| Abstract: Deeds relating to property of the Pinchpool alias Pynchepole family and other families in Windrush, Gloucestershire, c.1270-1495, 1683. |
Windrush is a small settlement in the Cotswolds, near the Oxfordshire border. The Gloucestershire Subsidy Roll for 1327 lists only twelve inhabitants liable for taxation, and there were still only twelve households in 1563. Pinchpool manor was one of three manors in Windrush. For further details see the Victoria history of the county of Gloucester (1965), vol. vi, pp. 178-84.
The Windrush deeds may have formed part of an archive of the Pinchpool family. Ten of them relate to members of the family and their property, 1308-1495 (MS. Don. c. 168/1-10). MS. Don. c. 168/5, dated 1434, refers to 'Pynchepolescourt', and the rights associated with the property. Another group of deeds (MS. Don. c. 168/11-19) concern the transfer of a property in Windrush from William Andreu, 1273-4, through various hands to John Barbour of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 1476, and on to John Pynchepole of Windrush and Thomas Walle in 1483. Other deeds include a letter of attorney to Walter Pinchpoll, 1409 (MS. Don. c. 168/32); and several have Pinchpool witnesses (MS. Don. c. 168/29-32, 34, dated 1371-1411).
MS. Don. c. 168/1, a deed of 1308, the earliest deed mentioning the Pinchpools, was given in Manuden, Essex. This suggests that the Pinchpool family of Windrush have their origins in Essex (they do not even appear as witnesses in any deeds before 1308), and presumably derive their name from Pinchpools in the parish of Manuden.
Winchcombe Abbey was a landowner in the parish of Windrush, and many of the names mentioned in the deeds in this catalogue can be found in the register of the abbey - see under 'Wenric' in the index to ed. David Royce, Landboc sive registrum monasterii Beate Mariae Virginis et Sancti Cenhelmi de Winchelcumba, (2 vols., Exeter, 1902-3).
Oxford, Bodleian Library [followed by the shelfmark and item number, e.g. Don. c. 168/1].
| Grant,
John de Pinchepol and
his wife
Maria,
to
William de Pinchpol their
son,
20 Jan. 1308 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/1 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Wax seal, broken, with device of a ?lion rampant on a shield within a quatrefoil. Bears an incomplete legend '... S' Iohannis de P...' Scope and Content: Grant of their 'mansum' (dwelling-house) with all lands etc. in Windrush, which they received through the death of Master William Walede, brother of Maria. Given at 'Manewedene' ( Manuden), Essex, on the octave of St. Hilary, 1 Edward II. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Richard de Willamescote to
Robert Kirkeby, chaplain,
13 Sept. 1355 (in French) Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/2 Scope and Content: Indenture. Grants the wardship of the lands, and heir of John Pynchepol (Walter Pynchepol), being in the wardship of the said Richard, to hold all the lands etc. which John held at his death from the said Richard, until Walter comes of age. Given at 'Kudyngton', on the Sunday after the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady, 29 Edward III. |
| Grant,
John
atte Mulle of Southrop (Oxfordshire), Rector of Broughton
(Oxfordshire), and
Thomas, Vicar of
Windrush, to
Walter Pynchepole and his
wife,
Agnes,
13 Jan. 1381 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/3 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Wax seal, with device of Paschal lamb. Second seal missing. Scope and Content: Indenture. Grants all lands, tenements etc. which they formerly held by grant of the said Walter in Windrush and elsewhere in Gloucestershire. Dated at Windrush, St. Hilary's Day, 4 Richard II. Witnesses:
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| Grant, as MS. Don. c. 168/3 above,
to
Walter Pinchepol,
13 Jan. 1381 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/4 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Indenture. Grants all lands, tenements etc., as MS. Don. c. 168/3 above. Same witnesses. |
| Grant,
Thomas
Pynchepole of Fernham (Berkshire), esquire, to
Walter Salesbury,
Vicar of Hanney (Berkshire),
John Walcote, chaplain, and
John Abraham of
Clanfield (Oxfordshire),
6 May 1434 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/5 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of a wax seal with heraldic device (shield) Scope and Content: Grants all his lands and tenements etc. in Windrush formerly called 'Pynchepolescourt' which he inherited from his father Walter Pynchepole. Given at Windrush, 6 May 12 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Walter Salesbury,
Vicar of Hanney,
John Walcote, chaplain, and
John Abraham of
Clanfield to
Thomas
Pynchepole of Fernham, and
Katherine,
his wife,
7 June 1436 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/6 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Three wax seals, each bearing the device of a letter: a crowned I, an N and a crowned S Scope and Content: Grants all his lands and tenements etc. in Windrush formerly called ' Pynchepolescourt' which they had by grant of the said Thomas. Given at Windrush, on the feast of Corpus Christi, 14 Henry VI. Witnesses:
Note: The evidence of MS. Don. c. 168/6-9 suggests that the
memorial brass of
Katherine
Pynchepole, d. 1443, in All Saints Church, Faringdon, may relate to
the Katherine named in this deed. (See N. Pevsner,
Berkshire (Harmondsworth, 1966), p. 139). The
inscription on the brass describes Katherine as daughter of Thomas Faringdon,
Lord of Fernham and Lushill manors (see E.
