1469/70 John Polsted and Julian his wife were granted land in Stoke, Surrey on January 17. [1]
Feoffment: 1. Jn Bourgchier miles dominus de Berners, Thos Basset arm., John Weston and John Frampton to 2. John Polsted and Julian his wife; Croft of land in Stoke, with land of Thomas Elyot N., land late of Thos Ripon S., Le Quellis E., road from Stoke to Guildford W. Recently granted by Wm Woden and Alice his wife
1472 Grant by Thomas Ongham, clerk, to Richard Skynner and John Polstede, of lands, tenements, etc, in the parish of Camberwell. Appointment of William Otley attorney to deliver seisin: Surrey. Dated: 15 October, 12 Edward IV. [2] [Camberwell is in the London Burough of Southwark and was in the county of Surrey.]
1476 "Nov. 6 Westminster. [Pardon of outlawry to] Thomas Preston late of Marowe, co. Surrey, 'husbondman,' for not appearing when sued with Alice his wife, executrix of the will of John Boteler late of the parish of Wonersh, co. Surrey, 'husbondman,' to answer a plea that they render to john Dunne the elder and John Polstede. Middlesex." [3]
1488-1489 A fine was levied in 4 Henry VII between "Thomas Bourghchier Kt, Christofer Warde Kt, Nicholas Lathell a Baron of the King's Exchequer, John Fitzherbert, William Barowe, John Westbroke, Richard Elyot, William Wode, John Polstede & Henry Norbrigge vs. William Wyghtrying & his wife Joanna in Wurplesdon & Sende." [4]
Research Notes:
A description of the Polsted arms appears in the appendix of the 1530-1623 Visitation of Surrey, in a list of arms of the gentry residing in the county. "Appendix. Amoury. Arms of the gentry residing within the county of Surrey, hastily tricked within printed Escocheons. … Polsted Poulsted. Argent, fretty sable." [5] Also in the list is "Pollsted (Polshed?) Argent, on a bend between two mullets gules three trefoils slipped of the field, on a chief azure a pelican between two trefoils slipped and leaved or." [6]
There is a pedigree of this Polsted family in the 1633 Visition of London. [7]
[1] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Surrey History Centre, Reference 1320/9/2, [UKNationalArchives].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Chancery: Ancient Deeds, C 146/139, [UKNationalArchives].
[3] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward IV. Edward V, Richard III, 1476-1485 (London: HMSO, 1901), 578-579, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[4] Frank B. Lewis, ed., Pedes Finium: Or, Fines Relating to the County of Surrey, Levied in the King's Court, From the Seventh Year of Richard I. to the End of the Reign of Henry VII., Surrey Archaeological Society, Extra Vol. 1 (Guildford: Surrey Archaeological Society, 1894), 199, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[5] W. Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of the County of Surrey Made and Taken in the Years 1530, 1572, and 1623 (Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. 43, London, 1899), 231, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[6] W. Bruce Bannerman, ed., The Visitations of the County of Surrey Made and Taken in the Years 1530, 1572, and 1623 (Publications of the Harleian Society, Vol. 43, London, 1899), 230, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[7] Joseph Jackson Howard, ed., The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635, Vol. 2 (London: The Harleian Society, Vol. 92, 1883), 169, [HathiTrust].