Rainsford and Dighton families of Clifford Chambers

Description

Exemplification under the authority of Nicholas Ruggeley esquire, capital steward, of a recovery had at a court of Sir John Petre,knight, lord of the manor of Writtle, co. Essex, held 10 December 1597 before Edward Hunt and Robert Bentley, gentlemen, bailiffs, and before Edward Pynchon senior, gentleman, John Chalke, Robert Woode, Thomas Baker, William Newlonde, Richard Thurgood, Gregory Shettleworth, John Percyvall, Thomas Sharpe, Henry Sharpe, John Noke, John Hawkyn, John Carter, Henry Draper, Robert Crusshe, William Crusshe, Thomas Crusshe senior, Thomas Crusshe junior, Thomas Braynewood, Thomas Saye, Thomas Tabor, Abraham Goose and William Sharpe suitors of the said court, by James Bell demandant against William Bell tenant of a messuage, a toft, a dovecot, a garden, an orchard, six acres of meadow and six acres of pasture in Writtle. Vouchee: John Nycolson. Nicholas Dockley, bedellus manerij and minister curie. According to the custom of the manor, a fine of 6s.8d. was paid by William Bell for the enrolment of the recovery in the rolls of that court. Signed: 1. Edward Hunt, understeward and one of the bailiffs (Per me Edwardum Hunt subsenescallum unum Ballivorum ibidem) 2. Robert Bentley the other bailiff (Per me Robertum Bentley alium Ballivorum ibidem) 3. Edwarde Pinchon; 4. John Chalk by his marke 5. John Noke by his marke; 6. Thom' Crush 7. Gregory Shettleworth; 8. Wm. Newlande 9. Ric: Thurgoode, by their markes 10. Henry Sharpe; 11. Abraham Goosse. Seals: one only (no. 3) missing. Ten remain. Seals: 1. initials EH, a true lovers' knot entwined between; 2. initials R B within beaded border; 3. missing; 4. a lion's head erased; 5. the letters W C with ?sprays of foliage; 6. a dolphin embowed; 7. a griffin passant; 8. the letter W; 9. initials R T; 10. obscure. 11. Seals are circular, small, of red wax, nos. 1 and 4 rather larger than the others.