and the heirs of his body on the death and as son and heir of the body of the said Mary Stock, afterwards Mary Stubbing to the said messuage 8. and after such admission at the same Court the said William Stubbing suffered a Recovery of the said premises wherein Joseph Sparrow was defendant, John Rowley, gentleman was tenant, William Stubbing was 1st voucher and afterwards the said William Stubbing was admitted on the Surrender of the Demandant tenant to him and his heirs of the said premises. And at the same Court Robert Hammond was admitted tenant to him and his heirs of said premises on the Surrender of said Stubbing. Same date - bond from said Stubbing to said Hammond for assurance of title.

9. 22nd April 1724 the said Robert Hammond surrendered the premises to James Raymond, gentleman, conditionally for securing £45 and interest.

28th Nov 1743 An acknowledgement of Satisfaction thereon under the hand of said Raymond with an Order to the Steward to enter same.

10. 30th June 1747 Thomas Mead was admitted tenant to him and his heirs on the Surrender of Robert Hamond to the said premises by the following description viz. All that customary messuage or tenement with orchard, yard and the outhouses, buildings and appurtenances to the same belonging situate and being in Henham aforesaid and fronting north and northward on the common highway leading from the sign of the Cock there towards a certain green called Prison Green

And afterwards at the same Court said Thomas Mead surrendered to the use of his Will

 

11. 20th Nov. 1768 The said Thomas Mead by his Will duly executed and attested, devised all and singular his messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with their appurtenances situate lying and being in the parish and bounds of Henham aforesaid to Mary his daughter, heirs and assigns forever. The original is in Miss Mead's custody attested by Benjamin Newell, James Dasnell and John Baker.

12. 10th June 1775 The said Mary Mead was admitted tenant to her and her heirs on the death of the said Thomas Mead her father and according to his Will and surrender to the use thereof To said premises.

 

13. This is the official agreement made in the Court of our Sovereign Lord the king at ... in fifteen days of St. Quartin in the ninth year of the reign of George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith. before John Eardley Wilmot, Edward Chos.. Henry Bathhurst and Henry Gould, justices of our lord the king and others then and there present between Thomas Wolfe, gentleman plt and Nathaniel Cathin and Thomas Mead the Elder defor.. of one messuage, one malthouse, one kiln, one barn, one stable, one curtilage, one garden, six acres of land and four acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Walden and Henham whereupon a plea of .. was summoned between them in the same court that is to say that the aforesaid Nathaniel and Thomas Mead have acknowledged the aforesaid tenement with the appurtenances to be the right of him the said Thomas Wolfe as those with the said Thomas hath of the gift of the aforesaid Nathaniel and Thomas Mead and those they have ..... and agreement the said Thomas Wolfe hath given to the aforesaid Nathaniel and Thomas Mead sixty pounds sterling.


14. 10th Oct. 1768 This Indenture made the tenth day of October in the eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty and eight .... And also of all those three pieces of pasture and arable land of him the said Thomas Mead with the appurtenances thereunto belonging called or known by the name or names of 'Cooles' containing by estimation seven acres more or less lying and being in a certain End way called Crestreet Green in the parish of Henham aforesaid by .. belonging to the Rectory of Henham aforesaid and by ... lands sometime of James Browne and afterwards of Mary Browne towards the north and by land of the said Thomas Mead towards the south abutting on the king's highway leading from Henham aforesaid towards Stortford towards the east and upon the lands belonging to the Rectory aforesaid towards the west as the same lands and premises were last in the occupation of William Davy or his assigns and now are in the tenure of John Turner or his undertenants and were late in the estate of the said Thomas Mead and Susan his wife, the late father and mother of the said Thomas Mead party hereto and formerly the estate of the said Thomas Mead his grandfather and of all ways, paths, passages, waters, watercourses, rights ,commons, members and appurtenances whatsoever to the same lands and premises belonging or in any ways appertaining And of the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders of all and singular the said messuage, lands and premises by the names and descriptions of one messuage, one malthouse, one kiln, one barn, one stable, one curtilage, one garden, six acres of land and four acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Walden and Henham ....

 

15. 1698 Indenture concerning the above-mentioned three acres of land known as 'Cooles'. This indenture tripartite made the eleventh day of May in the tenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Third by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith 20th .. 1698 between Thomas Mead of Henham in the County of Essex, yeoman and Thomas Mead, carpenter, son and heir apparent of the said Thomas Mead the father of the first part and Edward George of Thaxted in the in the said County of Essex, weaver, of the second part and Susan George of Thaxted aforesaid, widow, of the third part. Whereas there is a marriage intended by the permission of Almighty God shortly to be had and solemnised between the said Thomas Mead the son and the said Susan George now this Indenture witnesseth that the said Thomas Mead the father and Thomas Mead the son ... for in consideration of the said marriage as of a competent sum of money, of diverse goods, chattels and of other things of good value which the said Thomas Mead the son is to have and receive with the said Susan as and for her marriage portion ....


D/DB T621  1677-1733 Deeds of a messuage & lands, copyhold of manor of HENHAM

 

1. 12th. December in the 7th year of the reign of George the Second in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three. A bond between Mr. John Wright, yeoman, of Henham and Mr. Richard Harrison, gentleman, of Harlow dated the 12th December 1733. John is held and fully bound to Richard in the sum of three hundred and twenty pounds which is to be paid to Richard Harrison . The condition is that if John pays Richard one hundred and sixty pounds plus interest at the rate of five pounds for one hundred pounds for one year on or upon the thirteenth day of December which will be in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirty-four according to a proviso or condition contained in a Surrender bearing .. date with these presents made by the said John Wright to the said Richard Harrison of certain copyhold lands, tenements and hereditaments holden of the manor of Henham Hall in the said County of Essex. The said Surrender and these presents being a Security for one and the same sum of money Then this obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force. Witnessed: Peter Coote/Coole? and William Bush.

 

2. In latin dated 1701 - mentions Anna Wright, 'Broadcroft', 'Alsey Croft' and 'Alsey Mead', the occupancy by John Stanes, Barnabus Thurgood, the occupancy by Thomas Staines, 'Long Croft', 'Appletons Mead', 'Brockledon (?) Field', John Turner, a property in Henham occupied by Sibell Staines, Perry Mead.

 

3. In latin dated 1682: mentions a tenement in Henham concerning Sibilla Staines, widow, Perry Mead, Simon Hayward, Robert Pennington of Dunmow, Thomas Wheeler, ? Wright of Great Dunmow yeoman.

4. In latin dated 1693. Mentions John Conyers, 'Broadcroft', 'Alsey Croft' at Alsey Mead, a customary messuage or tenement in Henham occupied by Barnabi Thurowgood, 'Longcroft', 'Brockledon Field', a customary tenement situated in Henham and occupied by Sibilla Staines, Simon Hayward, signed by John Conyers seneschal

5. In Latin. In Latin. Dated Feb 1677/8. Manor of Henham Hall. Mentions John Staines of Henham, William Stanes, Simon Hayward, occupation of a tenement by Barnabi Thurgood, 'Appletons Mead', Brockledon Field, John Turner, John Leigh, Robert Pennington Great Dunmow

 

6. I Thomas Stanes of Henham in the County of Essex, husbandman, son and heir of Nicholas Stanes late of Henham aforesaid husbandman deceased sendeth greeting in our Lord God Everlasting, know ye that whereas the said Nicholas Stanes did surrender into the hands of the Lord of the Manor of Henham Hall by the Rod according to the custom of the said manor all that his customary messuage or tenement situate in Henham aforesaid with the yards, gardens, orchard and close or parcel of arable land and pasture thereunto next adjoining with their appurtenances and now in the occupation of the said Thomas Stanes or of his assigns and it was surrendered to the proper use and behoof of William Wright late of Henham aforesaid, yeoman, deceased and of his heirs and assigns forever upon Condition of Redemption, now those persons witnesseth that if the said Thomas Stanes son and heir of the said Nicholas Stanes deceased for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of England as also for diverse good charges and considerations .. there unto .... unto the Honourable Dame Ann Wright of Daynahams in the parish if Hornchurch in the County of Essex, widow, and to her heirs and assigns forever ... signed by Thomas Stanes on the sixteenth day of March 1694/5.

