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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
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 IN THE POSSESSION OP 
 
 SIR ROBERT GRESLEY, BART., 
 
 AT DRAKELOWE. 
 
 COMPILED, 
 fflSUitfj Iiitro&uctton anir Intrei, 
 
 ISAAC HERBERT JEAYES, 
 
 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS, BRITISH MUSEUM ; 
 
 AUTHOR OF THE "DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE CHARTERS AT BERKELEY CASTLF." 
 
 "DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MUNIMENTS OF THE LYTTELTON FAMTLV"; 
 
 ETC. 
 
 LONDON : 
 CHAS J. CLARK, 4, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C, 
 
 1895. 
 
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 LONDON : 
 PRINTED AT THE BEDFORD PRESS 20 AND 21, EEDFORDBURV, W.C. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 It is, perhaps, not too much to say that the family of 
 Gresley of Drakelowe is one of the few families which 
 remain that can boast of being settled at the same place 
 and of possessing the same lands which were assigned to 
 their ancestor in the Domesday Record. Its founder was 
 Nigel de" Toeni, called in Domesday " de Stafford", and 
 subsequently from the place which he made his principal 
 residence, " de Gresley", who, with his brothers Robert and 
 Ralph, was among the followers of William the Conqueror 
 into England. Their father, Roger de Toeni, Standard 
 Bearer of Normandy, was descended from an uncle of 
 Rollo, Duke of Normandy, and thus being of kin with 
 their victorious leader, when the spoils were divided the 
 three brothers received shares not inappropriate to their 
 rank and position. Robert settling in Stafford, and called 
 on that account " de Stafford", was the ancestor of that 
 family of Stafford of which Humphrey was created Duke 
 of Buckingham by Henry VI ; Ralph was the ancestor of 
 the Cliffords, and Nigel, to whom were allotted Drakelowe 
 and eleven lordships in Derbyshire, with Morton and 
 Kingsley in Staffordshire, taking up his abode at Gresley, 
 in which township Drakelowe was, became the ancestor of 
 the family of " de Gresley", of which Sir Robert Gresley, 
 nth Baronet, is the present representative. 
 
 At Gresley, thenceforth to be called Castle Gresley, 
 William, Nigel's son, in the time of Henry I, built a castle, 
 and near the castle founded a small priory of Black Canons 
 of the order of St. Augustine. Other hamlets, in addition 
 to Drakelowe, in the township of Gresley were Swadling- 
 cote and Linton. 
 
IV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Besides William, Nigel had two sons, of whom Nicholas, 
 marrying Margaret, the heiress of Longford, became the 
 ancestor of the Longfords, and Robert, if we may conclude 
 from a joint grant to Merivale Abbey, married Lettice de 
 Ferrariis. 
 
 The accompanying pedigree has been compiled from 
 the following sources, viz. (a) Nichols's History of Leicester- 
 shire, (B) Erdeswick's Survey, etc., of Staffordshire (several 
 editions), (c) Pilkington's Viezv of Derbyshire, ed. 1789, 
 (d) The MS. in the Chetham Library, Manchester, known 
 as the Gresley Chartulary, of which a short account will be 
 found below, (e) a MS. pedigree by Eyton in Brit. Mus. 
 Add. MS., 31,940, f. 21 lb, and (f) the Deeds in the present 
 volume. It has, it is feared, some suspicious points about 
 it, but it corrects a few errors made by Nichols, and goes 
 to prove that the exhaustive account of the family given 
 by Dr. Harwood in his additions to Erdeswick is con- 
 siderably at fault ; but we do not quite agree with Mr. 
 Pym Yeatman, the learned and latest historian of Derby- 
 shire, of whose work, unfortunately, only a few parts are 
 yet printed, when he says that "the Gresley pedigree, like 
 so many others, has been built up upon assumptions". Of 
 his promise, however, to " test the truth of it" we wish a 
 speedy fulfilment. It has been thought sufficient to carry 
 it down to the creation of the baronetcy in 161 1. 
 
 As far, however, as the present deeds are concerned, a 
 very large majority relate to lands at Seal in Leicestershire. 
 This place, Variously spelt Sheile, Sheyle, Scheyle, etc., is 
 divided into two townships, namely, Nether Seal, al. Great 
 Seal, al. Church Seal, and Over Seal, al. Little Seal, al. 
 Spital Seal. At the time of the general survey seven 
 ploughlands in Scella and six ploughlands in another 
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 the time of Henry I-II Nether Seal was held by a family 
 which took its name from the place, and we find [No. 3] 
 that about 1167 Ralph de Seila, with the sanction of his 
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 four virgates to Ralph, fil. Will, de Gresele. By the time 
 the Testa de Neville was compiled, the whole of both lord- 
 ships had come to William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, 
 under whose fee it there occurs. From the time of that 
 first acquisition by Ralph de Gresley, the family has 
 possessed lands in Seal till the present century. 
 
 Other places where the Gresleys had possessions, of 
 which many transactions are recorded in this volume, are 
 Donisthorpe, which is partly in Leicestershire and partly 
 in Derbyshire and Colton in Staffordshire. The former is 
 found held by Nigel de Stafford in Domesday, while the 
 latter was acquired on the marriage, in about 1365, of Sir 
 Nicholas de Gresley with Thomasine, Domina de Colton, 
 the heiress of the Wasteneys family. The Gresleys held 
 land there as early as 1342 [cf. No. 256], though the 
 principal Colton lordship came to the family as above 
 described. A very excellent account of Colton has been 
 written by Rev. F. P. Parker, Rector of. Colton since 1874, 
 and to it the present writer is much indebted for informa- 
 tion on this part of the Gresley history. These deeds add 
 but little to what he modestly calls " Some Account of 
 Colton and of the De Wasteneys Family", but No. 400A 
 seems to settle the very small point of a rector's name 
 which is wrongly given in the Lichfield Registers. 
 
 Collections like the present one are usually expected 
 with some reason, to supply particular information as to 
 the Religious Houses of the locality. The compilers of 
 Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum had not often the 
 facilities or the time to examine original evidence, and 
 though much additional matter has been collected by 
 modern editors of county and parochial histories, there is 
 plenty of material in the muniment rooms of our ancient 
 families as yet untouched, and only awaiting the fortunate 
 student who, by whatever means, is able to gain access to 
 them. Nor is the collection now under notice altogether 
 disappointing in this respect, for the deeds give consider- 
 able particulars concerning two religious foundations, 
 
INTRODUCTION. ix 
 
 Merivale Abbey, co. Warwick, and Gresley Priory. Henry 
 de Ferrars who, according to the Domesday Record, held 
 lands in fourteen counties, his chief possessions being in 
 Derbyshire, where he held 114 manors, founded Merivale 
 in the thirteenth year of Stephen. The earliest mention 
 of it recorded herein is the confirmation of a grant of 120 
 acres of land by Ralph de Seila [cf. No. 1], and early in 
 the time of Henry II a Gresley grants to the abbey for the 
 salvation of the souls of his brothers, his wife, and his 
 lord. From this time records of similar transactions are 
 constant. 
 
 Of Gresley Priory, Dugdale's editors confessedly knew 
 but little. The foundation is merely recorded, and no list 
 of Priors is given. The Priory Sea! was unknown to them. 
 A later historian, the Rev. J. C. Cox, the well-known author 
 of Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, has collected much 
 information about this House, and has compiled the 
 following list of Priors, which is now further supplemented 
 from the present volume, the additional particulars being 
 included in square brackets : — 
 
 Walter, circ. 1200. 
 
 Richard, circ. 1250 ; ob. 1281 \iemfip. Hen. III. — Edw. I]. 
 
 William de Seyle, 1 291. 
 
 Roger, 1 3 10. 
 
 John Walrant, canon of Gresley, 1349. 
 
 John [de] Tuttebury, 1400 [ob. 1420, No. 402A]. 
 
 William de Sancto Ivone [el. 13 Sept., 1420, No. 402c]. 
 
 Simon 1 Balsham, 1420. 
 
 William Sayborne. 
 
 Richard Coventry, on death of Wm. Sayborne, 1438. 
 
 Thomas, 1450. 
 
 John Smyth, 1476. 
 
 Robert Mogge, on death of J. Smyth, 1493. 
 
 [Robert, 15 10.] 
 
 [John, 1526.] 
 
 John Okely, 1536. 
 
 1 W. de S. Ivone must either have had a very short reign, or Mr. 
 Cox must be in error. 
 
 b 
 
x INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The patronage or right of appointing to the office of 
 Prior rested with the founder's family, and Nos. 402A-C 
 record the proceedings incident on the death of a Prior in 
 1420, and the submitting of two names by the Canons to 
 the head of the family, Sir Thomas Gresley, who is here 
 called " patronus et noster legitimus advocatus", for him 
 to select one. 
 
 Attention is called to the seal of the Priory attached to 
 Deed No. 76, probably the only one in existence. For 
 the following description I am indebted to my learned 
 colleague, Mr. W. de Gray Birch. It represents St. 
 George, the patron saint of the Priory, in a hauberk of 
 mail, with continuous coif and nasale and a flowing sur- 
 coat ; in his right hand a lance-flag, with square banner 
 and three wavy streamers, held almost horizontally and 
 extending across the shield into the inscription, and in his 
 left hand a long convex, kite-shaped shield, of which only 
 half is shown, charged apparently with an escarbuncle of 
 eight rays. The legend, when complete, seems to have 
 been SIGILLVM \ sancti \ georgii : de \ GRESELE. 
 The Prior, as is usual, has impressed his own seal on the 
 reverse. It bears a half-length figure of the Virgin holding 
 the Child on the left arm, overhead a star, in her right 
 hand a fleur-de-lys on a stalk ; in the field over the Child's 
 head a crescent moon. The representation of St. George 
 as an armed warrior is curious and probably unique. 
 
 Mention should be made of the manuscript known and 
 often quoted as " The Gresley Chartulary". By the kind- 
 ness of the authorities of the Chetham Library, Manchester, 
 it has been lent to me, but on a careful examination I 
 cannot help thinking that its importance has been some- 
 what magnified. A full account of it was published in 
 The Reliquary, vol. vi, ed. L. Jewitt in 1865, in an article 
 communicated by Mr. John Harland, F.S.A., in which he 
 relates what, he states, " may almost be called the discovery 
 of the Chartulary", lost as it had apparently been in the 
 covers of a Lancashire Visitation. But Nichols, the 
 
INTRODUCTION. XI 
 
 historian of Leicestershire, quotes copiously from it, and 
 Canon Raine, who collated the Visitation with the original 
 MS. in the Heralds' College, and published it for the 
 Chetham Society in 1850, could scarcely have missed it. 
 
 Perhaps the reason of its being where it is may be 
 explained in this way. There was, as is well known, a 
 family of Grelli or Grellet, rarely, if ever correctly, called 
 Greslet, settled in Lancashire, and it was anciently thought 
 that this family and the Derbyshire Gresleys were one and 
 the same. That this was an erroneous idea has been 
 satisfactorily shown by more than one in later times, and 
 there is no occasion here to re-bpen the question, but 
 it may account for the existence of Gresley evidences in a 
 Lancashire MS. 
 
 The Visitation is that of Wm. Flower, Norroy King of 
 Arms, made in 1567, but there are proofs that the MS. 
 belonged afterwards to William Smith, Rouge Dragon 
 temp. Jas. I, a Cheshire antiquary, and it is possible that 
 the Gresley additions were made by his direction. They 
 were not actually made by him, as the handwriting has 
 been compared with his copy of the Visitation which is 
 now in the British Museum. 
 
 Besides some rough sketches of the Gresley and 
 Wasteneys or Gasteneys families (which Mr. Harland, 
 by the way, prints Castleneys), it contains abstracts of 
 about three hundred deeds relating to those families. 
 There is a certain chronological arrangement, but the 
 undated deeds, which are generally the most important, do 
 not seem to have much, if any, logical sequence. The 
 dated deeds are arranged under the king's reigns, the last 
 one bearing the date of 2, 3 Philip and Mary. There are, 
 in addition, some genealogical notes scattered about which 
 have been useful in elucidating the family descent. The 
 compilation cannot be much earlier than 1600. 
 
 Of a very different character and value is the Rydeware 
 Chartulary, of which a detailed description is appended to 
 the present catalogue. The rubric at the beginning gives 
 
xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the date of it as 2 Edw. II, and states that it was made by 
 the direction of Thomas, son and heir of Walter de Ryde- 
 ware, and that it contains an account of all his possessions 
 in Rydeware, Seal, Frilsham, Kettlebaston, and Rossing- 
 ton. During Thomas's lifetime (he was living in 1326) 
 additions were made from time to time, the latest date 
 apparently being 1331, and the scope of the contents is 
 much wider than the modest rubric leads one to suppose. 
 Its pages are illustrated by several neatly-executed pen- 
 and-ink drawings generally characteristic of the deeds 
 which they adorn, interspersed with a few grotesques. 
 With regard to the drawing which has been reproduced 
 opposite page 119, 1 am inclined to think that the meaning 
 of it is somewhat different from that ascribed to it by 
 Miss Gresley (cf. p. 119). It is suggested that it is 
 rather a procession to judgment or to execution than a 
 return from hunting. The criminal is the hound sus- 
 pended by his legs from the axe, the instrument of 
 execution, carried by a hare in charge, and followed 
 by a second hare with herald's trumpet and official mace. 
 The victim is the cock upon the spit borne at one end 
 by a fox (who has, perhaps, volunteered his services as one 
 who could have no possible sympathy with such a crime 
 as poultry-snatching, and glad, at any rate, to assist in 
 the violent end of his natural enemy, the hound) leading a 
 brace of greyhounds in leash, and at the other end by a 
 tailless ape in charge of the guilty hound's sorrowing 
 companion. A third hare, ready with bow and arrows 
 for any emergency, brings up the rear and completes the 
 picture. The illustration has nothing to do with the deed 
 of covenant above it, the latter having been squeezed into 
 a vacant place by one of the later scribes. 
 
 Among the more interesting of the later Gresley Deeds 
 are the following, viz., No. 363, a bill of complaints by 
 Burton Abbey against Sir Thomas de Gresley {temp. 
 Rich. II); No. 437, an award by Humphrey, Duke of 
 Buckingham, in the disputes between the Gresleys and the 
 
INTRODUCTION. xlll 
 
 Vernons, which contains a peculiar scale of compensation 
 for wounds inflicted in a melee between their men (1455) ; 
 No. 475, an award by Cardinal Wolsey in a suit between 
 the " bastard sons" of Sir W. Gresley (who died without 
 legitimate offspring), and Sir George his brother and heir 
 (1525) ; No. 480, a deed of release by Anne of Cleves, 
 the divorced wife of Henry VIII, bearing her signature 
 (1551); and Nos. 497, 499, settlements of suits between 
 the Pagets of Beaudesert and Sir Thomas Gresley, second 
 Bart., respecting the weir and fulling-mill at Burton-on- 
 Trent (1656, 1676). 
 
 I. H. JEAYES. 
 
 British Museum, 
 
 8th November, iSgj. 
 
THE 
 
 GRESLEY CHARTERS 
 
 PRESERVED AT 
 
 DRAKELOWE. 
 
 1. Confirmation by Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, of the 
 grant by Ralph de Seila to Merivale Abbey, of a hundred 
 and twenty acres of land, with wood, meadow, pastures, 
 and common of pasture. Witnesses : Mag. Robert de 
 Burnam ; Mag. Peter ; Mag. Ralph ; William de Bugend', 
 capellanus ; Roger, fil. Willelmi ; and Laurence. With 
 episcopal seal, chipped. [1148-1166.] 
 
 2. Grant by Bernard, Abbot, and the Convent of 
 Burton-on-Trent, to Robert de Gresele, of the land of 
 Deri' [Darlaston-by-Stone, co. Stafford], to hold in fee, and 
 heritage each year, for fifty-two shillings ; and of the 
 service of Ralph de Caldewalle, for five shillings to be 
 paid yearly, and for the free service of his body : half the 
 rent to be paid at the Feast of St. John Bapt. [24 June], 
 and half at the Feast of St. Martin [11 Nov.]. In return 
 for this grant Robert and his heirs owe homage and fealty 
 to the Abbot and Church of Burton. Witnesses : First, 
 the chapter itself — Jordan, prior ; Martin, William de 
 Duninton, Richard, Richard, Richard, William, William, 
 and the rest of the monks. Next, Robert, priest of Staph 
 [Stapenhill] ; William de Grochesham^ Nicholas, chaplain ; 
 Walter de Sumervill ; Walter de Muntgumbere, etc. Seal 
 of the Abbey : Obverse, a saint, probably the Virgin, 
 
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£ THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 crowned, in the right hand a fleur-de-lis, in the left hand a 
 book, seated on a throne or edifice in representation of a 
 church, with four turrets, each thatched and topped with 
 a knob, shingle roof, and round-headed windows. 
 
 »J« SIG[ILLVM] . SANCTE MARIE [DE] BVRTONA. 
 
 Reverse, a smaller pointed oval counterseal, bust of 
 St. Modwenna, Patron Saint, full face. 
 
 *%> SANCTA MODWENNA. 
 [1160-1175.] 
 
 3. Notification by William, Comes de Ferrariis, of 
 the sale by Ralph de Seile, to Ralph de Gresele, fil. 
 Willelmi, for thirteen marks of silver, of his mill of Seal 
 and four virgates of demesne land, to hold by service of 
 one pair of leathern greaves or two shillings yearly, on 
 certain specified conditions. Witnesses : Robert Calcun, 
 Abbas sancti Petri super diuam [St. Pierre-sur-Dive, in 
 Normandy] ; Robert, prior de Kinel"8wur3 [Kenilworth] ; 
 William de Calewich ; Mag. Richard de Sallawe ; Robert 
 de Pirv, dapifer ; William de Gresele and Robert, filius 
 suus ; Robert, fil. Walk'; Walter de Sumeruilla ; Richard 
 de Curcun ; Robert filius suus ; Walter de Montegumeri ; 
 Reinald de Gresele ; Humphrey de Tolca ; Robert del 
 Bee ; Robert, fil. Radulfi ; Ralph, fil. Ernaldi ; Ralph, fil. 
 Radulfi de Montgomeri ; Harald de Leca ; David de 
 
 Stantona ; Geralmus de Curcun ; G de Bakepuz ; 
 
 John de Wilintona ; Ralph de Caldewella ; Alured de 
 Cumbrai ; Simon de Tuschet ; Ralph, fil. Ghermundi ; 
 Roger de Stretona ; Thomas de Pirv ; Ralph Feone ; 
 
 William de Dun ; G de Camera and Robert, homo 
 
 suus ; Reinald de Sancto Albano ; Wald' de Wineshulla ; 
 Robert de Ferrariis ; William, decanus de Tatenhul ; 
 Roger, canonicus Lincolniensis ; John de Lisuis ; Robert 
 Grim ; Lucian de Seila, etc. With seal of William, Comes 
 de Ferrariis. Temp. Hen. II [circ. 1167]. 
 
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 4. Notification to the Bishop of Lincoln by Ralph de 
 Gresele, 1 of his grant to Merivale Abbey of a carucate of 
 land which he holds in Seal from Ralph de Seile at an 
 annual rent of two shillings, which grant he made for the 
 salvation of the souls of his brothers, his wife, of Earl 
 Rodbert de Ferrariis [ob. 11 58 ?], and of others, " ut Deus 
 omnipotens nobis omnibus remittat peccata nostra et 
 tribuat vitam eternam." Witnesses : Rodbert de Gresele, 
 and Henry his brother ; Rodbert de Curecun ; William de 
 Mungumeri ; Rodbert, fil. Walchalini, and Henry his 
 brother ; Henry Tuschet ; Lucian de Seile ; Rodbert de 
 Ferrariis ; Henry de Ferrariis ; John de Boschervile ; 
 Thomas de Curecun. Temp. Hen. II. With seal (chipped 
 at edges), representing armed man, on foot, with drawn 
 sword and shield. 
 
 5. Similar grant, differently worded, of the same 
 piece of land. Witnesses : the same as in No. 4. With 
 similar seal. 
 
 6. Notification to , 2 Bishop of Lincoln, by Ralph 
 
 de Seila of his confirmation of the grant by Ralph de 
 Greseleia, made to Merivale Abbey of a carucate of land 
 which he held from the said Ralph de Seila at an annual 
 rent of two shillings. He makes this confirmation with 
 consent of his lord, William, Comes de Ferrariis, and of 
 Ralph his own heir, and for the souls of himself, his heirs, 
 and of his lord, Robert, Comes de Ferrariis, and grants to 
 the Abbey pasture for a hundred sheep and twelve beasts, 
 " excepto numero ovium et animalium que antea habebant 
 in elemosina mea in Seila". Witnesses : William, Comes 
 de Ferrariis ; Philip, prior de Lentona ; Robert and 
 Henry de Gresele ; Philip, clericus ; Walter, capellanus ; 
 Henry, fil. Fuch' ; Thomas de Aucheuill' ; Sawal, fil. Fuch'; 
 
 1 He is called " Rad. de Hethre" on contemporary endorsement. 
 
 2 The initial of the Bishop has been erased. 
 
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 William, fil. Hereberti, and John his brother ; William fil. 
 Hugonis. Temp. Hen. II. With seal, chipped. 
 
 7. Notification to ^ Bishop of Lincoln, and all 
 
 the sons of Holy Church, by William, Comes de Ferrariis, 
 of his confirmation of the grant by Ralph de Seila and 
 Ralph de Greseleia to Merivale Abbey, of a carucate of 
 land which Ralph de Greseleia held from Ralph de [Seila]. 
 Witnesses : Henry, fil. Fuch' ; Thomas de Aucheuill ; 
 Philip, clericus ; William, fil. Hereberti ; Robert de 
 Greseleia, and Henry his brother ; William, fil. Hugonis ; 
 Hugh de Thorendona. Temp. Hen. II. 
 
 8. Award by A[dam], Abbot of Evesham, and 
 L[aurence], Prior of Coventry, arbitrators nominated by 
 the Pope, in a suit between the monks of Wenlock and 
 William, clericus, concerning the church of St. Peter 
 of Seal, namely, that the said William may possess 
 the church " in perpetuum", paying to the church of 
 St. Milburg, of Wenlock, eight shillings and fourpence 
 yearly. Witnesses : Simon, Abbot of Persoure [Pershore] ; 
 Mag. Hugh de Coleham ; Richard de Amberesleg' ; Mag. 
 Ernald de Bukingham ; Matthew, clericus ; Lucian de 
 Seila ; Roger de Strettun ; Robert de Seila. Temp. 
 Hen. II [1175-1179]- 
 
 9. GRANT by Ralph de Seila " concessione Radulfi filii 
 sui", to William de Noreis " pro hominio et servicio suo", 
 and to Wlfene his wife, of a virgate of land : to hold 
 " libere et quiete scilicet de pannagio, de filiabus et de omni- 
 bus consuetudinibus domino pertinentibus dum predicta 
 Wlfene uxor predicti Willelmi domino servierit, libere et 
 quiete pro servicio suo predictam possidebunt et quando 
 predicta Wlfene amplius domino non servierit, sponsus suus 
 et heredes illorum annuatim xii.d. pro omni servicio 
 
 1 The initial letter of the Bishop has been erased. 
 
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 reddent." Witnesses : William, presbyter de Seile ; 
 William, persona ; Lucian ; William, fil. Rogeri de 
 Durandesthorp ; William de Ederichale ; Roger de 
 Stretuna ; William, filius suus ; Ralph, Cantor de Seile ; 
 Alan ; Goimer ; Tierstin ; Roger, fil. Anschetilli ; William 
 Buche ; Walerand de Apelbi ; Walerand de Childecote ; 
 John, suus frater ; Robert, fil. Rogeri de Seile. Temp. 
 Hen. II (late). 
 
 10. Grant by Bertram de Verdun 1 to Robert fil. 
 Hardulfi 2 of all his land of Hangodestorp [Osgathorpe, 
 co. Leic], which the said Bertram holds from Nigel de 
 Munevilla, paying yearly fourteen shillings, " cum Scordun 
 et Stocwuda et Snapa". Witnesses : Roger de Amundevile ; 
 Alan, fil. Mainfenini ; Roger, fil. Willelmi ; Simon his 
 brother ; Philip de Estlee ; Robert de Flamuile ; Ernald 
 de Barewelle ; Ernald, dapifer ; Henry de Lee ; Geoffrey 
 de Normanuile ; Richard de Boisdele ; Robert de 
 Culunces ; Waim, clericus ; Geoffrey, clericus ; Wido de 
 Verdun ; William, Saracenus ; Robert, Venator. Temp. 
 Hen. II (late). With seal, broken. 
 
 1 1. Confirmation by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, of all 
 the grants made by Ralph his father and himself to 
 Merivale Abbey and, " ad incrementum supradictarum 
 donationum ", he grants for the soul of Anneis de Oilli his 
 mother, the meadow of Fuleslog and his meadow of 
 Culurewellemor. Witnesses: Hervey de Ocle ; Alan, 
 filius eius ; Thomas, nepos eius ; William, fil. Roggeri de 
 
 1 B. de Verdun was sheriff of Leicester and Warwick 14-28 Hen. II, 
 accompanied Richard I to the Holy Land, and died at Joppa in 1192. 
 
 2 Hardulph has been commonly thought to be the ancestor of the 
 family of " de Wasteneys", but the Rev. F. Parker, in his Account of 
 Colton and the De Wasteneys Family (p. 22), proves that this family 
 was united to that of Hardulph, Lord of Osgathorpe, by the marriage 
 of the tatter's great-granddaughter Amphelis to Sir Philip de Wast- 
 eneys of Colton. 
 
6 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Strettuna ; Humfrey de Cleibroc. Temp. Hen. II (late). 
 With seal. 
 
 12. Grant by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seile, to Merivale 
 Abbey, in alms for the souls of Ralph his father, Anneis 
 his mother, and Rodbert, Comes de Ferrariis, of a virgate 
 of land of his demesne, which Alan formerly held from his 
 father ; and of three other virgates formerly held by the 
 same, "tenendas de me et heredibus meis in feudam 
 firmam inperpetuum, scilicet proomnibussecularibusservitiis 
 singulis annis pro singulis uirgatis xii nummos reddendos 
 tantummodo transacto tamen termino xii annorum, in 
 quorum quidem initio totam firmam premanibus accepi 
 et habui pro uoluntate mea tam in equis quam in nummis 
 et aliis rebus". Witnesses : William, miles de Ouilla and 
 Gilbert, frater eius. Dat. 1181. With seal, defaced. 
 
 13. GRANT by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, to Ralph, fil. 
 Willelmi Buche, of right of common in his wood, in that 
 part which he (the grantor) held on that day when William, 
 Comes de Ferrariis received from him the lordship of Seal ; 
 the said Ralph, fil. Willelmi, to have wood for hearth.wagon, 
 and hedges, and timber for repairing his houses. Witnes- 
 ses : William de Strettun ; Robert, fil. Walerani ; Peter 
 Pescher ; Adam, fil. Turstani ; Richard, fil. Edwini ; 
 Ralph, fil. Willelmi Norreis ; Asketil, fil. Waited ; Roger, 
 fil. Asketilli. Temp. Henry II — Ric. I. 
 
 14. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil.Radulfi de Seila, 
 to Merivale Abbey, of the homage and service of Roger, 
 fil. Anketilli, namely, six pence at Christmas or a pound of 
 pepper, and a virgate of land, with all liberties, etc., as his 
 father's charter (in the said Roger's possession) witnesses : 
 so that Anketill, Andrew, Alan, Ralph, and Avice, as well 
 as the said Roger, may be free of all services due to the 
 above-named grantor, and hold the said land from the 
 Abbey. Witnesses : Elured, capellanus ; Henry, persona 
 
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 de Manecestre ; Robert and Gilbert his brothers ; Hervey, 
 miles de Acle ; Henry his son ; William, fil. Rogeri de 
 Strettun ; Ralph Morcoc ; Adam de Wittentun ; Adam, 
 fil. Thome, Temp. Ric. I. With seal, broken. 
 
 15. Grant by William, Rector of Seal, to Merivale 
 Abbey, of the tithe of a virgate of land in Great Seal which 
 they hold on lease from Ralph Morcoc : for four shillings, 
 payable annually on the F. of SS. Philip and James [1 May]. 
 Witnesses : Henry de Manecestre ; Richard, persona de 
 Hegham ; Wibert de Witheredel ; Geoffrey de Sepei ; 
 William de Thwicros. Temp. Ric. I. With seal. 
 
 16. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, 
 to Merivale Abbey, of Nigel, fil. Waited, with his suit, 
 chattels, etc., and a virgate which the said Nigel holds with 
 toft and croft which pertain to that virgate, and with toft 
 " ubi domus predicti Nigelli site sunt". Witnesses : Simon, 
 sacerdos de Xepeia ; Robert de Ruures ; William de 
 Strettona ; Hubert de Ouertona ; Hugh Templarius ; 
 Jacobus Draco ; Adam, fil. Turstani ; Ralph Morcoc 
 Temp. Ric. I. 
 
 17. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, 
 to Merivale Abbey, of four virgates of land in Seal, three 
 of which Alan held, and one of which Gamellus, faber, held 
 from his father, with the toft belonging to the same which 
 his father promised to exchange : together with the wife of 
 Gamellus with all her children. Witnesses : William, fil. 
 Turgis de Withacre ; Robert de Ruures ; Richard Prentut; 
 William his son ; Robert de Caham ; Gilbert, fil. Neel de 
 Swineford. Temp. Ric. I. With seal. 
 
 18. Grant by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, to Merivale 
 Abbey, in alms for his own soul, and the souls of Ralph 
 his father, and his mother Anneis de Oilli, of one virgate 
 of land in Seal which belonged to Ralph Cantor. Witnes- 
 
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 ses : Hervey de Ocle ; Hervey and Alan his sons ; Adam 
 de Wethelesberga ; Adam and Robert his sons ; Robert 
 de Ruura ; Ralph and Reinald his sons ; Goismer ; 
 William de Strettuna ; Roger, fil, Asketilli ; William Buche; 
 Asketill, fil. Walteri ; William de Bartuna ; Robert de 
 Hastinges ; Adam, fil. Turstani ; William de Turre ; Ralph, 
 fil. Willelmi Norreis ; Robert, fil. Waleranni de Happelbi. 
 Temp. Ric. I. With seal, broken. 
 
 19. Grant by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seil, to Merivale 
 Abbey, of Henry, fil. Henrici de Seile, and his homage, 
 chattels, etc. : together with a croft containing four selions 
 which William Prencheval held. Witnesses : Poer de 
 Witenton ; William de Witacre ; Roger de Seile ; William 
 Prentut ; Geismer de Seile ; Guarin de Templo ; 
 Alexander de Ackorp. Temp. Ric. I. With seal. 
 
 20. Confirmation, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. et her. 
 Radulfi de Seila, to Merivale Abbey, of four virgates of 
 land in Seal which Alan held ; of Garwi and his wife and 
 son, with their chattels, etc., and a virgate of land ; of a 
 virgate of land which belonged to Ralph Cantor ; of a 
 croft which William Prencheval held, containing four 
 selions ; of Henry, fil. Henrici de Seile, and his homage, 
 and the "woman who was the wife of Gamel, with toft and 
 croft' He confirms also " ex dono patris" two virgates of 
 land which Hardulf and Gamel Faber hold respectively ; 
 and grants the heath " ad Rukedich" and a piece of land 
 lying " ante hostium domus ovium suarum", and another 
 small piece of land which was Rodbert Burioud's, situated 
 " juxta Meres", all his meadow of his demesne of Seal, and 
 the meadows of Fulleslokh and Culurewellemor. Wit- 
 nesses : Symeon, presbyter de Sepe ; Walkelin de Mane- 
 cestre and his sons, Walter and William ; Rodbert de 
 Ruure and his sons, Ralph and Reginald ; Poer and his 
 son Serlo ; Henry de Caili ; Adam, clericus, frater uxoris 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 9 
 
 Walkelini de Mancestre ; William, fil. Ricardi de Carletun ; 
 Rodbert le Megre. Temp. Ric. I. With seal. 
 
 21. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, 
 to Merivale Abbey, of his meadow of his demesne of Seal. 
 Witnesses : Reginald, clericus de Grenduna ; Mag. Adam, 
 Medicus ; Walkelin, sacerdos de Edredestuna ; Walkelin, 
 dominus de Monecestria ; William, fil. Turgis de Wit- 
 acre ; William, fil. Roggeri de Strettuna ; Rogger de Seila ; 
 Hugh de Pethlinges ; Alan, Alius .ejus ; Puher de Witen- 
 tuna. Temp. Ric. I. 
 
 22. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, to 
 the church of St. Mary of Merivale, " et fratribus grangie 
 de Seila", of all the liberty in his wood of Seal, " ad capien- 
 dum videlicet per totum boscum, tarn de viridi bosco quam 
 de veteri, de grosso et de gracili, stando aut jacendo, cum 
 una reda, aut cum bobus trahere, ter aut quater omnibus 
 diebus, tam per hyemem quam per estatem, ad ignem, 
 et ad cetera eisiamenta predictorum fratrum et prescripte 
 grangie" : with pasture throughout the whole wood, for the 
 oxen, cows, and horses of the same grange. Witnesses : 
 William de Stretton ; William de Turre ; Ralph Morcoc ; 
 Jacobus Drake ; Rodbert Coppe ; Adam de Weoleberge ; 
 Rodbert de Ruure ; Ralph, filius eius ; William de Seila 
 cognatus Luciani ; Thomas Bretun, de Draitun. Temp. 
 Ric. I. With seal. 
 
 23. Grant by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, to Merivale 
 Abbey, of Ralph Morcoc and his service, with the virgate 
 of land which the latter and his father held from him 
 [in Seal], with all liberties in wood, plain, meadows, pas- 
 tures, ways, and waters, " infra defensum et extra ut mihi 
 capiat ad omnia eisiamenta sua ad edes reparandas, ad 
 focum, ad clausturam". Witnesses : Hugh, decanus ; 
 Rodbert de Ruure ; Rodbert, persona de Norton ; William, 
 persona de Seila ; William de Stretton ; Adam, fil. Ad. de 
 
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 Weothelesb' ; Richard, fil. Hermefr' ; Goismer ; Hugh de 
 Templo ; Reimer de Clifton ; Alexander de Clifton. Temp. 
 Ric. I. 
 
 24. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, 
 to Merivale Abbey, of five " cotarios, manentes in quatuor 
 toftis" ; of which tofts one was formerly held by Rodbert 
 Burioud, but was afterwards divided into two parts for two 
 women, the second was held by William, fil. Alfrichi, the 
 third by Henry Parmentarius; the fourth by Cecily, sister 
 of William Buches. Witnesses : Symeon, sacerdos de 
 Sepe ; Rodbert de Ruure ; William de Stretton ; William 
 de Turre ; Ralph Morcoc ; Hugh de Templo ; Hubertus. 
 Temp. Ric. I. With seal. 
 
 25. GRANT by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seila, to Ralph, fil. 
 Willelmi le Norreis, of a virgate of land in Seal which the 
 latter's father held in fee. Witnesses : William, persona 
 de Seile ; William, fil. Rogeri de Strettun ; Goismerus ; 
 Adam, fil. Turstani ; Robert de Ruures ; Richard, fil. 
 Erenfrei ; Adam, fil. Ade de Wethelesberthe. Temp. 
 Ric. I. 
 
 26. Confirmation by Anneis, fil. Radulfi de Seila, " et 
 heres illius", with consent of William her husband, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of all the tenement which they have held 
 from Easter in the eighth year of King Richard ; for 
 which confirmation the Abbey has given her half a mark 
 of silver. Witnesses : William de Ridware ; William de 
 Brai ; Hugh, decanus ; Richard de Curzun ; Richard de 
 Vernun ; William, persona ; Walter, clericus de Sumeruilla, 
 etc. Circ. 8 Ric. I [1197]. With seal. 
 
 27. GRANT by William, fil. Rogeri de Strettona, on the 
 earnest advice of Anneis his wife, to Merivale Abbey, of a 
 toft in Seal, which Ralph, Juuenior, gave to his sister, the 
 said Anneis, after the death of Ralph, Senior, their father, 
 
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 sometime held by Nicholas and by " plures cottarii post 
 eum", with clause stating that the said Anneis offered this 
 charter on the altar of St. Mary in the church of Seal 
 Major, and the said William, afterwards, on the altar of St. 
 Mary of Meriv'ale. Witnesses : Goismerus ; Ralph Cokin ; 
 Rodbert de Hastinc ; Hugh de Templo ; Henry Faber, 
 de Hospitio ; William de Hospitio ; Johannes, fil. Godberti ; 
 Ralph, fil. Goismeri ; Alan de Hospitio ; Roger, fil. 
 Hugonis de Templo ; Anketillus pater Rogeri. Temp. 
 Ric. I. 
 
 28. Confirmation by William, fil. Rogeri de Strettun 
 and Agnes his wife, dau. of Ralph de Seila, to Ralph Buche 
 and his heirs of land in Seal, which Ralph de Seila gave 
 to his father, William Buche. Rent, a pound of pepper on 
 All Saints' Day. Witnesses : William, persona ; Lucian, 
 fil. Roberti ; Henry de Cleftun ; Robert Wischard ; Roger, 
 fil. Anketil ; Anketil, fil. Walteri ; Ralph Cokin ; Matthew, 
 fil. Rogeri ; William, fil. persone. Temp. Ric. I. With 
 seal. 
 
 29. Confirmation, in soul-alms, by Constantia, fil. 
 Radulfi de Seila, of all the grants and confirmations of 
 lands in Seal, which her father and her brother have hereto- 
 fore made to Merivale Abbey. Witnesses : Gilbert, 1 vice- 
 comes ; Ralph de Martinwas ; Thomas, dispensator ; 
 Ralph de Prestwod ; Richard, clericus vicecomitis ; Alan 
 de Pethling ; Rodbert de Braibroc ; Thomas de Watford ; 
 Achard de Sproctune. [1198.] 
 
 30. 31. Notification, with duplicate attached, by 
 Robert, dapifer comitis Cestrie, of his grant to Ralph, fil. 
 Siwardi, "tenere totam terram suam de Rostlavestona 
 hereditario iure . . . seruicio semi militis, et ideo quod 
 
 1 Gilbert de Segrave, sheriff of cos. Leicester and Warwick, 
 4, 5, 6, 9 Ric. I, 
 
12 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 ipse sex uirgatas quas calumniabat in Burc mihi et meis 
 heredibus concessit in pace, quare ilia predicta seruicia sibi 
 et suis heredibus concessi et concede" Witnesses : Richard 
 Paien ; Richard de Maisam ; Ralph Talebot ; Walter de 
 Dumuila ; H., fil. Sturmi ; Matthew, sacerdos ; G., sacer- 
 dos ; G. Desert ; Richard de Basogias ; Richard, fil. 
 Edwane, sacerdos ; William Danais ; Hamelun Panton. 
 Temp. Ric. I. 
 
 32. Grant by Lucian de Deserto to Merivale Abbey 
 and the monks serving there, "ad domum infirmorum 
 secularium", in alms for his own soul and for the soul of 
 Lucian " Senex", his grandfather, etc., of the meadow by 
 the water called Meis [R. Meis] under Great Seal. Wit- 
 nesses : William, persona de Seyla ; Robert de Appelbi ; 
 Walter de Streton ; William, fil. Will, persone de Seyla ; 
 Peter de Durantesthorp ; William de Petling ; Richard, 
 clericus de Seyla ; Ralph Buche ; Peter Pite de Lichesfeld. 
 Early 13th cent. With seal, broken. 
 
 33. GRANT by Lucian de Deserto to Merivale Abbey, in 
 alms for his soul, and the souls of Agatha his wife and 
 Lucian de Seyla his grandfather, of a virgate of land in 
 Over Seal. Annual rent, twelve pence, sterling : with 
 warranty by the said Lucian and Osbert, his son and heir. 
 Witnesses : William, persona de Seyla ; Adam, persona de 
 Overtona ; William de Appelbi ; Ralph Buche, de Seyla ; 
 Ralph Sellarius. Early 13th cent. 
 
 34. GRANT, in soul-alms, for himself, his wife, and Lucian 
 his grandfather, by Lucian Desert de Seile, to the church 
 of St. George of Gresley, and the canons there, of a certain 
 part of his wood of Seal, " scilicet a via ilia que ducit ad 
 Fiflawe versus Lintonam et per semitam que ducit a pre- 
 dicta via ex transverso usque ad Longeleiam et ita usque ad 
 boscum domini Walteri de Rideware cum terra arabili que 
 extenditur in longum inter predictum boscum et viam que 
 
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 ducit versus Cotis." Witnesses : William, persona de 
 Sele ; William his son ; Robert de Appilbi ; William his 
 son ; Walter de Stretune ; Peter de Durandisthorpe ; 
 Walter Godmer ; Roger Templarius ; Ralph Buche ; Hugh 
 his brother ; Robert de Henouere. Early 13th cent. 
 
 35. Award by Fr. R. dictus Abbas de Geroldon 
 [Garendon] and P[aul] Abbas Sancte Marie de Prato 
 Legecestrie, and Mag. A. de Wilna, arbitrators appointed 
 by the Pope, in a suit which W., persona ecclesie de Seila, 
 brought against William, fil. Radulfi de Meisam, and 
 Lucian, fil. Roberti Disert, whereby the two latter grant in 
 perpetuity to the mother church of Seal four wagon loads of 
 wood for burning, to be gathered by the parsons of that 
 church against Christmas Day, and the said W., persona 
 eiusdem ecclesie, abandons all claim he had against the 
 said William and Lucian for common of husbote and 
 haibote in their wood of Vuerseila[Over Seal]. Witnesses: 
 Robert, presbyter de Suothestun ; Richard de Hastinges, 
 clericus ; William, fil. Walkelini de Strettun ; Walter his 
 son, etc. Early 13th cent. [1186-1205]. With one seal 
 (out of five) remaining. 
 
 36. Grant by Geoffrey de Gresele to Roger, fil. Odonis 
 de la Lake, of a messuage in Hystesd' [Hixon, co. Staff.], 
 extending from the barn of Geoffrey Payn to the highway 
 leading toSumerwelle, with six acres of land on Hungerhil, 
 Stichelesl', Sondiforlong, Stubfurlong, etc. Witnesses: 
 Geoffrey de Drenketh ; Nicholas de Drenketh ; William 
 Morel ; Walter de Colewyz ; Richard Tholi, and others. 
 Early 13th cent. 
 
 37. Grant by John, fil. Anketil de Aggotestorp, to 
 Richard Pelliparius de Beleton, of an acre and a half-rood 
 of land in Angotestorp [Osgathorpe, co. Leic], of which 
 half an acre lies near Roger Martel's land, and abuts on 
 the broad meadow of Infulebeckesiche, and the other half- 
 
14 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 acre and the half-rood abut on the fishpond of Beleton 
 [Belton]. Witnesses : Dom. William de Wasteneis ; 
 William de Thregeston ; William Dagen ; Ralph, clericus 
 de Bredon ; Brian de Watthon ; Nicholas de Wodecote. 
 Early 13th cent. With seal. 
 
 38. Grant by Ralph Buche, of Seal, to Merivale Abbey, 
 of half an acre of land in the field of Seal, on Wodeshulles. 
 Witnesses : Lucian de Seyle ; Lucian Disert ; Robert 
 Coppe ; Alan, fil. Alani ; Ralph, fil. Turstani ; Richard, 
 clericus ; Roger Le Templier ; William, fil. Alexandri de 
 Owertone. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 
 39. Lease by Geoffrey de Gresele to Ingeleisius his 
 servant, of two bovates of land in the vill of Morton, for a 
 term of 13 years. Annual rent, six shillings; "incipiente 
 primo anno quando cyclus lunaris unus dinoscebatur." 
 Witnesses : William Morel ; R. Morel ; Walter de Blewic ; 
 William Wim ; Henry de Hemod' ; Henry Albus ; Robert, 
 fil. Hode. [1219.] 
 
 40. Grant by William de Greseleia to Walter Leveriz 
 de Cosinthon, with the advice and consent of Geoffrey de 
 Greseleia his father, of two virgates of land which Hugh 
 Le Berker and Herbert Gisun held. Annual rent, twenty 
 shillings. " Predictus vero Walterus Leveriz et heredes 
 sui defendent duas virgatas terre de forinseco domini 
 Regis quas Willelmus de Greselya dedit cum Agnete 
 sorore sua in puram et perpetuam elemosinam Deo et 
 ecclesie beat Trinitatis de L[eicestre] extra villam de 
 Belethon . . . ." Witnesses : Dom. Geoffrey de Greseleya ; 
 Dom. William Burded ; Dom. William de Martinwas ; 
 Henry Wischard, persona de Sileby ; Mag. Peter, eiusdem 
 ville ; Thomas, clericus de Leicestre, etc. Temp. John. 
 With seal of William de Gresley and seal of arms of 
 Geoffrey de Gresley. Mutilated. 
 
