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Cheswick Green in 1500 |
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It is interesting to see the names from two centuries previous to the
Archer Survey of 1500 still remembered in their holdings.
The Sydenhales had the land in the northern part; then came the Gowers; the Broughtons had
the central area including the moated sites, while Richard Quenild had the central low
ground towards the streams, and the Beeleyes held the south eastern corner, land held
previously by Richard at Slough - an expressive name for the muddy southern corner of
Cheswick.
The map is stylised but can be related without much difficulty to the land division as
shown by the following field-name plan of the Tithe award of the 1840s. It is to be noted
that the only sites of dwellings shown on this 1500 plan are all on the eastern side;
Buxstons, Broughtons and Beyleys.
There is no sign of one on Warings
land where Banister's Farm is shown in 1840, nor of any habitation at
Light Hall. The moated site there, which was presumably the position
of the house of Margerie de la Lythe about 1300, is not mentioned and
it would appear that after the death of her and her sister Christine
the site went out of use, thus making this yet another moated site that
served its purpose by about 1350. |
Quotations from the Survey of 1500 regarding the Moat at Cheswick include:
'Thomas Gower for 2 mease with two motts and a feylde with a crofte
oaulde Colvarfeyldus sumtyme wes called Broughtons Cheswyke that lies
bytwyne Cheswyke Greyn and Warings Chessewyke and a grounde of Warings
caulda Buxstons. And Thomas Waryng for a meysse and three croftus lyyng
togedur in length bytweyn Cheswyke Greyn and a feld cauld Waryngs Cheswyke
and in breydth bytwene the mottus of Gowers in Cheswyke called the Cheswyke
Mottus and a ground of Gowers called Tymcokus'. The
land had been finally sold by Sir Thomas Broughton to John Waryng
and Richard Gower in 1368.
T. L. Jones in his Report on Cheswick, Birmingham Archaeological
Society's Transactions, 1953, quotes a letter from Sir Simon Archer
to Edward Gwynne, dated November 29th 1627:
'There has anciently been some great house moated about
and a keep or fort also by it moated about, and both the house and
fort stood upon somewhat high ground. When this fort should be made
and to what purpose I cannot yet learn.''
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