7. To all .. people to whom this present writing shall come I, Thomas Stanes of Henham in the County of Essex, husbandman, son and heir of Nicholas Stanes late of Henham aforesaid, husbandman, deceased, sendeth greeting in our Lord God Everlasting, know ye that whereas the said Nicholas Stanes did surrender into the hands of the Lord of the Manor of Henham Hall by the Rod according to the custom of the said manor all that this customary messuage or tenement situate in Henham aforesaid with the yards, garden, orchard and now in the occupation of the said Thomas Stanes or of his assigns and it was surrendered to the proper use and behoof of William Wright late of Henham aforesaid, yeoman, deceased and of his heirs and assigns forever upon condition of Redemption, now those present witnesseth that I the said Thomas Stanes, son and heir of the said Nicholas Stanes aforesaid deceased, for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of England and also for diverse other goods, charges and considerations ... and forever quitclaimed unto Robert Loker of Great Bardfield in the County of Essex ... and unto Frances his wife And to their heirs and assigns forever all the right, title, interest, claims and demand whatsoever which I the said Thomas Stanes now heir of the said Nicholas Stanes have or ought to have of, in and to the said messuage or tenement with the yard, garden, orchard and close or parcel of arable land and pasture afore mentioned Or of in and to any part or parcel thereof As heirs at law to the said Nicholas Stanes or otherwise hereforenow, And further I the said Thomas Stanes do hereby for my self my heirs, executors and administrators by those ... promise, grant and agree to and .. the said Robert Roper and Frances his wife that all and singular the above mentioned premises with their appurtenances shall and may at all times hereafter and from time to time forevermore peaceably and quietly remain .. and be unto the said Robert Loker and Frances his wife And to their heirs and assigns forever fully, freely .. and absolutely without any manner of claim, challenge or demand of the said Thomas Stanes, son of the said Nicholas Stanes, or of my heirs forever In witness whereof I the said Thomas Stanes have hereunto set my hand and seal the eight and twentieth day of September anno dom 1693. Witnessed: ? Guyver, Benjamin Guyver and Symon Hayward.

 

8. At a Special Court Baron of Samuel Feake Esquire Lord of the said Manor holden for the said Manor on Wednesday the Twelfth day of December In the seventh year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the second by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith and so forth And in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirty-three Before Richard Harrison, gentleman, Chief Steward there. It is thus Enrolled. At this Court it is presented by the homage aforesaid that John Wright of Henham in the said County of Essex, Yeoman, a Customary Tenant of the manor aforesaid who held to him and his heirs of the Lord of this Manor by Copy of Court Roll, diverse customary copyhold messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments to wit three closes of arable land, meadow and pasture called or known by the names of 'Broadcroft', 'Alsey Croft' and 'Alsey Mead' with the appurtenances containing by estimation six acres more or less formerly in the tenure or occupation of John Stanes and afterwards of William Quy or his assigns And also one customary or copyhold messuage or tenement formerly in the tenure or occupation of Barnabas Thurgood and afterwards of Thomas Stanes or his assigns with all yards, gardens, orchards, barns, stables, outhouses and buildings to the same belonging with the appurtenances and also on e close or parcel of arable and pasture land thereto adjoining and also one other close or parcel of arable and pasture land called or known by the name of 'Long Croft' and also one other close or parcel of land and pasture called or known by the name of 'Appletons Mead' and also one piece or parcel of arable land lying in a field called Brockledon Field between the lands now or formerly of John Leigh on the east and west parts and abutts on the lands now or formerly of John Turner esquire on the north part and on the King's highway leading from Little Henham to Newport on the south part containing by estimation four acres more or less And also one other customary or copyhold messuage or tenement situate in Henham aforesaid formerly in the tenure or occupation of Sibilla Stanes together with all and singular the yards, gardens and orchards And one piece of land called the Pightle thereto belonging and one Mead called 'Perry Mead' containing by estimation two acres more or less and formerly in the occupation of Symon Hayward or his assigns all which said premises are situate lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid since the last Court and before this Court did thereof so seized And it is further presented by the homage aforesaid that John Wright of Henham aforesaid, yeoman, is only son and heir of the said John Wright deceased and that the said John Wright the father before his death to wit the twelfth day of January in the year of Our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred twenty and nine - thirty made and published his last Will and Testament in writing and by the same he gave and devised the premises aforesaid with their appurtenances unto the said John Wright, his heirs and assigns for ever in these words following that is to say IMPRIMIS All those my lands and tenements with their appurtenances called 'Lokers' or otherwise lying and being in Henham aforesaid I give and will and devise unto my son John Wright and to his heirs and assigns for ever Upon Condition nevertheless that he the said John Wright my son, his heirs or assigns do and shall yearly and every year pay or cause to be paid unto my granddaughter Ann Wright, daughter of my late deceased daughter Ann the sum of five pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain by four equal quarterly payments at the four most usual feasts or days in the year , that is to say, the feasts of the Annunciation of the Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin, Saint John the baptist, Saint Michael the Archangel and the Birth of Our Lord Christ commonly called Christmas when the said Ann my Granddaughter her full age of one and twenty years And I do hereby order, direct and appoint that my said son John Wright, his heirs or assigns shall yearly and every year from and after my said Granddaughter Ann Wright's attainment to her said age of one and twenty years pay or cause to be paid unto my said granddaughter Ann Wright the sum of five pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain in manner aforesaid But if the said John Wright my son, his heirs or assigns shall neglect or refuse to pay or cause to be paid unto my said Granddaughter Ann Wright the said yearly rent or sum of five pounds when she the said Ann Wright my granddaughter shall have attained to her said age of one and twenty years by the said respective quarterly payments as aforesaid as hereinbefore limited and appointed for payment thereof for and until such time as She the said Ann Wright my granddaughter shall be fully paid and satisfied, her said legacy of forty pounds hereinbefore given and bequeathed to her That then my Mind and Will is And I do hereby give full power and authority unto the said Ann Wright my Granddaughter or her assigns to enter into and upon my aforesaid lands and lands and tenements called 'Lokers' or otherwise or any part or parcel thereof and the same to have, hold and enjoy and the rents, issues and profits thereof to have, receive and take until she the said Ann Wright my Granddaughter shall be fully paid and satisfied, her said legacy of forty pounds or any part thereof in manner as aforesaid and all .. thereof and every part thereof together with all costs and charges to be expended in the same or otherwise for the recovery thereof shall be fully paid and satisfied as in and by the said Will .. thereto being had more fully and at large it doth and may appear Whereupon at this Court .. the said John Wright the son in his own proper person and humbly prayed of the lord to be admitted Tenant to the premises aforesaid with their appurtenances To whom the Lord by his said Steward granted seizin thereof by the Rod To have and to hold the premises aforesaid with their appurtenances unto the said John Wright the son, his heirs and assigns for ever of the Lord by the Rod at the Will of the Lord according to the custom of the said manor under the condition the said Will contained by the rents and services therefore .. due and of Right accustomed and gave to the Lord for a .. as appears and so forth And was admitted Tenant and did fealty and so forth. This is a true copy examined by me, Richard Harrison, Steward.

 

1693 Henham Hall Court held. Written in Latin. John Conyers was seneschal (an officer having full charge of domestic arrangements, ceremonies, the administration of justice, etc., in the household of a medieval prince or dignitary; steward). Mentions Robert Loker of Great Bardfield, Robert Pennington of Great Dunmow, the croft of 'Alsey Mead' containing by estimation six acres, John Staines, Barnabi Thurgood, 'Appletons Mead', John Turner, 'Long Croft', Brockledon field, Sibilla Staines, Perry Mead, Simon Hayward, Anna Wright, Robert Young of Canfield yeoman and executor Richard Young.



