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 IN THE POSSESSION OF THE 
 
 Rt. Hon. LORD FITZHARDINGE, 
 
 BERKELEY CASTLE, 
 
 COMPILED 
 
 WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND INDICES, 
 
 BY 
 
 ISAAC HERBERT J EAVES, 
 
 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS, BRITISH MUSEUM, 
 
 iSristoI : 
 
 C. T. JEFFERIES AND SONS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, BALDWIN STREET. 
 
 1892. 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Introduction 
 
 Pedigrees of Berkeley ... ... ... ... vii, xi, xxn 
 
 Calendar of Charters, Nos. 1-892 ... ... ... ... I 
 
 Do. Wills and Inquisiliones-post-mortem ... ... 253 
 
 Do. Rolls, Nos, 1-184 ... ... ... ... 269 
 
 Do. Books, Nos. 1-85 ... ... ... ... 306 
 
 Do. Letters, Warrants, etc. ... ... ... 320 
 
 Index of Subjects ... ... .. ... ... ... 345 
 
 Do. Places ... ... .. ... ... 360 
 
 Do. Names ... ... ... ... ... ... 3^' 
 
 121 
 
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 
 
 P. 13 — Footnote. Gilbert [od. 1254], was the second son of the Chief Justice, 
 John, who pre-deceased his father, being the eldest son. 
 
 P. 97 — Sel. Ch. 291. For 1426 ;ra(/ 1246. 
 
 P. 161 — Sel. Ch. 511, line 2, for Edward rear/ William ; and line 5, for 
 
 Andrea, etc. read Audrey, dau. of Edward de Montagu. 
 P. 168 — line 2, for Bouche read Bouch. 
 
 P. 215 — Sel. Ch. 730. Mr. Edward Peacock, in a communication to the 
 Society of Antiquaries on 12th June, 1890, upon this document, states 
 that this is the only record that, to his knowledge, has come down to our 
 times, showing that, in addition to the geneial absolution given to the 
 kingdom by Card. Pole, Legate of Pope Julius III., on 30th Nov., 1554, 
 a personal absolution was also required and given. 
 
 P. 342 — line 4, for Edmund read Edward. 
 
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 The Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lord Arundell and Wardour, Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Wilts. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lord Amherst, of Hackney, F.S.A., Didlington Hall, 
 Norfolk. 
 
 William Allard, Esq., Tewkesbury. 
 
 Rev. W. T. Allen, M.A., St. Briavel's, Coleford, Glouc. 
 
 W. H. Armitage, Esq., Wotton-under-Edge. 
 
 Rev. W. Bagnall-Oakeley, Newland, Coleford. 
 
 Mrs. Bagnall-Oakeley, Newland, Coleford. 
 
 Granville E. Lloyd Baker, Esq., Hardwicke Court, Gloucester. 
 
 Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., G.C. M.G., i, Bina Gardens, S. Kensington. 
 
 Rev. C. W. Barclay, Vicarage, Hertford Heath, Hertford. 
 
 John Batten, Esq., Aldon, Yeovil 
 
 Col. Stuart Bayley, Woodmancote, Dursley. 
 
 Major-Gen. G. de la Poer Beresford, Eamont, Cheltenham. 
 
 Paul Maurice Berkeley, Esq., Poplar Cottage, Crescent Lane, Shrewsbury. 
 
 Robert Berkeley, Esq., Spetchley Park, Worcester. 
 
 Walter de Gray Birch, Esq., F.S.A , British Museum (2 copies). 
 
 Christopher Bowly, Esq., Siddington House, Cirencester. 
 
 Jerdone Braikenridge, Esq., 16, Royal Crescent, Bath. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Ernest Bramble, F.S.A., Cleeve House, Yatton. 
 
 The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, the Hon. Secretary of. 
 
 J. B. Willis Bund, Esq., 15, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Cust, 13, Eccleston Square, London, S.W. 
 
 John Shaw Carleton, Esq., Manor House, Newnham-on-Severn. 
 
 John Charrington, Esq., jun.. The Elms, Hendon Lane, Finchley. 
 
 G. T. Clark, Esq., "lo H. Sotheran & Co., 37, Piccadilly, London, W. 
 
 H. J. B. Clements, Esq., Killadoon, Celbridge, co. Kildare. 
 
 His Honour William Cooke, Q.C., 42, Wimpole Street, London, W. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ducie, Tortworth Court, Falfield (2 copies). 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, Penshurst, Tonbridge. 
 
 The Countess of Denbigh, Newnham Paddox, Lutterworth. 
 
 C. IL Dancey, Esq., 6, Midland Road, Gloucester. 
 
 Walter Derham, Esq., 76, Lancaster Gate, London, W. 
 
 John Doiington, Esq., Lypiatt Park, Stroud. 
 
List of Subscribers— ^^«/m«^^. 
 
 Lady Fitzhardinge, Berkeley Castle, {2 copies). 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Viscount Falkland, Skutterskelfe Hall, Yarm. 
 
 Cecil G. S. Foljambe, Esq., F.S.A., Cockglode, Ollerton, Newark 
 
 J. F. Fowler, Esq., Bishop Hatfield Hall, Durham. 
 
 Arthur S. Francis, Esq., 2, Berkeley Street, Piccadilly, W. 
 
 Edward A. Freeman, Esq., Somerleaze, Wells. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lord Greville, Clonhugh, Mullingar. 
 
 R. W. Goulding, Esq., Gospelgate, Louth. 
 
 W. H. Gwinnett, Esq., J. P., Cheltenham. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Viscount Hereford, Tregoyd, Three Cocks, Breconshire. 
 
 Major-Gen. Robert Hale, M.P., Alderley, Wotton-under-Edge. 
 
 Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen, M.A., F.S.A., Parsonage, Alloa, N.B. 
 
 W. H. Harford, Esq., Oldown House, Almondsbury. 
 
 Robert Harrison, Esq., Librarian, London Library. 
 
 C. W. Haswell, Esq., Ormesby, East Finchley, N. 
 
 James Hochee, Esq., Park Gate, East Finchley, N. 
 
 Stafford Howard, Esq. , Thornbury Castle, Gloucester. 
 
 H. R. Hughes, Esq., Kinmel Park, Abergele. 
 
 F. Adams Hyett, Esq., Painswick, Stroud. 
 Lady Jenkinson, Eastwood Park, Falfield. 
 
 Francis James, Esq., F.S.A., Edgeworth Manor, Cirencester. 
 
 Rev. Charles L. Jeayes, West Challow Vicarage, Wantage. 
 
 Messrs. C. T. Jefferies & Sons, Limited, Canynge Buildings, Bristol, (3 copies) 
 
 Miss Jekyll, Nunstead, Godalming. 
 
 Herbert Jenner- Fust, Esq., jun., Hill Court, Falfield. 
 
 Miss Joseph Nunstead, Godalming. 
 
 Sir Brook Kay, Bart., Battledown, Cheltenham. 
 
 G. B. Keeling, Esq., Severn House, Lydney, Gloucester. 
 Russell James Kerr, Esq., The Haie, Newnham-on-Severn. 
 
 T. F. Kynnersley, Esq., Leighton Hall, nr. Ironbridge, Shropshire, (2 copies). 
 
 John Latimer, Esq., Trelawney Place, Gotham. 
 
 L. A. Lawrence, Esq., F.R.C.S., 125, Harley Street, London, W. 
 
 Rev. J. F. V. Lee, The Rectory, Cranford, Hounslow. 
 
 William Leigh, Esq., Woodchester Park, Stanehouse, Gloucester. 
 
 W. A. Lindsay, Esq., College of Arms, London. 
 
 J. H. Lloyd, Esq., Greenbank, Merton Road, Highgate, N. 
 
 W. C. Lucy, Esq., Brookthorpe, Gloucester. 
 
 Sir John Maclean, K.B., Glasbury House, Richmond Hill, Clifton. 
 
 The Mackintosh, Moy Hall, Inverness. 
 
 Col. T. W. Chester Master, M.P., The Abbey, Cirencester. 
 
 John Merthon, Esq., 5, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 
 
 Rev. T. M. Middlemore-Whithard, Upton Helions Rectory, Crediton. 
 
 F. J. Mitchell, Esq., Llanfrechfa Grange, Caerleon, Monmouth. 
 
 Frederick Mockler, Esq., Wotton-under-Edge, (4 copies). 
 
List of Subscribers — continued. 
 
 Rev. T. W. Morris, Sec. of the Book Society, Wotton-under-Edge. 
 
 John MuUings, Esq. Cirencester. 
 
 J. A. Neale, Esq., Cannon Street Buildings, 20, Abchurch St. London, (2 copies) 
 
 Frederick Needham, Esq., M.D., Barnwood House, Gloucester. 
 
 George Norman, Esq.. Alpha House, Bayshill, Cheltenham. 
 
 J. Osborne, Esq., 41, Broad Street, Bristol. 
 
 Rev. Feilding Palmer, Eastclift", Chepstow. 
 
 Alfred 11. Paul, Esq., Tetbury. 
 
 Edward Peacock, Esq., F.S.A., Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Line. 
 
 V. R. Perkins, Esq., Wotton-under-Edge, 
 
 W. P. W. Phillimore, Esq., 124, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 
 
 Arthur T. Playne, Esq., Longfords, Minchinhampton. 
 
 G. H. Pope, Esq., S.M.V., Merchants' Hall, Bristol. 
 
 R. D. Radcliffe, Esq., M.D., F.S.A., Old Swan, Liverpool. 
 
 Richard Randall, Esq., Canynge House, Clifton Down. 
 
 Sir Robert Raper, Chichester. 
 
 Jonathan Rashleigh, Esq., Menabilly, Par Stition, Cornwall. 
 
 Rev. David Royce, Nether Swell Vicarage, Stow-on-the-Wold. * 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Lord Stallbridge, 12, Upper Brook Street, London, W. 
 
 The Lady Sherliorne, 67, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, W. 
 
 M. E. Sanderson, Esq., Wakefield, Yorkshire. 
 
 Charles Scott, Esq., Berkeley. 
 
 Edward J. L. Scott, Esq., M.A., Keeper of the MSB., British Museum. 
 
 F, J. Sermon, Esq. , Berkeley. 
 
 Edward Sewell, Esq., Cirencester. 
 
 Misa Cooper Smith, The Rectory, Basingstoke, (2 copies). 
 
 Messrs. 11. Sotheran and Co., 37, Piccadilly, W. 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Speir, Culdees, Muthill, co. Perth. 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Swinton. 19, Eaton Square, London, S.W. 
 
 John Sykes, Esq., M.D., Doncaster. 
 
 The Rt. lion. Lord Tredegar, Tredegar Park, Monmouth. 
 
 Rev. C. S. Taylor, M.A., Guinea Street, Bristol. 
 
 Christopher Thomas, Esq., Drayton Lodge, Redland, Bristol. 
 
 Robert Ingham Tidswell, Esq., Frampton Court, Stonehouse, Gloucester. 
 
 F. F. Tuckett, Esq., Frenchay, Bristol. 
 
 Richard C. Tuckett, Esq., 4, Exchange, Bristol. 
 
 R. Vassar Vassar-Smith, Esq., Char'ton Park, Gloucester. 
 
 His Grace The Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London. 
 
 George F. Warner, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., British Museum. 
 
 Henry S. Wasbrough, Esq., 7, Gloucester Row, Clifton. 
 
 Charles Welch, Esq., F.S.A., Guildhall Library, London. 
 
 Rev. Augustin Williams, Todenham Rectory, Moreton-in-the-Marsh. 
 
 Humphrey Wood, Esq., Solicitor, Chatham, 
 
I 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 HE work of arranging and cataloguing the con- 
 tents of the Evidence Room at Berkeley Castle 
 was begun by Mr. Edward Peacock, F.S.A., 
 the well-known Antiquary, in the year 1886, but his 
 health not permitting him to finish it, the present 
 writer was invited at the end of 1889 to take i.t up 
 where Mr. Peacock left it. Under the latter's direction 
 some of the earliest and most valuable Charters had been 
 placed on one side, many more had been sorted roughly 
 into periods, and, in addition, a considerable number of the 
 Court Rolls had been calendared. 
 
 It was decided at the outset that, as far as was prac- 
 ticable, the collection should be divided into two classes — a 
 general and a select series, a plan not always to be recom- 
 mended, but necessary in this case on account of the bulk 
 of the collection. The present catalogue is that of the 
 select series only, the catalogue of the general series being 
 preserved in manuscript in the Evidence Room. 
 
 Before noticing the deeds themselves, it may be thought 
 advisable to give a short account of the earlier members of 
 the family. 
 
 Harding, whose son Robert, commonly called Robert 
 Fitzharding, laid the fortunes of the family, has been, till 
 within late years, considered, locally at any rate, to be the 
 
II. Introduction. 
 
 son of a King of Denmark. This tradition is traceable to 
 the preface appended by Abbot Newland to his transcript 
 of the pedigree-roll,^ originally drawn up by John Trevisa, 
 the translator of Polychronicon, who was also Vicar of 
 Berkeley, and died in 141 1. It is probable that the early 
 Abbots of St Augustine's, Bristol, were the originators 
 of the tale, thinking to enhance the glory of the family 
 from whom they had received so many benefits, and to 
 magnify, at the same time, the reputation of their own 
 Abbey which owed its very foundation to this Robert, son 
 of Harding. The investigations, however, of later and less 
 interested historians, ^ make it plain that Robert's connec- 
 tion with the Royal House of Denmark is a myth, and 
 that Harding was simply the son of Eadnoth, Staller or 
 Master of the Horse under Edward the Confessor, Harold, 
 and William. Eadnoth, who held large estates in the 
 West of England, was killed in 1067 in driving off the 
 invasion of Harold's sons with a Danish fleet off the coast 
 of Scotland. 
 
 Robert Fitzharding was an important man in the days 
 of Stephen, having succeeded Robert of Gloucester as 
 Reeve or Steward of Bristol. Like the latter he supported 
 with his men and his money the cause of Empress Maud 
 and her son Henry, Duke of Normandy. The author of 
 the Lives of the Berkeleys,^ John Smyth, of Nibley, throws 
 light on the relations of Robert with Duke Henry in the 
 following words : 
 
 " Whillst Mawd the Empresse and Henry Plantagenet 
 
 1 cf. Select Roll, 97, and Paper thereon in the Transactions of the Bristol 
 and Gloucestershire Archaological Society, vol. xiv. 
 
 - Dictionary of N/xlional Biography, L. Stephens ; Articles Rob. Fitz- 
 hardinq: ; Eadnoth ; Berkeley Family ; by Rev. W. Hunt. 
 
 ' rdited by Sir John Maclean for the Bristol and GIouc. Archieological 
 Society in i88j. 
 
Introduction. m. 
 
 her Sonne were contendinge with the usurper Stephen for 
 the Crowne, much of their residence was at Bristowe, as 
 also was the Education of the said Henry, there brought up 
 in Learninge from the fowrth to the viii'*' yeares of Stephen, 
 which presented one of y" many occasions of that great 
 familiarity and love, which alwayes after continewed be- 
 twene the sayd Henry and this Robert, And perhaps also 
 theire affections (besides theire neer alliance in blood) 
 somewhat the more sympathized, by being both of them the 
 grandchildren of Kinges, And soe far forth ere that Crowne 
 claym was settled did the Empresse and her sonne Henry 
 make use of the purse of this Robertt in that wantful tyme 
 of theirs, that from Roger of Berkeley, Lord of Dursley 
 were his fee farme lands of Berkeley taken by this Duke 
 Henry and Mawde his mother for the causes formerly 
 mentioned, And for an hansell (as it were) of that lumpe 
 which followed, one hundred pounds worth of land of that 
 of Berkeley with the Manor of Bitton, was given to this 
 Robertt and his heires by Deede (yet remayneing under 
 seal)." 
 
 When Henry came to the throne in 1154, or rather a 
 little before that event {cf. Sel, Ch. i, 2), he not only granted 
 the Manor of Berkeley to Robert but also stipulated that a 
 castle should be built there. " Accordingly, as Smyth says, 
 " the castle was built at Berkeley, where yet it standeth in 
 " the most conspicuous and convenient place for ayre, 
 " water, pasture, meadowe, wood and benefitt of the great 
 " River of Severne that that fruitfull vale could then 
 " affoord, And to see the buildinge thereof the sayd Duke 
 " Henry came in person, as by his Deed of Confirmation of 
 " Bedminster to this Robert dated at Berkeley may proba- 
 " bly be gathered." (Sel. Ch. 6). 
 
 The Manor and Barony of Berkeley had been, up to this 
 
IV. Introduction. 
 
 time, held in fee-farm of the Crown by Roger de Berkeley, 
 whom Smyth describes as a partisan of King Stephen. Sir 
 Henry Barkley, however, who has, more than any other, 
 made an especial study of the early house of Berkeley, 
 throws doubt on this statement,^ and argues from the fact 
 of his near relationship to Robert of Gloucester and Milo, 
 Earl of Hereford, the two chief supporters of Matilda, and 
 for other reasons, that this was not likely to be the case. 
 It is probable that he had kept aloof from active support 
 to either side, and that when Henry came into power, 
 finding that Roger neither joined his standard nor offered 
 him pecuniary aid, he easily found a pretext in the non- 
 payment of his fee-farm rent for depriving him of his rights 
 in the Royal Manor of Berkeley, and bestowing the same 
 on so staunch and active a supporter as Robert Fitzharding. 
 Berkeley thus became the home of the Fitzhardings, who, 
 in a very short time, assumed the name of Berkeley, whilst 
 the original family retired to Dursley, where a castle 
 already stood, which became henceforth the head quarters 
 of the Berkeley s, from that time called Berkeleys of 
 Dursley. Smyth's account is as follows : 
 
 " When this Harry had obteyned his right he remem- 
 bered the great kyndnes and benefites of the said Sir 
 Robert Fizherding And gave unto him And to his Eyrys 
 for evir the Barony of Berkeley whiche Barony Roger of 
 Berkeley Baron of Dursley helde of the Kyng in fee farme 
 And for so moche the said Kyng Harry the secunde toke 
 from the said Roger bothe the Barony of Dursley and that 
 of Berkeley for as moche as he toke partye w* Kyng 
 Stevyn agenst Kyng Harry, And also for as moche as he 
 refused to pay the fee ferme of the Barony of Berkeley 
 
 1 Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 
 Vol. yiu, p. 205. 
 
Introduction. v. 
 
 un to the said Kyng Harry. But then after the saide Kynge 
 Harry entretid by the noble lordes of his Royaulme gave 
 ageyne un to the saide Roger the Barony of Dursley as his 
 owne heneritance. And the Barony of Berkeley he gave 
 And confermyd un to the saide Sir Robert fizherding and 
 his Eyrys for Evir (in recompence) of his grete costes and 
 kyndenes. And when after Sir Robert fizherding was lord 
 And Baron of Berkeley, the said Roger lord and Baron of 
 Dursley vexed And troubled with him so grevousely that 
 he came un to the said Kyng Harry And prayed him to 
 resume his yefte ageyne. But then after the saide Kynge 
 Harry made a peace And a finalle Concorde atwixe the 
 saide Roger and Robert so that the said Roger shuld geve 
 his doughter Alice to wife unto Morice the son and Eyre of 
 Sir Robert Fizherding w* the towne of Slimbridge." 
 
