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Fragment of a charter dated 1131, Alexander being bishop [of Lincoln], by which Aelicia Euri ... appears to give to some church "Chatlendiam et duas acras de Inlandio ...".

Tomas, son of Richard de Cucheneia , gives to Ailiva and to his youngest surviving daughter by her, the land which her father held by the service of one bovate, together with Reginald her brother, and the land which he also held by the service of one bovate, to hold of the hospital of Jerusalem of which the said Thomas was a brother at a rent of 12d. until his return from the Holy Sepulchre, and if he does not return, for 2s. annual rent, for his soul and for the souls of his father and mother. (c. 1170-1180.) .

Roger de Burun gives and grants to the hospital and brethren of St. John of Jerusalem, in frankalmoigne, his "nutritum" [adoptive or illegitimate son], Stephen, with two bovates of land in Cotegrave, namely those that were William's, son of Turbern . (c. 1190-1200.) .

NEWBURGH, Staffordshire. Convention between the abbot and convent of Lilleshull of one part, and Edelina the daughter of Durand the priest of the other, by which the said Edelina in her widowhood gives to the said abbot and convent two messuages in Newburgh, viz. those which her father bought and gave to her. For this grant the said abbot and convent will provide her with 4s. annuity, and two of the servants' loaves and a gallon of beer daily during her life, with a condition that if Roger, son of Stephen her son, outlives her, the rent of 4s. is to be paid to him and to revert to the abbey after his death, (c. 1180-90.) .