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 41. GRANT, in soul-alms, by John Buche, fil. Radulfi 
 Buche de Magna Seyla to Merivale Abbey, of half an acre 
 of land on Flitlondes, whereof one head stretches into 
 Waterfalsiche and the other on to the " forera" of the said 
 Abbey. Witnesses : Henry, fil. persone de Seyla ; Roger 
 Templar ; Richard, clericus ; Alan, fil. Alani ; Nigel de 
 Seyle; Engenulf de Seyle ; William Le Hasting; Ralph 
 Geysmer. Early 13th century. With seal, broken. 
 
 42. GRANT by Ralph, fil. Henrici de Clifton, to Henry 
 Wischard, his nephew, for his homage and service, of all 
 the land which he possesses in the vill of Seal, to hold at 
 an annual rent of a pair of gloves at Easter. Witnesses : 
 Geoffrey Salvagius ; Robert de Tissintona ; William de 
 Appelbi; John de Cuili; Adam de Sepeya; Roger de Mutha. 
 Temp. John. 
 
 43. Grant by Walter de Rideware to Merivale Abbey, 
 of common of pasture in the woods of Clifton and Cotes, 
 and of all claims " de bosco, et de grangia et de porta 
 grangie eorum, et de purpresturis et rebus aliis factis et 
 habitis", in their holding of Seal, " usque ad pascha 
 proximum post capcionem castelli de Biham" [Bytham, co. 
 Line.], 1 in the year 1221. " Dicti etiam monachi possunt 
 totam curiam grangiarum suarum et omnium aliorum 
 edificiorum suorum fossare et claudere." Witnesses : 
 Ralph, fil. Nicholai, tunc senescallus Dom. Comitis Derebe ; 
 Roger de Rideware ; Robert de Grendon ; William de 
 Cungeston ; Adam, persona de Overton ; Jacobus de Sybe- 
 desdon ; Nicholas de Nortun. Circ. 1221. 
 
 44. Quit-claim by Walter de Riddeware to Dom. 
 Ralph, Abbot, and the Convent of Merivale, of six acres 
 
 1 Bytham Castle, occupied in 1220 by William, Earl of Albemarle, 
 was besieged by the King and captured 8th February 1221. (M. Paris, 
 Chronica Majora, Rolls Ed., iii, 60, 61.) 
 
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 and a half of meadow in the meadow called Vuere Medwe, 
 in Great Seal. Witnesses : Ralph, fil. Nicholai, tunc 
 senescallus Domini Comitis Derebe; Roger de Riddeware; 
 Robert, persona de Riddeware ; Jacobus de Sibesdesdon ; 
 Robert de Grendon ; Nicholas de Norton ; William Cunges- 
 ton ; John Morel ; Adam, persona de Ouerton ; Ralph 
 Selweyn ; Henry Bug'. Dat. 1230. With seal of arms, 
 broken. 
 
 45. Grant by Walter de Rideware to Robert Messor 
 de Seyla of a virgate of land in Seal. Rent, four shillings. 
 " Sciendum est quod si predictus Robertus vel heredes 
 eius vel sui assignati in misericordia mea vel heredum 
 meorum inciderint, amerciabuntur secundum modum de- 
 licti et hoc per iudicium parium suorum." Witnesses : 
 William de Vernun ; Walter de Streton ; Osbert de Seyla ; 
 Peter de Durandestorp ; Henry Wyschard ; Roger Temp- 
 lar ; John Buche ; Ralph Geymer, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill 
 (early). 
 
 46. Quit-claim by Ranulph, Comes Cestrie et Lin- 
 colnie to Dom. Stephen de Sedgrave and his heirs, of all 
 suits which they and their men of Bretby, Rosliston, and 
 Cotes are accustomed to do at his wapentakes of Rapendon 
 [Repton] and Gresley. Witnesses : William de Vernon, 
 Justiciarius Cestrie ; William de Cantelupo ; Fulk, filius 
 Warini ; Baldwin de Ver ; Ralph de Bray ; John de Atya ; 
 Richard de Birun ; Walter de Byseboc ; Richard de 
 Vernon ; Richard de Arden' ; John, clericus. Circ. 1232. 
 
 47. Grant by Ralph de Arderne, with consent of Alina 
 his wife (confirmed in presence of King Henry), to Stephen 
 de Segrave, of the land and tenement in Cotes sometime 
 belonging to Stephen de Bello Campo, brother to the said 
 Alina. Witnesses: R[alph], Bishop of Chichester, Chan- 
 cellor ; R[ichard], Bishop of Durham ; J[osceline], Bishop 
 of Bath : W[alter], Bishop of Carlisle, Treasurer ; Hugh de 
 
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 Nevill; Ralph de Trublevill ; Ralph Gernun ; Richard 
 Duket ; Rannulph Le Bretun ; Hugh Le Dispenser ; Robert 
 de Lexinton ; Bartholomew Peche. Circ. 1230-1235. 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 48. GRANT (and confirmation in the king's presence) by 
 Ysolda de Bello Campo, to Stephen de Segrave, of the land 
 and tenement in Cotes, sometime belonging to Stephen de 
 Bello Campo, her brother. Same witnesses as in preceding 
 charter, together with Henry de Braibroc. Circ. 1230- 
 1235- 
 
 49. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Robert de Mauluvel, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of common of pasture in his wood of Seal. 
 Witnesses : Dom. William de Ferrariis, Comes Derebe ; 
 William de Ferrariis, filius ejus ; Geoffrey de Gresele, tunc 
 senescallus ; William, persona de Seyl ; William, persona 
 de Stretton ; Walter de Stretton ; Osbert de Superiori 
 Seyl ; William de Appelby ; Peter de Durandestorp ; 
 Roger Templar de Seyl ; Richard, clericus ; John Buche. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal. 
 
 50. Grant, in soul-alms, by Robert Maulovel, fil. 
 Stephani de Rampton, to Merivale Abbey, of common 
 pasture in his wood of Rosliston. Witnesses : William de 
 Vernun ; Geoffrey de Greseley ; William, persona de 
 Seyla ; Walter de Stratton ; William, persona, frater suus ; 
 Osbert Disert de Seyla ; Peter de Lutterworth ; William 
 de Pethling. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal. 
 
 51. Grant by Robert Maulovel de Rostlaveston, to 
 Stephen de Sedgrave, of his tenement in Rostlaveston 
 [Rosliston, co. Derb.]. Witnesses : Robert de Lexinton ; 
 William de Martiwast ; William de Wasteneys ; Richard 
 de Attonestan ; Robert, fil. Stephani Maulovel ; William 
 de Sancto Eadmundo ; William de Curly ; Roger de 
 Sifrewast, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 
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1 8 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 52. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph Grim, to Merivale 
 Abbey, of common pasture in his whole wood of Seal. 
 Witnesses : William, persona de Seyla ; William de 
 Stretton ; Walter de Stretton ; Osbert de Superiori Seyl ; 
 William de Appelby ; Peter de Durandestorp ; Roger 
 Templar de Seyl ; John Buche ; Serlo de Wytenton. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal. 
 
 53. Quit-claim by Roger de Monte Alto, senescallus 
 Cestrie, to Stephen de Segrave, of the service of one knight 
 which the latter was wont to perform to Roger de Monte 
 Alto his father, in respect of the vill of Rostlaweston. 
 Annual rent, a pair of gilt spurs at Easter, or six pence. 
 Witnesses : Dom. William de Malo passu ; Walkelin de 
 Arden ; John Flury ; William de Sancto Eadmundo ; 
 John de Rypariis ; Anketill Malhore ; Robert de Shep- 
 heye, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 
 54. Grant by Roger de Mahaut, senescallus Cestrie, to 
 Stephen de Segrave, for his homage and service, of eight 
 virgates of land in Roxlaueston [Rosliston] which Ralph 
 Grim sometime held. To hold, by performing service of 
 half a knight. Witnesses : Dom. William de Insula ; 
 Robert de Colouill ; Robert de Mascy ; Hugh de Wauer- 
 ton ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; John de Riparia, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal. 
 
 55. Confirmation, in soul-arms, by Ralph, fil. Radulfi 
 Le Seller de Magna Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of all the 
 grants which his father made to the same, .namely, half an 
 acre of land on Fulbarddunstal, half an acre on Wodehull, 
 and half an acre on Flitlondes, with grant of half an acre 
 of land beyond Chirchehull. Witnesses: Osbert de Seyla; 
 Roger Templar ; John Buche ; Nigel de Seyla ; Roger 
 Brun ; and Hugh de Seyl. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 With seal. 
 
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 56. COVENANT, whereby Walter de Rideware leases 
 to Hugh Theneche, his demesne in the vill of Seal " quam 
 ante tenuit insimul Ottut [sic] leshasel usque ad termi- 
 num duodecim annorum", paying ten shillings annual rent 
 for all services. " Hec cohvencio est primo Hokeday 
 post consecrationem archiepiscopi Eadmundi de Abda- 
 done 1 et quod ego Hugo habebo meum crop usque ad 
 festum Sancti Martini sequens", paying at the end of 
 12 years to the said Walter half a mark. Witnesses : John 
 Wiscart; Henry, fil. persone; Ralph Aki ; Richard, clericus ; 
 Ralph Goymer ; John Bouche. Dat. [2 May 1234]. 
 
 57. GRANT by Henry de Seyla, fil. Willelmi persone, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of all his land in Seal and his part of the 
 road lying between his wood and the wood of the monks 
 there : the said Abbey to dig, enclose, and keep in order 
 the said road as they please. Witnesses : Henry Wischard ; 
 John his brother ; Richard, clericus ; Nigel de Seyl ; Ralph 
 Goymer; Henry Pechett, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 With seal. 
 
 58. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Nigel de Seyla, with consent 
 of Lettice his wife, to Merivale Abbey, of an acre of land in 
 Seal, lying in Steynildetroe-furlong, etc. Witnesses : Henry, 
 fill, persone ; Richard, clericus ; John Buche ; Alani, fil. 
 Alani ; Henry Pechet, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With 
 seal. 
 
 59. GRANT by Nigel de Seyle, with consent of Lettice 
 his wife, to Merivale Abbey, of an acre of land in Seal, 
 lying on Hortnoteshullesheved. Witnesses : Osbert de 
 Seyla ; Henry, fil. persone de Seyl ; John Wyschard ; John 
 Buche ; Ralph Goimer ; Roger Brun ; Henry Pechet. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal. 
 
 1 Edm. de Abingdon was consecrated 2nd April 1234. 
 
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20 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 60. Grant, in soul-alms, by Nigel, fil. Walteri de "Seila, 
 with consent of his heir Hingenulf, to Merivale Abbey, of 
 two acres in the fields of Seal. Witnesses : William, 
 persona de Seila ; Lucian, Senior, de Superiore Seila, 
 et Lucian, Junior ; Robert Coppe ; Roger Templer ; Ralph 
 Seler ; Roger, fil. Anketilli ; Alan, fil. Alani. Temp. Hen. 
 Ill (early). 
 
 61. Confirmation, in soul-alms, by Engenulf, fil. Nigelli 
 de Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of all the grants which his 
 father made to the Abbey. Witnesses : Roger Templarius; 
 Richard, clericus ; Ralph de Seler ; Nigel de Seyla ; John 
 Buche ; Ralph Geysmer ; Alan, fil. Alani. Temp. 
 Hen. Ill (early). 
 
 62. Confirmation, in soul-alms, by Hengenulf, fil. 
 Nigelli, fil. Walteri de Maiori Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of 
 the grant which his father made of two acres of land in 
 Seal, lying at Culverwelle, and on Wodehull. Witnesses : 
 Richard, clericus ; Ralph le Seler ; John Buche ; Nigel de 
 Seyla ; Ralph Geysmer ; William Hasting ; Alan, fil. Alani 
 de Seyla; William de Petlinges, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill 
 (early). With seal. 
 
 63. Grant, in soul-alms, by Hengenulf, fil. Nigelli de 
 Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of a portion of land from his 
 acre which lies "ad bercariam de Meres", containing 
 20 perches. Witnesses : Osbert de Seyla ; Roger 
 Templarius ; Richard, clericus ; Nigel de Seila ; John 
 Buche ; Alan de Seyla ; Ralph Geymer ; William 
 Hasting, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal, 
 chipped. 
 
 64. Grant by Hengenulf, fil. Nigelli de Seyla, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of all that part of his land enclosed near 
 the " bercaria" of Meres. Witnesses : Adam, persona de 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 21 
 
 Ouertona ; William, persona de Seyla ; William his son ; 
 Richard, clericus ; Ralph Buche ; Robert de Hennouere. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill (early). With seal. 
 
 65. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Thurstani de 
 Majori Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of half an acre of land 
 in Greater Seal, lying on Flitlondes. Witnesses : Henry, 
 fil. persone de Seyla ; William de Hastinges de Seyla ; 
 Roger Templarius ; Richard, clericus; Engenulf; John 
 Buche ; Nigel ; Ralph Geismere. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 With seal. 
 
 66. Confirmation by Osbert, fil. Luciani Desert de 
 Seyle, of his father's grant to the Canons of Gresley, of 
 part of his wood of Seal [described above, No. 34]. 
 Witnesses: Dom. Ralph Grim ; John Wischart ; Ralph, fil. 
 Aky ; Ralph, fil. Godefridi de Rostlaston ; Robert 
 Dispensarius de Greselee. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 
 67. Quit-claim by William, fil. Warini de Upton, to 
 Stephen de Segrave, of the vill of Cotes (formerly belong- 
 ing to Stephen de Bello Campo, who held it from the 
 King), with the consent of the sisters of the said Stephen 
 de Bello Campo, viz., Isolda, Matildis, Alina, and Idona. 
 Witnesses : Walter de Besebosc ; Richard, Abbot of Hales ; 
 Walter de Bello Campo ; Walter, fil. Radulfi de Hun- 
 stanscote ; Osbert de Abbetoft ; Robert Pitard ; John de 
 Baiocis, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 
 68. Grant, in consideration of a sum of twenty shillings, 
 by John Wischard to Hugh, fil. Radulfi, of all the toft and 
 croft which Martin sometime held in Seal, lying between 
 the toft of Ralph Morcoke and the "via ferrata" of the 
 same vill. Annual rent, twelve pence. Witnesses : Henry 
 Wischard ; Osbert de Seile ; Henry, fil. persone ; Roger 
 Templarius ; Ralph Hoki ; Alan, fil. Alani ; Robert de 
 Chelardiston. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 
22 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 69. Grant by Henry Wyschard to Hugh, fil. Radulfi.of 
 a messuage with croft in Seal, which Martin formerly held 
 and the said Hugh held by grant of John Wyschard, the 
 grantor's brother ; for which grant the said Hugh gave the 
 said Henry two sheep with half a quarter of corn. Wit- 
 nesses : Osbert de Seyla ; Henry, fil. persone ; Roger 
 Templar ; Ralph Haki ; Richard, clericus ; Alan, fil. 
 Alani ; Robert de Chelardunton. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 With seal, defaced. 
 
 70. LEASE, for a term of 18 years, by Simon, fil. Radulfi 
 Le Seler, to Ralph Sakart, of three acres of land in the field 
 of Seal, situate on Chirchehul, Long Steiniltre, Lulmeshul, 
 Caldevallehul, etc., the term to begin on Easter Day in the 
 28th year of the King's reign. Witnesses : Henry, fil. 
 persone ; John Wichart ; Alan, fil. Alani ; Henry, fil. 
 Ricardi clerici ; William de Cimeterio ; William de Derhul. 
 Dat. 28 Hen. Ill [1243-4]. With seal. 
 
 71. Grant by Ralph Herlewin de Rostlaweston to 
 Gilbert de Segrave, of the moiety of a virgate of land in 
 Rostlaweston [Rosliston, co. Derb.], excepting four acres 
 which Ralph Clericus holds from him in fee ; and a toft 
 and croft for himself and his heirs. Witnesses : John de 
 Stepenhull ; Richard de Thamenhorne ; Ralph de Claude- 
 well ; Ralph Thaleboth de Rostlaweston ; David de 
 Drakelowe, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill [1241-1254]. 
 
 72. Grant by Gilbert de Segrave to Adam, fil. Ricardi 
 Pistoris, in free marriage with Amabilia, fil. Philippi de 
 Wythrne, of a virgate of land in Cothes [Cotes], co. Derby, 
 which Henry, fil. Hoseberti, his naif held, and a plot of 
 meadow called Brouneshurst with his garden in Cotes. 
 Annual rent, five shillings. Witnesses : Dom. Richard de 
 Mundevylle ; Dom. Adam Maweysyn ; Dom. William de 
 Wasteneys ; Dom. Stephen de Newylle ; Ralph Camera- 
 rius, Junior, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill [1241-1254]. 
 
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 73. BOND from William de Gresele, filius et heres Gal- 
 fridi de Gresele, to give full seisin of a messuage in the 
 vill of Norton, which Alan, fil. Aluredi, sometime held, 
 to Merivale Abbey, "post terminum Abbatisse de Poles- 
 worthe", of which the said Abbey holds the charter of 
 feoffment. " Facta autem eis seysina post septem annos 
 plenarie completes post festum Sancti Andree anno regni 
 regis Henrici fil. Regis Johannis vicesimo octavo [1243]. 
 Facta uero fuit ista conuencio die Mercurii proximo ante 
 purificacionem virginis eodem anno unde Dominus Willel- 
 mus de Gresele alteram habet partem nullo sigillo signa- 
 tam, nisi alio modo possit infra terminum inter Abbatem 
 et Abbatissam conueniri de dicto mesuagio." Witnesses : 
 Ralph Grim ; Richard, rector ecclesie de Kyngesle ; 
 Henry Wischard ; Peter de Durantestorp ; Geoffrey de 
 Lullenton, 
 
 74. Lease, for 20 years, by Simon le Seler de Seyl 
 to Merivale Abbey, of three half-acres of land in the fields 
 of Seal lying on Haselfurlong, Sondifurlong, Greterefurlong, 
 and elsewhere. Witnesses : Henry Wischard ; Peter de 
 Durantestorp ; John Wischard ; Henry, fil. persone de 
 Seyl, etc. Dat. F. of St. Martin [11 Nov.], 1246. With 
 seal. 
 
 75. Lease for 20 years, from Simon le Seler de Seyl to 
 Merivale Abbey, of all his land of Great Seal, besides his 
 toft and the moiety of his meadow near the R. Meis, and 
 three acres of arable land on Hopynges, Chirchehul, 
 Ruedych, and Cliftunedych. Witnesses : Henry, fil. 
 Willelmi quondam persone de Sheyl ; John VVyschard ; 
 Ralph Geysmer ; William Petitpas, etc. Dat. Hokeday 
 [9 Apr.], 1247.' Endorsed "Sciendum quod Abbas et 
 conventus percipient viginti croppos plenarie." 
 
 76. GRANT by Richard, Prior of Gresley, to Merivale 
 Abbey, of all that wood which the priory had by grant 
 
24 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 from Lucian Dysert de Seyle [cf. Nos. 34, 66]. Witnesses : 
 Geoffrey de Greseleia ; Ralph Grim ; Henry Wischard ; 
 Peter de Durantestorp ; John Wischard ; Ralph Oky ; 
 John and Ran[dolf ?] his brothers ; Richard, clericus de 
 Seyle. Temp. Hen. III. With seal in green wax, a 
 knight in armour, with inscription : 
 
 SIG : . . . NCTI GEORGII DE GRESELE. 
 
 and on the reverse a counterseal of Richard, Prior of 
 Gresley. 
 
 TJ. QuiT-CLAIM by Richard Bouche, fil. Johannis Bouche 
 de Scheyle, to his lord William, Dominus de Rideware 
 Hamstall, of all the land which he holds in Seal, with mes- 
 suage, etc., adjacent. Witnesses : Ralph de la Bathe ; 
 William de Tatinhull ; Peter de Durantistorp : Dom. 
 Hemeric, tunc capellanus de Scheyle, etc. Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 78. Grant by Gilbert de Echewell, chaplain, to Ralph 
 Camerarius de Rerisbi, of a virgate of land in Seal which 
 he bought from Geoffrey Messur. Witnesses : Peter de 
 Durantisthorp ; Henry, fil. persone ; William, fil. Alani ; 
 Ralph Wyschart, etc. Temp. Henry III. 
 
 79. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph Geysemer to Meri- 
 vale Abbey, of half an acre of land in Seal, lying in 
 Fulbertdunstal. Witnesses : Henry, fil. persone ; Peter de 
 Durantestorp ; Helias de Hocthorp ; Henry Pachet, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 80. Grant, in soul-alms, by Ralph Goymer de Seyla to 
 Merivale Abbey, of an acre and a half of land in Seal, 
 lying on Flitlondes, Hetghathe and Thwylkesford, with 
 meadow extending to the water of Meoys [R. Meis]. Wit- 
 nesses : Osbert de Seyle ; Richard, clericus ; Henry 
 Pechet; Nigel de Seyle, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
PI. I. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 25 
 
 8 1. GRANT by Robert, Abbot of Merivale, and the Con- 
 vent, to Ralph, fil. Johannis Wyschard de Sheyl, of two 
 and a half acres of land in Great Seal, lying on the two 
 Cherchehulls and Breryfurlong, in exchange for two and 
 a half acres in the same Seal lying on Fulberdunstal, 
 Haselfurlong, Morfurlong, Steynyldtre, and Stanydal. 
 Witnesses : Henry Pachet ; Geoffrey le Messer ; John 
 Hoky, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With seal of the Abbey. 
 
 82. GRANT by William Morkoc, fil. et heres Radulfi 
 Morkoc, to Merivale Abbey, of a virgate of land in Great 
 Seal. Witnesses : Peter de Dorandesthorp ; Richard, 
 Alius eius ; Ralph Wyschart, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With 
 seal. 
 
 83. Grant, in soul-alms, by Alan, fil. Alani de Magna 
 Seila, to Merivale Abbey, of four selions, of which three 
 lie at Steniltre, and the fourth at Twilkesford. Witnesses : 
 Henry, fil. Willelmi, pers'one de Seila ; Roger Templarius ; 
 Ralph Gesemer ; John Buche. Temp. Hen. Ill (early). 
 With seal. 
 
 84. Grant by William, fil. Philippi Ruffi de Seyle, to 
 William, Dominus de Rideware Hanstall, of land in his 
 wood of Seal. Witnesses: Peter de Durandesthorp ; Geoffrey 
 Messar; Ralph de la Buche. Temp. Hen. III. With 
 seal. Mutilated. 
 
 85. GRANT by Simon, fil. Radulfi Sellarii de Sheyl, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of half an acre of arable land in Seal, 
 lying on Cherchehul. Witnesses : Henry, fil. clerici ; Peter 
 de Durantesthorp ; Richard Nel ; William de Athereston ; 
 John Hoky, etc. Hen. III. With fragment of seal. 
 
 86. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Symon de Seyle, fil. Radulfi 
 Sellarii, to Merivale Abbey, of half an acre of land in Great 
 
26 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Seal, on Le Hoping. Witnesses : Peter de Dorantisthorp ; 
 Elyas de Akethorp ; Henry, fil. persone de Seyle, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 87. Grant by Simon, fil. Radulfi Sellarii de Sheyle, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of half an acre of arable land in Great 
 Seal, the same land being of the fee of the said Abbey, 
 lying near the dyke called Le Ruchedige. Witnesses : 
 William de Rideware ; John Wichard ; Henry Walrond de 
 Lullington, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With fragment of seal. 
 
 88. Grant, in soul-alms, by Symon, fil. Radulfi Sellarii 
 de Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of three acres of land in 
 Greater Seal, situate in Haselfurlong, Sondifurlong Grattre- 
 furlong, Haymeshulleslade, and Chirchehul. Witnesses : 
 Walter de Strettona ; Peter de Durandesthorp ; Matthew 
 de Stretton ; Peter Diuelin, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With 
 seal. 
 
 89. Grant, in soul-alms, by Philip, fil. Engenulfi de 
 Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of an acre of land in Seal, lying 
 on Flithlondes, one head of which stretches beyond Le 
 Waterfal, and the other " versus divisas de Lullinton." 
 Witnesses : Osbert de Seyl ; Henry de Seyla ; Henry 
 Pechet ; Nigel de Seyl, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 90. Grant by Ralph, fil. Geysemeri de Seyl, to Merivale 
 Abbey, of two acres and a half and a rood of land in the 
 fields of Great Seal, in exchange for five half-acres and one 
 rood lying on Chirchehil, Stonifurlong, etc., in the same 
 place. Witnesses : Henry Wischard ; Peter de Durantes- 
 torp ; John Wischard, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 91. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Ralph, fil. Goymeri de 
 Maiori Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of two acres of land in 
 Greater Seal, lying at Flutlondesj Twyrkesford, near the 
 R. Meis, etc. Witnesses : Henry Wischard ; John his 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 2J 
 
 brother ; Osbert de Seyla ; Philip, fil. Engenulfi ; Henry, 
 fil. Willelmi quondam Rectoris ecclesie de Seyl. Temp. 
 Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 92. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Henry, fil. Willelmi quon- 
 dam rectoris ecclesie de Seylia, to Merivale Abbey, of an 
 acre and a half of land in Greater Seal, lying near Le Eth 
 Gate, Wyteleyis, Steinildetreweye, on Twyrkesford, near 
 the water called Meis, etc. Witnesses : Henry Wyschard ; 
 John his brother ; Osbert de Seyl, etc. Temp. Hen. III. 
 With seal. 
 
 93. GRANT, in soul-alms, by Henry, fil. Willelmi quon- 
 dam Rectoris ecclesie de Seyla, to Merivale Abbey, of an 
 acre of land in Greater Seal, lying at Hoxedich, Wyteleyes, 
 Boueiheresflat. Witnesses : Walter de Streton ; William 
 frater suus, Rector ecclesie de Stretton ; Peter de Durandes- 
 thorp. Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 94. Grant by William, fil. Henrici, fil. persone de Seyle, 
 to William, fil. Walteri de Rydeware, of a messuage in Seal 
 which his father formerly had. Witnesses : Robert de 
 Mauveysin Rydeware ; Ralph de la Bache ; Robert 
 Selveym, etc. Temp. Hen. III. 
 
 95. GRANT by Nigel, fil. Ricardi de Syreschete, with 
 consent of Lettice his wife, to Merivale Abbey, of an acre 
 of land in the fields of Seal, lying on Bovieresflat, and at 
 Puttes. Witnesses : Henry, fil. persone ; Richard, clericus ; 
 Ralph Oky ; Ralph Geysmere. Temp. Henry III. With 
 seal. 
 
 96. Grant by John Wischard de Magna Seyl, to Meri- 
 vale Abbey, of one half-acre of land in the field of Great 
 Seal, in exchange for another half-acre lying near Clater- 
 chote. Witnesses : Henry, fil. persone de eadem villa ; 
 Richard le Fiz, etc. Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
28 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 97. Grant by John Wyschard to Richard, fil. Hugonis 
 Nechs, of a half-virgate of land in the fields of Seal, namely, 
 that which Martin sometime held from his ancestors : with 
 a rood in Lathemedue, near the meadow of the Grey 
 Monks, and the meadow of the rector of the same place. 
 Rent, two shillings, and on the said Richard's death a 
 heriot, namely, one of his best oxen or beasts. Witnesses : 
 Peter de Dorantesthorp ; Henry, fil. persone de Seyle ; 
 Alan, fil. Alani. Temp. Hen. III. With seal. 
 
 98. Grant by Symon le Seler to Merivale Abbey, of 
 three acres of land in Seal, lying on Holesiche, Clatercote, 
 Morforlong, and elsewhere. Witnesses : Peter de Dorin- 
 thisthorp ; Henry, fil. persone de Seyla Magna ; Henry 
 Pachet. Endorsed, 1257. With seal. 
 
 99. Covenant made in presence of Martin de Littilbyry 
 and others, Justices Itinerant at Leicester, whereby Agnes 
 de Gresley, Prioress, and the Convent of Gracia-Dei at 
 Belton, grant to William de Wasteneys de Osgodthorp, 
 Richard de Wodecote, John de la Leye, Hawise de 
 Querendon, John Gerard, William Trippe, Robert de 
 Chelardiston, Adam Darnel, and others, free tenants of 
 Osgodthorp, common of pasture in their woods of Belton 
 (excepting in the park) for all their cattle ; goats at all 
 times, and pigs between Michaelmas and Martinmas 
 excepted : in exchange for similar rights (with the same 
 reservations) in the fields and woods of Osgodthorp. Also, 
 the same free tenants may enclose a certain piece of 
 Belton Wood, namely, that lying between Fayrwaye and 
 Charnewodbrok. Dat. Th. aft. F. of St. John ante 
 portam latinam [6 May] 1262. French. 
 
 100. Lease, for 20 years, by Geoffrey de Greseleye, to 
 Robert de Bilneye, of a half-virgate of land, with messuage 
 and meadow, in Huttisdon [Hixon], which Walter de le 
 Hul sometime held. Annual rent, six shillings, for all 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 29 
 
 services, " saluis mihi duabus aparenciis per annum curie 
 mee de Morton et salvo mihi seruicio predicti Roberti 
 piscendi et pandoxandi et clauos meos portandi in hospicio 
 meo per tantum tempus prenominatum scilicet per viginti 
 annos si seruicium suum ambobus placuerit sed unam 
 robam dum mecum sit per annum habebit." Witnesses : 
 Roger de Bispiston ; William Wimer ; Adam Morel, etc. 
 Dat. Michaelmas, 1270. 
 
 101. Quit-claim by Roger de la Lake de Huttisdon 
 and Giliana his wife to Geoffrey de Greseleye, of six acres 
 of land with messuage, etc., in Huttisdon [Hixon]. Wit- 
 nesses : Dom. Philip de Chetewind ; Dom. Adam de 
 Chetewind; Sewallus Tochet; Robert de Breidesale, rector 
 ecclesie de Stowe ; Dat. Hingistrente, S. aft. F. of St. 
 Matthew [21 Sept.] 1272. 
 
 102. Power of Attorney by Nicholas de Segrave to 
 John, his eldest son and heir, to affirm and confirm all the 
 covenants between him and Merivale Abbey concerning 
 an exchange of pasture in his wood of Grimswode and his 
 wood of Rosliston. Witnesses : Dom. Geoffrey de Gresele ; 
 Dom. Theobald de Nevile ; Thomas de Nevile ; Robert de 
 Malesouere, etc. [1254-1270]. Temp. Hen. Ill (late). 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 103. Grant by Geoffrey de Greseleye, fil. et her. Dom. 
 Willelmi de Gresleye, to Richard de Grecewit for his 
 homage and service, of a bovate of land in Morton, an 
 acre of land in Wodecroft, and six selions adjoining. 
 Witnesses : Adam Morel ; William Wymer ; Richard 
 Wymer, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 104. Lease, for lives, by Geoffrey de Greseleye, miles, 
 Dominus de Morton, to John de Hutesdon, capellanus, 
 and Robert, alumnus suus, of a messuage in Hutesdon 
 
30 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 [Hixon] with houses standing thereon, and garden, which 
 lately belonged to William super-viridem de Hutesdon. 
 Witnesses : Roger de Aston ; John Ridel de Morton, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 
 105. QuiT-CLAlM by Thomas, fil. Hugonis Arfrey de 
 Nortona, to Dom. Elysabet, quondam uxor Dom. Willelmi 
 de Greseley, of three acres of land in Norton, lying near 
 Spellowe, on Elleforlong, Sondifurlong, Appiltonstul, Kex- 
 holm, for which quit-claim the said Elysabet gave the said 
 Thomas twenty-one shillings and a bushel of corn. Wit- 
 nesses : Dom. Ralph de Grendon ; Dom. Robert de 
 Dauentre, rector of Norton ; Richard Lenoreys de Tvycros 
 Gamel, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 
 106. QUIT-CLAIM, in soul-alms, by Robert de Combrug 
 and Matilda his wife, sometime wife of Henry, fil. persone 
 de Scheyle, to Nicholas de Segrave of that part of their 
 wood which fell to the same Matilda as dower from her 
 first husband, who sold the wood to Dom. Stephen de 
 Segrave, grandfather of the said Nicholas. Witnesses : 
 William de Rydeware ; John Poutrel ; Robert del Mareys, 
 etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. With one seal, defaced. 
 
 107. QuiT-CLAlM by Mary, vidua, uxor quondam 
 Radulphi Geysmer de Magna Sheyle, to Merivale Abbey, 
 of all the land which the latter held from Ralph her late 
 husband. Witnesses : Peter de Durantesthorp ; Henry, 
 fil. persone de Sheyl ; Nigel le Doilur. Temp. Hen. Ill — 
 Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 108. Grant by John Godmer de Durandestorp to Meri- 
 vale Abbey, of two acres of land in Great Seal, one acre 
 lying at Steynildtreforlong, a half-acre on Breriforlong, and 
 a half-acre on Chirchehul. Witnesses : Richard, fil. Petri 
 de Durandesthorp ; Ralph Wischart ; Henry Pachet, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill— Edw. I. With seal, 
 
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 109. Grant by John Godmer de Durandesthorp to 
 Merivale Abbey, of two half-acres of arable land in Seal, 
 lying on Caldewellehul, etc., in exchange for two half-acres 
 in the same place. Witnesses : Peter de Durandesthorp ; 
 Helyas de Hocthorpe ; John Hoky de Sheyle, etc. Temp. 
 Hen. Ill— Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 no. GRANT by Ralph Godefrey de Rostlaston, with the 
 assent of William his son and heir, to Ralph, son of Ralph 
 Talebot, of Rosliston, his kinsman, in free marriage with 
 Goda, daughter of Ralph de Raueneston, of a curtillage in 
 Rostlaston [Rosliston]. Annual rent, one halfpenny at 
 Easter. Witnesses : Robert de Marisco ; William de 
 Caldewell ; Thomas Lowel, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 
 in. GRANT by Ralph Godefrey de Rostlaston to Wil- 
 liam, son and heir of Ralph de Caldewell, of three butts of 
 land in the fields of Rosliston, lying in Chalwescroft 
 beneath the fishpond of the said William near the path 
 leading to Rosliston. Rent, a rose on the F. of St. John 
 Baptist [24 June]. Witnesses : Milo de Meuton ; Roger 
 de Somervill ; John de Stapenhull ; David de Drakelow, 
 etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 
 112. GRANT by Cristiana, quondam uxor Radulfi Harle- 
 wine de Rostlaston, widow, to William son and heir of Ralph 
 de Caldewell, of a selion of land in the field of Rostlaston 
 [Rosliston], in Le Nether-Boym. Witnesses : Ralph 
 Godefrey, de Rostlaston ; Ralph Talebot, de eadem ; 
 Nicholas Hopper, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 
 113. GRANT, for nine shillings, half a bushel of corn 
 [frumentum], and half a bushel of fine wheat [siligo], by 
 Nicholas Le Hoppere de Rostlaston to Robert de Mareys 
 de Rostlaston, of an acre and a half of arable land in the 
 fields of Rosliston lying in Ruschefurlong, and in Kalde- 
 wellesunderlondes. Rent, a rose on the F. of SS- Peter 
 
32 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 and Paul [29 June], Witnesses : William de Kaldewelle ; 
 Ralph Thaleboth de Rostlaston ; Thomas Luvel, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill— Edw. I. 
 
 1 14. Grant by Ralph Nech de Cheyle to Walter and 
 Henry, sons of Giliana Nech, his sister, of a half-virgate of 
 arable land in the field of Seal, which Richard, fil. Hugonis 
 Nech his ancestor, had by gift from John Wichard de Cheyle, 
 and a rood of meadow in Boyemedue, near the meadow 
 of the grey monks and the rector's meadow. Annual 
 rent, four shillings. Witnesses : Andrew de Durasthorpe ; 
 Walter de Strettun ; Hugh Maheu de Stretun, etc. Temp. 
 Hen. Ill — Edw. I. With fragment of seal. 
 
 115. Quit-claim by Walter de Sheile to Henry his 
 brother, of a plot of land in Nether Seal. Witnesses : 
 Ralph Wischard de Sheil ; John Oky ; Geoffrey le Fiz, 
 etc. Temp. Hen. Ill— Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 116. GRANT by Ralph Wyschard, fil. et her. Johannis 
 Wyschardi de Seyle, to Agnes de Wylinton and her sons 
 William, Geoffrey, and Robert in succession, of four acres 
 and a rood of arable land in the fields of Seal lying at 
 Oxedich, Wyteleis, Putfurlong, Ravedic, Netherehasel- 
 furlong, etc. Rent, a pair of white gloves at Easter, or a 
 halfpenny. Witnesses : Peter de Doranthorp ; Robert 
 Hasteng ; William Grym, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 With seal. 
 
 117. 118. Grant, in duplicate, by Ralph, fil. et her. Joh. 
 Wyscard de Maiori Seyle, to Agnes de Welynton, of nine 
 acres and a half and a rood of land in Greater Seal, lying 
 on Haddich, Dademorfurlong, Culrewellehul, Wodehullis, 
 Oxedich, Putfurlong, Steyniltrefurlong, Aspefurlong, Ne- 
 therhaselfurlong, and Le Wowclondes. To hold at an 
 annual rent of a pair of white gloves, value one halfpenny, 
 at Easter, to the said Agnes and her sons by William, 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 33 
 
 parson of Lullington, namely, William, Geoffrey, Robert, 
 in succession. Witnesses : William, persona de Stretton ; 
 Peter de Dorandestorp ; John, fil. Radulphi Oky, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill— Edw. I. 
 
 1 19. QUIT-CLAIM by William Halpeni de Edeinghale to 
 Agnes de Wylinton de Maiori Seyl, of two messuages in 
 Greater Seal : the said Agnes and her three sons in suc- 
 cession to hold the same from Ralph Wischard at an 
 annual rent of twelve pence. Witnesses : Dom. Henry, 
 tunc loci capellanus ; Richard de Dorantthorp ; John Oki, 
 etc. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 120. Grant by Ralph Wyschard to Robert Paus and 
 Isabel his wife, of an acre and a half of land in Chirche 
 Scheyle, lying at Le Brendewode, on Lulmeshul, and on 
 Hongindehaseles. Witnesses : Walter de Streton in 
 Scheyle; Geoffrey le Fyz ; John Oky, etc. Temp. Hen. Ill 
 — Edw. I. 
 
 121. Similar grant of half an acre of land lying on Le 
 Brendewode. Same date and witnesses. With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 122. Grant by Ralph Wychard to Henry and Walter^ 
 sons of William Cheep, of half a virgate of land, with a 
 rood of meadow in Lothemedwe, near the meadow of the 
 Grey Monks. Rent, four shillings ; and on the death of 
 the said Henry and Walter one of their best oxen or 
 beasts. Witnesses : Ralph de Burgo, Dominus de Scheyle ; 
 Walter de Stretton, clericus de eadem ; Walter de Gresele, 
 de Dorandesthorp. Temp. Hen. Ill — Edw. I. 
 
 123. Grant by William de Ridware to Peter Le Poher, 
 miles, of the wood which Peter had by feoffment of Hamo 
 Brun in the fee of Great Seal. Witnesses : Dom. William, 
 tunc rector ecclesie de Lullington ; Walter de Bereford 
 
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34 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Robert de Ouirton. Dat. Leicester, the morrow of F. of 
 Beheading of St. John Bapt. [29 Aug.], 1273. 
 
 124. Covenant whereby Amice, quondam uxor Ricardi 
 Nel de Pakinton, quit-claims to Merivale Abbey the vir- 
 gate of land in Seal, which the said Richard granted 
 thereto. Witnesses : Ralph Wischard de Scheyle ; Henry 
 Pachet ; John Godmer. Dat. Fr. bef. F. of St. George, M. 
 [23 Apr.], 1275. With seal. 
 
 125. Grant by Geoffrey de Gresley to William, fil. 
 
 Henrici de , of a tenement in Hutesdon [Hixon]. 
 
 Dat. s Edw. I [1276-7]. Injured by damp. 
 
 126. LEASE, for thirty years, by Geoffrey de Gresley to 
 William, fil. Hugonis de Wasteneys in Hutesdon, of land 
 in Hutesdon. Witnesses : Robert de Bolde ; Adam Morel 
 de Morton ; Robert de Frediswalle, etc. Dat. Michael- 
 mas, 1279. Injured by damp. 
 
 127. Letter, in form of indenture, from Geoffrey de 
 Greseleye, miles, to William de Thamenhorn, informing 
 him that he has given the annual rent of half a mark due 
 to him for the said William's tenement of Thamenhorn, to 
 Robert de Pipe for his lifetime. Dat. Lullington, M. aft. 
 Exalt, of Holy Cross [14 Sept.], 1283. 
 
 128. Confirmation by said Geoffrey to the same Wil- 
 liam de Pipe, of the rent due from William de Tamenhorn. 
 Witnesses : Robert de Freford ; Peter de Colcestre ; 
 Thomas de Lynton, etc. Undated. With seal, broken. 
 
 129. Covenant to settle disputes between William, 
 Abbot of Merivale, and Nicholas de Sadgrave [Segrave] ) 
 made before the Justices Itinerant at Leicester concerning 
 common of pasture in the wood, late belonging to Henry, 
 fil. persone de Scheyle, of Cotes, whereby the Abbey 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 35 
 
 releases all claim to the said wood to the said Nicholas, 
 and grants him permission to enclose the same with hedge 
 and ditch, leaving a way, forty feet wide, for the Abbey's 
 cattle to pass to their pasture in Grymswode and Rosliston. 
 Witnesses : Dom. William Hamelyn ; Dom. Elyas de 
 Oddeston ; Dom. William le Waleys ; William Purfrey ; 
 Robert de Malesoueres. Dat. Th. before F. of St. Martin 
 [u Nov.], 12 Edw. I [1284]. With seal of N. de Segrave 
 
 130. Lease by Dom. William de Gasteneys de Colton, 
 miles, to Robert de Hethecote, of the tenement in Colton 
 which he acquired on lease from William de Steventon. 
 Rent, four shillings. Witnesses : William Griffin de Col- 
 ton ; Robert de Litelhay, de eadem : Geoffrey ad-fraxinum, 
 etc. Dat. Colton, Thurs. bef. F. of Annun. of B.V. Mary 
 [25 Mar.], 15 Edw. I [1287]. With seal. 
 
 131. Lease, for lives, by Peter de Greseleye to Roger, 
 fi.l. Giberti Bochard de Appelby, and Richard his brother, 
 of land in Norton Heath, extending to the fields of 
 Appelby. Witnesses : John de Nortun ; William de 
 Croxhale ; Thomas le Harper de Appelby, etc. Dat. 
 20 Edw. I [1291-2]. 
 
 132. LEASE, for lives, by the same to Roger Gilbert de 
 Appelby and Henry his son, of land in Norton Heath. 
 Same witnesses. Dat, 20 Edw. I [129 1-2]. 
 
 133. Lease, for lives, by the same to John . . . . de 
 Appelby and Roger his son, of land in Norton Heath. 
 Same witnesses. Dat. 20 Edw. I [1291-2]. 
 
 134. Lease, for lives, by the same to Richard Cali de 
 Appelby and Emmota his wife, of land in Norton Heath. 
 Same witnesses. Dat. 20 Edw. I [1291-2]. 
 
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36 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 135. Lease, for lives, by the same to Simon Thomas de 
 Aldustre and Alice his wife, of land in Norton Heath. 
 Same witnesses. Dat 20 Edw. I [129 1-2]. 
 
 136. Lease, for lives, by the same to Robert Franceys 
 de Appelby and Margery his wife, of land in Norton Heath. 
 Same witnesses. Dat. 20 Edw. I [1291-2]. 
 
 137. Lease, for lives, by the same to Roger, fil. Rogeri 
 Johan de Appelby, and Nicholas his brother, of land in 
 Norton Heath. Same witnesses. Dat. 20 Edw. I 
 [1291-2]. . 
 
 138. Lease, for lives, by the same, to Richard Pollard 
 de Aldustre and Margery his wife, of land in Norton Heath. 
 Same witnesses. Dat. 20 Edw. I [129 1-2]. 
 
 139. Lease, for lives, by the same to Nicholas, fil. 
 Hugonis de Aldustre and Margery his wife, of land in 
 Norton Heath, lying on Filowe, Sciremere, and elsewhere. 
 Same witnesses. Dat. 21 Edw. I [1292-3]. 
 