 By reference to this final concord, or marriage contract, 
 of Maurice, son of Robert Fitzharding, with Alice, daughter 
 of Roger de Berkele (Sel. Ch. 4), we find that it stipulates 
 for a double marriage ; for, in addition to that of Maurice 
 and Alice, a marriage is also to be had between Roger, 
 Alice's brother, and Elena, sister of Maurice ; and that no 
 accident might interfere with the carrying out of the con- 
 tract, it is covenanted, that in case of the death of any 
 of the contracting parties before the formal espousals, his 
 or her place is to be taken by the next brother and sister in 
 seniority, and in case none of Elena's sisters were to be 
 had, her place is to be filled by the daughter of Hugh de 
 Hasele, niece of Robert Fitzharding. 
 
 But the latter, besides being a man of action, was also 
 given to good works, and he is perhaps best known as 
 Founder and Benefactor of St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol. 
 The life of this Robert, warrior, pious founder, and subse- 
 quently monk, is thus summed up by the family chronicler: 
 
VI. ■ .Introduction. 
 
 " The life of this Lord convinceth the vanity of those 
 that hope to purchase an endless memoriall unto their 
 names, by workes proceeding rather from theire greatnes, 
 then from their virtue which therefore are noe longer theire 
 owne, then themselves contynue greate : Whereas this lord 
 lyves in vertuous remembrance in after ages after the death 
 of greatnes. A president most worthy of memoriall and 
 imitation." 
 
 A striking record of his piety is found in Sel. Ch. 14, 
 which relates his grant to the Abbey of St. Augustine (of 
 which he had laid the foundation in 1 140), of the churches 
 and advowsons of Berkeley, Wotton, Beverstone, Ashel- 
 worth and Almondsbury. He had already endowed the 
 Abbey with many manors and lands, and presented his 
 deed of gift at the High Altar on the day of consecration, 
 Easter Day, 1148, and we may perhaps look upon this 
 further endowment in the light of a thank-offering for a 
 " happy issue " out of the perilous time of civil war, and in 
 token of having received such practical proof of the appro- 
 val and favour of his King. From this time, 11 53 to 11 70, 
 when he died, we hear but little more of him ; we only 
 know that some time before his death he became a Canon 
 of the Abbey which he had founded, and was buried 
 " between the stalls of the Abbot and Pryor there, and next 
 to the Abbot's stall in the entringe into the Quire by whom 
 was after layde the body of the lady Eve his wife." 
 
 Before continuing the account of the family it may be 
 well to insert here the pedigree (abridged) of the earlier 
 House of Berkeley to its junction with the Fitzharding 
 family. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 VII. 
 
 PEDIGREE OF BERKELEY. * 
 
 Roger I. de Berchelai^pRissa. 
 
 Roger II. = 
 founded Priory of Stanley 
 St. Leonard, c. 1130, ob. 
 bef. Mich., 1131. 
 
 Eustace. 
 
 William 
 founded 
 Kingswood 
 Abbey. 
 
 — I 
 
 Roger 
 ob. c. 
 
 III.=f= 
 1 170 
 
 Roger IV. 
 
 =Elena, d. of 
 Rob. Fitz- 
 harding, c. 
 1154- 
 
 Philip. 
 Oliver. 
 
 Berkeleys of Dursley. 
 
 Daughter, 
 a nun. 
 
 Letitia. Alice=pMAORicK, son of 
 
 Rob. Fitzharding, 
 C' 1 154. 
 
 Barons of Berkeley. 
 
 Maurice succeeded his father Robert, and was the first 
 of this family who styled himself " de Berkeley." Smyth 
 dubs him Maurice " Make-peace " in allusion to his mar- 
 riage and the consequent union of the two families. Like 
 his father he granted and confirmed possessions and privi- 
 leges to St. Augustine's Abbey, in spite of which, however, 
 he incurred the grave displeasure of the Abbot in the 
 following way. He had enlarged the Castle, and in order 
 to fortify it, had made a ditch on the north side which 
 abutted on the churchyard, and having encroached a little 
 on the church land, " the Abbot and Convent soe pursued 
 " him by ecclesiasticall censures (as though the offence had 
 
 I I am indebted for this pedigree to Sir H. Barkly's Paper on the Earlier House of 
 lierkeley, printed in the Transactions of the B. and C. Arch. Society, Vo!. viii., pp. 1Q1-22S. 
 
VIII. Introduction. 
 
 " beene inexpiable) the merits of his father, himselfe, and 
 " brethren towards them quite forgotten, that they made 
 ** himself to cast dust upon his owne face, and like a school- 
 " boy by his Deed to say, that pro emendatione culpe mee 
 " de fossato quod feci de cimiterio de Berkeley circa cas- 
 " tellum meum, for redemption and pardoning of my offence 
 " comitted by mee upon the Church yard of Berkeley in 
 " making the ditch about my castle, I doe give unto the 
 " Church of Berkeley five shillings rent for ever issuing out 
 " of my mill under my Castle." The deed embodying the 
 above transaction is not now among the muniments, but a 
 record of it will be found in the Abbey Chartulary (the 
 Red Book) now preserved in the Castle, and numbered in 
 this catalogue. Select Book, No. i. Maurice never recov- 
 ered the Abbot's favour, nor would he even at his death 
 become reconciled, for he left instructions that he should 
 not be buried beside his father in the Abbey, that his anni- 
 versary should not be observed there, nor devotions ** pro 
 salute anime " performed. 
 
 He was the founder of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity 
 at Longbridge in Berkeley, to be governed by a custos or 
 warden, and Sel. Ch. 28 is a covenant between the Church 
 of Berkeley, the Abbey of St. Augustine and the Hospital, 
 whereby it is agreed that the Chaplain of the Hospital 
 shall do fealty to Berkeley Church in presence of the 
 Abbot and Lord Maurice, with special conditions as to 
 oblations and right of burial. The hospital stood at the 
 north end of Berkeley, just outside what is now the Town 
 of Berkeley. In Smyth's time [17th cent] the ruins were 
 still standing " amidst the banckes of divers fishponds." 
 To-day neither the ruins nor the fishponds remain. 
 
 Lord Maurice was succeeded by his eldest son Robert, 
 whom Smyth names Robert the Rebellious, because he 
 
Introduction. ixr. 
 
 took so active a part in the wars which disfigured the last 
 years of the I2th century and culminated in the granting of 
 the Great Charter in 121 5. Robert's name is amongst 
 those mentioned by Roger de Wendover' and Matthew 
 Paris 2 in their chronicles as taking a lead in the revolt of 
 the Barons, and in the list of those excommunicated by 
 Pope Innocent III. his name is found next following that 
 of his cousin Maurice de Gant, grandson of Robert 
 Fitzharding. 
 
 Though twice married he had no children, and died on 
 13 May, 1220. He was buried in St. Augustine's Abbey, 
 as Smyth quaintly remarks " in a monck's cowle, an usuall 
 fashion for great peeres in those tymes esteemed as an 
 amulet, or defensative to the Soul, and as a scala coeli, a 
 ladder of life eternall." Moreover Abbot Newland relates 
 in his chronicle-roll " For this good lord S'" Robert de 
 Berkeley is yearly done a spetiall memoriall at the Vigile 
 of his obitt, placebo et dirige, solemnly, And on the mor- 
 row commendations, the pryor sayinge the Masse, And a 
 Doale then after disposed under this forme. The Abott hath 
 a cake of two pence price and two casts of bread of three 
 to a pen)', and fower pence for wine. And every Channon a 
 cake, price one peny, but the prior, subprior and Almener 
 have twoe penny cakes, And every Channon a Cast of 
 bread and two pence for wine, And every Fryar of the 
 fower Orders in Bristol a loafe. And every Prisoner there in 
 Newgate likewise, And the remanet is doaled at the 
 Monastery gate to the poore people." 
 
 Thomas,4th Lord Berkeley, though he confirmed his pre- 
 decessors' grants to St. Augustine's Abbey, besides granting 
 
 ' Croiiica R. de Wendover, Rolls Series, ii. 114, 170. 
 '^ M. Paris Cronica Majora, Rolls Series, ii. 585, 644. 
 
X. Introduction. 
 
 much other property of his own, yet did not escape being 
 impleaded by the Abbot before the Pope's delegates for 
 the tithes of his pannage,' fisheries, mills, etc., [Sel. Ch. 240] 
 and for encroaching on the Abbey lands, but at length, in 
 1236, the parties and their friends meeting on neutral 
 ground, namely St. Peter's Church at Gloucester, a settle- 
 ment of the dispute was arrived at, both parties taking a 
 solemn oath to abide by the decision of the arbitrators. 
 He also endowed with a particular liberality the Abbey of 
 Kingswood. He died in 1243. 
 
 Smyth, in explanation of the surname he gives him, the 
 Observer or Temporiser, says " Hee so evenly observed a 
 prudent inclyninge after the strongest powere that hee ever 
 avoyded those Court and Country stormes which in his tyme 
 blewe downe many stronger Cedars than himself. Our days 
 tell us, that this prudence is to be a bending withy, not a 
 stubborne oke, A president for present tymes. And hee 
 that taught us to be harmlesse as doves, bad us also bee 
 wise as serpents." 
 
 Having thus briefly sketched the origin of the family, 
 and the lives of the first four lords, we will insert the 
 pedigree of the new house of Berkeley up to this point, 
 before passing to single out for observation a few of the 
 deeds which are described in the Catalogue. 
 
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 beech, acorns, etc. Jacob, 
 
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XII. Introduction. 
 
 It should be first stated that the deeds are catalogued 
 into four great classes, viz. Charters, Rolls, Books, Letters. 
 
 I. The Charters. The arrangement of the charters, 
 which date back to the time of Stephen, is chronological, 
 and included in this select series are {a) every deed in the 
 whole collection which bears, or to which may be assigned, 
 a date prior to 1250, (b) all deeds after that date remarkable 
 for their subject-matter, caligraphy, seal, or any other cause, 
 and (c) all wills and inquistiones-post-mortem, whether 
 originals or copies. 
 
 In these remarks it will not perhaps be necessary to 
 touch upon the earlier charters, many of which are given in 
 full in the catalogue, while some have been incidentally 
 discussed in the foregoing observations. 
 
 Attention may be called to five charters (numbered 
 50, 104, no, 217, 430), which refer to the endowment of a 
 Friary in the church of St. Michael in the Island of Step- 
 holm. Till the discovery of these deeds, nothing, as far as 
 I am aware, has been known about this Religious House 
 beyond what Dugdale states in his Baronage, i-355. He is 
 speaking of the Maurice, Lord Berkeley, who died in 1326, 
 and says, " He built a Friary in a place called the Holmes 
 (an Island in Severne) not far from his Manor of Portbury." 
 He mentions as his Authority an Accompt-roU of the 
 Bailiff of Portbury, 8 Edw. II. Unfortunately this docu- 
 ment is not amongst those preserved at Berkeley, so that 
 we are unable to refer to it. The other ordinary authorities, 
 namely. Tanner, CoUinson (History of Somersetshire) and 
 the Editors of Dugdale's Monasticon, repeat but do not 
 enlarge on the brief information given in the Baronage. In 
 going to Smyth for corroboration of the statement, nothing 
 is found, and it is not till he comes to the life of a later 
 
Introduction. xiii. 
 
 Lord Maurice, [i 361- 1368] that he mentions Steepholm or 
 Uphill at all, but he records that that lord purchased in 
 26-28 Edw. III. " divers lands and tenements in Chrykes- 
 ton [Christon] and Uphill," and, amongst the lands of which 
 the same lord died seised in 1368, is " the isle of Stepholmes 
 in Seavern." Nor is it surprising that amongst the Berkeley 
 muniments no deed is to be found to throw a light on this 
 mysterious foundation of a House which existed 150 years 
 before its reported foundation. For these five charters are 
 all of a date anterior to Lord Maurice the reputed founder, 
 and they go to prove that the Friary existed as early as the 
 end of the 12th century. 
 
 The Island of Steepholm is an almost inaccessible rock 
 rising perpendicularly out of the R. Severn, just opposite 
 the mouth of the R. Axe and the village of Uphill on the 
 Somersetshire coast. It was probably on account of its 
 isolation and inaccessibility that Gildas, the ancient British 
 Historian in the 6th century, chose it for an asylum during 
 the conflicts between the Picts, Scots and Saxons, while he 
 wrote his Liber querulus de excidio Brittamce. We hear of 
 the Island again in 916, when the Danes ' being repulsed at 
 Watchet took refuge upon it. It is also reported that Githa, 
 the mother of Harold, retired to it after the battle of 
 Hastings. 
 
 Of the five charters. No. 50 records the grant by Robert 
 fil. Ricardi, of the church of St. Nicholas of Uphill to Saint 
 Michael of Steepholm and the Brethren or Friars " there 
 serving God." It is undated, but the handwriting is suffi- 
 cient to prove it to be of the time of Richard I. No. 104 
 is a confirmation by John de Ken of another grant made by 
 the same Robert of a piece of land in Uphill to "St, Michael 
 
 ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Rolls Series, pp. 190, 191. 
 
XIV. Introduction. 
 
 of the Island called Steepholm and the Brethen there 
 dwelling together." This was a somewhat later transaction, 
 and may be of the time of King John. Nos, i lo, 217, are 
 similar confimations to the Brethren of grants by the said 
 Robert. But the last of the set, No. 430, which is 
 dated 1260, is of a different character. For some time 
 previous to this latter date it appears that the Island 
 belonged to R. de Tregoz [probably Robert Tregoz, 
 Baron, who was slain at Evesham in 1265] who had 
 granted it with the Friary to the Austin Canons of Studley, 
 CO. Warwick. By the charter under discussion the Bishop 
 of Bath and Wells directs that they shall appoint two of 
 their Canons to reside in the Island, the senior of whom 
 shall be called the Prior of Steepholm, and gives further 
 instructions as to future nominations to that office. Subse- 
 quent to this date there is no mention amongst the 
 Berkeley muniments of the Island or the Friary. 
 
 Select Ch. 466 tells the story of Stephen de Segrave's 
 departure over the seas, leaving his substance in the hands 
 of one R. de Stanton, and how the latter proved unfaith- 
 ful to his trust and " wickedly spent by his knavery and 
 foolish company ^30 out of his master's treasure." Unable 
 to make good this deficiency he raises the amount on the 
 security of his manor of Stanton and two *' roots of the herb 
 called maundragon " or mandrake. This herb must have 
 been a valuable possession to be thus particulary mentioned. 
 It was apparently used as a narcotic, and there were many 
 superstitions regarding it. In the herbarium of Apuleius ^ 
 it is said to be good (i) for headaches (2) for sores of the 
 ears (3) for foot disease (4) for loss of wits (5), again for sore 
 of sinews, (6) if one see some heavy mischief in his home. 
 The value of the herb may perhaps be supposed to lie in 
 its cure of the last of these misfortunes. 
 
 1 Saxon Leechdoms, Rolls Series, i. 51. 
 
Introduction. xv. 
 
 Sel. Ch. 536 is the covenant for the ransom of Maurice 
 de Berkeley, captured at the battle of Poictiers. This 
 Maurice, when he was quite a boy, had accompanied his 
 father to the Scottish wars, and had received Knighthood 
 at the age of seven, and at the age of eight had been mar- 
 ried to Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Despencer. He sub- 
 sequently served as an attendant of the Black Prince at 
 Crecy, and at the siege of Calais. Smyth compiles his 
 account of his achievements, and capture at Poictiers, 
 from Lord Berners' translation ^ of Froissart's Chronicles, 
 and from Howe's continuation of Stows' Chronicle, and I 
 think no apology is needed for its reproduction here. 
 
 '* And upon Munday the 19th day of September in the 
 thirtieth of King Edward the third, Anno 1356 was fought 
 the feirce and cruell battle of Poitiers in France by the 
 black prince (so called for his redoubted martiall deeds, 
 and not from his complection) and his lords of England ; 
 whereat were taken prisoners John the French King and 
 his son Philip. And amongst others of the English, in the 
 middle ward of the battle with the prince (saith Howe and 
 others) was the lord maurice Berkeley (then about 26 years 
 of age) son to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, then living very 
 old : who to use the words of Stowe, Howe and others, 
 calling this Maurice a worthy man, for the space of two 
 hours togeather with his men, never spared but would bee 
 still in the forefront of the battle, invadinge his enemies 
 with the first ; This Maurice being in the Dolphins guard 
 (the french Kings eldest son) sowed blows amongst them, 
 first with a spear, then with a sword, and at length being 
 all alone compassed with the multitude and sorely wounded 
 was taken prisoner, Thus Howe and they. But Froissard the 
 french priest a man much esteemed for the fidelity of his 
 
 ^ Pyoson's Edition, 1525, fol. 82, cap. clxiii. 
 
XVI. Introduction. 
 
 history, related the valor and fortune of this Maurice thus : 
 Amonge the battles, recountrings, chases and pursuits, that 
 (saith hee) were made that day in the feild, it fortuned that 
 an Esquire of Picardy called John de Helenes was fled 
 from the battle and met with his page, who delivered to 
 him a new fresh horse, whereon hee rode away alone ; The 
 same season there was in the feild the Lord Berkeley of 
 England a young lusty Knight who the same day had 
 reared his banner, A.nd hee all alone pursued the said John 
 de Helenes ; And when hee had followed the space of one 
 League, the said John turned againe, and laid his sword in 
 the rest insteed of a speere, and so came running towards 
 the lord Berkeley who lift up his sword to have stroken the 
 Esquire, but when hee saw the stroke come, hee turned from 
 it, so that the Englishman lost his stroke, And John strake 
 him as hee past on the arme that the lord Berkeley's sword 
 fell into the field ; when he saw his sword downe, hee 
 alighted sodainly of his horse, and came to the place where 
 his sword lay. And as hee stouped down to take up his 
 sword the french Esquier did peck his sword at him, And 
 by hap strake him through both the thighes, so that the 
 Knight fell to the earth and could not help himselfe ; And 
 John alighted of his horse and tooke the Knight's sword 
 that lay on the ground, and came to him, And demaunded if 
 he would yeald him or not ; The Knight then demaunded his 
 name. Sir, said hee, I hight John de Helenes. But what is 
 your name ; certainly said the Knight, my name is Maurice, 
 and am lord of Berkeley, a faire castle on the river of 
 Seaverne in the Marches of Wales : well, sir, quoth the 
 Squire then you shall bee my prisoner and I shall bring 
 you in safe-guard, and I shall see that you bee healed of 
 your hurt : well said the Knight I am content to bee your 
 prisoner, for you have by law of Armes won mee ; Then 
 hee sware to bee his prisoner, rescue or not rescue ; Then 
 
Introduction. xvii. 
 
 the Squire drew forth the sword out of the Knight's thighs, 
 and the wound was open, then hee wrapped and bound the 
 wound, and set him on his horse, and so brought him faire 
 and easily to Chaterleant, and there tarryed more then 
 fifteen dayes for his sake, and did get him remedy for his 
 hurt ; And when hee was somewhat amended then hee ^at 
 him a litter and so brought him at his ease to his house in 
 Picardy, there hee was more then a year before hee was 
 perfectly whole ; And when hee departed hee paid for his 
 ransome six thousand nobles. And so this Squire was made 
 a Knight by reason of the profit that hee had of the lord 
 Berkeley. Thus Froissard." 
 
 It is this last sentence of the French Chronicler that 
 leads Mr. Ruskin,* when discussing the " frankness " of the 
 Frank, to read a lecture to the youth of to-day on the 
 decay of chivalry, and the growth of a desire for knightly 
 deeds, not so much for glory's sake as for the profit that 
 might accrue thereto. 
 
