MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 85

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.⟩