Appendix 1 - Terrier of the prior and Convent of Newnham of its Land and Tenements in Wellyngton, made there on the 12th day of July in the twenty second year of the reign of King Henry the seventh [1507]

Summary

The transcription of the Willington terrier that follows mirrors the original in its lack of punctuation, erratic use of capital letters and erratic spellings of family names, field-names and landscape features. Willington was spelt ‘Welyngton’ in the bold headings of the folios but three other different spellings of the name were used in the text. The first names of tenants or land-holders have been given modern forms in the translation. The line breaks in the original have been adhered to in the transcript, except in one case, but are not used in the translation.

The use of occasional English phrases may suggest that the scribe was not a fluent Latin scholar, but the use of five different prepositions following forms of the verb abutto in both the Biddenham and Willington documents does not support this. In the Bedford terrier the use of prepositions following forms of abutto is more limited suggesting that it was written by a different scribe.

Translation

(folio 3 reverse) Welyngton

The Terrier of the prior and Convent of Newnham of its lands and tenements in Wellyngton, made there on the twelfth day of July in the twenty-second year of the reign of king Henry the seventh.

In the Millfeild, One and a half acres on the furlong of saplings

between the land of the lord of Wellington on either side

half an acre abutting on Dadmore between the land of John

Myton on the north side and the land of the lord on the south side

one rood in Dadmore between the land of William Gostwyke on the

north side and the land of the lord on the south side

half an acre on the same between the land of the lord on the south side

and land of John Myton on the north side

half an acre on the same between the land of William Gostwyke on the

north side and the land of the lord on the

south side

one Rood on the same between the land of the lord on either side

half a rood between Dadmore on the north side and the headland of

John Gostwyke on the south side