But with “the messuage called Westbourne, and the lands purchased of Robert White,” we have something more to do.
The messuage and garden which she gave, appear to have joined the Red Lion, which was also in her possession, and which she left to Mr. Gee.
Often, the sons each took an equal portion by partition, but the eldest son had the right to buy out the others as to the chief messuage [dwelling and supporting land and buildings] as long as he compensated them with property of equal value.
The Capital Messuage [Chief Manor] could not be given in dower or divided, but went in its entirety to its heir.
Small Street in the Parish of St.-Werburgh in the City of Bristol between a messuage or tenement formerly in the possession of Messrs.
All that great messuageor dwelling-house situate standing and being in Small Street within the Parishes of St. Walburgh (sic) and St. Leonard.
In 1382 he and John Herlyng acquired a messuage and sixty acres of land.
In 1361 he was given a messuage and shop formerly owned by Walter Ragoun in London and worth forty shillings yearly.
In 49 Edward III he was granted a messuage with pertinences in Grippewic.
In 50 Edward III Richard Forester was granted custody of the manor of Waterpyrye and one messuage in Thomele in Oxfordshire, and the manor of Wormenhale in Buckinghamshire, during the minority of the heir.
In 1373 he and Isabella his wife acquired by a devious series of transfers a messuage of land with reversion to their son Walter.
John the carpenter and Alice his wife grant a messuage next the gates of Nedham to “Ballivi, Cives, et Communitas Norwici” “ad asiamentum muri civitatis erigendi.
Thomas-the-Martyr, and endowed it with a messuage and 132 acres of land; and within five months after founded the chantry of S.
Templars a site for a mill super Fletam Juxta Castelum Bainard, and all the course of the water of Fleet and a messuage juxta pontem de Flete.
A messuage on the Fleet was also given to them by Gervase of Cornhill, Teintarius, and this record is interesting as giving us the calling of the great Londoner treated of so fully by Mr. Round.
A beautifully written Saxon charter in the British Museum, calendared as probably of the date 1038, records the gift of a messuage in London to St. Peter's Church.
First, one messuage with th'appurtenaunces in Oterbourne, in the tenure of Cuthberte Carre 24s.
Humphrey the Bandylegged (Loripes) holds one messuage wherefrom half the forfeiture was the King's.
William Wilkynson, who held there in like manner a messuage and a bovate of land, is dead, and Alice his daughter and heir is of the age of half a year.
Thomas Neucomen, who held a messuage and a bovate of bondage land in Bradford, is dead.
Roger Dikson, who held half a messuage and 1/2 bovate of land, is dead.
And be it known that if any customary tenant die without heir of his body, we will demise his land and his messuage to whomsoever we will and keep in our hand the gersum[124] arising thence.
John Barne of Manningham, who held a messuage and a bovate of bondage land there, is dead.
John de Oldefeld, who held a messuage and 1/2 bovate of bondage land there, is dead.
The abbot of St. Alban's had a messuage here with a key, given to him in the 34th of Henry VI.
It is in record called a messuage in Eldenese lane, in the parish of St. Sepulchre, the 28th of Henry the VI.
Reginald Cobham gave his messuage in London to the enlarging thereof, in the year 1344.
The ancient great hall of this messuage is yet standing, and pertaining to a great brewhouse for beer.
It is apprehended that the acre of land referred to by Mr. Tanner, (on which formerly was built a messuage or tenement, since decayed) for which the vicar of the parish paid to the crown the annual sum of 3s.
All that extensive and commodious shop and messuage with the offices and appurtenances thereto belonging situate and being No.
Then the auctioneer put up all that extensive and commodious messuage and shop situate and being No.
He assigns for the residence of the priest his messuage lately built, with a garden and a certain lane, and all its appurtenances, lately built in the parish of St. Lawrence.
Their house was on a messuage purchased by them "opposite the chapel of S.
The first plot of ground obtained was a messuage of Robert de Croyland's in 1336.
Again, Agnes daughter of the tailor Philip inherited a messuage in the parish of S.
University hostel" which stood here formed one side of the narrow quadrangle the building of which was at once begun, and a messuage of Hervey de Stanton's formed the other.
At the same date a certain Johanna declares that she had as a marriage portion from her father a messuage given him by Cecil at the Castle, for which is paid a quit rent of twelve pence a year to "the scholars of Merton.
Reginald, Rector of Thymelby, and Peter, son of John, tenant of a certain messuage and toft in Thymelby.
John Amery, owner of a messuage in the parish “by fealty and the service of 16d.
The following is an abstract of the services of a tenant who held a messuage and xviii.
That any person having right of common in respect of the messuage or cottage in his actual occupation may turn on the Green Commons and the Lammas Meadows two cows and one bullock, or cow calf under the age of two years.
The half-virgate consisted in the same way of a messuage in the village with half as many strips scattered over the same fields.
That every occupier of an ancient messuage or cottage hath right of common upon the Green Commons, except Butts Close, for one gelding from and after the thirteenth day of August until the fourteenth day of February.
In the manor of Neweham are 10 cottiers (omitting William the miller and Adam de Neweham), each holding 1 messuage with appurtenances, and 6 acres.
The normal holding of the villanus, consisting of a messuage and 30 scattered acres coloured red, by way of example on the Map of the open fields of Hitchen.
Thus the Winslow virgates were intermixed, and each was a holding of a messuage in the village, and between 30 and 40 modern acres of land, not contiguous, but scattered in half-acre pieces all over the common fields.
A few cases occur, but only a few, where a messuage is held without land.
In 3 Elizabeth Thomas Shakespere held a messuage in Lowston.
It is a grant by one Elizabeth Shakspere to John Lone and William Prins of a messuage with three crofts.
Item, I give, dispose and bequeath, unto my Kinsman Edward Nash, and to his heires and assignes for ever, one messuage or tenement with the appurtenances comonly called or knowne by the name of The New Place .
In Rowington End John Shakespere held a cottage called "The Twycroft," and Richard Shakespere a messuage in Church End at the same time.
