“On the seventh of January, in the thirty-second year of his reign,
the King, by an indenture and release, bearing that date, did, by the
advice and counsel of the court, for augmenting the revenues of his
crown, demise, grant and farm let, to Edward Baynton, knight, _and
Isabella his wife_, all the site and capital messuage of the manor of
Padyngton, in the county of Middlesex, and all houses, edifices,
barns, stables, dovecotes, orchards, gardens and curtilages adjacent
to the said site and capital messuage. And also all lands, meadows,
pastures, commons, and hereditaments, commonly called the demesne
lands of the manor aforesaid; and another messuage and tenement with
appurtenances in the tenure of Edward North, esquire, situate and
being in Padyngton, in the county aforesaid. And all lands, manors,
feedings, pastures, commons, and hereditaments whatsoever in
Padyngton in the county aforesaid to the said messuage and tenement
belonging and appertaining, or with the messuage and tenement
occupied and being. Also all the rectory of Padyngton in the said
county of Middlesex; and all and every tenth, oblation, profit,
commodity, and emolument whatsoever to the said rectory in any sort
belonging or appertaining; which said manor, rectory, messuage,
lands, tenements, etcetera, were part of the possessions of the late
dissolved monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, and which were
formerly let to the aforesaid Edward North, for a term of years; but
excepting always and reserving for our Lord the King, his heirs and
successors, all large trees and wood of and upon the premises growing
and being, to have and to hold all and singular the premises above
specified with their appurtenances, except as before expressed, to
Edward and Isabella, and their assigns, from the feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, next following, until the
end of the term, and for a term of twenty one years next following
and fully completed; rendering thence annually to our Lord the King,
his heirs and successors, forty-one pounds, six-shillings and eight
pence, legal English money, at the feasts of St. Michael the
Archangel, and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or within
one month after the said feasts, in equal portions, to the court
aforesaid, during the time aforesaid, &c., &c.”
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