 In the deed under notice the name of Maurice's capturer 
 is given as Jehan de Bouch, chevalier, so that it is puzzling 
 to find that Froissart calls him J. de Helenes. I can only 
 suggest that he came from Helesmes, ^ a village near, and 
 under the government of Bouchain, and so was known by 
 both names. The ransom-money was not fully paid till Oct. 
 1 360, though the prisoner had been allowed to visit England 
 in the early part of that year at the request of the Earl and 
 Countess of Arundel and the Earl of Salisbury, presumably 
 to arrange for the raising of the money, and under a solemn 
 promise to return by the " twentieth day after Michaelmas." 
 He finally came home at the end of 1360, and succeeded 
 
 ^ Bible of Amiens, Pt. 11. Under the Drachenfels, 1| 33. 
 
 * 150 years after a branch of the Montmorency held the signeuries of La 
 Boiiche and Hellem, cf, Anselm's Chronologic de la Maison Royal de France^ 
 iii. 594. 
 
XVIII. Introduction. 
 
 his father as 9th Lord of Berkeley in October of the next 
 year. He is said never to have recovered from the wounds 
 he received at Poictiers, but, after seven years spent in retire- 
 ment at his castle of Berkeley, died on the Feast of Corpus 
 Christi, 1368, aged 37. It was for this lord's funeral that the 
 curious item appears in the Compotus of the Steward of 
 Hinton manor, namely : " Three quarters, seven bushells of 
 beans for supporting and fattening 100 geese against the 
 lord's burial." {Sel. Roll 47). 
 
 No notice of the Berkeley Charters would be complete 
 which did not contain allusion to the Battle of Nibley, 
 which arose out of the great lawsuit between the Berkeleys, 
 the Beauchamps, and the Talbots in the 15 th and i6th 
 centuries, and though it is not necessary to go into the 
 matter at very great length,thanks to the exhaustive account^ 
 of the suit by the late J. H. Cooke, sometime Steward of 
 Berkeley, yet, as many of the charters and rolls refer to the 
 various phases of the quarrel, it will be necessary to explain 
 the circumstances which led up to the suit. I will then, 
 though more properly it should be included in my notice 
 of the Rolls, give a transcript of Sel. Roll 137, which con- 
 tains a contemporary copy of the angry correspondence 
 which took place between Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, 
 and William, 12th Lord of Berkeley, which resulted in the 
 battle of Nibley and the death of Lord Lisle. 
 
 Thomas, the loth Lord Berkeley, died in 141 7, leaving 
 by his wife Margaret \^ob. 1392] sole daughter and heiress of 
 Gerard Warren, Lord de Lisle, an only child Elizabeth, mar- 
 ried to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. All her 
 mother's inheritance now fell to the Countessof Warwick,but 
 the Barony of Berkeley passed to Thomas's nephew James, 
 who was next heir, being son of his brother James, who had 
 
 1 Trans, of the B. & G. Archaeological Society, III., 305. 
 
Introduction. xix. 
 
 predeceased him. But the Earl and Countess of Warwick 
 not content with the inheritance of Lisle and Tyes {cf. note 
 on p. 177), claimed also the Barony of Berkeley. 
 
 Unfortunately, at the time of his uncle's death James 
 was away at his father-in-law's house in Dorsetshire, and 
 the Earl and Countess of Warwick, who were at Berkeley, 
 took advantage of this accident and possessing themselves 
 of Lord Berkeley's title-deeds and evidences, procured 
 from the King the custody of the late lord's castle, manors 
 and lands as long as they should be in the King's hands. 
 James hurrying to the scene of action quickly caused a jury 
 to be empanelled to enquire into the titles of the late lord's 
 possessions, who found that James was his uncle's heir, and 
 that he was, as such, entitled to the castle and twelve 
 manors, which constituted the ancient Barony of Berkeley. 
 Yet, though James thereupon did fealty and was accepted 
 as the King's tenant-in-chief, the Earl of Warwick persisted 
 in retaining possession of the castle. Under these circum- 
 stances James was driven to apply to Humphrey, Duke of 
 Gloucester, for his assistance, by which, only procured by aid 
 of a bribe of a 1000 marks, he obtained licence to sue his 
 livery of the Castle and Barony, and paid his baron's relief 
 of 100 marks. Smyth's account of the matter is as follows : 
 
 " This lord not finding in himself sufficient strength 
 to wrastle with soe potent an adversary. And considering 
 that all the old and principal servants of his unckle had 
 turned their intelligences against him. And that hee was 
 deprived of his antient evidences, wisely winneth with his 
 purse the assistance of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 
 
 the King's brother By this 'close 
 
 compact this lord James who before was as a weak hopp, 
 havinge now got a strong pole fastly to wind about grew 
 up and bore the fruite of his own desires." 
 
XX. Introduction. 
 
 In 1426 a compromise was effected which was to last 
 during the lives of the two litigants. The Earl of Warwick 
 died in 1439, leaving no son, but three daughters, Margaret, 
 Eleanor and Elizabeth, married to John, Lord Talbot, 
 Edmund, Earl of Dorset, and George Neville, Lord Latimer, 
 by whom, but especially by the eldest, Margaret, and her 
 husband, the quarrel was renewed with all its ancient 
 bitterness. The dullness of the contest was relieved by 
 occasional skirmishes between the retinues of the rival 
 claimants, and one incident is worth narrating. It is, that 
 David Wodborne with other fellow-serv^ants being sent by 
 Lord Lisle, son and heir of Lord Talbot, to Wotton to 
 serve a subpcena on Lord James, the latter " insteed of 
 obeying the proces not only beat the parties but will hee 
 nill hee, inforced the said David to eat the subpena, wax 
 and parchment." It is also related that on 6th Sept. 145 1, 
 the said Countess Margaret and her husband " by their 
 subtile and damnable imaginations " suborned one Rice 
 Tewe, servant to the Lord James, then in charge of the keys 
 of the castle, by whose means early one day Lord Lisle en- 
 tered " with great numbers of people warlike arrayed. And 
 there tooke the said Lord James and his said fower sons in 
 there beds, and there kept them in prison in great dures by the 
 space of eleven weekes by the commandment of the said 
 Countess, they by all that time knowing no surety nor cer- 
 tainty of their lives, but ever awaiting the hour of their 
 cruell death." 
 
 It was not till just the end of his life that the Lord 
 James was to have rest, for on the 22nd Oct. 1463, it was 
 agreed between him and his chief enemy Margaret, now 
 Countess of Shrewbury, •* that they would thenceforth cease 
 suites, and the residue of their lives live in rest and peace 
 togeather." There was but little opportunity of the com- 
 pact being broken, for James died ^6 days after. 
 
Introduction. xxi. 
 
 He was succeeded by his son William, at that time 37 
 years old, who at once renewed hostilities with the countess, 
 but she too dying in 1467, her grandson Thomas, Viscount 
 Lisle, took up the quarrel. " What angry charge," writes 
 Smyth, " or motherly command the said Countess Margaret 
 left to her ward and grandchild Thomas, Viscount Lisle, for 
 pursute of these titles against her enemy this Lord William, 
 charity forbiddeth mec to conjecture. Sure I am shee left 
 him an high spirit fostered by malignant attendants mor- 
 tally hatinge this lord William, who forthwith fell into the 
 plotts of the said Countesse ; And havinge their main Ayme 
 (as hers wsls) to get from him this Castle of Berkeley, which 
 hee now kept as his sanctuary and subterfuge from detts, 
 utlagaryes, Statutes and the like ; And which if they had 
 effected, by all probability hee had been ruined ; They fell 
 in practise againe with the said Thomas Holt, then also his 
 Keeper of Whitcliffe parke, whom they corrupted, and with 
 Maurice King porter of his castle gates. The method of 
 which trecherous plott and treaty the letters, bonds and 
 patents that passed between them and Robert Veel the 
 Viscount's Ingineer, which to this day remaine in Berkeley 
 Castle, shall speake themselves in their own language." 
 
 Smyth evidently here refers to the contemporary copy 
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 letters are extremely interesting as specimens of fifteenth 
 century correspondence, and show withal the progress of 
 the quarrel, they are here inserted at length. The passages 
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 and ensurance the which I have in mind and ever shall 
 have ; and spetially for the great truth and faithfull love 
 that I found in you at the appointment between the lord 
 Berkeley that now is and us ; and by the token that when 
 Sir Thomas had gave up the matter and fayled us, That 
 ye and I yede into the chappie out of the great chamber, 
 And there I found you true, as you ever have bene hyderto; 
 And by the token that wee lay togeder at Micheldene in 
 one bedd, and commyned there of such purposes as now is 
 brought to the poynt, which will not faile, soe God be 
 pleased, wherein I suppose you know my old dealing ; 
 wherefore by the tokens afore rehearsed, I heartely pray you 
 for all the loveis that hath been between us, and as you will 
 your own wele. That ye wele geve very faythfull credence 
 unto Mr. Robert Vele, which ye know for a worshipfull 
 gentleman and never non haster, but his worship is known 
 nye you, and me ; And such assurance my lord and I have 
 taken the matter, that of my life ye may trust thereto, 
 wherein also I will that ye take the same surete of him, and 
 ca re that your comunication bee secret between ye. And 
 upon both your comunication y* ye do agree well togeder 
 what might ye may in hasty time speke with mee which 
 shall be to your perpetuall weal, And thus I leave you 
 with goddis grace. 
 
 By your sworn brother in the Parke of Whitclyfife in the 
 outhouse without the logge, Thomas Holt. 
 
 [The same to the same.] 
 My most trusty and welbeloved frend, I grete ye 
 wele, praying ye hartely that ye will remember the matter 
 that ye and I comoned of last, And for your matter, it 
 is spede, your patent is spede of five markes and Wotton 
 Parke, with all that belongelh theirto, and your obligacion 
 also, and all other that ye understand that can prevaile 
 you to grante them, fee by patent, terme of life. 
 
Introduction. xxv. 
 
 [Nowe take the obligacion and condicion.] 
 
 Noverint universi per presentes me RobertumVele teneri 
 et firmiter obligari Mauricio Kinge in centum libris sterlin- 
 gorum legalis monete Anglie, solvendo eidem Mauricio 
 Kinge, et heredibus aut assignatis suis in festo purificacionis 
 beate Marie virginis proxime futuro post datum presentium 
 Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciendam 
 oblige me heredes et executores meos presentes. In cujus rei 
 testimonium huic presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. 
 Dat 26'" die Januarii Anno regni Regis Edwardi quarti 
 nono. 
 
 The condition of this obligacion is such, That if the 
 Castle of Berkeley bee brought into the hands of Thomas 
 Talbot Lord Lisle by the faithfull help guyding and means 
 of the said Maurice Kinge, And thereupon. That ye said 
 Maurice have his sufficient patent delivered him under the 
 seale of Armes of the said Lord Lisle, of the park of Wot- 
 ton with the fees and wages of the keeping of the same of 
 old time due and accustomed ; And moreover by the same 
 patent have five marks annuite during his life to bee had 
 and received yearly of the lordship and revenues of Wotton ; 
 That then this obligacion to bee void, or els it doe stand in 
 his full strength and vertue. 
 
 [Take also the Patent.] 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum 
 pervenerit, Thomas Talbot vicecomes Lisle salutem in 
 Domino, sciatis me prefatum vicecomitem Lisle in fidelitate 
 dilecti mihi Mauricii Kinge plene confidentem, pro bono et 
 gratuitu servicio suo mihi et heredibus meis impendendo, 
 concessisse eidem Mauricio officium custodis parci mei de 
 Wotton subtus Egge in comitatu Gloucestrie ac ferarum 
 ibidem existentium et ipsum custodem eorundem ordino et 
 per presentes constituo. Habendum et occupandum et 
 exercendum officium predictum pro termino vite sue, capi- 
 
XXVI. Introduction. 
 
 endum pro officio predicto exercendo annuatim feoda et 
 vadia eidem officio de antiquo debita et consueta, Acetiam 
 sciatis me prefatum vicecomitem concessisse eidem Mauricio 
 Kinge quendam annualem redditum quinque marcarum exe- 
 untem de et in omnibus terris et tenementis meis in Wotton 
 sub Egge in Comitatu Gloucestrie, Habendum et percipien- 
 dum redditum predictum annuatim prefato Mauricio ad 
 terminum vite sue ; In cujus rei testimonium presentibus 
 sigillum meum apposui, datum 26*° die Januarii Anno regni 
 Regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum Anglie, nono. 
 
 [This Robert Vele at this time was owner of Tortworth, 
 Charfield and Huntingford, which last hee held of the 
 viscount's said manor of Wotton by Knight's service, whose 
 well contriving of this plott soe highly pleased the said 
 viscount, That by his other deed under his scale of Armes 
 of the same date, he gave to William Vele his second 
 brother (or rather to him the said Robert in his brother's 
 name) the office of Stewardship of his manor of Wotton, 
 and the office of Keepership of his chace of Michaelwood, 
 with the yearly fee of 13^^ 6^ 8'^ for exercise thereof, to bee 
 issuinge out of his manor of Wotton, payable at the feasts 
 of Ester and of St. Michaell by equal portions : which 
 manor and chase are adjoyning to the other lands of the 
 said Robert's]. 
 
 [This plot thus contrived and brought to ripenes was 
 soon after revealed to this Lord William, And as I take it, 
 by Maurice Kinge himselfe, whereby in all probability the 
 ruin of the person of this lord Wm. was prevented ; And 
 how deeply the blowe had also pearced into the posterity 
 of this family, I take no comfort to consider.] 
 
 [The Viscount Lisle understanding by the flight of Holt 
 and his repair to him how the plot was discovered, And the 
 former writings under the scales of Armes of himself and 
 Robert Vele come to the possession of his enemy the lord 
 
Introduction. xxvii. 
 
 William, hee then begins to unmaske himselfe, and openly 
 to act his ill cogitations, whereby may bee read the former 
 purposes of himself and his Counsell, And let the frute of 
 the letter of challenge which from Wotton hee writes to 
 this lord William tell us the nature of the tree : Thus]. 
 
 William, called lord Berkeley, I marveill ye come not 
 forth with all your carts of gunnes, bowes, with oder ordin- 
 ance, that ye set forward to come to my manor of Wotton 
 to bete it down upon my head : I let you wit, ye shall not 
 nede to come soe nye ; for I trust to God to mete you nere 
 home with English men of my one nation and neighbors, 
 whereas ye by suttle craft have blowin about in divers 
 places of England, That I should intend to bring in 
 Welshmen for to destroy and hurt my one nation and 
 Cuntry ; I lete the wit, I was never soe disposed nere never 
 will be ; and to the proof hereof I require thee of knight- 
 hood and of manhood to appoynt a day to meet me halfway, 
 there to try between God and our two hands all our quarrel 
 and title of right, for to eschew the shedding of Christian 
 menns bloud, or els at the same day bringe the uttermost 
 of thy power, and I shall mete thee ; An answere of this by 
 writingc, as ye will abide by, according to the honor and 
 order of Knighthood. 
 
 Thomas Talbot the Viscount Lisle. 
 
 [This letter was sent the nineteenth day of March in 
 the tenth year of King Edward the fourth Anno 1469 about 
 seaven weeks after the former plot was contrived. The said 
 Viscount then somewhat under the age of twenty-two yeares 
 having sued his livery but the 14th of July before whose 
 lands then valued 1873 marks twelve shillings and three 
 pence in old rent]. 
 
 [This lord William receiving this letter at Berkeley 
 Castle, the same day returneth this answer]. 
 
xxviii. Introduction. 
 
 I marveill greatly of thy strange and lewd writing, made 
 I suppose by thy false untrue Counsell that thou hast with 
 the Hugh Mull, and Holt : As for Hugh Mull it is not 
 unknown to all the worshipfull men of this Relme, how hee 
 is attaynt of falsenes and rasinge of the Kings records ; 
 And as for the false mischevous Holt, what his rule hath 
 be to the destruction of the King's lege pepull in my lord- 
 ship of Berkeley, as well to the hurt of their bodyes, as the 
 losse of their goods against Goddys lawe, consciens and all 
 reason it is openly known, Soe that every worshipfull man 
 should refuse to have them in his fellowship : and also of 
 his own free will undesired of mec, before worshipfull and 
 sufficient witnes, was sworn on a masse booke, that hee 
 never should bee against mee in noe matter that I had a 
 doe, and espetially in that untrue title that ye clayme, 
 which ye hold my lyvelode with wronge, and where thou 
 requirest mee of knighthood That I should appoynt a day 
 and mete thee in the myd way between my manor of 
 Wotton and my Castle of Berkeley, there to try betwyxt 
 God and our two hands all our quarrell and title of right, 
 for to eschewe the schedding of Christen mens bloud, or 
 els the same day to bring the uttermost of my power, and 
 thou would mete me. As for the determining betwixt our 
 two hands of thy untrue clayme, and my title and right of 
 my land and inheritance thou wottest right well there is noe 
 such determinacion of land in this Relme used. And I ascer- 
 taine thee That my livelode, as well my manor of Wotton as 
 my Castle of Berkeley, beentayled to mee by fine of record 
 in the Kings Courts by the advice of all the Judges of this 
 lond in that dayes being ; And if it were soe that this 
 matter might bee determined by thy hands and myne, the 
 King our Soveraigne lord and his laws not offended, thou 
 shouldst not so long desire but I would assone answere 
 thee in every poynt that belongeth to a Knight : for thou 
 
Introduction. xxix. 
 
 art, God I take to record, in a false quarrell, and I in a true 
 defence and title, And where thou desirest and requirest 
 mee of knighthood and of manhood to appoynt a day. And 
 that I should bee there with all the power that I could 
 make, and that thou would mete mee half way, I will thou 
 understand I will not bring the tenth part that I can make. 
 And I will appoint a short day to ease thy malitious 
 hart and thy false Counsell that is with thee : faile not to 
 morrow to be at Niblyes green at eight or nine of the clock. 
 And I will not faile with Gods might and grace to meete 
 thee at the same place, the which standeth in the borders 
 of the livelode that thou keepest untruly from mee, redy to 
 answere thee in all things. That I trust to God it shall be 
 shewed on thee and thine to thy great shame and dis- 
 worshipp, And remember, thy self and thy false Counsell 
 have refused to abide the rule of the grete lordis of this 
 lond, which by my will should have determyned this matter 
 by thy evidences and mine, And therefore I vouch God to 
 record and all the company of heaven, that this fact and 
 the scheddinge of Christen mens bloud which shall be 
 atwixt us two and our fellowshipps, if any hap to bee, doth 
 grow of thy quaryll, and not of mee, but in my defence, and 
 in eschewing of reproche, and onely through thy malitious 
 and mischevouse purpose and of thy false Counsell, and of 
 thy own sirtiple discretion ; And keepe thy day, And the 
 trouth shall be shewed by the marcy of God. 
 
 William lord of Berkeley. 
 Lord Berkeley at once collected his forces, and having 
 reinforced his own followers by a contingent from Thorn- 
 bury under his brother Maurice (who was also his heir) and 
 by a band of miners from the Forest of Dean as well as by, 
 as it is said,^ a company of citizens from Bristol under two 
 
 ^ A curious slander suit brought by Mead and Shipvvard resulted from this 
 rep'^rt, which th-^y declared to be lalse. The judgment of the Mayor of Bristol, 
 apparently the faiher of ihe complainant bhipward, and a jury found that there 
 was no ground for the slander. \cf, Sel. ch. 625] 
 
XXX. Introduction. 
 
 merchants, Philip Mead (whose daughter Maurice Berkeley 
 had married) and John Shipward, he appeared with his 
 army, about a thousand strong, at Nibley Green at sunrise 
 of the next day. Lord Lisle's smaller army was presently 
 seen approaching the Green down the hill from Nibley 
 church. The only account of the battle extant, is that by 
 Smyth, "who heard it from persons whose parents were 
 living at the time ! " : 
 
 He relates that " the place of stand was at Fowleshard, 
 whence the lord William sent upon the lord Lisle the 
 first shower of his arrowes : one black Will (soe called) 
 should shoot the lord Lisle, as his beaver was up, And 
 that Thomas Longe father of the said William was servant 
 to one of them who helped to carry the Lord Lisle when he 
 was slain." The latter's fall completed the rout of his party, 
 and the victorious Lord Berkeley pushed on to Wotton 
 Manor House where Lady Lisle then was, rifled her house 
 " And thence (amongst other pillages) brought away to 
 Berkeley Castle many of the deeds and evidences of the 
 said viscount's own undoubted lands, many of which remaine 
 there to this day." 
 
