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Burials.
Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem Relating to the City of
London, Returned into the Court of Chancery.
David Woodroffe.
County: London
Country: England
David Woodroffe was seised of all that messuage called the Greane Gate
next Ledenhall, 1 garden, 4 tenements, 2 cellars and all the buildings,
shops, etc., etc., to the said messuage belonging, lying in the parish of
St. Andrew the Apostle Undershafte, in the City of London, sometime in the
tenure of John Meawtis secretary for the French language, to King Henry 7;
all that large messuage and tenement called the Three Tunnes in
Thamys-strete in the parish of St. Magnus the Martyr within the City of
London, sometime in the tenure of Robert Baylye, citizen and mercer of
London, and now in that of John Ambrose, iron merchant of Milan (?)
(millanii), formerly belonging to the late Monastery of the Minoresses
without Aldgate, London, now dissolved; which said messuage King Henry 8th,
late King of England, by his Letters Patent dated 01 Jul [1544] , in the
36th year of his reign granted to Hugh Losse of London, esq., and Thomas
Bocher and to the heirs of the said Hugh, all that messuage and all the
shops, warehouses, yards, etc., thereto belonging, lying in the parish of
St. Michael, in Crooked Lane, London, late in the tenure of Henry Gamlynge,
citizen and "cowper" of London; also 1 tenement or house of Romelande, in
the town of St. Albans, co. Hertford, abbutting upon Romelande towards the
east, and on the north as far as the messuage sometime of William Clotheman,
and 1 orchard containing in length from Romelande up to the land now of Joan
Harvie, widow, 136 feet, and containing in breadth 66 feet, late in the
tenure of Richard Stondon; and all the houses, buildings, lands, etc., to
the said tenement belonging, formerly belonging to the late Monastery of St.
Albans; all that messuage, tenement or inn (hospicio) called the
Flowerdeluce in the said town of St. Albans in a street there called the
Frenche Rowe, between the messuage or inn called the Lyon on the south part
and the messuage or inn called the Christopher on the north, extending in
length from the said street to the street of Dagnall, and from a meadow
called Squilers in the said town next to the street there called Scollane,
now in the tenure of Robert Brande and late in that of Roger Seymer; all
that tenement and the land thereto adjoining now in the tenure of Margerie
Chapman and James Stanlye in the said town of St. Albans in the street there
called Fyshepoole, between the way leading from the said street towards
Romelande on the east, the tenement late of Henry Harvye on the west,
extending in length from the said street towards the north up to the
messuage and garden of the said David Woodroffe on the south; and also a
close or pasture lying in the parish of Enfield in co. Middlesex.
