Eleven documents relating to property in Coggeshall, Essex, in Latin with a few place-names and other words in English; England (Coggeshall), dated 1427 to 1574

11 single-sheet documents, vellum, with a total of 20 red wax seals, each document accompanied by a handwritten description, numbered 1–11: (1) 90x350mm, 10 lines, a grant, with imperfect seal, 1427; (2) 120x245mm, 13 lines, a grant, with two slightly damaged seals, 1441; (3) 210x320mm, 22 lines, an indenture, with seal-tag but lacking the seal, 1452; (4) 145x310mm, 15 lines, a conveyance, 1480, with seal depicting a merchant’s mark; (5) 155x355mm, 12 lines, a conveyance with two indistinct seals each incorporating a loop of twisted vellum, 1504; (6) 235x320mm, 26 lines, indenture, with two seals each incorporating a loop of twisted vellum, 1504; (7) 195x340mm, 14 lines, grant WITH FIVE SEALS, two incorporating a loop of twisted vellum and one with a twisted loop of straw, 1507; (8) 140x340mm, 11 lines, with three seals, one very fragmentary, 1515; (9) 170x380mm, 15 lines, grant with two seals, one fragmentary, 1532; (10) 160x355mm, 15 lines, imperfect seal, 1552; (11) 145x295mm, 13 lines, with seal depicting a classical bust in profile between the letters N and R, 1574

No.1 concerns a property defined as one messuage with a curtilage in the vill of Coggeshale, in le Weststrete (West Street), between the field of the Abbot and Convent of Coggeshale called Wyndemelnefelde (Windmill Field) on one side, and the king’s way leading from the marketplace of Coggeshale towards Branktre (Braintree) on the other side; nos.2, 4–11 all CONCERN THE SAME PROPERTY, ALLOWING US TO TRACE ITS CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP OVER THE COURSE OF VERY NEARLY 150 YEARS, often between members of the PAYCOCKE FAMILY, including John Peycok alias Cosyn Peycok, ‘bocher’ (butcher) (nos.4–5), Robert Paycok (nos.5–6), John Paycok the younger (no.9), and John Paycoke of Coggeshall, yeoman (no.11). These men were all doubtless related to the Thomas Paycocke whose house on West Street, Coggeshall, built c.1500, still stands and is now a National Trust property. 

No.3 is an indenture conveying land and tenements for 20 years at an annual rent of 20d, by Simon [Pakenham], Abbot of St Mary’s, Coggeshall, 1452.