 Lady Lisle brought an action against Lord Berkeley 
 for the loss of her husband, and after many delays it was 
 settled that Lord Berkeley should have all the manors in 
 dispute, and should pay Lady Lisle an annuity of ^loo in 
 settlement of her personal claim. Soon afterwards she 
 married Henry Bodrugan, a Cornish gentleman, and several 
 of their joint receipts for the quarterly instalments of the 
 annuity may be seen at Berkeley \cf. Sel. Ch. 629]. 
 
 Thus ended for a time this great family quarrel, the 
 continuation of whicli may be found in the pages of Smyth 
 and the Paper of Mr. Cooke's before alluded to. The latter 
 
Introduction. xxxi. 
 
 years of Lord William s life were spent in quarrels with his 
 heir, and in the attempt, by successive grants to the crown, 
 to alienate from him and those who should come after him 
 the greater part of the possessions which he had been at 
 such great pains to secure. This too he did for the sake 
 of obtaining from the crown a few empty titles and honours, 
 " which, as the family chronicler quaintly remarks, are but 
 men's breath, a blast of air and wind, If popular titles, the 
 wind of a vulger pair of bellows. If of a higher strain, the 
 wind of a guilt pair of bellows, soe all but wind." The 
 reversion of a moiety of the Duke of Norfolk's estate, which 
 came to him through his mother, he assigned to the King's 
 (Edw.IV.) second son the young Duke of York, for which the 
 King created him a Viscount. On the 5th March, 1483, the 
 same King made him a Privy Councillor [(/iSel.Ch. 639]. On 
 the 28th June, that is two days after his accession, Richard 
 III. created him Earl of Nottingham \cf. Sel. Ch. 640], in re- 
 turn for which in 1485 Lord William granted to the King 35 
 manors, part of his Norfolk inheritance. On the 26th Oct. 
 1485, Henry VII. created him Earl Marshal, and finally on 
 28th Jan. 1489, the same King created him Marquis of 
 Berkeley. For this last distinction he entailed Berkeley 
 Castle and the whole remaining family estates upon the 
 King, reserving only a life interest to himself He died in 
 1491 covered indeed with honours, if not with honour, 
 having by a stroke of the pen accomplished what all the 
 machinations of powerful enemies during many years had 
 failed to do. The King took possession of the whole and 
 spent 10 days at Berkeley in that year with his Queen, 
 Elizabeth of York. The Crown held the Berkeley estates 
 till the death of Edward VI. without male heir, when they 
 reverted to Henry Lord Berkeley, a minor. The warrant of 
 King Philip and Queen Mary granting this lord special 
 livery of the estates mentions that it is granted in consider- 
 
XXXII. Introduction. 
 
 ation of the " good and worthie service of his Auncestors 
 heretofore done unto our moost noble progenitors " as well 
 of " some good experience of his [Lord Henry's] towardnes 
 therein specyally in the late rebelleon attempted agaynst 
 us by Thomas Wyat and other his complices." 
 
 There are six papal deeds in the collection. They include 
 a grant of forty days' indulgence to all who shall make 
 benefactions to the chapel within Berkeley Castle (Sel. 
 Ch. 538) ; and licenses to Thomas, loth Lord Berkeley, to 
 have a portable altar, and to choose a " fit and discreet 
 priest " as a confessor. But the deed which has most interest 
 is a charter of Cardinal Pole, Papal Legate, dated in the 
 third year of Queen Mary, granting to Henry, 17th Lord 
 Berkeley, absolution from all dangers of excommunication 
 which he had incurred during the late schism, with licence 
 to use his chapel in his manor of Callowden, near Coventry, 
 and to say mass, etc., there as his ancestor had done before 
 the schism, etc. The deed is given in full on p. 216 of this 
 catalogue. 
 
 Other interesting subjects referred to in the charters are : 
 coal and coal-mines (745, 770, 771); the illegal exportation 
 of corn by " covetous gready and evell disposed farmers and 
 others Ingrossers and Badgers " (759) ; the capture and 
 punishment of pirates (761-764, 779, 781) ; measures for the 
 improvement of the breed of horses (765, ^66) ; tin- 
 mines (773) ; boring for Fuller's earth and tobacco-pipe 
 clay (872) ; the adulteration of soap, vinegar, butter, etc., 
 with tallowe or other corrupt thinges " (872) ; instructions 
 for conduct of seamen as to the use of bad language and 
 the like, issued to masters of vessels on active service against 
 the Spaniards in temp. Elizabeth (798), etc. 
 
 Many of the later deeds have reference to the various 
 offices held by the Lords Hunsdon, Henry and George 
 Carey, and notably, the captaincy of the Isle of Wight. 
 
Introduction. xxxin. 
 
 2.T/i£ Rolls. The first thirty-three rolls contain abstracts 
 of Berkeley Charters, and the reason of their existence maybe 
 attributed to the following circumstances : On a former page 
 it has been pointed out that when Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 
 died in 141 7, his daughter and son-in-law, the Earl of War- 
 wick, taking advantage of the accidental absence of the lord's 
 nephew and heir James, proceeded " to possesse themselves 
 of all the evidences of the said Lord Thomas, wheredf 
 forthwith they caused abstracts in many longe rolls of paper 
 of each manor to be made of all such deeds as they tooke 
 not away," most of which rolls, adds Smyth, are in the said 
 castle. But when the Lord James regained possession of 
 Berkeley, the rolls were carried off to Wotton Manor House, 
 where they remained till they were recovered after the battle 
 of Nibley. It will be remembered that the victorious Lord 
 William, on the death of Lord Lisle, hastened on to Wotton 
 and " forthwith enforced and plundered the said manor 
 house," and one of the rolls (No. 13) bears an endorsement 
 to this effect, while the' hand-writing of most of them 
 goes to prove that they were written about this period. 
 
 Those of the Accompt-Rolls included in the Select 
 Series have been chosen from a great number of others 
 which will be found in the General Series, all of which 
 would, I think, repay a closer examination. Nos. 39-46 are 
 dated in 1327, and were chosen because they contain refer- 
 ences to the imprisonment of Edward II. That monarch 
 was removed from Ken il worth in custody of Thomas de 
 Gournay and John Maltravers on the 3rd of April, 1327, 
 arriving at Berkeley a few days after, which he never again 
 left, being murdered on the 22nd Sept. 1327. Before leaving 
 Kenilworth he had formerly renounced the Royal dignity, 
 and wherever in these documents he is mentioned, it is as 
 the " King's father " and not as " the King." Most, if not 
 
XXXIV. Introduction. 
 
 all, of the Berkeley manors vvere laid under contribution for 
 supply of poultry, eggs, and the like, to the castle kitchen 
 and larder, for support of the imprisoned King. 
 
 The first of the set, No. 39, gives, in detail, the expenses 
 of the Steward of Berkeley from ist January to 29th 
 September, 1327, and amongst the items is a payment to 
 . . . de Gourne going to Nottingham with letters notifying 
 to the King and Queen, Edward III., and his mother Qu. 
 Isabella, the news of the death of " the King's father." The 
 roll has unfortunately suffered damage from damp, and it 
 is impossible to say what, if any, relation the messenger 
 was to Thomas de Gournay, one of the King's murderers. 
 
 In Roll 41, an accompt-roll of the Steward of Alkinton 
 Manor, there are references to Qu. Isabella's progress to 
 Bristol and Gloucester, the fortification of Berkeley Castle 
 *' against the arrival of the Queen," etc., besides a curious 
 item of " an oblation of a calf to God and to St. Anthony 
 for the safety of the calves and the other beasts." 
 
 Amongst the expenses of the Bailiff of Hurst and Slim- 
 bridge Manor (Nos. 45, 46) is included the cost of repairing 
 the chapel door of Slimbridge, " broken by the men of the 
 Earl of Lancaster on the Queen's journey to Bristol." 
 
 In Roll 54 (dated 1607) we gain interesting particulars 
 of the care bestowed upon the deer and hounds, the repair 
 of the sea-wall, and fishponds, the provision of malt " for 
 the Lord's Household in Buckhuntingetyme," mending of 
 the sluices, the " dressing and barrelling of a great Sturgeon 
 in Wyne, Perry and Vinegar," and of the great inundation 
 of the R. Severn, "the like not beinge before hard of." 
 
 Roll 60 contains the expenses of the Lord Thomas at 
 various jousts at Coventry and elsewhere, including " gifts 
 
Introduction. xxxv. 
 
 to the players," and in this and several other of the Rolls 
 will be found particulars of the cost of travelling, entertain- 
 ment of visitors and similar interestingr matters. 
 
 But perhaps the most valuable Roll in the collection is 
 that known as Abbot Newland's Roll (Nos. 97-102). It 
 was written by John Newland, Abbot of St. Augustine's 
 from 148 1 to 15 15, and contains the history of the family 
 from Harding. It was not, however, an original compo- 
 sition ; for, as he says in his preface, he compiled and 
 translated it "out of Latyn into Englishe." In a paper 
 which I had the honour to submit to the Bristol and Glouc- 
 estershire Archaeological Society in 1890, I was obliged 
 to say that the original Latin Roll could not then be found 
 in the Berkeley Evidence Room, but expressed a hope that 
 before my work was finished it might come to light. 
 That hope has been realised ; and in Roll 102 we have the 
 only remaining portion of this valuable record, — valuable, 
 not only for its contents, but for the fact that it was the 
 original production, if not in the very handwriting, of John 
 Trevisa, the translator of Higden's Polychronicon and 
 other works, who was, as is well known, late in the 14th 
 centur>'. Vicar of Berkeley, and Chaplain to Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley. 
 
 3. Tlie Books. A few words will suffice to call attention 
 to the Books. The most important is No. i, the Chartulary 
 of St. Augustine's Abbey, known as the Red Book. It was 
 compiled at the end of the 13th century, but, like other 
 manuscripts of its kind, has several additions in later 
 handwritings. It contains 221 folios, the Chartulary proper 
 beginning on f. 17, and is divided into two sections, the 
 former which contains the Royal and other personal grants, 
 ending on f. 44 ; and the latter containing the rest of the 
 deeds arranged under places beginning with Berkeley. 
 Bristol is treated on ff. 45 b, 168 et seqq,, 211, etc. 
 
XXXVI. Introduction. 
 
 .- Then follow John Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, 
 and Description of the Hundred of Berkeley, which were 
 written in about 1618, and have been so often quoted above. 
 The former gives in elaborate detail a biographical account 
 of each Lord of Berkeley from Robert Fitzharding to 
 Henry, Lord Berkeley {pb. 1613) ; while the latter, for its 
 minute description of every parish and place in the Hun- 
 dred, is of an importance to any future historian of the 
 county scarcely to be exaggerated. Smyth was born in 
 1567, became Steward of the Berkeley Household in 1596, 
 Steward of the Hundred of Berkeley in the following year, 
 and died in 1641. These volumes were most efficiently 
 edited by Sir John Maclean in 1883-1885. 
 
 The only other books which call for special notice are 
 the letter-books of Charles, 2nd Earl of Berkeley. He 
 filled several important offices during the reign of William 
 and Mary, and, in particular, that of Lord Justice of 
 Ireland, to which he was appointed on 22nd August, 1699. 
 Sel. Books 35 A — K (10 folio volumes) contain copies of the 
 correspondence, warrants, reports, and other papers relating 
 to the duties of his office, from 1699 to 1701. 
 
 This Earl had previously, as Viscount Dursley, filled 
 the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to 
 the States of Holland, and Books 36 A, B, contain copies of 
 his correspondence during his residence at the Hague in 
 that capacity from 1689 to 1692, with Lord Nottingham, 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 4. TJie Letters. These are now bound in two volumes, 
 and are so fully described in their proper place as to need 
 no further comment here. 
 
 It only remains for me to make my very grateful 
 acknowledgments for assistance given in various ways 
 
Introduction. xxxvii. 
 
 during the progress of my work : first, to Lord and Lady 
 Fitzhardinge, who, from the moment of my introduction to 
 them in 1889 to the present, have shown me the utmost 
 kindness and consideration, not only in giving me a free 
 hand in the arrangement and scope of the work, and in 
 so readily acquiescing in the suggestion that the catalogue 
 should be printed, but also for the many hospitalities shown 
 to me during my frequent visits to the Castle. My thanks 
 are also due to Mr. E. Peacock for his readiness in helping 
 me to take up the broken threads of his preliminary work 
 and for advice on several points of difficulty, as well as 
 to Sir John Maclean, K.B., of Clifton, Bristol, for valuable 
 suggestions as to the publication of this book. I should 
 be ungrateful if I did not express my appreciation of the 
 many acts of goodwill shown to me by the Hon. Elton 
 Gifford, his lordship's nephew, and by Mr. James Peter, 
 his lordship's Steward, and lastly I would place on record 
 my high estimation of the services of Mr. Herbert Cooke 
 (nephew to that Mr. J. H. Cooke, F.S. A., sometime Steward 
 of Berkeley, of whose many compositions on the Berkeleys 
 I have been glad to make such free use), who has 
 throughout the work proved himself a most efficient, 
 painstaking, and intelligent assistant. 
 
 I. H. JEAYES. 
 
 British Museum, 
 
 August 20thy 1892. 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 OP 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Riglit jion. Lford pitzfiardinge, 
 PRESERVED AT BERKELEY CASTLE. 
 
 By ISAAC HERBERT JEAYES. 
 
Select Charters, 
 
 ROLLS, STATE LETTERS, Etc., 
 
 PRESERVED AT 
 
 BERKELEY CASTLE. 
 
 1, Grant from Henry, Duke of Normandy, Count 
 of Anjou, to Rodbert Fitzharding, of the Manor of Bitton 
 [co. Glouc] and a hundred librates of land in the Manor 
 of Berkeley, with all liberties and customs, with Tol, Them, 
 Soch and Sache, Belle ' and Burhgiet^ and Infanckenethef, 
 to hold by service of two mewed ^ hawks, with an under- 
 taking to build a castle at Berkeley according to the 
 taste of the said Rodbert. Dated at Bristol* [1153.] Lat. 
 With fragments of seal of white wax, in lawn bag. 
 
 H[enricus] Dux, Normannorum et Comes Andegavorum 
 omnibus archiepiscopis, episcopis, Abbatibus, Consulibus, 
 Baronibus amicis fidelibus francis et Anglicis, salutem. 
 Sciatis me dedisse Rodberto filio Hard[ingi] et heredibus 
 
 ' Right to have a common bell to summon the burgesses. 
 ^Perhaps the right of having a town gate for defence, etc. (cf. Burh-gate- 
 seat, a seat at the town gate, Stubbs' Select Charters, glossary.) 
 
 ^ Mutati aucipitres. Hawks which had been mewed or confined for moulting 
 operations, hence, hawks which had finished their moulting and were in good 
 condition, cf. Du Cange. 
 
 * Henry landed in England from Normandy on 6th Jan., 1 153, and is known 
 to have visited Bristol before June. (Ey ton's Notes in Biit. Mus., Add. MS. 
 31937, f. 23, etc.) It is probable that this charter was granted on that visit, 
 Ji 
 
Berkeley Castle 
 
 suis manerium Betthone cum omnibus Appendiciis suis,et 
 insuper centum Hbratas terre in manerio de Berkelai, 
 ita libere et quiete in bosco et piano et pascuis et pratis 
 et aquis et viis et terris arabilibus cum omnibus liber- 
 tatibus et consuetudinibus cum Tol et Them et Soch et 
 Sache et Belle et Burhgiet et Infanckenethef et omnibus 
 quietanciis que ibi fuerunt in tempore Henrici Regis avi 
 mei in feudo et hereditate, Illi et heredibus suis ad ten- 
 endum de me et de heredibus meis per servitium duorum 
 mutatorum aucipitrum singulis annis mihi et meis hered- 
 ibus reddendorum, et pepigi ei firmare ibi castellum 
 secundum voluntatem ipsius Rodberti. Et praeter hec 
 supradicta dona Rodbertus filius Hardingi devenit meus 
 homo et Ego per fidem meam afifidavi ei pactiones supra- 
 dictas tenere illi atque heredibus suis. Et hoc idem 
 affidavit Raginaldus Comes Cornubie, et Rodbertus de 
 Dunstanvilla, et Ricardus de Humez constabularius, et 
 Maneser Biseth dapifer et Guarinus filius Geroldi Camer- 
 arius, et Willelmus filius Hamonis, et Philippus de 
 Columbers, qui hujus pactionis testes existunt, et preter 
 istos testes sunt inde Abbas sancti Augustini de Bristou, 
 et frater Adam canonicus ejus et Henricus filius Rodberti, 
 et Willelmus cumin et Jordanus frater Rodberti et Jor- 
 danus et David nepotes ejus et Richard de Hanum. 
 Apud Bristou. 
 
 2, Grant from Henry, Duke of Normandy and Aqui- 
 taine and Count of Anjou, to Rodbert Fitzharding, of 
 Berkeley Manor, and all Berkeley Herness/ with all appur- 
 tenances as fully and completely as it was in the time of 
 King Henry, his grandfather ; to hold in fee by service of 
 one knight, or if Rodbert or his heirs desire it, they may 
 pay one hundred shillings yearly instead of the knight's 
 
 ' Herness, i.e. district (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1088), or Nooks and 
 Corners (Smyth's Berkeley MSS., Ed. by Sir John Maclean, 1883-8, p. 24.) 
 
Select Charters. 
 
 service. In addition, Henry grants a free market on any- 
 day in the week they may prefer, and a mint ^ with their 
 own minter. [nSS]^ Lat. With fragments of seal of red 
 wax in lawn bag. 
 
 Henricus Dei gratia Dux Normannorum et Aquitanorum et 
 Comes Andegavorum omnibus Archiepiscopis,Episcopis, 
 Abbatibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Baronibus, Justic- 
 iariis et amicis fidelibus franciset Anglicis salutem. Scia- 
 tis me dedisse et concessisse Rodberto filio Hardingi et 
 heredibus suis Berkelai et totam Berkelaihernesse mane- 
 rium cum omnibus Appendiciis suis plene et integre sicut 
 erat in tempore Henrici Regis avi mei tenendum in 
 feudo et hereditate sibi et heredibus suis, de me et 
 heredibus meis per servitium unius militis, vel si Rod- 
 bertus aut heredes sui melius voluerint, centum solidos 
 reddant pro servitio militis per annum. Quare volo et 
 precipio ut ipse Rodbertus et heredes sui predictum man- 
 erium et omnia pertinentia sua in ecclesiis, in nemoribus, 
 in planis, in pascuis, in terris, in aquis, in viis, in semitis, 
 et in placitis et in omnibus rebus et eventibus teneant et 
 in perpetuum habeant libere, quiete et honorifice cum 
 Tol et Tem et Soch et Sacke et Infanckenethef et cum 
 omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus suis, et 
 quietantiis que ibi fuerunt in tempore Henrici Regis avi 
 mei. Et preterea dedi et concessi eis habere in predicto 
 manerio liberum marcheium cum omnibus libertatibus 
 que ad marcheium pertinent quacunque die septimane 
 
 1 cf. Will, de Neuburgh, Rolls Ed. i. p. 69, '* Castella quippe per singulas 
 provincias studio paitium crebra surrexcrant, erantque in Anglia quodammodo 
 tot reges vel potius tyranni, quot domini castellorum habentes singuli percussuram 
 proprii numismatis et potestatem subditis, regio more, dicendi juris"; also 
 Roger de Hoveden, Rolls Ed. i. p. 211. Fecit [Henricus] monetani novam 
 quam vocabant monetam Ducis, et non tantum ipse, sed omnes potentes 
 tarn episcopi quam comites et barones suam faciebant monetam, sed ex quo 
 dux ille venit, plurimorum monetam cassavit." 
 
