Lot 2039 , Final concord relating to manors, lands and advowsons in Lincolnshire, 1568

Final concord relating to manors, lands and advowsons in Lincolnshire, 1568 William Badbie, gentleman, and his wife Mary pass to Thomas Badbie, esquire, and Charles le Grys, gentleman, and to the heirs of Thomas a third part of the manors of Hawnby otherwise Hagnaby, Anderby and Anderby Cotes and of 40 houses, two watermills, two windmills and over 6,000 acres of land in Hagnaby, Trusthorpe, Maidenwell, Anderby Cotes, ‘Stiping’, Sutton, Markby and Farforth, three private fisheries and the rectories and vicarages of Hagnaby and Anderby, all in Lincolnshire , on vellum, 13 x 41cm

A final concord was a record of a collusive suit in the Court of Common Pleas, the purpose of which (by the date of this document) was to extinguish the dower rights of married women, in this case Mary Badby.
All the other parties to this transaction were almost certainly lawyers, and none of them can be associated with Lincolnshire, but rather with East Anglia. Charles le Grys or Grice (1515-1575), son of a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, was of Brockdish in Norfolk, esquire, when he made his will on 18 October 1574. He left an extensive landed estate in Norfolk, and appointed Thomas Badby as one of the trustees.
Thomas Badby, the son of William Badby of Layer Marney in Essex, served as receiver-general of the queen’s revenues in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk between 1562 and 1581. He was a leading inhabitant of Bury St Edmunds in November 1582, when he was the first-named signatory of a petition relating to the town preacher. He was buried at Rushbrooke near Bury in December 1583.

TNA PROB 11/57/365; Calendar of the Cecil Papers at Hatfield House volume 13; Ancestry
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