 140. Lease, for lives, by the same to John, fil. Simonis 
 Johan de Appelby, and Richard his brother, of land in 
 Norton Heath. Same witnesses. Dat. 22 Edw. I [1293-4]. 
 
 141. Covenant between Richard, Dominus de Blithe- 
 feld, and Dom. Geoffrey de Greseleye, concerning two 
 virgates of land in Morton, which the former claims against 
 the latter by writ of entry in the King's Court, before John 
 de Beuerewik and others, Justices Itinerant in co. Stafford, 
 whereby both parties swear on the Gospels that they will 
 abide by the award of the arbitrators, namely, Dom. 
 John de Kaue, Richard Spigurnel, Henry de Colton, and 
 Walter de Stretton. Witnesses : William de Scheldon, 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 37 
 
 Prior of Calewich 1 [Calwich, co. Staff.] ; Mag. John de 
 Verneye ; Thomas Greim ; Peter de Gloucestria. Dat. 
 21 Edw. I [1292-3]. 
 
 142. Lease, for lives, by Peter, fil. Galfridi de Gresele, 
 to Simon Colet de Aduluestre and Agnes his wife, of an 
 acre of arable land on Norton Heath : the said land to 
 revert to the lessor's heirs on the death of the longer liver 
 of the two lessees, excepting the crop which at that time 
 may be on the land. Rent, twelve pence. Witnesses : 
 Roger le Freman de Norton ; William de Crocsale, de 
 eadem ; Geoffrey Thorkel, de Aduluestre, etc. Late 
 Edw. I. [Circ. 1294, cf. No. 143.] 
 
 143. Lease, for lives, by Peter, fil. Dom. Galfridi de 
 Gresele, to William, fil. Johannis Fabri de Aduluestre, of 
 three acres of land in Norton Heath. Annual rent, three 
 shillings. Witnesses : Roger Freman de Norton ; William 
 de Crocsale ; Henry Gamel, etc. Dat. June, 22 Edw. I 
 [1294]. 
 
 144. Lease, for seventy- two years, by Thomas Gilbert 
 de Lullinton to Robert le Hunte and Sybil his wife, of a 
 virgate of land in Doranstorp [Donisthorpe]. Rent, five 
 shillings. Witnesses : Nicholas de Ynguerdeby ; William, 
 fil. Elye de Ottherpe ; John le Sauwage ; Richard de la 
 Chapelhous de Doranstorp. Dat. Michaelmas, 23 Edw. I 
 
 [1295]- 
 
 145. Lease, for lives, by Peter de Gresele to Robert de 
 Scheyle and Roger, fil. Rogeri Gilbert de Appleby, of two 
 acres of land in Norton Heath. Rent, sixteen pence. 
 Witnesses : John de Norton William de Croxhale ; Roger 
 Le Fremon. Dat. Christmas Day, 26 Edw. I [1298]. 
 
 1 In Ellaston parish Nicholas de Greseleia, fil. Nigel, founded a 
 convent of Black Friars here and gave it to Kenilworth Priory before 
 1 148. Cf. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffordshire. 
 
38 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 146. GRANT by Geoffrey de Gresele, fill. Willelmi de 
 Gresele, to Henry, fll. Ade de Caluhul, of land in Kingu- 
 stone. Witnesses : Adam, fil. Walteri ; Walter, fil. Ade ; 
 William de Holihurst, etc. Late 13th cent. 
 
 147. GRANT by Dom. Geoffrey de Greseley, miles, to 
 John Didel de Morton, of half an acre of land with 
 meadow adjacent in Morton, formerly held by John Pre- 
 positus, a messuage which Engleys de Morton sometime 
 held, a messuage with twelve acres of arable land, and 
 three acres of meadow which William Didel, father of the 
 above John sometime held, in Morton, an acre of meadow 
 in Colmore, a " forera" of land " apud tres colles gallice 
 thre Lowen" near the King's Highway, and other lands in 
 Morton. Rent, eighteen shillings. Witnesses : Roger de 
 Aston ; Robert de Wolseleye ; William Meuerel, vicarius 
 de Colewich ; Robert de Rydeware. Temp. Edw. I. With 
 seal. 
 
 148. LEASE, for lives, by Geoffrey de Greseylege, Knt, 
 to William, fil. Henrici de le Heth and Alice his wife, of 
 all that land, tenement, and meadow which Henry, father 
 of the lessee, sometime held in Hucesdon [HixonJ. Wit- 
 nesses : Robert le Wyte ; Richard Wymar de Morton ; 
 Robert de Hampton, clericus. Temp. Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 149-151. Three Indentures of lease by Geoffrey de 
 Greseley, the particulars of which are illegible. Temp. 
 Edw. I. 
 
 152. GRANT by Fr. Richard, Prior, and the Priory of 
 Gresley, to Geoffrey de Greseley, fil. et her. Dom. Willelmi 
 de Greseley, of a piece of woodland " cum vestura" in Seal, 
 which the Priory held by grant from William fil. Henrici 
 persone de Seyle. Witnesses : Dom. Henry de Appleby ; 
 Dom. Robert de la Warde ; John Grym. Temp. Edw. I. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 39 
 
 1 S3- Grant by John, fil. Hugonis deCoIton, to William 
 Wisse de Rugelege, of four selions of land in Colton " apud 
 novam terram". Witnesses : William de Puteo de Rugelege ; 
 Richard de Puteo de eadem ; Roger de Staventon, etc. 
 Temp. Edw. I. With seal, broken. 
 
 154. Grant by Thomas, fil. Hugonis de Norton, to Dom. 
 Geoffrey de Gresele, chief lord of Norton, of his capital 
 messuage in the vill of Norton, and land lying on Spellow, 
 Fuadepol, etc. Witnesses: John de No[r]ton ; William 
 de Crocsale ; Richard de Kyngesleye, eo tempore senes- 
 callus. [1270- 1 304.] 
 
 155. GRANT by Robert Champeneys de Magna Scheyle 
 to Robert le Walkere de Scheyle, of a toft with part of the 
 house of the said Robert in the vill of Seal. Rent, a rose, 
 at Midsummer. Witnesses : Ralph Wichard de Sheyle ; 
 William Henri, de eadem ; Ralph Oky, etc. Temp. 
 Edw. I. 
 
 156. Grant by William, fil. Henrici clerici de Magna 
 Sheyle, to Merivale Abbey, of arable land in the field of 
 Seal, namely, beyond Le Chircheweye, near the land some- 
 time belonging to John Oky. Witnesses : Ralph Wis- 
 chard ; Geoffrey de Picwelle ; William Phelipe, etc. Temp. 
 Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 157. Lease and quit-claim by William, fil. Walteri, fil. 
 Willelmi de Henoure, to Roger, fil. Walteri de Rideware, 
 dominus de Seile, his lord, of three half-acres of land in the 
 fields of Seal, lying on Longemeres, Steynildestreforlong, 
 and on Houerewerelondes. Witnesses : Richard de 
 Durandesthorp ; Hugh, fil. Mathei de Stretton ; Ralph 
 ad-boscum, etc. Temp. Edw. I. With seal. 
 
 158. GRANT by John Oky de Linton to Reginald de 
 Hestwode, of two selions of land, in Linton, of which one 
 
40 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 lies in Fuleflow, and the other in Sepeshusfurlong, with 
 three halfpence annual rent, one penny due from Peter de 
 Pecco, and a half-penny from Robert de Beuerley. Rent, 
 a rose at midsummer. Witnesses : John Grym ; Ranulf 
 Oky ; Enge de Greseley, and others. Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 159. Quit-claim by William de Wauere, Abbot, and 
 the Convent of Merivale, to Nicholas de Segrave, of com- 
 mon of pasture for his cattle in Grymswode and Rosliston 
 Wood with a chace in Le Hautboys, so that the said 
 Nicholas may enclose the said woods and have them " in 
 suo separabili" : in exchange for four acres of his wood in 
 Le Hautboys in Seal. The said Nicholas also, with con- 
 sent of John his son and heir, grants to the said Abbey 
 permission to enclose " et in separabili optinere" all that 
 piece of land which they formerly acquired, " ad fugacionem 
 averiorum suorum ad pasturam suam de Grymswode et 
 Rothlastonewode", with land called La Gore. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Geoffrey de Gresele, Robert de la Warde, Theobald 
 de Nevyle, Knights ; Dom. Hugh de Kaue, rectof ecclesie 
 de Clyfton, etc. Temp. Edw. I. With seal of arms of 
 N. de Segrave. 
 
 160. Grant by Ralph Wichard de Scheyle to Henry 
 and Walter, sons of Juliana le Neche de Scheyle, of all the 
 toft and croft which Martin sometime held in Seal. Wit- 
 nesses : John Oky de Scheyle ; Geoffrey le Fys, de eadem ; 
 William Aleyn, de eadem, etc. Temp. Edw. I. With 
 seal. 
 
 161. Quit-claim by Ralph, fil. Johannis Wiscard, to 
 John, fil. Walteri de Wedon, of an acre of arable land in 
 Seal, in Gretteneforlong, with the homage and service of 
 Walter, fil. Willelmi le Neche, and twelve pence rent from 
 a toft and croft which he holds in Seal. Rent, a rose on 
 the F. of SS. Peter and Paul [29 June]. Witnesses : 
 
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 Richard, fil. Petri de Durantistorp ; John Oky ; Ralph de 
 Bosco. Temp. Edw. I. 
 
 162. Lease, for lives, by Peter de Greseleye, fil. et her. 
 Dom. Galfridi de Greseleye, to Nicholas Russel de Appelby 
 and Matilda Hauwys his wife, of three acres of land and a 
 rood of waste land in Norton Heath, near the road leading 
 from Twycros to Clifton, and other land near the same 
 road. Same witnesses. Dat. % Norton, S. aft. F. of St. 
 Dunstan [21 Oct.], 29 Edw. 1 [1301]. 
 
 163. LEASE, for lives, by the same to Richard Pollard 
 de Alduluestre and Ralph his son, of eight acres of land in 
 Norton Heath, lying near the King's highway leading 
 from Alduluestre [Austrey, co. Warw.] towards Norton. 
 Rent, eight shillings. Witnesses : William de Crocsale de 
 Norton : Thomas le Harpour, de Appelby ; William 
 Thorkel, etc. Dat. Norton, Mor. of F. of SS. Tiburtius 
 and Valerian [14 Apr.], 30 Edw. I [1302]. 
 
 164. Lease, for lives, by the same to Simon Colet de 
 Alduluestre and Agnes his wife, of an acre of arable land 
 in Norton Heath. Same witnesses. Undated. 
 
 165. Quit-claim by Peter de Gresele to John de 
 Segrave, of three pieces of waste land in the fields of 
 Gresley, Lynton, Rosliston, Cotene, and Lullington. Dat. 
 Gresley, F. of Inv. of Holy Cross [3 May], 33 Edw. I 
 [1304]. French. 
 
 166. Grant by William de Snarkeston in Meysam to 
 Richard, fil. Rogeri de Nayleston in Snarkeston, of two 
 roods of land at Flote, near the land of the Prior of Repton. 
 Witnesses: Robert de Croumwalle de Meysam ; William 
 Fraunke ; Thomas Wymond, etc. Dat. Snarkeston, Th. 
 bef. F. of St. Luke [18 Oct.], 33 Edw. I [1305]. With seal. 
 
42 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 167. Bond by Robert de Lynton, to give back to Godfrey 
 le Venur two selions of land which he holds as a pledge for 
 a debt of ten shillings, whenever the said Godfrey, after a 
 term of three crops, shall be willing to pay the said sum. 
 Witnesses ■ Nicholas de Bedenhal ; Thomas de Aula ; 
 Henry de Chorleymor. Dat. S. bef. F. of St. Thomas Ap. 
 [21 Dec], 34Edw. I [1305]. 
 
 168. Lease, for lives, by Peter de Greseleye to Robert 
 de Scheyle and Matilda de Aminton, of an acre of land in 
 Norton Heath, on Le Brounhil. Rent, fourteen pence. 
 Witnesses : Henry de Norton ; William de Croxhale ; 
 Roger le Fremon, etc. Temp. Edw. I (late). 
 
 169. Grant by William de Marisco de Rostelaston to 
 William le Waleys de Walton and Agnes his wife, of five 
 acres in Rostliston field, lying at Drakelowemere, Gretten- 
 furlong, Le Toftes, Hungerhill, Le Peteputtes, and 
 Axfurlong (outside the priest's garden). Witnesses : 
 Roger Adam de Walton ; William Dunstan ; Robert de 
 Fynderne, etc. Dat. Rosliston, Th. in Whitsun week 
 [2 June], 1 Edw. II [1308]. 
 
 170. 171. Grant, in duplicate, by John de Meysham, fil. 
 Willelmi de Meysham, to Richard, fil. Rogeri de Nailiston, 
 of three half-acres of land in the field of Meisham 
 [co. Derby], lying on Redhul, Chul towards Fulsiche, 
 Watermedwe, and elsewhere. Witnesses : Robert de 
 Crumbwelle, de Meysham ; William de Swepston, clericus ; 
 John de Nayliston, etc. Dat. Meisham, Morr. of F. of 
 Nat. of St. John Bapt. [25 June], 1 Edw. II [1308]. With 
 seal. 
 
 172. Quit-claim by William, fil. Johannis de Meisham, 
 to Richard, fil. Rogeri de Naileston, of arable land in 
 Meisham ; on Chul towards Fulsiche, between the land 
 of the Prior of Repton, and the land of Roger Henri de 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 43 
 
 Appulby. Witnesses : William de Meisham ; Thomas, 
 fil. Rogeri de Snarkeston ; Nicholas Stake, de eadem, etc. 
 Circ. 1308. 
 
 173. Covenant to settle disputes between Thomas de 
 Rideware, and the Abbey of Merivale, whereby, on the 
 intervention of Walter de Baa and Robert de Stoke, the 
 said Thomas releases to the Abbey all claim to common of 
 pasture in the heath and waste of Shertwode in Over Seal, 
 and in the wood La Gore, on which release the said Abbey 
 is to give the said Thomas a palfrey, etc. Dat. Seal, 
 Wed. aft. F. of St. John a. p. 1. [6 May], 6 Edw. II [1313]. 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 174. GRANT by Thomas de Rideware, Dominus de 
 Magna Sheyle, to Merivale Abbey, that they may enclose 
 their meadow in Great Seal called Le Mormedewe, near 
 le Tounhous, and a certain piece of land before the gate of 
 the sheep fold towards Childecote, in return for which the 
 said Thomas may enclose all his meadow of Seal called 
 Le Mormedewe, the Abbey reserving common of pasture 
 as long as the meadows are not enclosed. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Walter de Baa ; Dom. Richard Le Vernun ;_Dom. 
 Henry de Appulby, knights, etc. Dat. Great Seal, 
 Fr. aft. F. of St. Augustine [26 May], 13 14. With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 175. GRANT by Hugh, clericus de Chirchesheylle, to 
 John le Coupere and Isabella his wife, of land in the fields 
 of Seal, lying on Le Sties, near the land of Gresley Priory, 
 at Mapelenestomb, near the land of Merivale Abbey, at 
 Fouracres and in Dademour. Witnesses : John Oky ; 
 William Wyschard ; Richard Oky, etc. Dat. Seal, S. aft. 
 F. of St. Dunstan [21 Oct.], 9 Edw. II [1315]. 
 
 176. Lease, for twelve years, by John Oky to Roger, fil. 
 Ricardi de Aula de Durantherp, and Cibilla his wife, of a 
 
44 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 messuage in Nether Seal, situated near Le Mulnelone. 
 Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. Witnesses : William Wichard, 
 de Netherscheyl ; Geoffrey le Fiz ; Robert Molendinarius 
 etc. Dat. Seal, S. Vigil of Purif. of the B. V. Mary [i Feb.] 
 9 Edw. II [1316]. 
 
 177. Lease by Stephen de Segrave, in the name of his 
 lord and father, John, Lord of Segrave, to William le 
 Warde, de Cotene, of the Mill of Rosliston, with suit of 
 court. Rent, twenty shillings and sixpence : the said 
 William finding as surety to observe the conditions of the 
 lease Richard Deveneshire de Cotene. Dat. Tues. aft. 
 F. of St. Chad, Bp. [2 Mar.], 9 Edw. II [13 16]. 
 
 178. Confirmation by William Wyschard, fil. Radulfi 
 Wyschard, of a grant by his tenant Hugh, clericus de 
 Chirchesheylle, to John le Coupere de Sheylle and Isabella 
 his wife, of land in the fields of Seal, on payment of annual 
 rent of fourpence to the said William as chief lord. 
 Witnesses : John Oky ; Geoffrey le Fuz ; Robert le Fuz, 
 etc. Dat. Seal, S. aft. F. of Holy Trinity [6 June], 9 Edw. II 
 [1316]. 
 
 179. Grant, for life, by William, fil. Willelmi Wychard, 
 and Geoffrey, Ralph, and Peregrine, his brothers, to their 
 father, William Wychard, of the capital messuage which 
 they acquired by grant from their father, with arable land 
 in the fields of the same town. Rent, a rose, at Mid- 
 summer. Witnesses : Dom. Thomas de Rideware and 
 Henry de Appelbi, milites ; Osbert de Stretton, etc. 
 Dat. Church Seal, F. of Nat. of B. V. Mary [8 Sept.], 
 10 Edw. II [1316]. 
 
 180. Grant by William, fil. Willelmi de Cardewryge de 
 Ouerschell, to Elyas, fil. Willelmi le Herdmon de Cherches- 
 chell, of three roods of land in the fields of Over Seal. 
 Witnesses : John Oky ; Robert le Fiz ; Richard Oky, etc. 
 
THE GRESLEV CHARTERS. 45 
 
 Dat. Church Seal, Tu. on F. of St. Thomas [21 Dec], 
 IO Edward II [1316]. Copy. 
 
 181. LEASE, for lives, by Geoffrey, fil. et her. Dom Petri 
 de Greselegh, militis, to Agnes, relicta Willelmi de 
 Chesturschyre de Hughtesdon and Michael her son, of a 
 moiety of one virgate of land and meadow in Hughtesdon 
 [Hixon], which the said William held during his life from 
 the said Geoffrey. Witnesses : Roger de Aston ; Richard 
 de Blythefeld ; Henry le Whyte de Hughtesdon, and others. 
 Dat. Morton, S. aft. F. of St. Peter in cathedra [22 Feb.], 
 10 Edw. II [13 17]. 
 
 182. Grant by Andrew, fil. Radulfi Wyschard, to 
 Osbert, fil. Walteri Domini de Stretton, of two cottages, 
 with land, in Church Seal. Witnesses : Dom. Henry de 
 Appelby, miles ; John Oky ; Richard Henry ; Robert 
 Dyvelyn de Stretton. Dat. F. of Ann. of B. V. Mary 
 [25 Mar.], 10 Edw. II [13 17]. 
 
 183. Lease, for twenty years, by William Champeney 
 de Nethere Sheyle to John de Normynton, miller, of a plot 
 of land in Nether Seal lying near Mill Lane. Rent, a 
 rose, at midsummer ; but after the term of twenty years, 
 twenty shillings yearly. Witnesses : Geoffrey le Fiz ; 
 William Wychard ; John Oky, etc. Dat. F. of St. Am- 
 brose [4 Apr.], 10 Edw. II [13 17]. With seal. 
 
 184 GRANT by Ralph, fil. Radulfi de Seyle, to Robert 
 Paus de Sheylle, of a rood of land in Church Seal. Wit- 
 nesses : Robert le Fuz ; Richard Oky ; Geoffrey le Fuz, 
 etc. Dat. M. aft. F of St. John Bapt. [24 June], 10 Edw. II 
 [13 17]. With seal. 
 
 185. GRANT by Geoffrey, fil. Petri de Greseleye, to 
 Hugh Gernon, persona ecclesie de Ylkesleye, of all his 
 manor of Morton, with villeins, their "sequele", chattells, 
 
46 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 etc., and all his lands, and tenements which the said 
 Geoffrey holds in Morton and Huccesdon [Hixon]. The 
 said Geoffrey grants to the said Hugh all the rents which 
 Thomas, Peter, Edmund, Robert, and Roger, his brothers 
 hold on lease from Peter de Greseleye his father in the 
 same places, together with the manor of Hyngeston and 
 the mill there. Witnesses : Roger de Aston ; Richard de 
 Blythefelt ; Adam de Ruggelye ; Richard de Wolseleye, 
 etc. Dat. F. of Ann. of B. V. Mary [25 Mar.], 11 Edw. II 
 [13 1 8]. With seal of arms (rim broken). 
 
 186. Quit-claim by William Le Fiz de Maiori Scheie 
 to Roger Reyner de Cliftun, of arable land in Seal, lying 
 on Longefurlong. Witnesses : Geoffrey le Fiz de Scheyle; 
 Richard Okey ; William, clericus de Scheyle, etc. Dat. 
 Vig. of Ascension [1 June], 11 Edw. II [13 18]. 
 
 187. GRANT by Robert, fil. Roberti Le Fyz de Chirche- 
 sheyle to Dom. Richard de Twyford, capellanus, of two 
 pieces of land in Church Seal, lying on Gosemedwe, and 
 five acres of land in Seal lying on Stonyfurlong, Aymeshul, 
 Fernyfurlong, Caldwellehul, and elsewhere. Dat. F. of St. 
 Vincent [22 Jan.], 13 Edw. II [1320]. 
 
 188. Covenant between John Okey and Sire William 
 de la Warde for the marriage of John, eldest son of the 
 former, with Maud de Schftynton, " su nurrie". Dat. 
 Alduluestre [Austrey], Fr. F. of St. Benedict [21 Mar.], 
 13 Edw. II [1320]. French. 
 
 189. Grant by John Oky, Senior, to his son John Oky, 
 of all his lands and tenements in Nether Seal. Witnesses : 
 William Wychard ; Richard Henry ; Clement Pachet ; 
 Henry Drake de Tamworth, confector presentis carte, etc. 
 Dat. 5 Id. Apr. [9 Apr.], 13 Edw. II [1320]. With seal. 
 
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 190. Similar grant of all his goods and chattels in Nether 
 Seal. Same date. 
 
 191, 192. LEASE, and counterpart, by John Oky, junior, to 
 his father John Oky, senior, for his life, of a messuage and 
 virgate of land in Nether Seal. Rent, a rose at midsummer 
 Witnesses : Jerard de Seckyndon ; William Wychard de 
 Sheyle ; Clement Pachet, etc. Dat. Wed. aft. F. of St. 
 Augustine [May 26], 13 Edw. II [1320]. 
 
 193, 194. Lease, and counterpart, by John Oky, junior, 
 to John Oky, senior, for his life, of a moiety of a virgate of 
 land in Nether Seal, the latter covenanting to supply food 
 and clothing to the said John his son and Matilda his wife. 
 Same witnesses and date. 
 
 195. Grant by William de Brewode, of Church Seal, to 
 Ralph his son, of six acres of land in Nether Seal. Wit- 
 nesses : William Wychard ; John Oky ; Robert Miller, 
 etc. Dat. F. of St. Barnabas [11 June], 13 Edw. II [1320]. 
 
 196. GRANT by William, fil. Henrici le Fuz de 
 Sheylle, to William, fil. Roberti le Fuz, de Sheylle, 
 of land in the fields of Church Seal, lying on Wytehull, 
 Lyllemeshull, and Cliftondygk. Witnesses : John Oky ; 
 William Wyschard ; Richard Henry, etc. Dat. F. of St 
 Matthew [21 Sept.], 14 Edw. II [1320]. 
 
 197. Lease, for thirty years, by Richard Durant, de 
 Walton super Trent, to William Talebot de Rostelaston, 
 of land in Walton, lying on Le Breche, etc. Rent, a rose, 
 at midsummer. Witnesses : William Dunstan de Wallton ; 
 John Traynel, de eadem, and others. Dat. Michaelmas, 
 14 Edw. II [1320]. 
 
 198. Lease, for lives, by Thomas de Rideware Ham- 
 stall, miles, to Gilbert Henry de Yoxhale, and to his sons 
 
48 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 William, Richard, and John, in succession, of one virgate 
 of land in Church Seal which Henry Oky sometime held. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Tweyford, capellanus ; 
 William Vichard de Scheyle, etc. Dat. Seal, F. of Cir- 
 cumcision, 14 Edw. II [1321]. With seal. 
 
 199. Lease by Richard Toucchet de Snarkeston to 
 Osbert de Stretton, Dominus de Stretton, of an acre of 
 arable land in Church Seal. Witnesses : John Oky de 
 Sheylle ; Robert Le Fuz ; Richard Oky, and others. Dat. 
 Seal, Thursd. aft. F. of St. Agatha [5 Feb.], 14 Edw. II 
 [1321]. 
 
 200. Grant by Richard Henry de Magna Scheyle to 
 Merivale Abbey, of arable land in Nether Seal, lying at 
 Colrewallemor, in exchange for arable land in Over Seal, 
 lying on Le Flates. Witnesses : William Wychard ; John 
 Oky ; Clement Pachet. Dat. Seal, F. of St. Peter ad 
 vincula [1 Aug.], 16 Edw. II [1322]. With seal. 
 
 201. GRANT by Ralph Mechel de Roslaston to William 
 Talbot, junior, de Roslaston, of land in Rosliston. Wit- 
 nesses : Robert Fabel ; Stephen le Warde ; William le 
 Warde. Dat. Rosliston, Tu. aft. F. of St. Luke [18 Oct.], 
 16 Edw. II [1322]. 
 
 202. Quit-claim by Matilda Gilbert de Lullinton, 
 widow, to William, fil. Radulfi Wychard de Maiori Sheyl, 
 of a tenement with houses built thereon in Seal, which she 
 acquired by grant from John de Lullinton her brother. 
 Witnesses : Thomas Walrand de Lullinion ; John Oky ; 
 Richard Henry. Dat. Seal, F. of Ann. of B. V. Mary 
 [25 Mar.], 16 Edw. II [1323]. 
 
 203. Grant by Robert Nichol de Rostelaston to Wil- 
 liam Talebot, senior, de Rostelaston, of two parts of a 
 messuage and of land in Rosliston, which he formerly held, 
 
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 as it was divided between him and Cecily his late daughter. 
 Witnesses : Richard Mareys ; Robert Mareys ; Ralph 
 Michel, etc. Dat. F. of Ascension [5 May], 16 Edw. II 
 [1323]- 
 
 204. Grant by Hugh, clericus de Maiori Sheylle, to 
 William, fil. Roberti Le Fiz, de eadem Sheylle, of arable 
 land in Great Seal, lying in Heye Mukelhull. Witnesses : 
 John Oky ; Richard Henry ; Clement Pachet, etc. Dat. 
 M. aft. F. of St. Edith Virg. [14 May], 16 Edw. n [1323]. 
 
 205. Quit-claim by Mariota, relicta quondam Willelmi 
 Huelin, de Meisham in comitatu Derbeye, to William, fil. 
 Radulphi Wychard de Chirchesheyle, of a tenement in 
 Seal which the said William had by grant from John de 
 Lullinton. Witnesses : John Oky ; Richard Henry ; 
 William, clericus de Scheyl, and others. Dat. S. aft. F. of SS. 
 Peter and Paul [29 June], 16 Edw. II [1323]. With seal. 
 
 206. GRANT by William, clericus de Maiori Sheyle, to 
 John, fil. Willelmi, fil. Galfridi, atte Wode de eadem villa, 
 of arable land in the fields of Great Seal, " in cultura que 
 dicitur atte Rede Forde", one head of which abuts on the 
 meadow of the Rector of Seal, which is called Tithe- 
 medewe, and the other on Caldewallehil. Witnesses : 
 Osbert, Dominus de Stretton ; John Oky ; William 
 Wychard. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. Laurence [2 Feb.], 
 17 Edw. II [1324]- 
 
 207. 208. LEASE, in duplicate, by John, fil. et her. Walteri 
 de Stratton de Churche Scheyl, to Mag. William de Palles- 
 word and Margery his wife, of a messuage in Church Seal, 
 lying within the messuage of Thomas de Rideware, miles, 
 which Margery de Blacfordeby holds for life from the said 
 Thomas. Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. Witnesses : John 
 Oky; William Wychard; Richard Oky, etc. Dat. W. 
 aft. Epiphany [6 Jan.], 18 Edw. II [1325]- 
 
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 209. Quit-claim by John, fil. Walteri de Stratton, to 
 Mag. William de Polleswort and Margery his wife, of the 
 tenement which he now holds in Great Seal. Witnesses : 
 John Oky ; Richard Henri ; Richard Oky. Dat. Seal, F. 
 of St. Matthias [24 Feb.], 18 Edw. II [1325]. 
 
 210. Grant by William Bate de Durandesthorp to 
 John, fil. Walteri de Strettona and Isabella his wife, 
 daughter of the grantor, of his capital messuage in Church 
 Seal, and all his meadows, tenements, rents, services, and 
 reversions in Church Seal, Over Seal, Donisthorpe, and 
 Okttorp [Oakthorpe], co. Leic. Witnesses : Roger de 
 Aula de Durandesthorp ; Roger del Chapelhous ; John 
 Mold, etc. Dat. Trinity Sunday [2 June], 18 Edw. II 
 [1325]- 
 
 211. Grant by Hugh le Clerc de Sheyle to Dom. 
 Thomas de Rydeware, miles, Dominus de Sheyle and 
 Dom. Isabella his wife, of a " forera" [? headland] of land 
 in Church Seal, lying in Le Haselfeld. Witnesses : John 
 Oky ; Richard Henry ; Richard Oky, etc. Dat. Fr. after 
 F. of St. Germain, Bp. [31 July], 19 Edw. II [1325]. With 
 seal. 
 
 212. Grant by John, fil. et her. Johannis Oky, with his 
 father's consent, to John in le Huyrne de Sheylle, of half 
 an acre of land in the fee of Seal, lying in Le Wode- 
 hullus, and abutting on the monks' wood. Witnesses : 
 William Wyschard ; Richard Henry ; Robert Oky. Dat. 
 F. of St. Martin [11 Nov.], 19 Edw. II [1325]. 
 
 213. 214. Grant, in duplicate, by Geoffrey, fil. et her. 
 Petri de Gresleye, militis, to Alice, fil. Reginaldi le Blake 
 de Longcdon and to Adam her son, of a messuage and 
 moiety of a virgate of land in Huttesdon al. Hughtesdon 
 [Hixon], late held by Oding in-le-Hurne. Rent, una 
 galanda rosarum, at Midsummer, and twenty shillings 
 
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 yearly to Richard, the grantor's brother, for all services and 
 customs, saving two appearances at the grantor's court at 
 Morton Manor at Easter and Michaelmas. Witnesses : 
 Geoffrey de Wasteneys ; Philip de Chetewynd ; Henry de 
 Heywode, etc. Dat. M. bef. F. of St. Mark [25 Apr.], 
 1 Edw. Ill [1327]. 
 
 215. Warrant to the Sheriff of co. Leicester to deliver 
 seisin of the third part of a messuage, with meadow, in 
 Church Seal, which William Wichard de Sheyle, Senior, 
 has recovered in the King's Court against John Dicsone de 
 Tarn worth and Alice his wife by assise of new disseisin. 
 Dat. Loughborough, 21 Sept., 1 Edw. Ill [1327]. 
 
 216. GRANT by John, fil. Johannis Oky, to Robert, fil. 
 Willelmi de Brewode, of a rood of land in Sheyle, lying on 
 Wodehull. Witnesses : William Wischard de Sheyle ; 
 Richard Henry ; Richard Oky. Dat. S. bef. F. of St. 
 Thomas [21 Dec], 1 Edw- III [1327]. 
 
 217. Lease, for lives, by Geoffrey, fil. et her. Petri de 
 Greseley, militis, to Richard, fil. Thome de Borenton and 
 Avice his wife, of a messuage in Huccesdon. Witnesses : 
 Roger de Aston ; William le Freynche ; William Bisschop, 
 and others. Dat. 1 Edw. Ill [1327-8]. 
 
 218. Grant by Hugh, clericus de Chirchesheyl, to 
 Hemeric, fil. Willelmi de Brewod, of arable land in the 
 field of Church Seal. Witnesses ; Roger, Dominus de 
 Dorentesthorpe ; John Oky ; William Wichard, etc. Dat. 
 Seal, F. of St. Vincent [22 Jan.], 1 Edw. Ill [1328]. 
 
 219. Grant by John Oky, Senior, and John his son, to 
 William, fil. Willelmi de Brewod in Sheyl, and Robert his 
 brother, of two roods of land in Nether Seal, " in cultura 
 qua dicitur Lacressement." Witnesses : William Wichard ; 
 
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52 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Richard Henrici ; Richard Oky. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. 
 Valentine [14 Feb.], 3 Edw. Ill [1329]. With seal. 
 
 220. Grant by William, clericus, fil. Radulphi Attewode 
 de Chirchesheyl, to Dom. Ralph dictus Waleys de Shepes- 
 heued, capellanus, of a selion of land in the field of Church 
 Seal on Wodehilles. Witnesses : Dom. Edmund de Ap- 
 pelby, mil. ; Dom. William de Staunton, mil. ; Hugh, 
 persona de Sheyl ; John Oky, etc. Dat. Seal, S. aft. F. of 
 St. Matthias [24 Feb.], 3 Edw. Ill [1329]. 
 
 221. Quit-claim by John, fil. Walteri de Stretton, to 
 Ralph, fil. Willelmi Wychard de Sheyl, of twelve pence 
 annual rent issuing from his tenement in Church Seal, and 
 of an acre of arable land in Gretenefurlong in the same 
 place, being in the hands of Richard Tuchet de Snarkeston. 
 Witnesses : John Oky ; Richard Henrici ; Dom. Ralph, 
 capellanus de Sheyl, etc. Dat. S. bef. F. of St. Margaret 
 [20 July], 3 Edw. Ill [1329]. 
 
 222. Grant by William, fil. et her. Radulfi Wyschard de 
 Sheyle, to Peregrine his son, chaplain, of the messuage 
 with houses built thereon, etc., in Seal (which houses 
 Robert, fil. Henrici le Fuz, Rachel his wife, and Robert 
 their son, hold for their lives), with reversion, if the said 
 Peregrine die, " sine assignato per litteram suam constituto 
 in forma iuris", to Ralph his brother, son of the grantor. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Edmund de Appelby, miles ; Dom. 
 William, rector ecclesie de Stretton ; John Oky, etc. Dat. 
 S. aft. F. of Inv. of Holy Cross [3 May], 4 Edw. Ill 
 [i33o]. 
 
 223. Covenant of lease by Dom. Isabel de Rideware, 
 to John, dictus Blunt, of that messuage in Seal in which 
 the latter dwells with Cecily his wife, and ten acres of 
 arable land which the said Cecily acquired on lease from 
 Dom. Thomas de Rideware for her life in the fields of 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 53 
 
 Seal. Witnesses : William, dictus Heyward ; Richard 
 Loret ; Emeric Oky, etc. Dat. Wed. aft. F. of St. 
 Barnabas [11 June], 4 Edw. Ill [1330]. 
 
 224. Grant by William, fil. Willelmi Wychard de 
 Chirchesheyl, to Dom. Peregrine his brother, chaplain, of 
 arable land in the fields of Church Seal, lying on Dademor, 
 Wowelondes (near the land of Dom. Isabella de Rideware), 
 Wodefeld, " in cultura de Oxedich", and at Chirchebrigg 
 in Estfeld. Witnesses : Dom. Edmund de Appelby, 
 miles ; Hugh, persona de Sheyl ; Mag. William, persona 
 de Stretton, etc. Dat. W. aft. Nat. of St. John Bapt. 
 [24 June], 4 Edw. Ill [1330]. With seal. 
 
 225. Grant by the same to the same, with Ralph their 
 brother, of arable land in Church Seal, lying in Dademor, 
 Wodefeld on Oxedich, Estfild at Chirchebrigg, and on 
 Wowelondes. Rent, a rose, at midsummer. Same wit- 
 nesses and date. With seal. 
 
 226. Grant by John Okey de Sheyl, senior, to Dom. 
 Ralph dictus Waleys, capellanus de Shepesheued, of arable 
 land in Church Seal lying at Wylkesforde. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Edmund de Appelby, mil. ; William de Staunton, 
 mil.; William Wychard, etc. Dat. W. bef. F. of St 
 Dunstan [21 Oct.], 4 Edw. Ill [1330]. 
 
 227. LEASE, for lives, by Geoffrey de Gresley to William 
 de le Heth and Alice his wife, of land in Huxtesdon 
 [Hixon]. Dat. Easter [4 Edw. Ill 1330]. 
 
 At the back, a similar lease to Richard, fil. Margerie 
 [le Heth] in the same place. Dat. 4 Edw. Ill [1330]. 
 Much damaged by damp. 
 
 228. Confirmation by William, fil. Radulphi Wychard, 
 of his son William's grant [cf. Nos. 224, 225] of three 
 acres and a half of land in Seal, to Dom. Peregrine, chap- 
 
54 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 lain, his son. Witnesses : Dom. William de Staunton and 
 Edmund de Appelby, milites ; John Oky, etc. Dat. F. of 
 Ass. of B. V. Mary [15 Aug.], 5 Edw. Ill [1331]- With 
 seal. 
 
 229. LEASE by Dame Isabel de Rideware, Dame de 
 Sheyl, to Margery dau. of William Morel de Falde, of the 
 tenement and the ten acres of arable land which John le 
 Blunt held in Seal. Witnesses : John Oky ; William 
 Phelip ; William Heyward. Dat. Michaelmas Day, 5 
 Edw. Ill [1331]. French. 
 
 230. Grant by William, fil. Roberti le Fiz de Chirche- 
 sheyl, to Dom. Ralph Waleys, capellanus de Shepesheued, 
 of three selions of arable land lying together in Henginde- 
 haseles in Church Seal. Witnesses : William Wychard ; 
 John Oky ; Richard Oky, etc. Dat. W. aft. F. of St. 
 Cedde, Bp. [2 Mar.], 6 Edw. Ill [1332]. 
 
 231. GRANT by Geoffrey Wychard to Dom. Ralph 
 Walsche, of half an acre of land on Brendewode in Nether 
 Seal. Witnesses : Richard Loret ; William Clerk ; Richard 
 Hanri, etc. Dat. F. of St. John Baptist [24 June], 6 Edw. 
 Ill [1332]. With seal. 
 
 232. Grant by Ralph Le Walsche, de Schepesheued, 
 capellanus, to John, fil. Sibille Schot de Kyngesbromle, of 
 Seal, of three acres and a half and a rood of arable land in 
 Nether Seal, with remainder, if the said John die without 
 direct heirs, to William his brother. Rent, six pence, on 
 St. Barnabas Day. Witnesses : William Wychart ; Richard 
 Loret ; John Oky, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. James [25 
 July], 6 Edw. Ill [1332]. 
 
 233. 234. Final Concord, with counterpart, whereby 
 William, fil. Willelmi Wychard, conveys to William, fil. 
 Radulphi Wychard, a messuage and land in Nether Seal. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 55 
 
 Dat. Midsummer Term (and subsequently at Martinmas 
 Term). 6 Edw. Ill [1332]. 
 
 235. Grant by Richard Henry de Sheyle to Robert, fil. 
 Willelmi de Brewod de Scheyle, of arable land in the field 
 of Seal, near the cross standing in Le Lycheweye. 
 Witnesses : John Oky ; Richard Lorret; William Phelipp ; 
 etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. Philip and St. James [1 May], 
 7 Edw. Ill [1333]. 
 
 236. LEASE, for life, by Margaret que fuit uxor Galfridi 
 de Greselegh to Adam in le Mor de Wolseleye, of a moiety 
 of the messuage and tenement which William de Morhay 
 holds from the said Margaret in Morton ; with remainder 
 on the said Adam's death, to John, fil. Willelmi de 
 Bylynton, and Lettice his wife for their lives. Witnesses : 
 Thomas, fil. Felicie de Wolseleye ; John Abotheway ; 
 William Rydel, etc. Dat. Morton, F. of St. Hilary 
 [13 Jan.], 7 Edw. Ill [1334]. 
 
 237. Grant by William de Brewode de Scheyl to 
 William, his elder son, and his heirs, of one part of his 
 messuage, with arable land in Seal. Witnesses : William 
 Phelip ; Richard Loret ; John Oky, etc. Dat. S. bef. F. of 
 St. Barnabas [11 Jan.], 8 Edw. Ill [1334]. 
 
 238. Quit-claim by Richard, fil. Hemerici Oky, pistoris 
 de Scheyl to Hemeric de Brewod, of the arable land in 
 Seal, which Hemeric his father granted to John de 
 Barynton. Witnesses : William Wichard ; John Oky ; 
 Richard Loret, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. Barnabas 
 [11 June], 8 Edw. Ill [1334]- 
 
 239. Grant by Clement Pachet de Sheyle to John, fil. 
 Willelmi, fil. Galfridi de Sheyle, and to Henry, son of the 
 said Clement, of land in Great Seal ; with reversion on the 
 said John's death to the grantor and Isabella his wife. 
 
56 THE GRESLEV CHARTERS. 
 
 Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. Witnesses : John de Stondle, 
 rector of Seal ; William Wyschard ; Richard de Stretton. 
 Dat, M. aft. F. of St. Clement [17 Nov.], 8 Edw. Ill 
 [1334]- 
 
 240. Quitclaim by Margaret que fuit uxor Galfridi 
 de Greseleye to Matilda que fuit uxor Ricardi Wymare, of 
 a messuage and bovate of- land in Morton. Dat. Morton, 
 Christmas Eve, 8 Edw. Ill [1334]. With seal. 
 
 241. Grant by Hemeric Brewod de Sheyl to Robert 
 his brother, of a rood of arable land at Le Brendewod in 
 Seal, which the said Hemeric formerly acquired by grant 
 from Robert Paus de Sheyl. Witnesses : John Oky ; 
 William Phelip ; Ralph de Brewod, etc. Dat. S. aft. the 
 Octave of Epiphany [6 Jan.], 8 Edw. Ill [1335]. 
 
 242. Lease, for lives, by Margaret que fuit uxor Galfridi 
 de Greseleye to Adam, fil. Radulphi de Hampton and Joan 
 his wife, of a messuage in Morton. Rent, sixteen pence 
 " et metent cum uno homine in autumpno per unum diem 
 et facient duas apparencias ad curiam meam de Morton". 
 Witnesses : Hugh le Whyte ; William atte Broc ; Henry 
 de Kyngeston, etc. Dat. Morton, W. aft. Octave of St. 
 Hilary [13 Jan.], 10 Edw. Ill [1336]. 
 
 243. Covenant whereby James de Stafford, Knight, 
 and Dame Isabel his wife, with consent of Hemery, son 
 and heir of William, fil. Geoffrey, le Fuz de Scheyl, to 
 Richard Lorret de Scheyl, of the ward and marriage of 
 Lucy, Margery and Rachel, daughters and heirs of the 
 late Robert, fil. Geoffrey le Fuz. Dat. S. aft. F. of Pur. of 
 B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 10 Edw. Ill [1336]. French. 
 
 244. Quit-claim by John, fil. Walteri de Stretton, to 
 Robert le Fitz de Sheyle, of the rents and services of Henry 
 Chepe de Sheyle issuing from a messuage in Seal, which the 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 57 
 
 said Robert acquired for his life, by grant from Richard, fil. 
 Alicie de Snarkeston. Witnesses : John Neel ; Richard 
 le Meleward ; William le Hayward. Dat. M. aft. F. of 
 Inv. of Holy Cross [3 May], 10 Edw. Ill [1336]. With 
 seal, broken. 
 
 245. Lease by Richard le Mareys de Rostelaston to 
 William, fil. Willelmi Talbot de eadem, and Cecily his 
 wife, of three selions of arable land in the fields of Rosliston, 
 lying on Sonderlondus, Southfield, and Gratterfurlong. 
 Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. Witnesses : William Talbot, 
 senior ; Robert le Mareys ; William le Warde de Coton, 
 etc. Dat. Rosliston, M. aft. F. of St. Thomas, M. [21 Dec], 
 
 10 Edw. Ill [1336]. 
 
 246. Grant by Robert Paus de Sheyle to Robert de 
 Brewod, of a selion lying on Lylmyshull in the field of Seal. 
 Witnesses : John Oky ; William Wychard ; Richard 
 Lorret, etc. Dat. M. aft. F. of St. Ambrose [4 Apr.], 
 
 11 Edw. Ill [1337]. 
 
 247. Grant by John, fil. et her. Johannis Oky de 
 Magna Scheyle to William, fil. Roberti le Fitz de Sheyle 
 and Agnes his wife, of arable land in Mapelenestub in 
 Great Seal. Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. Witnesses: 
 Robert le Clerk de Sheyle ; William le Hayward de 
 eadem, frater eius ; William Attewode, etc. Dat. Whit- 
 Sunday [8 June], 11 Edw. Ill [1337]. 
 
