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Description: | p. 1 Commission as surveyors of the next audit of her lands at Tattershall.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Lord Willoughby of Parham and her counsellors Ralfe Chamberleyn, Robarte Wingefeld, John Haistinges, Edmunde Hall, esquires, and Sir Christopher Hill, clerk.
9 September 1547.
Signature Katherine Suffoulk.
p. 5 Letters patent of grant of the office of bailiff of the manor and constable of the Castle of Tattershall.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to John Wingfield, steward of his household.
Term: life of Wingfield.
Fee: £10.
20 September 1541.
p. 6 Notification of quitclaim of all debts.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to Thomas Lancelyn, priest.
20 December 1544.
p. 7 Indenture of lease.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Gregory Moore gent., of Bourne.
Property: manor of Wilsford, with appurtenances in Ancaster, North Hykeham, Kexby, Haddington and Lincoln, parcel of Bourne abbey (? the former alien priory).
Fine: £80.
Rent: £13 16. 5.
Term: life of the Duchess of Suffolk.
Condition: free access to pasture for Bertie's sheep in Wilsford until 1 May following this lease.
20 December 1571.
p. 11 Letters patent of grant of the office of bailiff of the manor of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to Richard Johnson.
For Johnson's life.
1 March 1542.
p. 12 Letters patent of grant of the office of bailiff of the manors of Derssett Mayn, Stoneley and Starton in Warwickshire.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to Thomas Daeley for Daeley's life.
10 December 1541.
p. 14 Letter of attorney to take over the powers of attorney previously granted to Walter Herenden.
24 July 1557.
p. 15 Letters patent of grant of the office of Steward of the manors of Donington, Frampton, and Washingborough, Leadenham and Fulbeck, the sokes of Kirton Holland, Skirbeck, Gayton and Mumby and the manors of Kirkstead, Woodhall, Buckland, Roughton, Barlings, Scothorne, Carlton, Stainton, Scampton, Caenby and Glentham, parcel of Kirkstead and Barlings, and Allington.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to George Saynt Poll, for his good counsel.
Fee: £6.13.4, payable from Scampton and Carlton with their appurtenances in Reasby and Snelland.
30 September 1541.
p. 17 Copy of p. 15, in another hand.
p. 19 Warrant for the payment of the fee to S. Poll "our counsellor and servaunte"
Charles Duke of Suffolk to Robert Wyngfeld, Esq., Hugh Grantham and Bonyface Martyn, auditors of Richmond Fee, Barlyngs and Kirkstead and Thomas Lancely, clerk, receiver there.
p. 20 Similar warrant for John Wingfield's fee.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to Richard Wingfield, Hugh Grantham and Thomas Lanslen auditors and receiver.
20 November, Gremsthorpp.
p. 21 Indenture of lease.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to John Corbryg of Tattershall, carpenter.
Property: a fulling mill and a corn mill newly built by the lessee and 2 corn mills newly repaired standing together at the north east of the parish on the Bain, with an extension of one bay each to the houses of the last two mills, and a new "harnes" mill near the same water mill.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: £12.6.8.
6 June 1542.
p. 24 Indenture of lease, for the purposes of a trust.
Richard Bertye and the Lady Katherine his wife to Thomas and Alice Bertie (Richard's parents) and Walter Harendon.
Property: all Lincolnshire manors.
Term: 21 years.
Trust: £700 per annum to Richard and Katherine and all annuities, pensions, fees and board wages as have a warrant.
20 November 1554.
See p. 88 infra.
p. 27 Letters patent of grant of office of keeper of the park and manor of Eresby and of Sergeant's fee in Eresby, Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Archinbald Barnard, for his life.
Fee £3 and pasture for 12 kine, 1 bull, 2 geldings, and 13s. 4d. and 2 closes in Hundleby Wood and West park.
28 June 1546.
p. 29 Letters patent of grant of same office.
Charles and Katherine, Duke and Duchess of Suffolk to Robert Ingleton.
Fee £3 13s. 4d., pasture for 12 Kine and 2 geldings.
28 June 1544.
p. 31a (a loose sheet).
Indenture of lease.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to John Semer husbandman of Wilsford.
Property: capital messuage of Wilsford and all lands belonging.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: £4.
5 December 1542.
p. 33 Grant of office in respect of previous service at Eresby and Spilsby.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to John Hastings gent.
Offices and fees: keeping of Grimsthorpe house and park, bailiwick of Edenham, Grimsthorpe. Scottlethorp and Ailisthorp.
Pasture for 16 beasts.
Firewood.
£4 in addition to the £4 of annuity.
4 July 1546.
p. 34 Indenture of lease.
Charles and Katherine Duke and Duchess of Suffolk to Edward Forsett, Esq.
Property: house and demesne lands of Bullington: 100 acres of arable 20 acres of meadow, 63 acres of pasture and a patch of waste, grown with bushes and thorns, near the house (15a.)
