Henry VI. the said William Oliver, clerk, by deed enrolled in Chancery, confirmed to him the then residue of the term of one hundred years, having about fifty-six years to run.[1]
6th June, 25 Henry VI., William Burgh, gentleman, son and heir of John Burgh, deceased, and Katherine his wife, by deed enrolled in Chancery, released to Sir John Fastolf, Sir Henry Ingios, and Richard Wallere, Esq., all his right, title, claim and demand in all those messuages, lands, and tenements, rents and services, water-mills, gardens, and ditches, with all their appurtenances, which were of Henry Yevele, mason, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, and which the said Sir John Fastolf and the others above mentioned, with one John Wynter, Esq., deceased, lately had by the gift and feoffment of the said Katherine, mother of the said William Burgh.
By another deed of the same date, William Burgh also released to Sir John Fastolf, and the other persons before named, all that messuage, with the gardens adjoining and all their appurtenances, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, situate between the way leading from "Batailbrigg" towards "Horsleighdowne" on the north part, and a tenement of William Bedstone on the south part, and extending from the sewer leading from Batailbrigg to Bermondsey towards the west, and to the mill-stream of Henry Yevele towards the east.[2]
This property having been purchased by Sir John Fastolfe, he on the 7th July [1448], made Master Robert Pepys, clerk, and others, his attornies, to deliver seizin to his feoffees John (Cardinal) Archbishop of
