On 14 March 1473/4, John Hay received a grant from the Abbot and Convent of Robertsbridge of a messuage and curtilage called "the George" and a parcel of pasture called "Upper Fayrefield". On 15 Mar 1477/8, he received a grant from the Abbot of Robertsbridge of a messuage and garden in Robertsbridge, and another messuage called "Henry Awardes". In 1501, he was listed as a plaintiff in a writ of praecipe concerning property in Battle. (Other plaintiffs: Nicholas Morant, and John Parker; deforciants: John Brecher and his wife Margaret, Richard Henry and his wife Joan, and John Primer and his wife Margaret. He may have died in 1516 (Reed pp. 234-5).
Events
Date of Birth: about 1450.
The estimated date is given by Reed.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
If John was the defendant in the case from the Court of Common Pleas below, then his father was also named John Haye.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. The birth dates are Reed’s estimates.)
William Haye (about 1495 - 22 August 1538) married Joan Tufton.
John Haye (born about 1497).
Evidence
from the East Sussex Archive catalogue:
Counterpart stock deed (grant in fee farm for a quitrent and suit of court), [manor of Hollingrove], dated 6 January 1492
William Asschebourneham, esq, to John Hay of Robertsbridge
1 tenement called Holmannys in Brightling (S: road from Brightling to Robertsbridge; N: land called Covelyng)
2 tenement called Harryysfeld in Brightling (S: road from Brightling to Robertsbridge; W: a lane leading from that road to Socknersh; E: land of Robert Sneppe)
3 a meadow called Hopemead in Brightling
to hold by a quitrent of 6s 8d, suit of court, heriot and relief for all services
Witnesses: Thomas Fryman, John Boteler, Lawrence Meryfeld, William Meryfeld, John Tutty; at Brightling
endorsed, c1595: this deed speaketh of a way leading from Robertsbridge to Socknersh
Cases from the Court of Common Pleas:
CP40 no 998 (1512)
Sussex, common recovery
Plaintiff: Nicholas Tufton
Defendant: John Haye, junior
(indexed by Vance Mead)
References
Anglo-American Legal Tradition (aalt.law.uh.edu).
Reed, Paul C. “The English Ensigns: Ancestral of Thomas (1) Ensign of Scituate, Massachusetts, and James (1) Ensign of Hartford, Connecticut”, in American Genealogist (Jan, Apr, Jul 2000).