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Giles de Erdintone grants to Thomas de la Hurne , for his homage and service, his capital messuage in Eston near the church, and the whole meadow and moor in that part called Stockedemedue with their appurtenances, and 24 acres of land in the same village, for which the said Thomas gave in exchange a tenement in the village of Erdington and a rent of 2 1/2 d., excepting the moor under the mill of Wytton which the said Thomas holds of Nicholas Salemon , paying annually to the said Giles and his heirs 40d. sterling. (c. 1260-70.) .

Richard, son of Nicholas de Fonte , grants to William, son of Geoffrey Wodard , for his service and 10s., one half acre of arable land in the parish of Eston, namely, that which he has in 'Wodeweyeforlonge' and which Hugh de la Liche sometime held, paying annually one clove at Easter for all services. (c. 1270-80.) .

John, the prior, and the canons of Tykeford authorise Hugh de Hopewas, canon of Lichfield , and John de Astone, chaplain, who are bound to pay 80 marks to the priory for the farm of the church of Astone, to pay to the chapter of Lichfield 80 marks, owing to the said chapter by the prior and canons by name of a certain annual pension, saving the allowance of 68s. as is expressed in indentures. Dated at Tykeford the Monday next after the feast of the Annunciation, 1354.

John de Garys, the prior, and convent of Tykeford near Neweport Paynel, demise to Hugh de Hopewas, canon of Lichfield , and John de Aston, chaplain, the church of Aston [near Birmingham], and their parsonage of the said church, with the tithes of corn of Aston, Wythton, Dodeton, Necheles, and Erdington, for five years, paying annually 16 marks sterling. Dated at Tykeford the Sunday on the feast of the Purification, 28 Ed. III.

WITTENASS (Whitnash in Warwickshire). Richard Kenteis grants to William, son of Agnes , for his homage and service, two virgates of land in Wittenass in fee and heirship, namely that which Margaret and Baldwin held, paying annually for the same 20s. (c. 1170-80.) [An Oseney charter; cf. Brit. Mus. MS. Cotton Vitellius E ⟨1⟩5, fol. 138v. (H.E. Salter, 1905).]

GREENBOROUGH. William, son of Robert de Harecurt , grants to William Part and his heirs, for his homage and service, the bodies of Geoffrey the carter and of Robert Batele , his natives, with all their belongings, together with half a virgate of land which the said Geoffrey and Robert hold in the village of Greneberue; paying annually for the same one pair of white gloves of the price of one penny at Easter for all secular services and demands. (c. 1260.)

ARELEYE. John, son and heir of the late Peter de Lymesi , quit-claims to sir Richard de Egebaston, kt., the occupier and farmer of the manor of Areleye, from the feast of St. Michael, 19 Ed. II, to the date of this present charter, all claim for waste, &c. in the said manor. Dated at Covintre the Monday next after the feast of SS. Perpetua and Felicia, 19 Ed. II.

BEREFORD, &c. Letters patent of King Edward III, dated at Westminster 6 Feb., 29 of his reign (1355), making known, that, by an inspection of the rolls of Chancery it appears that with the assent of Bartholomew de Burgherssh and Elizabeth his second wife, of Mark Husee and Margery his third wife, and Isabella who was the wife of Henry de Ferrars , the fourth of the daughters and heirs of Theobald de Verdon , deceased, who held of the King Edw. II in capite of the fees and parts of knights' fees and the advowsons of churches which were the said Theobald's have been assigned to Thomas, son and heir of Joan , who was the wife of Thomas de Furnivall , the eldest of the daughters and heirs of the said Theobald, according to the law and custom of England, the underwritten fees and advowsons, viz. in demesne four knights' fees in Potteleye, Cheynestre, Strote, Twyldenhyde, Est H(?)eche, and Walnesthorp, which Richard Comyn and the heirs of William Comyn had, the fourth part of one knight's fee in Aleton which Robert Brown holds, the half of one knight's fee in Mousleye, which the heirs of Richard Faype holds, the half of one knight's fee in Webbeton, Cobbewell, Walshopthorn, and Meere, which Roger and George Crikentot hold, the half of one knight's fee in Rouleston, which pertains to the castle of Ewyas in Herefordshire, one knight's fee in Hopton Caudinant in co. Salop, which John de Hopton holds the half of one knight's fee in Neuhall, co. Derby, which the heirs of Robert de la War... holds, one knight's fee in Northbur, co. Stafford, which Ralph de Botiler holds the half of one knight's fee in Bereford, co. Warwick, which John de Napfold holds, the half of one knight's fee in Lullyngton in the same county, which the heir of Peter de Walwardyngton holds, and the reversion of two knights' fees, the half of a knight's fee and a fourth part in Pyonia and Houton Cotes in co. Hereford, which Richard de la Lynde, jun., Philip Aphowel and Rees Aphowel hold, one knight's fee in Thurlaston, co. Warwick, which Simon fitz Margery and John Darset hold, a fourth part in Morton, the half of one knight's fee in Hopton and Alverton, co. Warwick, which the free tenants there hold to have the same after the death of Elizabeth de Burgh , who holds the same in dowry after the death of the aforesaid Theobald formerly her husband, together with the advowson of the church of Neubold and the third presentation to the church of Boseworth, co. Leicester, the advowson of moiety of the priory of Lantony in Wales, and the reversion of the advowson of Farnham, co. Bucks.

