Draft lease by Sir Simon Felbrygge and others

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ABSTRACT¹

     Draft Lease by Sir Simon Felbrygge; Oliver Groos, Esq.; John Berney
of Redham, Esq.; William Paston of Paston; Thomas Stodhagh; Roger
Taillour of Stafford Bernyngham; and Thomas Newport of Runham, executors
of Robert Mawteby and John his son, to Margery, widow of the said John,
of ?two parts of manors, &c.? and the reversion, &c., which they lately held
along with Sir Miles Stapleton, Sir William Argenten, Sir John Hevenyngham,
Sir John Carbonell, Sir William Calthorpe, John Boys, Esq., and William
Caston, Esq., now deceased, by deed of Robert Mawteby. The remainder,
after Margery?s death, is to go to Margaret, daughter of the said John and
Margery, and the heirs of her body; then to Peter Mauteby, son of Robert and
uncle of Margaret; then to Alianora, widow of Robert; then to Alianora,
widow of William Calthorp and sister of Robert Mawteby, with reversion to
the trustees to fulfil the will.

     [This paper is addressed to John Berney of Reedham, and appears, by an
endorsement, to have been transmitted along with a letter of William Paston.
The date is fixed by the contents within pretty narrow limits, for it is after the death
of John Boys, Esq., which was in August 1439 (Inquis. post mortem, 18 Hen. VI.,
No. 2), and before that of Sir Simon Felbrigg in 1442 (Inquis. p. m., 21 Hen. VI.,
No. 33). It is easy to see, in fact, that the document had something to do with
the marriage settlement of John Paston and Margaret Mauteby, which was about
1440.]

¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

About
1440