Peter Edwards

It had probably not been the custom to grant leases of the manor till shortly before the dissolution of Peterborough Abey, since the bailiff of Fletton received 16s. 8d. a year from the abbey. In 1535, however, a lease for 30 years was granted to Peter Edward, William Barrett and his wife Joan, daughter of Peter Edward, and their son Richard Barrett. Later the name of Edward's [sic] wife Susan was inserted in the lease with the consent of the abbot. The Dean and Chapter granted the reversion to Richard White, a prebendary of Peterborough, from whom it was acquired by John Mountseven. After the death of Peter Edward, the leases were bought in reversion by his widow Susan, who married John Arundell. She and her suband also obtained a new lease from the Dean and Chapter, in which no former leases were recited. Richard Barrett tried to recover his interest in the manor in 1561, but ti seems clear that Susan, who after the death of Arundell married a third time, remained in possession of the manor and that the reversion passed to her son Edward Edward. The latter died before 1597, when his son Peter was involved in a lawsuit about the lease.²