1384/85 Thomas de Outheby, the younger, purchased land in Stoke Dry, Rutland, on January 20. [1] [2]
County: Rutland.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from St Hilary, 8 Richard [II] [20 January 1385].
Parties: Thomas de Outheby the younger, querent, and Richard Caldecote of Stokedrie and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 1 messuage, 50 acres of land and 10 acres of meadow in Stokedrie.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Richard and Joan have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Richard to him and his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: Thomas has given them 100 marks of silver.
1397, 1402, and 1404 Thomas Oudeby was MP from Rutland. [3]
1415-1418 John Oudeby and his wife Jane and Thomas Oudeby and his mother Cecilia were mentioned in the accounts of the "Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist."
1415-1416 An account of the "Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 3 Henry V., to the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 4 Henry V," lists "members from whom light-silver is to be collected," including "John Owdeby and his wife" and "Thomas Owdeby and Cecilia his mother." [4]
1416-1417 On the back of the roll of the accounts of "Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist from the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 4 Henry V., to the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 5 Henry V" is a list of the names of members, with the amount of light-silver due from each, including the following names "John Owdby and his wife" and "Thomas Owdby and Cecilia his mother." [5]
1411-1417 The "account of John Leeke, Master of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of the Feast of St. Michael, 13 Henry IV., to Monday next before the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 5 Henry V. (six years)" includes a list of fines for members, including "John Owdby and Jane his wife" and "Thomas Owdeby and the soul of Cecilia his mother." [6]
1417-1418 or 1422? The account of the "Proctors of the Guild of the Holy Cross, the Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist, from the Morrow of the Feast of the Guild, 5 Henry V., to Monday next after the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul in the [ ] year of the reign of the same (sic) King Henry VI. (sic)," lists "the persons in arrear in the payment of their light-silver," including "John Owdby and his wife" and "Thomas Owdeby and his mother." [7]
1423 Thomas Oudeby and Joan his wife sold land in Yorkshire on April 23. [8] [9]
County: Yorkshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Three weeks from Easter, 1 Henry VI [25 April 1423].
Parties: John Wodestoke of Hedon' in Holdernesse, querent, and Thomas Oudeby of Beaumound' in the county of Essex and Joan, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 3 tofts, 2 and a half bovates of land, 5 and a half acres of land, 1 acre of meadow, 7 and a half acres of pasture and 3 shillings of rent in Rihill', Cameryngton', Halsham, Otryngham, Northorp', Swynthorp' and Aldburgh'.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Thomas and Joan have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John, as those which he has of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan to him and his heirs for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: John has given them 20 pounds sterling.
1431/32 Thomas Oudeby and his wife Joan sold land in Yorkshire on February 9. [10] [11]
County: Yorkshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from the Purification of the Blessed Mary, 10 Henry VI [9 February 1432]. And afterwards two weeks from Easter in the same year [4 May 1432].
Parties: Robert Dumfravyle, knight, William Ryther, knight, John Holme, esquire, Robert Haytfeld', esquire, Thomas Wilton' and Richard Haytfeld', esquire, querents, and Thomas Oudeby of Reyle in the county of Essex, gentleman, and Joan, his wife, daughter of John Sutton' of Sutton' in Holdernes, deforciants.
Property: 5 messuages, 3 tofts, 1 bovate and 9 acres of land and 17 acres of meadow in Sutton', Stanfery and Drypole in Holdernes.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Thomas Oudeby and Joan have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Richard Haytfeld', as those which Richard, Robert, William, John, Robert and Thomas Wilton' have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Joan to Robert, William, John, Robert, Thomas Wilton' and Richard and the heirs of Richard for ever.
Warranty: Warranty.
For this: Robert, William, John, Robert, Thomas Wilton' and Richard have given them 20 marks of silver.
1434 John Oudeby and his mother Joan, widow of John's father, Thomas Oudeby, quitclaimed land in Essex to Thomas Pynchoun and others on April 12. [12]
John Owdeby, son and heir of Thomas Owdeby of Schopelonde co. Essex 'gentilman' and of Joan his wife, to Thomas Pynchoun esquire, Sir John Wakeryng clerk, Robert Warner, Sir John Depden clerk, Thomas Yonge, Sir William Stewarde clerk, Thomas Canynges, Sir John Bronde clerk, John Chikwelle and John Northgrove, and the the heirs and assigns of Thomas Pynchoun. Quitclaim of the marsh in Sutton in the hundred of Rocheforde called 'Bradewerdmersche,' with sea walls, fletes, fisheries and pastures, free ingress and egress and all other easements, being in their possession. Witnesses: Sir Thomas Flemmyng knight, Richard Smyth of Schorne, Robert Flemmyng, John Samuel, Ralph Peeke, Robert Carter, Henry atte Lane, John Crips, John North. Dated Schopelonde, 12 April 12 Henry VI.
Memorandum of acknowledgment, 23 April.
Joan Owdeby, late the wife of Thomas Owdeby (as above), being cousin and heir of Alice Pritewelle daughter and heir of John Pritewelle of Schopelonde esquire and Elizabeth his wife, in her widowhood, to Thomas Pynchoun esquire (and the others above named), and to the heirs and assigns of Thomas Pynchoun. (Like) quitclaim. Witnesses (as the last). Dated Schopelonde, 8 April 12 Henry VI.
Memorandum of acknowledgment, 23 April.
[1] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/192/7, number 6, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[2] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, CP 25/1/192/7, number 6, [AALTImage].
[3] J.S. Roskell, Linda Clark, and Carole Rawcliffe, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421, 4 vols. (Stroud: Alan Sutton for the History of Parliament Trust, 1992), [History of Parliament Online].
[4] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, BRT1/3/29, [UKNationalArchives].
[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, BRT1/3/30, [UKNationalArchives].
[6] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, BRT1/3/26, [UKNationalArchives].
[7] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, BRT1/3/32, [UKNationalArchives].
[8] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/280/155, number 9, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[9] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, CP 25/1/280/155, number 9, [AALTImage].
[10] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/280/156, number 36, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[11] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, CP 25/1/280/156, number 36, [AALTImage].
[12] A. E. Stamp, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. 2, 1429-1435 (London: HMSO, 1933, reprinted 1971), 307-308, [HathiTrust].