Article
Theydon Mount Glebe Land
1 A true Note or Terrier of all [th]e 2 glebe lands w[hic]h
2 are belonging to [th]e p[ar]sonage 3 or Rectory of [th]e p[ar]ishe
3 of Theydon Mount in [th]e County of Essex made by [th]e
4 Minister Churchwarden & Sideman of [th]e same
5 p[ar]ishe [th]e first day of December 1621.
6 There are belonging to [th]e abouenamed 4 Rectory or p[ar]sonage
7 fiue seuerall p[ar]cels of lands or grounds
8 1 The first is a poore or p[ar]cel of ground called [th]e Meads whereon [th]e
9 dwelling house & other out houses do stand & it is by estimacon 5
10 together w[i]t[h] Orchard & [th]e yard fiue Acres orchard abouts
11 The second p[ar]cell of glebe land is a close called & knowne by [th]e name
12 2 of p[ar]sonage close w[hic]h close butteth vpto [th]e Mead aboue named on [th]e
13 East vpon A p[ar]cell of ground called Kytchen Field on [th]e west vpon [th]e
14 garden of Hill hall 6 on [th]e North & vpon a p[ar]cell of land called great
15 Connyners on [th]e South this p[ar]cel of ground called p[ar]sonage close
17 The third p[ar]cell of glebe land is A close or Field comonly knowne or
18 called by {th]e name of Stony downes & it is by estimacon twelve Acres
19 3 or thereabouts And there is adioyning to the field on [th]e west side
20 A ground, being by estimacon one Acree & a halfe or thereabouts w[hi]ch
21 ground butteth upon a wood of Sir W[ilia]m Smiths called Bartholmew
22 ground. This aforsayd Field called Stony downes butteth vpon a
23 Field of Sir W[ilia]m Smiths called great Connyners on [th]e East vpon
24 A field called kytchen field on [th]e North & upon a grene called Bushe
25 grene on [th]e South.
26 The fourth & fift p[ar]cels of glebe do both of [th]m lye & adioyne vpon a
27 tenem[en]t of Sir Thomas Edmunds now at this p[re]sent in the occupacon 7
28 4 of W[ilia]m Wright, & [th]e one of chefe 8 two p[ar]cels is by estimacon three
29 Acres or thereabouts w[hi]ch p[ar]cell of three Acres is thus butted on [th]e
30 North side it buts vpon A grene of Sir W[ilia]m Smiths called Bushe
...
31 grene vpon [th]e South side vpon a field vpon Sir Thomas Edmunds
32 tenem[en]t called by [th]e name of kemefield upon [th]e East it butts vpon
33 a p[ar]cell of ground of Sir W[ilia]m Smiths called eight Acres & upon [th]e
34 west vpon a p[ar]cel of land of Sir W[ilia]m Smiths called Longhils
35 The other of these two p[ar]cels of glebeland is a longfield by
36 5 estimacon foure Acres or thereabouts & it butteth vpun
37 siresays field of three Acres on [th]e North & vpon [th]e kings high
38 way on the South.
39 And this is [th]e true Note or Terrier of all [th]e glebe lands
40 belonging to [th]e abouenamed p[ar]sonage. In witness
41 whereof we haue hereunto sette o[u]r hands [th]e day
42 & yeere aboue written.
43 T Juby Rector
44 The m[ar]ke of Richard Okeman
45 Churchwarden
46 The m[ar]ke of Richard Gladwine
47
1 ERO D/P 142/1/1: also available online through ‘Essex Ancestors’ by subscription – with free access at the Essex Record Office
in Chelmsford.
2 Throughout the document a symbol known as the thorn, which looks like a letter ‘y’ is used. It is a contraction for ‘th’.
Nowadays we see quaint names such as ‘Ye Olde Royal Oak’. The word ‘ye’ does not exist. It is ‘the’. In palaeography the thorn
is converted to [th].
3 Several words in this document have a line through the letter p. this is shorthand for ‘par’, ‘per’ or ‘por’.
4 Throughout the document we see the interchangeable ‘u’ and ‘v’, ‘i’ and ‘j’, and ‘i’ and ‘y’
5 estimation
6 Hill Hall near the church was in the ownership of the Smith family.
7 occupation
8 chief
