Rainsford and Dighton families of Clifford Chambers

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Exemplification of a recovery had at Westminster in Trinity Term 39 Elizabeth before Sir Edmund Anderson,knight and other justices by Sir Thomas Egerton,knight, keeper of the Great Seal, Thomas Pagytt, esquire and Nicholus Overbury, gentleman, against William Goodyer esquire and William ffletcher of seven messuages, seven gardens, six hundred acres of land, a hundred acres of meadow, two hundred acres pasture, 20 acres furze and heath and six pennyworth rents in Clyfford and Ayleston als. Aydelston and free fishing in the river Stower. Vouchee: Henry Raynsford esquire. Seal: missing. Endorsed with memorandum of return of writ of seisin, Robert Burgoyn esquire, sheriff. Endorsed in English: Trin. 39 Eliz. a Common Recovery agaynst Tho: Pagitt and Nicholas Overbury Esquires of the Lands in Ayleston wherein Sr. Henry Raynsford the father was vouched.