 248. Grant by John Oky de Scheyl to William, fil. 
 Radulfi Wychard de eadem, of three roods of arable land 
 in Le Rowdyche in Seal, with the option of holding the 
 same on lease on the expiration of fifteen years, at a rent 
 of thirty shillings, yearly. Witnesses : William Wychard ; 
 Richard Lorret ; Richard Henry, etc. Dat. S. aft. Michael- 
 mas Day, 11 Edw. Ill [1337]. 
 
58 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 249. Quit-claim by Henry Chep de Sheyle to John, fil. 
 Rogeri de Meysham, of the messuage which the former's 
 sisters, Matilda and Isabella, sometime held for their lives, 
 in Seal. Witnesses : Dom. William, rector ecclesie de 
 Stretton ; Richard de Stretton ; John Oky, etc. Dat. Fr. 
 aft. F. of Cone, of B. V. Mary [8 Dec], 11 Edw. Ill [1337]. 
 
 250. Grant by John Nel de Scheyl to John Wylkyn de 
 eadem, of arable land in Seal, "inthestfeld super Stoni- 
 forlong". Witnesses : John Oky ; William Hanry ; 
 Richard Lorret, etc. Dat. S. aft. Epiphany [6 Jan.], 
 11 Edw. Ill [1338]. 
 
 251. Grant by Robert, fil. Roberti le Fiz de Nether- 
 sheyl, to Robert de Brewod, of arable land in Seal, on 
 Chirchehul, between the land which John, molendinarius, 
 holds from the Priory of Gresley, and the land which 
 Gilbert Henry holds from the Lord of Seal. Witnesses : 
 William Wichard ; Richard Loret ; William Attewod, etc. 
 Dat. F. of St. Nicholas [6 Dec], 12 Edw. Ill [1338]. 
 
 252. Settlement of suits and disputes between Dom. 
 Ralph de Sheyle, capellanus, and John Wylkyn, de eadem, 
 concerning the boundaries, etc., of their respective lands 
 in Seal. Witnesses : Clement Pachet ; Henry Neel ; 
 John Oky, etc. Dat. Seal, F. of Ascension [25 May], 
 14 Edw. Ill [1340]. 
 
 253. Lease by John, fil. Galfridi de Greseleye, to Henry 
 Sauvage and Richard, fil. Matillis Fraunceys, of thirteen 
 acres of land in Norton iuxta Twycros. Witnesses : 
 Edmund de Greseley ; John Othe Grene ; and William de 
 Pakeman. Dat. Norton, M. aft. F. of St. Katharine 
 [25 Nov.], 14 Edw. Ill [1340]. 
 
 254. Lease, for lives, by James de Stafford, mil., and 
 Isabel his wife, to William, fil. Rose Oky, of an acre of 
 
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 land in the fields of Seal. Rent, nine pence. Witnesses : 
 Dom. John de Horseleye, rector ecclesie de Scheyle ; 
 William Attewode ; Richard Loret, etc. Dat. Sat. aft. F. 
 of St. Barnabas [11 June], 15 Edw. Ill [1341]. 
 
 255. GRANT by Rose Oky to Dom. William her son, 
 chaplain, of a half acre and a rood of land in the fields of 
 Seal, lying on Wyhul and on Unduryohul. Witnesses : 
 Richard Loreth de Scheyle ; William Phelyp ; William 
 Attewode, etc. Dat. F. of Pur. of B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 
 16 Edw. Ill [1342]. With seal. 
 
 256. GRANT by Margaret de Greseleye to John Wymare 
 de Morton, his servant, of all that land in Colton, at Le 
 Newelond, which she acquired by grant from Nicholas de 
 Chaueleye. Witnesses : Nicholas de Chaueleye de Blethe- 
 buri ; Richard Colet del Newelond ; Edmund de Greseleye, 
 junior. Dat. "apud le Newelond", F. of St. Gregory 
 [12 Mar], 16 Edw. Ill [1342]. 
 
 257. Power of Attorney from William de Leycestre, 
 Abbot of Merivale, to Richard de Passemere and John de 
 Lee, to deliver seisin to Edmund de Appelby and Dame 
 Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies begotten, of a 
 toft and meadowland called Bussewell, etc. Dat. Merivale, 
 F. of St. Denis [9 Oct.], 16 Edw. Ill [1342]. French. 
 
 258. Letters Patent of Peregrine Wyschard, capel- 
 lanus, whereby he appoints his brother Ralph Wyschard 
 his perpetual assign to hold during his life that messuage 
 with houses standing thereon, orchards, etc., in Church 
 Seal, which Robert, fil. Henrici le Fiz, Rachel his wife, and 
 Robert their son, at present hold for their lives. And for 
 the better strengthening of this appointment he has caused 
 this deed to be sealed with the seal of Walter, Decanus 
 Christianitatis Coventrensis et subsequestrator decanatus. 
 Witnesses : Roger le Mason de Couentre ; John de Sheyle, 
 
60 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 de Couentre ; Stephen de Wynturton, de Coventre, etc. 
 Dat. Coventry, Th. aft. F. of Conv. of St. Paul [25 Jan.], 
 1344. With seals, broken. 
 
 259. Lease by Ralph, fil. Willelmi Wyschard de Sbeyle, 
 to William Wyschard his brother, of all that land and 
 messuage, with houses and dovecots built upon it, and 
 orchard, pool, etc., in Church Seal, which William his father 
 gave to him, the said Ralph, and to Dom. Peregrine, 
 capellanus, jointly : and other land and meadow in the 
 same place, which William his brother and John Oky gave 
 to the said Dom. Peregrine. Witnesses : Mag. William de 
 Pollusworth, clericus de Sheyle ; John Oky ; William 
 Henry, etc. Dat. Easter Monday [5 Apl.], 18 Edw. Ill 
 [I344]- 
 
 260. Lease, for lives, by Dom. James de Stafford, mil, 
 and Dom. Isabel his wife, to Richard de Notinkham, of 
 Seal, and Alice his wife, of a messuage in Seal. Rent, 
 four shillings and sixpence. Witnesses : William Phelip ; 
 Richard Loret ; William Attewod, etc. Dat. F. of St. 
 George [23 Apr.], 18 Edw. Ill [1344]. 
 
 261. Lease, for life, by Thomas de Gasteneys, Knt, and 
 Joan his wife, to John de Gasteneys, his brother, of a 
 messuage of arable land and meadow in Brassingburgh 
 [Braceborough, co. Line] and Gretford, formerly belonging 
 to Geoffrey de Burton. Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. 
 Witnesses : Ralph Mortimer ; Geoffrey West ; William 
 Charite, etc. Dat. Brassingburgh, Th. aft. F. of SS. Philip 
 and James [1 May], 18 Edw. Ill [1344]. With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 262. GRANT by William Scot de Rostelaston to Dom. 
 Adam Gould, capellanus, and Richard Austyn de 
 Herlaston, of a messuage and land in Rosliston and Coton 
 which the said William inherited on the death of Richard 
 
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 and Margery Scot, his father and mother, with the goods, 
 chattels, and growing crops on the same land, and the 
 reversion of three acres of land which Nicholas le Meleward 
 holds for his life in Coton. Witnesses : Stephen le 
 Warde ; William Talbot ; Richard Isbel, etc. Dat. Ros- 
 liston, F. of Ass. of B. V. Mary [15 Aug.], 18 Edw. Ill 
 [1344]- 
 
 263, 264. GRANT, and counterpart, by William, fil. 
 Willelmi, fil. Radulphi Wychard, to Ralph Wychard, his 
 brother, of the messuage with houses and dovecots standing 
 upon it, orchard, pool, etc., in Church Seal : with two acres 
 of arable land there, lying on Oxdygch and on Cademour 
 near Le Priorrusakur of the Abbey of Merivale. Rent, 
 eighteen silver pence. Witnesses : Mag. William de 
 Pollusworth de Sheyle ; William Attewode ; John Oky, 
 etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of Pur. of B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 19 
 Edw. Ill [1345]. 
 
 265. Grant by John Oky to Ralph his brother and 
 Alice his wife, of two pieces of land in Seal. Witnesses : 
 William Wichard ; Richard Loret ; William Henry, etc. 
 Dat. M. aft. F. of SS. Vedast and Amand [6 Feb.], 19 
 Edw. Ill [1345]. 
 
 266. Grant by John Nel to Mag. William de Polles- 
 worthe, clericus, and Margery his wife, of an acre of land 
 in Church Seal, lying on Churchehul, and at Holsiche. 
 Witnesses : James de Stafford, miles ; John Oky ; William 
 Wich, etc. Dat. F. of St. Barnabas [11 June], 19 Edw. Ill 
 [1345]. With seal. 
 
 267. GRANT by John Oky to Thomas Oky, his brother, 
 and Isabel his wife, of land in Seal, near the King's high- 
 way. Rent, four silver pence. Witnesses : William Loret ; 
 Henry Nel ; William Phelyp, etc. Dat. Seal, Fr. after F. 
 of St. Barnabas [11 June], 19 Edw. Ill [1345]- 
 
62 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 268. GRANT and sale by Humphrey Hastang, Arch- 
 deacon of Coventry, to William de Bromleye, his clerk, of 
 all his goods and chattels in all his tenements, which he 
 acquired by grant and feoffment from Robert, fil. Johannis, 
 fil. Waited de Colton, in the fee of Colton, Morton, 
 Heywode, and Biston. Dat. Colton, M. aft. Nat. of St. 
 John Bapt. [24 June], 19 Edw. Ill [1345]. With small 
 official seal. 
 
 269. Lease, for twenty years, by Matilda quondam uxor 
 Henrici Chep de Scheyl, to John Oky, of meadow land in 
 Seal. Witnesses : John, rector ecclesie de Scheyl ; 
 William Henry; Richard Loret, etc. Dat. M. aft. F. of 
 St. Gregory [12 Mar.], 20 Edw. Ill [1346]. 
 
 270. Grant by John Oky, to William de Pollesworthe, 
 clericus, and Margery his wife, of a rood and a half of 
 arable land in Church Seal, "quarum tres faciunt unam 
 acram integram." Witnesses : William Attewod ; William 
 Phelip ; Richard Loret, etc. Dat. Th. aft. F. of St. 
 Petronilla [31 May], 20 Edw. Ill [1346]. 
 
 271. Quit-claim by Alice, Isabel, and Christina, 
 daughters of Richard de Brewode de Schayle, to John, 
 fil. Radulphi de Brewode de Schayle, of a messuage and 
 land which they hold by feoffment from their father. 
 Witnesses : John Hoky, ad finem ville ; William Henry ; 
 Richard Hoky, etc. Dat. F. of St. Peter ad vincula 
 [1 Aug.], 20 Edw. III[i346]. 
 
 272. Grant by William Talbott, Senior, de Rostlaston, 
 to John de Calangewode, capellanus, of a messuage and 
 land in Rosliston, lying in Le Forti, Le Aysche, Brouk- 
 forlong, le Mulneforlong, and elsewhere. Witnesses : 
 Walter de Wynterton de Caldewall ; Thomas Abel ; 
 William le Child, etc. Dat. Rosliston, F. of St. Leonard 
 [6 Nov.], 20 Edw. Ill [1346]. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 63 
 
 273. GRANT by Isolda, que fuit uxor Nicholai le Mulner 
 de Coton, to William Scot de Rostelaston, of land in the 
 fields of Coton, lying on Le Haystowe, Le Hascheforlong, 
 and at Le Breche. Witnesses : Richard Isabel de 
 Rostelaston ; Ralph Mareys, de eadem ; William Talbot, 
 etc. Dat. Coton, M. aft. F. of Ann. of B. V. Mary 
 [25 Mar.], 21 Edw. Ill [1347]. 
 
 274. QUIT-CLAIM by William, fil. Willelmi Talbot de 
 Roslaston, to Alice, que fuit uxor Willelmi Talbot, and 
 to John her son, of all those lands and tenements which 
 the said Alice and John held in Rosliston by grant from 
 John atte Calengewode, capellanus, and which the latter 
 acquired from William Talbot, father of the above- 
 mentioned William. Witnesses : Dom. Ralph de Rost- 
 laston, capellanus ; John Hoky ; Stephen Warde de 
 Coton, etc. Dat. Rosliston, W. bef. F. of St. Bartholomew 
 [24 Aug.], 21 Edw. Ill [1347]. 
 
 275. Grant by Elias Cok de Ouerscheyle to John 
 Wylkyn de Chirche Sheyle, of a rood of arable land in 
 Church Seal, lying at Kynewallebottes. Witnesses : 
 Richard Lorret ; William Attewode ; Richard Oky, etc. 
 Dat. S. aft. F. of St. John, a.p.l. [6 May], 23 Edw. Ill 
 [1349]- 
 
 276. GRANT by Adam, fil. Johannis Molendinarii de 
 Netherscheyl, to Thomas Motoun and Isabel his wife, sister 
 of the grantor, of a messuage in Nether Seal, " iuxta venel- 
 lam molendini." Witnesses : Richard Loret, Senior ; 
 Richard his son ; Robert de Brewode, etc. Dat. T. bef. 
 F. of St. Barnabas [11 June], 23 Edw. Ill [1349]. 
 
 277. Grant by John Oky to Edmund de Rideware, 
 rector ecclesie de Sheyle, and Robert de Elyngton, capel- 
 lanus, of all his lands and tenements in Seal, which are held 
 
64 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 from the Prior of the Hospital of St. John. Witnesses : 
 Dom. James de Stafforde, mil. ; Geoffrey Walrond ; Richard 
 de Aula de Durantesthorp. Dat. T. bef. F. of Nat. of 
 St. John Bapt. [24 June], 23 Edw. Ill [1349]. With 
 seal. 
 
 278. Grant by Thomas Motoun to Richard de Horseley 
 and Margery, fil. Isabelle, fil. Johannis Molendinarii de 
 Nethersheyle, pf a messuage in Nether Seal " iuxta venel- 
 lam molendini." Witnesses : Richard Loret, senior ; 
 Richard Loret, junior ; Robert Clerk. Dat. Newton Regis, 
 S. aft. F. of St. John Bapt. [24 June], 23 Edw. Ill [1349]. 
 
 279. Power of Attorney to Richard Loret, senior, 
 to deliver seisin of the same. Same date. 
 
 280. Lease, for lives, from Merivale Abbey to Hugh, 
 fil. Willelmi le Hayward de Netherscheyl, and Joan his 
 wife, of all that place and virgate of land which the said 
 Hugh's father sometime held in the town and fields of 
 Nether Seal. Rent, seventeen shillings, payable " ad tres 
 anni terminos in dicta villa usitatos." Dat. " apud Miram 
 vallem", F. of St. Mary Magd. [22 July], 24 Edw. Ill [1350]. 
 With seal. 
 
 281. Grant by Thomas Oky to John, fil. Roberti 
 Welham de Sheyle, of a messuage in Seal. Witnesses : 
 Hemeric le Fitz ; William Wichard ; William Oky, etc. 
 Dat. S. aft. F. of St. George [23 Apr.], 25 Edw. Ill [1351]. 
 
 282. LEASE by John, fil. Roberti Welham de Sheyle, to 
 Joan uxor Thome Oky de Sheyle, of the same messuage 
 in Seal, for her lifetime, and on her death to revert to the 
 " proper heirs" of the said Thomas Oky. Witnesses : 
 Emeric le Fitz ; Robert, clericus ; William Attewode, etc. 
 Dat. F. of St. Mark [25 Apr.], 25 Edw. Ill [1351]. 
 
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 283. Grant by Margaret de Gresley to Roger de Aston, 
 mil., of all her tenements, etc., in Le Hurne de Hughtesdon 
 [Hixon]. Witnesses ; Hugh de Bisshton ; John de 
 Hughtesdon, etc. Dat. Easter, 26 Edw. Ill [1352]. 
 
 284. RECORD of " quare cessavit" concerning the mill of 
 Colton, which John de Greseleye, Knt, and Joan his wife, 
 by their attorney Roger de Greseleye, sought and recovered 
 from Henry de Ruggeleye. Dat. Westminster, Trinity 
 Term, 26 Edw. Ill [1352]. 
 
 285. Covenant between Hugh de Hopwas, Canon of 
 Lichfield, Nicholas de Yvinghoe, parson of Grendon-under- 
 Arderne, and William de Hopwas, on the one part, and 
 William de Pipe of Draycote-under-Needwood, and Joan 
 his wife, on the other part, concerning a nine years' lease 
 by the latter to the former (and the conditions of an under- 
 lease to Thomas de Hampton, Knt.), of the manor and 
 advowson of Church Seal. Witnesses : Richard de Vernoun, 
 Edmond de Appelby, senior, Knights ; John de Rechford ; 
 Henry le Warde de Appelby. Dat. S. aft. F. of Inv. of 
 Holy Cross [3 May], 30 Edw. Ill [1356]. French. 
 
 286. Grant by William, fil. Willelmi Oky, to Dom. 
 Hugh de Hopewas, persona ecclesie de Clifton, of two 
 messuages and two virgates of land and other tenements in 
 Nether Seal. Witnesses : Dom. Edmund de Appelby, 
 senior ; Dom. Edmund de Appelby, junior, mil. ; William 
 de Ingwardeby, etc. Dat. Nether Seal, S. aft. Nat. of St. 
 John Bapt. [24 June], 31 Edw. Ill [1357]. 
 
 287. Quit-claim by the same, with Robert his brother, 
 of the same tenements. Same witnesses. Dat. Th. aft. F. 
 of St John Bapt. [24 June], 31 Edw. Ill [1357]. 
 
 288. Quit-claim by Agnes, fil. Willelmi de Drayton de 
 Pollesworth, to William de Hopewas, of all the lands and 
 
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66 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 tenements which were Henry de Drayton's in cos. Warw. 
 and Staff. Witnesses : Richard de Stoke, Mayor of 
 Coventry; Thomas de Shepeye and Henry Dylcok, Bailiffs 
 of Coventry ; Peter de Stoke, etc. Dat. Coventry, Morr. of 
 St. Luke [18 Oct.], 31 Edw. Ill [1357]. With seal, 
 broken. 
 
 289. Grant by Agnes, £3.1. Eliec. Kok de Ouershele, to 
 Ralph Couper, of all the lands, tenements, etc., in Over 
 Seal and Nether Seal, which she obtained on the death of 
 her father. Witnesses : Robert Clerc, senior ; Robert 
 Clerc, junior, etc. Dat. F. aft. F. of Holy Trinity 
 [27 May], 32 Edw. Ill [1358]. 
 
 290. Grant by Henry Pachet de Scheyle, capellanus, 
 to Robert, fil. Willelmi le Fiz de Nethurscheyle, of three 
 acres of arable land in Nether Seal, with the reversion of 
 two roods which Margery quondam uxor Willelmi de 
 Blacfordeby now holds in Seal, " nomine dotis", since the 
 death of her husband, lying at Solbardonstall, Lyciendich 
 and Sondyfurlong. Witnesses : William Attewode ; John 
 Hemeri ; William le Fiz, etc. Dat. F. aft. F. of St. Agatha 
 [S Feb.], 33 Edw. Ill [1359]. 
 
 291. Grant by Isabella, fil. Willelmi du Fys de Sheyle to 
 Henry Pachet, capellanus, and others, of a portion of land 
 from a certain tenement which she holds by feoffment from 
 John le Brewode. Witnesses : William Attewode ; John 
 Hemery; John Rual, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. John, 
 a.p.l. [6 May], 33 Edw. Ill [1359]. 
 
 292. Grant by John de Brewode to Robert, fil. Willelmi 
 le Fitz, of land in Nether Seal, lying on Le Styes, Le 
 Wodehulles, Le Crechement, and at Munnyngeswalle. 
 Witnesses : William Attewode ; William Oky ; Robert le 
 Clerk, etc. Dat. Sat. bef. Nat. of St. John Bapt. [24 June], 
 33 Edw. Ill [1359]- 
 
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 293. GRANT by William de Waterfal and John de 
 Welham, presbyteri, to Richard de Horseleye, capellanus, 
 and Agnes, fil. Amery de Thorp, of a messuage in Nether 
 Seal near Mill Lane. Rent, six pence, at the F. of Pur. 
 of the B. V. Mary for a light for the Blessed Virgin at 
 Seal Church. Witnesses: William de Hopewas ; Robert, 
 clericus, senior, de Sheyle ; Hugh Hayward, etc. Dat. 
 S. bef. F. of SS. Simon and Jude [28 Oct.], 34 Edw. Ill 
 [1360]. 
 
 294. GRANT by William Talbot de Rostlaston, Senior, 
 to William his son, of a moiety of a virgate of land in 
 Rosliston which sometime belonged to William Talbot, 
 father of the grantor, lying on Apultrefurlong, Brugge- 
 furlong, Le Mere, Grettenefurlong, Wethslade, Blakelondes, 
 etc. Witnesses : Richard Marreys ; Robert Marreys ; 
 Nicholas Isbel, etc. Dat. Rosliston, M. aft. F. of Ann. of 
 B. V. M. [25 Mar.], 25 Edw. Ill [1361]. 
 
 295. Grant by Robert, fil. Willelmi le Fyz de Sheile, to 
 Richard de Horsleie, John de Atherston, chaplains, and 
 others, of the moiety of an acre of land in the fields of 
 Seal, " super stadium vocatum Brookfurlong". Witnesses : 
 Robert le Clerk, senior ; Gregory, ballivus ; William 
 Robyn, etc. Dat. F. aft. Epiphany [6 Jan.], 35 Edw. Ill 
 [1362]. 
 
 296. Grant by Robert le Fiz de Nether Sheile to 
 Robert his son, of a messuage in Nether Seal which he 
 holds on lease from Ralph le Fiz. Witnesses : William 
 de Hopewas ; Hugh le Hayward ; William Wychard, etc. 
 Dat. M. aft. F. of St. Vincent [22 Jan.], 35 Edw. Ill [1362]. 
 
 297. Grant by John, fil. Rogeri de Meysham, mulner, 
 to Robert le Clere, junior, of a messuage in Church Seal, 
 late held by John Couper. Witnesses : John Bayly ; John 
 
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68 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Hemery ; Hugh le Hayward, etc. Dat. F. aft. F. of Cone, 
 of B. V. Mary [8 Dec], 36 Edw. Ill [1362]. 
 
 298. Quit-claim by William, fil. Willelmi Oky de 
 Sheyll, manens apud London, to Dom. Hugh de Hopewas, 
 canon icus ecclesie cathedralis Lichfeldensis, and to William 
 de Hopewas, of all his lands and tenements in Nether 
 Seal. Witnesses : John Baily ; William Attewod ; Robert 
 Clerc. Dat. Seal, S. aft. F. of St. Scholastica [10 Feb.], 
 37 Edw. Ill [1363]. 
 
 299. Covenant whereby John Louterel de Boulby 
 grants to Dom. John de Greseleye, mil., and to Dom. Joan 
 his wife, all the lands, tenements, woods, pastures, rents, 
 services, windmill, etc., which the former has for his life in 
 Colton (excepting the advowson of Colton Church) ; the 
 said John de Greseley and Joan his wife undertaking that 
 " post vendicionem et succisionem bosci qui vocatur 
 Marchaleshey, salvabunt dictum boscum per tres annos in 
 separali". Witnesses : Ralph Bagot, Dominus de Blithe- 
 feld ; Thomas Mauveisyn ; Mag. Henry de Blithefeld, etc. 
 Dat. Drakelow, F. of SS. Philip and James [1 May], 37 
 Edw. Ill [1363]. With seal. 
 
 300. GRANT by John Neel de Nethur Scheyle to John 
 de Brewode, of all the lands and tenements which he holds 
 by feoffment from the latter in Nether Seal and Donis- 
 thorpe, with remainder, on the said John de Brewode's 
 death, to his children, William, John, Matilda, and Alice 
 in succession. Witnesses : William Attewode ; John 
 Hemery ; William Oky, etc. Dat. Th. aft. F. of All 
 Saints [1 Nov.], 37 Edw. Ill [1363]. 
 
 301. Lease by John de Greseleye, Knt, and Dame 
 Joan his wife to Nicholas de Greseleye, son of the said 
 John, of the lordship and all the lands which they hold in 
 Norton by Twycross : to hold to the said Nicholas and 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 69 
 
 Thomasine his wife, daughter of the said Joan, and the 
 heirs of their bodies begotten. Dat. Norton, Sat. bef. F. 
 of St. George [23 Apr.], 38 Edw. Ill [1364]. French. 
 With seal. 
 
 302. Grant by Richard le Coupere de Sheyle to 
 Robert Fytz de Sheyle and Joan his wife, of a messuage 
 and nine acres of arable land which fell to him on the 
 death of John le Coupere his father and Henry Chep his 
 uncle in Nether Seal. Witnesses : William Wychard ; 
 John Hemery ; William Oky, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. 
 Benedict [21 Mar.], 39 Edw. Ill [1365]. With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 303. Grant by William le Glover de Catton to John, fil. 
 Stephani de Coton, capellanus, of arable land in Rosliston, 
 lying on Brokforlong, Bruggeforlong, etc. Witnesses : 
 William Talbot; Richard Mareys ; Nicholas Isabel, etc. 
 Dat. Rosliston, F. of St. Katherine [25 Nov.], 39 Edw. Ill 
 [1 36S]. . 
 
 303*. Lease by John de Greseleie to Thomas Fremon, 
 of five acres of land in Norton Heath. Dat. Drakelowe, 
 40 Edw. Ill [1366-7]. French. 
 
 304. Power of Attorney from Hugh de Hopewas, 
 canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Lichfieldensis, to Thomas 
 
 , capellanus in Scheile, to deliver seisin to Ralph 
 
 Scheile, clericus, of a messuage in Church Seal. Dat. 
 Lichfield, Fr. aft. Epiphany [6 Jan.], 40 Edw. Ill [1367]. 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 304*. GRANT by Margery, quondam uxor magistri 
 Willelmi de Pollesworth, widow, to Dom. Geoffrey Fitz de 
 Sheyle, vicarius ecclesie de Fylongleye, of a messuage in 
 Church Seal, lying between the tenement of the late Dom. 
 Thomas de Rideware, mil., and the tenement which Richard 
 
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 de Stafford, miles, holds. Witnesses: William Wychard; 
 John Bailly ; William Oky, etc. Dat. 29 Jan., 40 Edw. Ill 
 [1366]. 
 
 305. Lease by Robert le Clerk de Nethersheile, to 
 William his son, and Alice and Joan, the latter's sisters, 
 of a messuage in Nether Seal, to hold during the life of 
 the lessor. Rent, forty shillings. Witnesses : William 
 Attewode ; Hugh le Hayward ; William Wychard, and 
 others. Dat. Nether Seal, Fr. aft. F. of Conv. of St. Paul 
 [25 Jan.], 41 Edw. Ill [1367]. 
 
 306. Grant by Geoffrey, fil. Thome Oky, to William de 
 Hopwas, of the reversion of a messuage with buildings 
 upon it in Nether Seal, which will fall to him on the death 
 of Joan, widow of the above-named Thomas Oky. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Horseley, capellanus ; 
 William Attewode de Nethurscheyle ; William Oky, and 
 others. Dat. Wedn. aft. F. of Ann. of B. V. Mary [25 Mar.], 
 41 Edw. Ill [1367]. 
 
 307. Quit-claim by Ralph de Parys and John de 
 Coton, capellani, to Henry, fil. Roberti Mareys, clericus, of 
 all their lands and tenements in Rosliston and Walton on 
 Trent, which they had by grant from Alice, que fuit relicta 
 Willelmi Talbot, sen., de Rosteleston. Witnesses : Stephen 
 Warde ; Richard Mareys ; Nicholas Isbel. Dat. Rosliston, 
 Fr. bef. F. of Conv. of St. Paul [25 Jan.], 41 Edw. Ill 
 [1368]. 
 
 308. GRANT by John Canne de Rostelaston to Richard 
 de Blaggreiv, manens in Rostelaston, of a messuage in 
 Rosliston. Witnesses : Richard Mareys ; William Talbot ; 
 Stephen le Warde, etc. Dat. Tu. aft. Michaelmas Day 
 [29 Sept.], 42 Edw. Ill [1368]. 
 
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 309. Grant by Robert Mareys to Henry Mareys, 
 clericus, of a messuage with garden near the messuage of 
 William Humbreston, rector ecclesie de Walton, with all 
 his goods in the town and fields of Rosliston. Witnesses : 
 Richard Mareys ; Nicholas Isbel ; John Canne, etc. Dat 
 Rosliston, Sat. aft. F. of St. Andrew [30 Nov.], 42 Edw. Ill 
 [1368]. 
 
 310. GRANT by Robert le Clerk to Robert le Fiz, of a 
 curtilage with buildings upon it, and an acre of arable land 
 in the field of Seal. Witnesses : William Wychart ; 
 William Oky ; Hugh le Hayward, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of 
 Pur. of B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 43 Edw. Ill [1369]. 
 
 311. Grant by Geoffrey, fil. Thome Oky, to William 
 Hopwas, of the reversion of a messuage in Nether Seal, 
 which should fall to him on the death of Joan his mother. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Horseley, capellanus ; 
 William Wychard ; William Oky. Dat. W. aft. F. of Ann. 
 of B. V. Mary [25 Mar.], 43 Edw. Ill [1369]. 
 
 312. Grant by Robert, fil. et her. Ricardi Isbel, to John 
 de Coton, capellanus, and others, of the reversion of all the 
 tenements and lands in Rosliston which Joan his mother 
 holds during life, and which will fall to him on her death. 
 Witnesses : Richard Marreys ; Nicholas Isbel ; John 
 Canne, etc. Dat. Easter Monday [2 Apl.], 43 Edw. Ill 
 [1 3691 
 
 313. Quit-claim by the same of the reversion of the 
 same lands. Same witnesses. Dat. W. aft. F. of St. 
 Barnabas [11 June], 43 Edw. Ill [1369]- 
 
 314. Similar Grant by the same to the same, of the 
 lands and tenements in Rosliston, which fell to him on the 
 death of John Isbel, his uncle. Same witnesses and date. 
 With seal. 
 
72 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 315,316. Grant and Quit-claim by Richard de Stafford, 
 Dominus de Clyfton-Caumville, miles, to Dom. Hugh de 
 Hopewas, canonicus ecclesie Cathedralis Lichfeldensis, of 
 all the lands, tenements, etc., in Nether Seal, which the said 
 Richard acquired by grant from Robert Spelage. Wit- 
 nesses : Edmund de Appelby, Knt. ; John his son ; 
 William Oky, etc. Dat. Th. and Sat. aft. F. of St. Matthias 
 [24 Feb.], 44 Edw. Ill [1370]. With seal of arms. 
 
 317. Grant by Robert Clerk to Robert Cartwrytth, of 
 a messuage in Seal, which he holds by grant from Robert 
 le Fitz his father. Witnesses : William de Hopewas ; 
 William Oky ; John Bayli, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of Ann. of 
 B. V. Mary [25 Mar.], 44 Edw. Ill [1370]. 
 
 318. Lease by John de Greseleye, Knt, and Joan his 
 wife, to Nicholas their son, of the manor of Osgathorpe, co. 
 Leic, excepting the glebe meadow which Sir Richard 
 Araz holds, and an acre of land which John Stanard holds, 
 and the advowson of the chapel of Osgathorp. Witnesses: 
 Robert Tebbe de Threngeston ; Henry Jurdan de Thren- 
 geston ; John Tebbe, etc. Dat. Osgathorpe, F. of Pur. of 
 B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 46 Edw. Ill [1372]. French. 
 
 319. Lease, for lives, by Dom. John de Greseley, miles, 
 and Dom. Joan his wife, to Roger Grace del Newlond and 
 Alice his wife, and on their death to John their son, of a 
 piece of land in Colton. Witnesses : John Wimar, del 
 Newlond ; John le Clerk, de eadem ; John le Clerk de 
 Colton, etc. Dat. Colton, F. of St. Matthias [24 Feb.], 
 46 Edw. Ill [1372]. With seal of arms. 
 
 320. Grant by Dom. John de Greseleye, mil., and Dom. 
 Joan his wife, to John, fil. Willelmi le Clerk de Colton, of a 
 piece of land and pasture in Colton called Le Brechheye, 
 in exchange for a piece of moor called Grimnesmor, in 
 Colton. Witnesses : Henry Puys, de Ruggele ; Adam 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 73 
 
 Prentys ; John Griffyn, etc. Dat. F. of St. John, a. p. 1. 
 [6 May], 47 Edw. Ill [1373]. With seal. 
 
 321, 322. Grant by Hugh de Hopewas, persona 
 ecclesie de Clifton, to Dom. John de Hopewas, William de 
 Yoxhale, and others, of two messuages, etc., which he 
 acquired by grant, from William Oky in Nether Seal. 
 Witnesses : Edmund de Appelby, mil. ; John de Appelby, 
 mil. ; Ralph Loret, clericus, etc. Dat. M. and W. aft. F. 
 of St. Lucy [13 Dec], 47 Edw. Ill [1373]. With seals of 
 arms. 
 
 323. Power of Attorney by the same to Dom. Robert 
 de Shefton, capellanus, to deliver seisin of the above lands. 
 Dat. W. aft. F. of St. Lucy [13 Dec], 47 Edw. Ill [1373]. 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 324, 325. Grant and Quit-claim by Isabel, fil. Willelmi 
 Geffesone, to Ralph Loret, of a messuage in Nether Seal, 
 which fell to her on the death of John Wilkyn de Nether- 
 scheile, her brother. Witnesses : John Neel ; Hugh 
 Hayward ; William White, etc. Dat. F. aft. F. of SS. 
 Tiburtius and Valerian [12 Apr.], 48 Edw. Ill [1374]. 
 
 326. Grant by Richard Blagreue, manens in Caldewalle, 
 to Walter, fil. Ricardi Mareys, of a messuage in Rosliston. 
 Witnesses : John Abel ; Stephen Warde ; William Talbot, 
 etc. Dat. Rosliston, S. aft. F. of St. John, a. p. 1. [6 May], 
 48 Edw. Ill [1374]- 
 
 327. Grant by Pain Bozoun to Dom. Nicolas de 
 Greseley, mil., of all the lands and tenements in Osgathorp, 
 which he acquired by grant from Alice, quondam uxor 
 Nicolai Cotell. Witnesses : Robert Tebbe ; John Aleyn ; 
 John Baret, etc. Dat. Osgathorpe, W. bef. F. of Corpus 
 Christi [1 June], 48 Edw. Ill [i374]- With seal - 
 
74 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 328. Grant by Robert Clerk, fil. et her. Roberti le Fyz, 
 Clerk, senior, with the assent of Isabel his wife, to Ralph 
 Lorret, of two acres and a half of arable land in the fields of 
 Nether Seal. Rent, a rose, at Midsummer. Witnesses : 
 William Wychard ; William Oky ; Robert Cartewrighte, 
 etc. Dat. S. bef. F. of St. Katharine [25 Nov.], 49 Edw. Ill 
 [1375]. With seal. 
 
 329. Grant by John Stykebocke de Colton to Dom. 
 John de Greseleye, mil., and Dom. Joan his wife, of half an 
 acre of meadow in Colton, lying in Oxemedewe. Wit- 
 nesses : Mag. Henry de Blythefeld ; Henry Puys ; Thomas 
 Dymmok, etc. Dat. F. of St. Dunstan [21 Oct.], 
 So Edw. Ill [1376]. 
 
 330. Grant by Robert Clerk, junior, de Netherscheile, 
 and Isabel his wife, to Ralph Lorret, of land in the fields of 
 Nether Seal, between the meadow of the Abbot of Meri- 
 vale, now in the hands of Dom. Richard de Stafford, mil., 
 and the highway. Witnesses : William Wychard ; John 
 Baily ; Robert Cartwright, etc. Dat. T. aft. Ann. of B. V. 
 Mary [25 Mar], 51 Edw. Ill [1377]. With seal. 
 
 331. Grant by Robert de Pype to John de Bollowe, 
 rector ecclesie de Scheyle, and others, of his manor of 
 Draycote subtus Nedewod with the mill and other appur- 
 tenances in Draycote and Morton : together with his 
 Manor of Seal, with the advowson and other appurtenances, 
 and all his lands, tenements, rents, etc., in Edingale. 
 Witnesses : Dom. John de Verdon ; Dom. Thomas de 
 Arderne ; Dom. Edmund de Appulby, mil., etc. Dat. T. 
 aft. F. of Inv. of Holy Cross [3 May], 51 Edw. Ill [1377]. 
 
 332. Grant by Walter, fil. Willelmi de Sheile, to Henry 
 and Walter, fil. Juliane, fil. Ricardi le Nethe (in exchange 
 for a burgage in Bromley Abbots) of his whole toft and 
 croft which Martin sometime held in Church Seal, lying 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 75 
 
 between the toft and croft of Ralph Morkoc et " ferrata via 
 eiusdem ville". Witnesses : John Oky ; William Aleyn ; 
 Richard Oky, etc. Temp. Edw. III. 
 
 333. Grant by John Ruale de Sheile, William Wychard, 
 William Oky and others to Ralph Loret and John de 
 Melton, presbyter, of a messuage in Nether Seal, lying 
 near the road leading to the water-mill of Seal. Witnesses : 
 Robert de Pipe, Dominus de Scheile ; Roger le Ferour ; 
 William Attewode, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. Faith 
 [6 Oct.], Ric. II [1377]. 
 
 334. Quit-claim by John Thomesone de Harleston 
 and John Freberne, clericus de Fulburne, to Richard 
 Heyne, serviens Domine de Segrave, of all those lands and 
 tenements which they hold by grant from Sarra, fil. et her. 
 Thome Baron de Rostlaston, in Rosliston and Coton. Dat. 
 Yclyngton, co. Cambr., 1 Jan., 1 Ric. II [1378]. 
 
 335. QUIT-CLAIM by the same of the same lands to 
 Richard Heyne de Melborn. Same date. 
 
 336. Quit-claim by Matilda, quondam uxor Thome 
 Baron de Rostliston to Richard Heyne de Melborne, of all 
 the lands and tenements in Rosliston and Coton, which 
 sometime belonged to Thomas her husband. Dat. 
 Yclyngton, 1 Jan., 1 Ric. II [1378]. With seal. 
 
 337. QuiT-CLAlM by Robert Walker de Atherstone and 
 Agnes his wife to Ralph Lorret, of a messuage in Church 
 Seal, near the road leading to the water-mill. Witnesses : 
 Thomas Reynald de Atherston, tunc ballivus eiusdem ; 
 John Bewer ; William Gurdeler. Dat. Atherstone, Fr. bef. 
 F. of St. Ambrose [4 Apr.], 1 Ric. II [1378]. With two 
 seals (one, a seal of arms). 
 
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 338. Power of Attorney from John de Greseleye, 
 Knt, to Thomas Toby and others to take seisin of the 
 lands and tenements late held by William Pelle his nephew. 
 Dat. Drakelow, F. of All Saints [1 Nov.], 2 Ric. II [1378]. 
 With seal of arms. French. 
 
 339. Grant by William Prentyse de Colton to Dom. 
 John de Greseleye, mil., and Dom. Joan his wife, of half an 
 acre of meadow in Colton, lying in Oxmedewe. Witnesses : 
 Mag. Henry de Blythefeld ; John Gryffyn ; William de 
 Penne, etc. Dat. Colton, S. aft. F. of Pur. of B. V. Mary 
 [2 Feb.], 2 Ric. II [1379]. With seal. 
 
 340. Grant by John Gurmondle al. dictus John Tomson 
 de Maisham to Thomas Wydderley, fil. Johannis Wydderley, 
 of lands and tenements in Nether Seal. Witnesses : 
 William Shelton ; William Pachet; Charles Shapley, etc. 
 Dat. 10 Feb., 2 Ric. II [1379]. 
 
 341. Quit-claim by John Harecourt, Esquire, and 
 Margaret his wife to Henry Vernon, Esquire, of two 
 messuages and two virgates of land within the lordship of 
 Nether Seal. Dat. Th. aft. F. of St. Gregory [12 Mar.], 
 2 Ric. II [1379]. 
 
 342. Manumission by John de Greseleye, mil, Dominus 
 de Drakelowe, of Thomas Nettebreyder, " Botiler de Drake- 
 lowe," with all his suit and following, goods and chattels. 
 Dat. Drakelow, S. aft. F. of St. Augustine [26 May], 
 2 Ric. II [1379]. With seal of arms. 
 
 343. QuiT-CLAlM by Henry Mareys, capellanus de 
 Rostlaston, to Walter Mareys, of a messuage and garden 
 in Rosliston, lying between the messuage of Richard 
 Mareys and the messuage of the late William Humbreston, 
 rector ecclesie de Walton-super-Trent. Witnesses: Stephen 
 
THE GREST.EY CHARTERS. 77 
 
 Ward ; William Canne ; John Abell, etc. Dat Rosliston, 
 T. aft. F. of Holy Trinity [22 May], 3 Ric. II [1380]. 
 With seal. 
 
 344. Grant by Thomas de Morlee, miles, marescallus 
 Hibernie, to Dom. John de Greseleye, mil., and to Dom. 
 Joan his wife, and to the heirs and assigns of the said Joan, 
 of all the lands and tenements, etc., which he holds in 
 Colton, co. Staff., with the advowson of the church: together 
 with the reversion, on the death of John Luterel, of all the 
 lands, etc., in Colton which the latter holds for his life by 
 grant of Dom. William de Morlee, father to the said 
 Thomas. Witnesses : Dom. William Chetewinte, Dom. 
 Robert Maveysyn, Dom. John Bagot, Dom. Thomas de 
 Aston, Dom. Thomas de Thomonhern, milites, etc. Dat. 
 Colton, F. of St. Peter ad vincula [1 Aug.], 6 Ric. II 
 [1382]. 
 
 345. Power of Attorney by the same to Edmund 
 Toly and John Marchys to deliver seisin of the above- 
 named lands in Colton. Same date. With seal of arms, 
 broken. 
 
 346. Power of Attorney from Emma, widow of 
 Richard Couper de Nethersheyle, to Robert Cartewreight 
 de Netherscheyle of a messuage and three acres of arable 
 land in Nether Seal. Witnesses : William Oky ; John 
 Neel ; William Fitz, etc. Dat. F. of Cecilia [22 Nov.], 
 8 Ric. II [1386]. 
 
 347. GRANT by Nicholas Isabel al. vocatus Nicholas 
 Grene de Allerwas to Walter Marreys de Rostlaston of all 
 his lands and tenements in Rosliston. Witnesses : John 
 Abel ; William Marreys ; Stephen Warde, etc. Dat. 
 Whitsun Tuesday, 9 Ric. II [1386]. With seal. 
 
78 THE GRESLEV CHARTERS. 
 
 348. Power of Attorney by Nicholas Isabel, al. 
 Nicholas Grene de Allerwas, to William Hood de Coton, 
 to deliver seisin to Walter Marreys de Rostlaston, of all 
 his lands in Rosliston. Undated. 
 
 349. Quit-claim by Isabella que fuit uxor Roberti 
 Clerk de Netherscheile, widow, to Ralph Loret, of all her 
 lands and tenements in Nether Seal, which were John 
 Wilkin's. Witnesses : Edmund de Appelby, fill. Domini 
 Edmundi militis ; William Wychard, etc. Dat. F. of SS. 
 Philip and James [1 May], 11 Ric. II [1388]. With seal. 
 
 350. Similar Quit-claim to Edmund, fil. Edmundi 
 Appelby, chyvaler, William Waterfall, and others, of the 
 same lands. Dat. Sat. aft. F. of SS. Philip and James 
 [1 May], 11 Ric. II [1388]. With seal. 
 
 351. Lease by William Otewalle, capellanus, and John 
 Brewode de Scheyle, to Tibota Douce and Symon Neel her 
 son, of all the lands and tenements which they acquired by 
 feoffment from John Neel in Nether Seal, excepting that 
 messuage, etc., which Henry Neel sometime held in Seal 
 by lease from William Clerk, on his marriage with the 
 latter's daughter Cecily. Witnesses : Edmund de Appelby; 
 Ralph Loret ; William Oky, etc. Dat. Sat. after F. of 
 Circumcision [1 Jan.], 12 Ric. II [1389]. 
 
