1537 "The Polsted property comprised the possessions of the priory of the nuns of Stratford at Bow on Bankside, including the Unicorn and the King's Pike Garden and the tenement called the Rose. The latter had been sold by William Spence to Henry Polsted in 1537 under the description of 'all that his Tenement and gardens sometyme called The Rose, set and being vpon the Stewes banke . . . That is to saye bitwene the Tenement and garden of Raff Symonds [known as the little Rose, the ground on which the Rose Theatre later stood] ... of the East parte, and the tenement called the Barge and the garden late belonging to [the] priores of Stratford on the West parte, and dothe extende from the water of Thamys ayenst the Northe vnto Mayden lane on the South parte.'" [1]
1539 "Weddings 1539 … The 18 of May were maried Henry Polsted and Alice Lord at St Mary le Bow, London, England." [2] [3]
1540 "After the suppression of the hospital the priory [of Bicknacre or Woodham Ferrers] and all its possessions, including the advowsons of the churches of Woodham Ferrers and Steeple, were granted in fee on 23 February, 1540, to Henry Polsted, of London, and Alice his wife for £540 at a rent of £3 yearly." [4]
1555 Henry Polsted of Albury in the county of Surrey Esquire wrote his will on August 1, probate 16 May 1556. [5]
1559 "Robert Wystowe held a "beare yerde' from Alice Polsted, widow of Henry Polsted, in 1559." [6]
Research Notes:
There is a biography of Henry Polstead in the History of Parliament series. [7]
[1] Howard Roberts and Walter H. Godfrey, eds., Survey of London, Vol. 22, Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark) (London: London County Council, 1950), 67, citing P.R.O., Anc. Deed E 326/12364, [HathiTrust].
[2] London Metropolitan Archives, St Mary le Bow, Composite register: baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538 - 1631, P69/MRY7/A/001/MS04996, image 1, [AncestryImage].
[3] London Metropolitan Archives, St Mary le Bow, Composite register: births and baptisms 1538-1542, 1653-1697, marriages 1538-1542, 1675-1697 and burials 1538-1542, 1653-1697, P69/MRY7/A/002/MS04997, image 56, [AncestryImage].
[4] William Page, J. Horace Round, eds., A History of the County of Essex, Vol. 2 (London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1907), 145, citing Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, xv, 282 (89), [HathiTrust].
[5] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11, Piece 38: Ketchyn (1556), [AncestryImage].
[6] Howard Roberts and Walter H. Godfrey, eds., Survey of London, Vol. 22, Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark) (London: London County Council, 1950), 69, citing P.R.O., C 3/139/4, [HathiTrust].
[7] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), [History of Parliament Online].