Ashmole,
The Antiquities of Berkshire (London, 1719)
vol. II, p. 185). |
| Grant of attorney,
Thomas
Pynchepole of 'Chepyngfaryndon' (Faringdon, Berkshire), gentleman,
to
William Walrond junior, and
Thomas
Estmonde,
2 Mar. 1456 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/7 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grant of attorney to grant seisin of his manor of Windrush and all his lands etc. in Windrush, Fairford, 'Asthrop', Cirencester, Stroud and other places in Gloucestershire, to Thomas Walrond, gentleman, and Richard Chapman, burgess of 'Chepyngfaryndon'. Given 2 Mar. 34 Henry VI. |
| Grant,
Thomas
Pynchepole of 'Chepyngfaryndon', gentleman to
Thomas Walrond,
gentleman, and
Richard
Saundres, burgess of 'Chepyngfaryndon',
2 Mar. 1456 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/8 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of wax seal Scope and Content: Grants his manor of Windrush, with all lands, rents etc. in Windrush, Fairford, 'Asthrop', Cirencester, Stroud and other places in Gloucestershire. Given 2 Mar. 34 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Devise,
Thomas Walrond,
gentleman, and
Richard
Saundres, burgess of 'Chepyngfaryndon', Berkshire, to
Thomas
Pynchepole of 'Chepyngfaryndon', gentleman, his wife
Isabella,
and their son
John,
3 Mar. 1456 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/9 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Devise of their manor of Windrush, with all lands, rents etc. in Windrush, Fairford, 'Asthrop', Cirencester, Stroud and other places in Gloucestershire, with reversion to Elizabeth Pynchepole, daughter of Thomas and Isabella, and then to John Pynchepole, alias John Adderbury, then to William Dustelyng, son of Thomas Dustelyng. Given 3 Mar. 34 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
John Pynchepole of Windrush,
gentleman, to
William Harecourt of
'Cornebury', esquire,
Richard Osmond,
gentleman, and
Thomas Charleton,
gentleman,
20 Nov. 1495 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/10 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of wax seal Scope and Content: Grants half his manor of Windrush, called 'Pynchepolis court', which came to the grantor from his father, Thomas Pynchepole. Given at Windrush, 20 Nov. 11 Henry VII. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
William Andreu of
Windrush, son of John Andreu, to
Emma, his sister,
probably 6 Aug.
1274 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/11 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment, tied together with MS. Don. c. 168/12-13 Scope and Content: Grants a messuage in Windrush which Hugh de la Bolde held of his father John Andreu, and rent from a tenement which John le Copen[er] holds in Windrush. Given at Windrush, the Monday after the feast of St. Germanus, 2 Edward [I] [If St. Germanus of Auxerre, then 6 Aug. 1274]. Witnesses:
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| Quitclaim,
Laurence
Andreu of Windrush, chaplain, to
Thomas
Devenych,
21 Dec. 1356 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/12 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment, tied together with MS. Don. c. 168/11 and c. 168/13 Scope and Content: Quitclaims all rights in the tenement which his father William Andreu gave to Emma, and in the tenement which William Andreu gave to John Copiner (see MS. Don. c. 168/11 above). Given at Windrush, on the feast of St. Thomas, 30 Edward III. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
John Crossun of
Little Barrington to
Thomas le
Dewenyche of Windrush and
Alice, his wife,
15 Nov. 1361 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/13 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment, tied together with MS. Don. c. 168/11-12 Scope and Content: Grants the tenement etc. in Windrush which Thomas by his charter had granted to John Crossun. Given at Windrush, on the Sunday after the feast of St. Martin, 35 Edward III. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
William
Polam and his wife
Matilda of
Northleach, to
Henry Petteworthe
of Windrush, mason,
6 May 1425 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/14 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Two wax seals, one nearly complete bearing a worn device (a letter?), the other bearing the device of an animal head (deer or cow) with a cross between its antlers or horns Scope and Content: Grants half part of a tenement, lands etc. formerly belonging to Alice Devenysshe, late wife of Thomas Devenysshe. Given at Windrush, 6 May 3 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Quitclaim,
William
Polam and his wife
Matilda,
to
Henry Petteworthe
of Windrush, mason,
10 May 1425 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/15 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Two wax seals, one nearly complete bearing a worn device (a letter?), the other badly damaged Scope and Content: Quitclaims all right in same property as MS. Don. c. 168/14 above. Given at Windrush, 10 May 3 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
John
Millward to
William
Weldon,
