Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

438 Olmsted Family Genealogy
Below are the addresses of everybody connected with the place, in case I
am not at hand when you come to England again:
Mr. C. W. Chapman (for permission to view)
Perry Appleton Farm,
Helion's Bumpsted,
Haverhill.
Rev. E. L. Pearson,
Castle Camps Rectory,
Cambridge.
Mr. Fell,
" Rose & Crown"
Haverhill
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Mr. Farrants, I
" Queen's Head"
Haverhill.
Conveyances
EXTRACT FROM LYSON'S
MAGNA BRITANNIA, Vol. II, Part 1, p. 157
containing Cambridgeshire 1808
Castle Camps
" The Manor of Olmsted Hall partly in this parish and partly in that
of Bumpsted St. Helion, in the County of Essex, was successively in the
families of Olmsted^ and Skrene* ; and now belongs to the Master and
fellows of Queen's College in Cambridge."
2Hundred Roll for Cambridgeshire, 8 Edw. I. and Esch. 5. Edw. II.
aEsch. 5 & 14 Edw. IV.
TRANSLATION
(From Norman -French)
John of Olmested holds in the hamlet of Olmested a messuage with garden
covering two acres of land, eighty acres of land, five acres of meadow, three
acres of pasture, three acres of wood, as half a knight's fee of Robert de Vere,
Earl of Oxford, under the honour of Richmond, and pays p. annum to the said
Earl, five shillings, and makes yearly suit at the court of the honour of Richmond
at Babraham, and at the court of the said Earl at Camps, and the Earl
of Oxford held the said tenancy of the Earl of Brittanny, and the same Earl
was tenant in chief of the Lord the King.
Peter Walpole holds of the said John of Olmsted 26 acres of land with a
messuage, and 3^ an acre of meadow, and 3^ an acre of pasture, and pays
per annum 2/2.
Robert Passingbal held of the same John 18 acres of land with messuage,
and J^ an acre of meadow and pays p. ann. 3/4.
Roger of Stambourn held of the same John 5 acres of land, and pays p.
a. 2/5.
Nuce Alomes held of the same John 3 acres of land with messauge, and
pays 2/6 p. a.
Dorkin Barker holds a messauge covering }/2 a rood, and pays p. a. 5dj
William Malfield held of the same John 3 roods of land and pays p. a. 5d.