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 A Study of the Strood by W.E. Duane. Chapter 6. Page 28. The Administrators of the Strood contd. ... Deeds of 1455 where it is given as "Strodeway." The Customary and Court Rolls of the Manor of West Mersea have been preserved and it is from transcription of these by W. Gurney Benham that we learn that the Strood was a highway of long establishment in 1551. At the Court (3 Edward VI. 1551), Robert Flygaunt was ordered to [Note 1] "make a trench (puteum) by the Strode, where the old mill formerly stood from the green hill (a monte veridi)". "I find from the Parliamentary Report on Charities Vol. 32 part 1 page 667 that the earliest entry in the Court Roll of the Manor of West Mersea respecting this property is as follow:- 'at the Court holden on the 29th July 1560, the Lord granted to a party named as a Trustee certain lands and tenements called Churchfield to hold the same until him for life to repair the Church of the Parish, 13s.4d. being paid for a fine, and a like sum for a heriot'." This is substantiated again by reference to the transcriptions of W. Gurney Benham, who records:- [Note 3] "July 2nd. 2 Elizabeth. Wm Fooks. Jun. was granted 30 acres anciently customary, called Churchfield for life, to be held according to the custom of the Manor, to repair the Church of West Mersea and on Sept. 24th 24 Elizabeth, William Fooks being dead, the said 30 acres were granted to William Smith of West Mersea to repair the Strood and church of West Mersea". On July 30th James 1, on the death of William Smith, the ...
Note 1 Trans. E.A.S. Vol. 13 Page 80.
Date: 1965 Image ID SOS_006_003 Category 1 Mersea-->Strood | |
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