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Badlingham. Manumission. John Tibtoft Earl of Worcester manumits Thomas Skyllyng of Wurdswell [Wordwell], Suffolk, husbandman, from the yoke of servitude to the manor of Badlingham. 7 Aug. 33 Hen. VI (1454).

CONGLETON. Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, grants to Benedict, son of Walter de Stanleg' , four acres of land with appurtenances of the waste in the territory of his town of Congleton, at an annual rent for each acre of 6d. [c. 1300.]

Cheadle. 1530.

DERBY. Indenture made 1 Oct., 30 Hen. VIII, by which Thomas, the abbot, and convent of St. Mary's, Darley, demise to Richard Hey of Derby ten acres of land and two acres of meadow in Derby for 80 years at an annual rent of us.

MEASHAM. Indenture made 20 Oct., 33 Elizabeth, by which the right honourable Henry, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in consideration of a sum of money paid to him by sir George Hastings of Copishill, co. Leicester , grants all the tithes, glebe land, &c. in Messam, co. Derby, belonging to the rectory of Repingdon in the said county.

Indenture dated 1 April, 16 James I, by which the right honourable Henry, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in consideration of the good services of Edward Carpenter , servant of the said earl, have granted to him for his life and three years after, a messuage and tenement standing upon part of the parsonage of Mesam, co. Derby, for an annual rent of 20s.

WINSTER. Indenture witnessing that William de Birchover demises to Richard Gerard and Agnes his wife 3 messuages, half a bovate of land, 3 acres of land, with a meadow adjoining in Wynster, paying annually for the same 17d. of silver. Dated at Winster the Thursday next after the feast of the beheading of St. John the baptist, 8 Ed. III.

Richard Gerard grants to William de Birchovere three messuages, the half of one bovate and three acres of land in Wynster. Also he gave the same William all his goods moveable and immoveable in the same tenement at the time of the making of this charter. Dated at Wynster the Monday on the feast of the beheading of St. John the baptist, 8 Ed. III.

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WOTTON, ESCOUMB, and STANHOPE. Anthony [Bek], bishop of Durham , grants to Walter de Bermeton a toft and 127 acres of land of the waste in the fields of Wotton, Escoumb, and Stanhope, to hold the same for an annual rent of 62s. 3d. (c. 1290-1300.)

BERMETON, &o. John, son of the King, constable of England, warden of East March towards Scotland in pursuance of a grant by him by letters patent to Thomas Boteler of all his lands, tenements, &c. in the bishopric Durham, in the villages of Bermeton, Bisshopton, Newebyggyng, Little Staynton, and Hedley appoints Sir William Fulthorp, kt., and John Nonwyk, esq., his attorneys to deliver seisin of the same. Dated at the castle of Werkeworth, 14 May, 1 Hen. V.

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Grant of livery by Sir William Pollett, knight, master of the Court of Wards and Liveries, to Francis Inglefelde, esquire, heir of Thomas Englefield, for lands in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Yorkshire and London; with attached valor. 1544.

Livery granted by the Court of Wards and Liveries to Michael Blount, esquire, son of Richard Blount, knight, with attached valor for lands in Devon, Somerset and Oxfordshire. Devon. 7 Eliz. & 8 Eliz .

Robert Gernun , son of the late William Gernun of Tornham , grants to the abbey of St. John, Colchester, in frankalmoigne, the whole of a tenement which his brother Thomas held of him in the village of Wicham paying annually 2s. 4d. (c. 1260-70.)

Bond given to sir John Carbonel, sheriff of Essex and Hertford , 20 Ed. I. [Illegible.]

An acknowledgment from William de Hamme , that he has received from sir John Carbonel, sheriff of Essex , by the hands of Roger de Shireburn his clerk, 40s. of silver, which the said John levied of the goods of John de Say to his use by the king's writ. Dated at London the Friday next after the Quindena of St. Martin, 21 Ed. I.

William, son of Edward Clopton , quit-claims to sir John Howard, kt., sir Walter Clopton, kt., sir Gerard Braybrook, kt., sir William, son of sir Thomas Clopton, kt. , and John Bryan, sen., all his right in the manor of Hadlegh, called Topesfeld hall, after the death of Elizabeth, consort of the said Walter Clopton, for the lives of Alice and Elizabeth , daughters of the said Walter and Elizabeth. Dated at Hadlegh the Tuesday next after the feast of St. Boniface and his companions, 13 Hen. IV.

Sir Gerard Braybroke, kt., quit-claims to Robert Caundyssh , Thomas Mylde , John Smyth , and Gilbert Morell , all right in the manor of Topesfeld in Hadle, given to them, after the death of Elizabeth Clopton , by William Clopton of Melford, co. Suffolk, esq., and John Brian of Hadle . Dated at Hadle the Monday next before the feast of All Saints, 1 Hen. VI.