The 'squire'--a term widely synonymous with the fool character--of the Brightwalton morris was Robert Brown, a yeoman farmer who, a poll book of 1768 tells us, was a freeholder with his own land and
messuage.
According to the book Historic Carmarthenshire Homes and their Families by Francis Jones, Gurrey Manor's original name was Glan y Gyrre, and was described in deeds as 'the capital
messuage called Glan y Gyrre'.
Robert de Dekeston's goods and chattels, as well as a
messuage with appurtenances (47) belonging to him in Hereford had been confiscated by the Hereford Coroner after Robert drowned himself.
High House in Old Warwick Road, Rowington, Warwickshire, was described in 1743 as "a
messuage built by Richard Bethem Esq",
messuage being an ancient term for a dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage and adjacent land.
The privy, barn, stable, cow-houses, dairy-houses, if they are parcel of the
messuage, though they are not under the same roof, or adjoining or contiguous to it, are included within the curtilage.
56) George Henshawe had married Dorothy Villers, daughter of a gentry family, and Robert's arrangements of his copyhold lands in the early seventeenth century were concerned partly with appropriate provision for her: a cottage and garden in Fishpool Head, a
messuage and virgate, three cottages in Churchgate, and a
messuage or tenement in Baxtergate with the appurtenant bovate of land.
The jointure deed of February 11, 1568, was to be enforced "without the lawful lett impediment or deniall of the said Robarte Laystone his heires or assignes," meaning that Alice was to "have houlde and enioye All that
messuage called the crosse keyes .
Agricultural productivity became part of the agenda for national prosperity, and it came to include the idea of both large farm and small plot: "Adaptable to the broad market represented by suburban prosperity, the ideal of the
messuage permitted a modern notion of private ownership, Lockean in cast, with a national memory of the cottage and its enclosed plot, and a convenient biblical precedent.
He bequeathed to his daughter Isabella, wife of Joseph Dobinson, after the death of his wife, the right to occupy his
messuage (a dwelling house with outbuildings and land), including the gardens, pleasure grounds, and lands, providing she paid all the taxes and kept it in repair.
Many of the spurious words owe their existence to typographical errors or other mistakes: "One such is
messuage, a legal term used to describe a house, its land, and buildings.
78) The Court Of Husting Roll at the CLRO records, however, a deed dated 22 January 10 Elizabeth, in which "William Tolley" appears--together with William Powell--as one of four men who ceded "a
messuage called 'le George,' in par.
WALES The
Messuage is a Scandinavian-style, architect-designed home with farmland views, half a mile from Neyland Yacht Club and the Brunel Quay Marina and about seven miles from Haverfordwest.
messuage - (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household