Medes Hertfordshire
1293 Lay Subsidy Rolls. William atte Mede of Stevenage, Herts.
1307 Lay subsidy of Hertfordshire
Hundred of Edwinstree
Dulcia ate Made, Anstey, 3 s 1¼ d
Henry Ate Made Alswick 12½ d
Hundred of Odsey
Robert Ate Made Ashwell 3 s 5 d
William Ate Made Kelshall 7¾ d
Hundred of Broadwater
William Ate Made Stevenage 12 d
Richard Ate Made Wymondley 7 d
Hundred of Hitchin
John Ate Made Outside Hitchin 2 s 4¾ d
Hundred of Dacorum
Walter Ate Made Wheathampstead 2 s 3¼ d
1333. Chancery. Debtor: Walter at the Mead, of Ashwell, Herts.
Creditor: Adam de Exon, called of Burgundy, citizen and vintner [merchant] of London.
Amount: £68.
1340 - 1395, Roger atte Mede of Ashwell, Herts.
1340 tenement of Roger atte Mede
1341 tenement of Roger atte Mede
1348 tenement formerly of Roger atte Mede
1387 tenement formerly of Roger atte Mede
1395 tenement formerly of Roger atte Mede
1346 William atte Mede of Holwell, Herts, has property in Ykelford.
1366 Calendar of the letter books of London. John atte Mede of Stortford, Herts., had been bound apprentice to William de Alvethey but had left his service and was living in Dover.
1366-1438 Mede of Highover, Hitchin, Herts.
1366/67 Quitclaim by Luke le Vyntner of Hitchin to Richard atte Mede of Heyovere
of 5½ d rent of assize.
1399 Grant by Richard atte Mede of Hyover, Hitchin, to John atte Mede his son of
six acres and 1 rood in the field of Hyover. Witness Alexander atte Mede and
others.
Abt. 1430 Copy of a terrier of lands at Highover which were late of John Pulter and
now of John atte Mede.
1438 Grant by John Poydras of Almshoe of all his lands which were formerly of
John atte Mede, now deceased, in the hamlet of Highover
1438 Thomas atte Mede witness to grant of land in Highover by Thomas Peltat in
Walsworth to John Pulter of Hitchin.
1420 Hugh Mede executor of will of Alan Mydelton of St. Albans, Herts. 1429 Hugh Mede executor of will of Thomas Manne of St Albans. 1431 Will of Robert Mede of St Albans. "Hugh Mede my brother" executor. May 1432. Feet of fines. William Colton and Joan his wife have acknowledged the messuage in St Albans to be the right of Richard Fuller, as that which Richard Fuller, Hugh Mede and John Adam have of their gift, and have remised and quitclaimed it from themselves and the heirs of Joan to Richard Fuller, Hugh Mede and John Adam and the heirs of Richard Fuller for ever. For this, Richard Fuller, Hugh Mede and John Adam have granted to William and Joan Colton the messuage and have rendered it to them in the same court, to hold to William and Joan and the heirs of William, of the chief lords for ever. 1442 Will of Hugh Mede of St Albans. Son: Thomas Mede, a monk at Westminster. Daughter: Elene. Wife: Isabel. Monks of Westminster: Thomas Mede Sacerdos 1439-40 He receive a 1/3 share 1440-41, not mentioned afterwards.
1439 Henry Baroun, feoffee for John Warewyk. v. John Appulby and Thomas Mede, petitioner's co-feoffees, and William Reymond.: Messuage in Buntingford, enfeoffed by John Marchall and John Reymond.: [Hertford].
3 October 25 Hen VI (1446). John Mede, of Aldbury, Herts, court rolls (TNA) SC2/176/120-121
1490-1 Bernard Brocas, Richard Lee to Robert Mede and Joan his wife. Lands in Trenge, Herts.
1501 John Sawer and John Fyssher to Robert Mede and Joan his wife. Messuage and garden in Buntingford, Herts.
Meade in Barley 1507-1565
1507. Capital Pledges: Thomas Mede sworn into the tithing of the lord king at Mincinbury Court,
Barley.
1508 Abbotsbury Court, Barley. Capital pledge with homage: Thomas Mede.
1524 Thomas Mede on a committee to collect "Palfreymoney", a customary payment to buy a
horse for the new Abbot of Colchester.
1525 Lay subsidy, Barley.
Thomas Meade has goods worth £10 5s. (7th highest assessment)
William Meade has goods worth £2 1s.
