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I have happened upon a copy of a lease of 1505 between Sir Thomas Docwra, the prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, and Gyles, Lord Daubeney, Knight, concerning the manor of Hampton Court in the county of Middlesex.

The copy is in the RCP section of an unindexed plea roll from the Court of Common Pleas, found on the AALT website.

The information I can find online on Daubeney's lease of Hampton Court mentions only a date of 1494 or 1495.

As this lease of June 1505* may be of some interest historically, I have decided to post the information here, where it may in time reach receptive eyes.

The first of two images is at this location:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H7/CP40no973/aCP40no973fronts/IMG_1226.htm


*  The precise day is hidden by slight damage at the edge of the membrane, but is the tenth or later of the month.

I am doubtful about the surname being Dessdale. ... I think it could be a p in the middle rather ss.

I agree with this.

Every s in a mid-word position is a long-s.  The components of the double-s in decessit are both long, too.

Although the curved line immediately prior to the middle d could be an s in a later hand, it matches no s in this extract.

ADDED:

We have a proper long-s for this writer's heading script in Thomasina.  Nothing in the surname matches that s.

Where I have seen this style of elaboration on a letter, the correct reading has been found in the right-hand half of the whole - which in this case is a T.

It would be clearer except the writer has included the extra line on the curve (which makes it look like part of a baseball).

The same is happening with the g in georg at the beginning of the entry.  The right-hand half is the letter; to the left is a curved flourish with an extra line for elaboration.

For the record:

Vicarial Claim

Impropriate Claim

As Wexflyer has said, Impropriate as an adjective means:

Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.

I would say that Kewne is most likely.

Have a look at the final e in presence, just after her (copied) signature at the end of the will, and at the final e in what I think is Deere (with three types of e in five letters) in Deere and Loving husband in the last line of the first page.