D/DB T622  1701-1849 Deeds of land in Plattfield (3acres), HENHAM

 

3. Dated August 1849. Thomad Neville Abdy Esquire to R. P. Todd Esquire, Schedule of Title, Deeds relating to land at Henham, County Essex. Schedule of title deeds relating to 3 acres of freehold land in Platt Field Common at Henham in the County of Essex delivered to Radcliff Pearl Todd Esquire the 6th August 1849 -

 

5th and 6th June 1701 - Indentures of Lease and Release respectively made between John Woolcombe of the one part and Robert Hamond of the other part

22nd and 23rd June 1735 - Indentures of Lease and Release respectively made between the said Robert Hamond of the one part and William Jarvis of the other part

 

29th and 30th. March 1769 - Indentures of Lease and Release respectively made between the said William Jarvis and Ann his wife of the one part and Abraham Bell of the other part

 

4th January 1787 - Probate of the Will of the said Abraham Bell

 

15th and 16th October 1809 - Indentures of Lease and Release the Release between Ruth Bell and Abraham Bell of the first part, the said Abraham Bell of the second part and William Stallibrass of the third part

 

30th Oct 1765 - Plain copy extract from the Will of the said William Jarvis

 

4. 24th and 25th October 1886 - Indentures of Lease and Release between Samuel T..ill Day the devisee in trust for sale under the Will of said William Stallibrass deceased of the one part and The Reverend Charles Boyd Abdy of the other part. 27th July 1849 - Indenture of Conveyance between Thomas Neville Abdy Esquire of the one part and Radcliff Pearl Todd Esquire of the other part. Received of Thomas Neville Abdy Esquire the above Deeds and Documents this 11th day of August 1849

 

5. Henham Inclosure from Martin Nockolds, valuer. 'Sir, The following statement contains the quantity of land allotted to you, and describes the fences you are required to make, which are to be planted with white-thorn layer, not less than four feet from the stumps, with ditches of a sufficient depth for the under drainage of the adjacent lands, and a proper culvert at each gateway' . description is of being in Platts Common, of 3 acres and 20 perches, that the fencing is against the road and a hand-written note saying 'it '' adjacent land of ..Bush' and a seperate note of 'T. N. Abdy Esqu.'

 

6. Auction catalogue of 'desireable freehold and copyhold estates, and Votes for the Northern Division of the County, situate at Henham, Essex. To be sold by auction by Mr. Summers at The Cock Public House, Henham on Tuesday, the 9th, of August 1836, at 3 o'clock, in six lots. By the direction of the Executor of the late Mr. W. Stallibrass, Lots 1, 2,, 3, and 5 may be viewed on the respective premises, and Lots 4, and 6, by applying to Mr. Bush, Henham. NB See para 9 below.

 

7. Stamp-dated 29.1.49. Dated 13th Feb. 1849. Thomas Neville Abdy Esquire MP to Radcliff Pearle Todd Esquire. Agreement for the purchase of a piece of land situate at Henham in the County of Essex. Memorandum of Agreement made and entered into this thirteenth day of Feb in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine between Thomas Neville Abdy of Albyns in the County of Essex Esquire, nephew and heir at law of The Reverend Charles Boyd Abdy late of Coopersale in the County of Essex, Clerk, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators of the one part and Radcliff Pearle Todd of Sturmer in the said County of Essex Esquire for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators of the other part as follows that is to say. The said Thomas Neville Abdy agrees to sell and the said Radcliff Pearle Todd agrees to purchase at or for the price or sum of One hundred and thirty pounds All that piece or parcel of freehold arable land lying in Platt Field in the parish of Henham in the County of Essex containing by estimation three acres be the same more or less and now in the occupation of James Bush as tenant from year to year at the rent of four pounds ten shillings subject to the land tax of five shillings Together with all rights, members and appurtenances thereto belonging. The said sum of one hundred and thirty pounds to be paid to the said Thomas Neville Abdy, his executors or administrators free and clear.

 

8. Auction. This Lot is copyhold of the Manor of Henham Hall, and subject to a customary fine on death or alienation, and an annual quit rent of 1s. 7d. Lot 6, a piece or parcel of excellent freehold arable land, lying in Platt Field, containing 3 acres, more or less, now in hand. Land tax 5s 0d per annum.

 

9. Sale catalogue. Lot 6. Freehold and Copyhold property at Henham, Essex to be sold by auction by Mr. Summers on Tuesday, the 9th. of August 1836 at 3 o'clock in six lots. Handwritten endorsement on catalogue - ' I hereby acknowledge that William Gee esquire has been this day declared purchaser of Lot 6 of the Estates mentioned in this particular at the sum of one hundred and seventeen pounds and that he has paid into .. hands twenty - three pounds eight shillings as a deposit and in part payment of the said purchase money. As witness my hand this 9th day of August 1836.

 

10. This Indenture made the twenty second day of June in the ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five Between Robert Hammond of Henham on the Mount in the County of Essex, yeoman, of the one part and William Jarvis of the same place, yeoman, of the other part Witnesseth that the said Robert Hammond for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings of good and lawful money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the said William Jarvis at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained, sold, devised and to farm letten and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, devise and to farm let unto the said William Jarvis All those his three acres of arable land more or less with their appurtenances lying and being in Henham on the Mount aforesaid in a certain Common field there called Platt field between the lands late of William Wright the Younger and now of Richard Bush on the north side and the lands late of William Moore and now of Joseph Coffley esquire on the south side one head thereof doth abut upon the lands late of the said William Moore and now of the said Joseph Coffley towards the east and the other head thereof doth abut upon the lands late of ... Mitchell and now of ... Moore, gentleman, towards the west as the said three acres of land now are in the tenure or occupation of the said Robert Hammond or his assigns And the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders thereof and of every part thereof To have and to hold the said three acres of land and all other the premises hereinbefore mentioned and intended to be hereby granted, bargained, sold, devised to farm letten and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances unto the said William Jarvis, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns from the day next before the day of the date of these presents for and during and until the full end and term of one whole year from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended Yielding and paying therefore unto the said Robert Hammond, his heirs or assigns one peppercorn at the expiration of the said term if the same be lawfully demanded To the intent that by force and virtue of thereby be these presents and of the Statute for transferring uses into possession he the said William Jarvis may be in the actual possession of the said above devised premises with the appurtenances and be enabled to accept and take a grant and release of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof unto him the said William Jarvis and his heirs forever In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. Signature and seal of Robert Hammond.

 

11. This Indenture made the fifth day of June in the hthirteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Third by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France, Ireland King, Defender of the faith anno dom 1705 between John Woolcombe of Asbury in the County of Devon, Esquire of the one part and Robert Hammond of Henham on the Mount in the County of Essex, victualler of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Woolcombe for and in consideration of twelve pence of lawful money of England to him in hand paid by the said Robert Hammond all and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents and the receipt and payment whereof id hereby sufficiently certified hath granted, bargained, sold, devised and to farm letten and by these presents doth grant , bargain, sell, devise and to farm let unto the said the said Robert Hammond all those his three acres of arable land more or less with their appurtenances lying and being in Henham on the Mount aforesaid in a certain Common field there called Platts field between the lands late of William Wright .. and now of Richard Bush on the north side and the lands late of William Moore and now of Joseph C.... esquire on the south side lands one head thereof doth abut upon the lands late of the said William Moore and now of the said Joseph Hillam (?) towards the east and the other head thereof doth abut upon the lands late of ... Mitchell and now of ... Moore, gentleman towards the west as the said three acres of land now are in the tenure or occupation of William Davy or his assigns and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder an d Remainders thereof of every part thereof To have and to hold the said three acres of land and all other the premises herein before mentioned and intended to be hereby granted, bargained, sold, devised and to farm letten and every part and parcel thereof with their appurtenances unto the said Robert Hammond, his executor and administrators from the day next before the day of the date of these presents unto the full end .. of six months from ... fully to be complete and ended Yielding and paying therefore unto the said John Woolcombe, his heirs or assigns one peppercorn oat the expiration of the said tenure of the same shall be lawfully demanded to ... that the said Robert Hamond may be ... possession of the above granted and devised lands and premises with the appurtenances and may by virtue of these presents of the statute for transferring uses into possession withal behalf made and provided be enabled to take a Grant or Release of the Reversion and ... of the said granted and devised lands and premises with the appurtenances unto him the said Robert Hammond and his heirs for ever In Witness whereof the parties aforesaid to these presents ... have set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. Signed; John Woolcombe.


