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Fawsley. Indenture (in English) by which William Lane, prior &c. of D⟨aventry⟩ , grant to Richard Knyghtley esq., their pastures &c. in Fallewesly except the manor place, with remainder to his heirs. Rent: 18 marks. [Mutilated.] ... June 20 Ed. IV.

Thrupp, Norton and Welton. Indenture by which Isabel Brafeld, widow, John Colby , and Joan his wife agree to grant, by fine, feoffment, or recovery, all their lands in Thorp, Norton, and Welton, to Edmund Newenham, gentleman, in exchange for 3 messuages lying together in ..., with other lands in Norton aforesaid. [Mutilated.] [English.] 31 Oct. ⟨1491.⟩

Thrupp. Indenture made at Thrope besyde D⟨aventry⟩ , by which William Harryes grants to William Lane, prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , a tenement with a croft adjoining in Thrope, and all appurtenances except one bay in the said tenement in which the said William now dwells, for 21 years. Rent: 4/-. [English.] 16 Jan. ⟨1488.⟩

Cold-Ashby. Thomas, prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , leases to Thomas abbot of Pipewell the rectory of Coldeashby for 90 years at £8 a year. On the death of the present vicar, Sir William Simond , they shall also have the vicarage for a further £10 a year. D⟨aventry⟩ may distrain for either of these rents, and if they are not paid within 10 weeks of the due time D⟨aventry⟩ shall receive a fine of 20/-. For every Sunday on which the prior and convent of D⟨aventry⟩ are not ’rehersed and praied for’ in the Church, they shall receive a fine of 12d. 20 March 1492.

Fawsley. John Clerk, mayor of Northampton , William Austyn, gentleman man, Thomas Hunt, draper, William Heyrope , and William May late mayor, recite an affidavit of Thomas Arnold of D⟨aventry⟩ , scrivener, then 4 score years and more, that when 23 years or more he knew one William Tewe of Falwesle living in the lordship of the prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , in F⟨alwesle⟩, which lordship he had at farm. There was then a piece of land ‘called Wynetpece now baynt’ in the Park abutting against Wynnethill and Rynehill, with a meadow at the south end called Wynnet Mede, broadening out from a rood on the west to a headland on the east. William also had a piece of his farm between Tarbard’s way sometime of John Badby . There had never been more than one farm in the prior’s lordship, of which Robert Young , John Frynde , and William Sroyft were tenants, having ‘meses’ and parts of the ‘ledes’ with the roods lying next to those of the prior. Also John Jones and John Curteys held 2 cottages and certain acres of the prior, but all these tenancies reached back to a date before Richard took the lordship to farm. There was no ‘several ground’ nor pasture in F⟨alwesle⟩, before Richard’s farm, except a piece called Holywell and another called Sewell, which were several from Candlemas to Michaelmas. 26 Sept. ⟨1483.⟩