 ^ This and the two following deeds were probably granted at a later visit 
 which Henry made to Bristol in November, 1153. 
 B 2 
 
Berkeley Castle 
 
 voluerint et monetam cum proprio monetario suo, et 
 quando feci hanc donationem predicto Rodberto ipse 
 dedit mihi quingentas marcas argenti de recognitione. 
 Testibus Abbate Sancti Augustini de Bristou et Henrico 
 Thesaurario, Willelmo Cumin, Rogero comite Here- 
 fordie, Ricardo de Humez, constabulario, Maneser 
 Biseth, dapifero, Rodberto de Saltemareis. 
 
 3. Similar Grant to Maurice, son of Rodbert 
 Fitzharding. [115 3]- With fragments of seal of red wax 
 in lawn bag. 
 
 4. Marriage Contract between Rodbert Fitzhar- 
 ding and Roger de Berckele, made in the house of the 
 said Rodbert at Bristol, in the presence of Henry, Duke 
 of Normandy, whereby it is covenanted that Maurice, son 
 of Rodbert Fitzharding, shall take in marriage the daughter 
 of Roger de Berckele, with Slimbridge [co. Glouc] as her 
 portion, and that Roger, the son and heir of Roger de 
 Berckele, shall take in marriage the daughter of the said 
 Rodbert Fitzharding, with the Manor of Siston, near 
 Bristol, for dowry. Circ. Nov., 1153. Lat. 
 
 Iste sunt pactiones que facte fuerunt inter Rodbertum filium 
 Hardingi et Rogerum de Berckel' in domo Rodberti filii 
 Hardingi apud Bristou in presentia domini Henrici 
 ducis Normannorum et Aquitanie et comitis And[egavie] 
 ejusdem assensu et in presentia multorum aliorum cleri- 
 corum et laicorum. Mauricius filius Rodberti filii 
 hardingi cepit filiam Rogeri de Berckel' in uxorem ita 
 quod Rogerus dedit Mauricio cum filia sua in matri- 
 monio Slimbrugiam que est de sua hereditate, hoc est 
 decem libratas terre, et Mauricius concessu patris 
 sui Rodberti filii Hardingi dedit filie Rogeri quam ipse 
 cepit uxorem in dotem xx libratas terre de feudo de 
 
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 Berckel' assensu domini Henrici ducis. Tali conventione 
 quod si Mauricius filius Rodberti moreretur antequam 
 cepisset filiam Rogeri uxorem : frater ejus post eum 
 primogenitus acciperet earn uxorem per supradictas 
 conventiones. Et si etiam ille alter filius Rodberti 
 moreretur ante sponsalia filie Rogeri : quisquis de filiis 
 Rodberti post ilium heres remaneret filiam Rogeri ux- 
 orem acciperet. Similiter si filia Rogeri antequam 
 desponsaretur Mauricio filio Rodberti moreretur, secunda 
 post ipsam Mauricio daretur in uxorem vel cuilibet 
 fratrum suorum qui heres remaneret post Mauricium. 
 Ita et de ceteris filiabus Rogeri si primogenite more- 
 rentur ilia que remaneret post ipsas daretur illi de filiis 
 Rodberti filii Hardingi qui heres ejus remaneret, sicut 
 superius prelocutum est. Preterea filius Rogeri de berckel' 
 qui heres ejus est debet accipere uxorem unam de filiabus 
 Rodberti filii hardingi et Rogerus de Berckelai debet 
 illi filie Rodberti dare in dotem manerium Sistoneprope 
 Bristou quod manerium est de hereditate Rogeri. Et 
 Rodbertus filius Hardingi debet dare in matrimonium 
 cum filia sua filio Rogeri x libratas et x solidatas 
 terre apud Derselegam eo pacto quod si una de filiabus 
 Rodberti filii hardingi moreretur antequam filius 
 Rogeri earn acciperet uxorem : altera filia Rodberti dare- 
 tur illi. Et si utraque filia Rodberti ante sponsalia 
 moreretur : filius Rogeri qui heres ejus esset acciperet 
 uxorem filiam hugonis de Hasele neptim Rodberti filii 
 hardingi. Similiter si primogenitus Rogeri de berckel' 
 moreretur ante supradicta sponsalia ille, de fratribus suis 
 qui remaneret post ipsum primogenitus et heres acciperet 
 uxorem unam de filiabus Rodberti filii Hardingi que 
 domi sunt vel si utraque ante sponsalia moreretur, filiam 
 Hugonis de Hasele per supradictas pactiones. Has 
 pactiones affidaverunt Rodbertus filius Hardingi et 
 
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 Rogerus de Berckelai tenere et servare sine fallacia et 
 dolo et posuerunt Dominum Henricum ducem obsidem 
 et justiciar! inter se de servandis his pactionibus. Hoc 
 etiam affidaverunt viii probi viri ex parte Rodberti, et 
 alii viii ex parte Rogeri quorum nomina hec sunt. Ex 
 parte Rogeri, Willelmus ^ filius Henrici, Rogerus de 
 Sckai, Radulphus de Huelega, Walkelinus, Engebaldus 
 de Gosintunia, Guido de Rupe, Gwaiferus de Planca, 
 Hugo de Planca frater ejus. De parte Rodberti, Hugo 
 de Hasela, Nigellus filius Arthuri, Rodbertus de Salte- 
 mareis, Helyas frater Rodberti filii Hardingi, Jordanus 
 frater ejus, Jordanus le Warre, Nicholaus filius Rodberti, 
 David Duncepucke. Et isti viri Rodbertum et Rogerum 
 in his pactionibus servandis totis juribus tenebunt. Quod 
 si Rodbertus et Rogerus de his pactionibus vellent 
 exire, isti cogent eos pactiones tenere quantum poterint. 
 Et si ipsi adquiescere noluerint, isti viri de servicio et 
 amore eorum recedent. Et propter has supradictas 
 pactiones Rogerus de Berkele clamavit quietum totum 
 ckalangium suum et quicquid juris habebat in firma de 
 Berkelai. 
 
 5. Confirmation by Henry, Duke of Normandy, 
 to Robert Fitzharding, of the grant made to the same 
 by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the Duke's uncle, of the 
 land of Bedminster [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Manasser 
 Bis[et], Steward ; Henry de Oilleio, Henry Hos[atus], 
 Hugh de Piris, Pagan Carbonell. Dat. Berkeley [1153]. 
 LaU 
 
 6. Confirmation by King Henry II. of his 
 grant [No. 2] of Berkeley, etc., to Robert Fitzharding. 
 Witnesses : Richard, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol ; 
 Reginald, Earl of Cornwall ; Roger, Earl of Hereford; 
 
 ^ William, iufant son of Duke Henry, born 1 152 ; died 1156. 
 
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 Richard de Humez, Constable ; Manaser Biseth, Steward ; 
 William, son of Hamund ; Guarin, son of Ceroid ; Rodbert 
 de Saltemareis, [1154.] Lat. 
 
 7. Confirmation by King Henry II. of his grant 
 [No. 3] to Maurice, son of Robert Fitzharding. Same 
 witnesses as in No. 6. [ii54'] Lat. 
 
 8; Grant by Henry II. to Robert, son of Robert 
 Fitzharding, of the whole vill of Malmesbury, [co. Wilts], 
 with the castle, lands, and hundred belonging to the said 
 vill, at an annual rent of thirteen pounds and ten shillings : 
 for which grant Robert gave the King a hundred marks 
 and became his man. Witnesses : Thomas, the Chancellor 
 [Thomas a Becket] ; William, brother of Reginald; Richard 
 de Hummaz ; Manasser Biset, Steward ; Walter de Dun- 
 stanvill ; Peter de Beucamp ; Robert de Wattevil. Dat. 
 Woodstock. [11 58?] Lat. 
 
 0. Grant by William de Braiosa to Robert Fitz- 
 harding, of Brai [Bray, near S. Molton, co. Devon], with 
 appurtenances, (except the land which Furlan[g] held) by 
 service of the fourth part of a knight's fee. Witnesses : 
 Hugh de Hesla ; William de Mompinchun ; Hamo de 
 Merlai ; Alan, son of Buci ; Pagan, the Clerk ; Durand 
 de . . . ai : and on the part of Robert, Maurice, his son ; 
 Oto, son of William ; Alan de Furnellis; Adam de Salt- 
 emareis ; Nigel, son of Arthur ; Osbert Martre ; Walter, 
 son of Albert. Circ. 1 1 50— 11 60. L at. 
 
 10. Confirmation by William de Braiuse to Maurice, 
 son of Robert [Fitzharding], of the land which he gave 
 to Robert, father of Maurice, namely, Brai [co. Devon] 
 with all appurtenances, to be held by service of the fourth 
 part of a knight's fee, except the land which Forlang held. 
 
Berkeley Castle 
 
 For this land the said William has received the said 
 Maurice's homage, and when the latter thereby became 
 his man, he gave him [William], in acknowledgment, a 
 gold ring with a sapphire. Witnesses : Philip de Braiose ; 
 Walter de Braiose ; Philip frater suus ; William de Fol- 
 cellis ; Helyas, son of Bern[ard] ; Herbert, Camerarius : 
 and on the part of Maurice [son of Robert], Walter de 
 Cliftone ; Magister Maurice ; Osbert le Mart[re] ; William 
 Stut; Osbert Gule. Circ. 1150 — 1160. Lat. With frag- 
 ment of seal. 
 
 11. Notification by Robert Fitzharding to his 
 sons, his friends and all his men of Berkeley Herness, of 
 his grant to his brother Helyas of that hide of land of 
 Combe [nearWotton-under-Edge] which he purchased from 
 " Mahihele fil. Ansgeri de Combe," to hold by the fifth part 
 of a knight's fee. Witnesses : Domina Eva [wife of Robert 
 Fitzharding] ; Maurice, Nicholas and Robert, his sons ; 
 Alan de Furnellis ; Otho, son of William ; Adam de Salt- 
 emareis ; Nigel, son of Arthur •; Roger de Stintescombe ; 
 Harding de Stintescombe ; William, son of Bernard ; 
 Richard, son of Harding de Couele ; Ralph de Draicote ; 
 Symon, son of Richard de Couele; Roger de Scay; Henry 
 de Saltemareis, and Robert de Hanum. Circ. 1 1 50- 11 60. Lat. 
 
 12. Confirmation by Humphrey de Bohun,^ 
 the King's Steward, of the grant by Richard Foliot to 
 Robert Fitzharding, in Acton [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Mar- 
 garet de Buhun^ ; Humphrey de Sancto [Vigore] ; William 
 de Buhun ; Robert Fronte ; Walter Hosatus ; Richard de 
 Buhun ; William, son of Geoffrey ; Richard, Abbot of 
 Bristol ; Otho, son of William ; Nicholas, son of Rotbert ; 
 Rotbert, his brother ; Adam de Saltemareis ; Osbert 
 Martra. Circ. 1150-1160, Lat. Much defaced. 
 
 1 Husband of Aldena, daughter of Robert Fitzharding. 
 
 2 Ob. 1 162-3, 3 Daughter of Milo of Gloucester. 
 
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 13. Acquittance from Robert Fitzharding and 
 Maurice his son to R[ichard] de Moreville, on account of 
 relief of the moiety of Portbury Manor, which they hold 
 from him. Circ. 11^0-1160. Lat. 
 
 14. Confirmation by Robert Fitzharding, for the 
 health of his soul, etc., to the Church of St. Augustine, 
 Bristol,and the Canons there ; of the Churches of Berkeley 
 Herness, viz., Berkeley, Wotton [Wotton-under-Edge], 
 Beverstone, Ashelworth, and Almondsbury, all in co. Glou- 
 cester, with their chapels, lands, and liberties. [1154.] Lat. 
 
 Robertas filius Hardingi omnibus hominibus et amicis suis 
 et universis sancte ecclesie fidelibus ad quos hoec carta 
 pervenerit salutem. Sciatis quod, cum Dominus Rex 
 H[enricus] manerium de Berchalei et totam Berchalei- 
 hernesse mihi in feudum et hereditatem dedisse et carta 
 sua confirmasset cum omnibus libertatibus et rebus ad 
 Berchaleihernesse pertinentibus in Ecclesiis, in Nemori- 
 bus, in pratis et pasturis et in omnibus aliis rebus sicut 
 fuerunt tempore H[enrici] Regis avi sui, ego concessu 
 et assensu ipsius domini mei Regis ecclesias de Bercha- 
 leihernesse, scilicet ecclesiam de Berchalei et ecclesiam 
 de Wottun, et ecclesiam de Beuerstan, et ecclesiam de 
 Esseleswrd et ecclesiam de Almodesbure singulas cum 
 capellis et terris et libertatibus ad ipsas ecclesias pertin- 
 entibus pro salute anime mee et domini mei Regis, et 
 antecessorum meorum et uxoris mee et liberorum meo- 
 rum dedi et concessi ecclesie sancti Augustini de 
 Brist[ou] et canonicis Regularibus ibidem Deo servien- 
 tibus in perpetuam et liberam elemosinam, nullo jure 
 retento mihi vel heredibus meis in predictis ecclesiis 
 cum eas vacare contigerit. Similiter et omnes ecclesias 
 de l^erchaleihernesse ubicunque fuerint cum capellis et 
 omnibus omnium pertinenciis dedi et concessi predictis 
 
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 canonicis in perpetuam elemosinam et hac mea carta 
 confirmavi. His testibus Henrico, Decano Moreton * et 
 Mauricio fratre ejus, Gerino persona ecclesie de Wtton, 
 Gaufrido capellano, Nigello fil. Arturi, Reginaldo per- 
 sona ecclesie de Gamma, W — de Saltemar[eis] et 
 Adam fratre ejus, Helio filio Hardingi, Ricardo scrip- 
 tore, et Alano de Bedmenistra. 
 
 15. Grant from Richard Foliot to Maurice, son of 
 Robert Fitzharding, of the land of Accatone [Acton, co. 
 Glouc] the land of Hanam [Hanham in Bitton, co. Glouc] 
 and the half-hide of Hamtona [Hampton, co. Glouc] with 
 all hberties and customs, etc. Temp. Hen. II. [ajite 1173]. 
 
 Ricardus Foliot omnibus hominibus suis francis et anglicis 
 clericis et laicis tam presentibus quam futuris salutem. 
 Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse Mauricio filio Roberti 
 filio Hardingi in feodo et hereditate terram de Accatona 
 et terram de Hanam, et dimidiam hidam de Hamtona 
 sibi et heredibus suis, tenendas de me et de meis heredi- 
 bus honorifice et quiete et libere in villa et extra in foro 
 et mercato, in bosco et piano, in pratis et pascuis, in 
 stagnis et molendinis et in omnibus aliis locis, cum 
 socca et sacca et tol et them et infangethef et cum aliis 
 omnibus libertatibus et consuetudinibus omnibus. Et 
 pro ista donatione pater predicti Mauricii donavit xx 
 marchas argenti recognicione. Et tales sunt conven- 
 tiones inter eos quod Ricardus Foliot et ejus heredes 
 debent esse inter Humfridum de Buhun et inter prefatum 
 Mauricium et inter ejus heredes et per servicium quod 
 Mauricius debet ire ad colloquia et ad placita prefati 
 Ricardi si secure pergere potest, et in pace, ille vel 
 aliquis pro eo duobus vicibus anni ad Tidrington. Et 
 nominatim ut habeat suam partem ecclesie de Accatona 
 
 1 Fifth son of Robert Fitzhardinjr. 
 
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 cum omnibus pertinentibus prefate ecclesie. Testibus 
 Willielmo, comite Glocestrie, et plegiis, et Huberto 
 dapifero, Roberto de Almari, et Gregorio de Turre, 
 Helya Camberario, Roberto de Saltemaresco, Boso, 
 Jurdano filio Hardingi et Helya filio Hardingi, Davidd 
 filio Gudbmundi. 
 
 16- Grant from Hamelin, Earl of Warren,' to 
 William, son of Eddriz, of his mill of Amundefort [Mund- 
 ford, CO. Norfolk], at an annual rent of forty shillings. 
 Witnesses : Reginald de Warenna ; Ralph de Pleeiz ; 
 Richard de Reffan ; Espregin ; Fulch de Warenna ; Ralph 
 de Amundefort; Reginald, son of William; William War- 
 ennarius; Richard de Resingis; Gilbert son of Edriz; Hamo 
 Serviens ; William, Clcricus de Gaiton ; Robert Cornefold ; 
 Hugh, Capellanus, litterarum scriptor. Temp. Hen. II. 
 [posi 1 164.] Lat. 
 
 17. Confirmation by R[oger], Bishop of Worces- 
 ter, to St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, of the Churches 
 of Berkeley Herness, namely, the churches of Berkeley, 
 Wotton, Beverstone, Almondesbury, Asshelworth and 
 Cromhall. Witnesses : Matthew, Archdeacon [of Glouces- 
 ter] ; Clement, Prior of Lanthony ; Randolf Gansel ; 
 Nicholas, Decanus ; Augustine, Capellanus ; Daniel, Cap- 
 ellanus. circ. iiyo. Lat. With fragments of the episcopal 
 seal, in bag. 
 
 18. Grant from Humphrey de Buhun, King's Con- 
 stable, to Maurice, son of Robert, of the land of Foxcote, [in 
 Withington, co. Glouc.,] for his service and homage, to hold 
 by service of half a knight's fee ; and if he is unable to 
 warrant the said land to the same Maurice, he will, in the 
 place of it, give an equal portion of land in his Manor of 
 Wogasia [Oaksey, co. Wilts.] In acknowledgment of which 
 
 Half-brother to Henry II., ob. 1202. 
 
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 grant the said Maurice gave the said Humphrey a gold 
 ring, and to the Countess Margaret, his wife, an ounce of 
 gold. Witnesses : Richard, Abbot of Bristol ; William, Prior 
 of the same church ; William, son of Geoffrey ; Henry de 
 Buhun, brother of the grantor ; Robert de Vernon ; Reginald 
 de Sumerford ; Eustace, the Chamberlain ; William Brito ; 
 Eudo de Sancto Salvatore ; Ralph Pincerna, Adam, son of 
 Nigel ; Adam de Salso Marisco ; Osbert Martra ; Richard 
 de Elmed[on] ; Herbert Werra ; Maurice, the clerk ; Roger 
 de Weston ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Ralph de Scay ; Ralph 
 Francis; John Bulla ; William de Hanum. [1175-1180] Lat. 
 
 19. Grant from Robert, Earl of Leicester, to William 
 de Belegrave, of four librates of land in Whatton [co. Leic.,] 
 with his mill which the said William held in the time of the 
 said Robert's father, namely, from the hundred solidate of 
 land which were Roger de Craunfort's : to hold by service of 
 the fifth part of a knight's fee : the Earl also grants his 
 right of pannage and herbage throughout his forest for 
 twenty pigs. Witnesses : Petronella, Countess of Leicester ; 
 Paul, Abbot of Leicester; Emald de Bosco ; Ralph de Marti- 
 wast; Mag. Hugh; Ralph Friendai ; Robert de Langetona ; 
 Roger de Homa ; Gilbert de Charneles ; Hamo de Hotoft ; 
 Richard, son of Garin ; Mag. Gilbert de Belegrave ; William 
 de Autevilla ; Reginald de Hua. [1186-1190] Lat. 
 