Barley manorial court
1523 Thomas Mede in homage in view of frankpledge
1526 Thomas Mede in homage in view of frankpledge
1526 William Mede in homage in view of frankpledge
1528 Thomas Mede in homage in view of frankpledge
1528 William Mede in homage in view of frankpledge
1530-31 Thomas Mede several times in Barley court rolls
Will of Thomas Meade dated 1530, proved 1531.
1565 Will of John Cayford of Barley. Daughter Katherine Meade. Witness John Meade.
1542 Stevenage Court Roll Sybil Mede (Sybilla Med)
Bishops Stortford 1500 - 1640
1499 Pygotts/Pecottes manor court (Stortford). William Mede owes suit of court and made
default.
1517-19 Thomas Mede for rent of the tenement that Harry Wood dwells in 2d
1518-19 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1519-20 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1520-21 Thomas Mede 1d
1521-22 Thomas Mede 1d
1522-23 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1526-27 Thomas Mede 1d
1528-29 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1534-35 Thomas Mede for rent of his kechyn in Northstrete 1d
1539-40 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1540-41 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1541-42 Thomas Mede for rent 1d
1543-45 John Snowe for Thomas Mede's rent 1d
1545-47 Rents of mother Tuftnale and mother Mede 4
1550-53 Payd to Mede, coler maker, for makying the baderyckes for the belles 20d. (a
baldrick is the leather strap to hold the clapper)
1555-56 Jone Mede, wyddo, for her rent 1d
1556-57 Joan Mede, wydowe 2d
1557-58 Robert Mede 2d
1583 John Meade to Thomas Burlinge and Grace his wife. Cottage and land in Stortford, Herts.
1606 Edward Willey sold a croft called Windell Meade to John Meade and his heirs
1641 Edward Totnan, gent, of St. Andrew in the Wardrobe, bachelor, 26, and Joane Meade of
Bishops Stortford, Herts, 20, daughter of Thomas Meade of the same, gent, who consents.
At Bishops Stortford.
1524-25 Subsidy Rolls
Robert Meede of Albury goods worth £10 4s. 6d.
William Meyd of Braughing goods worth £2 13s. 3d
Simon Mede of Gelston goods worth £2
Thomas Meade of Barley goods worth £10 5s.
William Meade of Barley goods worth £2 1s.
1534 Musters
John Meade, Barkway, billman
Robert Meede, Furneaux Pelham, constable
Robert Meade hath a hole harnes for a man wt a bowe & a schef of arowys
1537 Gilston Court Rolls
The jurors present that Simon Mede has not scoured his ditch
About 1540, Muster rolls, Hertfordshire
John Mede of Gravely and Chyfffield, billman
Richard Meyde, billman, of Thorley
Symond Meyde of Gilston
1544-45 Subsidy rolls (The Herts genealogist and antiquary, Vol II)
John Mede, Ashwell, 1d
Robert Mede, Furneaux Pelham (pro anticipatione) 14s 8d
Richard Mede, Furneaux Pelham iii d
John Mede, Furneaux Pelham ii d
Johanna Mede Furneaux Pelham 1 d
Edward Mede, Chyffield and Gravely 1d
John Mede, Chyffield and Gravely 1d
Michael Meade, Ware Upland, (pro anticipatione) iiiis
Thomas Meade, Stortford 1d
Robert Meade his son, Stortford iid
Thomas Meade, Stortford xiiiid
William Mede, Braughing iiid
Simon Mede, Gelston xiiiid
1546 subsidy roll
Robert Mede, Furneaux Pelham in goods £20, rate 4s 4d
Meade in Ware, 1555 - 1620
1547 Michael Mede : Lady Elizabeth Morris. Messuage and lands in Ware.
1553-4 Michael Mede : Thomas Crowley, gent, son of Robert Crowley late of Wendon Lofts.
Messuages and lands in Ware, Great and Little Amwell, Thundryche & pasture in Amwell.
1555 Licence to Michael Meade of Ware, Herts., innkeeper, to sell during his life wines by retail
to be drunk within his houses in the town of Ware.
1557 Will of John Cockes of Thundryche. Michael Mede of Ware
1559 Michael Mede : Thomas Castell and Margaret his wife. Moiety of a messuage and lands in
Ware, Great and Little Amwell.
1559 Trust Deeds, Bell Close (now Buryfield), Ware. Gilbert Hyll, gent, Humphrey Colley, gent,
Michael Meede, Henry Meede son of Michael, (and others) of Ware, yeomen.