7 Dec. 1448 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/16 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Wax seal, worn Scope and Content: Grants half a tenement etc. in Windrush, formerly belonging to Alice Devenysshe, late wife of Thomas Devenysshe. Given at Windrush, on the Saturday after the feast of St. Nicholas, 27 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Margaret
Martyn, widow, of Coventry to
John
Barbour of Chipping Norton (Oxfordshire), her brother-in-law,
5 May 1476 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/17 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grants half a toft, curtilage, 19 acres of land, one 'farendelle' of meadow etc. in Windrush, formerly belonging to her and her sister Isabella, wife of John Barbour, after the death of their father John Milwarde of Windrush. Part of the property is said to lie between the tenements of John Pynchepole and John Bette. Given at Windrush, on the Sunday after the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 16 Edward IV. Witnesses:
Contemporary endorsement 'de uno tofto cum uno curtilagio adiac' xix acr terre et una farendella p[ra]ti in Wynrisshe'. |
| Quitclaim,
Margaret
Martyn, widow, of Coventry to
John
Barbour of Chipping Norton,
24 Aug. 1476 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/18 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Incomplete wax seal, with remains of a device Scope and Content: Quitclaims all right in the same property as MS. Don. c. 168/17. Given at Windrush, St. Bartholomew's Day, 16 Edward IV. Witnesses as MS. Don. c. 168/17. Contemporary endorsement 'de uno tofto cum uno curtilag' adiac' xix acr terre et una farendella p[ra]ti in Wynrysshe'. |
| Grant,
John
Barbor of Chipping Norton, barber, and
Isabella,
his wife, to
John
Pynchepole of Windrush, gentleman, and
Thomas Walle of Windrush,
yeoman,
25 June 1483 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/19 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Incomplete wax seal, with remains of a device Scope and Content: Given 25 June, 1 Edward V. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Simon Bruselance of
Windrush, to William son of Maynard of Windrush, n.d.,
temp. Henry III [before
1272] Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/20 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Wax seal, nearly complete, but legend and device worn. Scope and Content: Grant of a messuage and a croft in Windrush, with four acres in various fields, to be held of Adam de Winchecumbe, lord of the fee. Mentions the lands of William le Pope, John Elis, Denise Prentut' and John de Astune. Fields mentioned include the east field and the west field, 'Fifakere', one acre 'into Padebury' and 'Vernslade'. Thetford Way (viam de Thetforde) is also mentioned. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Simon Bruselance of
Windrush, to William, son of Maynard of Windrush, n.d.,
temp. Henry III [before
1272] Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/21 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: This relates to the same property as MS. Don. c. 168/20 above. The land of Richard Cakebred is mentioned in addition. Thetford Way is 'viam de Thedforde' here. Same witnesses as MS. Don. c. 168/20. |
| Grant,
Adam de
Winchecumbe, to William son of Maynard of Windrush, n.d.,
temp. Henry III [before
1272] Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/22 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grant of the same property as MS. Don. c. 168/20-1 above. Same witnesses, with the addition of John de Rivers. Adam de Winchecombe was lord of the fee (see MS. Don. c. 168/20 above), and this deed lists services due to him, including 'duobus lawedayes ad Salensanesbury' (Salmonsbury, Bourton on the Water). |
| Grant,
Robert
of Windrush, clerk, called of Wynchcombe, to his brother,
Walter
and his heirs,
11 Nov. 1282 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/23 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grant of two acres of arable in fields in Windrush, one acre in the south field extending to 'Weyedene', and another in the west field extending to 'West[er]holewelle'. Given at Windrush, St. Martin's day, 10 Edward I. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Robert
of Windrush, clerk, called of Wynchcombe, to
John of
Yrelonde, Vicar of Great Barrington, n.d. [1290 or
later] Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/24 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grant of one acre of meadow in Westmede. Witnesses:
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| Quitclaim,
Christina,
widow of Robert of Wenchecumbe of Windrush, clerk, to
John of
Ybernia, Vicar of Great Barrington,
15 Apr. 1332 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/25 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Quitclaims all right in a third part of an acre in Westmede, which John bought from her husband (see MS. Don. c. 168/23 above). Given at Windrush, Wednesday next after the feast of Saints Tiburtius and Valerianus, 6 Edward III. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
William
son of Robert Wynchecombe of Windrush, to
John le Ryver of Windrush,
chaplain, and
John Geffrayes of Windrush,