 20. Grant by Robert, Earl of Leicester, to William 
 de Belegrave, of four librates of land in Whatton [co. Leic] 
 which belonged to Roger de Craunfort, to be held by service 
 of the fifth part of a knight's fee, with grants of pannage 
 for twenty-five pigs. Witnesses : P[etronilla], Countess of 
 Leicester ; Ernold de Bosco ; Ralph de Martiwast ; Magis- 
 ter Hugh ; Ralph Friendai ; Robert de Langeton ; Roger 
 de Hum'; Gilbert de Charnel ; Hamo de Hotoft : Richard, 
 son of Garin. Temp. Hen. H. [1168-1190]. Lat. 
 
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 21. Confirmation by Roger de Berkeley, at the 
 request of Mahel de Skenefrid, to Maurice, son of Nigel, of 
 the land which Walter, son of Alwin, held from Mahel at 
 Weneswella [Wanswell, near Berkeley], and the land of 
 Wudewellegrof, which lands are of the fee of the said Roger. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Berkeley ; Nicholas, his 
 brother ; Robert de Berkeley and Richard, his brother ; 
 Mag. Maurice ; Reginald and Thomas, Chaplains ; Adam, 
 Seneschal ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Richard de Euhulla ; 
 Elias de Salsomarisco ; Roger de Stintesc[umbe] ; Bernard 
 de Stanes ; Walter, son of Albert ; Walter de Iwele ; Bar- 
 tholomew de 01ep[enne] ; Hugh de Plancha ; Eustace de 
 Camma ; William Wenri ; William de Paris ; Ralph de 
 Stintesc[umb] ; Robert Gansel ; Robert, son of the Sen- 
 eschal ; Nicholas Punc'; Henry de Stanes ; Peter de Haia ; 
 Roger, Venator ; Richard, son of William ; Alured, Janitor. 
 Temp. Hen. H. [1170-1190] Lat. With large seal of 
 green wax, representing man with shield, etc., in combat 
 with a lion. 
 
 22. Release from Thomas de Curcun to Gilbert de 
 Sadgrave ^ of six shillings and two pence from the service, 
 which the latter's ancestors performed to his predecessors 
 and to himself in the fee of Digitheswurth [Diseworth, co. 
 Leic] namely, from the half of the annual rent of one mark 
 
 1 Gilbert de Se^rave, living in 1165, 
 Sheriff, Cos. Warw., Leicester, 4, 5, 
 6, 9 Ric. I. 
 
 Stephen de Segrave, Sheriff,=fRoese, dau. of Thomas 
 
 Co. Northt. 13- 18 Hen. III., 
 Chief Justice of England, ob. 
 1241. 
 
 Despencer. 
 
 I 1 I 
 
 Gilbert,=FAmabiIia, dau. and John. ob. 1230. Stephen. 
 
 ob. 1254 
 
 coheir of Rob. de 
 Chacumb. 
 
 I , 
 
 Nicholas, Baron Segrave, ob. 1295. 
 
14 Berkeley Castle 
 
 which they paid for five bovates of land in Sadgrave 
 [Segrave, co. Leic] ; and this release the said Thomas 
 makes in return for the said Gilbert's homage and service, 
 and for four silver marks which he gave him, and for 
 one talent of gold which he gave to Avice his wife. 
 Witnesses : Helias de Digetheswurth ; Robert de Twi- 
 ford ; Henry Putrel ; Thomas, Dispensator ; Nicholas, son 
 of Richard ; Elias, son of Geoffrey ; Thomas, son of 
 Anketill de Sadgrave; Adam, brother of William, the Abbot 
 of Leicester ; Richerus, clericus de Roele ; Stephen, his 
 brother ; John, son of Elias de Digetheswurth ; Gaufridus 
 de Thorp ; Richard, Roger and Ivo, sons of Walkelin de 
 Roele. Dat. Anno xxx"^** regni Regis Henrici secundi, filii 
 Matildis Imperatricis. [1184] Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 23. Grant by Maurice de Berkeley, with the con- 
 sent of Robert his son and heir, to William his son, of the 
 moiety of his land of Gosinton [Gossington], to hold by the 
 fourth part of a knight's fee. Witnesses : William, Bishop 
 of Llandaff; John, Abbot of Bristol ; Geoffrey, Prior of 
 Lanthony ; William, Earl of Salisbury ; Mag. Maurice ; 
 Mag. Peter de Par[is] ; Reginald, the Chaplain ; Aldam de 
 Saltemareis ; Henry, Elias, his brothers ; John de Cogan ; 
 Bernard de Stane ; Richard de Cohill ; William de More- 
 ville; Maurice, son of Nigel. [1185-1189] Lat. Seal in bag. 
 
 24. Grant by Gilbert de Sethgrava to Robert, son 
 of Robert de Wlfeia, of the Church of Sethgravia [Segrave, 
 CO. Leic.,] for the health of his soul and the souls of his 
 ancestors. Witnesses : Robert de Wlfeia ; Richard, the 
 Chaplain; Richard de Gnoweshalia. Temp. Hen. H. Lat. 
 
 25. Grant from Robert Fitzharding to Nicholas, his 
 son, of Hulla [Hill], and Nimdesfeld [Nimpsfield, co. 
 Glouc] which the King granted to him. Witnesses : 
 
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 Richard, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, and W 
 
 Prior ; Henry,' Archdeacon of Exeter ; Dom. Eva and 
 Robert, her son ; Adam de Saltemareis ; John de Cogan ; 
 Robert de Worle ; Moyses Bertelot ; John de Paris ; Gregory ; 
 Roger de Weston ; Eilwin, Dispensator ; Richard, Notarius. 
 Temp. Hen. H. Lat. Copy, with footnote, "The original 
 of this deed resteth with Sir Edward Coke, Knt., Lo. 
 Cheefe Justice of England, which hee lent mee to copy 
 out on All Saynts Day 161 3." 
 
 26. Grant from Roger de Berkeley, son of Roger de 
 Berkeley, to Reginald Mazoni and Estrida his wife, of three 
 acres of land and a burgage in Derseleg [Dursley, co. 
 Glouc], of which one acre lies in Karswell, another in 
 Wislade, and the third lies on Wodemonecote, and the 
 burgage lies near the mill of William, son of Ota. 
 Witnesses: Maurice de Berkeley; Robert, his son; Elyas 
 Gififard ; Philip Eustace; Oliver, his brother; Ralph Pin- 
 cerna ; Henry de Mumford ; Robert de Saute[mars] ; 
 William de Planche ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Richard de 
 Couele. Temp. Hen. H. Lat. 
 
 27. Copies of three deeds relating to a mill which 
 King Henry H. allowed the Canons of St. Augustine's, 
 Bristol, to build and possess on the water of Trivel in the 
 royal fee of Bedminster. 
 
 28.' Covenant between the Church of Berkeley, the 
 Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, the hospital which Lord 
 Maurice de Berkeley built at Longbridge [near Berkeley] and 
 the said Lord, whereby it is agreed that the Chaplain of 
 the hospital shall do fealty to Berkeley Church in the 
 presence of the Abbot of St. Augustine's and Lord Maurice, 
 that he shall neither do nor suffer harm to the Church; 
 that the brothers of the hospital shall be allowed to have 
 
 1 Son of Robert Fitzharding. 
 
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 the offerings at the Church on the feasts of St John Baptist 
 and St. Mary Magdalene; that the brothers shall have 
 decent burial there, and the servants and strangers 
 who die there shall, if they please, have free burial, etc. 
 Witnesses: William, Bishop of Llandaff; Dom. Aaliz^ 
 de Berkeley ; Robert de Berkeley ; Richard, Henry, Maurice 
 and William, his brothers ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Adam 
 de Saltemar[eis] ; Bernard de Stana ; Mag. Peter ; Albert, 
 Reginald, Walter, the Chaplains ; Helias de Sautemars ; 
 Maurice, son of Nigel ; Mael de Tormertun ; Robert de 
 Slohter. [1185-1191] Lat. 
 
 29.' Grant from William, son of Geoffrey de Dalbi, 
 to Gilbert de Sagrave, of his meadow at Segehishou 
 [Segs-hill al. Six-hills, near Dalby, co. Leic.,] namely, 
 Braddadale and the "Gara," which abuts on Seghishou. 
 Witnesses : William de Meinil, dominus de Daubi and 
 William, his son ; Warin, son of Geoffrey ; Stephen de 
 Roelai; Thomas de Sagrave; Herbert, son of Roger; Denis 
 and Roger, sons of Walerand ; Robert Vivien ; Gerard de 
 Grimestun ; Thomas fil. Gore ; Gilbert Warenoshebi ; John, 
 son of Fulk ; William, son of Roger de Sagrave. Temp. 
 Hen. n. Lat. 
 
 30.' Grant from William de Menil to Gilbert de 
 Sedgravia, of his meadows at Seghishou [Segs-hill], namely, 
 Braddale and Garamest, near Seghishou. Rent : 1 2 pence 
 due at Daubra [Dalby-on-the- Wolds,] on the F. of St. 
 Peter ad vincula [ist August]. Witnesses : William, son of 
 Geoffrey; Denis ; Roger, son of Walerand ; Robert Vivien; 
 Warin, son of Geoffrey ; Gerard de Grimistun ; Thomas 
 fil. Goche ; Matthew his brother ; Gilbert de Warenothebi ; 
 John, son of Fulk ; Gervase de Hiding ; William de 
 Segrava. Late Hen. H. 
 
 1 Wife of Maurice de Berkeley. 
 
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 31. Grant from Richard, son of Thomas de Wappen- 
 biri, to Gilbert de Sadgrave, of a virgate of land in Turste- 
 ineston [Thrussington, co. Leic], which Aliz de Milton held 
 with two " culture " from his demesne, one of which abuts 
 on " Thre Howe^ " and the other is called Lambecotehov, 
 with a toft which belonged to Geremund, " ad-capud-Pontis," 
 with that " Gare " which Nicholas, son of Godwin, held near 
 the said toft. For this grant the said Gilbert gave the said 
 Richard " quemdam equum album de Powis." Witnesses : 
 Adam, Sacerdos de Widibroch ; Thomas Noel ; Henry 
 de Lodbroc ; Gilbert de Houbi ; John de Wappenbiri ; 
 Thomas, son of Geremund ; Ralph de Tursteineston ; 
 Henry, son of Waleran ; Henry, son of Harketil ; Thomas 
 
 de Sagrave ; William, son of Guarin ; Gilbert, son of Gerard. 
 Late Hen. H. Lat. 
 
 32. Grant from Tomas de Leiria, son of Gervase, 
 to Gilbert de Sedgravia, to hold in fee a certain toft and 
 croft in Leire [Leire, co. Leic.,] namely, that which Turkel 
 fil. Hoviet held by service of two pence, or two spurs ; also 
 of half an acre of his demesne, near Wakelowe, and other 
 land on Scalthwele, Freleswrthie, Oxedaleput, Redmor, 
 Brodwildmor, etc. Witnesses : Hugh de Anvers ; Robert 
 de Twyford; Stephen de Roele ; William, Clericusde Leire; 
 Thomas de Aisebi ; Richard de Leire ; Hugh, Clericus de 
 Leire. Temp. Hen. H.-Ric. I. Lat. With white seal. 
 
 33. Acquittance from Nicholas de Trowella to 
 Henry Putrel, his brother, for the service of 20 pence 
 annually, "de custodia de Schipton" [Shipton-under-Wych- 
 wood Manor, co. Oxon,] which he was bound to perform for 
 two carucates of land in Hopws [Howes, co. Leic] Wit- 
 nesses : William, the Chaplain ; Gilbert de Sedgrava ; God- 
 frey de Stanford ; Richard, son of Osbert ; Stephen de 
 Role ; and Matthew, son of William. Temp. Hen. H.- 
 Ric. I. Lat. With seal of white wax. 
 
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Berkeley Castle 
 
 34. Confirmation by Alleenor [Eleanor] Queen of 
 England, [widow of Henry I L] to [Maurice] de Berchelay, 
 of Berkeley and Berkeley Herness, to be held in barony 
 from King Richard, her son, by service of five knights' fees. 
 Witnesses : Reginald, Bishop of Bath ; Hugh, Bishop of 
 Chester; Earl William de Saresb[uria] ; William Marshall^; 
 Ralph, son of Godfrey ; Geoffrey de Wanci. Dat. Apud 
 frigidum mantellum. [ ? Fremantle, nr. Kingsclere.] 30 Oct. 
 I Ric. I. [11 89.] Lat. Damaged by damp. 
 
 35. Confirmation by King Richard I., to Robert 
 de Dammenevill, heir of Adam de Dammenevill, of the 
 Manor of Bitton, to hold by service of one knight's fee, in 
 the same way as the said Adam held it from the King's 
 father. Witnesses; Earl William de Mandevill, and William 
 Marshall. Dat. Westminster, by the hand of William 
 [de Longchamps,] Bishop Elect of Ely, the Chancellor. 
 ID Nov. Anno i. [11 89.] Lat. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 36. Confirmation by Robert, son of Maurice de 
 Berkelai, to St. Augustine's Abbey, of all the grants 
 made by his grandfather, Robert Fitzharding, and his 
 father, Maurice. Witnesses : William, Abbot of Kings- 
 wood ; William, Chaplain of Redcliff ; Walter, " capellanus 
 de castello; " Albert, Chaplain ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Mat- 
 thias, son of Daniel Rufus ; Bernard de Stanes ; Hubert de 
 Salso Marisco ; Robert Bastard ; Walter Snigga. circ. 1 190. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 3*7. Copies of two bulls of Pope Clement HI. confirming 
 the privileges granted by his predecessors to Kingswood 
 Abbey. Dat. Avignon, 4 Non. Sept., Pontif sui anno quarto 
 [1191.] 
 
 1 Created Earl of Pembroke at the Coronation of King John. 
 
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 38. Fine in the King's Court at Warwick, held on 
 Sunday after F. of St. Luke [Oct. 18,] 6 Ric. I. [1194] 
 before Geoffrey, son of Peter, Tedbald de Valain', Michael 
 Belet, Henry de Wichinton, Master Aristotil, King's Jus- 
 tices ; whereby Robert Meverel releases to Nicholas de 
 Burheston 60 acres of assarted land in Ulehale [Ullenhall, 
 CO. Warw.] Lat. 
 
 39. Admission by H[enry de Soilly,] Bishop of Wor- 
 cester, on the presentation of the Abbot of St. Augus- 
 tine's, Bristol, of William clericus de Hesl', to the Church of 
 Wotton [Wotton-under-Edge], with the chapels of Simonds- 
 hall and Nibley, with an annual salary of three marks. 
 Witnesses : Peter, Archdeacon of Worcester ; Richard, 
 Archdeacon of Gloucester ; Master Jordan ; Master Here- 
 bert ; William de Quercu : Vlger de Bruge ; Master Robert 
 de Beinton ; Master Ernald de Bathonia ; Walter, Dean of 
 Cam ; Savaric, Dean of Bristol ; Lewis de Teinton ; David, 
 Scriptor de Wirec'. [1193-1195] Lat, With Episcopal 
 Seal, broken. 
 
 40. Grant from Ralph Beler to Stephen, son of 
 Gilbert de Segrave, of a bovate of land in Kirkby [Kirkby- 
 Beler, co. Leic.,] which Roger de Fosse held, and that toft 
 which lies between the messuage of Bernard and the Leices- 
 ter road westwards. Rent, a pound of cummin and two 
 pence. Witnesses : Robert de Chaucume ; William de 
 Piro ; William, son of Thomas de Sixtenebi ; William Bur- 
 det ; Gilbert Wisman ; Norman de Kirkebi ; Hugh Timpan. 
 Temp. Ric. I. Lat. 
 
 41. Acknowledgment by William, son of Ralph 
 
 de Meisham, of the homage of Gilbert de Sadgrave. 
 
 for a virgate of land in Cusinton [Cossington, co. Leic.,] 
 
 which the same Gilbert held of the said William's father, 
 
 and which Hebert, son of Roger de Sadgrave, sold to the 
 C 2 
 
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 said Gilbert. Rent, six silver pence a year. Witnesses : 
 Thomas Dispensarius ; Helias de Digetheswurth, Lucian 
 de Sedle ; William de Crokeshale ; Gilbert, son of Picot ; 
 Richard, son of Nicholas ; Robert de Twiford ; Henry 
 Putrell ; Stephen de Roele ; Matthew, son of William ; 
 Ralph de Tursterneston. Temp. Ric. I. Lat. 
 
 42. Grant by Ralph de Sudleia to Stephen de Se- 
 grave, of the service and homage of Goda, son of Aceman, 
 for 9 acres in the field of Greva, and 2 acres in Silingefen, 
 and a messuage for which he is accustomed to pay two 
 pence annual rent, to increase the said Stephen's tenement 
 in Chelmiredescote [Chilvers-coton, co. Warwick.] Witnesses: 
 Philip de Tudintona ; William de Sees ; Rodbert de Tud- 
 inton ; Saiher de Stokes ; Peter Russel ; Robert Marshal ; 
 Robert, son of Elias ; Richard, capellanus de Sudleia ; 
 Herevicus, etc. Temp. Richard I. Lat. With seal, damaged. 
 
 43. Grant from William de Fromtuna to Dom. 
 Robert de Damenevilla, of five shillings rent which Robert 
 de Hanum is accustomed to pay him for the land of Koue- 
 ham [? nr. Bitton, co. Glouc] Witnesses : Dom. Richard, 
 Abbot of Keynsham ; Richard, Decanus de Pukelechurch; 
 Bartholomew de Upton ; Robert de Hanum ; Geoffrey de 
 Oldelond ; Robert Joie. Temp. Ric. I. Lai. With seal. 
 
 44. Grant from Robert de Hanum to Robert de 
 Damnevill, of all his land of Coueham [? nr. Bitton, co. 
 Glouc] which he holds of the fee of William de Frompton, 
 at an annual rent of nine shillings. Witnesses : Dom. 
 William, Abbot of Keynsham ; Morgan Camerarius ; 
 Giffard Witenk ; Hugh Witenk ; Walter de Abbedeston ; 
 Adam de Maretot ; Peter de Aldelande ; Geoffrey Marmiun ; 
 Robert de Betthon' ; William Malet ; Walter Witenk ; 
 Mattheus Francus ; Bartholomeus Canutus. Temp. Ric. I, 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
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 45. Grant from Robert de Ammenevill to William 
 de Putot, in marriage with his daughter, of Chulrenehull [in 
 Mangotsfield, co. Glouc] by tenure of pair of white gloves. 
 Witnesses : Maurice de Gant ; Ralph de Wuleton ; Robert 
 de Turvill , Ralph de Redleg ; Peter de Eggesworth ; Bar- 
 tholomew Chanu ; Robert de Hanum ; Geoffrey de Audel- 
 ande ; Martin de Audelande ; Robert Leye ; Henry Puing- 
 tel ; William Marmium de Button. Temp. Ric. I. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 46. Quitclaim from John, Earl of Mortaigne,» to 
 Robert, son of Robert Fitzharding, of his service due to the 
 said John from his land, until he shall repay to the said 
 Robert 60 marks which the latter lent to William, Earl of 
 Gloucester. Witnesses : Stephen Rid[el] ; Hamo de Val- 
 oun[es] ; Ralph Morin ; John la Werre ; Ralph de Arden ; 
 Henry de Munford ; Master Alard. Dat. Bristol. Temp. 
 Ric. I. Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 47. Confirmation by John, Earl of Mortaigne, to 
 Robert,^ son of Robert Fitzharding, of the will of Were 
 [co. Som.] which Juliana de Bantona granted to his father, 
 Robert Fitzharding, to hold as the charter of the said 
 Juliana witnesses, and as the charter of Henry H., King of 
 England, the said John's father confirmed. Witnesses : 
 William de Wenn[eval] ; Hamo de Val[oniis] ; John Mar- 
 shall ; William de Buchet ; Theobald, son of Walter ; 
 William, son of John ; Henry de Munfort ; Roger de 
 Novoburgo; William de Viliers; John de Bonavilla; Robert 
 le Francois. Dat. Cranebr [? Cranbrook.] Temp. Ric. I. 
 Lai. With seal of red wax, much chipped, with counterseal, 
 containing man's head, and " Secretum Johannis." 
 