The arable consists of enclosed fields: Towtyll 30a., Myddelfeld 30 acres Westfeld 40 acres.
The pasture: lee close 20 acres, frer close 20 acres, sheperds close 6 acres, lady close 2 acres, brod platte 3 acres, prestes poll 6 acres, myddell hall 2 acres, Wyllowe close 4 acres.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: £6 16s. 8d.
The lessors may carry away any of the stone or building materials they please provided a sufficient farm house is left.
8 September 1539.
p. 37 Letter of attorney.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk appoints Robert Wyngfelde and Ralfe Chamberland, Esq., and Christopher Hill, clerk.
Duties: to oversee and receive the accounts at Tattershall on St. Denis' day (9 October), and to allow and pay the bills of all officials.
7 October 1546.
p. 38 Grant of office.
Charles and Katherine, Duke and Duchess of Suffolk, to Thomas Blakeburn for his life.
Office bailiwick of manor of Spilsby.
Fee: £4, a house and close in Spilsby.
24 June 1544.
p. 40 Grant of offices.
Charles Duke of Suffolk to Nicholas Verco for life.
Office: bailiwick of Saltflethaven (fee £3)
Feodaryship of Willoughbe lands (fee £3)
22 September 1542.
p. 42 List of tithes owing for one whole year 1552 from Hanbeck, Thornholme, Saint Katherines, Hundleby, Stamford friars, Ketby, Scampton and Estgraunge, Sheepwash, Snelland, Linwood, Sturton, N. Carlton, Risby grange.
[An insertion in a later hand signed John Southwell].
p. 43. Indenture of lease.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to John Egerton her servant.
Property: Hamby manor or farm in Welton le Marsh.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: £30. 9s.
20 December 1546.
p. 46 Indenture of lease.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Archinbolde Barnarde her servant.
Property: the agistment of the East and West parks at Eresby, reserving only pasture for 300 deer.
Term: 40 years.
Rent: £16.
9 December 1546.
Note added on p. 43: a copy of Archinbolde Indentur delyvered to my Cosin Hall to be sene at London if neede Requiyre and after to be delyvered to me ageyn by my seid Cosin Hall.
p. 48 Grant of office.
Thomas Donekaster abbot of St. Marcial of Newhouse to George Seyntpolle, Esq., for life.
Office: substeward and clerk of courts in all Lincolnshire manors.
10 January 1535.
Note of enrolment in officio Roberti Wyngfeld auditoris domine ibidem xi die octob. anno secundo E. sexti (1548).
p. 49 Grant of rent charge.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Nicholas Phyllips for service done to her younger son Charles.
Charge 40 shillings, from the manor of Partney until a farm of lands and tenements worth 40s. shall be found.
21 January 1552.
p. 51 (? Hand of the lady Katherine).
Grant of a pension.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Francis Guevara her kinsman and servant, a Spanish gentleman of "Segura in Viscaye"
Pension: £30 from "Spelsbi" manor.
9 February 1551.
p. 52 Grant of office.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Richard Catterton.
Office: bailiwick of manor of Alford and Well.
Fee: £5 and a house in Alford worth 46s. 8d.
4 January 1547.
p. 54 Indenture of lease.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to her servant John Egerton senior.
Property: Hamby manor in Welton le Marsh.
Rent: £30.9s.
20 December 1546.
p. 57 Notification of receipt.
Richard Bertie (sic) Esq., of Thomas Blackbourne.
Sum: £60 charged on him for the revenues of Spilsby and Tattershall college.
13 April 1554.
p. 58. Notification of grant.
Richard Bertie to his cousin Francis Guevara.
Property: annuity of £200 for 2 years, chargeable on all Lincolnshire estates and payable in consideration of £400 lent "towards the furnyture of my yorneye beyonde the seas".
28 May 1554.
p. 59 Indenture of lease.
King Edward VI (with the advice of the council of the duchy of Lancaster) to Robert Bull, gent.
Property: the chantry in Spilsby, including a house, 2 barns, a mill, a kiln, the rent of the parsonage house, a garden of fifty acres, with lands in Toynton, Malton, Ashby, Stickford, Stixwold.
Rent: £56. 16. 6.
Term: 8 years.
8 June 1548.
p. 64 Grant of office.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk and Richard Bertye, Esq., to their servant Davyd Bennett.
Office: bailiwick of Grimsthorpe and keepership of fallow deer park.
Fees. 46s. 8d. (Grimsthorpe) £7 (the park) with pasture for 16 kine, a bull and 10 horses.
2 June 1554.
p. 66 Grant of office, of surveyor of all manors.
Richard Bertie to John Brereton, during pleasure.
Fee 52 crowns, at 5s. the crown and board wages.
20 August 1557.
p. 67 Indenture of lease.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to John Brereton of London.
Property: Toynton Park.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: 4 marks.
8 January 1554.
p. 68. Grant of annuity (addressed to his mother Alice and his loving cousin Herenden, lessees).
Richard Bertie to his most special friend Christopher Landshade.
