General Notes

REFN: 150AN
REFN: P150
When the [1st] Richard Beltoft died, sometime between 1501-1510, he left
to his son John, a property called Nidelles, (Nydellys), containing
t hirty [30] acres. The size of this property was most unusual for a mere
farme r at that time. It had to represent the landholding of either
someone who had descended from a peerage family, holding large blocks of
land, or someone wh o had been endowed with that land from "outside
money", of a peerage source. There is good indication that Nidelles was
located somewhere near both Shingl e Hall and Pishiobury, the two [2]
chief manor estates that exist even in Saw bridgeworth today.