 1 Afterwards King John. 
 
 * Third son of Rob. Fitzharding, sometimes called Robert Juvenis, or from 
 the grant by his father of the vill of Were, of which the above is a confirmation, 
 Robert de Were. He died in 1195. 
 
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 48. Grant by William, son of Robert, son of Martin, 
 to the Canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, of a messuage in 
 the Manor of Blakedune [Blagdon, co. Som.,] lying between 
 the land of the monks of Bath and the pool of Blakemere, 
 with two crofts and lO acres of land adjoining, and common 
 of pasture beyond the road which lies between Pridia 
 [Priddy] and Buringtune [Burrington], in perpetual alms 
 for the salvation of his soul, and the soul of his lord, King 
 Henry, the younger,^ etc. Witnesses: Robert, son of Robert 
 Fitzharding ; John de Novavilla ; Hugh de Gant ; David 
 Walensis ; John de Cogan ; Henry de Gant ; Philip de 
 Burci; Robert de Burci; William Bodin; Robert de Lega ; 
 William de Boclande. Temp. Ric. I. Lat. 
 
 49. Notification by Robert de Berchele to "all 
 honest men of Bristol," of his grant to Jordan fil. Johannis 
 Episcopi de Bristol, of all that fee which he holds of 
 Herbert de Sancto Quintino in Bristol, within the town 
 walls, at an annual rent of thirty-eight shillings. Witnesses : 
 Richard de Clifford ; Ralph Musard ; Richard de Chohull ; 
 Bernard de Stanes ; Henry de Salso Mar[isco] ; Walter, 
 Chaplain to Robert de Berchele ; Maurice and Henry, 
 brothers to the same Robert ; Peter Warr' and John fil. 
 Joh. episcopi ; William, Chaplain of Redecl[ive] ; Elias, 
 son of E — de Merleberg' ; Simon de Clopenne ; Hugh de 
 Camma ; Robert Bastard. Temp. Ric. I. Lat. With frag- 
 ment of seal. 
 
 50- Grant from Robert, son of Richard, " quan- 
 tum ad laicam personam pertinet," to the brethren of St. 
 Michael of Stepholm,' of the Church of St. Nicholas of 
 Uppilla [Uphill, CO. Som.] Temp. Ric. I. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 ' Henry, son of Henry II.. crowned King in his father's lifetime, ob. 1182. 
 3 For particulars of this House, see the Preface to this Catalogue. 
 
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 Sciant omnes tarn presentes quam futuri quod ego Robertus 
 filius Ricardi intuitu Dei et pro salute anime mee et 
 predecessorum meorum Dedi et concessi quantum ad 
 laicam personam pertinet Ecclesiam Sancti Nicholai de 
 Uppilla in puram et perpetuam elemosinam Sancto 
 Michaeli de Stepholm et fratribus ibidem Deo servien- 
 tibus cum omnibus libertatibus et cum omnibus rebus 
 ad eandem ecclesiam pertinentibus. Et ut hec mea 
 donatio rata subsistat et immutabilis, eam presenti 
 scripto et sigilli mei patrocinio roboravi. Hiis testibus 
 David, decano Bleden[si],Waltero de Kywestoc, Ricardo, 
 capellano de Caerdif, Ricardo clerico de Marisco, Nich- 
 olao clerico, Johanne clerico de Estbrenca, Thoma de 
 la Ville, Jordano de Greinton, Hugone Vassal, Ricardo 
 de Lockeston, Ricardo filio Galfridi, Hugone de Uppilla, 
 Radulfo clerico, qui banc cartam fecit, 
 
 61. Renewal by King Richard I. of his confirma- 
 tion to Robert, son of Maurice de Berkelai, of the grant 
 made by his father, Henry II., to Robert Fitzharding, 
 of Berkeley, Berkeley Herness, etc. Witnesses : Hugh, 
 Bishop of Durham ; Hugh, Bishop of Chester ; Reginald, 
 Bishop of Bath ; Earl William de Mand[eville] ; John, Mar- 
 escallus ; Robert de Witefeld ; Hugh Bardulf ; Geoffrey, 
 son of Peter; Hugh Pantulf; Thomas Noel. Dat. per 
 manum Willelmi de Longo Campo cancellarii nostri xxvii 
 Sept. primo anno regni nostri apud Browd. Then follows : 
 Is erat tenor prime carte nostre in primo sigillo nostro, quod 
 quia perditum fuit, et dum capti essemus in Alemannia, sub 
 aliena potestate constitutum, mutatum est. But the wit- 
 nesses of the renewal of the charter are : H— Archdeacon 
 of Canterbury; William, Marescallus ; William de Aubinni; 
 Robert Treigoz ; Robert de Wanci ; Walter de Ely; Girard 
 Prochard ; Richard Revell ; Gwarin, son of Ceroid ; Seer 
 
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 de Quenci ; Thomas Basset ; Richard de CHfford. Dat. 
 per manum magistri Rocelini vice agentis cancellarii apud 
 Rupem [Roche d'Andely.] i8 Nov. Anno lo [1198.] With 
 the King's second seal,^ broken. 
 
 52. Indenture of covenant between Walter, son of 
 Herbert la Werra, and Thomas, his brother, whereby the 
 former shall have twenty shillings from the land which 
 William de Abedeston held " apud Duuelinam," and the 
 house of Suen de Peisia, etc., and the latter shall have nine 
 shops, " apud Peisiam," and a little garden which Humfridus 
 de Wintonia holds. Witnesses : John la Werra, David la 
 Werra, Robert la Werra, clericus ; Roger Werra frater 
 ejusdem Johannis ; Thomas, capellanus de Cnolla ; Roger 
 Corduwanarius ; Jordan le Eveske ; John de Cnolla. Dat. 
 Bristol, Ash Wednesday, after the death of John de Con- 
 stantiis, Bishop of Worcester [od. 24 Sept. 1198,]/.^. 3rd 
 March, 1 199 [1200]. LaL 
 
 53. Grant from Aaleis de Berkeley to William,^ her 
 son, of her burgage in Berkeley, which she bought from 
 Philip Heirun. Witnesses : Hugh Parvus ; Philip de Berk- 
 eley ; Henry de Berkeley ; Master Peter de Paris ; Regi- 
 nald, the Chaplain; Richard, the Chaplain ; Walter Albus; 
 William de Morton; Reginald, the Clerk, [i 190-1200.] Laf. 
 With small white seal. 
 
 54. Grant from Aaleis de Berkele to Guy, son of Roger 
 de Vilers, of a virgate of land in Slimbridge [co. Glouc] 
 Rent, a pair of gilt spurs. Witnesses : Roger de Berkele ; 
 Philip de Berkele ; John Lupus ; Henry de Berkele ; 
 William, his brother ; Thomas de Berkele ; Bernard de 
 Stanes ; Hugh de Wike ; Roger de Linz ; Elias ; Master 
 Peter. Late 12th cent. Lat. 
 
 1 rf. Brit. Mus. Cott. Ch. xvi., i. for a similar clause, and another 
 impression of this seal. An account of it is to be found in Brit. Mus. Cata- 
 logue of Seals, Ed. W. de G. Birch, vol. i, p. 14. 
 
 - 4th son of Maurice, son of Robert Fitzhardiiig and Alice de Berkeley. 
 
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 55. Grant from Aaleis de Berkele, on the request and 
 with the consent of her son, Robert de Berkele, to Elias, son 
 of Toke, her nurse and servant, of a half virgate of land in 
 Slimbridge, which William Blunt held, together with Slim- 
 bridge Mill and the tolls for grinding corn, etc. Witnesses: 
 Roger de Berkele; Philip, his brother; John Lupus ; Peter 
 de Paris ; Thomas de Tiringham ; Henry de Berkele, and 
 Thomas, her brothers ; Henry de Couelei ; Maurice, son 
 of Nigel ; William de Kingestune. Late 12th cent. Lat. 
 
 56. Grant from Aeliz, widow of Maurice de Berkeley, to 
 Thomas, her son, of her land in Redclifif Street [Bristol,] 
 which she purchased of Alsi de Bathonia, which Girard, son 
 of Richard Faber, held, at an annual rent of seven pence. 
 
 Witnesses : W , Abbot of Kingswood ; John, Abbot of 
 
 St. Augustine's, [Bristol] ; Roger de Berkeley ; Philip and 
 Oliver, his brothers ; Maurice de Berkeley ; Henry and 
 William, his brothers ; Master Peter de Paris ; Master 
 Maurice de Slimbrugg ; Reginald de Gosinton ; Maurice, 
 son of Nigel ; Reginald and William, Chaplains ; Hugh, 
 the clerk, and Helias, his brother. Late 12th cent. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 57- Grant from Aleis de Berkele to Thomas, her son, 
 of all her land of Berkeley. Witnesses : John, Abbot of 
 St. Augustine's, Bristol ; William, Abbot of Keynsham ; 
 Master Maurice de Slimbrige; William de Morevill; Maurice 
 and Henry de Berkeley, her sons ; Gilbert and William, 
 Chaplains of Slimbridge ; Wiot de Vilers, and Walter, his 
 brother ; William de HuUe ; Helias de Slimbrige. Circ. 
 I2CX). Lat. 
 
 58. Grant from Aelesia de Berkelai to St. Augustine's 
 Abbey, Bristol, of a house in Redclive Street, Bristol, on 
 the Avon side, which her lord Maurice gave her ; and she 
 
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 makes this grant for her soul's health, and with the con- 
 currence of Robert de Berkelai, her son, who has released 
 her from every service, excepting the land-gable [i.e. ground 
 rent] Witnesses : Dom. Robert de Berkelai ; Hugh le 
 Petit ; Philip de Berkelai ; Reginald and Richard, Chap- 
 lains ; Master Peter de Paris; Walter Blunt. Late I2th 
 cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
 59. Grant from Margaret de Buhun ^ to Ralph de 
 Verdun, of the land of Cernai [Cerney, co. Glouc] which 
 William de Chaisne held of her by service of one knight's 
 fee, the said Ralph to perform the same service : the said 
 Margaret confirming to the said Ralph six acres of land 
 which her brother, Henry, gave him, and six acres which she 
 herself gave him " ad terram et tenementum suum melior- 
 andum." Witnesses : William de Pinkeny ; Richard de 
 Abenesse ; Humphrey, the Chaplain; William de Hasweia; 
 Griffin, son of Reginald ; Matthew, " nepos domine " John 
 de Vehun ; William de Amenesches. Late 12th centl Laf. 
 
 60. Grant from Folkeram de Bristollo to Rodbert, 
 son of William de Astona, of all his land of W^ike [Wick, co. 
 Glouc] for which grant the said Rodbert gives him ten 
 shillings, and to Aufria, his wife, " unum aureum " and 
 " si forte remocio heredum evenerit xii d. de relevagio," 
 Witnesses : Siuard Superbus ; Unfridus Superbus ; Richard, 
 Clericus de Cumtonia, Helias de Catecumba ; Peter de 
 Stihelvei ; Nicholas fil. Raher ; Stephen Virgo vel Parvus ; 
 Thomas Prethor ; Richard de Chenecote ; Alduin Prethor ; 
 Simon Their ; Eliot de Hambroc ; Rodbert Hiberniensis ; 
 Chuncher Alemannus, etc. Late 12th cent. Lat. The 
 seal which was affixed " in presentia domini mei Willelmi 
 d' Astonia " is missing. 
 
 1 Dau. of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, wife of Humphrey de 
 Bohun, Steward to Henry L 
 
 ^'This, perhaps, should have been dated Circ. 1170. — Ed. 
 
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 61. Grant from Nicholas, son of Robert [Fitzhard- 
 ing], made with the consent of Henry, his son and heir, 
 who had for an acknowledgment a tercel,^ to the Church of 
 St. Augustine's, Bristol, of the lands which he held in 
 Bristol, near the Church of St. Werburg. Witnesses : 
 Richard, the Chaplain ; Wido de Troi ; Ala, wife of the 
 said Nicholas; Henry, his son; Jordan, the latter's brother; 
 Reginald de Sancto Leodegario ; Hugh Martra ; Hugh 
 Capreole ; Clement, and Reginald, the Cook. Late 12th 
 cent. Lai. With seal. 
 
 62. Grant from William, son of Bertram de Dithes- 
 warth, to Helias de Beletona, for his homage, an ox, a green 
 tunic, four bushells of corn, and other services, of a virgate 
 of land in Ditheswrthia [Diseworth, co. Leic.,] with toft and 
 croft, etc. Witnesses : Ralph, Sacerdos de Beletona ; 
 Ernald de Bartona, Steward of Lord Bertram ; Robert, 
 son of Walter ; Suein Morel, and his two sons, Norman and 
 Roger ; Adam, son of Adam, son of Gunel de Suanintona ; 
 Robert, son of Ralph Talebot de Suaninton ; Hugh, son of 
 Hugh Legle de Beletona. Late 12th cent. Lat. 
 
 63. Confirmation by Walter de Riparia to Richard 
 de Riparia of half a hide of land which Walter de 
 Riparia, his uncle, granted to the said Richard, to hold 
 by the same service by which Baldwin de Bede holds his 
 land. Witnesses : William, son of Henry ; Robert, Clericus 
 vic[ecomitis] ; Philip de Bradelea ; Geoffrey Ridell ; Bar- 
 tholomew de Riparia ; Baldwin de Bede ; Robert, his son. 
 Late 1 2th cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
 64. Grant from Philip, son of Elias Wace, to Robert 
 de Berchelai, of a virgate of land in Tablesford [Telsford, 
 CO. Som.,] which John, son of Walter Wace, held. Wit- 
 nesses : Henry de Munford ; Roger de Munford ; Magister 
 
 ' i.e. A male hawk. 
 
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 Reginald de Herlega ; Richard Parc[arius] de Heutona ; 
 William de Hagelega ; John de Cranlega; Herebcrt de 
 Echewicha ; Baldwin de Hechewicha ; Robert, son of Ivor. 
 Late 1 2th cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
 65. Grant from Humphrey Croc to the wife of Ralph, 
 cognatus Willelmi Longaspei, of an acre of land *' en la 
 redelanda et unam percam en la Wadstichene et in alio 
 campo unam acram al'est de la Punxdune en la Stanlicha." 
 [co. Wilts]. Witnesses : Hugh de Dreicote ; Reginald de 
 la Wicha; Roger, son of Hugh ; Helias de Chiselden; Ralph 
 de Cardevilla ; Robert de Hinetun ; Helias de Stretun. 
 Late 1 2th cent. Lat. 
 
 66. Grant by Richard, son of Heiyas Orescoiz, to 
 Walter de Stures, "cum Agatha cognata mea," of a half 
 virgate of land which Walter, son of Edward, held, and 
 half Benleigemore, which the same Walter held in the 
 vill of Wicha [Wick, co. Glouc.]. Rent, a pound of 
 pepper at Michaelmas. Witnesses : Thomas and William 
 fratres Domini ; Domina Ida uxor Domini ; Roger le Scai ; 
 Lioffus de Wic' ; Robert, son of Archebald ; Roger de la 
 Hethe ; Roger de Ripariis ; Ernald Barbast' ; Walter de 
 Suint'; Richard Clericus de Suit'; Richard and Henry, 
 sons of Lioffus; Thomas, Clerk of Dudinton; Heiyas, Chaplain 
 of Wick ; Robert de Cromale ; William, Chaplain. Late 
 1 2th cent. Lat. 
 
 67i Grant frorn William de Paris, with the assent of 
 Nica, his wife, to Ralph Loas in free marriage with Hele- 
 uisa, his daughter, of twenty-four acres of land in Neuinton 
 [S. Newington, co. Oxon,] : namely, I2 acres on the west 
 of the vill towards Wiginton [co. Oxon], and I2 acres 
 in Hamhille, towards the east, and the messuage which 
 Richard " nevus homo " held with common of pasture, etc. 
 
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 Witnesses : Reginald, Sacerdos de Bereford, [Barford, co. 
 Oxon] ; Henry, Chaplain of Newinton ; Robert de Auvery ; 
 Ralph de Auvery ; Roger de Bereford ; Ralph de Glint' ; 
 Roger de Glint'. Late 12th cent. Lat. 
 
 68. Grant by Robert de Berkelaia for his soul's health, 
 and that of his wife Juliana, to Kingswood Abbey, of a 
 virgate of land in Pochamton [Pockampton, in Hinton, co. 
 Glouc] ; and eight " nummatae " of land in the same 
 vill, by service of three capons in the month of May ; and 
 five acres of assarts, which Alexander de Pochamton and 
 Reginald, son of Gladwin, " fecerunt in purpresturam de 
 jannetto meo " ; together with pasture for seven sows, and 
 one year's litter, and one boar, and for 50 sheep, and certain 
 fishing rights in the Severn, near Cheselhanger Wood. 
 Witnesses : Ralph [Su]mery ; William de Punthdelarch ; 
 Richard de Clifford ; Oliver de Berkeley ; Bernard de 
 Stanes ; Walter, Hugh and Robert, Chaplains ; Maurice, 
 son of Nigel ; Robert le Bastard ; Gilbert, son of Osmund ; 
 Hugh de Cimma ; John de Crauleia. Dated F. of St. 
 Barnabas [nth June], 1200. Lat. 
 
 69. Confirmation by Herebert de Morevilla to Robert 
 de Berkeleia, son of Maurice de Berkeleia, of that part of 
 Portbury Manor [co. Som,] which Richard,^ his brother, 
 gave to Robert Fitzharding, grandfather to the said Robert, 
 and for which the said Herbert has already received hom- 
 age from the said Robert ; to be held by service of half 
 a knight's fee. Witnesses : John de Sancto Augustino ; 
 William de Kainesham ; William de Kingeswod, Abbots, 
 \i.e. John, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol ; William, Abbot 
 of Keynsham ; William, Abbot of Kingswood] ; William, 
 Earl of Salisbury ; William Marshall ; Ivo de Morevill ; 
 
 1 cf. s. Ch. 13. 
 
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 William and Roger, his sons ; William Capellanus de 
 Morevill ; Richard, son of Herebert ; Henry, brother of 
 Herebert's wife ; Walter and Henry, Chaplains ; John le 
 Warre ; William Cocele ; Gilbert, son of Osmund ; Hugh 
 de Camme ; Richard Faber, etc. Circ, 1200. Lat. The 
 endorsement states that this deed was produced in an 
 exchequer suit in Easter Term, 22 Edw. HI. [1348]. 
 
 70. Deed of William, son of Robert, son of Martin. 
 Witnesses : Robert de Sancta Cruce ; Thomas de Wintrid. 
 Circ. 1200. Much defaced, but having fine seal of armed 
 knight on horseback. 
 
