York, and others, of (inter alia) his manor or messuage, in St. Olave's Parish, in Southwark, near Horselydown, formerly Henry Yevele's,[1] and seven messuages and twenty-five land, called Dunley's, in that parish.
Still further eastward, on the bank of the river, was a house, with a mill and other property, formerly belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, who had a manor or liberty there called the Liberty of St. John of Jerusalem. In a return to a writ directed to the king's escheator in 7 Edw. III., it was certified that the Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem held, in the first year of King Edward I., three watermills, three acres of land, one acre of meadow, and twenty acres of pasture, at Horsedowne, in Southwark, which Francis de Bachenie then held for the term of his life, on the demise of Brother Thomas le Archer, late prior, and which anciently belonged to the aforesaid hospital. Courts were held for this manor down to a period comparatively recent. Messrs. Courage's brewery stands on the site of the mill and manor-house, and in a lease from Sir William Abdy to Mr. Donaldson, dated in 1803, there was an exception of the hall of the millhouse, court-house, or manor-house, to hold a court once or oftener in every year.
In a survey of the estates of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem by Prior Philip de Thame, in A.D. 1338, published by the Rev. Lambert Larking, F.S.A., being one of the recently published works of the Camden Society, it is stated that there are in Sutwerck two water-mills, one separate pasture, and three small pieces of meadow; and that the whole were demised to Hawise de Swalclive, for the term of her life, without rent, for her
- ↑ Henry Yevele was freemason to King Edward III. He was buried at St. Magnus', London Bridge.—Stow's Survey of London.