D/DB T623  1703-1769 Deeds of a messuage called Nockhams & land (3acres), HENHAM


D/DB T624 

1. 1704-1810 Deeds of a messuage called Kipes alias Thorpes, HENHAM. William Pick of St Gyles in the fields in the County of Middx, butcher, send greeting whereas by an indenture dated the sixteenth day of November Anno Dom One Thousand seven hundred and four and made or mentioned to be made between Ann Savile late of Stansted Mount Fitchet in the County of Essex, widow, relict of John Savile late of Stansted Mount Fitchet aforesaid, gentleman, deceased, sole daughter and heiress of Edward Savile late of Stansted Mount Fitchet, gentleman deceased, and Edward Savile of the parish of Stepney in the said County of Middlesex, carpenter, eldest son and heir apparent of the said Ann Savile of the one part and William Fry of the parish of St. Gyles in the fields in the County of Middlesex, butcher, deceased of the other part, they the said Ann Savile and Edward Savile in consideration of two hundred pounds to them in hand paid by the said William Fry did grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said William Fry, his executors, administrators and assigns all that messuage or tenement in Henham in the said County of Essex wherein William Wright did then lately dwell called or known by the name of 'Kirpes' also 'Thorpes' or by any other name or names situate in the hamlet or end called Little Henham with all the houses, buildings, barns, stables, outhouses, yards, gardens and orchards thereunto belonging or appertaining and five crofts or closes of freehold land, meadow and pasture ground near adjoining called or known by the name of 'Home Field, 'Housewell Mead', 'Sansoms' and 'Sansoms Pightle' or by what other names the same are or any of them are called or known by containing by estimation together eighteen acres be the same more or less and also all those crofts,' closes, pieces and parcels of freehold lands, meadows and pasture ground in the said parish of Henham called or known by the several name or names of 'New Croft', Richard Turner Mead, ' Broadcroft, Brockledon Common, eleven pieces or parcels of land in Ashfield Common, one piece or parcel of land in Fern (?) Common containing together by estimation thirty-eight acres and three roods be they more or less and all and singular other the freehold lands and premises of them the said Anne Savile and Edward Savile situate, lying and being in the said parish of Henham and then or then late were in the tenure or occupation of him the said William Wright, his assigns or assignees to hold the said messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments and all and singular other the premises thereby granted and released with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said William Fry, his executors, administrators and assigns from the day nextbefore the date of the said Indenture for and during the term of one thousand years thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended without impeachment of or for any manner of waste with a provision or condition to be void upon payment of the said sum of two hundred pounds and interest for the same as therein is mentioned And whereas in and by an endorsement on the back of the said Deed bearing date on or about the fourteenth day of August One thousand seven hundred and six in consideration of one hundred and fifty pounds more paid by the said William Fry to the said Anne Savile and Edward Savile upon the equity of redemption of the said premises the said Anne Savile and Edward Savile did grant and agree with him and his assigns that wither they nor any of their executors or assigns would or might redeem the premises without paying him or his executors the further sum of one hundred and fifty pounds and interest at six pounds per cent ... and did covenant to pay the same on the sixteenth day of November then next And Whereas the said William Fry is since dead but some time before his death made his last will and testament in writing and his daughters Susannah Bowier and Frances Fry spinster executrix who have duly proved his will and by another endorsement on the back of the above written deed bearing date the day before the date hereof the said Susannah Bowier and Frances Fry in consideration of three hundred and fifty pounds to them mentioned to be paid by me the said William Pick did bargain, sell, assign, transfer and setover unto me the said William Pick, my executors, administrators and assigns as well all the said messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments and all and singular other the premises in the beforesaid written indenture and endorsement mentioned to be assigned to the said William Fry as also all monies thereon due amounting to three hundred and fifty pounds and all the estate, right, title, interest, use, trust, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said Susannah Bowier, widow and Frances Fry and either of them whether in law or equity of into or out of the same premises .. or any part thereof by virtue of the said indenture and endorsement or otherwise howsoever To hold the said messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments and all and singular other the premises within mentioned with their and every of their appurtenances unto me the said William Pick, my executors, administrators and assigns to mine and their own use for and during the residue and remainder of the tenure of one thousand years in the above in part ... mentioned then to come and unexpired in as full, large, ample and beneficial manner to all intents and purposes as the said Susannah Bowier and Frances Fry, their executors or assigns could or might have enjoyed the same as in and by the said indenture, endorsement and will referred to them being, had, may, more fully and at large appears Now I the said William Pick do hereby acknowledge and declare that my name is only used for and for the only benefit of the said Frances Fry, her executors and assigns the three hundred and fifty pounds mentioned to be paid by me being the proper money of her the said Frances Fry and not mine And I the said William Pick do hereby for myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators covenant and agree to and with the said Frances Fry, her executors, administrators and assigns that I the said William Pick , my executors and assigns shall and will at any time hereafter at the request, costs and charges of the said Frances Fry, her executors, administrators or assigns or to such person or persons as the said Frances Fry, her executors, administrators or assigns shall nominate and appoint free from all incumbrances to be had, made, committed or suffered by me the said William Pick, my executors or administrators In Witness whereof I the said William Pick have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of May in the seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne by the grace of God Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith Anno Dom 1708. Signed: William Pick.

 

4. Memorandum Anne Savill and Edward Savill this fourteenth day of August anno dom one thousand seven hundred and six actually had and received of the within named William Fry the full and just sum of one hundred and fifty pounds .. full English money more upon the within mentioned premises

8. Ann Savill late of Henham and now of Hintson in the County of Cambridge, widow sendeth greetings whereas George Guyver of Henham aforesaid, gentleman, did some years since purchase to him and his heirs of Thomas Savill of Henham aforesaid, gentleman, and Eleanor his wife and of Charles Savill of Hintson and Lettica his wife two of the sons of the said Ann Savill All that messuage or tenement with the appurtenances in Henham aforesaid sometime called or known by the name of 'Kirpes' also 'Thorpes' or by whatsoever name or names the same was or is known or called And also five Crofts or Closes of freehold meadow and pasture ground thereto belonging or therewith used called or known by the several names of 'New Croft', 'Richard Turner's Mead', 'Broad Croft' and 'Brockledon Common' and eleven pieces or parcels of land in a Common field in Henham aforesaid called or known by the name of Ashfield Common eleven pieces or parcels of land in Ashfield Common and also one piece or parcel of land in Fern (?) Common there containing together thirty and eight acres and three roods by estimation be the same more or less with their and every of their appurtenances as the same are all lying and being in the said parish of Henham and now in the occupation of the said George Guyver And whereas there was and is one annuity or yearly sum of fifteen pounds .. issuing and going out of such premises to her the said Ann Savill during her natural life for payment whereof she the said Ann Savill hath now agreed to take security otherwise from the said Thomas Savill and Charles Savill her said sons and to acquit, release and discharge the said George Guyver, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns and all the said messuage or tenement, lands, hereditaments and premises with their appurtenances of and from the same and every part thereof Now Know you that she the said Ann Savill in pursuance of the said Agreement and for and in consideration of the sum of ten shillings of lawful money of Great Britain to her in hand well and truly satisfied and paid by the said George Guyver at and before the ensealing and delivery of those presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and for other good causes and considerations her the said Ann Savill moving she the Ann Savill hath granted, released and quitclaimed and by these presents doth grant, release and quitclaim unto the said George Guyver, his heirs and assigns the said annuity or yearly sum of fifteen pounds .. and all benefit or advantage which she the said Ann Savill hath may .. or ought to have in unto or concerning the same And she the said Ann Savill hath also remised, released and for ever quitclaimed and by these presents doth remise, release and for ever quitclaim unto the said George Guyver in the full and actual possession and seizin of the said messuage or tenement, lands and premises now being and to his heirs and assigns forever all the estate, right, title, interest, use, possession, claim and demand whatsoever which she the said Ann Savill ever had, now hath or hereafter can or may claim to have of in or to the said messuage or tenement, lands and premises in Henham aforesaid or of in or to any part or parcel thereof so that neither she the said Ann nor her heirs or assigns any estate, title, interest, annuity or demand in or to such premises or any part thereof at any time hereafter can, shall or may claim, challenge or require but from all anon and anons of right, estate, interest and demand thereunto or to any part thereof to be had, required or demanded shall shall and will be utterly excluded and debarred for ever by these presents And the said Ann Savill shall for herself, her heirs, executors and administrators and for every of them doth covenant, promise and agree to and with the said George Guyver, his heirs and assigns by these presents that the said Ann Savill shall and will from time to time hereafter on request, costs and charges in the law of the said George Guyver, his heirs or assigns make, do, sign, seal and execute or cause and procure to be made, done, signed, sealed and executed all and every further and other act, deed and .. whatsoever for the further .. more perfect and absolute barring, .. and destroying of the said annuity and of all other her interest, estate, title, claim and demand in or to the said premises every or any part or parcel thereof as by the said George Guyver, his heirs or assigns or as by his or their counsel learned in the law shall be reasonably devised or advised and required In Witness whereof of the said Ann Savill hath hereunto set her hand and seal the third day of March in the thirteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George over Great Britain anno dom. one thousand seven hundred twenty and six. Signed: Ann Savill. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Thomas Pa ... and James Scott

 

9. Sale of a messuage, tenement and lands. Mentions Ann Savill, Edward Savill, Thomas Savill and Charles Savill who are paid five shillings by William Canning, William Canning who pays two hundred and fifty pounds and five shillings to William Garlick and his wife Frances Garlick and Susanna Bowier, indenture of lease and release dated the fifteenth or sixteenth day of November one thousand seven hundred and four, and William Fry.

