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1554 Feoffment. "Thomas Reve, of London, gent. and George Cotton, of London, gent." conveyed to "John Webster of Cossington, husbandman" on June 22 "a messuage with the tenement situated in Cossington in the tenure of John Baker later belonging to the Priory of Ulverscroft now dissolved. The property was originally granted to" Thomas Reve "by Letters Patent of 21st June, 1554. Term: Forever. Clause of Warranty." [1]

"The Websters of Cossington and Syston" states, [2]

The churchwardens' accounts show John Webster II paying his mother's legacey, collecting a levy and doing business for his village at Stamford, whose fair was one of the most notable in the Midlands. His wife was reponsible for the church's washing. In 1572 John Webster was taxed 6s. 8d. for the lay subsidy; his brother William, at Thrussington, paid twice as much, which suggests that he had received an eldest son's portion from their father.


Footnotes:

[1] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Reference 44'28/163, [UKNationalArchives].

[2] Florence E. (Mrs. S. H.) Skillington, "The Ancestry of Governor John Webster," The American Genealogist 24 (1948), 197-214, at 199, [AmericanAncestors].