A History of the United Parishes of Colmer and Priors Dean - Thomas Hervey

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...Mary of Southwick and to the canons there serving God, a certain messuage in the village of Colemere, with all the land which John his father formerly held in the village of Colemere; of which land. 142 Further Grants to one croft is near the land of Henry Kernet and the land of Lawrence de la Slade, with the whole of the wood and pasture belonging to the said land, the wood is, that at Wodenhurst, and lies near the wood of William de la Suthuse and the wood of la Yorne. Witnessed by Master Ralph de Southwick, clerk, official of the archdeacon, of Winchester, and by the whole court of Dene.. At Southwick, . on the Monday nearest before the feast of St. Leonard, abbot, in the twenty-fourth year of Edward I. (November 3, 1296, ) Henry de Eston granted to the prior and canons of the church of the Blessed Mary of Southwick, four shillings of annual rent with.all appurtenances, Id the village of la Dene, which he had been accustomed to receive annually, viz. from William de la Dich twenty pence for a certain garden there called Caperonespryke, and twenty pence from Henry Jons for the tenement which William le Forde holds, adjoining the garden that belongs to the chapel of la Dene, and eight pence from John le Carpenter for an acre of land lying in la Wode--crofte, which was formerly held by Richard Young of la Dene. The prior and canons granted him in return the four shillings of yearly rent which they were wont to receive from, the tenement which Stephen le Forlere of North Colemere holds. Witnessed by William Kernet, Richard le Bel and others. Gilbert de la Thome and Matilda his wife quitted claim, in perpetuity, to the prior and canons of Southwick, erf' all their right in the land of la Thorne at Colemere, with the wood and all appurtenances.