 352. Lease by Robert, fil. Henrici Neel, to Tibota Douce 
 and Simon Neel her son, of the messuage, etc., which 
 William Clerk de Scheyle gave to Henry Neel on his 
 marriage with Cecily his daughter. Dat. Seal, S. aft. F. of 
 Circumcision [1 Jan.], 12 Ric. II [1389]. 
 
 353. Grant by John de Hopewas, persona ecclesie de 
 Wappyngbury, John de Comberford, and Richard Walton 
 de Lichefeld, senior, to Henry Broun de Lichefeld, of two 
 messuages, etc., in Nether Seal, which they and William de 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 79 
 
 Yoxhale, capellanus, Henry Swan, capellanus, and others 
 acquired by feoffment from Hugh de Hopewas, nuper 
 persona ecclesie de Clyfton Caumville. Witnesses : Robert 
 Swynfen ; William de Lee ; Edmund Appulby, etc. Dat. 
 F. of Exalt, of Holy Cross [14 Sept.], 16 Ric. II [1392]. 
 
 354. Power of Attorney to John Rous to deliver 
 seisin of the same. Same date. 
 
 355. Will of Joan de Greseley, Domina de Drakelowe, 
 wherein she directs that she is to be buried in the parish 
 church of Brassingborough, and leaves the following 
 bequests : to the Rector of Brassingborough, " nomine 
 principalis", one horse, value 40 sh. ; to each of her servants 
 10 sh. ; to the Prior of Gresley, " unum principale prout 
 decet" ; to Thomas de Greseleye, 20 marks, and the residue 
 " ad dispositionem domini mei domini Johannis de Grese- 
 leye". Dat. Drakelow, Fr. bef. Whitsunday [25 May], 
 
 16 Ric. II [1393]. With probate, dated V. Kal. Jan., 1393. 
 
 356. Quit-claim by Thomas Schepherde de Scheyle 
 and Cecily his wife, to Ralph Lorret de Scheyle, of all 
 those lands and tenements which were formerly John 
 Wilkyn's in Nether Seal. Witnesses : William Oky ; 
 William Legegode ; William White. Dat. S. aft. F. of 
 Ass. of B. V. Mary [15 Aug.], 17 Ric. II [1393]. 
 
 357. Grant by Robert Cartwryghte to John Brewode and 
 Simon Nel, of all his lands and tenements in Nether Seal. 
 Witnesses : William Oky ; William Legegode ; John 
 Horn, etc. Dat. Th. aft. F. of St. Edmund [20 Nov.], 
 
 17 Ric. II [1393]. 
 
 358. Notification by Dora. John de Greseley, miles, 
 that as he has not had the power of his seal (potestatem 
 sigilli mei) for a whole year preceding the date of these 
 presents, he hereby contradicts and denies all deeds and 
 
80 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 writings sealed with his seal during that time, the present 
 deed being sealed with the seal of the Deanery of Reping- 
 don. Witnesses : Dom. Thomas de Stafford, mil. ; John 
 de Ardene ; Roger Mongomery, etc. Dat. Drakelowe, S. 
 bef. F. of St. Dunstan [21 Oct.], 18 Ric. II [1304]- With 
 seal. 
 
 359. Grant by John Brewode de Netherscheyle to 
 Robert Brewode his son, of all his lands and tenements in 
 Nether Seal and Donisthorpe. Rent, a grain of pepper at 
 Easter. Witnesses : William Oky ; William Legegode ; 
 Symon Neel, etc. Dat. Wed. bef. F. of Circumcision 
 [1 Jan.], 18 Ric. II [1395]. 
 
 360. Warrant by Richard II to William Thirnyng 
 and Robert Tyrwhyt, justices and their fellows, to take an 
 assise of new disseisin which Richard Wychard de Sheyle 
 has arrayed by King's writ against Alice, que fuit uxor 
 Thome de Stafford and others in respect of a tenement in 
 Church Seal. Dat. Westminster [1 May], anno 21 [1398]. 
 
 361. Lease by Thomasina de Gresley, Domina de 
 Colton, to Thomas de Gresley her son, for term of his life, 
 of the manor of Brassingburgh [Braceborough], with appur- 
 tenances and the advowson of the moiety of Carleby 
 Church. Rent, twenty-six pounds. Dat. Brassyngburgh, 
 F. of St. Luke [18 Oct.], 22 Ric. II [1398]. 
 
 362. Grant by Hugh Hayward and John Topias to 
 Robert Brewode of the moiety of an acre of arable land in 
 Nether Seal, lying on Brookfurlong. Witnesses : William 
 Oky ; William Legegode ; Thomas Clement. Dat. Th. 
 aft. F. of Corpus Christi [29 May], 22 Ric. II [1399]. 
 
 363. Memorandum of the charges made against the 
 Abbot and Convent of Burton by Thomas de Gresley, mil. 
 Temp. Ric. II. As follows: — Idem Thomas inclusit unam 
 
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 placeam prati vocati Newemedowe anno, etc., xx mo regni 
 regis Ricardi secundi in quo abbas habet communiam 
 post feni asportacionem. 
 
 Idem Thomas calumniat de tenentibus cotariis Domini 
 Abbatis in Caldewall de quolibet tenente unum opus cum 
 falce per unum diem unde antecessores sui non fuerunt 
 seisiti. 
 
 Idem Thomas inclusit unam placeam pasture vocate 
 Thornyhalugh que solebat esse communis omnibus 
 temporibus anni, etc., preter et contra voluntatem predicti 
 Abbatis. 
 
 Idem Thomas inclusit unam placeam prati vocati Drake- 
 lowemedowe et tenet in seperali illud pratum omnibus 
 temporibus anni ubi solebat esse communis dicti Abbatis 
 post feni asportacionem. 
 
 Idem Thomas fecit quoddam were in aqua de Trent unde 
 aqua rivuli de Trent destruit terram Abbatis ubi anteces- 
 sores sui nullam weream ibi solebant habere. 
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 Item Johannes Bette serviens ipsius Domini Thome et 
 alii servientes sui venerunt die et anno regni Regis Ricardi 
 secundi xxiii infra abbathiam de Burton et contra volun- 
 tatem dicti Abbatis hostium stabuli fregerunt et unum 
 equum Grey de bonis dicti Abbatis extra ceperunt et eum 
 duxerunt ad voluntatem suam ubi voluerunt ad grave 
 dampnum dicti Abbatis. 
 
 Item idem Thomas et servientes sui cum eo Willelmum 
 Fyssher, Willelmum Portere et alios servientes dicti Abbatis 
 apud Brondeston in quadragisima anno, etc., primo vi et 
 armis posuerunt ad fugam et de eis ceperunt unam batellam 
 et unum rete de bonis ipsius Abbatis injuste, etc. 
 
 Item Johannes Bette et alii servientes dicti Domini 
 Thome de die in diem apud Burton venerunt et minati 
 sunt monachos servientes et tenentes dicti Abbatis verbis 
 maliciosis. . . . 
 
 Item servientes dicti Domini Thome in alta via apud 
 Burton ceperunt contra voluntatem dicti Abbatis unum 
 
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82 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 equum de carecta quoquinarii et eum duxerunt ubi 
 voluerunt et nunquam eum reduxerunt ad grave dampnum 
 etc. 
 
 364. Grant by Robert Brewode to Edmund de Appelby, 
 William Otewalle, capellanus, and Ralph Lorret, of land in 
 Great Seal, lying on le Morfurlong and on Le Wodfeld 
 apud le Grange Gate juxta Bowerflat. Witnesses: William 
 Legegod ; Robert Diosone ; Thomas Clement, etc. Dat. 
 Nether Seal, S. bef. F. of Ascension [27 May], 1 Hen. IV 
 [1400]. 
 
 365. Lease, for life, by Thomas de Greseley, mil., 
 Dominus de Drakelowe to Thomas Netbreyder, " Botyler 
 de Drakelowe", of a rent of thirteen shillings and fourpence, 
 from a messuage and other lands adjacent in Caldewell, late 
 belonging to Robert Glover, and from two acres of meadow 
 in Walton, lying on Brodeholm. Witnesses : John Abell 
 de Caldewell ; Roger de Greseley; Walter Marreys. Dat. 
 Drakelow, M. bef. F. of St. Margaret [20 July], 1 Hen. IV 
 [T400]. With small seal. 
 
 366. Grant by Margery, fil. Johannis le Hurne de 
 Sheile, widow, to Geoffrey Haiwad her son, of a messuage 
 in Nether Seal, with half an acre, and a rood of arable land 
 in the fields of Seal lying on Wodehullus, and abutting on 
 the monk's wood, and in le Wodefeeld, abutting "super 
 foreram Abbatis de Mirevall que dicitur Goldeburwehaued- 
 lond". Witnesses : Robert Dieson ; William Legegode ; 
 Richard Cartewryght, etc. Dat. Nether Seal, F. of Purif. 
 of B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 3 Hen. IV [1402]. 
 
 367. Grant by Robert, fil. Johannis de Brewod, to 
 Edmund, fil. Domini Edmundi de Appelby, mil., Ralph 
 Lorret and William Otewalle, capellanus, of land " in Le 
 Waterfeeld in campo de Netherscheile videlicet Underthe- 
 hull". Witnesses : Robert Diosone ; William Legegode ; 
 
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 Thomas Clement, etc. Dat. S. aft. F. of Nat. of St. John 
 Bapt. [24 June], 3 Hen. IV [1402]. With seal broken. 
 
 368. Grant by Robert, fil. Willelmi Fyz, to Robert, fil. 
 Joh. Brewode, of two roods of arable land in the fields of 
 Nether Seal, lying in Le Estfeld apud le Chirchebrigge, 
 and in Le Waterfeld super Fernyfurlong. Witnesses : 
 Robert Diosone ; William Legegode; Richard Cartwryghte, 
 etc. Dat. F. of Ass. of the B. V. Mary [15 Aug.], 3 Hen. IV 
 [1402]. 
 
 369, 370. Lease by Walter Mareys de Rostlaston to 
 William Mareys, of a messuage with garden, land, and 
 meadow in Rosliston, for term of his life. Witnesses : 
 John Abell, de Caldewall ; Richard Scot, de Rostlaston ; 
 John at-Walle, de eadem. Dat. Rosliston, F. of St. Thomas 
 [21 Dec], 5 Hen. IV [1403]. 
 
 371. QUIT-CLAIM by Henry Mareys, de Rostlaston, 
 capellanus, to Walter Mareis, of all the lands and tenements 
 which the former acquired in Rosliston from Ralph de 
 Paris and John de Coton. Same witnesses and date. 
 
 372. Power of Attorney by John Wychard, de 
 Osberston, to John Sutton, de Sutton, to deliver seisin to 
 Reginald Langham and others, of all his lands and tene- 
 ments in Nether Seal, which sometime belonged to Simon 
 Shyrford, of Osberston. Dat. Osberston, T. bef. F. of 
 St. Denis [9 Oct.], 6 Hen. IV [1404]. With seal of arms. 
 
 373. Quit-claim, by John Brewode and Simon Nel to 
 Richard Cartwryght, fil. et her. Rob. Cartwryght, of all 
 those lands which they acquired by grant from the said 
 Robert Cartwryght. Witnesses : Edmund de Appulby, 
 fil. Dom. Edmundi de Appelby, militis ; John Horn ; 
 William Whyte, etc. Dat. Fr. aft. F. of St. Barnabas 
 [11 June], 6 Hen. IV [1405]. With two seals. 
 
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84 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 374. Feoffment, by Thomas de Gresleye, mil., to 
 Philip de Repingdon, Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Langley, 
 Chancellor of England, Thomas Maureward, Knt, John 
 Foliaumbe, and others, of all his lands and tenements, 
 with the advowsons of the churches, in Colton and else- 
 where in co. Stafford, in Osgathorpe and elsewhere in 
 co. Leicester, in Braceborough and elsewhere in co. Lincoln, 
 and in Seton and elsewhere in co. York, which formerly- 
 belonged to Dom. Thomas Wasteneys his grandfather, 
 and fell to him on the death of Dom. Thomasina de 
 Gresleye his mother. Witnesses : John de Arderne ; 
 Robert de Fraunceys, John Bagot, William Neupord, 
 Knts. ; and Nicholas de Ruggeley. Dat. Colton, F. of 
 St. Mary Magd. [22 July], 6 Hen. IV [1405]. With seal 
 of arms (broken). 
 
 375. Grant, by Robert, fil. Johannis Brewode, to 
 Richard Cartwryght and Simon Neel, of land, etc., in 
 Nether Seal, together with three acres in the fields of 
 Donisthorpe. Witnesses : William Oky ; Robert Dioson ; 
 William Legegode, etc. Dat. F. of St. James [25 July], 
 6 Hen. IV [1405]. With seal. 
 
 376. Re-feoffment, by Philip de Repyngdon, Bishop 
 of Lincoln, Thomas Langley, Chancellor of England, 
 Thomas Maureward, Knt., Robert de Waterton, Peter de 
 Melburne, Nicholas de Bradschawe, Robert de Twyford, 
 John Foliaumbe, Richard de Burton and Richard Hilton, 
 to Thomas de Gresley, Knt., of all the lands and tene- 
 ments in Colton, co. Stafford, and elsewhere which the 
 said Thomas had conveyed to them as his feoffees, with 
 special instructions in case the said Thomas die before he 
 re-feoff the said lands to the above-named trustees, or in 
 case his son shall not be of full age, at the said Thomas's 
 death, or in case the latter's wife Margaret, being a widow, 
 shall marry again. [1405-1419.] French. With seal of 
 arms of T. de Greseley. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 85 
 
 377. 378- Defeasances of two mutual bonds between 
 the Abbot of Burton-on-Trent and Sir Thomas de 
 Gresley, Knt, for the payment of 1,000 marks by recogni- 
 zances made before John Cokayn, Chief Baron of the 
 Exchequer. Dat. 10 March, 7 Hen. IV [1406]. French. 
 With two seals of Burton Abbey, broken and defaced. 
 
 379. LEASE, for ten years, by John Cokyn, mil., and 
 Thurstan Wolsley de Pollesworthe, to Hugh Haythey de 
 Overscheyle and Elena his wife, of his capital messuage in 
 Over Seal, in which Roger Lorret, fil. Rad. Lorret, lately 
 dwelt. Rent, 22sh. ^d. Witnesses : Henry Holond, de 
 Overscheyle ; William Wydurley de Chyldcote ; William 
 Dyeson, etc. Dat. Th. aft. F. of Tr. of St. Thomas 
 [7 July], 7 Hen. IV [1406]. 
 
 380. LEASE, by Richard Cartewryght and Simon Neell 
 to Matilda, relicta Roberti Bruwode, for term of her life, 
 of all those lands and tenements which they acquired by 
 feoffment from the said Robert, with the proviso that if 
 the said Matilda shall marry again, or if William, son and 
 heir of the said Robert, when he comes of full age, shall 
 marry and shall be unable to live with his said mother, 
 that then he shall have the plot of ground on which 
 Matilda Aleyne sometime dwelt, and the moiety of all his 
 late father's land, in the fields of Nether Seal, and on his 
 mother's death the whole of the lands : with remainder if 
 the said William die without direct heir, to Thomas and 
 John his brothers, Joan and Amice his sisters. Witnesses : 
 Edmund de Appulby ; Ralph Loret ; William Oky, etc. 
 Dat. S. aft. F. of St. Bartholomew [24 Aug.], 7 Hen. IV 
 [1406]. With one seal. 
 
 381. GRANT, by Simon Nel to Richard Cartwryght and 
 William Stotfold de Dorandesthorp, of all his lands, etc., 
 in Nether Seal. Witnesses : Robert Diosone ; William 
 
86 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Legegode ; William Fyz, etc. Dat. T. aft. F.' of Corpus 
 Christi [26 May], 8 Hen. IV [1407]- 
 
 382. Lease, for lives, by Thomas Gresley, chevalier, 
 Roger Horton, Dominus de Catton, William Bulkope, 
 persona de Clyfton, Thomas Aylemonde, persona de 
 Stretton, Richard Jolypas, and others, to Roger and 
 Richard, sons of Ralph Lorret, of his capital messuage in 
 Seal in which the late Ralph Lorret sometime dwelt. 
 Rent, six shillings. Witnesses : William Legegode ; 
 Robert Dyeson ; John Broughton. Dat. M. aft. F. of St. 
 Bartholomew [24 Aug.], 9 Hen. IV [1408]. With one 
 seal. 
 
 383, 384. QUIT-CLAIMS, by Reginald de Langham, 
 armiger, and John de Rygeley and John Bray, capellani, 
 to Edmund Bugge, William de Brokesby, and Henry 
 Wychard, of all the lands and tenements which they had 
 by feoffment of John Wychard de Osbreston, in Seal. 
 Dat. Fr. and Sat. aft. F. of Pur. B. V. Mary [2 Feb.], 
 
 10 Hen. IV [1409]. With seals. 
 
 385, 386. Grant by John Wychard de Osberston to the 
 same three of all the lands and tenements which he holds 
 in Seal ; with power of attorney to Thomas Coleman to 
 deliver seisin of the same. Dat. Fr. aft. F. of St. Agatha 
 [5 Feb.], 10 Hen. IV [1409]. With seals. 
 
 387. Grant by Thomas de Langley, Bishop of Durham, 
 Philip de Repyngton, Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Maure- 
 ward, chevalier, Robert Waterton, Piers de Melburne, 
 Nicholas Bradschawe, Robert Twiford, Richard de Burton 
 and Richard de Hilton, to John Gresley, son and heir of 
 Thomas de Gresley, chevalier, and Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Thomas Clarell, of an annual rent of twenty marks 
 arising from Colton Manor, for their lives. Dat. Col ton, 
 
 11 Hen. IV [1409-10]. French. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 87 
 
 388. GRANT by Richard de Hampton, al. vocatus 
 Richard Wymere de Drakelowe, consanguineus et heres 
 Margerie, fil. Willelmi Wymere de Blythebury ac sororis et 
 heredis Johannis Wymere, fil. et her. predicti Willelmi, to 
 Thomas Gresley, mil., of all his lands, tenements, etc., in 
 Colton, Bagot Bromley, Bromley Abbots, Rydeware 
 Mauveisin, and elsewhere in co. Stafford, which fell to 
 him on the death of the said Margery. Witnesses : 
 Thomas de Aston, mil. ; Thomas Astley ; Richard de 
 Wolsley ; John Rysshebury, persona ecclesie de Colton ; 
 Henry del Botery de Bromley Abbatis, etc. Dat. Colton, 
 M. bef. F. of St. George [23 Apr.], 11 Hen. IV [1410]. 
 With seal. 
 
 389. QUIT-CLAIM by Thomas Aylemond, persona ecclesie 
 de Stretton, Richard Widoweson and Roger Taliour, 
 capellani de eadem, to Thomas de Gresley, mil., Roger 
 de Horton, Dominus de Catton, and William Bulcote, 
 persona ecclesie de Clyfton Caumpvyle, and Richard 
 Jolypas, capellanus, of all those lands, tenements, etc., in 
 Nether Seal which they lately acquired jointly with the 
 said Thomas Gresley, Roger, William and Richard. 
 Witnesses : Thomas de Blacfordeby ; Robert Adynet de 
 Assheby la Souche, etc. Dat. Th. bef. Conv. of St. 
 Paul [25 Jan.], 12 Hen. IV [141 1]. 
 
 390. Power of Attorney by Roger Chilcote de 
 Stratford super Auene to Roger Lorete to deliver seisin to 
 John Cokayn, mil., Thomas Mawreward, mil., and Thomas 
 Wytherley, armiger, of all the lands in Nether Seal which 
 the said Roger Chilcote acquired by feoffment from Ralph 
 Loret his uncle. Dat. Stratford-on-Avon, W. aft. F. of 
 St. Valentine [14 Feb.], 12 Hen. IV [141 1]. 
 
 391. GRANT by Richard Wydowesone de Stretton, capel- 
 lanus, and Roger Loret, executors of the will of Ralph 
 Loret, to John Cokayne, mil, John Fyndryn and Henry 
 
88 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Bothe, of all the lands in Seal which they acquired by the 
 feoffment and will of Ralph Loret jointly with Thomas, 
 persona de Stretton, and Roger Tayloure, capellanus. 
 Witnesses : Thomas Wytherleye ; William Marchal ; 
 Robert Wylleson, etc. Dat. Th. aft. F. of St. Valentine 
 [14 Feb.], 12 Hen. IV [141 1]. With seal, broken. 
 
 392. Grant by Roger Loret to John Cokayn, mil., John 
 his son, and Thurstan Worseley, of all his lands and tene- 
 ments in the fee of Seal, with all his goods and chattels. 
 Witnesses : Richard Wernon, armiger ; Thomas Gryffyn, 
 armiger ; John Gylet, etc. Dat. Seal, F. of St. Juliana 
 [16 Feb.], 12 Hen. IV [141 1]. With seal. 
 
 393. Quit-claim by Roger Chylcote de Stratford super 
 Auene to John Cokayn, mil, Thomas Mawreward, mil, 
 and Thomas Wytherley, armiger, de Chilcote, of all those 
 lands, tenements, etc., which belonged to Ralph Loret, 
 his uncle, in Nether Seal. Witnesses : Thomas Stafford 
 de Clyfton Camvile ; William Clement de Chilcote ; John 
 Gylote, etc. Dat. W. aft. F. of St. Matthias [24 Feb.], 12 
 Hen. IV [141 1]. 
 
 394. QUIT-CLAIM by Roger, fil. Roberti de Donasthorpe, 
 to John Cokayn, mil., of all the lands and tenements in 
 Nether Seal. Witnesses : Thomas de Wythirley ; William 
 Marshall de Stretton ; John Gylot, etc. Dat. Morr. of 
 Ann. of B. V. Mary [25 Mar.], 12 Hen. IV [141 1]. 
 
 395. Grant by Walter Marreys de Rostlaston to John 
 Marreys his son, of all his possessions in Rosliston and 
 Linton, and elsewhere in co. Derby. Witnesses : Thomas 
 Gresley, mil. ; John Abell de Caldewelle ; William Warde 
 de Coton, etc. Dat. Sat. aft. F. of St. Hillary [13 Jan.], 
 14 Hen. IV [1413]. 
 
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 396. Quit-claim by Lesota, widow of Richard Wyley, 
 filia et heres Johannis, fil. Nicholai de Octhorp, to Thomas 
 Gresley, mil., John Gresley, mil, Thomas Astley, and 
 William Arderne de Meysham, of all the lands she inherited 
 from her father in Octhorpe [Oakthorpe], in cos. Derby 
 and Leicester, or elsewhere in the same counties. Wit- 
 nesses : — Inggwerdeby, Dominus deWillesley ; John Abell ; 
 John Basely de Meysham, etc. Dat. Oakthorpe, Fr. aft. 
 Cone, of B. V. Mary [8 Dec], 1 Hen. V [1413]. 
 
 397. Lease by Henry Wychard de Chaddesdon to 
 Christiana uxor Johannis de Lathebure nuper ux. Johannis 
 Wychard of two parts of those lands, etc., in Seal, which 
 he had by feoffment from the said John. Witnesses : 
 Robert Butteler de Derleston ; John Shepey de Osberston ; 
 Richard Butteler de eadem. Dat. F. of St. Barnabas 
 [n June], 2 Hen. V [1414]. 
 
 398. Grant by John Colwych to John Parker and 
 Thomas Sapurton, of all the lands which he holds in the 
 fee of Morton, which were sometime John Weston's. Wit- 
 nesses : Ralph Wolseley ; Ralph Bysscheton ; William 
 Bentley, etc. Dat. Th. aft. Nat. of St. John Bapt. [24 June], 
 4 Hen. V [1416]. 
 
 399. General Release by John, fil. Johannis Sheperd, 
 al. dicti Johannis atte Walle de Rostlaston, to John Mareys, 
 fil. Walteri Mareys de Rostlaston. Dat. Th. aft. F. of 
 St. Martin [11 Nov.], 4 Hen. V [1416]. With seal. 
 
 400A. Grant by John Parker, de Charteley and Thomas 
 Sapurton de Leghes, to Thomas Gresley, mil., Dominus de 
 Morton, of all the lands, etc., which they lately acquired by 
 grant from John Colwych in the fee of Morton. Witnesses : 
 Ralph Wolseley ; Thomas Ardenton ; Thomas Grym, etc. 
 Dat. Morton, M. aft. F. of St. Hilary [13 Jan.], 5 Hen. V 
 [1418]. 
 
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 400B. Power OF ATTORNEY to John Russhebury, rector 
 ecclesie de Colton, to deliver seisin of the same. Same 
 witnesses. Dat Tu. aft. F. of St. Hilary [13 Jan.], 
 S Hen. V [1418]. With seals. 
 
 401. Quit-claim by John Colwych de Colwych to 
 Thomas Gresley, mil. Dominus de Morton, of the same 
 lands. Same witnesses. Dat. M. aft. F. of St. Valentine 
 [14 Feb.], S Hen. V [1418]. With seal of arms. 
 
 402A. Letter from the Canons of St. George's Church, 
 Gresley, to Dom. Thomas de Greseley, mil., " patronus et 
 noster legitimus et advocatus", nominating two of their 
 body, W. de Sancto Ivone and J. de Bredon, for the 
 office of " prior et pastor", vacant on the death of John de 
 Tuttebury, and asking for his licence to make the election. 
 Dat. " In our chapter-house" at Gresley, 6 Sept. 1420. 
 
 402B. Letter from T. de Gresley to the Canons grant- 
 ing the requisite licence. Dat. Drakelow, 7 Sept. 1420. 
 
 402c. Letter to the same from the Canons reporting 
 that they have elected Dom. William de Sancto Ivone to 
 be " prior et pastor". Dat. 13 Sept. 1420. 
 
 403. Quit-claim by Henry Marreys, capellanus, to 
 John Marreys de Rostlaston, of all his lands, etc., in 
 Rostliston, which were sometime Robert Isabell's, and 
 were conveyed by him to the said Henry Marreys, and 
 feoffees now deceased. Witnesses : Thomas de Gresley, 
 mil. ; John Dethik, armiger ; John Abell, etc. Dat. Roslis- 
 ton, Th. in Easter week [27 Mar.], 9 Henry V [1421]. 
 With seal. 
 
 404. Quit-claim by John de Colton, al. dictus John del 
 Hull, manens in Drakelowe, to Thomas Gresley, mil. 
 de Drakelowe, of all the lands which descended to him 
 
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 on the death of his father Robert del Hulle, in Colton. 
 Witnesses : John Gresley, mil. ; John Clerkson de Colton ; 
 Ralph Wolsley, etc. Dat. Fr. aft. F. of St. Gregory 
 [12 Mar.], 9 Hen. V [1422]. With seal. 
 
 405. Power of Attorney by Henry Wychard to John 
 Jakes and John Taliour, to deliver seisin to John Lawe, 
 clericus, and Henry Halle, of all those lands which he 
 acquired by feoffment from John Wychard, de Osberston, 
 in Seal. Dat. Morr. of F. of St. Michael [29 Sept.], 
 7 Hen. VI [1428]. 
 
 406. Quit-claim by Alice, nuper relicta Henrici 
 Wychard de Chaddesden to John Lawe, clericus, and Henry 
 Halle de Overton, of those lands which Henry Wychard 
 her husband, Edmund Bugge and William Brokesby had 
 by feoffment from John Wychard de Osberston in Seal. 
 Dat. Seal, 6 Dec, 7 Hen. VI [1428]. With seal. 
 
 407. 408. Grant by John Abell de Stapenhill to Thomas 
 Gresley, mil. Dominus de Drakelowe, of five acres of 
 meadow in the meadow called Le Borough-holme, within 
 the lordship of Walton on Trent, which five acres formerly 
 belonged to William diet. Le Child de Caldewell, with 
 power of attorney to Richard Penyston de Chattesworth to 
 deliver seisin. Witnesses : John Dethek, Dominus de 
 Neuhall ; Henry Holand de Caldewall ; Robert Thirmot, 
 de Lynton. Dat. Walton, M. aft. F. of Nat. of B. V Mary 
 [8 Sept.], 9 Hen. VI [143°]- With seal - 
 
 409. BOND, in £20, from William Wykynton de Moun- 
 sterell and Agnes his wife, to Richard Vernon, mil., and 
 John Broun de Shayll, for the peaceable possession by the 
 said Richard and John of all those lands in Donisthorpe, 
 which lately belonged to Thomas Caleys. Dat. 9 Feb., 
 11 Hen. VI [1433]- 
 
92 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 410. Quit-claim by William Schiret de Yoxhale, frater 
 et her. Johannis Schiret, to Thomas Gresley, mil., John 
 Gresley, mil., Geoffrey Gresley, arm., and William Arderne, 
 of five acres of meadow in Yoxhall. Witnesses : Robert 
 Stokley, de Yoxhale ; Thomas Southerne ; Robert Rous, 
 etc. Dat. Yoxhall, M. aft. F. of St. Matthias [24 Feb.], 
 11 Hen. VI [1433]. 
 
 411. Grant by Symon Neel de Sheyle to Richard 
 Whithull and Thomas Condyt, of two acres and a rood of 
 land in Nether Seal, which he acquired from Agnes 
 Meysham. Witnesses : John Gylot ; Richard Cartwright ; 
 William Dyson. Dat. F. of St. Laurence [10 Aug.], 15 
 Hen. VI [1437]. 
 
 412. Grant by John Broun de Sheyle to Richard 
 Whithull and Thomas Condyt, of all his lands, etc., in 
 Nether Seal, co. Leic, Donisthorpe and Lullyngton, 
 co. Derby. Witnesses : John Gylot ; William Dyson ; 
 Laurence Spenser ; Simon Neel. Dat. S. aft. F. of St. 
 Laurence [10 Aug.], 15 Hen. VI [1437]. With seal. 
 
 413. 414. Grant and Counterpart by Richard 
 Whithull and Thomas Condyt to John Broun and Alice 
 Delves, of all their lands and tenements, etc., in Nether 
 Seal. Witnesses : John Gyllot ; Richard Cartwryght ; 
 
 . Laurence Spenser, etc. Dat. M. aft. F. of St. Laurence 
 [10 Aug.], 15 Hen. VI [1437]. With seals. 
 
 415. Note of Acquittance to Richard Cartewright, 
 in respect of his accompt as Bailiff and Collector of Rents 
 of William Vernon, his lord, of Nether Seal, by Richard 
 Spencer and Sampson Broune, Auditors ; for the year 
 Michaelmas 16 Hen. VI, to Michaelmas 17 Hen. VI 
 [H37-8]. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 93 
 
 416. Petition from John Bredon, subprior of the 
 Priory of St. George at Gresley, dioc. Coventry and 
 Lichfield, to Dom. Thomas Gresley, mil., " patronus et 
 fundator" of the Priory, that he will ratify their choice of 
 Richard Coventrensis, " concanonicus et confrater noster", 
 for the office of Prior, vacant on the death of William 
 St. Yvo, late Prior. Dat. "at our Chapter-house", 21 Jan. 
 1438 [9]. With fragment of the Priory seal. 
 
 417. LEASE, for lives, by Geoffrey Gresley, arm., with 
 the consent of his co-feoffees, to William de Howeton, 
 " Kever et Peyntour", of Burton-on-Trent, and Alice his 
 wife, of all the lands, etc., in Wynshull, co. Derby, which 
 sometime belonged to John Broun, fil. Willelmi Broun de 
 Pontefracto. Rent, a red rose at midsummer. Witnesses : 
 John Abell ; Henry de Caldewell ; Reginald Roundell de 
 Stapenhill. Dat. Tu. aft. Decoll. of St. John Bapt. 
 [29 Aug.], 17 Hen. VI [1439]. With two seals. 
 
 418. Grant by John Marreys to his brother Nicholas 
 Marreys, of the reversion of a messuage and virgate of 
 land lately held by John Dawson which will fall to him on 
 the death of his mother Alice, widow of John Marreys, 
 senior. Witnesses : Henry Holond ; William Ward de 
 Coton ; John Thurmond. Dat. Rosliston, W. aft. F. of 
 Epiphany [6 Jan.], 18 Hen. VI [1440]. 
 
 419. 420. Grant and Quit-claim by John Marreys 
 to Thomas Smyth de Thorp and Joan his wife, of a 
 cottage and croft, etc., in Rosliston. Dat. 27 Feb., 1 Mar., 
 20 Hen. VI [i44 2 ]- 
 
 421. GRANT by John Marreys, fil. et her. Johannis 
 Marreys, to Nicholas his brother, "nunc manens in 
 Sneynton iuxta Notyngham", of a messuage and virgate of 
 land adjacent in Rosliston. Witnesses : Richard Calange- 
 
94 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 wode ; Thomas Wylkynson ; Ralph Blacgreve, etc. Dat. 
 M. aft. F. of St. Vincent [22 Jan.], 22 Hen. VI [1444]. 
 
 422. Grant by Richard Cartwrith, of Nether Seal, to 
 Richard Vernon, mil, Thomas Stanley, arm., and Thomas 
 White, cler., of all his lands, tenements, goods, and chattels 
 wherever they may be found. Witnesses : William 
 Wytherley, de Sheley Graunge ; Edmund Appulby de 
 Ouersheley ; John Aloney de Willesley, etc. Dat. 
 Michaelmas Day, 22 Hen. VI [1443]. With seal. 
 
 423. Grant by John Machon de Hynkley to John 
 Hyne, junior, de Assheby la Souch, of six roods of arable 
 land and two of meadow, in the vill and territory of 
 Doransthorp [Donisthorpe]. Rent, a grain of pepper at 
 Michaelmas. Witnesses : Thomas Leceson de Assheby 
 predicta ; John Stone ; John Boydell, etc. Dat. Donis- 
 thorpe, 28 Dec, 22 Hen. VI [1443]. With seal. 
 
 424. Grant by John Marreys, fil. et her. Johannis 
 Marreys, to William de Shepey de Caldewall, of two acres 
 of arable land lying on Domfurlong and abutting on 
 Le Ryggewey. Witnesses : John Broun, de Rostelaston ; 
 William Warde de Coton ; Richard Botyler de Ednyng- 
 hale, etc. Dat. Rosliston, M. aft. F. of St. Margaret 
 [20 July], 22 Hen. VI [1444]. 
 
 425. Covenant for a lease by Humphrey Blount and 
 James de Hopewod, feoffees of Margaret, widow of John 
 Gresley, Knt, to John Gresley, esquire, her son, of the 
 manors of Colton and Kyngeston, co. Staff., for a term of 
 thirty years, " yeldyng therfore yerely to the seide feffeez 
 xl. li. in the mynster of Seynt Mary of Couentre" ; the 
 said feoffees to give acquittance for each half-yearly 
 payment of rent in the form specified in the present deed. 
 Dat. 1 March, 27 Hen. VI [1449]. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 95 
 
 426. Quit-claim by John Marreys, fil. et her. Johannis 
 Marreys, to William de Shepey, nunc manens in Calde- 
 wall, of that messuage and virgate in Rosliston which the 
 said William lately acquired by grant from Nicholas 
 Marreys his brother, " manens in Sneynton iuxta 
 Notyngham". Witnesses : John Broun ; Robert Thur- 
 mond, de Lynton ; William Warde, de Coton. Dat. S. aft. 
 Epiphany [6 Jan], 23 Hen. VI [1445]. 
 
 427, 428. Grant and Quit-claim by John Marreys, 
 fil. et her. Joh. Marreys, and Margery his wife, to Roger 
 Gyldyrson of all his lands, etc., in Rosliston. Witnesses : 
 John Broune ; Ralph Blacgreve, de Lynton ; Richard 
 Calengewod, de Caldewall. Dat. 9, 10 Dec, 27 Hen. VI 
 [1448]. With seals. 
 
 429. Quit-claim by Alice Hyll, nuper uxor Johannis 
 Marreys, senior, to John Marreys her son, of all the lands, 
 etc., which she had from her said husband. Witnesses : 
 John Broune ; Ralph Blacgreve ; Richard Chalengewod. 
 Dat. 4 Dec, 27 Hen. VI [1448]. With seal. 
 
 430. Quit-claim by William Babyngton, mil., to Roger 
 Gyldreson, senior, of all those lands, etc., in Rosliston 
 which lately belonged to Walter Marys or John Marys his 
 son. Witnesses ■ John Gresley ; John Abney ; John 
 Cursun. Dat. Nottingham, F. of St. Agnes [21 Jan.l, 
 27 Hen. VI [1449]. With seal of arms, broken. 
 
 431. GRANT by Richard Nyk de Catton and Joan his 
 wife to William Vernon, arm., of all the lands and tene- 
 ments within the lordship of Seal, which were formerly 
 Robert Wylson's. Witnesses : Richard Hasord, rector 
 ecclesie de Stretton in le Feld ; Richard Spencer de 
 Lichefeld ; John Teddesley de Chesterfeld. Dat. Fr. aft. 
 F. of St. Dionysius [9 Oct.], 28 Hen. VI [1449]. With 
 two seals, one, of arms, 
 
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 432. Quit-CLAIM by William Wade de Coton and 
 Alice his wife, John their son, and Agnes le Granger, que 
 fuit uxor Ricardi Graunger, to Roger Gyldurson, of lands, 
 tenements, etc., in Rosliston. Witnesses : John Dyson ; 
 Stephen Warde ; Ralph Blakegreue, etc. Dat. F. of St. 
 Michael [29 Sept.], 29 Hen. VI [1450]. 
 
 433) 434- Grant and Quit-claim by Roger Gylderson 
 de Brynsley in com. Nottingham, Katharine his wife, and 
 John his son, to John Paunton de Burton super Trent, of 
 all his lands, etc., in Rosliston, Caldewall and Lynton, in 
 co. Derby. Witnesses : Nicholas Chamber ; Ralph Blak- 
 greue ; Richard Dawson, etc. Dat. 16 Apr., 30 Hen. VI 
 [1452]. With seals. 
 
 435. Grant by Thomas Smyth de Thorp and Joan his 
 wife, to William Smyth their son and Joan his wife, of a 
 cottage and croft in Rosliston, the croft being that some- 
 time belonging to John Marreys. Witnesses : Nicholas 
 Chaumber de Caldewall ; John Andrewe ; and William 
 Andrewe. Dat. 31 March, 36 Hen. VI [1458]. 
 
 436. Grant by John Gresley, mil., dominus de Colton, 
 to Richard Wygan de Colton, of a plot of land in Colton, 
 sometime in the tenure of John Parker. " Reddendo inde 
 annuatim .... tres catapultas 1 ad festum Pasche." Wit- 
 nesses : John Belton de Colton ; William Wheston de 
 eadem ; William Boteler de eadem. Dat. Colton, 4 May, 
 36 Hen. VI [1458]. With seal of arms, broken. 
 
 437. Award by Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, in 
 settlement of " divers contraversies, strifes and debates 
 .... long tyme hangyng betwixe Sir William Vernon, 
 knight, Roger Vernon his brother, their men seruauntz and 
 
 1 Catapulta = a broad arrow. Cf. The Record Interpreter, C. T. 
 Martin, 1892 ; cf. also below, No. 459. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 97 
 
 tenauntz on the oon partie and Sir John Gresley, knyght, 
 Nicholas his brother ther men seruauntz and tenauntz on 
 the other partie". Dat. 12 Sept., 34 Hen. VI [1455]. 
 Signed " H. Buckingham". 
 
 Among the articles decided by the arbitrator are the 
 following : — 
 
 First we awarde that the seid Sir William and Sir John 
 shalbe full frendes and of frendely delyng and pardone and 
 leye aparte either to other alle maner aggrugginges and 
 rancoure of herte. And neither of them shall vexe, trouble, 
 or make querelle to any cousyn, frende, servaunt, tenauntz 
 or welwiller to other for materes or querelles passed of the 
 same Sir William and Sir John. And yf any cause of 
 gruggyng happen to falle betwene them in tyme to come 
 that he of them that shal finde hym greved shal notefie us 
 of the cause of his gruggyng if we ben in cuntrey, or elles 
 oure sonne Stafford in oure absence withoute any thyng 
 procedyng by weie of feite (sic), and we or our seide sonne 
 in oure absence to sette redresse theryn. 
 
 Item, forasmoche as it was afore this tyme awarded that 
 the said Sir William shulde paie to Annes, that was the 
 wife of John Herte, whiche was slayne at Burton by the 
 servauntz of the seid Sir William, xx'' marcs to be dis- 
 posed for the soule of the said John, and for the relief of 
 the seide Annes and her children, of whiche remaineth yet 
 unpaied xvii marcs we awarde that the seid Sir William 
 paie to the seid Annes the seid xvii marcs, to be paied at 
 the festes of Cristmasse and Lammasse next comyng bi 
 even porcions. 
 
 Item, we awarde that the seid Sir John shall paie to the 
 use of Thomas Webbe of Shele, tenaunt to the seide Sir 
 William, wich was maymed and hurte by the servauntz of 
 the seid Sir John, for a soore wounde in the heede xiiiy. 
 iiijd., and for a nother soore wounde in the face xiiLy. iiijV., 
 and for every of vj other woundes v]s. v'md., and for a 
 mayme on the thombe in the left hand cs., summa, 
 xii marc. v]s. v'uid. 
 
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98 THE GRESLEV CHARTERS. 
 
 438. Quit-claim by Laurence Sekynton and Beatrice 
 his sister to William Sekynton their brother, of a messuage 
 in Thorp Costantyne, which they lately acquired by feoff- 
 ment of the said William Sekynton. Witnesses : William 
 Smyth ; Thomas Nicoll ; Roger Wyneswold, etc. Dat. 
 Sekynton, F. of St. Chad [2 Mar.], 4 Edw. IV [1465]- 
 
 439. Grant by John Pawnton de Burton super Trent, 
 peyntour, to Mag. Thomas Pawnton, capellanus, his son, 
 and others, of all his possessions in Rosliston. Witnesses : 
 Nicholas Chawmber ; Richard Calengewood ; Richard 
 Irpe, and others. Dat. F. of St. George [23 Apr.], 
 5 Edw. IV [1465]. 
 
 440. Bond by John Gresley, mil., in 200 marks, to abide 
 by the award of George, Duke of Clarence, Lord of 
 Richmond, in certain disputes between the said John and 
 the Abbot and Convent of Burton, the latter claiming 
 certain rents and lands in Burton, co. Staff., Drakelow, 
 Caldewall and Lynton, co. Derby, a fishery in the Trent 
 from a certain boundary called Redebanke, within the 
 lordship of Walton, up to a water-mill of the said Abbot 
 called Overmill, and the said John claiming title to other 
 rents and lands of the Abbey in Burton, Tetenall and 
 elsewhere in co. Staff. Dat. 24 Feb., 6 Edw. IV [1467]. 
 
 441. Grant by John Broune de Rostlaston to John 
 Greysley, mil., and John Dawson, of all his lands and 
 hereditaments in Rosliston, Coton, and Repingdon. 
 Witnesses : Thomas Greysley, arm. ; Thomas Curson, arm. ; 
 William Bromwich. Dat. F. of St. Andrew [30 Nov.], 
 n Edw. IV [1471]. 
 
 442. " Bill ENDENTED" of Robert Leegegood, bailie of 
 Shehill [Bailiff of Seal], to Dame Margery Vernon, of the 
 sum of lyk. /\d. "of the profites of his office". Dat. 
 Burton [12 June], 12 Edw. IV [1472]. 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 99 
 
 443, 444. Lease by Mag. John Naseby, Thomas Adams, 
 Joan Worseley, nup. uxor Johannis Worseley and William 
 Swetenham to Thomas Bradchawe of all the lands, etc., 
 which they lately acquired by feoffment of John Worsley 
 in Nether Seal ; with power of attorney to John Ogoolden 
 to deliver seisin. Witnesses : John Ogoolden ; Thomas 
 Swetenham ; Robert Legegood. Dat. 28 Sept., 14 
 Edw. IV [1474]. 
 
 445-447. Grant and Quit-claim by Thomas Brad- 
 schawe de Tyddeswall to Henry Vernon, arm., of all his 
 lands and tenements within the lordship of Sheyie and 
 Sheyle Hyde, with power of attorney to Christopher 
 Bagshawe and Robert Leggegood, to deliver seisin. Wit- 
 nesses : William Moton, arm. ; Thomas Wederley, gent. ; 
 John Wederley, gent. ; Humphrey Stanley, arm. ; Ralph 
 Sancheverell, arm. ; Thomas White, rector ecclesie de 
 Sheyle, etc. Dat. Th. bef. Ann. of B. V. Mary [25 Mar.], 
 21 Edw. IV [1481]. 
 
 448. Power of Attorney by Henry Vernon, arm., to 
 William Vernon his brother, to receive seisin of the above 
 lands. Same date. 
 
