Essex Medes

Essex Records

1414 Manor of Writtle, Ten tenants of lands formerly of Thomas atte Mede.

1488. Will of William Casse of Hatfield Regis. 20 shillings to his daughter Anne Casse, the wife of Thomas Mede. Thomas Mede one of the executors. 1519. Hatfield (Broad Oak). William Symmes and others to Thomas Mede, baker, and others. A grant of a tenement in Mosebroke Street, Hatfield.

1524. Indenture between John Mede of Walden and Johanna his wife on the one part, and William Dawson, schoolmaster, on the other, giving to William a plot of ground on which William Dawson has built a privy for his scholars. (Joan Mede's will dated 1531.) 1537 Thomas Mede, son of John and Joan Mede of Walden, witness to a statement by John Danurie of Walden that he owes £40 to William Byrde.

1528 Grant by John Kocke of Great Dunmow to John Mede and John Ewe of Great Easton. A tenement in Dunmow in Stanstrete.

1529. Robert Mede, witness to a grant of a tenement in Great Dunmow.

1532 Grant by John Kocke of Great Dunmow and others to John Mede of Great Easton, Robert his son and others, a cottage in Great Dunmow.

1537 Richard Mede, witness to a grant of a messuage in Clavering by William Thake to John Thake.

1556 Thomas Meade of Eillesman (Elsenham), yeoman

1556 Hundred of Dunmowe

Robert Meade of Little Easton

John Meade of Great Easton, constable

1561 George Mede on the panel of Dunmow Hundred.

1566. Assignment of leave. Agnes Meade of Elsenham, the widow of John Meade, to Richard Marten, goldsmith, of London.

1566 Eilliam Mede of Epping, labourer

1573 Thomas Mede on Clavering jury list

1574 Michael Meade and Thomas Meade on Clavering jury list

1574. William Meade, oatmealman, of Clavering, son-in-law of Nicholas Madell.

1577 William Meade of Great Waltham, husbandman.

1578 William Meade of Great Waltham, labourer.

1580 John Meade on Clavering jury

1581 Thomas Meade of Great Waltham, tailor

1581 John Meade of Farnham

1583 Richard Meade, high constable of Hatfield Regis (Broad Oak)

1589 Richard Meade of Bentfield in Stansted Mountfitchet, yeoman.

1589. William Meade of Stansted Mountfitchet, victualler, William Meade, yeoman, of the same.

1590 John Mead of "Cowpersall" yeoman

1591 Indictments of Thomas Clark, Daniel Meade yeoman, (blank) wife of Thomas Legatt, gentleman, and others of Hornchurch, Essex, for not coming to church for six months, contrary to the statutes of 1 and 23 Elizabeth

1593 William Meade of Stansted Mountfitchet, witness to a deed by Edward Huberd.

1594 John Meade of Elmdon, gentleman

1610. Court Roll of Langley's Estate, Great Waltham. Pilcrofte from John Meade to Edward his son. 1648 Court Roll of Langley's Estate, Great Waltham. Thomas Meade of Thaxted, son and heir of Edward Meade.

1616 Marriage settlement. Sir Thomas Meade of Lofts, wife Bridget, Robert Meade of Duxford, Cams, the brother of Sir Thomas, etc. On the marriage of John Meade and Catherine Corbett, the daughter of Thomas Corbett of Sprowston, Norfolk.

1623. Conveyance. John Meade senior, yeoman, of Matching, son and heir of Thomas Meade of Henham and his wife Elizabeth the daughter of William Spillman, and John's son John, of Matching.

1627 Indenture of mortgage from Edward Mede of Thaxted, gent, to Anthony Becon of Little Bardfield.

1629. Nicholas Freeman of Berners Roding to William Meade of Moreton, clerk.

1638. T/G 175/1 Genealogical notes on Joseph Meade, Fellow of Christ's College, d. 1638, and notes on the Mede family of Elmdon.

1720. Deed of defeazance. Richard Chamberlayne of London to William Pitches, his wife Margaret, John Whalley, his wife Jane, the manors of Lofts, Leebury, Elmdonbury and Pigotts. Jane and Margaret are the daughters and co-heirs of John Mede of Wendon Lofts.