BURTON HASTINGS. Licence from Brownlow, bp. of Lichfield and Coventry , to John Liptrott, clerk, for performing the office of curate in the church of Burton Hastings, as perpetual curate of the parish. Dated at Eccleshall, 23 Aug. 1773. [Printed form, filled up in MS.] .

COLLESHULL, &c. John de Clynton, lord of Maystoke, quitclaims to sir Peter de Monteforti all right in that manor called Kyngeshurst in the co. of Warwick, also in messuages, lands, &c. in the villages of Colleshull, Bromwych, and Sheldon, which the said Peter holds by demise of William de Wotton ; and also in all those messuages, curtilages, &c. which the said Peter has by the gift of Simon de Sekkyndone, parson of the church of Thorp Costantyn in Colleshull and Sheldon . Dated at Colleshull the Wednesday next after the feast of SS. Simon and Jude, 28 Ed. III.

COVENTRY, &c. Henry d'Aubeny (de Albiniaco) , son of Henry D'Aubeny (de Albiniaco), of Wycheford , and Christiana his wife give and confirm to Geoffrey de Langele and Matilda his wife and their heirs, all their capital messuage of mill Coventry together with rents, &c., the mills of Hyssel, and lands, rents and services in Coventre, with husbote and heybote in the woods of Coventre, Stok, Keresle, and Alspathe, with the reversion of other lands in the same villages; for which the said Geoffrey gives 85 shillings worth of land in several places, and released the father of the grantor from prison at New Sarum by paying 140 marks for him to Robert de Totenhale . (c. 1244-50.) [Geoffrey de Langele was dead in 1274.] .

Bond given by Richard Palmer and Elizabeth his wife of Coventry to John Sneyd, barbor, in £20 with regard to the sale of a messuage in the Crossechepyng in the "cetie" of Coventry. Dated 20 June, 35 Hen. VIII. [English] .

Indenture made 25 Feb., 24 Chas. II, by which Samuell Baron, citizen and lynnendraper of London , in consideration of a sum of £45 grants to John Hunt of Coventry, shoemaker, a messuage in Coventry in a place called Croscheaping. [English] .

ERDYNGTON. Henry Tymmen of Erdyngton grants to John his son a certain plot of meadow in the fee of Erdyngton, in the meadow called 'Assalt,' and five sellions in Tymmecroft. Dated at Erdyngton the Monday next after the feast of St. Edith, 15 Ed. III .

GRENEBERUE. William de Harecurt , son of Robert de Harecurt , grants to William Pat two of his villeins and land in Greneberue. (c. 1280.) [Listed as missing, 1913]

SHUCBURGH. William ... grants to Wibert West, esq., James ... and theirs a tenement in Shucburgh. Dated at Shucburgh, 20 Edw. IV. [In great part illegible.] .

MSS. Ch. Warwick. 14-19: appointments of Henry Delves , esq., and Timothy St. Nicholas, esq., as justices of the peace for the county of Warwick, with the oaths for the same appointments. Dated at Westminster, 13 Nov., 10 George I (1723).