Sum £500 per annum until all the bills of debt in Christopher's custody are discharged.
4 June 1556.
p. 69 Grant of annuity, because of her widowhood.
Richard Bertie to his mother Alice.
Sum: £100 which is to cease if she refuses to listen to the advice of his friend John Briareton, gent.
20 August 1555.
p. 71 Letter of request from Queen Mary to Mr. Sampoll. He is to pay over to the Lord Treasurer the money he has collected from the Duchess of Suffolk's manors.
1 April 1556.
p. 71 Letter of request. The Marquis of Winchester (Lord Treasurer) to Mr. Sampoll ordering him to pay over the money collected.
7 April 1556.
p. 72 Commission to inquire into the flight of Mr. Bertie and the duchess of Suffolk and Anthony Meres. King Philip and Queen Mary to Sir Edward Mountague, Sir John Copledike, William Dalison sergeant at law, Edward Gryffyn, William Tharrolde and Henry Seydell.
19 September 1555.
p. 73 Commission to collect and deliver to the royal agents the rents of the lands of Mr. Bertie and the Duchess of Suffolk.
King Philip and Queen Mary to George Sayntpolle, Esq.
28 September 1555.
p. 76 Grant of pension.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Walter Herenden, gent., for life.
Sum: £30 payable from all Lincoln lands.
3 February 1551.
p. 77 Grant of pension.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to their servant Richard Gravener, for life.
Sum: £6.13.4.
10 November 1554.
p.78 Grant of annuity.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to their kinsman John Bertie for life.
Sum: £13 6.8.
10 November 1554.
p.79 Grant of an exhibition for the study of the law.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Cuthbert Briertonne.
Sum £20.
Consideration: Cuthbert is to look after all lawsuits.
10 November 1554.
Grant of annuity.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to their servant Jane Wyllynton.
Sum £5 for 5 years, to be taken out of the manor of Bullington.
15 December 1554.
p.80 Grant of annuity.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Francis Bernard gent., steward of their hospice, for his life.
Sum 40 marks (the sum is uncertain).
12 May 1554.
p.81 Indenture of grant, with covenant to make assurances.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Walter Herenden gent., of Grays Inn, for his great trouble in their suits and affairs.
Property: the manors of Whetacre and Whetacre Burgh, Walcote East and Westhalls, 3 fulling mills, a corn mill, 10 acres of pasture, a messuage garden and 60 acres of arable, 40 acres of meadow and 20 acres of pasture in Little Grimsby and Stoneley, Warwickshire.
14 March 1554.
p.84 Grant of office.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk and Richard Bertie to David Bennett their servant, for life.
Office: the bailiwick of Grimsthorpe and the deer park.
Fee: £4 and 46s. 8d. plus £7 for the park with pasture for 16 kine, a bull and ten horses, and fuel.
2 June 1554.
p.87 Grant of office.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Francis Ballard her servant for life.
Office the reversion of the keepership of the park of Hellow after the death of Anthony Gunby, gent., the present owner.
Fee £6 13. 4 per annum, pasture for 6 kine and 2 geldings.
28 December 1546.
p. 88 Indenture of grant of a term of years and interest.
Alice Bertye widow of Thomas Bertie late of Winchester to Walter Bowland of Venny Sutton.
Property: the interest granted to her for 21 years by her son Richard and his wife Katherine Duchess of Suffolk in all their manors and lands in Lincoln (see p. 24 supra).
Consideration: divers sums of money.
3 February 1557.
Witnesses: Alexander Deringe, Thomas Bertye, junior, Richard Churche and John Cheseman.
p. 93 Indenture of lease.
Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to Richard Gravenor of Grimsthorpe.
Property: Haber grange and its tithe, in the parish of Haber (Habrough), formerly leased to Eleanor Skipwith.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: £8 5.11.
22 April 1554.
p. 95 Grant of office.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to William Lions.
Office: keeper of the park of Tointon (predecessor John Bonne) and bailiff and collector of manor.
Fee: 40s. and pasture for 6 kine and a gelding; 33s.4d. for as bailiff and collector.
4 January 1546.
p.101 Indenture of lease.
Charles Duke of Suffolk and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to their servant John Merbury.
Property: manor of Newsham (occupant Thomas Smythe), with a house, water mill, wind mill, pastures called Uttermoor Watrilles, New Close, Shepecote Garth and Pawmer close, parcel of the demesnes of the manor.
Term: 21 years.
Rent: £25.6.8
26 July 1543.
p. 103 (a sheet of paper sewn in) Grant of office.
Katherine Duchess of Suffolk to her servant Richard Caterton.
Office: bailiwick of Well and Alford.
Fee £5 and a house worth 46s.8d. per annum.
4 January 1546.
p.104 Indenture of lease.
John prior of Markby to Hamnet Godecare of Markby.
Property: a messuage in Theddlethorpe and 2 closes there.
Term: 35 years.
Rent: £8
1 September 1533. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | c1533-1571 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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