Claydon (Bucks. ⟨recte Oxon.⟩). Richard de Grimescote grants to St. Mary and St. Leonard’s, Clattercote, in free alms, a virgate of land and a messuage in Cleydon, which Robert son of Aldewin once held from him. Witnesses: Sir Robert de Wycham , Simon de Cropray , John Cachelen , Hugh de Berford , Anselm de Grimescote . ⟨1260–70.⟩
Physical Description
Form: sheet
Support: parchment
Seal: Pointed oval seal, 1¼ × ⅞”, in brown wax A heron in flight, with something in its mouth Legend: ‘S’ · RICARDI · DE · GRIMESCOTE’
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Archive of St. Leonard’s, Clattercote (Oxon.)
Record Sources
N. Denholm-Young, Cartulary of the Mediaeval Archives of Christ Church, Oxford Historical Society o.s. 92 (1931), p. 156