 449. Lease, in perpetuity, by William Gresley, rector 
 ecclesie de Stoke, and Richard Gresley, to John Gresley, 
 mil., and Anne his wife of the manor of Colton, co. Staff., 
 lately acquired by feoffment from the said John and Anne. 
 Witnesses : Richard Bagott de Blyffeld, arm. ; John Bagott 
 his son ; Richard Wygan de Colton. Dat. Tu. aft. F. of 
 Ascension [31 May], 21 Edw. IV [1481]. 
 
 450. GRANT by John Harecourt, arm., and Margaret his 
 wife, to Henry Vernon, arm., of two messuages and two 
 virgates of land and all his other lands, etc., in Nether 
 Seal, with attorney to William Wyght de Pollesworth to 
 deliver seisin. Witnesses : Thomas White, rector ecclesie 
 
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 de Sheile ; William Vernon, arm., and Robert Leggegode. 
 Dat. F. of St. Gregory [12 Mar.], 2 Ric. Ill [1485]. 
 
 451. Power of Attorney by Henry Vernon, arm., to 
 Thomas Broun, rector ecclesie de Appulby, and Robert 
 Leggegoode de Sheyle, to receive seisin of the same. Same 
 date. 
 
 452. GRANT by Thomas White, rector ecclesie parochi- 
 alis, de Nether Sheyle, to Thomas Wytherley, fil. Johannis 
 Wytherley, of a messuage in Nether Seal, with power of 
 attorney for livery of seisin. Witnesses : William 
 Shilton de Ouersheyle ; William Pachet ; William Gillot 
 de Nethersheyle, etc. Dat. 26 Nov., 2 Ric. Ill [1484]. 
 
 453. Quit-claim by John Dison de Walton super Trent 
 to Thomas Paunton, clericus ac sacre theologie professor, 
 fil. et her. Johannis Paunton nuper de Burton super Trent, 
 to Richard Broun de Roslaston and Elizabeth his wife, of 
 all the lands and tenements in Rosliston, Caldwall and 
 Lynton, co. Derby, which the said John and Thomas, jointly 
 with other feoffees, lately held from John Paunton. Dat. 
 7 May, 1 Henry VII [i486]. 
 
 454. GRANT by Mag. Thomas Paunton, clericus ac sacre 
 theologie professor, to Richard Broun de Rosliston and 
 Elizabeth his wife, of all the lands and tenements in Ros- 
 liston, Caldwall and Lynton mentioned in the preceding 
 deed. Witnesses : John Dyson ; Richard Irpe ; John Irpe, 
 etc. Dat. 18 May, 1 Hen. VII [i486]. 
 
 455. Grant by Lodowicus Bagot, arm., to Thomas 
 Gresley, mil., of four acres of arable land lying within the 
 fee of Colton in an enclosure called Hasilhurste " modo 
 inclusa infra novum parcum"; with a quit-claim of all the 
 other lands and pastures now enclosed within the new 
 park and in Le Barromore le Moreheys similarly enclosed : 
 
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 the said grant being in exchange for five acres of land in 
 three enclosures in Admaston called Le Ley. Witnesses : 
 Richard Norman; Richard Gresley ; John Blount, gent, 
 etc. Dat. 15 Feb., 7 Hen. VII [1492]. With seal. 
 
 456, 457. Grant and Quitclaim by John Gurmundull 
 al. diet. John Tumson to Henry Vernon, mil., of lands, etc., 
 in the fields of Nether Seal : with attorney to Thomas 
 Chesshire, rector de Appulby, and John Marchenton, to 
 deliver seisin. Dat. 26 Aug., 17 Hen. VII [1501]. 
 
 458. Power of Attorney by Henry Vernon, mil., to 
 George Vernon and Roger Janyns to take seisin of the 
 same. Same date. 
 
 459. Covenant in settlement of suits between Sir 
 Henry Vernon, Knt, and Edmond Appulby of Appulby, 
 gent, concerning certain lands, rents and other duties in 
 Donisthorpe. 
 
 The first clause runs as follows : — 
 
 " First the said Edmond Appulby is agreed that he and 
 his heires shall pay yerely unto the said Sir Henry Vernon, 
 Knyght, and his heires, xii brode arowes heded, with brode 
 heddes, or xii<f. of lawfull money, as the ancestres of the 
 seid Edmond hath paid unto the ancestres of the seid Sir 
 Henry." Dat. 24 Feb., 19 Hen. VII [1504]. 
 
 460. GRANT by Elena, relicta Johannis Broune, nuper de 
 Rostlaston defuncti, to William Dawson, fil. Johannis 
 Dawson de Rostlaston of a messuage, etc., in Rosliston, a 
 wood and land in Coton, with other lands in Rosliston, 
 Coton, and Repingdon which she acquired by grant from 
 her late husband : with attorney to Thomas Gowper and 
 Geoffrey Cowper to deliver seisin. Witnesses : Henry 
 Vernon, mil. ; William Gresley, arm. ; Thomas Dethek, 
 arm., etc. Dat. 20 July, 19 Hen. VII [1504]. 
 
102 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 461. Quit-claim by the same to Richard Broune of all 
 her possessions in Rosliston, Coton and Repingdon. Dat. 
 15 Apr. 29 Hen. VII [1505]. 
 
 462. GRANT by Richard Verney de Compton Verney, 
 arm., fil. et her. Edmundi Verney, arm., to William Bedeham 
 de Northampton, smyth, and Agnes his wife of a tenement 
 with pigeon house, etc., in North Street, Northampton, and 
 an enclosure which fell to him on the death of the said 
 Edmund his father, with power to deliver seisin. At the 
 special request of the said Richard, the seal of the Mayor 
 of Northampton is appended. Witnesses : Henry Hum- 
 frey, Mayor of Northampton ; Thomas Peny and Richard 
 Wheler, Bailiffs. Dat. Northampton [7 Oct.], 23 Hen. VII 
 [1507]. With seals. 
 
 On the back is a memorandum stating that this charter 
 was enrolled " in rotulis memorandorum curie ville North- 
 amptonie imperpetuum duraturis", in the presence of 
 Thomas Wellys, Mayor, William Bowas and Richard 
 Deyneithe, Bailiffs, and John Wattis, John Smythe, John 
 Saye, and John Parvyne, " Domini Regis Coronatores", 
 and was proclaimed at the hustings according to the 
 custom of the town " ad tres dies hustengal[es ?] ", on 
 Monday "post festum clause Pasce", 2 Hen. VIII [1510]. 
 
 463. Grant by William Greysley de Drakelowe, arm., 
 to William, Abbot of Burton-on-Trent, Robert, Prior of 
 Gresley, Robert Greysley, his brother, and others, of all the 
 lands and tenements in Snareston, co. Leic, which he lately 
 acquired by grant from John Corbett de Lee in Com. Salop, 
 arm. : to hold to the use of Alice Tawke for her life, and on 
 her death, to the use of Anthony Gresley, son of the same 
 Alice, and to the heirs of his body, and on failure of such 
 issue to the use of Thomas Gresley, Humphrey Gresley, 
 Edward Gresley, and the heirs of their bodies begotten, 
 and on failure of such issue to the above-named William 
 Gresley, his heirs and assigns : with power of attorney to 
 
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 Dom. John Orme, clericus, and Thomas Orme to deliver 
 seisin. Dat. Snareston 10 Feb., 1 Hen. VIII [15 10]. 
 Signed, " per me Wyllyam Greysseley squyer". With small 
 seal. 
 
 464. Bond, in £20, by William Broune de Uttoxator in 
 co. Staff., yeoman, to Richard Wakelen, yeoman, to 
 ensure to the latter, and to Margery his wife, peaceable 
 possession of two messuages in Rosliston. Dat. 6 Mar.. 
 2 Hen. VIII [1511]. 
 
 465, 466. Grant and Quit-claim by William Smyth, 
 de Lullington, fil. et her. Radulphi Smyth, nuper de 
 Huxton defuncti, to William Greysley, arm., of all his lands 
 and tenements in Huxton [Hixon] and Morton, co. Staff., 
 which fell to him on the death of the said Ralph his father : 
 with power of attorney to deliver seisin. Witnesses : 
 George Colwhich, arm.; John Ellismere ; Thomas Cokett, 
 etc. Dat. 5, 10 May, 3 Hen. VIII [151 1]. 
 
 467. GRANT by William Bedome de villa Northampton, 
 smyth, and Agnes his wife, to Richard Hayworth de 
 Northampton, taillour, and Agnes his wife, of a tenement, 
 etc., in North Street, Northampton, which the said William 
 acquired by grant from Richard Verney de Compton, in 
 com. Warw., arm. : with power of attorney to give seisin. 
 " Et quia sigilla nostra quampluribus sunt incognita, ideo 
 sigillum officii maioratus ville Northampton predicte apponi 
 procuravimus." Witnesses : John Hilton, tunc maior ville 
 Northampton, William Grene and Richard Dixson, tunc 
 ibidem ballivi. Dat. 14 Mar., 3 Hen. VIII [1512]. With 
 seal of the Mayoralty and two small seals. 
 
 468. QUIT-CLAIM by John Wydderley de Chilcote, in 
 com. Derb., fil. et her. Thome Wydderley, fil. Johannis 
 Wydderley, to Richard Vernon, arm., fil. et her. Henrici 
 Vernon, mil, nuper defuncti, of two messuages in Nether 
 
104 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 Seal, with all those lands, tenements, etc., in Nether 
 Seal, which were sometime called Gurmondlelande al. 
 diet. Thomsonlande et postea Wydderleylande. Dat. 
 3 Mar. 7 Hen. VIII [1516]. 
 
 469. ACQUITTANCE by William Browne, of Uttoxeter, 
 yeoman, to Richard Wakelyn, of Rosliston, yeoman, for six 
 pounds rent for two messuages in Rosliston which the 
 latter holds on lease for his life, and for a parcel of land in 
 Coton, now tenanted by Joan Swanne, widow, which the 
 said Richard holds on lease for a term of ten years, with 
 covenant by the said William, in case of the said Richard's 
 death within the said term, to allow his heirs and assigns 
 to possess the land till the expiry of the term. Dat. 6 Nov., 
 9 Hen. VIII [1517]. With seal. 
 
 470. Acquittance by the same to the same for a rent 
 of four pounds for a house in Rosliston late in the holding 
 of Walter Nowell, but which the said Richard now holds on 
 lease for a term often years. Dat. 12 Sept., 11 Hen. VIII 
 [1520]. 
 
 471. 472. Grant and Quit-claim by William Browne, 
 fil. Radulphi Browne, ac frater et her. Ricardi Browne de 
 Uttoxator, to William Wakelen de Rostlaston, of all those 
 messuages in Rosliston which the said Ralph sometime 
 acquired from Thomas Paunton, clericus, fil. et her. Johannis 
 Paunton. Witnesses: Richard Bratte; Richard Penyfader ; 
 William Rogers ; and John Bratte. Dat. 20 May, 
 13 Hen. VIII [1521]. 
 
 473. Bond, in £30, between the same parties for ensur- 
 ing peaceable possession of the property. Same date. 
 
 474. Acquittance by the said grantor for the sum of 
 five pounds ten shillings " in plenam solucionem viginti 
 librarum pro predicto mesuagio". Same date. 
 
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 475. Award by Thomas [Wolsey] Cardinal Archbishop 
 of York, in a suit brought by Sir John Savage, Knt, and 
 Alice his wife, " late the wife" of Sir William Greysley, 
 Knt, and executrix of his last will, Anthony Greysley, 
 Thomas Greysley, Humfrey Greysley and Edward Greysley, 
 on the one part, against Sir George Greisley and John 
 Saunders, on the other part, to substantiate their right and 
 title to the manors of Drakelowe, co. Derby; Osgathorpe, 
 co. Leic. ; Tutbury Woodhouse, Colton, Moreton, Kingston, 
 co. Staff. ; Lullington, Castle Gresley, and Lynton, co. 
 Derby ; Norton, co. Staff. ; Braceborough, Carleby, Thirlby, 
 Baston, co. Line. ; and Seton in Spaldingmoor, co. York ; 
 whereby it is decreed that the said Sir George is to have 
 possession of the said manors as the rightful heir of his 
 brother Sir William Greysley, who died " without issue of 
 his body begotten", subject to certain rent charges to be 
 paid to the said Alice, wife of Sir John Savage, and to the 
 said Anthony, Thomas, Humphrey, and Edward. Dat. 
 Trinity Term, 16 Hen. VIII [1525]. Endorsed, "The 
 decree agaynst Lady Savage and her Basterd Sonnes for all 
 the Gresleyes lands." 
 
 476. LEASE, for lives, by John, Prior of Gresley, and the 
 Convent there, to Nycolas Sharwynt, Margery his wife, and 
 William Sharwynt, of a messuage and the mill at Seal. 
 Rent, forty-eight shillings. Dat. 1 Sept., 18 Hen. VIII 
 [1526]. Paper copy. 
 
 477. Quit-claim by Anne Browne de Uttoxator, nuper 
 relicta Willelmi Browne, to William Wakelen de Rostlaston, 
 of her dower lands in Rostliston. Witnesses. 1 Feb., 
 27 Hen. VIII [1536]. 
 
 478. GRANT by William Gresley, arm., fil. et her. Georgii 
 Gresley, mil., to Walter Aston, fil. et her. appar. Edwardi 
 Aston, mil, Edward Littelton, junior, and Thomas Rowley, 
 gent, of his manors of Colton and Kyngston, co. Staff., and 
 
106 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 all his possessions in Colton, Kyngston Parva, Loxley, 
 Bloxwiche, Caldway, Locshill, Colwiche, Newland, Blyth- 
 ford, Blythbury and Rydware, co. Staff., to hold in trust for 
 the said William and Katharine his wife, and their heirs 
 male. Dat. , 2 Edw. VI [1548-9]. 
 
 479. Grant by Edward Pease and James Wilsone to 
 William Foorde, de Shele, of a cottage in Seal (now in the 
 occupation of the Churchwardens, and formerly given for 
 the perpetual support of a lamp in Seal Church), which they 
 lately acquired by grant from the Crown. Dat. 8 Sept., 
 3 Edw. VI [1549]. 
 
 480. Release by Anne, 1 daughter of John, late Duke of 
 Cleve, Guligh, and Barry, and sister to William, " nowe 
 Duke of Cleve, Guligh, and Barry and countie of Marke, 
 Ravensburgh and Sutfyn, and also Lorde of Ravesten", to 
 Francis Bryneton and Edward Cholmeley, executors of the 
 last will and testament of William Cholmeley, esquire, 
 " late our servaunte deceased, and whiles he lived Coferer of 
 our Householde", of all actions and suits arising against 
 them " by reason of the admynistracion or Executorship", 
 for the space of one year, viz., from 30 Sept., 4 Edw. VI 
 [1550], to 1 Oct., 5 Edw. VI [1551]. Dat. 20 Dec, 
 5 Edw. VI [1551]. Signed "Anna the dowghter off 
 Cleues", and sealed with her seal of arms. 
 
 481. QUIT-CLAIM by Edward Wynter, esquire, and 
 Katharine his wife, daughter of George Gresley, Knt, 
 deceased, to William Gresley, Knt, son and heir of the 
 latter, in consideration of 400 marks, and in fulfilment of 
 an award made by John, late Duke of Northumberland, 
 "by name of" John, Earl of Warwick, Lord Chamberlain 
 of England, and Lord William Pagett of Beaudesert, " by 
 
 1 Anne of Cleves, marr. to Henry VIII in 1540. Divorced 1541 ; 
 died 1557. 
 
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 name of" Lord William Pagett, K.G., and Comptroller of 
 the Household, on 1 April, 2 Edw. VI [1548], of all those 
 messuages, lands, etc., in Okethorpe, Donisthorpe, and 
 Lynton, co. Derb., of one pasture or meadow called " The 
 Olde Lande", and another called " The Ley Closse", in 
 Colton, co. Staff. ; the said lands having been acquired by 
 the above-named George Gresley by feoffment of Henry 
 Ward, chaplain, and Thomas Gylbert, in trust for the said 
 Katharine for a term of years not yet expired on 20 Oct., 
 29 Hen. VIII [1537]. Dat. 29 Sept., 2 and 3 Philip and 
 Mary [1555]. 
 
 482A. GRANT by John Copuldyke, de Harryngton, co. 
 Line, Knt, and Thomas Copuldyke, gent., his son, to 
 William Forde, of Nether Seal, and John Forde his son, 
 of certain lands and tenements, including the mill in Nether 
 Shelley, al. Nether Sheale, all lately belonging to the 
 Priory of Gresley, now dissolved, which were granted to 
 the said John and Thomas by the Crown to hold by fealty 
 only in free socage and not in chief, the said William and 
 John to hold the same from the Crown by the same service. 
 Dat. 23 Aug., 4 and 5 Philip and Mary [1557]. 
 
 482B. Bond, in £200, between the said parties for the 
 making of the above conveyance. Dat. 19 July, 3 and 5 
 Philip and Mary [1557]. 
 
 483. Exemplification of the Charter of Edward II 
 granting to Peter de Gresley (at the instance of Hugh le 
 Despencer, junior) free warren in Gresley, Lollington, 
 Linton, Donisthorpe, Drakelow, etc., co. Derby, Norton, 
 co. Leic, and in Morton, Kingston, Hugtesdon [Hixon], 
 co. Staff., and in Toft, co. Norf. Dat. 18 Feb., 4 Eliz. 
 [1562]. With official seal, broken. 
 
 484. CONVEYANCE by Henry Berkeley, Lord Berkeley, 
 in fulfilment of indentures of bargain and sale on the day 
 
108 THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 previous, to William Grisley, al. Greysley, of Colton, Knt, 
 of all those manors or lordships of Russhelaston, al. 
 Rostlaston, Coton al. Cotes, and Lynton near Lollington, 
 and of all messuages, windmills and watermills, waters, 
 fisheries, etc., thereto belonging, and the wood called 
 Coton Park and Le Lawnde in Great or Nether Seal, and 
 all lands and tenements, services, free warren, privileges, 
 etc., belonging to the said Lord Berkeley in Rosliston, 
 Coton, al. Cotes, Lynton, Gresley, Caldwall, Donisthorpe 
 Lollington, and Walton-on-Trent. Dat. u Dec, n Eliz. 
 [1568]. With seal. 
 
 485. Exemplification of extracts from the Book of 
 Knights Fees in temp. Edw. I as follows : " Hundred of 
 Repindon, Geoffrey de Greysley holds the manor of 
 Drakelowe for one fee from Edmund, the King's brother, 
 who holds it from the King ; Geoffrey de Greysley holds 
 Lollinton for one fee from the same Edmund, and he from 
 the King ; Nicholas de Segrave holds Cotes for one fee 
 and for one Berselet [i.e., hound]. Witness : William, 
 Marquis of Winchester, Treasurer of England. Dat. 
 Westminster, 12 Feb., 13 Eliz. [1571]. With official seal, 
 broken. 
 
 486. Assignment by Samuel King of a lease to him 
 by John Glover of the mansion house in Great Seal called 
 the High Grange, which was let to the said John for a 
 term of 80 years by the now dissolved Abbey of Merivale 
 in 10 Hen. VIII. Dat. 12 Mar., 15 Eliz. [1573]. 
 
 487. GRANT by the Crown to Thomas Gresley, esquire, 
 son and heir of the late Sir William Gresley, Knt, of his 
 own wardship and marriage with an annuity of .£20 from 
 the possessions of the said Sir William ; but, forasmuch as 
 the Court of Wards is not yet assured of the extent and 
 value of the said possessions, the said Thomas has under- 
 taken to append to the present charter a schedule of them 
 
THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 109 
 
 with their extent, description, and value ; and covenants 
 to pay to the Court df Wards the said value over and 
 above the £20 annuity. Dat. 16 June, 16 Eliz. [1574]. 
 Signed by William Cecil, Lord Burghley. With official 
 seal, broken. Attached is the schedule showing " the 
 extent and clere value" and tenure of all the lands of 
 which Sir William died possessed which have now 
 descended to his son Thomas, being 20 years 6 mos. 
 20 days old at his father's death. 
 
 488. Grant by William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as 
 Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries, of the above 
 lands, etc. (of which a schedule showing the value, etc., is 
 attached), to the same Thomas Gresley. Same date and 
 signature. 
 
 489. LEASE by Thomas Greisley, of Drakelow, esquire, 
 to Ralphe Barker, his servant, of a tenement in Coton, 
 co. Derby (now occupied by William son of the late Hugh 
 Mallabour), for a term of 21 years to commence on the 
 death of the said William. Witnesses : John Stafford ; 
 Peter Callyngewood ; Arthur Houlden, etc. Dat. 20 Apr., 
 17 Eliz. [1575]. With signature " T. Gresley" and seal 
 of arms. 
 
 490. Grant by Thomas Stanley, of Tonge, co. Salop, 
 Knt, and Margaret his wife, patrons of the church and 
 rectory of Great Seal, to George Abell, of Seal, gent, 
 of the next presentation to the same. Dat. 3 Oct., 18 Eliz. 
 [1576]. With signatures and seals. 
 
 491. Will of Thomas Hopkyns, of Northampton, 
 mercer. Dat. 5 Jan., 23 Eliz. [1581]. With probate 
 attached dated 4 Feb. 1580 [1], and having appended the 
 seal of the Archdeaconry of Northampton. 
 
IIO THE GRESLEY CHARTERS. 
 
 492. Licence from the Crown to Thomas Gresley, 
 esquire, that he may convey to George Gresley, gent, 
 the manors of Over Seal and Nether Seal, and a hundred 
 acres of land, etc., in the same places, which the said 
 Thomas holds from the Crown in chief. Dat. 2 Sept., 
 32 Eliz. [1590]. With fine seal. 
 
 493. Deed OF Sale by Dame Mary Leveson, of 
 Trentham, to George Curson, of Croxall, co. Derby, of the 
 tenement called " The Antelopp" in Newcastle-under- 
 Lyme, co. Staff., at present tenanted by Richard Clayton : 
 with memorandum (on the back) of attornment of tenancy 
 by the latter. Dat. 18 July, 33 Eliz. [1591]. Signed 
 " Mary Leversone". 
 
 494. Lease, for lives, by Thomas Gresley to Elizabeth 
 Arnoulde, John Arnoulde, and Agnes his daughter, of the 
 messuage and tenement in Nether Seal in which the said 
 Elizabeth and John dwell. Witnesses : Arthur Gresley ; 
 Thomas Mosse ; William Ryle. Dat. 2 June, 40 Eliz. 
 [1598]. Signed. 
 
 495. 496. Letters Patent, and transcript, of King 
 James I, exempting George Graisley, Bart., and all his 
 tenants within the lordships of Drakelow, Gresley, and 
 Lullington (being parcels of the Duchy of Lancaster) from 
 toll, pannage, passage, lastage, presage, pitage, stallage, 
 murage or terrage. Dat. 30 June, 13 James I [161 5]. 
 
 497. Indenture whereby William, Lord Pagett, of 
 Beaudesert, co. Staff., grants to Sir Thomas Gresley, of 
 Drakelow, Bart, " for the settling and putting an end to 
 all and all manner of differences that have or any manner 
 of way may arise concerneinge raiseinge the height of the 
 weare at the upper walke or fullinge mill at Burton upon 
 Trent .... and that the said weare may for the tyme bee 
 continued at the height that now it is without the hinder- 
 
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 ance, lett, interruption or disturbance of the said Sir 
 Thomas Gresley", an annuity of £4, payable out of the 
 said fulling mill. Witnesses : Alexander Walbhall ; 
 Thomas Fisher ; Solomon Clarke ; Jonah Aldriche. Dat. 
 20 Sept., 1656. 
 
 498. Exemplification of recovery by Francis Burdett, 
 Bart, and Charles Agard, gent., against Nicholas Willymot, 
 esquire, and James Fullwood, gent., of the manors of 
 Drakelow and Lullington, with the appurtenances and 
 thirty- five messuages, two mills, and other tenements in 
 Drakelow, Lullington, Castle Gresley, Church Gresley, 
 Lynton, Rosliston, Caldwell and Stapenhill, and free 
 fishing in the Trent from Walton to Stapenhill. Dat. 
 II May 1657. 
 
 499. "Articles of Agreement, indented, concluded, 
 and mutually and fully agreed upon" between William, 
 Lord Paget, and the Hon. William Paget his son, and 
 Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow, concerning the " weare 
 of the upper fulling mill", the erection of a bridge at 
 Stapenhill, viz., the Mare Yard Bridge, and the surrender by 
 Sir T. Gresley of the £4 annuity granted him in 1656. 
 [cf. No. 497.] Dat. 17 March 1676. Signed by Lord 
 Paget and his son. 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWAR-E 
 CHARTULARY. 
 
 Cartularium familise de Rideware, Dominorum de Sheile 
 in com. Leic. ; temp. Edw. II. 
 
 The original brief description of the volume is 
 given in the following rubric (f. 3 b) : " Thomas de 
 Rydeware, fiz et heyr Wauter de Rydeware, fit fere cet 
 livre en Fan de Reigne le Roi Edward fiz le bon Rei 
 Edward le secunde, de tus le tenemans qu'il tint en sa 
 mein en Rydeware, en Scheyle, en Fridlesham et en 
 Ketelberstone et en Rossingthone." A detailed table of 
 contents has been added on ff. 6, 6 b, 7, according to 
 which the MS. originally contained 134 deeds. These 
 immediately follow the table, and are numbered in the 
 margins i-xix by the original scribe, and 20-134 i n a 
 modern hand. From time to time copies of deeds have 
 been added, most of them being in hands but little later 
 than the first hand, but a few as late as the 15th century. 
 These are described at some length at the end of this 
 article. The main contents are : — 
 
 1. Magna Carta de Warrenna, i.e., Grant by King 
 Edward II to Thomas de Rideware, of free warren in 
 Ridware, co. Staff. ; Sheile, co. Leic. ; Friddlesham 
 [Frilsham], co. Berks ; and Cutalberston [Kettlebaston], 
 co. Suff. 28 Aug., Anno 6 [131 2], f. 7 b. 
 
 2. Carta de Mercato, i.e., Grant by Edward II to the 
 same, of a market every Monday at his manor of Sheile, 
 and a fair on the Feast of St. Margaret [20 July] every 
 year, Berwick, 12 Mar.-, Anno 4 [131 1] : with drawing of 
 the King under a canopy, seated on a throne of Gothic 
 work, holding sceptre, etc., f. 8 b. 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. 113 
 
 3. Carta originalis de Sheile, i.e., Grant by William de 
 Ferrariis, Comes Derbeye, to William de Rydware, of the 
 whole land of Ralph de Scheyle : with drawing of the 
 Earl, in coat of mail, under a canopy, holding shield of 
 arms, etc. f. 9. 
 
 4. Carta de perquisitione viii virgatarum in Duranthorp, 
 i.e., Grant by Bertram fil. Will, de Caldona to William de 
 Rydware, of eight virgates in Donisthorpe. f. 9. 
 
 5. Deeds relating to Seal, co. Leic. (numbered v-xiii, 
 xv-xix, 20-22, 26-36, 38-51, 77, 78, 86). 
 
 6. Grants, etc., in co. Derby : Derby (xiv) ; Willesley 
 (23, 24); Stretton-in-the-fields (25); Crudekote in Peco 
 (54, 55); Boylestone (56, 57, 76, 119, 132, 133); Brad- 
 bourne (60); Hartington (61*, 64, 128); Norbury and 
 Roston (103-115). 
 
 7. Grants, etc., in co. Stafford : Needwood Forest (52, 
 65-71); Ridware (53, 57*, 57**, 72-76, 79, 81*, 82-84, 87, 
 120**, 124, 125, 127, 129-131); Lichfield (59); Wood- 
 houses (62, 63) ; Boscum calumniatum, i.e., Callingwood 
 (65-71) ; Edingale (57* 8i, 85, 102, 120**, 124); Bromley 
 (88) ; Hoarcross (126). 
 
 8. Grants, etc., in co. Berks: Frilsham (89-95, 99, 100, 
 117, 120, 134); Ilsley (100). 
 
 9. Grants, etc., in co. Suffolk; Kettlebaston (98, 101, 
 116, 117*, 118, 121). 
 
 10. Miscellaneous grants: in Rutindeclif (58); Hulton 
 and Chalesford (61) ; Hanworth (120*). 
 
 11. Grant by Geoffrey de Gresley to Roger de Ryde- 
 ware of Walter, fil. Pagani de Lintone, " cum tota sequela 
 in curia Dom. W. de Ferrers, comitis Derb." (37). 
 
 12. Grant by Will, de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, to Walter 
 de Rydeware, in marriage with Matilda Pecche (80). 
 
 13. Grant by the Abbot of Reading to Matilda Pecche 
 of the prayers of the Abbey, 26 July 1270 : with drawing 
 of the mitred abbot with staff and book (97). 
 
 14. Grant of protection by Henry III to the same, her 
 men and possessions, 4 Oct. Anno 49 [1265] (97*). 
 
 1 
 
1 14 DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. 
 
 15. Copies of forty deeds relating to suits between 
 Matilda Pecche and her kinsman Geoffrey Pecche, etc. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill— Edw. I. ff. 46-52 b. 
 
 The later additions are as follows : — 
 
 1. Grant by Wm. de Rydeware Hamstal to Comber- 
 mere Abbey, of eighty acres of arable land and twenty 
 acres of meadow in Hertindon, near Le Cotes, and pasture 
 for 300 sheep, dat. F. of Ass. of B.V. Mary [15 Aug.], 
 1252. f. 1 b. 
 
 2. Grant by the same to Nicholas de Ingwardeby and 
 Cisilia his wife, of land and two parts of a watermill in 
 Wyuelesleye [Willesley]. Undated, f. 1 b. 
 
 3. Memorandum concerning the lordship of Draycot 
 under Needwood, viz., that " Thomas was formerly lord, 
 of Boylestone and held the said vill for half a knight's 
 fee. And the same Thomas was lord of Draicote sub 
 Nedwode, a member of the said vill of Boylestone, and 
 held it from the Earl of Ferrars ' pro veneria', namely, that 
 he should find one huntsman with a horse, and if the horse 
 die in the Earl's service he, the Earl, shall find him 
 another to ride." Item de predicto Thoma venit 
 Hawysia filia et heres. Item de predicta Hawisia venit 
 Reginaldus de Boyliston de J. patre, qui vocabatur 
 Reginaldus de Gresley. Idem Reginaldus de Boyleston 
 fuit mortuus sine herede et de[s]cendebat Nicholao 
 Pecche filio Radulfi Pecche fratri predicti Reginaldi per 
 Hawisiam matrem predictorum qui fuit recta heres pre- 
 dictarum villarum. Item de Nicholao Pecche venit 
 Matilda Peche filia et heres que modo petit villam de 
 Draycote cum fuit et est heres de jure. 
 
 Memorandum quod prenominatus Thomas habuit quen- 
 dam fratrem qui vocabatur Radulphus le Petit et fuit 
 venator suus ad sustinendum servicium domini Comitis 
 pro villa de Draykote. Et disponsavit quandam mulierem 
 de camera domini Comitis que vocabatur Marioria et 
 genuit quamdam filiam que vocabatur Matilda de Tiche- 
 mers. Item de predicta Matilda venit quemdam filium 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. 1 1 5 
 
 (sic) qui vocabatur Robertus de Sydenham. Item de 
 predicto Roberto venerunt duas filias (sic) Matilda et 
 Johanna que tenent predictam villam de Draycote. f. 2. 
 
 4. Writ of Henry III to the bailiffs, " Edmundi filii sui 
 de Tuttebury", that they hold, " sine dilatione plenum 
 rectum Matildis de Pecche", in respect of a messuage and 
 carucate of land with appurtenances in Draycote, which 
 she claims to hold from the said Edmund by service of 
 the fourth part of a knight's fee, from which Andrew de 
 Jarkenuill and Matilda his wife, and Simon de Jarkenuill 
 and Joan his wife, deforce her. Dat. Havering, 27 Aug., 
 56 Hen. Ill [1272]. f. 2. 
 
 These memoranda relating to the suit between Matilda 
 Pecche and Matilda and Joan, " que tenent villas de 
 Draycote", give the following pedigree : — 
 
 I 
 Thomas Dom. de Boyleston,= 
 holds Draycote of the Earl of 
 Ferrars. 
 
 Ralph, "le petit".=Marioria 
 
 [. . . Syden-]=Matilda.=Tiche- 
 ham. mers. 
 
 J. [de Gresley ?].== Hawisia. =pRalph Pecche. 
 
 Robert de Sydenham.= 
 
 Reginald de Gresley, 
 
 al. de Boyleston ; 
 
 ob. sine herede. 
 
 Nicholas.=[Alicia de Sifrewast.] 
 
 Matilda Pecche, = [Walter, fil. Will, 
 claims Dray- de Ridware.] 
 
 cote. 
 
 Matilda. = Andr. de Jarkenvill. 
 Tenant of Draycote. 
 
 Joan. = Simon de Jarkenvill. 
 Tenant of Draycote. 
 
 5. Claim by Walter, son of John Akard, against Roger 
 de Ridware, of seven acres of land in Draycote. ff. 2 b, 3. 
 
 6. Deed showing the descent of William de Ridware, 
 seneschal to Wm. Ferrars, Earl of Derby (circ. 1200), from 
 
 I 2 
 
1 1 6 DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. 
 
 Asser Geun, lord of Le Nethertoun [Nethertown, a hamlet 
 in Hamstall-Ridware], etc. French, f. 4. 
 
 7. Claims against Roger de la Zuche by (a) the Prior 
 of Repton for common of turbary and heath in Donis- 
 thorpe, (b) Geoffrey de Greseleh for the same at Gresley, 
 and (c) by Ralph Grim for the same at Swatlincote, 
 Ethcote and Linton, f. 4 b. 
 
 8. Covenant of sale by the Nuns of Brewode and 
 Blythebury to William de Rydeware, of the land of 
 Julandes in Rydeware. f. 4 b. 
 
 9. Quit-claim by Walter, Prior of Dudley, to Roger de 
 Rideware, lord of Sheile, of the advowson of St. Peter's 
 church of Sheile [1275]. f. 5. 
 
 10. Quit-claim by Oky, fil. Alexandri le Broune de 
 Sheile, to William, dominus de Rideware Hamstal, of an 
 acre of land in Haselfeld in Sheile, n. d. f. 5. 
 
 11. Memorandum of settlement of suit between Dudley 
 Priory and Roger de Rideware, the result of which is 
 given above \cf. No. 9]. 1275. f. 5 b. 
 
 12. Quit-claim by Thomas de Rydeware, miles, to 
 Merivale Abbey, of two plots of moorland and wasteland, 
 namely, Le Shertwode, in Sheyle Parva, and La Gore, 
 in Sheyle Magna. Dat. W. aft. St. John, a.p.l. [6 May], 
 6Edw. II [1313]. f. 5 b. 
 
 13. Perambulation of the bounds between Hamstall 
 and Nethartown. Inv. of H. Cr. [3 May], 13 Edw. I 
 [1285]. French, f. 7 b. 
 
 14. Names, etc., of tenants " in Baronia de Stafford de 
 feodo de Morteyn". f. 8. 
 
 15. Covenant made on Tu. bef. F. of St. Laurence 
 [10 Aug.], 8 Ric. I, before Will. Daubeny, Sheriff, Gilbert 
 de Segrave and other Barons, whereby Alexander, fil. 
 Jordani de Durandesthorp, quit-claims to Will, de Rid- 
 ware, eight virgates of land in Donisthorpe. f. 20 b. 
 
 16. Grant by Matilda Peche, domina de Fridelesham, 
 vidua, to the monks of St. James, Reading (in soul-alms 
 for Dom. Nicholas Peche, her father, Alice Peche, her 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. 117 
 
 mother, Dom. Oliver Dencourt and Dom. Walter de 
 Rideware, her husbands, Dom. Ralph Peche, [and] Hawisia 
 his wife, Nicholas and John her [i.e., Matilda's] sons, Alice 
 her daughter, Roger de Ridware and Alice his wife, and 
 Richard le Valeis), of all her land called La Hyde in 
 Frilsham, n. d. f. 44. 
 
 17. Quit-claim from Thomas de Ridware Hamstal to 
 Thomas, fil. Thorn, de Ardeme, " frater meus", in Ridware 
 Hamstall. Dat. Mor. of Purif. [3 Feb.], 6 Edw. II [13 13]. 
 f. 44 b. 
 
 18. Settlement of suits between Dom. Henry, fil. Dom. 
 Will., fil. Herberti de Northbury, and Walter de Rydeware 
 and Elena his wife, 1281. f. 56. 
 
 19. Grants by William de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, (a) to 
 Roger de Rydeware, of three acres of land to increase his 
 park, (b, c) to William de Rydeware, his seneschal, to 
 enclose and increase his park. f. 56 b. 
 
 20. Grant by Will, de Greseleya to Will, de Rydeware 
 of his land at Wodehus. f. 56 b. 
 
 21. Grant by Simon de Coule to Thomas, lord of Ride- 
 ware Hamstal, in Rideware Hamstal, 4 Edw. II. f. 57. 
 
 22. Grant by Alice, wife of Walter Ka, to Simon Tyhe, 
 in Rideware Hamstall, 12 Edw. I. f. 57. 
 
 23. Grant by Walter Ka, of Yoxall, to the same, of the 
 same land, 12 Edw. I. f. 57 b. 
 
 24. Lease by Thomas, lord of Rideware Hamstall, to 
 Richard le Coupere, in Rideware, n. d. f. 57 b. 
 
 25. Grant by the same to Simon de Couleye in Ride- 
 ware Hamstall, n. d. f. 58. 
 
 26 Fine from William, Earl of Ferrars, to Ralph Grym, 
 in Sheile, dat. Trinity Term, 3 John [1201]. f. 59 b. 
 
 27. Deeds relating to suits between Thomas de Ride- 
 ware, lord of Seal and Merivale Abbey, 6-15 Edw. II. 
 f. 60. 
 
 28. Grant by Phillip de Somervill, Knt., lord of 
 Wichnor, to Thomas de Rideware, in Edingale, 18 
 Edw. II. f. 61. 
 
1 18 DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. 
 
 29. Grant by Roger le Gardyner, of Yoxall, to Dom. 
 Thos. de Rydware, Knt, of certain tenements in Ryde- 
 ware Hamstall, 17 Edw. II. f. 61 b. 
 
 30. Quit-claim by William, son of Roger de Strettona, 
 and Agnes his wife, dau. of Ralph de Seyla, to William de 
 Ride ware, of a rent in Seal, n. d. f. 61 b. 
 
 31. Inspeximus by Walter, son and heir of Thomas de 
 Rideware of his father's grant to Richard Braybrok, 
 parson of Cranesle, of the manor, etc., of Seal, 3 Edw. II 
 (?). f. 62. 
 
 32. Inquisition concerning all lands, etc., in Church 
 Seal, with names of tenants, made at Tutbury in 1331. 
 f. 62 b. 
 
 33. Lease by Thomas de Rydeware, Knt., to Walter 
 Waldeschef, of the manor of Frilsham, 1323. f. 62 b. 
 
 34. Pleas at Leicester concerning an alleged unlawful 
 seizure of common in Seal by Merivale Abbey, 31 
 Hen. III. f. 62 b. 
 
 35. Miscellaneous memoranda relating to Seal. ff. 63, 
 63 b. 
 
 36. Records of fines from Richard de Twiford, chaplain, 
 to Isabel, sometime wife of Thomas de Rideware, of lands 
 in Edingale, 6 Edw. III. f. 64. 
 
 In addition to the pen-and-ink drawings described above 
 there are others of considerable merit, on ff. 9, 15, 17, 20, 22 b, 
 23, 26 b, 27, 33, 35, 36 b, 37, 56 b. These were described in 
 detail by Miss M. Gresley in i860, 1861, for the Anastatic 
 Drawing Society, of which the Rev. J. M. Gresley was 
 sometime Secretary. As a rule the drawings are appro- 
 priate to the subject of the deeds which they illustrate, as, 
 for instance, that on f. 23, a pig eating acorns under an 
 oak tree, which accompanies a grant of pasture and 
 pannage for pigs in Need wood Forest ; or that on f. 15, a 
 tree, with two magpies and two owls, which adorns the 
 grant of a wood in Seal. There is a tendency to the 
 grotesque in a few of the illustrations, notably that in the 
 lower margin of f. 20 b, of which the following is Miss 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE RIDEWARE CARTULARY. II9 
 
 Gresley's description in the above-quoted publication : — 
 " It appears to be a mediaeval representation of a pheno- 
 menon which is still in progress — the world being turned 
 upside down. Coming home to a castle from hunting in 
 a wood is a hare erect on her hind legs, and carrying a hound 
 suspended by his legs from an axe ; another hare follows 
 blowing a horn and holding a mace ; then comes a fox 
 carrying a cock upon a lance (?) and leading a brace of 
 greyhounds ; next a bear riding upon a hound ; and lastly, 
 another hare carrying a bow and arrows." The object 
 which is tentatively called a lance is perhaps a spit. 
 Illustrations of a similarly humorous character, but in 
 colours, are found in Royal MS. 10 E. IV (British Museum), 
 especially on ff. 48 6,49, 56 b, 57, 57 b, 59 b, 62, 63 b, 64. 
 The volume (large 4to) has a handsome modern binding of 
 dark brown leather stamped with an elaborately orna- 
 mental pattern. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Note. — The numbers refer to the deeds, except when preceded by "p." 
 
 Abbetoft, Osbert de, 67 
 
 Abel, Thomas, 272 
 
 Abell, George, 490 
 
 Abel, at. Abell, John, 326, 343, 
 
 347, 365, 369, 37o, 395, 396, 
 
 403,407,408,417 
 Abingdon, Edm. de, Archbishop 
 
 of Canterbury, 56 
 Abney, John, 430 
 Abotheway, John, 236 
 Ackorp, Alexander de, 19 
 Ade, Hervy de, miles, 14 
 Adam, abbot of Evesham, 8 
 Adam, clericus, 20 
 Adam, medicus, 21 
 Adam, f. Ric. Pistoris, 72 
 Adam, f. Thome, 14 
 Adam, f. Turstani, 13, 16, 18, 25 
 Adam, f. Walteri, 146 
 Adam, Roger, 169 
 Adams, Thomas, 443, 444 
 Ad-boscum, Ralph, 157 
 Ad-fraxinum, Geoffrey, 130 
 Admaston, co. Staff., 455 
 Adynet, Robert, 389 
 Agard, Charles, 498 
 Aggotestorp, John, f. Anketil de, 
 
 37 
 Akard, Walter, son of John, p. 1 1 5 
 Akethorp, Elyas de, 86 
 Aki, Ralph, 56 
 Alan, 9 
 Alan, f. Alani, 38, 41, 58, 60-62, 
 
 68, 69, 70, 83 
 Alan, f. Aluredi, 73 
 Alan, f. Mainfenini, 10 
 Albus, Henry, 39 
 Aldriche, Jonah, 497 
 Aldustre, Nich., f. Hug. de, 139 
 Aleyn, John, 327 
 Aleyn, William, 160 
 
 Aleyn, William, 332 
 Aleyne, Matilda, 380 
 Aloney, John, 422 
 Amberesleg', Richard de, 8 
 Aminton, Matilda de, 168 
 Amundevilla, Roger de, 10 
 Andrewe, John, 435 
 Andrewe, William, 43; 
 Angotestorp, v. Osgathorpe. 
 Anketil, al. Asketil, f. Walteri, 13, 
 
 18, 27, 28 
 Anne, of Cleves, 480 
 Apelbi, Walerand de, 9 
 Appelby, Edm. de, Knt., 220, 222, 
 
 224, 226, 228, 257 
 Appelby, Edmond de, sen., Knt., 
 
 285-287, 315,316, 321,322,331, 
 
 353 
 Appelby, Edm. de, jun., Knt., 286, 
 
 287, 349, 35o, 351, 353, 364, 367, 
 
 373, 38o 
 Appelbi, Dom. Henry de, Knt., 
 
 152, 174, 179, 182 
 Appelby, John, f. Edm. de, 315, 
 
 316, 321, 322 
 Appelbi, Robert de, 32, 34 
 Appelby, Will, de, 42, 49, 52 
 Appleby, co. Leic, 131- 140 
 . Rectors, Thos. Brown 
 
 [1485], 451 ; Thos. Chesshire 
 
 [i5oi],456,457 
 Appulby, Edmund, 422, 459 
 Araz, Sir Richard, 318 
 Arden, Richard de, 46 
 Arden, Walkelin de, 53 
 Ardene, John de, 358 
 Ardenton, Thomas, 400A, 401 
 Arderne, Alina ux. Rad. de, 47 
 Arderne, John de, 374 
 Arderne, Ralph de, 47 
 Arderne, Thomas de, Knt., 331 
 Arderne, Thomas, f. Tho. de,p. 1 17 
 
INDEX. 
 