1560 Michael Mede : Richard Cutt & Mary his wife. Moiety of a messuage and lands in Ware,
Great and Little Amwell
1560 Michael Mede : Robert Grave
1566 Michael Mede : John Reymond gent. Messuage and lands in Great and Little Amwell and
Stanstead Thele.
1570 Henry Thomson : Michael Meade. Messuage and and lands in Ware and Great Amwell.
1572 Michael Meade and Elizabeth his wife : Francis Roberts. Two messuages and lands in
Ware, Great and Little Amwell.
1572 Michael Meade : William Geldener. Messuage and lands in Great and Little Amwell.
1572 Will of John Yoxley of Ware. Witness Michael Meade.
1574 Deeds Michael Meade of Ware, innholder, to Christopher Wryght, gentleman, of Chantry
House otherwise Chantry Priest's Chamber, next Westchurchgate
1575 George Meade and Elizabeth his wife : Michael Meade and Elizabeth his wife. Messuage
and land in Ware.
1578 Humphrey Meade and Anne his wife : Michael Meade and Elizabeth his wife.
Two messuages and lands in Ware.
1578 Licence for Edward Smythe, Dorothy his wife, Humphrey Meade, Anne his wife, William
Preston and Frances his wife to alienate three-fourths of the manor of Chilwicke, and of lands in
Chilwick, Seynt Michells, Harpenden, Sandridge and Redbourne, Herts., to George Rotherham
and William Toock.
VCH Herts. 1578. Manor of Childwick, Cashio Hundred, formerly of St Albans Abbey. After the
suppression of the abbey it was held by William Cavendish and then by Thomas Rouse and his
son Nicholas and the daughters of Thomas. Nicholas died without heirs so the manor went to his
sisters Francis, Anne, Dorothy and Joan. Dorothy the wife of Edward Smith, Anne the wife of
Humphrey Meade and Francis the wife of William Preston sold their three parts in 1578 to
George Rotherham and William Toocke.
VCH Herts. 1579. Manor of Widbury, east of Ware. Gilbert Hill was in possession in 1579. He
received rents from The Bear, The Bull and other inns. He died in 1583, his son Richard then
being 4 years old. During Richard's minority his sisters Philippa the wife of Edward Meade and
Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Calvert held his Ware estate.
1581 Herts Assize. Elizabeth Johnson of Ware, spinster, indicted for petty larceny. On 10 May
1581 she stole 2 sheets from Michael Meade.
1582 Michael Meade and Elizabeth his wife : Oliver Crosse and Agnes his wife. Land in Ware.
1585 Edward Meade and Philippa his wife : Michael Meade and Elizabeth his wife. A messuage
and lands in Great and Little Amwell and All Saints in Hertford
1588: Names of those who contributed to the defence of Hertfordshire against the Spanish in
1588: Michael Meade.
1593 Feet of Fines. John Watts, gent : Edward Meade, gent, & Philippa his wife. Lands in Great
and Little Amwell, Herts.
1595 William Rogers : Christopher Meade and Mary his wife. Lands in Ware.
1597 John Collen : Christopher Meade, gent and Mary his wife. Messuage and lands in Ware
and Great Amwell
1597 Skinners Apprentice book. Nicholas Meade the son of Humphrey Meade of Ware in the
county of Hertford, yeoman, hath put himself apprentice to William Watkins, skinner, from
Michaelmas 1597 for 8 years
1601 Will of John Miller of Stortford. Meadow purchased of Thomas Mead. Brother (in law)
Richard Mead. Brother (in law) John Mead
1621 Will of George Meade of Ware
1558 Will of Henry Gape, yeoman, of St Michael's, St Albans. Mentions tenement in the tenure of John Meade, carpenter
1564 Avice Meade : Thomas Brownest. Messuage and lands in Little Hormead and Layston
1565 Joan Snell alias Wheeler, widow : Thomas Mede and Mary Mede his wife. Tenements in Great Hormead.
Muster Books 1580 - 1605
1583, Robert Meade of Little Hadham, able man for service
1583, Thomas Meade of Anstey, labourer
1587, Samuel Meade of Much Hadham, labourer
1602, William Catmore of Furneux Pelham armed by Richard Meade
1605, William Catmer of Furneux Pelham armed by Richard Meade
1584 Herts Assize. Inquisition at Graveley, Feb 1584. John Meade on Jury.
1590 William Meade witness to will of Ralph Modye of Braughing, Herts.
Banks lay subsidy index
p. 78. 3 Charles, 1627. Thomas Meade, Ware. Nicholas Meade, Ware