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SHELFANGER. Convention between sir John de Hoo, kt., of the one part, and John de Sottisbrok of the other, in settlement of the contentions between them, concerning the common of pasture of Rodecroft and other parts of the common of pasture of Schelfhanger, which the said John had of Edmund le Lonerd in Schelfhanger , belonging to the house of the said Edmund, and his ancestors, viz. that the said sir John remits &c. for him and his heirs, common of pasture to feed six score sheep each year in Rodecroft with their lambs, until the time they ought to be separated from their mothers, so that the said sheep may remain one year, at the will of the said John and his heirs. And for this quitclaim, &c. the said John remits to the said sir John, and his heirs, all right and claim which he has in certain land which Walter de Schelfhanger , uncle of the said John, made to the aforesaid Edmund. (c. 1290.) .