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ALBERSTON. Sir Ed. Hastyngs, kt., lord de Hastyngs, (after reciting the grant of William, lord de Hastyngs, his father, for the foundation of a chantry within St. George's, Windsor, of an annual rent charge of £20, which is only valued at £18 5s.), grants to Geoffrey Symeon, the dean, and the canons of St. George's, Windsor, a rent-charge of 35s. on his manor of Alberston, Yorkshire, to complete the said sum of £20 granted by his father. Dated 15 December, 20 Hen. VII. (See MS. Ch. Yorks. 274).

Letters patent dated at Walden, 1 September, 35 Hen. VIII, granting in consideration of a sum of 21s. a licence of alienation to Richard Andrewes, gent. and William Romsden, of Longley, yeoman for property in Wakefeld, formerly belonging to the monastery of Monkebretton, to Richard Fymone, mercer.

YOKEFLETE, BROMPTON, WESTOWE, and RILLYNGTON. Letters patent of Q. Elizabeth, dated at Gorambury, 20 Jan., 15 of her reign, reciting a grant to sir John Foster, kt., of certain lands and tenements in Little Broughton in co. York, bearing date 12 April, 10 of her reign, for 40 years, parcel of the lands of the monastery of Hexhame, and by these granting to William lord Ewre (in exchange for the manor of Yokeflete and all that belongs to it in the parishes or hamlets of Yokeflete, Brompton, Westowe, and Rillyngton,) the reversion of the above grant, also a received annual rent of £12 18s. 3½d., also the rectory of Inglebie, co. York, and the chapel and church of Newton with all that belongs to them, late part of the priory of Whitby, with many other properties, to hold the same for ever.

Wentworth. 1567.