 

10. Tripartite made the second day of October in the twelfth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland Queen, Defender of the faith Anno Dom. one thousand seven hundred and thirteen between William Garlick of Thames Street, London, cheesemonger, and Frances his wife and Susanna Bowler of London, widow (which said Frances and Susanna are the daughters and executors of the last Will and Testament of William Fry late of the parish of Saint Giles in the fields in the County of Middlesex, butcher their late father deceased of the one part and Thomas Savill of Henham in the County of Essex gentleman and Charles Savill of Saffron Walden in the County of Essex gentleman of the second part and William Canning of Elsenham in the County of Essex gentleman of the third part Whereas Ann Savill late of Stansted Mountfitchet in the County of Essex widow (relict of John Savill late of Stansted Mountfitchet aforesaid gentleman) sole daughter and heir of Edward Savill late of Stansted Mountfitchet gentleman deceased and Edward Savill of the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex carpenter (then eldest son and heir apparent of the said Ann Savill by Indenture of lease and release bearing date respectively the fifteenth and sixteenth days of November one thousand seven hundred and four in consideration of the sum of two hundred pounds to them in hand paid by the aforesaid William Fry in his lifetime did grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said William Fry, his heirs and assigns all that messuage or tenement in Henham in the said County of Essex wherein William Wright doth now or lately did dwell called or known by the names of 'Kirpes' also 'Thorpes' or by any other name or names situate in the hamlet or end called Little Henham with all the houses, buildings, barns, stables, outhouses, yards, gardens and orchards thereunto belonging or appertaining five crofts or closes of freehold land, meadow and pasture grounds near adjoining called or known by the name of 'Homefield', 'Housewell', 'Meads', Sansoms', Sansoms Pightle' or by what other name these or any of them are called or known by containing by estimation together eighteen acres be the same more or less And also all those crofts, closes, pieces or parcels of freehold lands, meadow and pasture ground in the said parish of Henham called or known by the several name or names of 'New Croft', 'Richard Turner Mead', 'Broad Croft', 'Brockledon Common', eleven pieces or parcels of land in Ashfield Common and one piece or parcel of land in Fern Common containing together by estimation thirty-eight acres and three roods be they more or less ........

 

12. 1810. The Manor of Henham Hall to wit The General Court Baron and Customary Court of Jonathan Feake Esquire, Thomas Glyn Esquire and Amelia Penelope Hollingbury, widow, Lords and Lady of the said Manor there holden in and for the same Manor on Monday the thirtieth day of April in the fiftieth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the faith and in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten before John Freeman, gentleman, Steward there. At this Court it is also witnessed by the said Steward and presented by the said Homage on their Oaths that since the last Court and before this Court (to wit) on the twenty-sixth day of August in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine James Ginn Searle of Saffron Walden in the County of Essex, draper, a customary tenant of the said Manor Did out of Court surrender by the Rod into the hands of the Lords and Lady of the said Manor by the Hands and acceptance of William Dennis on and John Barker two other Customary tenants of the said manor according to the custom thereof All those two parcels of customary land lying in Platts field one parcel thereof called 'John sons' containing by estimation three roods and one other parcel thereof called 'Larkins' containing by estimation half an acre. And also one parcel of Customary land called by the name of 'Saltpit Piece' and lying in a Common field called Platts field containing by estimation two acres And also one close of land, arable land and pasture called 'Howcroft' containing by estimation six acres And also one other piece or parcel of arable land lying in Platts field containing by estimation one acre parcel of three acres And also one piece or parcel of arable land lying in a Common field called Copperton field containing by estimation four acres. And also one piece or parcel of arable and lying in a Common field called Cotnam field containing by estimation four acres And also one toft or piece of ground whereon a tenement sometime stood with a garden and orchard and two parcels of pasture called 'Allewoods' containing by estimation three acres and two crofts of land containing by estimation three acres called 'Albedos' And also one piece or parcel of arable land lying in a Common field called Platts field upon Berry Hill there containing by estimation six acres. And also one messuage or tenement with the yard, garden and orchard as the same premises are situate and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and were then in the tenure of Thomas Nottage, his under tenants or assigns and holden of the said Manor by three separate Copies of Court Roll and all other the Customary Lands and Tenements whatsoever of him the said James Gin Sear le holden of the said Manor by Copy of Court Roll and other services and which the said James Gin Sear le took to him and his heirs at a Court holden in and for the said Manor the fourteenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two on the Surrender of Samuel Shore and Francis Edmunds esquires and all ways, rights, Commons, Rights of Common Members privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the same premises belonging or in anyway appertaining and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders thereof and all the estate, right, title, interest, inheritance, possession, property, claim, and demand whatsoever both at law and in equity of him the said James Gin Sear le of, in, and to the same Premises To the uses of such person or persons and for such estate and estates, uses, intents and purposes as the said Thomas Nottage should at any time or times before the then next General Court Baron to be holden in and for the said Manor by and Deed or Deeds Instrument or Instruments in writing to be sealed and delivered by him in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses direct limit or appoint and in default of or until such direction, limitation or appointment or in case any such shall be made then subject thereto and when and as the Estate or Estates, Interest or Interests thereby directed, limited or appointed should end or determine and in the mean time subject thereto and as to such part and parts of the same premises and all such Estate and Interest therein of which no such direction, limitation or appointment should be effectively made as aforesaid To the only proper use and behoof of the said Thomas Nottage and of his heirs and assigns absolutely and for ever according to the customs of the said Manor And Thereupon at this Court in his proper person comes the said Thomas Nottage and humbly prays of the Lords and lady of the said Manor to be admitted tenant to the said premises according to the form and effect of the said recited Surrender To Whom the Lords and Lady of the said Manor by their said Steward Did grant and deliver seizin thereof by the Rod To have and to hold the said customary lands, messuage and premises with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas Nottage, his heirs and assigns according to the form and effect and under and subject to the Trusts of the said recited Surrender of the Lords and lady of the said Manor by the Rod and at the Will of the Lords and lady by Copies of Court Roll according to the custom of the said manor by the yearly rents, suits, services and other Customs therefore due and of right accustomed and he gives to the Lords and lady for fines on such his admission as appear in the margin and so is thereof admitted Tenant on form aforesaid but his fealty is respited and so forth. Examined by me John Freeman, Steward. Note: The said Thomas Nottage surrendered the said Premises to the use of his Will.


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1. Between the lands formerly of Matthew Woolley And also one parcel of land lying in a field called Cotnam Field containing by estimation three acres and three roods or thereabouts lying between the lands formerly of John Wood and the said Matthew Woolley And also one other parcel of land lying in a field called Great Cotnam Field nigh the hedge on the north part containing by estimation four acres and two perches and also one parcel of land lying in Little Cottenham Field in a place called Lower Shott nigh the hedge there towards the field called Great Cotnam Field containing by estimation two acres and an half and seven perches as the said messuage or tenement, lands and premises are situate, lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and are now in the tenure or occupation of the said Joseph Bacon or his assigns and all other the customary or copyhold lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Samuel Strode party thereto holden of the said Manor by Copy of Court Roll and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders of the said Customary or Copyhold messuage, lands, premises and hereditaments therein before mentioned to the only proper use and behoof of the said Thomas Nottage, his heirs and assigns absolutely and for ever or as he or they shall stand and be seized of the said Customary or Copyhold premises in trust for and for the only benefit of the said Thomas Nottage, his heirs and assigns And the said ..

