Simon atte Crouche (Crouch') (b1327-a1344)
Dates
Birth: Before 1327 Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Joan Crouche b1327-a1342
Death: After 1344 Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, UK
Children
Unknown
Notes
Taken from entries in the Winchester Pipe Rolls from
SN4086 Peasant Land Market in Southern England, 1260-1350.
1342 Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: Thomas Lock' paid 2/- for the surrender of a cottage and 1 plot of purpresture containing in all an acre in Walth'm previously held by Simon atte Crouche.
1342 Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: Simon atte Crouche and Joan Crouche, wife of Simon, paid 3/4d for the surrender of a cottage and 1 plot of purpresture containing in all an acre in Walth'm previously held by Thomas Lok'.
1344 Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire: John atte Crouch' paid 18d for a plot 5 perches long and 2 and a half perches wide in Walth'm previously held by his kin Simon atte Crouch'.
1344 Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire: Simon atte Crouche paid 3/4d for the surrender of a plot 6 perches long and 2 and a half perches wide in Walth'm, previously held by Christina le Palmer'.
Perch is the same as 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet
Purpresture - secondary quality land not subject to the obligations placed on bondland, and which therefore could be exchanged more freely.
13/4d - 13 shillings and 4 pence or 0.67 pounds
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