1336 or 1337 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/26 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of cloth seal bag Scope and Content: Grant of three acres and one 'ferthendellus' (quarter virgate) of arable in Windrush. The property is in several parcels, and a number of furlong names and boundaries are mentioned, including 'la Laumplond' under 'le Ruggeweye' leading into 'Boorughemmere' and 'Schirehemmere' in 'Weyeden[e]'. Names mentioned include Adam Millene, Elye de Hatherop, John Osebarn, John Bone, chaplain, and Julian Note. Given at Windrush, Saturday of the feast of Saint [erased], martyr, 10 Edward III. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
William
son of Robert Wynchecoumbe of Windrush, to
John of Windrush, called le
Ryver, and
John
Geffray,
5 Apr. 1337 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/27 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of cloth seal bag Scope and Content: Grants half an acre of arable in the West Field in Windrush, lying near 'le Goshulle' and 'Holewellelake'. Given at Windrush, on the Saturday after the feast of St. Ambrose, 11 Edward III. The witnesses are the same as in MS. Don. c. 168/26 above. |
| Quitclaim,
Thomas
son of Walter of Windrush, called of Winchecumbe, to
John le Mareys,
28 Sept. 1315 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/28 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Quitclaims all right in twelve acres in Windrush. Given at Little Barrington, on the Sunday after the feast of St. Matthew, 9 Edward II. Witnesses:
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| Quitclaim,
Alice
Cokul of Milton, and her son
Richard, to
John le
Muleward of Windrush,
3 Jan. 1371 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/29 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of two cloth seal bags, seals apparently missing Scope and Content: Quitclaims all right in lands in Windrush granted by Robert de Wellingborough, mason. Given at Windrush, the Thursday after the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord, 44 Edward III. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Henry
Fermor to
John
Conbrugge of Shipton under Wychwood (Oxfordshire),
1 Aug. 1397 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/30 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grants a messuage and four and a half acres in fields around Windrush. The half acre lies in 'the Garston'. Given at Windrush, the Wednesday after the feast of St. James the Apostle, 21 Richard II Witnesses:
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| Grant,
John
Conbrygg of Shipton under Wychwood to
Thomas Reynold Walkere of
Windrush,
12 Oct. 1403 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/31 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Wax seal, with device of a ?plant. Scope and Content: Grants same property as MS. Don. c. 168/30 above. Given at Windrush, 12 Oct. 5 Henry IV. Witnesses:
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| Letter of attorney,
Walter Kyrkeby, chaplain, to
Walter Pinchepoll of
Windrush,
18 Jan. 1409 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/32 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Seal: Remains of wax seal Scope and Content: To give seisin to John Cook junior of Great Barrington in the lands Walter Kyrkeby has by grant of his mother, Agnes Wynchestre. Given 18 Jan. 10 Henry IV. |
| Grant,
Walter Kyrkeby, chaplain, to
John Cook junior of
Barrington,
15 Feb. 1409 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/33 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grants all the lands he had by grant of his mother, Agnes Wynchestre. Given at Windrush, 15 Feb. 10 Henry IV. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Agnes
Wynchestre,
Walter Kyrkeby and
John Cook junior
to
Thomas Reynold
Walkere,
12 Sept. 1411 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/34 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grants all their lands and tenements in Windrush. Given at Windrush, 12 Sept. 12 Henry IV. Witnesses:
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| Grant,
Richard Colas of
Burford (Oxfordshire) to
William Coteler of
Windrush,
18 Oct. 1435 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/35 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grants all lands etc. in Windrush of the late Thomas Note of Burford. Given at Windrush, on St. Luke's Day, 14 Henry VI. Witnesses:
Contemporary endorsement 'carta Will[elm]i Coteler de Wynrich'. |
| Grant,
Thomas Walker of Windrush to
William
Stoke, clerk, and
Nicholas Maylard of
Windrush,
12 Aug. 1436 Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/36 Extent: 1 item Material: Parchment Scope and Content: Grants all his lands etc. in Windrush. Given at Windrush, on the Sunday after the feast of St. Laurence, 14 Henry VI. Witnesses:
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| Lease for 200 years,
Andrew Guest of
Windrush to
Richard
Hinton of Sherborne (Gloucestershire),
8 Jan. 1683. In English. Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/37 Seal: Wax seal, worn Scope and Content: Leases a close in Windrush called Cockburys. |
| Schedule and notes Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 168/38 Extent: 8 leaves Scope and Content: Comprises
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Conspectus between catalogue numbers and item numbers in typescript schedule (MS. Don. c. 168/38)