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ALVRYNTON. William de Shareshull and William de Gersyndon appoint John Lucy and William Genet , their attorneys, to accept seisin in their name of all messuages, lands, etc. which Robert Scovile held in Alvrynton. Dated at Alvrynton the Saturday in the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 37 Ed. III.

EDGWORTH. License of alienation granted to Jerome Jefferyes and Mary his wife, to enable them to assign to William Jones alias Lewes a messuage, garden, 20 acres of land, and 4 acres of wood, with appurtenances at Edgworth, co. Gloucester, held of the King in capite. Dated at Westminster, 2 Dec., 15 Chas. I.

KINSTANLEY. Institution by Godfrey, bishop of Gloucester , of James Chadwicke, clerk, M.A., to the rectory of Kinstanley. Dated at le Wyneard near the city of Gloucester, 17 May, 1630.

COLESWORD. Writ of King S[tephen] to R[oger], bishop of Salisbury, the sheriff of Wilts , and others, granting to the monks of Gloucester a wood and 2 assarts with fields adjacent in his manor of Celesw[o]rd in frankalmoigne, in the same manner as William his uncle, as is witnessed by the charter of King Henry. Dated, R. chancellor, at Buref. (c. 1136-38.)

STANEDIS. Final concord made at Gloucester, 30 Hen. II, 5 March, by which Odierna, wife of William, son of William the provost , acknowledges the right of the abbot and convent of Gloucester to 20 acres of land in Stanedis. For this agreement the said abbot and convent granted to the said Odierna and her heirs for ever, one half virgate of land in Stanedis which William her husband held.

EWELEGH. Final concord made at Canterbury on the morrow of the octave of SS. Peter and Paul, 6 Hen. III, by which Peter de Eulegh remits and quit-claims to Henry, the abbot of Gloucester and his successors, all his right in the advowson of the church of Ewelegh.

GLOUCESTER (City of). Indenture made 25 Feb., 21 Ed. IV, by which Thomas Saundres of Brystowe, gent., gives to Thomas Morgan and Thomas Kyngescote a tenement in Smythestrete in the town of Gloucester. [English]

Arthur Cole, clerk, grants to an annual rent or annuity from a tenement in the town of Gloucester for the term of his life. [Mutilated] Dated 20 August ... 24 Hen. [VIII] (?).

Grant of arms to the city of Gloucester by Christopher Barker, garter, 30 Hen. VIII.

LONGENEYE. Stephen, son and heir of Robert Agu of Longeneye , with the consent of his father, acknowledges to have endowed Agnes, daughter of William Saundres of Longeneye , his wife, at the church door of Longeneye, on Wednesday next after the feast of St. Barnabas the apostle, 5 Ed. III, being the day he espoused her, with the third part of a messuage and one virgate of land in Longeneye.

John L... of Tewkesbury grants to John Whythe of the same place a burgage which he lately acquired by the feoffment of Agnes de Cryckelade in the village of Tewkesbury. Dated at Tewkesbury the Thursday next after the feast of St. Michael 'in monte tumba,' 5 Rich. II.

ARLINGHAM. King Henry II grants in frankalmoigne to the church of St. Leonard of Stanley, the church of Erlingham with all the tithes of the same village, and one virgate of land at Maismore which Roger de Berchelaio gave to the said church in frankalmoigne. Besides he granted to the same church 60s. per annum, namely, Hardacr' de Berchelaio , which the same Roger gave them of his rents, as the charter of Henry his grandfather witnesseth. At Dover, in transitu regis. (c. 1158.)

Thomas, the abbot, and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester, grant to Robert the clerk , nephew of Peter de Lech, archdeacon of Worcester , the half of the tithes of the lordship of William de Berkeley , in 'Cudberle,' which pertains to the church of St. Leonard of Stanley. (c. 1190.)

STOW on the WOLD. Fine dated at Westminster, Hilary Term, 5 Geo. I, by which John Chamberlayne and Joan his wife quit-claim, etc. to Anne Freeman, widow, their right in a messuage, garden, orchard, and land in the parish of Stowe on the Wold, for which the said Anne paid to the said John and Joan 200 sterling. [Duplicate in Ch. 25]

Duplicate of no. 24. ⟨STOW on the WOLD. Fine dated at Westminster, Hilary Term, 5 Geo. I, by which John Chamberlayne and Joan his wife quit-claim, etc. to Anne Freeman, widow, their right in a messuage, garden, orchard, and land in the parish of Stowe on the Wold, for which the said Anne paid to the said John and Joan 200 sterling. ⟩

TEWKESBURY. Richard Whytehed , brother of John Whytehed of Worcester, vicar of Fayreford , quit-claims to William Tayllor of Tewkesbury the whole of half a burgage in Tewkesbury. Dated at Tewkesbury the Thursday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 8 Hen. VI.

THORNBURY. Confirmation by Walter [Reynolds], archbishop of Canterbury , of the appropriation of the church of Thornbury, Worcester diocese, to the abbot and monastery of B. V. M. of Theokesbury, dated 3 id. Feb. 1314, and approved by the prior and chapter of Worc. 10 Kl. Apr. 1314. Dated at Lamhuth, 5th Nones of May, 1316.