3. This Indenture made the twelfth day of July in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six Between Samuel Strode of Durgard Lodge in the County of Devon, esquire, only son and heir of Samuel Strode late of the parish of Saint James, Westminster in the County of Middlesex, esquire, deceased and a devisee named in his last Will and testament of the one part and Thomas Nottage of Henham in the County of Essex, yeoman, of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred and fifty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to the said Samuel Strode party hereto in hand well and truly paid by the said Thomas Nottage at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents in full for the absolute purchase of the messuage, lands, grounds and hereditaments both freehold and Copyhold hereinafter mentioned to be thereby granted and Released and covenanted to be surrendered with their appurtenances the receipt whereof the said Samuel Strode party hereto dot hereby .. , ordain and thereof and of every part thereof dot acquit, Release and Discharge the said Thomas Nottage, his heirs, executors and administrators and every of them by these presents he the said Samuel Strode party hereto hat granted, bargained, sold, .., Released and Confirmed And by these presents Dot grant, bargain, sell, ..., Release and Confirm unto the said Thomas Nottage in his actual possession now being by virtue of a bargain and sale to him thereof made by the said Samuel Strode party therefore in consideration of five shillings by Indenture bearing date the day next before the day of the date of these presents for one whole year commencing from the day next before the day of the date of the same Indenture of bargain and sale and by force of the Statute made for transferring uses into possession and his heirs and assigns all and singular those lands, meadows and meadow grounds, pieces and parcels of lands, meadows and pastures and arable and pasture grounds with their and every of their appurtenances situate, lying and being and extending within the pasture, fields, territories and town of Henham in the said County of Essex and hereinafter particularly mentioned and expressed that is to say One mead or parcel of ground containing by estimation one acre or thereabouts be the same more or less commonly called or known by the name of 'Knights Mead' abutting upon the north-east end thereof upon parcel of the demesne lands of the Manor of Henham and the other end thereof abutting south-east there upon the King's highway leading from Little Henham to Newport and siding to parcel of the demesne of the said Manor upon the south side and the other side lying to the highway which leads from Little Henham to Knights water upon the north side And one other piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances commonly called or known by the name of 'Black Acre' otherwise 'Crabtree Acre' containing by estimation one acre of land abutting upon the highway leading from Newport to Elsenham towards the east and the other end thereof lying westward upon the headland or ground late of William Larkin and one side lying towards the south upon the land late of John Wood and the other side towards the north upon land late of John Perry And one other piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances containing by estimation two acres and three roods or thereabouts be the same more or less situate, lying and being in Little Cottenham Field otherwise called Little Cotnam Field one side thereof lying to the grounds formerly of Robert Moore, goldsmith, upon the west and the other side adjoining upon Holgates land upon the east and one end thereof lying upon grounds late of John Parke towards towards the south and the other end thereof abutting upon '... Croft' northwards And one other piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances containing by estimation one acre of land or thereabouts be the same more or less situate, lying and being in Great Cottenham Field otherwise called Great Cotnam Field the one side thereof lying to grounds late of John Wright towards the north and the other side thereof lying to grounds late of John Clarke towards the south one end thereof abutting upon Ugly Common otherwise Ugly Moor towards the west and the other end thereof abutting upon several ... lands towards the east And one other piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances situate, lying and being in Great Cottenham Field otherwise Great Cotnam Field aforesaid containing by estimation one acre and an half of land be the same more or less one side thereof abutting upon ground late of John Clarke towards the north and the other side thereof abutting upon grounds late of John Wood towards the south and one end thereof abutting upon Ugly Common towards the west and the other end thereof abutting upon diverse ... lands towards the east And one piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances lying and being in Copperden Field otherwise How Field containing by estimation three roods or thereabouts be the same more or less one end thereof abutting upon Deadmans Lane .... other end thereof abutting upon Hide towards the south and the one side thereof lying to grounds late of William Mead towards the west and the other side thereof lying to the grounds sometime in the occupation of Thomas Wright towards the east And one piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances situate, lying and being in Coperden Field aforesaid containing by estimation one acre and an half or thereabouts be the same more or less the one end thereof abutting upon Deadmans Lane towards the north and the other end abutting upon Hyde towards the south and the one side thereof lying to grounds late of the said John Wood towards the west and the other side thereof lying to the grounds late of John Measant towards the east And one piece or parcel of ground with the appurtenances containing by estimation about three roods of land more or less lying together with certain copyhold lands being by estimation three acres and three roods which together with the said copyhold lands makes in all four acres and a half or thereabouts and are all situate lying and being in Little Cottenham Field otherwise Little Cotnam Field the one side of the same four acres and an half lying to grounds late of John Wood and John Wright towards the north and the other side of the same four acres and an half are joining to Great Cottenham Field otherwise Great Cotnam Field towards the south the one end of the same four acres and an half lying by the King's highway heading from Newport to Elsenham towards the east and the other end thereof towards Ugly Common towards the west And also all those four parcels of freehold land furlowed together called or known by the name of Three Crofts containing by estimation five acres be the same more or less lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid by the land late of William Moore towards the north and the parsonage land towards the south abutting upon the highway or green called Wood End Green towards the east and by the land belonging to the parsonage of Henham towards the west and one close or croft of land in Henham aforesaid containing by estimation five acres more or less lying by Plat Field towards the south and the parsonage land towards the north abutting upon the land late of William Smith called Platts Croft towards the west and the land late of Thomas Mead towards the east And one other croft or close of freehold land in two parcels called or known by the name of Warren Croft containing by estimation four acres more or less in Henham aforesaid abutting on the parsonage land towards the east and by the land late of the said Thomas Mead on every other part And one other close of freehold land containing by estimation half an acre more or less with a barn thereon built, lying by the highway called Wood End Green towards the east and by land belonging to the parsonage called ... towards the west. Witnessed: George Measant and Hubert Smith

 

5. And also one other piece or parcel of land lying in the said Common field called How Field Common containing by estimation one acre and an half and a quarter of a rood and one pole more or less commonly called How Pett piece lying between the lands late of John Clarke on the west and the lands late of Thomas Monk on the east abutting upon Copperden Field otherwise Hyde on the south and upon Deadmans Lane on the north And also one other piece or parcel of arable land commonly called the Slade lying and being in the said common field called Howfield Common containing by estimation two acres and a quarter of a rood and four poles more or less lying between the lands belonging to Henham Parsonage on the east and the land late of William Moore junior on the west abutting upon Copperden Field south and upon Deadmans Lane north And also one other piece or parcel of land near unto Pauls Cross in Howfield Common aforesaid containing by estimation three roods and one quarter of a rood between the lands late of John Wright on the east and the lands belonging to Henham Parsonage on the west abutting upon Copperden Field on the south and upon a place called Pauls Cross on the north which said premises do contain by estimation six acres and a half and twelve poles more or less and are lying and being in Henham aforesaid and were formerly in the occupation of John Smith afterwards of ... Collins widow and the same now are or late were in the tenure or occupation of Joseph Bacon or his assigns and all other the freehold lands, tenements and hereditaments late of Samuel Strode esquire and now of him the said Thomas Nottage situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders, rents, issues and profits of the said freehold closes, crofts, pieces or parcels of land, ground, hereditaments and other the premises thereinbefore mentioned or intended to be hereby granted, bargained, sold and devised and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever both at law and in equity of him the said Thomas Nottage of, in or to the said premises every or any part thereof and also all deeds, evidences and writings whatsoever touching or concerning the said premises or any part thereof now in the custody, possession or power of him the said Thomas Nottage or which he can or may come by without suit at law or in equity To have and to hold the said closes, crofts, pieces or parcels of land, ground, hereditaments and other the premises hereinbefore mentioned or intended to be hereby granted, bargained, sold and devised with their appurtenances unto the said George Howland, his exec