 121 
 
 Arderne, William, 396, 410 
 Arfrey, Thomas, f. Hug., 105 
 Arnoulde, Agnes, dau. of John, 
 
 494 
 Arnoulde, John, 494 
 Ashby-de la-Zouch, 389,423 
 Asketil, v. Anketil. 
 Astley, Thomas, 388, 396 
 Aston, Roger de, 104, 147, 185, 
 
 217 
 Aston, Rog. de, 283 
 Aston, Dom. Thos. de, Knt., 344, 
 
 388 
 Aston, Walter, f. Edvv., 478 
 Athereston, Will, de, 85 
 Atherston, John de, chaplain, 295 
 Atte Broc, William, 242 
 Atte Walle, John, f. Joh., 399 
 Atte Wode, John, 206 
 Attewode, Will., f. Rad., 220, 247, 
 
 251, 255, 260, 263, 264, 270, 275, 
 
 282, 290-292, 333 
 Attonestan, Richard de, 5 1 
 At- Walle, John, 369, 370 
 Atya, John de, 46 
 Aucheville, Thomas de, 6, 7 
 Aula, Richard de, 277 
 Aula, Rog., f. Ric. de, 176, 210 
 Aula, Thomas de, 167 
 Austrey, co. Warw., 163, 164, 188 
 Austyn, Richard, 262 
 Aylemonde, Thomas, persona de 
 
 Stretton, 382, 389 
 
 B. 
 Baa, Walter de, 173. '74 
 Babyngton, William, Knt., 430 
 Bagot, John, 374 
 Bagot, Lodovicus, 455 
 Bagot, Ralph, Dom. de Blithe- 
 
 feld, 299 
 Bagott, John, f. Ric, 449 
 Bagott, Richard, de Blyffeld, 449 
 Bagshawe, Christopher, 447 
 Baily, al. Bayly, John, 297, 298, 
 
 3°4. 317 
 Baiocis, John de, 67 
 Bakepuz, G. de, 3 
 Baret, John, 327 
 Barewelle, Ernald de, 10 
 Barker, Ralph, 489 
 Baron, Matilda, widow of Thos., 
 
 33° 
 Baron, Sarra, f. et. her. Tho., 334 
 
 Bartuna, William de, 18 
 Barynton, John de, 238 
 Basely, John, de Meysham, 396 
 Basogias, Richard de, 30, 31 
 Baston, co. Line, 475 
 Bate, Isabella, w. of J. de Stret- 
 
 tona, 210 
 Bate, William, 210 
 Bathe, Ralph de la, 77, 94 
 Bayly, John, v. Baily 
 Bedeham, William, 462 
 Bedenhal, Nich. de, 167 
 Bedome, William, 467 
 Bello Campo, Alina de, 67 
 Bello Campo, Idona de, 67 
 Bello Campo, Ysolder de, 48, 67 
 Bello Campo, Matildis de, 67 
 Bello Campo, Stephen de, 47, 
 
 48, 67 
 Bello Campo, Walter de, 67 
 Belton, co. Leic, 37, 99 
 Belton, Priory of Gracia Dei at, 
 
 Agnes de Gresley, prioress 
 
 [1262], 99 
 Belton, John, 436 
 Bentley, William, 398 
 Bereford, Walter de, 123 
 Berkeley, Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 
 484 
 Berker, Hugh le, 40 
 Besebosc, Walter de, 67 
 Bette, John, 363 
 Beuerley, Robert de, 158 
 Beurewik, John de, 141 
 Bewer, John, 337 
 Bilneye, Robert de, 100 
 Birum, Richard de, 46 
 Bispiston, Roger de, 100 
 Bisschop, William, 217 
 Bisshton, Hugh de, 283 
 Bishton, co. Staff., 268 
 Blacfordeby, Margery de, 207, 208 
 Blacfordeby, Margery wid. of Will. 
 
 de, 290 
 Blacfordeby, Thomas de, 389 
 Blacgreve, al. Blakegreue, Ralph, 
 
 421, 427, 428, 429, 432, 433 
 Blagreue, al. Blaggreiv, Richard, 
 
 308, 326 
 Blake, Alice, f. Reg. le, 213, 214 
 Blakegreue, v. Blacgreve 
 Blewic, Walter de, 39 
 Blount, Humphrey, 425 
 Blount, John, 455 
 
122 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Bloxwich, co. Staff., 478 
 Blunt, Cecily, 223 
 Blunt, John, 223, 229 
 Blythbury, co. Staff, 478 
 Blythefeld, al. Blithefeld, Henry 
 
 de, 299, 329, 339 
 Blythefeld, al. Blithefelt, Richard, 
 
 Dominus de, 141, 185 
 Blythford, co. Staff, 478 
 Bochard, Roger, f. Gib., 131 
 Boisdele, Richard de, 10 
 Bolde, Robert de, 126 
 Bollowe, John de, rector of Seal, 
 
 33i 
 
 Borenton, Rich., f. Tho., de, 217 
 
 Boschervile, John de, 4, 5 
 
 Bosco, Ralph de, 161 
 
 Boscum calumniatum, p. 113 
 
 Boteler, William, 436 
 
 Botery, Henry del, 388 
 
 Bothe, Henry, 391 
 
 Botyler, Richard, 424 
 
 Bouche, Richard, 77 
 
 Bowas, William, bailiff of North- 
 ampton, 462 
 
 Boydell, John, 423 
 
 Boylestone, co. Derby, p. 113 
 
 Boylestone, Reg. de, pp. 114, 115 
 
 Boylestone, Thomas, Lord of, 
 pp. 114,115 
 
 Bozoun, Pain, 327 
 
 Braceborough, co. Line, 261, 355, 
 361, 374, 376, 475 
 
 Bradbourne, co. Derby, 113 
 
 Bradchawe, Thomas, 443-447 
 
 Bradschawe, Nicholas de, 376, 
 
 387 
 Brai, Will, de, 26 
 Braibroc, Henry de, 48 
 Braibroc, Robert de, 29 
 Brassingburgh v. Braceborough 
 Bratte, John, 471, 472 
 Bratte, Richard, 471, 472 
 Bray, John, 383, 384 
 Bray, Ralph de, 46 
 Braybrook, Richard, parson of 
 
 Cranesle, p. 118 
 Bredon, J. de, 402 A 
 Bredon, John, sub-prior of Gres- 
 
 ley, 416 
 Bredon, Ralph, clericus de, 37 
 Breidesale, Rob. de, rector of 
 
 Stowe, 101 
 Bretby, co. Derb., 46 
 
 Bretun, Ranulph le, 47 
 Bretun, Thomas, de Draitun, 22 
 Brewode, family of, 271 
 Brewod, Hemeric, f. Will, de, 218, 
 
 238, 241 
 Brewode, John de, 292, 300, 351, 
 
 357, 359, 373 
 Brewod, al. Brewode, Ralph de, 
 
 195, 241 
 Brewode, Richard de, 271 
 Brewode, Rob., f. Joh., 359, 362, 
 
 364, 367, 368, 375 
 Brewode, Rob., f. Will, de, 216, 
 
 235,241, 246, 251,276 
 Brewode, William de, 195, 237 
 Brewod, Will., f. Will, de, 219, 
 
 237 
 Brewood Nunnery, co. Staff, p. 1 16 
 Brinsley, co. Notts., 433, 434 
 Brokesby, William de, 383, 384- 
 
 386, 406 
 Bromley, Abbots, co. Staff, 332, 
 
 388 
 Bromley, Bagot, co. Staff, 388 
 Bromley, Kings, co. Staff, 232 
 Bromleye, Will, de, 268 
 Bromwich, William, 441 
 Brookfurlong, in Seal, 295, 362 
 Broughton, John, 382 
 Broun, Henry, of Lichfield, 353 
 Broun, John, 409, 412-414, 424- 
 
 429 
 Broun, John, f. Will., of Ponte- 
 
 fract, 417 
 Broun, Richard, 453, 454 
 Broun, Thos., rector de Appulby, 
 
 45i 
 Broune, Elena, wid. of John, 
 
 460 
 Broure, John, of Rosliston, 441 
 Broune, Oky, f. Alex, le, p. 116 
 Broune, Richard, 461 
 Broune, Sampson, 415 
 Broune, William, of Uttoxeter, 
 
 464, 469-474, 477 
 Broune, Anne, 477 
 Browode Nunnery, v. Brewood 
 Brun, Hamo, 123 
 Brun, Roger, 55, 59 
 Bruwode, Matilda, wid. of Rob., 
 
 380 
 Bryneton, Francis, 480 
 Buche, John, 41, 45, 49, 52, 55, 
 
 58, 59, 61-63, 65, 83 
 
INDEX. 
 
 123 
 
 Buche, Ralph, f. Will., 13, 28, 32- 
 
 34, 38, 54 
 Buche, William, 9 
 Buche, William, 18, 24 
 Buckingham, Humphrey [Staf- 
 ford], Duke of, 437 
 Bug, Henry, 44 
 Bugend, Will, de, 1 
 Bugge, Edmund, 383, 384-386, 
 
 406 
 Bukingham, Ernald de, 8 
 Bulkope, al. Bulcote, William, 
 
 persona de Clyfton, 382, 389 
 Burdett, Francis, Bart., 498 
 Burgo, Ralph de, Dom. de Sheyle, 
 
 122 
 Burioud, Robert, 20, 24 
 Burnam, Rob. de, 1 
 Burton-on-Trent, 363, 417, 433, 
 
 434, 437, 439, 44°, 442, 453, 497 
 Burton Abbey, 2, 363, 377, 378, 
 
 440, 463 
 Abbots: Bernard [1160-75], 
 
 2 ; William [15 10], 463. Priors : 
 
 Jordan [1160-75], 2 
 Burton, Geoffrey de, 261 
 Burton, Richard de, 376, 387 
 Butteler, Richard, 397 
 Butteler, Rob., 397 
 Bylynton, John, f. Will, de, 236 
 Byseboc, Walter de, 46 
 Bysscheton, Ralph, 398 
 Bytham Castle, co. Line, 43 
 
 Caham, Robert de, 17 
 Caili, Henry de, 20 
 Calangewode, John de, 272 
 Caldona, Bertram, f. Will, de, 113 
 Calengewod, Richard, 421, 427- 
 
 429, 439 
 Calcun, Robert, abbot of St. 
 
 Pierre-sur-Dive, 3 
 Caldewall, co. Derby, 363, 365, 
 
 407, 408, 426, 427, 433, 434, 440, 
 
 453, 454, 484, 498 
 Caldewalle, Ralph de, 2, 3 
 Caldewallhill in Seal, 70, 206 
 Caldewell, Henry de, 417 
 Caldewell, Will., f. Rad. de, no, 
 
 112 
 Caldway, 478 
 Calewich, Will, de, 3 
 Caleys, Thomas, 409 
 
 Cali, Richard and Emmota, 134 
 Callingwood, co. Staff., p. 113 
 Callyngewod, Peter, 489 
 Caluhul, Henry, fil. Ad., 146 
 Calwich Priory, W. de Scheldon, 
 
 prior [1293], 141 
 Camera, G. de, 3 
 Camerarius, Ralph, jun., 72 
 Camerarius, Ralph, de Rerisbi, 78 
 Canne, John, 308, 309, 312-314 
 Canne, William, 343 
 Cantelupo, William de, 46 
 Cantor, Ralph, 9, 18, 20 
 Cardewryge, Will., f. Will, de, 180 
 Carleby, co. Line, 361, 475 
 Carletun, William, f. Ric. de, 20 
 Cartewryght, Richard, 366, 368, 
 
 373,375,380,381,411,413-415, 
 
 422 
 Cartwrytb,«/. CartewryghtRobert, 
 
 317, 328, 33°, 346, 357, 373 
 Catapulta=broad arrow, 436, 459 
 Catton, co. Derb., 431 
 Catton, Roger Horton, Dominus 
 
 de, 382 
 Cecil, William, Lord Burghley, 
 
 487, 488 
 Chalengewod, v. Calangewode. 
 Chalesford, p. 113 
 Chamber,**/. Chawmber,Nicholas, 
 
 433, 434, 435 
 Champeney, William, 183 
 Champeneys, Robert, 155 
 Chapelhous, Richard de la, 144 
 Chapelhous, Roger del, 210 
 Charite, William, 261 
 Charnewodbrok, nr. Belton, 99 
 Chatsworth, 407, 408 
 Chaueleye, Nicholas de, 256 
 Cheep, William, 122 
 Chelardiston, Rob. de, 68, 99 
 Chelardunton, Robert de, 69 
 Chep, Matilda, wid. of Henry, 269 
 Chepe, Henry de, 244, 249, 302 
 Chesshire, Thomas, rector of 
 
 Appleby, 456, 457 
 Chester, Ranulph, Earl of, 46 
 Chesturschyre, Agnes, wid. of 
 
 Will.de, 181 
 Chetewind, Dom. Adam de, 101 
 Chetewind, Dom. Philip de, 101 
 Chetewinte, Dom. Will., Knt., 344 
 Chetewynd, Philip de, 213, 214 
 Chilcote, Roger, 390, 393 
 
124 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Child, William le, 272 
 Child, William le, 407, 408 
 Childecote, nr. Seal, 174 
 Childecote, Walerand de, 9 
 Chirchehul in Seal, 70 
 Cholmeley, Edward, 480 
 Chorleymor, Henry de, 167 
 Cimeterio, Will, de, 70 
 Cleftun, Henry de, 28 
 Cleibroc, Humfrey de, 1 1 
 Clement, Thomas, 362, 364, 367 
 Clement, William, 393 
 Clerc, Hugh le, 211, 218 
 Clerk, Isabella, wid. of Rob., 349 
 Clerk, John le, de Colton, 319, 320 
 Clerk, John, del Newlond, 319 
 Clerk, Richard le, 310 
 Clerk, Robert le, 247 
 Clerc, Rob., 289, 292, 295, 297, 
 
 298, 305, 317, 320, 328 
 Clerk, William, 231 
 Clerk, William, 352 
 Clerk. Will., f. Rob. le, 305 
 Clerkson, John, 404 
 Cleves, Anne of, wifeof Hen. VIII, 
 
 480 
 Clifton, Alexander de, 23 
 Clifton, Ralph, f. Hen. de, 42 
 Clifton, Reimer de, 23 
 Clifton Campville, 43, 162, 315, 
 
 316 
 . Rector: H. de Kane, 
 
 temp. Edw. I, 159. Personam : 
 
 H. deHopwas[i357-i373],286, 
 
 321, 322 ; W. Bulkope, al. 
 
 Bulcote [1408, 141 1], 382, 389 
 Clarell, Thomas, 387 
 Clarence, George, Duke of, 440 
 Clarke, Solomon, 497 
 Claterchote, nr. Seal, 96 
 Claudewell, Ralph de, 71 
 Clayton, Richard, 493 
 Cok, Elias, 275 
 Cokayn, John, Chief Baron of the 
 
 Exchequer, 377, 378 
 Cokayn, John, Knt., 390, 392-394 
 Cokett, Thomas, 465, 466 
 Cokin, Ralph, 27, 28 
 Cokyn, John, Knt, 379 
 Colcestre, Peter de, 128 
 Colehajn, Hugh de, 8 
 Coleman, Thomas, 385, 386 
 Colet, Richard, 256 
 Colet, Agnes, 164 
 
 Colet, Simon, 142, 164 
 Colewyz, Walter de, 36 
 Colouill, Rob. de, 54 
 Colton, co. Staff., 130, 153, 256, 
 
 268, 284, 299, 319, 320, 329, 
 
 334, 339, 344, 345, 374, 376, 387, 
 
 388, 404, 425, 436, 449, 453, 475, 
 
 478,481 
 . Rector : J. Russhebury 
 
 [1418], 400B. 
 Colton, Henry de, 141 
 Colton, John de, 404 
 Colton, John, f. Hug. de, 153 
 Colton, Rob., f. Joh., f, Walt, de, 
 
 268 
 Colwhich, George, 465, 466 
 Colwich, co. Staff., 478 
 Colwych, John, 398, 400A, 401 
 Comberford, John de, 353 
 Combermere Abbey, p. 1 14 
 Combrug, Rob. and Matilda de, 
 
 106 
 Condyt, Thomas, 411-414 
 Coppe, Robert, 22, 38, 60 
 Copuldyke, John, 482 
 Copuldyke, Thomas, 482 
 Corbett, John, of Lee, 463 
 Cotell, Alice, wid. of Nich., 327 
 Cotes, 43, 46, 47, 48, 67, 72, 129, 
 
 484 
 Coton, co. Derby, 165, 177, 245, 
 
 262, 273, 335, 336, 418, 424, 441, 
 
 460, 461, 469, 484, 489 
 Coton, John de, 371 
 Coton, John de, chaplain, 307, 
 
 312-314 
 Coton, John, f. Steph. de, 303 
 Coule, al. Couleye, Simon de, 
 
 p. 117 
 Couper, Emma, wid. of Rich., 
 
 346 
 Couper, John, 297, 302 
 Couper, Ralph, 289 
 Coupere, John le, 175 
 Coupere, Rich, le, 302, p. 117 
 Coventrensis, Richard, 416 
 Coventry, co. Warw., 258, 288, 425 
 Coventry Priory, 8 
 Cowper, Geoffrey, 460 
 Cowper, Thomas, 460 
 Crechement, Le, 292 
 Crocsale, v. Croxhale. 
 Croumwalle, Rob. de, 166 
 Croxall, co. Derby, 493 
 
INDEX. 
 
 125 
 
 Croxhale, al. Crocsale, William 
 de, 131-140, 143, 145, 154, 163, 
 164, 168 
 
 Crudekote, in the Peak, co. Derby, 
 
 P- 113 
 
 Crumbwelle, Rob. de, 170, 171 
 Cuili, John de, 42 
 Culunces, Robert de, 10 
 Culurewellemor, in Seal, 11, 20 
 Cumbrai, Alured de, 3 
 Cungeston, William de, 43, 44 
 Curecun, Thomas de, 4, 5 
 Curcun, Geralmus de, 3 
 Curcun, Richard de, 3 
 Curcun, Rodbert de, 4-5 
 Curcun, Rob., fil. Ric. de, 3, 4 
 Curly, William de, 51 
 Curson, George, 493 
 Curson, Thomas, 441 
 Cursun, John, 430 
 Curzun, Richard de, 26 
 Cutalberston, v. Kettlebaston. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dagen, William, 37 
 
 Darnel, Adam, 99 
 
 Danais, William, 30, 31 
 
 Darlaston-by-Stone, co. Staff., 2 
 
 Daubeny, William, sheriff of Lei- 
 cester, p. 116 
 
 Dauentre, Rob. de, rector of Nor- 
 ton, 105 
 
 Dawson, John, 418, 441 
 
 Dawson, Richard, 433, 434 
 
 Dawson, William, 460 
 
 Dencourt, Oliver, p. 117 
 
 Derhul, Will, de, 70 
 
 Desert, G , 30, 31 
 
 Desert, al. Disert, Lucian, 32-35, 
 
 38 
 Desert, al. Disert, Osbert, f. Lu- 
 
 ciani, 50, 66 
 Dethek, John, Dominus de Neu- 
 
 hall, 403, 407, 408 
 Dethek, Thomas, 460 
 Deveneshire, Richard, 177 
 Deyneithe, Richard, bailiff of 
 
 Northampton, 462 
 Didel, John, 147 
 Didel, William, 147 
 Diesone, John, 215 
 Diosone, al. Diesone, Robert, 364, 
 
 366, 367, 368, 375, 381, 382 
 
 Dison. al. Dyson, John, 432, 453, 
 
 454' 
 
 Dispensarius, Robert, of Gresley, 
 66 
 
 Dispensator, Thomas, 29 
 
 Dispenser, Hugh le, 47 
 
 Diuelin, Peter, 88 
 
 Dixson, Richard, bailiff of North- 
 ampton, 467 
 
 Doilur, Nigel le, 107 
 
 Donasthorpe, Roger, f. Rob. de, 
 
 394 
 Donisthorpe, co. Leic, 144, 210, 
 
 300, 359, 375, 409, 412, 423, 459, 
 
 481,483,484; pp. 113, 116 
 Dorandesthorp, al. Doranthorp, 
 
 al. Durandestorp, Peter de, 32, 
 
 34, 45, 49, 52, 73-79, 82, 84, 85, 
 
 86, 88, 90, 93, 97, 98, 107, 109, 
 
 116, 118 
 Dorandtthorp, Richard de, 119 
 Dorentesthorpe, Roger, dominus 
 
 de, 218 
 Douce, Tibota, 351, 352 
 Draco, al. Drake, Jacobus, 16, 22 
 Drake, Henry, of Tamworth, 189 
 Drakelow, 299, 303* 338, 342, 358, 
 
 365, 440, 475, 483, 485, 495, 496, 
 
 498, 499 
 Drakelowe, David de, 71, 111 
 Drakelowemere, in Rosliston, 169 
 Draycote-under-Needwood, 285, 
 
 331 ; pp. 114, 115 
 Drayton, Agnes, f. Will, de, 288 
 Drayton, Henry de, 288 
 Drenkett, Geoffrey de, 36 
 Dudley Priory, p. 116 
 Dudley, Walter, prior of [1275], 
 
 p. 116 
 Duket, Richard, 47 
 Dumuila, Walter de, 30, 31 
 Dun, William de, 3 
 Duninton, Will, de, monk of Bur- 
 ton, 2 
 Dunstan, William, 169, 197 
 Durandesthorp, Alex., f. Jordani 
 
 de, p. 116 
 Durandesthorpe, Peter de, v. 
 
 Dorandestorp 
 Durandesthorp, al. Durantistorp, 
 
 Rich , f. Petri de, 108, 157, 161 
 Durandesthorp, Will., f. Rogeri 
 
 de, 9 
 Durant, Richard, 197 
 
126 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Durasthorpe, Andrew de, 114 
 Dyeson, William, 379 
 Dylcok, Henry, bailiff of Coven- 
 try, 288 
 Dymmok, Thomas, 329 
 Dyson, John, v. Dison 
 Dyson, William, 411, 412 
 Dyvelyn, Rob., 182 
 
 Echewell, Gilbert de, chaplain, 78 
 Ederichale, Will, de, 9 
 Edingale, co. Staff., 331 ; pp. 113, 
 
 117, 118 
 Edmund, son of Henry III, 485, 
 
 p. us 
 Edward II, of England, p. 1 12 
 Ellaston, co. Staff., 141 note 
 Ellismere, John, 465, 466 
 Elured, capellanus, 14 
 Elyngton, Robert de, 277 
 Ernald, dapifer, 10 
 Estlee, Philip de, 10 
 Ethcote, p. 116 
 Evesham Abbey, 8 
 
 F. 
 Fabel, Robert, 201 
 Faber, Henry, 27 
 Feone, Ralph, 3 
 Ferour, Roger le, 333 
 Ferrariis, Henry de, 4, 5 
 Ferrariis, Robert de, 3-5 
 Ferrariis, Robert, Comes de, 4-6, 
 
 12 
 Ferrariis, William, Comes de, 3, 
 
 6 »7..?3 
 Ferrariis, William, co. Derby, 49, 
 
 pp. 113, 117. 
 Ferrariis, William, f. Will, de, 49 
 Fiflawe, in Seal, 34 
 Fillongley, Geoffr. le Fitz, vicar of, 
 
 304* 
 Fisher, Thomas, 497 
 Fitz, Geoffrey le, de Sheyle, vicar 
 
 of Fillongley, 304* 
 Fitz, Hemeric le, 281, 282 
 Fitz, al. Fytz, Robert le, 244, 302, 
 
 317 
 Fitz, Will., 346 
 Fiz, al. Fys, Ceoffrey le, 115, 120, 
 
 121, 160, 176, 183, 184, 186 
 Fiz, Henry le, 96 
 Fiz, Isabella, f. Will, du, 291 
 
 Fiz, Ralph le, 296 
 
 Fiz, al Fuz, Rob. le, 178, 180, 184, 
 
 199 
 Fiz, Rob., f. Hen. le, 258 
 Fiz, al. Fyz, Rob., f. Rob. le, 187, 
 
 251, 296 
 Fiz, al. Fyz, Rob., f. Will, le, 290, 
 
 292, 295, 296, 310, 368 
 Fiz, Will, le, 186 
 Fiz, William, f. Rob. le, 204, 230, 
 
 247 
 Fiz, Will le, 290 
 Fiz, v. also Fuz. 
 Flamuile, Robert de, 10 
 Flitlondes, in Seal, 41 
 Flote, in Snarkeston, 166 
 Flury, John, 53 
 Foliaumbe, John, 374, 376 
 Forde, John, 482 
 Forde, William, 482 
 Franceys, Robert, 136 
 Fraunceys, Richard, f. Matild., 253 
 Fraunceys, Robert, 374 
 Fraunke, William, 166 
 Freberne, John, clericus de Ful- 
 
 barne, 334, 335 
 Frediswalle, Robert de, 126 
 Freford, Robert de, 128 
 Freman, Roger, 142, 143, 145, 168 
 Fremon, Thos., 303* 
 Freynche, William le, 217 
 Friddlesham, v. Frilsham. 
 Frilsham, co. Berks, pp. 112, 113, 
 
 117, 118 
 Fulbarddunstal, in Seal, 55 
 Fuleslog, 1 1 
 Fulk, f. Warini, 46 
 Fullwood, James, 498 
 Fuz, Rob., f. Galf. le, 243 
 Fuz, Rob., f. Hen. le, 222 
 Fuz, Will., f. Galf. le, 243 
 Fuz, Will., f. Hen. le, 196 
 Fuz, Will., f. Rob. le, 196 
 Fynderne, Rob. de, 169 
 Fyndryn, John, 391 
 Fyssher, William, 363 
 Fytz, v. Fitz. 
 Fyz, v. Fiz. 
 Fyz, William, 381 
 
 Gamellus, faber, 17, 20 
 Gamel, Henry, 143 
 Gardyner, Roger le, p. 118 
 
INDEX. 
 
 127 
 
 Garendon Abbey, co. Leic. R , 
 
 abbot [1186-1205], 35 
 Garwi, 20 
 Gasteneys, Joan, w. of Thomas 
 
 de, 261 
 Gasteneys, John de, 261 
 Gasteneys, Thos. de, Knt., 261 
 Gasteneys, Dom. William de, 
 
 Knt, 130 
 Gasteneys, v. also Wasteneys. 
 Geffesone, Isabel, fil. Will., 324, 
 
 325 
 Geoffrey, clericus, 10 
 Gerard, John, 99 
 Gernon, Hugh, persona de Ylkes- 
 
 leye, 185 
 Gernun, Ralph, 47 
 Geun, Asser, p. 116 
 Geysmer, al. Geymer, v. Goymer. 
 Gilbert, Matilda, 202 
 Gilbert, Roger, 132 
 Gilbert, Roger, f. Rog., 145 
 Gilbert, Thomas, 144 
 Gillot, William, 452 
 Gisun, Herbert, 40 
 Gloucestria, Peter de, 141 
 Glover, John, 486 
 Glover, Robert, 365 
 Glover, Will, le, 303 
 Godefrey, Ralph, 110-112 
 Godmer, John, 108, 109, 124 
 Godmer, Walter, 34 
 Goimer, al. Goismer, 9, 18, 23, 25, 
 
 27 
 Gould, Adam, 262 
 Goymer, al. Geysmer, Mary, wid. 
 
 of Ralph, 107 
 Goymer, al. Geysmer, Ralph, 41, 
 
 45, 56, 57, 59, 61-63,65,75,83, 
 
 96, 9', 95 
 Grace, Roger and Alice, del New- 
 
 lond, 319 
 Grace, John, son of Rog., 319 
 Gracia Dei, Priory of, v. Belton. 
 Granger, Agnes, wid. of Rich., 432 
 Grecewit, Richard de, 103 
 Gregory, ballivus, 295 
 Greim, Thomas, 141 
 Grendon, Dom. Ralph de, 105 
 Grendon, Robert de, 43, 44 
 Grendon-under-Arderne,NichoIas 
 
 deYvinghoe, parson, [1356], 285 
 Grenduma, Reginald, clericus de, 
 
 Grene, Nich., 347, 348 
 Grene, William, bailiff of North- 
 ampton, 467 
 Gresley, co. Derby, 34, 46, 165, 
 
 475, 483, 484, 495, 496, 498, 
 
 p. 116 
 Gresley Priory, 34, 66, 76, 152, 175, 
 
 251, 355, 402, 416, 463, 476 
 . Priors : Richard, temp. 
 
 Hen. Ill — Edw. I, 76, 152; 
 
 John de Tuttebury [06. 1420], 
 
 402A ; Will, de S. Ivone [1420], 
 
 402c ; Robert [15 10], 463 ; 
 
 John [1526], 476 
 Gresley, Agnes, prioress of Grace 
 
 Dieu, Belton, 99 
 Gresley, Anthony, " son of Alice 
 
 Tawke", 463, 475 
 Gresley, Arthur, 494 
 Gresley, Edmund de, 253, 256 
 Gresley, Edward, 463, 475 
 Gresley, Elizabeth, wid. of Dom. 
 
 Will, de, 105 
 Greseley, Enge de, 158 
 Gresele, Geoffrey de, senescallus, 
 
 36, 39, 4°, 49, 5o 
 Greselegh, Geoffrey, f. Pet. de, 
 
 miles, 181, 185, 213, 214, 217, 
 
 227 
 Gresley, Geoffrey, 410, 417 
 Gresley, Geoffrey de, pp. 113, 116 
 Greisley, al. Gresley, Sir George, 
 
 Bart, 475, 492, 495, 496 
 Gresele, Henry de, 6, 4-7 
 Gresley, Humphrey, 463, 475 
 Gresley, Rev. J. M., p. 118 
 Gresley, Joan, w. of Sir John, 299, 
 
 301, 303* 318-320, 329, 355 
 Greseleye, Dom. John I, f. Galfr. 
 
 de, 253, 284, 299, 301, 303* 
 
 318, 319, 320,329, 338,339,342, 
 
 344, 358 
 Gresley, Dom. John II, f. Tho. 
 
 de, 387, 396, 404, 410 
 Gresley, John III, Knt, Dominus 
 
 de Colton, 430, 436, 437 
 Gresley, John IV, Knt, 440, 441, 
 
 449 
 Gresley, Miss M., p. 118 
 Greselegh, Margaret, wid. of 
 
 Geoffrey de, 236, 240, 242, 256, 
 
 283 
 Gresley, Margaret, wid. of Sir 
 
 John, 425 
 
128 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Greseley, Nich., f. Joh. de, 301, 
 
 3t8, 3 2 7 
 Gresele, Peter, f. Galf. de, 131- 
 
 140, 142, 143, 145, 162, 165, 168, 
 
 185, 483 
 Gresele, al. Greseleia, al. Hethre, 
 
 Ralph de, 3-7 
 Gresley, Reginald de, pp. 114, 115 
 Gresel, Reinald de, 3 
 Gresley, Richard, 449, 456 
 Gresele, Robert, f. Will, de, 2-7 
 Greysley, Robert, 463 
 Greselye, Roger I de, 284 
 Greseley, Roger II de, 365 
 Gresley, Thomas I de, Knt., 361, 
 
 363, 365, 374, 376, 378, 3S2, 
 
 387-389, 395, 396, 400-404, 407, 
 
 408, 410, 416 
 Greysley, Thomas II, 441, 455, 
 
 463 
 Greysley Thomas III, f. Will., 
 
 475, 487,. 488, 489, 492, 494 
 Gresley, Sir Thomas IV, Bart., 
 
 497, 499 
 Gresley, Thomasine, wid. of Nich. 
 de, domina de Colton, 301, 361, 
 
 374 
 Gresele, Walter de, of Donis- 
 
 thorpe, 122 
 Gresele, William I de, 3 
 Gresele, Will. II, f. et h. Galf. de, 
 
 40, 73 
 Gresley, William III, rector de 
 
 Stoke, 449 
 Gresley, William IV, armiger, 
 
 460, 463, 465, 466 
 Gresley, William V, son of George, 
 
 478,481,484 
 Gresleya, William de, p. 117 
 Gretford, 261 
 Griffin, William, 130 
 Griffyn, John, 320, 339 
 Grim, Ralph, 52, 54, 66, 73, 76, 
 
 pp. 116, 117 
 Grim, Robert, 3 
 Grimswode in Rosliston, 102, 129, 
 
 159 
 Grochesham, William de, 2 
 Gryfifyn, Thomas, 392 
 Grym, John, 152, 158 
 Grym, Thomas, 400A 
 Grym, William, 116 
 Gurdeler, William, 337 
 Gurmondle, al. Tomson John, 340 
 
 Gurmundhill, John, 456, 457 
 Gylbert, Thomas, 481 
 Gylderson, John, f. Rog., 433, 
 
 434 
 Gyldyrson, Roger, 427, 428, 430, 
 
 432-434 
 Gylet, al. Gylot, John, 392-394, 
 411-414 
 
 H. 
 
 H , f. Sturmi, 30, 31 
 
 Haki, Ralph, 69 
 Halle, Henry, 405, 406 
 Hales, Richard, abbot of, 67 
 Halwad, Geoffrey, 366 
 Hamelyn, Dom. William, 129 
 Hampton, Adam, f. Rad. de, 242 
 Hampton, Richard de, 388 
 Hampton, Robert de, 148 
 Hampton, Thos. de, Knt, 285 
 Hangodestorp, v. Osgathorpe. 
 Hanry, v. Henry. 
 Halpeni, William, 119 
 Han worth, p. 113 
 Happelbi, Rob., f. Waleranni de, 
 
 18 
 Hardulph, 10, 20 
 Harecourt, John and Marg., 341 
 Harecourt, John, 450 
 Harlewine, Cristiana, wid. of 
 
 Ralph, 112 
 Harper, Thomas le, 131-140, 163, 
 
 164 
 Hartington, co. Derby, pp. 113, 
 
 "4 
 Hasord, Richard, rector of 
 
 Stretton-in-the-Fields, 431 
 Hastang, Humphrey, archdeacon 
 
 of Coventry, 268 
 Hasteng, Robert, 116 
 Hastinc, Robert de, 27 
 Hasting, William, 41, 62, 63, 65 
 Hastinges, Richard de, clericus, 
 
 35 
 Hastinges, Robert de, 18 
 Hauwys, Matilda, 162 
 Havering, p. 115 
 Haythey, Hugh, 379 
 Hayward, Hugh le, 280, 293, 296, 
 
 297, 305, 3io, 325, 362 
 Hayward, William le, 244, 247 
 Hayworth, Richard, 467 
 Hegham, Richard, persona, 15 
 
INDEX. 
 
 129 
 
 Hemeric, capellanus de Scheyle, 
 
 77 
 Hemery, John, 290, 291, 297, 300, 
 
 302 
 Hemod', Henry de, 39 
 Henouere, Robert de, 34, 64 
 Henoure, William de, 157 
 Henri, Roger, 172 
 Henri, William, 155 
 Henry III, of England, p. 113 
 Henry, persona de Manecestre, 
 
 Henry, fil. Fuch', 6, 7 
 
 Henry, f. Hoseberti, 72 
 
 Henry, fil. persone de Seyl, 41, 
 56-59, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 77- 
 79. 83, 86, 91-93, 95-98, 107, 129 
 
 Henry, f. Ric. clerici, 70 
 
 Henry, fil. Walchalini, 4, 5 
 
 Henry, Gilbert, 198, 251 
 
 Henry, Richard, 182, 189, 196, 200, 
 202, 204, 205,209,211, 212,216, 
 219, 221, 231, 235, 248, 250, 259, 
 265, 269 
 
 Henry, William, 271 
 
 Herdmon, Elyas, f. Will, le, 180 
 
 Herlaston, 262 
 
 Herlewin, Ralph, 71 
 
 Herts, Annes, w. of John, 437 
 
 Hestwode, Reginald de, 158 
 
 Heth, Rich., f. Margerie, 227 
 
 Heth, William de le, 227 
 
 Heth, William, f. Hen. dele, 148 
 
 Hethecote, Robert de, 130 
 
 Heyne, Richard, 334, 335, 336 
 
 Heyward, William, 223, 229 
 
 Heywode, 268 
 
 Heywode, Henry de, 213, 214 
 
 Hilton, John, mayor of North- 
 ampton, 467 
 
 Hilton, Richard, 376, 387 
 
 Hixon, co. Staff., 36, 100, 101, 104, 
 125, 126, 148, 181, 185, 213, 214, 
 217, 227, 283, 465, 466, 483 
 
 Hoarcross, co. Staff., p. 113 
 
 Hocthorp, Helias de, 79, 109 
 
 Hoky, v. also Oky. 
 
 Hoki, Ralph, 68 
 
 Hkoy, John, 81, 85, 109 
 
 Hoky, John, 271, 274 ' 
 
 Holand, Henry, 407, 408 
 
 Holihurst, William de, 146 
 
 Holond, Henry, 379, 418 
 
 Hood, Will., 348 
 
 Hopewas, al. Hopwas, Hugh de, 
 persona de Clifton, canon of 
 Lichfield, 285, 287, 298, 304, 
 315, 316, 321-333, 353 
 
 Hopewas, John de, parson of 
 Wappingbury, 353 
 
 Hopewas, al. Hopwas, Will, de, 
 285, 288, 293, 296, 298, 306, 311, 
 
 317 
 Hopkins, Thomas, 491 
 Hopper, Nicholas, 112, 113 
 Hopwood, James de, 425 
 Hopynges, in Seal, 75 
 Horn, John, 357, 373 
 Horseleye, John de, rector of Seal, 
 
 254 
 Horseley, Richard de, chaplain, 
 
 278, 279, 293,295, 306, 311 
 Horton, Roger, Dom. de Catton, 
 
 382, 389 
 Hospitio, Alan de, 27 
 Hospitio, William de, 27 
 Houlden, Arthur, 489 
 Howeton, William de, 417 
 Hubertus, 24 
 
 Huelin, Mariota, wid. of Will., 205 
 Hugh, decanus, 23, 26 
 Hugh, clerk of Church Seal, 178, 
 
 179, 204 
 Hugh, f. Radulfi, 68, 69 
 Hughtesdon, v. Hixon. 
 Hughtesdon, John de, 283 
 Hul, Walter de le, 100 
 Hull, John del, 404 
 Hulle, Robert del, 404 
 Hulton, p. 113 
 Humbreston, William de, rector 
 
 of Walton-on-Trent, 309, 343 
 Humfrey, Henry, mayor of North- 
 ampton, 462 
 Hunstanscote, Walter, f. Rad. de, 
 
 67 
 Hunte, Robert le, 144 
 Hurne, Margery, f. John le, 366 
 Hutesdon, John de, chaplain, 104 
 Hyll, Alice, wid. of J. Marreys, 
 
 429 
 Hyne, John, jun., 423 
 Hyngeston Manor, 185 
 Hytesdon, v. Hixon. 
 
 I. 
 
 Icklington, co. Cambr., 334, 335, 
 336 
 
 K 
 
13° 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ilsley, co. Berks, p. 113 
 Ingeleisius, 39 
 
 Inggwerdeby, , dominus de 
 
 Willesley, 396 
 Ingwardeby, Nicholas de, 114 
 Ingwardeby, Will, de, 286, 287 
 In-le-Hurne, Oding, 213, 214 
 In le Huyrne, John, 212 
 In-le-Mor, Adam, 236 
 Insula, Dom. Will, de, 54 
 Irpe,John, 454 
 Irpe, Richard, 439, 454 
 Isabel, al. Isbel, al. Grene, Nich., 
 
 303, 3o7, 3°9, 312-314, 347, 348 
 Isbel, Rob., f. et h. Ric, 312-314 
 
 J- 
 Jakes, John, 405 
 Janyns, Roger, 458 
 Jarkenvill, Andrew and Matilda, 
 
 p. 115 
 Jarkenvill, Simon and Joan, p. 1 15 
 Johan, John, f. Sim., 140 
 Johan, Nicholas, f. Rog., 137 
 Johan, Roger, f. Rog., 137 
 Johannes, f. Godberti, 27 
 John, fil. Hereberti, 6 
 Jolypas, Richard, 382 
 Jolypas, Richard, chaplain, 389 
 Josceline, Bishop of Bath, 47 
 Jurdan, Henry, de Threngston, 
 
 318 
 
 K. 
 Kaldewelle, William de, 1 1 3 
 Kaue, Dom. Hugh, rector of 
 
 Clifton, 141, 159 
 Kenilworth Priory ; Robert, prior 
 
 (circ. 1 167), 3 
 Kettlebaston, co. Suff., pp. 112, 
 
 "3 
 King, Samuel, 486 
 Kingsley, Richard, rector of, 73 
 Kingston, co. Staff., 146,425, 475, 
 
 478, 483 
 Kok, Alice, f. Eliec, 289 
 Kynewallebottes, in Seal, 275 
 Kyngeston, Henry de, 242 
 
 L. 
 
 Lake, Roger, f. Odonis de la, 36 
 
 Lake, Roger and Giliana de la, 101 
 
 Langham, Reginald de, 372, 383, 
 
 384 
 
 Langley, Thomas, Chancellor of 
 
 England, 374, 37&, 387 
 Lathbure, Christiana ux. Joh. de, 
 
 397 
 Launde, Le, in Seal, 484 
 Laurence, 1 
 
 Laurence, prior of Coventry, 8 
 Lawe, John, 405, 406 
 Leca, Harald de, 3 
 Leceson, Thomas, 423 
 Lee, Henry de, 10 
 Lee, John de, 257 
 Lee, William de, 353 
 Legegod, Robert, bailiff of Seal, 
 
 442-447, 450, 451 
 Legegode, Will., 356, 357, 359, 
 
 362, 364, 366, 367, 368, 375, 381, 
 
 382 
 Leicester, 40, 123, p. 118 
 Leicester, Abbey of St. Mary de 
 
 Prato. Paul, abbot [ 1 1 86- 1 205], 
 
 35 
 Lenoreys, Richard, 105 
 Lenton Priory. Philip, prior 
 
 (t. Hen. II), 6 
 Leveriz, Walter, 40 
 Leveson, Dame Mary, of Tren- 
 
 tham, 493 
 Lexinton, Robert de, 47, 51 
 Leycestre, Will, de, abbot of 
 
 Merivale, 257 
 Leye, John de la, 99 
 Lichfield, 304, p. 113 
 Lincoln, Robert, bishop of, 1 
 Linton, co. Derby, 158, 165, 395, 
 
 407, 408, p. 116 ; 433, 434, 440, 
 
 453, 454, 475, 48l, 483, 484, 
 
 498 
 Lintone, Walter, f. Pagani de, 
 
 P- "3 
 
 Lisuis, John de, 3 
 
 Litelhay, Robert de, 130 
 
 Littelton, Edward, 478 
 
 Littilbyry, Martin de, 99 
 
 Locshill, 478 
 
 Loret, Ralph, clerk, 321, 322, 323, 
 328, 330, 333, 337, 349, 356, 
 364, 367, 380, 382, 390, 391, 393 
 
 Loret, Richard, 223, 231,232, 235, 
 237, 238, 243, 246,248, 250, 251, 
 255, 260, 265, 269, 270, 275,276, 
 278,279 
 
 Loret, Richard, f. Ric, 276 
 
 Lorret, Richard, f. Rad., 382 
 
INDEX. 
 
