John Busby of ????

[emjsw]

Hi,
Please could someone help me work out where John Busby is from, I expected him to be from Cleveley (Enstone) which may have has multiple spellings but now I am not too sure. The place is in the county of Oxford (I couldn't fit that bit in as it made the file to big).
Any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received.
Best wishes,
Emma

ps I will add other samples below but am struggling with file size!

[emjsw]

a bit more, perhaps they mis transcribed it as Clisley or Clifely rather than Cleveley? I don't think it is Chosely but it could be somewhere else?

[emjsw]

North Aston and Walton

[emjsw]

Last sample James Annsley/Ausley Eynsham

[shanreagh]

The name Choley leapt out at me which is very unusual for this older style writing

I wonder if it is Cholsey?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholsey

[emjsw]

Hi,
Thanks so much for taking a look. Much appreciated. I can't work out the letter between the h/l at the start and the o.
It is such a shame, it is a 4 page document and this isn't repeated or if it is, it is in the text that is damaged or torn off!!!
Best wishes

[horselydown86]

Some thoughts:

1.  I'm not at all convinced that it begins with C.  Can you please find and clip one or two examples each of both C and O for comparison.

2.  No modern forms of h are visible in the posted clips.  Unless you can see an example elsewhere, the second letter is likely to be l.

3.  There's an apparent top of a long-s near the middle of the word.  However, other examples of long-s in his writing - Busby, last, Aston, Ansley and Ensham - don't have this type of tall and curvaceous top.  Can you find another example with this top?

[horselydown86]

To avoid the problems with file size, see the posts referenced below.  This allows you to use the resolution available from a large image file to put a decent area of readable text onto your screen.  A snip created from the screen will be equally readable but has a much smaller file size.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=848872.msg7161611#msg7161611

[Vance Mead]

It looks to me like Clifeley, i.e. Cleveley near Enstone, Oxon. In the Common Pleas records f and v are often interchangeable, for exampe Clyff/Clyve. There are several people named Busby recorded in Cleveley, for example William Busby of Clyveley, husbandman, in 1531:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H8/CP40no1068/aCP40no1068fronts/IMG_1021.htm

In this record, in 1530, it looks like and is indexed as Clesley (William Busby of Clesley, husbandman), but must be Clefley/Cleveley:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H8/CP40no1064/aCP40no1064fronts/IMG_6881.htm