PAYN, Henry

Very little is known about Payn for certain. He was possibly the man of this name who lived at Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire (several miles down the Thames valley from Wallingford) and in December 1440 was party to transactions regarding land in the parish of Burnham on behalf of Alice, widow of William Walter.1 CAD, i. A671, 674, 676. Later, in May 1466, a Henry Payn and his wife Agnes made a quitclaim to (Sir) Edmund Rede* of their title to a barn and close in Wallingford called ‘Vobbynges’, as well as to a ‘hoggehous’ with its adjacent garden, and also conveyed to Rede the reversion of another barn and garden together with a vacant plot of land nearby. Then, in the following March they gave up to the knight all their title to three cottages and a corner shop, all of which were in St. Peter’s parish.2 Boarstall Cart. (Oxf. Historical Soc. lxxxviii), 281, 284. As this was 44 years after the election to Parliament of our Henry Payn, we cannot be sure that we are dealing with the same man: much more likely the grantor of 1466-7 was his son or grandson.