13. Plattfield towards the south and the parsonage land towards the north abutting upon the land of William Smith called Platts Croft towards the west and the land of Thomas Mead towards the east and one other croft or close of freehold land lately in two parcels called or known by the name of Warrens Croft containing by estimation four acres more or less in Henham aforesaid abutting on the parsonage land toward the east and by the land of the said Thomas Mead on every other part and one other close of freehold land containing by estimation half an acre more or less with a barn thereon built lying by the highway called Woodend Green towards the east and by land belonging to the parsonage called 'Shortland' (?) towards the west abutting on the three crofts above mentioned towards the north and also one piece or parcel of freehold land containing by estimation one acre and a half more or less lying and being in Henham aforesaid in a field there called Copperton field by the land formerly of William Mead towards the east and the land heretofore of John Clark and now or late of Robert Woolley towards the west abutting on the Common field called Howfield towards the north and upon the King's highway leading from the windmill to the highway leading from Elsenham towards the south and also all that piece or parcel of land lying in a field called or known by the name of 'Little Cottenham field' alias 'Little Cottenham field' or by any other name or names the same is or has been called or known containing by estimation one acre and one rood more or less situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid one side thereof lying by the land heretofore of John Wood towards the north and the other side thereof lying by the land of the said John Wood towards the south one end thereof abutting upon the land now or late of John Clark towards the west the other head or end thereof abutting upon a lane leading from Elsenham towards Newport towards the east and one piece or parcel of land lying in a Common field called Plattsfield Common containing by estimation one acre and five poles more or less lying on Bury Hill between the lands late of Francis Bacon esquire on the north and the lands of John Wright on the south and abutting upon the lands belonging to Henham parsonage on the west and upon the lands of Richard Cox gentleman on the east and also one other piece or parcel of land lying in the said Common field called Copperdon field alias Hide containing by estimation five roods and a half and one quarter of a rood and two poles more or less lying between the lands late of Matthew Woolley of Henham aforesaid gentleman on the west and the lands of George Brown on the east and abutting upon the lands belonging to Pledgen (note spelling) Hall on the south and upon Howfield Common on the north and also one other piece or parcel of land lying in the said Common field called Howfield Common containing by estimation one acre and a half and one quarter of a rood and one pole more or less commonly called 'Howpett Piece' lying between the lands of John Clark on the west and the lands of Thomas Monk on the east abutting upon Copperden field alias Hide on the south and upon Deadmans Lane on the north and also one other piece or parcel of arable land commonly called 'The Slade' lying and being in the said Common field called Howfield Common containing by estimation two acres and a quarter of a rood and four poles more or less lying between the lands belonging to Henham parsonage on the east and the lands of William Moore junior on the west abutting upon Copperden field south and upon Deadmans Lane north and and also one other piece or parcel of land near unto Pauls Cross in Howfield Common aforesaid containing by estimation three roods and one quarter of a rood between the lands of John Wright on the east and the lands belonging to Henham Parsonage on the west abutting upon Copperden field on the south and upon a place called Pauls Cross on the north which said premises do contain by estimation six acres and a half and twelve poles more or less and are lying and being in Henham aforesaid and formerly in the occupation of John Smith and now or late in the possession of ... Collins widow and all other the lands, tenements and hereditaments late of the said Samuel Strode the father deceased situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and which were purchased by him of and from Robert Woolley of Blackmore in the county of Essex gentleman and Mary his wife and were by indentures of lease and release bearing date respectively the third and fourth days of November one thousand seven hundred and twenty and made or mentioned to be made between the said Robert Woolley and Mary his wife of the one part and the said Samuel Strode the father (by the description of Samuel Strode of London gentleman) of the other part granted and conveyed unto and to the use of the said Samuel Strode and his heirs and all houses, outhouses, edifices, buildings, barns, stables, gardens, orchards, lands, meadows, pastures, feedings, woods, underwoods, coppices, heaths, furzes, commons, common of pasture, ponds, pools, fishings, fowlings, water, watercourses, moors, ways, paths, easements, profits, emoluments, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said lands, meadows, pastures, pieces and parcels of ground, hereditaments and premises hereinbefore mentioned to be hereby granted and released or any part or parcel thereof belonging or in anywise appertaining or accepted, reputed, taken or known as part parcel or member thereof or of any part thereof and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders, Rents, Issues and Profits of the same premises To have and to hold the said lands, meadows and pastures, pieces and parcels of ground, hereditaments and premises hereinbefore mentioned to be hereby granted, bargained and sold with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said Samuel Strode the son his executors, administrators and assigns from the day next before the day of the date of these presents unto the full end and term of one whole year from the .. next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended, yielding and paying therefore unto the said Ann Strode and William Strode, their heirs and assigns the rent of one pepper corn only on the last day of the said term if the same shall be lawfully demanded To the intent and purpose that by virtue hereof and of the Statute made for the transferring of uses into possession the said Samuel Strode the son may be in the actual possession of all and singular the said lands, meadows, pastures, parcels of ground, hereditaments and premises and thereby be enabled to accept by indenture intended to bear date next after the day of the date of these presents In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.


14. Lease for a year. Indenture made the 28th day of April in the twentieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith And in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and forty-seven Between Ann Strode of the parish of Saint George, Hanover Square in the county of Middlesex, widow, relict and sole acting executrix and only surviving devisee in trust of the last Will and Testament of of Samuel Strode late citizen and barber-surgeon of London, deceased, and William Strode of Punsborn in the county of Hertford esquire eldest son and heir of the said Samuel Strode deceased of the one part and Samuel Strode of the parish of Saint George, Hanover Square in the said county of Middlesex esquire the other son of the said Samuel Strode deceased of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of Great Britain to them the said Ann Strode and William Strode in hand paid by the said Samuel Strode the son at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents ... (continues with the description in para 3 above).

 

16. mentions Samuel Strode, William Strode, Ann Strode and 'All that customary arable and pasture to the same belonging and adjoining called 'Park Cross' containing by estimation eight acres more or less now or late in the occupation of ... Collins, widow, or her assigns and situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and abutting upon Woodend Green on the south part lying between Henham Park on the east part and the lands late of James Hellam Clerk on the north and west parts and also all that piece or customary land lying in a Common Field called Plattsfield in the parish of Henham aforesaid containing by estimation three acres more or less lying next to the land late of Martha Woolley on the east part and the foot way leading from Henham village towards Henham windmill on the west part and one head thereof abutting upon the lands belonging to the Rectory of Henham aforesaid on the south part and the other head thereof abutting upon the land now or late of George Brown on the north part .......

 

18. Indenture dated the 29th April 1747 between Ann Strode and William Strode of Punsborn, Hatfield, Herts of the one part and Samuel Strode of Saint George, Hanover Square of the other part. Mentions 'one mead or parcel of ground containing by estimation one acre or thereabouts be the same more or less commonly called or known by the name of 'Knights Mead' abutting upon the north east end thereof upon parcel of the demense lands of the Manor of Henham and the other end thereof abutting south east upon the king's highway leading from Little Henham to Newport and siding to parcel of the demesne lands of the said manor upon the south side and the other side lying to the highway which leads from Little Henham to Knights Water upon the north side and one other piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances commonly called or known by the name of Black Acre alias Crabtree Acre containing by estimation one acre of land or thereabouts be the same more or less situate, lying and being in Little Cottenham Field otherwise ...

19. 29th April 1747. Conveyance from Mrs. Strode and William Strode of lands at Henham in Essex to Samuel Strode and his heirs. Sealed and delivered (signed by J. Mead and John Nottingham).

20. 'Park Cross containing by estimation eight acres more or less formerly in the occupation of ... Collins, widow, or her assigns, situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid and abutting upon Woodend Green upon the south part and lying between Henham Park on the east and lands formerly of James Hellam .. on the north side' . Mentions Thomas Nottage of Clavering

21. Mentions £600 owing to Sir George Newland Beaumont, Thomas Nottage of Clavering and Thomas Nottage of Henham

22. Mentions Warren Croft containing by estimation four acres more or less in Henham abutting upon the parsonage land towards the east and by the land late of the said Thomas Mead on .. and one other close of freehold land containing by estimation one acre more or less with a barn thereon built lying by the highway called Woodend Green towards the east and by the land belonging to the parsonage called 'Shortland' towards the west abutting on the three crofts above mentioned towards the north ... also one piece or parcel ... and Robert Woolley ... Richard Cox ....

 

23. 1st October 1798, in the 38th year of the reign of George the Third, between Sir George Newland Beaumont of Great Dunmow, baronet, the sole executor named in the last Will and testament of George Newland late of Haverhill in the county of Suffolk, esquire, deceased, of the first part, Thomas Nottage of Henham in the said county of Essex, yeoman, of the second part and Thomas Nottage of Clavering, Essex, shopkeeper of the first part.

