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CODNOR, HAYNOR, LOSCOE, LANGLEY, and MILNEHAY. Indenture made 2 Feb., 11 Charles I, being the settlement upon the marriage of sir Paul Neile, knight, son of the lord archbishop of York, to Elizabeth Place , one of the daughters and heires of William Place, gent., deceased, by which certain lands in the above villages are settled to the use of the said Paul and Elizabeth.

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.

\MEASHAM/ . Counterpart of the deed MS. Ch. Derbs. 3, dated 20 Oct., 33 Queen Elizabeth. [Seal and signature of sir George Hastings .

Indenture made 14 June, 1 James I, by which George, earl of Huntingdon, &c., in consideration of the receipt of £25, demises to Nicholas Taylor of Measham certain land in Measham for 99 years, at an annual rent of 20s. and two capons.

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.

Indenture made 11 Nov., 8 Charles I, by which Henry, earl of Huntingdon, in consideration of the receipt of £1580, sells to William Wollaston of Shenton, co. Leicester, esq., the rectory or parsonage of Measam in the county of Derby.

REPINGDON. Indenture dated 9 May, 34 Queen Elizabeth, by which Henry, earl of Huntingdon, &c. and sir George Hastings, kt., for the sum of £550 paid to the said sir George, sells to the right honourable sir Edmonde Sheffeyld, kt., lord Sheffeylde , the glebe lands, tithes of corn and hay, &c. in Messam, Parkington, Okthorpe and Denisthorpe, cos. of Darbie and Leicester, belonging to the rectory of Repingdon.

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.

ASHBY de la ZOUCH, PACKINGTON, and the Hundred of FRAMLAND. Thomas Harvey of Ashby de la Zouch, gent., grants to King James all his right in the rectory of Ashby de la Zouch and the rectory of Packington, co. Leicester, and in the hundred of Framland, also in the manor of Ashby de la Zouch, and in a grange called 'Alton Grandge' and in certain lands parcel of the manor of Packington, all in the county of Leicester, also in the manors of Aller and Allermore in the co. of Somerset, also in 2 parts of the manor of Canford in the co. Dorset, parcel of the possessions of Henry, earl of Huntingdon, to hold during pleasure of the king. Dated 13 Feb., 9 James I.

PACKINGTON, co. LEICESTER, and MEASHAM, co. DERBY. Exemplification of a decree between Henry, earl of Huntingdon, plaintiff, and Thomas Pestell, clerk, defendant, concerning the claim to the tythes of the parsonages of Packington on the heath, and Mesam, in the counties of Leicester and Derby. Dated at Westminster, 29 January, 4 Chas. I.

STOUGHTON, PAKYNGTON, BILLESDEN, ASHBY de la ZOUCH, &c. Letters patent of K. Ed. VI, granting to Francis, earl of Huntingdon, and Thomas Hasylwood , the rectories of Stoughton, Pakyngton with its vicarage, Billesden with its vicarage, Ashby de la Zouch and its vicarage, together with lands, houses, &c. in Stoughton, Pakyngton, Snybston, Billesden, Asshby de la Zouch, Colwarby, Blakefordeby, Alton, and Assheby, in the county of Leicester; also the chantry of the B.V.M. of Aller, co. Somerset; also 4 messuages, &c. in Frisbye, co. Leicester, to hold the game to their use for ever. Dated at Westminster, 2 Jan., 3 of his reign.

KNIVETON. Robert de Acastra , for the health of his soul and Hauwisa his wife, grants to the church of the Blessed Mary of Nebo and the canons there, in frankalmoigne, 2 acres of arable land in the fields of Kniveton. (c. 1230.) [Printed in Dugdale, VI. 888]

INGELBY, &c. Thomas Spenser of Somercotes , William Mailore of York , John Craven of York , and Robert Luflese, vicar of Bukmynstyre , quit-claim to John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and Thomas de Dacre , all their right in the villages of Salfletby and Somercotes, the church of Basyngham, with the free chapel of Ingelby. Dated at Ingelby, 3 April, 27 Hen. VI.