 131 
 
 Lorret, Roger,f. Rad.,379, 382,391 
 
 Loret, Will., 267 
 
 Loughborough, 2 1 5 
 
 Louterel, John, cte Boulby, 299 
 
 Lowel, Thomas, no 
 
 Lowen, The Three, in Morton, 147 
 
 Loxley, co. Staff., 478 
 
 Lucian, 9 
 
 Lucian, senex, 32 
 
 Lucian, f. Roberti, 28 
 
 Lullington, co. Derby,89, 165, 412, 
 
 475,483, 484, 485, 405, 496, 498 
 Lullington ; William, rector, 1 1 8 
 Lullenton, Geoffrey de, 73 
 Lullinton, John de, 202, 205 
 Lulmeshul, al. Lylmyshull in Seal, 
 
 70, 246 
 Luterel, John, 344 
 Lutterworth, Peter de, 50 
 Luvel, Thomas, 113 
 Lyciendich, in Seal, 290 
 Lynton, v. Linton. 
 Lynton, Rob. de, 167 
 Lynton, Thomas de, 128 
 
 M. 
 Machon, John, 423 
 Mahaut, Rog. de, v. Monte Alto 
 Maheu, Hugh, 114 
 Maisam, Richard de, 30, 31 
 Malesouere, Rob. de, 102, 129 
 Malhore, Anketill, 53 
 Mallabour, William, son of Hugh, 
 
 489 
 Malo Passu, Dom. Will, de, 53 
 Manceter, co. Warw., Henry, 
 
 persona (t. Ric. I), 14 
 Manecestre, Henry de, 15 
 Manecestre, Walkelin de, 20, 2 1 
 Manumissions, 342 
 Mapelenestub, in Seal, 247 
 Marchaleshey Wood in Colton, 
 
 299 
 Marchenton, John, 456, 457 
 Marchys, John, 345 
 Marreys, Alice, wid. of John, 418 
 Mareys, Henry, fil. Rob. 307, 309 
 Mareys, Henry, chaplain of Ros- 
 
 liston, 343 
 Mareys, Henry, 371, 403 
 Mareys, John, 399, 403 
 Marreys, John, f. Joh., 418-421, 
 
 424, 426-43°, 435 
 
 Marreys, John, f. Walt., 395 
 Marreys, Nicholas, 418,421 
 Mareys, Ralph, 273 
 Mareys, Richard le, 245 
 Marreys, Rich., 294, 303, 307-309, 
 
 312-314,326,343 
 Mareys, Rob. del, 106, no, 113, 
 
 203, 245 
 Marreys, Rob., 294, 309 
 Mareys, Walter, 343, 347,348,365, 
 
 369-371 
 Marreys, Walter, 395, 430 
 Mareys, Will., 347, 369, 370 
 Marisco, Will, de, 169 
 Marshall, William, 394 
 Martel, Roger, 37 
 Martin, monk of Burton, 2 
 Martinwas, Ralph de, 29 
 Marti wast, William de, 51 
 Mascy, Rob. de, 54 
 Mason, Roger le, 258 
 Matthew, clericus, 8 
 Matthew, sacerdos, 30, 31 
 Matthew, f. Rogeri, 28 
 Mauluvel, Robert de, 49, 50, 
 
 51 
 Maureward, Thomas, Knt., 374, 
 
 376, 387, 39°, 393 
 Mauveisyn, Thomas, 299 
 Maveysyn, Dom. Rob., Knt, 344 
 Maweysyn, Dom. Adam, 72 
 Megre, Robert le, 20 
 Meis, River, 32, 75, 80 
 Meisham, 166, 170-172,205 
 Meisham, Will de, 172 
 Meisham, Will., f. Joh. de, 172 
 Meisham, v. also Meysham. 
 Melburne, Peter de, 376, 387 
 Meleward, Nich. le, 262 
 Meleward, Richard le, 244 
 Melton, John de, presbyter, 333 
 Meres, in Seal, 20, 63, 64 
 Merivale Abbey, 1, 4-6, 7, 11, 12, 
 14-24, 26, 27, 29, 32, 35, 4i,43, 
 44, 49, 5°, 52, 55, 57-65, 73-76, 
 79-83, 85-93, 95,96, 102, 107-109, 
 124, 156, 173, 174, 175,200,259, 
 263, 264, 280, 330, 366, 486, 
 pp. 116, 117, 118 
 
 . Abbots : Ralph [1230], 
 
 44 ; Robert, temp. Hen. 1 1 1, 8 1 ; 
 William [1284], 129 ; W. de 
 Wauere, temp. Edw. I, 159; 
 Will, de Leycestre [1342], 257 
 K 2 
 
132 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Messor, Robert, 45 
 Messur, Geoffrey, 78, 81, 84 
 Meuerel, William, vicar of Col- 
 
 wich, 147 
 Meuton, Milo de, in 
 Meysham, Agnes, 411 
 Meysham, John, f. Rog. de, 249, 
 297 
 
 Meysham, John, f. Will, de, 170, 
 171 
 
 Michel, Ralph, 201,203 
 
 Miller, Adam, f. Joh , 276 
 
 Miller, John, 251 
 
 Miller, Margery, f. Isabel, f. Joh., 
 278 
 
 Miller, Robert, 195 
 
 Mold, John, 210 
 
 Molendinarius, Rob , 176 
 
 Mongomery, Roger, 358 
 
 Monte Alto, Roger de, senes- 
 callus Cestrie, 53, 54 
 
 Montegumeri, Walter de, 3 
 
 Morel, Adam, 100, 103, 126 
 
 Morel, John, 44 
 
 Morel, Margery, f. Will, de, 
 229 
 
 Morel, R , 39 
 
 Morel, William, 36, 39 
 
 Morhay, William de, 236 
 
 Morcoc, al. Morcoke, Ralph, 14- 
 16, 22, 23, 24, 68 
 
 Morkoc, Ralph, 332 
 
 Morkoc, Will., f. Rad., 82 
 
 Morlee, Thos. de, Knt., mares- 
 callus Hibernie, 344, 345 
 
 Morlee, Will, de, 344 
 
 Mortimer, Ralph, 261 
 
 Morton, co. Staff., 39, 141, 147,148, 
 181, 185, 213, 214, 236, 240, 242, 
 256, 268, 331, 398, 400A, 400B, 
 401,465,466,475 
 
 Morton, Engleys de, 147 
 
 Mosse, Thomas, 494 
 
 Motoun, Isabel, 276 
 
 Motoun, Thomas, 276, 278, 279 
 
 Mulner, Isolda, wid. of Nicholas 
 le, 273 
 
 Mundevylle, Dom. Richard de, 
 72 
 
 Munevilla, Nigel de, 10 
 
 Mungumeri, Will, de, 4, 5 
 
 Munnyngeswalle, in Seal, 292 
 
 Muntgumbere, Walter de, 2 
 
 Mutha, Roger de, 42 
 
 N. 
 Nailiston, John de, 170, 171 
 Nailiston, Rich., f. Rog. de, 166, 
 
 170-172 
 Naseby, Mag. John, 443, 444 
 Nech, Giliana,<z/. Juliana, 114,160 
 Nech, Ralph, 114 
 Nech, al. Nechs, Rich. f. Hug., 
 
 97,H4 
 Neche, Walter, f. Will, le, 161 
 Need wood Forest, pp. 113, 118 
 Neel, Cecily, 352 
 Neel, al. Nel, Henry, 252, 267, 
 
 352 
 Neel, al. Nel, John, 244, 250, 266, 
 
 300, 324, 325, 346 
 Neel, al. Nel, Simon, 351, 352, 357, 
 
 373.375.38o,38i, 411,412 
 Nel, Amice, wid. of Richard, 124 
 Nel, Richard, 85 
 Nethe, Henry, f. Juliane, f. Ric. 
 
 le, 332 
 Nethe, Walter, f. Juliane, f. Ric. 
 
 le, 332 
 Nethertown, co. Staff., p. 116 
 Nettebreyder, Thomas, "botiler 
 
 de Drakelowe", 342, 365 
 Neupord, William, 374 
 Nevill, Hugh de, 47 
 Nevile, Dom. Theobald de, 102, 
 
 159 
 Nevile, Thomas de, 102 
 Newcastle-under-Lyme, 493 
 Newland, co. Staff, 478 
 Newylle, Dom. Stephen de, 72 
 Nichol, Robert, 203 
 Nicholas, chaplain, 2 
 Nicoll, Thomas, 438 
 Nigel, f. Walteri, 16 
 Norbury, co. Derby, p. 113 
 Norman, Richard, 455 
 Normanuile, Geoffrey de, 10 
 Normynton, John de, 183 
 Norreis, Ralph, f. Will., 13, 18, 25 
 Nor[r]eis, William de, 9 
 Norreis, Wlfene de, 9 
 Northampton, 462, 467, 491 
 Northbury, Hen., f. Will., f. Her- 
 
 berti de, p. 1 1 7 
 Northumberland, John, Duke of, 
 
 481 
 Norton, co. Staff, 73, 105, 154, 
 
 162-164,253,301,475,483 
 , Robert, persona (temp. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 133 
 
 Ric. I), 23 ; R. de Dauentre, 
 rector, late 13th cent., 105 
 
 Norton Heath, 131-140, 142, 145, 
 168, 303* 
 
 Norton, Henry de, 168 
 
 Norton, al. Nortun, John de, 131, 
 
 Ho, 145, 154 
 Norton, Thomas, f. Hug. de, 154 
 Nortun, Nicholas de, 43, 44 
 Notinkham, Richard de, 260 
 Nottingham, 430 
 Nowell, Walter, 470 
 Nyk, Richard, 431 
 
 O. 
 
 Oakthorpe, co. Leic, 210, 396, 
 
 481 
 Ocle, Alan, f. Herv., 1 1 
 Ocle, Hervey de, n, 18 
 Octhorp, Lesota, f. Joh., f. Nich. 
 
 de, 396 
 Oddeston, Dom. Elyas de, 129 
 Oilli, Anneis de, 18 
 -Oilli, Hervey de, 11 > :, ' On 
 Oky, Emeric, 223 
 Oky, Geoff., f. Tho., 306, 311 
 Oky, Henry, 198 
 
 Oky, Joan, ux. Tho., 282, 306, 311 
 Oky, John, 115, 118-121, 156, 158, 
 
 160, 161, 175, 176, 180, 182, 183, 
 
 188-194, 212, 218, 219, 220, 221, 
 
 222, 226, 228, 229, 230, 232, 235, 
 
 237, 238, 246, 248 
 Oky, John, f. Joh., 188-196, 199, 
 
 200, 202, 204-208, 209, 211, 212, 
 
 216, 219, 247, 249, 250, 252, 259, 
 
 263-267, 277 
 Oky, John, 332 
 Oky, Matilda, w. of John, 193, 
 
 194 
 Oky, Ralph, 76, 95, 155, 158 
 Oky, Ralph, 265 
 Oky, "Richard, 175, l8 °, l8 4> l86 , 
 
 207, 208, 209, 21 1, 216, 219, 230, 
 
 271, 275 
 Oky, Richard, 332 
 Oky, Rich., f. Hemerici, 238 
 Oky, Robert, 212 
 Oky, Rob., f. Will., 287 
 Oky, Rose, 255 
 Oky, Thomas, 267 
 Oky, Thomas, 281, 282 
 Oky, William, 281 
 Oky, Will., f. Rose, 254, 255 
 
 Oky, Will., f. Will., 286, 287, 292, 
 298, 300, 302, 304, 306, 310, 311, 
 3i5> 316,317,321,322,328,333, 
 346, 356, 357, 359, 362, 375, 3»° 
 
 Orme, Dom. John, clerk, 463 
 
 Orme, Thomas, 463 
 
 Osbaston, co. Leic, 372, 405 
 
 Osgathorpe, co. Leic, 10, 37, 99, 
 318, 327, 374, 376, 475 
 
 Otewalle, William, chaplain, 351, 
 
 364, 369 
 Othe Grene, John, 253 
 Ottherpe, William, f. Elye de, 144 
 Ottut, 56 
 Overton, 406 
 Overton, Adam, persona de, 43, 
 
 44,64 
 Overtona, Hubert de, 16 
 Ouilla, William de, miles, 12 
 Ouirton, Robert de, 123 
 Owertone, Will., f. Alex, de, 38 
 Oxedich, in .Seal, 116 
 
 Pachet, Clement, 189, 200, 204, 
 238, 252 
 
 Pachet, Henry, 124 
 
 Pachet, Henry, capellanus, 290, 
 291 
 
 Pachet, Henry, f. Clem., 239 
 
 Pachet, William, 340 
 
 Pachet (William), 452 
 
 Paget, Lord William, of Beau- 
 desert, 481, 497, 499 
 
 Paget, Hon. William, 499 
 
 Paien, Richard, 30,31 
 
 Pakeman, William de, 253 
 
 Panton, Hamelun, 30, 31 
 
 Paris, Ralph de, 371 
 
 Parker, John, 398, 400A, 436 
 
 Parmentarius, Henry, 24 
 
 Parvyne, John, Coroner of North- 
 ampton, 462 
 
 Parys, Ralph de, 307 
 
 Passemere, Richard de, 257 
 
 Paul, Abbot of bt. Mary de Prato, 
 Leicester, 35 
 
 Paunton, John, 433, 434, 439, 453 
 
 Paunton, Thomas, f. Joh., 439, 
 
 453, 454, 471, 472 
 Paus, Robert, 184, 241, 246 
 Paus, Robert and Isabel, 120, 121 
 Payn, Geoffrey, 36 
 Pease, Edward, 479 
 
134 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Peche, Alice, p. 116 
 
 Peche, Bartholomew, 47 
 
 Pecche, Geoffrey, p. 114 
 
 Peche, Hawisia, p. 117 
 
 Pecche, John, p. 117 
 
 Pecche, Matilda, pp. 11-3-116 
 
 Pecche, Nicholas, pp. 114- 116 
 
 Pecche, Ralph, p. 117 
 
 Pecco, Peter de, 158 
 
 Pechet, Henry, 57-59, 79, 80, 81, 
 
 89, 98, 108 
 Peliparius, Richard, 37 
 Pelle, William, 338 
 Penne, William de, 339 
 Peny, Thomas, bailiff of North- 
 ampton, 462 
 Penyfader, Richard, 471,472 
 Penyston, Richard, 407, 408 
 Pershore, Simon, abbot (1175- 
 
 n 79), 8 
 Pescher, Peter, 13 
 Peter, Mag., 1 
 Pethling, Alan de, 29 
 Pethling, al. Petling, Will, de, 32, 
 
 50,63 
 Pethlinges, Hugh de, 21 
 Petit, Ralph le, pp. 114, 115 
 Petitpas, William, 75 
 Phelip, William, 235, 237, 241, 
 
 255, 260, 267, 270 
 Phelipe, William, 156 
 Philip, clericus, 6 
 Picwelle, Geoffrey de, 1 56 
 Pipe, Joan de, 285 
 Pipe, Robert de, 127 
 Pipe, al. Pype, Robert de, domi- 
 
 nus de Scheile, 331, 333 
 Pipe, William de, 128 
 Pipe, Wm. de, 285 
 Pirv, Rob. de, dapifer, 3 
 Pirv, Thomas de, 3 
 Pitard, Robert, 67 
 Poer, 20 
 
 Poher, Peter le, knt., 123 
 Polesworth Abbey, 73 
 Pollard, Ralph, f. Ric, 163, 164 
 Pollard, Richard, 138, 163, 164 
 Pollesworth, Margery, w. of Will. 
 
 de, 304* 
 Polleswort, Will, and Margery de, 
 
 209 
 Pollusworth, Will, de, 256, 263, 
 
 264, 266, 270 
 Portere, William, 363 
 
 Poutrel, John, 106 
 
 Prencheval, William, 19, 20 
 
 Prentut, Richard, 17 
 
 Prentut, William, 19 
 
 Prentys, Adam, 320 
 
 Prentyse, William, 339 
 
 Prepositus, John, 147 
 
 Prestwod, Ralph de, 29 
 
 Purfrey, William, 129 
 
 Puteo, Richard de, 153 
 
 Puteo, William de, 1 53 
 
 Puys, Henry, of Rugeley, 320. 329 
 
 Q. 
 
 Querendon, Hawise de, 99 
 
 R. 
 
 R , abbot of Garendon, 35 
 
 Ralph, magister, I 
 
 Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, 47 
 
 Ralph, clericus, 71 
 
 Ralph, f. Aky, 66 
 
 Ralph, fil. Ghermundi, 3 
 
 Ralph, f. Goismeri, 27 
 
 Ralph, f. Nicholai, senescallus 
 
 Comitis Derb., 43, 44 
 Ralph, f. Siwardi, 30, 31 
 Ralph, f. Turstani, 38 
 Raueneston, Goda, f. Rad. de, no 
 Reading Abbey, pp. 113, 116 
 Rechford, John de, 285 
 Reginald, clericus, de Grenduna, 
 
 21 
 Rent Tenures : 1 lb. of pepper, 
 
 28 ; pair of gilt spurs, 53 ; pair 
 
 of white gloves, 116, 117 
 Repingdon, v. Repton 
 Reppingdon, Philip de, Bishop of 
 
 Lincoln, 374, 376, 387 
 Repton, co. Derb., 46, 358, 441, 
 
 460, 461, 485 
 Repton Priory, 166, 172, p. 116 
 Reynald, Thomas, bailiff of Ather- 
 
 stone, 337 
 Reyner, Roger, 186 
 Richard, Bishop of Durham, 47 
 Richard, clericus, de Seale, 32, 38, 
 
 41, 49, 56, 57, 58, 61, 63, 64, 65, 
 
 69, 80, 95 
 Richard, clericus vicecomitis, 29 
 Richard, monk of Burton, 2 
 Richard, persona de Hegham, 15 
 Richard, prior of Gresley, 152 
 Richard, fil. Ed wane, 30, 31 
 
INDEX. 
 
 135 
 
 Richard, fil. Edwini, 13 
 Richard, f. Erenfrei, 25 
 Richard, f. Hermefr., 23 
 Ridel, John, de Morton, 104 
 Ridware, co. Staff., 478 ; pp. 112, 
 
 113, 116, 1-7, 118 
 Ridware Mavesyn, 388 
 Ridware, Alice, wife of Roger de," 
 
 p. 117 
 Rideware, Edm., rector of Seal, 
 
 277 
 Rideware, Dom. Isabel de, 223, 
 
 224, 229, p. 118 
 Rideware, Robert de, 94, 147 
 Rideware, Roger de, 43, 44 
 Rideware, Rog.,f. Walt, de, Dom. 
 
 de Seile, 157 
 Rideware, Roger de, Lord of 
 
 Sheile, pp. 113-117 
 Rideware, Thomas de, Dominus de 
 
 Scheyl, 173, 174, 179, 198,207, 
 
 208, 211, 223 ; pp. 116-I18 
 Rideware, Thomas de, knt., 304* 
 Rideware, Thomas, son and heir 
 
 of Walter, p. 112 
 Rideware, Walter de, 34, 43, 44, 
 
 56 
 Rydware, Walter, f. Tho. de, pp. 
 
 113, 117, 118 
 Ridware, Will, de, 26 
 Rideware, William, Dominus de, 
 
 77, 84, 87, 94, 106, 123 
 Rydware, William, pp. 113, 114, 
 
 116, 117, 118 
 Ridware, Will., seneschal to Will., 
 
 Earl of Derby, pp. 115, 117 
 Ripariis, John de, 53, 54 
 Robert, clericus, 282 
 Robert, dapifer comitis Cestrie, 
 
 Robert, priest of Stapenhill, 2 
 Robert, f. Hardulfi, 10 
 Robert, f. Hode, 39 
 Robert, fil. Walerani, 13 
 Rodbert, fil. Walchalini, 3, 4, 5 
 Robyn, Will., 295 
 Roger, Canon of Lincoln, 3 
 Roger, f. Anschetilli, 9 
 Roger, fil. Asketilli, 13, 14, 18 
 Roger, fil. Anketil, 28, 60 
 Roger, f. Willelmi, 1, 10 
 Rogers, William, 471, 472 
 Rosliston, 30, 31, 46, 50, 51, 53, 
 54, 71, : ° 2 > no-113, 129, 159, 
 
 165, 169, 177, 197, 201, 203, 245, 
 262, 272, 274, 293, 303, 307, 308, 
 309, 312-314, 326, 335, 336, 347, 
 348, 369-371, 395, 399, 403,418- 
 421, 424, 426-430, 432-435, 44i, 
 453, 46o, 461, 464, 469-474,477, 
 484, 498 
 
 Rostlaston, Ralph, f. Godefr. de, 
 66 
 
 Rostlaston, Dom. Ralph de, chap- 
 lain, 274 
 
 Roston, co. Derby, p. 113 
 
 Roundell, Reginald, 417 
 
 Rous, John, 354 
 
 Rous, Robert, 410 
 
 Rowley, Thomas, 478 
 
 Ruale, John, 333 
 
 Ruffus, Will., f. Phil., 84 
 
 Ruggelye, Adam de, 185 
 
 Ruggeleye, Henry de, 284 
 
 Ruggeley, Nicholas de, 374 
 
 Rukedich, in Seal, 20 
 
 Russel, Nicholas, 162 
 
 Rusohebury,a/. Rysshebury, John, 
 rector of Colton, 388, 400B 
 
 Russhelaston, v. Rosliston 
 
 Rutindeclif, p. 113 
 
 Ruures, Robert de, 16, 17, 18, 20, 
 22-25 
 
 Rydel, William, 236 
 
 Rygeley, John de, 383, 384 
 
 Ryle, William, 494 
 
 S. 
 St. Pierre-sur-Dive Abbey, in 
 
 Normandy, Rob. Calcun, abbot 
 
 (circ. 1 167), 3 
 St. Yvo, William, prior of Gresley 
 
 (ob. 1438), 402A, 402c, 416 
 Sakart, Ralph, 70 
 Sallawe, Mag. Rich, de, 3 
 Salvagius, Geoffrey, 42 
 Sancheverell, Ralph, 445-447 
 Sancto Albano, Reinald de, 3 
 Sancto Edmundo, William de, 51, 
 
 53 
 Sancto Edwardo, Peter de, 54 
 Sancto Ivone, W. de, v. St. Yvo 
 Sapurton, Thomas, 398, 400A 
 Saracenus, William, 10 
 Saunders, John, 475 
 Sauvage, Henry, 253 
 Sauwage, John le, 144 
 
136 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Savage, Alice, wife of Sir J. 
 Savage, wid. of Sir W. Greys- 
 ley, 475 
 
 Savage, Sir John, 475 
 
 Sawal, fil. Fuch., 6 
 
 Saye, John, coroner of Northamp- 
 ton, 462 
 
 Scheile, Scheyle, v. Seal 
 
 Scheldon, William de, prior of 
 Calwich, 141 
 
 Schepherde, Thomas and Cecily, 
 356 
 
 Schftynton, Maud de, 188 
 
 Schiret, John, 410 
 
 Schiret, William, 410 
 
 Schot, John, f. Sibille, 232 
 
 Scot, Rich, and Margery, 262 
 
 Scot, Richard, 369, 370 
 
 Scot, William, 262, 273 
 
 Scheile, Scheyle, Seala, Seile, 
 Seyla, Seyle, Sheile, Sheyle al. 
 
 Seal, co. Leicester, passim 
 
 Seal, fratres grangie de, 22 
 
 Capellani : Henry, late 13th 
 
 cent., 119 ; Ralph [1329], 221 
 
 Clerici : Hugh, 175 ; William, 
 
 186, 205 
 
 Persona? : William, early 
 
 13th cent., 23, 25, 26, 28, 32-34, 
 49, 50, 52, 60, 64, 93; Hugh, 
 [1329-30], 220, 224 
 
 Rectors : William, temp. 
 
 Ric. I, 15 ; J. de Stondle [1334], 
 239 ; J. de Horseleye [1342], 
 255 ; John [1346], 269 ; Edm. 
 de Rideware [1349], 277 ; John 
 de Bollawe [1377], 33< ; [1481- 
 5], 44^-447, 45°. 452 
 
 Presbyter : William, 9 
 
 Seila, Agnes, al. Anneis f. Rad. 
 de, 12, 26, p. 118 
 
 Seyla, Alan de, 62, 63, 83 
 
 Seila, Constantia f. Rad. de, 29 
 
 Seyle, Engenulf de, 41 
 
 Seyla, Hengenulf f. Nig. de, 60- 
 
 6 5 . 
 Seile, Geismer de, 19 
 
 Seyla, Henry de, 89 
 
 Seile, Henry, f. Hen. de, 19, 20 
 
 Scheyle, Henry, f. persone de, 
 
 •v. Henry, f. persone 
 
 Seyl, Hugh de, 55 
 
 Sheyle, John de, 258 
 
 Sheyle, John, f. Will., 239 
 
 Seyla, Lettice, ux. Nig. de, 58, 59 
 Seila, Lucian de, 3-5, 8, 38, 60 
 Seila, Lucian de, jun., 60 
 Seyla, Nigel de, 41, 55, 57-63, 89 
 Seyla, Osbert de, 45, 49, 52, 54, 
 
 59, 63, 68, 69, 89, 91, 92 
 Seyla, Philip, f. Engenulfi de, 89, 
 
 91 
 Seila, Ralph de, 1, 3-7, 9, 11, 12, 
 
 26, 28 
 Seila, Ralph, fil. Rad. de, 6, 9, 11, 
 
 12-26 
 Seyle, Ralph, f. Rad. de, 184 
 Sheyle, Dom. Ralph de, chaplain, 
 
 252 
 Scheile, Ralph, 304 
 Scheyle, Ralph de, p. 113 
 Seyla, Ralph, f. Thurstani de, 65 
 Seila, Robert de, 8 
 Scheyle, Robert de, 145, 168 
 Seile, Rob. f. Rog. de, 9 
 Seile, Roger de, 19, 21 
 Seyle, Simon de, 86 
 Sheile, Walter de, 1 1 5 
 Sheile, Walter, f. Will, de, 332 
 Seila, William de, 22 
 Seckyndon, Jerard de, 191, 192 
 Segrave, Gilbert de, 29, 72, p. 1 16 
 Segrave, John, Lord of, 177 
 Segrave, John, f. Nich. de, 102, 
 
 165 
 Segrave, Nicholas de, 102, 129, 
 
 159,485 
 Sadgrave, Dom. Stephen de, 46, 
 
 47,48, 51, 53, 54,67, 106, 177 
 Sekynton, 438 
 Sekynton, Beatrice, 438 
 Sekynton, Laurence, 438 
 Sekynton, William, 438 
 Sellarius, Ralph, 33 
 Seller, Ralph, f. Rad. le, 55, 60-62 
 Seller, Simon, f. Rad. le, 70, 74, 
 
 75,85-88 
 Selveym, Robert, 94 
 Selweyn, Ralph, 44 
 Sepe, Symeon, presbyter de, 20, 
 
 23 
 Sepei, Geoffrey de, 1 5 
 Sepeya, Adam de, 42 
 Serlo, f. Poer, 20 
 Seton, co. York, 374, 376, 475 
 Shapley, Charles, 340 
 Sharwynt, Nicholas, 476 
 Sharwynt, William, 476 
 
INDEX. 
 
 137 
 
 Shefton, Rob. de, chaplain, 323 
 
 Shelton, William, 340 
 
 Sheperd, John, f. Joh., 399 
 
 Shepey, John, 397 
 
 Shepey, William de, 424, 426 
 
 Shepeye, Thos. de, bailiff of 
 Coventry, 288 
 
 Shepheye, Robert de, 53 
 
 Shertwode, in Seal, 173 
 
 Shilton, William de, 452 
 
 Shyrford, Simon, 372 
 
 Sifrewast, Roger, de 5 r 
 
 Simon, Abbot of Pershore, 8 
 
 Simon f. Willelmi, 10 
 
 Smyth, Thomas, 419, 420 
 
 Smyth, Thomas de, Thorp, 435 
 
 Smyth, William, 438 
 
 Smyth, William, of Lullington, 
 465, 466 
 
 Smyth, William, f. Thos., 435 
 
 Smythe, John, coroner of Nor- 
 thampton, 462 
 
 Snareston, co. Leic, 463 
 
 Snarkeston, 166, 221 
 
 Snarkeston, Rich., f. Alicie de, 
 244 
 
 Snarkeston, Thomas, f. Rog. de, 
 
 173 
 Snarkeston, Will, de, 166 
 Sneynton, by Nottingham, 421 
 Solbardonstall, in Seal, 290 
 Somervill, Philip, lord of Wichnor, 
 
 p. 117 
 Somervill, Roger de, 1 1 1 
 Sondyfurlong, in Seal, 290 
 Southerne, Thomas, 410 
 Spelage, Robert, 315, 316 
 Spellowe, nr. Norton, 105, 154 
 Spencer, Richard, 415, 431 
 Spenser, Laurence, 412, 413, 414 
 Spigurnel, Richard, 141 
 Sproctune, Achard de, 29 
 Stafford, Alice, w. of Tho. de, 360 
 Stafford, James de, Knt, 243, 254, 
 
 260, 277 
 Stafford, John, 489 
 Stafford, Richard de, Dom. de 
 
 Clifton Caumville, miles, 304, 
 
 315, 316, 330 
 Stafford, Thos. de, Knt, 358, 393 
 Stake, Nicholas, 172 
 Stanard, John, 318 
 Stanley, Humphrey, 445-447 
 Stanley, Thomas, Esq., 422 
 
 Stanley, Thomas, of Tonge, 490 
 
 Stantona, David de, 3 
 
 Stapenhill, co. Derby, 407, 408, 
 498, 499 
 
 Stapenhill, Robert, priest of, 2 
 
 Stapenhull, John de, 1 1 1 
 
 Staunton, Will, de, Knt., 220, 226, 
 228 
 
 Staventon, Roger de, 1 53 
 
 Stepenhul, John de, 71 
 
 Steventon, William de, 130 
 
 Stoke, co. Staff., Will. Gresley, 
 rector [1481], 449 
 
 Stoke, Peter de, 288 
 
 Stoke, Rich, de, mayor of Co- 
 ventry, 288 
 
 Stoke, Robert de, 173 
 
 Stokley, Robert, 410 
 
 Stondle, John de, rector of Seal, 
 
 239 
 Stone, John, 423 
 Stotfold, William, 381 
 Stowe, R. de Breidesale, rector, 
 
 [1272], 101 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 390, 393 
 Stratton, John f. Walt, de, 209, 
 
 210 
 Stretton-in-the-fields, co. Derby, 
 
 P- "3 
 ■ Personse, William, temp., 
 
 Hen. III., 49, 50; William 
 
 [1330], 224 ; T. Aylemonde 
 
 [1408-1411], 382, 389,391 
 Rectors, William [ 1 330- 1337], 
 
 R. Hasord [1449], 431 
 Stretton, Anneis al. Agnes, ux. 
 
 Will, de, 27, 28 
 Stretton, Hugh, f. Matth. de, 157 
 Stretton, John,f. Walt, de, 221, 244 
 Stretton, Osbert f. Walt., Dom. de, 
 
 179, 181, 199, 206 
 Stretton, Richard de, 239, 249 
 Strettun, Roger de, 3, 8, 9 
 Stretton, Walter de, 32, 34, 45, 
 
 49, 5°, 88 
 Streton, Walter de, 114, 120, 121, 
 
 141 
 Stretton, Walter de, clericus de 
 
 Sheyle, 122 
 Stretton, Will, de, 13, 16, 18, 21-26 
 Strettuna, Will., f. Rog. de, ?, 11, 
 
 14, p. 118 
 Strettun, Will., f. Walkelini de, 35 
 Styes, Le, in Seal, 292 
 
138 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Stykebocke, John, 329 
 Suetheston, Robert, presbyter de, 
 
 35 
 Sumervill, Walter de, 2, 3, 26 
 Super - viridem de Hutesdon, 
 
 William, 104 
 Sutton, John, 372 
 Swan, Henry, 353 
 Swanne, Joan, 469 
 Swatlincote, p. 1 16 
 Swepston, Will, de, 170, 171 
 Swetenham, William, 443, 444 
 Swineford, Gilbert, f. Neel de, 17 
 Swynfen, Robert, 353 
 Sybedesdon, Jacobus de, 43, 44 
 Sydenham, Robert de, p. 1 1 5 
 Syreschete, Nigel, f. Ric. de, 95 
 
 T. 
 Talbot, Alice, wid. of Will., 274, 
 
 307 
 Talbot, Will., sen., of Rosliston, 
 
 245, 262, 272, 294 
 Talbot, William, f. Will., 245, 274, 
 
 294, 3°3, 308, 326 
 Talebot, Ralph, 30, 31 
 Talebot, Ralph, no, 112 
 Talebot, William, 197, 203 
 Taliour, John, 405 
 Taliour, Roger, 389 
 Tatinhul, William de, 77 
 Tattenhill, William, decanus, circ. 
 
 1167,3 
 Tawke, Alice, 463 
 Tayloure, Roger, 391 
 Tebbe, Robert, de Threngeston, 
 
 3l8, 327 
 Teddesley, John, 431 
 Templarius, Hugh, 16 
 Templarius, Roger, 34, 38,41, 45, 
 
 49, 52, 55, 60, 61, 65, 68, 69, 83 
 Templo, Guarin de, 19 
 Templo, Hugh de, 23, 24, 27 
 Templo, Roger, f. Hug. de, 27 
 Tetenhill, co. Staff., 440 
 Thaleboth, Ralph, 71, 113 
 Thamenhorn, Richard de, 71 
 Thamenhorn, William de, 127, 
 
 128 
 Theneche, Hugh, 56 
 Thirmond, Robert, 426 
 Thirmot, Robert, 407, 408 
 Thirnyng, Will., 360 
 Tholi, Richard, 36 
 
 Thomas, Simon and Alice, 135 
 Thomesone, John, 334, 335 
 Thomonhern, Dom. Thomas de, 
 
 Knt., 344 
 Thorenduna, Hugh de, 7 
 Thorkel, Geoffrey, 142 
 Thorkel, William, 163, 164 
 Thorp, Agnes, f. Amery de, 293 
 Thorpe Constantyne,co. Staff, 438 
 Thregeston, Will, de, 37 
 Thurlby, co. Line, 475 
 Thurmond, John, 418 
 Thwicros, William de, 15 
 Tichemers, Matilda de, pp. 114, 
 
 i'5 
 Tierstin, 9 
 
 Tissintona, Robert de, 42 
 Toby, Thomas, 338 
 Tochet, Sewallus, 101 
 Toft, co. Norf., 483 
 Toly, Edm., 345 
 
 Tomson, John, de Maisham, 340 
 Tong, co. Salop, 490 
 Topias, John, 362 
 Toucchet, al. Tuchet, Richard, 
 
 199, 221 
 Traynel, John, 197 
 Trent, River, 363, 440, 497-499 
 Trippe, William, 99 
 Trublevill, Ralph de, 47 
 Tuchet, v. Toucchet 
 Tulleslokh, in Seal, 20 
 Tumson, John, 456, 457 
 Turre, William de, 18, 22, 24 
 Tuschet, Henry, 4, 5 
 Tuschet, Simon de, 3 
 Tutbury Woodhouse, co. Staff., 
 
 475; PP- US, n8 
 Tuttebury, John de, 402A 
 Tweyford, al. Twiford, al. Twy- 
 
 ford, Rich, de, chaplain, 187 
 
 198 ; p. 118 
 Twycros, in Norton, 162, 253 
 Twyford, Robert de, 376, 387 
 Twyrkesford, in Seal, 91 
 Tyrwhyt, Robert, justice, 360 
 
 U. 
 Upton, Will., f. Warini de, 67 
 
 V. 
 Valeis, Richard le, p. 117 
 Venator, Robert, 10 
 Venur, Godfrey le, 167 
 
INDEX. 
 
 139 
 
 Ver, Baldwin de, 46 
 
 Verdon, John de, Knt., 331 
 
 Verdun, Bertram de, 10 
 
 Verdun, Wido de, 10 
 
 Verney, Richard, of Compton, 
 
 462 
 Verney, William, of Compton, 
 
 467 
 Verneye, Mag., John de, 141 
 Vernon, George, 458 
 Vernon, Henry, 341 
 Vernon, Henry, 445-448, 450, 451, 
 
 456-459, 460 
 Vernon, Dame Margery, 442 
 Vernun, Richard de, 26, 46 
 Vernun, Dom. Rich, de, 174 
 Vernoun, Rich, de, Knt., 285 
 Vernon, Richard, Knt., 409, 422 
 Vernon, Richard, f. Hen., 468 
 Vernon, Roger, 437 
 Vernon, William de, 45, 46, 50 
 Vernon, William, lord of Nether 
 
 Seal, 415 
 Vernon, William, Esq., 431, 437, 
 
 448, 450 
 Vichard, William, 198 
 
 W. 
 Wade, John, f. Will., 432 
 Wade, William, 432 
 Waim, clericus, 10 
 Wakelen al. Wakelyn, Richard, 
 
 464, 469-474, 477 
 Walbhall, Alexander, 497 
 Waldeschef, Walter, p. 118 
 Waleys, Ralph, chaplain of Seal, 
 
 220, 226, 230 
 Waleys, Dom. William de, 120, 
 
 169 
 Walkelin, sacerdos de Edredes- 
 
 tuna, 21 
 Walker, Robert le, 155 
 Walker, Robert, of Atherstone, 337 
 Walrand, Thomas, 202 
 Walrond, Geoffrey, 277 
 Walrond, Henry, 87 
 Walsche, Ralph, 231, 232 
 Walter, Bishop of Carlisle, 47 
 Walter, capellanus, 6 
 Walter, f. Ade, 146 
 Walton-on-Trent, 169, 197, 307, 
 
 365, 407, 4°8, 453- 484, 498 
 
 W. Humbreston, rector 
 
 [1368-1380], 309, 343 
 
 Walton, Richard, of Lichfield, 353 
 Wappingbury, J. de Hopewas, 
 
 parson, [1392], 353' 
 Warde, Henry le, 285 
 Ward, Henry, chaplain, 481 
 Warde, Dom., Rob. de la, 152, 159 
 Warde, Stephen le, 201 
 Warde, Stephen, 262, 274, 307, 
 
 308, 326, 343: 347 
 Warde, Stephen, 432 
 Warde, William le, 177, 188, 201, 
 
 245 
 Warde, William, 395, 418, 424, 426 
 Wasteneys, Geoffrey de, 213, 214 
 Wasteneys, Dom. Thomas, 374 
 Wasteneys, William de, of Osga- 
 
 thorpe, 37, 51, 72, 99 
 Wasteneys, William, f. Hug. de, 
 
 126 
 Waterfal, Will, de, 293, 350 
 Waterfalsiche in Seal, 41 
 Waterton, Robert de, 376, 387 
 Watford, Thomas de, 29 
 Watthon, Brian de, 37 
 Wattis, J ohn, coroner of N orthamp- 
 
 ton, 462 
 Wauere, William de, Abbot of 
 
 Merivale, 159 
 Wauerton, Hugh de, 54 
 Webbe, Thomas, 437 
 Wederley al. Wydderley, John, 
 
 445-447, 468 
 Wederley, Thomas, 445-447 
 Wedon, John, f. Walt, de, 161 
 Welham, John, f. Rob., 281, 282, 
 
 293 
 Wellys, Thomas, mayor of Nor- 
 thampton, 462 
 Welynton, Agnes de, v. Wylinton 
 Wenlock, Church of St. Milburg, 8 
 Weoleberge, Adam de, 22 
 Wethelesb', Adam, fil. Ade de, 2 3, 25 
 Wethelesberga, Adam de, 18 
 Wernon, Richard, 392 
 West, Geoffrey, 261 
 Weston, John, 398 
 Wheston, William, 436 
 White, Thomas, rector of Seal, 
 
 445-447, 45o, 452 
 White, William, 324, 325, 356 
 White, Thomas, 422 
 Whithull, Richard, 41 1 -4 14 
 Whyte, Hugh le, 242 
 Whyte, William, 373 
 
140 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wich, William, 266 
 
 Wichnor, p. 117 
 
 Widoweson, Richard, 389, 391 
 
 Wilintona, John de, 3 
 
 Wilkyn, John, 336 
 
 Willesley, co. Derby, 396, 422, 
 
 pp. 113, 114 
 William, monk of Burton, 2 
 William, clericus, 8 
 William, persona, 9 
 William, persona de Seila, 25, 26, 
 
 28, 32-34 
 William, persona de Stretton, 
 
 118 
 William, rector of Lullington, 1 1 8, 
 
 123 
 William, f. Alfrichi, 24 
 William, f. Hen., clerici de Sheyle, 
 
 156 
 William, fil. Hereberti, 6, 7 
 William, f. Hugonis, 6, 7 
 William, f. persone, 28 
 Willymot, Nicholas, 498 
 Wilna, A. de, 35 
 Wilsone, James, 479 
 Wim, William, 39 
 Wimar, John, del Newlond, 319 
 Wimer, al. Wymer, William, 100, 
 
 103 
 Winchester, William [Paulet], 
 
 Marquis of, 485 
 Wineshulla, Wald' de, 3 
 Winshill, co. Derb., 417 
 Wischard, Wichard, Wychard, 
 
 Wyschard 
 Wyschard, Andrew, f. Rad., 182 
 Wychard, Geoff., f. Will., 179 
 Wischard, Henry, 42, 45, 57, 68, 
 
 °9> 73, 74, 76, 90-92 
 Wychard, Henry, 383, 384-386, 
 
 397, 40S, 4°6 
 Wischard, John, 56, 57, 59, 66, 
 
 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 76, 87, 90-92, 
 
 114 
 Wychard, John, 372, 383-385, 405, 
 
 406 
 Wychard, Peregrine, 179, 222, 
 
 224, 225, 228, 258, 259 
 Wischard, Ralph, 1 15- 11 7, 119- 
 
 122, 124, 155, 156, 160, 161 
 Wyschart, Ralph, fil. Joh., 78, 81, 
 
 82, 108 
 Wychard, Ralph, f. Will., 179, 
 
 221, 222, 225, 258, 259 
 
 Wychard, Ralph, f. Will., f. Rad., 
 
 263, 264 
 Wychard, Rich., 360 
 Wischard, Robert, 28 
 Wychard, William, 202, 206-208, 
 
 215, 216, 219, 226, 230, 232, 
 
 246, 248, 251, 259 
 Wychart, William, 296, 302, 304, 
 
 305,311,328,330,333 
 Wyschard, William, f. Rad., 175, 
 
 176, 178, 179, 183, 202, 205, 
 
 228, 232, '233, 248 
 Wychard, Will., f. Will., 179, 189, 
 
 191, 192, 195, 195, 196, 224, 
 
 225, 233, 234 
 Wychard, Will., f. Will., f. Rad., 
 
 263, 264 
 Wisse, William, 153 
 Witacre, al. Withacre, Will., f. 
 
 Turgis de, 17, 19, 21 
 Witenton, Poer de, 19, 21 
 Witheredel, Wibert de, 15 
 Wittentun, Adam de, 14 
 Wodecote, Nicholas de, 37 
 Wodecote, Richard de, 99 
 Wodehus, p. 117 
 Wodeshulles, in Seal, 38, 292 
 Wolseley, Ralph, 398, 400, 401, 
 
 404 
 Wolseley, Rich, de, 185 
 Wolseleye, Robert de, 147 
 Wolseleye, Thomas, f. Felicie de, 
 
 236 
 Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal Arch- 
 bishop of York, 475 
 Wolsley, Richard de, 388 
 Wolsley, Thurstan, 379 
 Woodhouses, co. Staff., p. 113 
 Worseley, Joan, wid. of John, 443, 
 
 444 
 Worseley, Thurstan, 392 
 Wydderley, v. Wederley 
 Wydderley, Thomas, f. John, 340 
 Wydurley, William, 379 
 Wygan, Richard, 436, 449 
 Wyght, William, 450 
 Wykynton, William, 409 
 Wyley, Lesota, wid. of Rich., 396 
 Wylinton, al. Welynton, Agnes 
 
 de, 116, 119 
 Wylkyn, John, 250, 252, 275 
 Wylkynson, Thomas, 421 
 Wylson, Robert, 431 
 Wymare, John, 256 
 
INDEX. 
 
 141 
 
 Wymere, Margery, f. Will., 388 
 Wymare, Matilda, wid. of Richard, 
 
 240 
 Wymar, Richard, 103, 148 
 Wymere, Richard, 388 
 Wymond, Thomas, 166 
 Wyneswold, Roger, 438 
 Wynter, Edward, 481 
 Wynter, Katharine, dau. of Sir 
 
 G. Gresley, w. of E. Wynter, 
 
 481 
 Wynterton, Walter de, 272 
 Wynturton, Stephen de, 258 
 Wyte, Robert le, 148 
 Wytenton, Serlo de, 52 
 Wytherley, Thomas, 390, 391, 
 
 393, 394 
 Wytherley, Thomas, f. Joh., 452 
 Wytherley, William, 422 
 
 Wythrne, Amabilia, f. Phil, de, 
 72 
 
 X. 
 
 Xepeia, Simon, sacerdos de, 16 
 
 Y. 
 Ylkesley, H. Gernon, persona de, 
 
 185 
 Ynguerdeby, Nich. de, 144 
 Yoxhall, 410, p. 118 
 Yoxhale, William de, 321, 322, 
 
 353 
 Yvinghoe, Nich. de, parson of 
 
 Grendon-under-Arderne, 285 
 
 Zuche, Roger de la, p. 116 
 
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