D/DB T626 

1. 1719-1734. Indenture tripartite made the 25th October 1731 and in the fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King between George Glover the Elder of Henham on the Mount in the county of Essex, gentleman and Mary his wife, George Jude of Blackmore in the county of Essex, grocer and Susannah his wife of the first part. John Michell of the parish of St Margaret Moses, London, gentleman, Edward Camp of Great Canfield in the said county of Essex, miller of the second part and George Guyver the Younger late of Henham aforesaid gentleman (only son and heir of the said Gorge Guyver the Elder and Elizabeth his wife of the third part. Witnesseth that for diverse good causes and considerations the parties hereunto officially moving this hereby covenanted, concluded and agreed by and between all and every of the said parties to these presents for themselves and their heirs and the said George Guyver the Elder and George Judd for themselves and their heirs do covenant, promise and agree to and with the said John Michell and Edward Camp, their heirs, executors and administrators that they the said George Guyver the Elder and Mary his wife, George Judd and Susannah his wife shall and will at the costs and charges of the said George Guyver the Elder and Edward Camp or some of them before the end of the present Michaelmas Term or some other subsequent term acknowledge and levy in His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster one fine sur cognizance de droit com ceo (in old practice that part of a fine in which the defendant acknowledged that the land in question was the right of the complainant. From this the fine itself derived its name, as being sur cognizance de droit com ceo, etc., and the parties their titles of cognizer and cognizee) in due form ... the proclamations thereupon to be had according to the Statute in that case to be made and provided and the common cause of fines in such cases used unto the said John Michell and Edward Camp and their heirs or the heirs of one of them of ... that freehold messuage or tenement with the outhouses, buildings, barns, stables, yards, gardens, orchards and backsides thereunto belong in Varne containing by estimation And also all those two pieces or parcels of land lying behind the said messuage or tenement the one arable and the other pasture containing by estimation two acres and an half more or less and commonly called or known by the name of the Upper Croft and the Lower Croft and also all those two pieces or parcels of land lying in a Common Field called Eastfield containing by estimation five roods more or less with the appurtenances and also all that piece or parcel of land lying in a Common Field called by the name of Common Varne containing by estimation three roods more or less with the appurtenances and also all that croft or close of arable land commonly called Stones Acre the containing by estimation one acre more or less with the appurtenances as the same premises are situate lying and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and now or late in the tenure or occupation of William Wright his assignee or assigns and also all those several pieces or parcels of land, meadow and pasture ground situate, lying and being in Henham aforesaid called or known by the several names of Perry Field containing by estimation twenty acres more or less, Davyes Park containing by estimation six acres more or less and Woods Mead containing by estimation seven acres more or less as the same several pieces or parcels of land now are or late were in the tenure or occupation of the said George Guyver the Elder or his assigns and also all of that windmill situate in Great Canfield aforesaid with all the sheds standing near the same and also all that little tenement or cottage situate in Windmill lane with one piece of ground adjoining to the said tenement containing by estimation one rood more or less situate, lying and being in Great Canfield aforesaid with the appurtenances now or late in the tenure or occupation of the said Edward Camp, his assignee or assigns by the name of One Messuage messuage one cottage (?), one windmill, thirty acres of land and fifteen acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Henham on the Mount and Great Canfield ...

 

5. 1710. Deeds of a messuage called Crouchmans & lands, copyhold of Manor of Henham in the tenure or occupation of Susan Woodcock, widow.Mentions Short Croft, Shepherds Croft, Long Croft


11. Indenture. Tripartite made 20th June 1717 between Anne Osbourne of Albury in the County of Hertford, widow, of the first part, William Canning of Elsenham in the county of Essex, gentleman, of the second part and William Wright of Henham on the Mount, Essex, yeoman and William Wright the Younger, son of the said William Wright of the third part. Whereas the said William Wright the Elder hath upon the day of the date hereof borrowed and received of and from the said William Canning the sum of three hundred and ten pounds and for serving the repayment thereof with interest for the same .. the said William Wright the Elder hath by surrender bearing even date with these presents duly surrendered out of his hands into the hands of the lord of the manor of Henham Hall by the Rod according to the custom of the said manor All that customary or copyhold barns with the orchard and those parcels of land thereto belonging containing by estimation twelve acres more or less And also all that customary messuage or tenement called Crouchmans with the lands thereto adjoining situate and being in the parish of Henham aforesaid and abutting upon the high way there leading from Debden towards Bishop Stortford on the north part and upon a chaseway there on the west part one head thereof abutteth upon certain lands belonging to Henham Hall towards the south and one other parcel thereof abutteth upon the lands now or late of John Reeve towards the east And also all those three acres of land called Cades land and two acres of land lying in Brockleden Field and also one other piece of land lying in Brockleden Field aforesaid containing half an acre And also one other piece of land lying in the said field called Nash Field containing half an acre and all other the the messuage, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever of the said William Wright the Elder holden of the said manor of Henham Hall And whereas the said William Wright the Elder hath also upon the day of this date of these presents borrowed and received of and from the said William Canning the further sums of one hundred and five pounds and for securing the repayment thereof with interest for the same he the said William Wright the Elder hath by surrender bearing even date with these presents duly surrendered out of his hands into the hands of the lord of the manor of Amberden Hall by the Rod according to the custom of the said manor. All that his customary or copyhold barn or building with the appurtenances called Borne, land, barns or otherwise and also all those his five several customary or copyhold closes or parcels of arable land, meadow and pasture ground with their and every of their appurtenances to the said barn or building adjoining, belonging and appertaining containing together by estimation twelve acres more or less as the same are situate and being in Debden in the county of Essex and now are in the occupation of the said William Wright or his assigns to the use and behoof of the said William Canning and of his heirs and assigns for ever ... and also all those two pieces or parcels of land lying behind the said messuage or tenement the one arable and the other pasture containing together by estimation two acres and an half more or less and commonly called or known by the names of Upper Croft and Lower Croft and also all those two pieces or parcels of land lying in a common field called East Field containing five roods more or less and also one piece or parcel of land lying in a common field called by the name of Common Barn containing by estimation three roods more or less and also all that close or parcel of arable land commonly called Stones Acre containing by estimation one acre more or less with their and every of their appurtenances as the same premises are situate and being ion the parish of Henham on the Mount aforesaid and are now in the several tenures or occupations of the said William Wright the Elder ........ received the day and year above written by me the above named William Canning of and from the above named John Guyver by the ... of the above named William Wright the Elder and William Wright the Younger the above mentioned sum of four hundred twenty and six pounds two shillings and six pence of lawful money of Great Britain being the consideration money above mentioned to be paid to me the said William Canning I say received. Witnessed: John Canning and Thomas Morris

16 & 17. 1731 10th Sept. Indenture Tripartite between George Guyver the Elder of Henham on the Mount, gentleman, and Mary his wife and George Guyver the Younger of Henham aforesaid, gentleman (only son and heir of the said George Guyver the Elder and Mary his wife, of the first part, John Michell of the parish of Saint Margaret Moses, London, gentleman and Henry Staines of Great Dunmow in the county of Essex, gentleman, of the second part and Elizabeth Canning of Widdington in the county of Essex, spinster, of the third part. Concerns Upper Croft and Lower Croft together two and a half acres, East Field 5 roods, Common Barn 3 roods, Stones Acre one acre, Perry Field 25 acres, Davyes Park 6 acres and Woods Mead 7 acres, all in Henham.

18. 1731 10th Sept. George Guyver the Younger receives one thousand two hundred pounds being the consideration sum to be paid to him as her marriage portion by his intended wife Elizabeth Canning


D/DB T627  1727-1764 Deeds of a messuage & lands, copyhold of manor of Henham. Mentions Lambert Savell and his title to a messuage and lands in Henham - three closes or parcels of arable and pasture called Cowsleys comprising 4 acres; 2 pieces or parcels of customary land in Copperton and Platts Field Common. To all those parcels of land now or late called 'Coles' (5 acres and 2 roods).

Mentions that on the 25th Oct 1715 at a court then held, reciting that at a court held on the 7th Oct 1696 it was presented that John Guyver on the 5th April 1694 surrendered by two tenants the said two pieces or parcels of land in Copperton Field otherwise Hyde and Platt Field commons ... At this court came said Jane Savell widow of said Lambert Savell and was admitted to said premises.


D/DB T628  1742-1769 Deeds of a messuage called Civers & lands, copyhold of manor of Henham. One of the documents is a bond on conditional surrender of John Rice to Robert Ellis of Harlow dated 3rd May 1751. John Rice, together with William Jarvis of Henham on the Mount, yeoman, re a customary messuage and lands with their appurtenances. Mentions George Guyver. Document is dated 22nd April 1768.


D/DB T629  1759-1831 Deeds of messuages and land (35 acres), Henham. Mentions James Ginn Searle to Thomas Nottage (release and conveyance) of copyhold land dated 1759, 1792 and 1809.


D/DB T630 1709-1833 Deeds of miscellaneous small copyhold properties in Henham. Mentions John Newland, Thomas Dennison of Chickney and George Guyver.
J. Frost, aged 17yrs, found guilty & hanged for
of the rape of Sarah Wilkinson aged 60-70 yrs

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