 71. Grant from Baldwin de Ekewike, with the assent 
 of William, his heir, to Maurice de Berkelei, of all the 
 meadow which he held on the bank [of the R. Colne] near 
 Foxcote [in Withington, co. Glouc] lying between Fox- 
 cote and Pekelinge : paying an annual rent of a pair of 
 iron spurs at Michaelmas. For this grant the said Maurice 
 gave the said Baldwin three silver marks ; to Avice, his 
 wife, a silver fermail' ; and to William, his heir, a gold 
 ring. Witnesses : Henry de Monteforti ; Roger, his brother ; 
 Richard Cotele ; William de Balun ; William Malreward ; 
 Ernald de Balun ; William, Chaplain of Horton ; Thomas, 
 Chaplain of Foxcote ; Alexander de Monteforti. Circ. 
 1200. Lat. 
 
 *72. Grant from Reginald Basset de Wlveia to Robert 
 Basset, his nephew, of a virgate of land in Dhiteswrhe 
 [Diseworth, co. Leic] which belonged to William, son of 
 Bertram de Dhitheswrhe. Rent, a pound of cummin at the 
 feast of All Saints. Witnesses : Robert de Harweturt; 
 Geoffrey de Turevilla ; Reginald de Bordous ; Thomas 
 
 J A clasp or locket (Halliwell. ) 
 
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 Sorel ; Peter de Vesci ; William de Wilmescote'; Amaric 
 de Bullers ; William, son of Robert ; Godfrey de Lokintona ; 
 Reginald de Hoilande ; Thomas de Curtun ; William de 
 Haysford ; Richard de Prestwde ; Richard Basset ; Fulco, 
 Clerk of Lismer. Circ. 1200. Lat. With seal. 
 
 73- Grant from John de Wodeford to Dom. Juliana 
 de Ponte Arche, wife of Robert de Berkeleia, of that half 
 virgate of land with fifteen acres of assarts pertaining 
 thereto, in Nubbeleia [Nibley, co. Glouc] which the said 
 John recovered "contra Dom.Margaretam quondam uxorem 
 Othonis fil. Willelmi," for which grant the said Juliana gives 
 seventy shillings of silver and a gold ring " de recognitione." 
 Witnesses : Adam, son of Nigel ; Oliver de Berkeleia ; 
 Bernard de Stanes ; Bernard de Cromhale ; Richard de 
 Cromhale ; Reginald de Gosintuna ; Roger de Boivill ; 
 Harding de Hunteneford ; Maurice, son of Nigel. Circ. 
 1200. Lat. 
 
 74. Grant from Juliana, wife of Robert de Berkeley, 
 to Richard de Pinkeni, of half a virgate of land in Nubelei 
 [Nibley], which she held from John de Wodeford, to hold 
 from the said John by service of a pound of cummin at 
 Michaelmas. Witnesses : The Abbot of Kingswood ; 
 Adam, son of Nigel ; John de Erlei ; Robert, son of 
 Richard ; Ralph, the Chaplain ; Master John de Gode- 
 sten ; Master William de Bristol ; Robert Musard ; Peter 
 Piscis; Henry, Clerk of Berkeley. Early temp. John. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 75- Grant from Hugh de Bradeleia to Dom. Juliana 
 de Ponte Arche, wife of Robert de Berkeleia, of half a 
 virgate of land, which Odo Russell held in Wotton [Wotton- 
 under-Edge, co. Glouc] "juxta curiam persone" ; the said 
 Juliana giving " de recognitione" a horse valued at half 
 
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 a mark. Rent, a pound of cummin at Michaelmas. Wit- 
 nesses : Adam, son of Nigel ; Maurice de Berkeleia ; 
 William de Berkeleia ; Henry de Coveleia ; Bernard de 
 Stanes ; Roger de Boivillis ; Henry, Chaplain ; Walter, 
 Chaplain ; Hugh, Chaplain ; Harding de Hunteneford ; 
 Maurice, son of Nigel ; Richard de Cromhale ; Bernard de 
 Cromhale ; Elias de Bevintuna ; Maurice, his son ; Elias 
 de Cumba ; Gilbert, son of Osbert ; Walter de Angervillis. 
 Early temp. John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 76. Release from Thomas, son of Ralph de Holkham, 
 to Dom. Robert Bassett, of his wood called Bassetteshawe, 
 with land in Riston [Rushton, co. Northt.] Witnesses : 
 Dom. Hugh de Goldigham ; Warin de Clendon ; John 
 Luvet ; Henry de Sancto Litio ; Roger, son of Fulk ; 
 William, son of Nigel ; William ad Crucem ; WiUiam Beufiz. 
 Early temp. John. Lat. 
 
 77- Release from Richard, son of Roger, to Stephen 
 de Segrave, his lord, of two virgates of land and four 
 tofts in Segrave [co. Leic] Witnesses : William de Hardred 
 [eshullay Sheriff ; Thomas de Estleia ; Ralph de Marti- 
 wast ; Robert de Tuiford ; William de Houbi : William de 
 Anesti. [1201-2]. Lat. 
 
 78. Grant from Josbert, Prior of Coventry, to Hugh 
 de Chaucumbe, of " the whole tenement, which Mary held 
 from the Priory in the vill of Cubintun " [Cubington, co. 
 Warw.] Witnesses : Roger Basset ; William de Ardena ; 
 Simon de Barchetun ; William Turvill ; Roger Barat ; 
 Thomas Janitor ; William de Offechirche ; William de 
 Brinchelaue. Temp. John. Lat. 
 
 ^ William de Hardredeshulla acted as SherifiF for William de Cantelu, Anno 
 3 John [1201-2]. 
 
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 79. Grant by Robert de Berkelay to St. Augustine's 
 Abbey, Bristol, of Hugh Pistor [the Baker], his servant, 
 " whom he had previously made free," and his heirs, with a 
 virgate of land at Hulemanecote [in Coaley, co. Glouc] 
 that the said Hugh and his heirs may give to the Canons 
 two " summae " of corn for oblations and ten shillings to buy 
 wine every year at Michaelmas " at the consecration of the 
 body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ." Witnesses : 
 Roger, son of Nicholas ; Henry de Berkele, Adam, son of 
 Nigel ; Simon de Olepenne ; Richard de Couelege ; John 
 de Crauleigh ; Elyas de Bristoll, Canon of Hereford ; Henry 
 and Adam, Chaplains of Berkeley ; John and William, 
 Chaplains ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Richard de Crom- 
 hale ; Elyas de Slimbrugge ; John de Eggington, and 
 many others. [1189-1220]. Lat. With R. de Berkelay's 
 seal of arms [a knight armed] in white wax [the edges 
 chipped] and on the reverse his privy seal, " the George on 
 horseback." 
 
 80. Fragment of Charter of King John, of which 
 only a few words remain. The seal, however, is fairly 
 perfect, [i 199-12 15]. 
 
 81. Grant from John, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, 
 to Dom. Robert de Berkeleya, of all the lands which 
 Maurice, his brother, bequeathed to the Abbey, lying between 
 Boeleyebroc [Billow Brook, nr. Slimbridge] as the brook 
 flows down to WidipuUe and the water of Cambrigga, as well 
 as the land called Snitelega, with ten pence rent due from 
 Juliana de Slinbrigga, and the meadow called Littlemed of 
 the fee of Roger de Berkeley, two acres in Fulemora of the 
 fee of Eggetuna [in Hinton], and a meadow at Foxchotis. 
 Witnesses : Malger, Bishop of Worcester ; William de Ver- 
 dun, Archdeacon of Gloucester; Henry, Dean of Bristol ; 
 
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 Master Robert de CHpstun ; Master Stephen de Scha- 
 lopesburia ; Master Philip de Brai ; Robert de Roppeleya ; 
 Thomas de Thiringeham ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Thomas 
 de Loventa ; Henry, Chaplain of Berkeley, [i 200-1 210]. 
 Lat. 
 
 82. Covenant whereby Adam de Staveleia releases 
 to William de Moubray his right in the Forest of Burton-in- 
 Lonsdale [co. York], with liberty of taking beasts and birds 
 (the said William granting to Adam the privilege of hunting 
 with dogs the hare and the fox) : he also releases to the 
 said William his right in the Forest of Mewid [Mewith], 
 excepting reasonable estovers and certain privileges of pas- 
 ture, etc., for his men of Ingleton and Bentham [co. York], 
 reserving to himself the three cow-pastures called Quernside, 
 Sutterescales. and Birbladethwait, and agreeing to keep the 
 hermitage waste " so that there shall be no house there," 
 except by licence from W. de Moubray. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Simon de Pateshill ; Master Roger Arundel ; Henry, 
 son of Hervey ; John de Danvill ; William Gramaticus ; 
 Henry de Reddeman ; Hugh de Magneby ; Akuna de 
 Oustwic ; Gilbert de Notton ; Robert Camerarius. Dat. 
 York, Tuesday after F. of St. Peter in Cathedra [22 Feb.] 
 5 John [1204]. Lat. With seal of Adam de Staveleia. 
 
 83. Grant from Ivor de Tevellesford to Robert de 
 Bercal' [Berkeley] of land in Tevellsford [Telsford, co. Som.] 
 and Chattelei [Chatley, co. Som.] Witnesses : Henry de 
 Monteforti ; John de Erlega ; Richard de Cotela ; Roger de 
 Monteforti ; Wido de Cultura ; Richard Parcarius ; Thomas 
 de Rodinc. Early temp. John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 84- Lease from Ivor de Tablesford to Robert de Berke- 
 ley of half a virgate of land in Cacheleie [Chatley, co. Som.], 
 which Godwin held, and the whole of his wood there. 
 Witnesses : Robert, Prior of Bath ; Thomas, son of William ; 
 
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 Oliver de Berkeley ; William Dessuble [?] ; Walter Snigga ; 
 Bernard de Stanes, etc., Dat. 1204. Lat. With seal. 
 Injured by damp. 
 
 85. Grant from Ivor de Teveleford to Robert de Berke- 
 leia, of his " affidatus," of a virgate and a half of land, with a 
 wood in Chatteleg' [Chatley, co. Som.], and the half virgate of 
 land which Richard, son of Svetric, held in Teveleford [Tels- 
 ford, CO. Som.], together with the said Richard himself and 
 his two sons, Walter and Hugh, with all their suit : with 
 pasture for 100 sheep, 4 cows, and 8 oxen, with the said 
 Ivor's own oxen. Witnesses : Malger, Bishop of Worcester ; 
 William, Abbot of Kingswood ; Walter, Prior of Bath ; 
 William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke ; Roger de Berkeley ; 
 Henry de Monteforti ; Roger and Hubert, his brothers ; 
 John de Erleia ; Henry de Cultura ; Wido de Cultura ; 
 Ranulph de Thoringtun ; Maurice de Berkeley ; Mahu 
 Turpin ; William de Balun ; Robert la Warra, etc. [1199- 
 12 12]. Lat. 
 
 86. Grant from Ivor de Teveleford to Robert de Berke- 
 lai, his " affidatus, " of a virgate and a half of wood in 
 Chattleg' [Chatley], and half that virgate which Richard son 
 ofSuetric held in Teveleford [Telsford], with right of pasture 
 for 100 sheep, 4 cows and 8 oxen, with his own oxen 
 in his garden and meadow. Witnesses : The Abbot of 
 Kingswood ; the Prior of Bath ; Dom. Roger de Berkele ; 
 Henry de Monteforti ; Roger and Hubert, his brothers ; 
 Ranulph de Thoringn' ; Robert de Thoringn', Maurice de 
 Berkeley ; Mahu Turpin ; Ranulph Garnun ; Geoffi'ey de 
 Chausi ; Harding de Hunteneford ; Bartholomew de Olepenn. 
 Temp. John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 8*7. Grant from Alice, Comitissa Augy^ to Dom. 
 
 ' Alice, Comtesse d'Eu [i 186-1227], dau. of Henri H., Comte d'Eu, 
 husband of Raoul de Lusignan, dit d'Issoudun, who aided King John against 
 the King of France in 1214. [L'arl de verifier Ics dates, ii., 779). 
 D 2 
 
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 Stephen de Segrave, of her mill of Turnewod [Turn- 
 worth, CO. Dors.] and her tenement " de Forda, " with 
 the homage and service of Richard de Ottelaio, and the 
 tenement which he holds at Friebec : to hold by service of a 
 sparrow hawk or two shillings. Witnesses : Dom. William, 
 Earl of Warenne ; Symon de Echingeham ; William de 
 Moncellis ; Malvesin de Hersin, " tune temporis senescallus 
 meus " ; William de Clarevall ; Hellebold de Fanencort. 
 Early 13th cent, [ante 1208]. LaL With fragment of seal 
 of arms. 
 
 88. Grant from Walter Croc to Henry Foliot of his 
 land of Drayecot [Draycote, co. Wilts], with the service of 
 half a knight's fee which Stephen de Erdecot is accustomed 
 to pay him, the said Henry doing service of two knights' 
 fees, and paying a pound of pepper yearly. Witnesses : 
 William de Ely, Lord Treasurer ; William, Archdeacon 
 of Huntingdon ; Master Robert Gloucestre ; RobertMau- 
 duit ; the King's Chamberlain ; Master Joscellin Marshall ; 
 Master Philip de Saham ; Richard de Stutecumb ; Hillary 
 de Backanton ; Robert Bloech ; John de Windessor ; Robert 
 de Thorenny ; William de Chauton ; Waleran de Audiburn. 
 [1208-9]. -^^^- With fragment of seal. 
 
 89- Lease for 15 years from Robert de Berkele to 
 Ralph de Bray, of his land of Bray [co. Devon]. Witnesses : 
 Roger de Berkeley ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Bernard de Crom- 
 hale ; Bernard de Stanes ; Henry and Swigin, Chaplains ; 
 Thomas de Tiringham ; William de Rotomag' ; tunc vie 
 [arius ?] ; Robert de Albumara ; Walter Giffard ; Randolph 
 de Albemara ; John Cole. Dat. Michaelmas, 1 1 John 
 [1209]. Lat. 
 
 90- Lease for 13 years from Matilda de Landa, widow, 
 to Kingswood Abbey of her land, with her men and rents in 
 
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 Niwent' and in Dureslega [Newington and Dursley, co. 
 Glouc] " Receperunt autem idem monachi eandem terram 
 omnino nudam et incultam, ita earn reddent peracto termino 
 ad ascensionem Domini, sed monachi habebunt croppum 
 
 suum sequentis autumpni liberum et quietum Receperunt 
 
 vero idem monachi tres domos tantum apud Niwenton scilicet 
 aulam sine camera, et capellam et pistorium, quas domos 
 reddent post terminum in eodem statu quo eas receperunt." 
 Witnesses : Philip de Berkelai ; Thomas, persona de Niwin- 
 tun ; William de Scai ; Adam, his son ; Peter de Upthrop ; 
 Adam de Scai ; Nicholas de King' ; Thomas de Planca ; 
 Adam Loch ; William Trussi ; Robert de Landa. Dat, 
 Ascension Day [3 May], 1212. Lat. With seal. 
 
 91. Grant from Roger la Zuche, in accordance with the 
 award of Lawrence, Prior of Barnwell [co. Cambr.], Henry 
 de Colevile, Knight, Master Walter de Thirintona and 
 Matthew Cristian, arbitrators, to John, Prior, and the Church 
 of Swavesey [co. Cambr.], of a part of his meadow of Eye 
 [co. Sufif.], in the place of the tithe of the said meadow, 
 which the said Prior has been accustomed to receive. Early 
 13th cent, [post 12 1 3]. Lat. With two seals defaced. 
 
 92. Indenture of grant by Fr. Guido, Prior, and the 
 Convent of Southwick, co. Hants, to J[ohn] Abbot, and the 
 Canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, of all the tenements, 
 which Dom. Robert de Berkeley and Juliana, his wife, gave 
 to the said Priory, and which Gilbert de Hegge sometime 
 held. Witnesses : Dom. Robert de Berkelaio and Juliana, 
 
 his wife ; R , Prior of St. Augustine's Bristol ; Fr. J , 
 
 tunc camerarius ; Fr. W , tunc sacrista, on the one part : 
 
 and on the other, Audoenus, tunc supprior ; Luke, Robert 
 Walkelin, canonici nostri. Ante 12 16. Lat. With large 
 red seal, representing the Priory Church,with walls of masonry, 
 
1$^ Berkeley Castle 
 
 central tower, chancel and side towers, with inscription : 
 
 SiGILLUM Sancte Marle de Suthwica. On the 
 
 reverse, the counterseal displaying an eagle and inscription : 
 
 SiGILLUM GUIDONIS PrIORIS SvWICENSIS. 
 
 93. Grant from Robert de Berkelaia to Robert Bastard, 
 of a virgate of land in Cloptune [Clapton], part of the manor 
 of Ham [by Berkeley], which Aldwin Coppe held from the 
 grantor's father, for which grant the said Robert Bastard 
 becomes the said Robert's man. Witnesses : John, Abbot 
 of St. Augustine's [Bristol] ; William, Abbot of Kingswood ; 
 
 Walter, Dean of ; Walter, Chaplain of Berkeley ; 
 
 Reginald de Gosintone ; Bernard de Stanes ; Bernard de 
 Bretheston ; Hugh de Camme ; Roger de Planca ; Richard 
 Cotell. [ II 89- 1 2x6]. Lat. 
 
 94. Award by W[illiam], Abbot of Bordesley, W[illiam 
 de Verdun], Archdeacon of Gloucester, and R[alph de 
 Evesham],Prior of Worcester, arbitrators, appointed by Pope 
 Innocent HI., in a suit between Henry Levet and Master 
 Absolom de Almoneremunstre, Rector of Hawkesbury [co. 
 Glouc], concerning a chapel built in the court of the said 
 Henry Levet in Hildesley [Hillsley, co. Glouc], and certain 
 parish rights belonging to Hawkesbury Church. Temp. 
 John. [1203- 1 2 10]. [Copy, temp. Edw. T. or H.] Lat. 
 
 95. Grant from Walter de Dunstanville, Canon and 
 Rector of Bedminster Church, to Dom. Robert de Berkeley, 
 of the offices of a Chaplain in the Oratory, which the said 
 Robert has had erected in his court of Bedminster, and the 
 latter in return grants to the said Walter a curtillage and 
 messuage in Bedminster. Witnesses : J[ohn], Abbot of St. 
 Augustine's, Bristol ; Henry, Dean of Portbury ; William, 
 Chaplain of Redclifif ; Philip, Chaplain of Bedminster ; Henry 
 and Gilbert, Chaplains ; Ralph Musard ; John de Morstun ; 
 Oliver de Berkele ; Walter Snigga, etc. Temp. John. Lat, 
 
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 06. Grant from Roger, Prior, and the Convent of Christ's 
 Church, Twinham [ie. Christchurch, co. Hants], to Robert 
 de Berkeley, " ad remedium anime sue," etc., of " one Masse 
 dayly to bee sayd in their Church for all faythfull deceased, 
 and for that cause would receive and keepe one Chanon 
 more in their church to singe for the sayd soules. And 
 they further granted communion and participation to this 
 lord of all benefitts and meritts, which are done, or hereafter 
 shall bee in their Church : And to have his name, after his 
 death, written in their martirologe, that having his anniversary 
 recited, divine prayers might bee celebrated for him as for a 
 founderV Temp, John. Lat. With seal representing the 
 Priory Building, and on the reverse the privy seal of " Roger, 
 Prior de Christchurch." 
 
 97. Grant from William, son of Geoffrey de Daubi to 
 Stephen de Segrave, of a meadow at Seggeshou [Six-hills, 
 CO. Leic], which Gilbert de Segrave, his father, held, namely 
 Bradedale and the " Gara " which abuts on Seggeshou. 
 Witnesses : Geoffrey Boes de Grimeston ; Roger, Clericus de 
 Grimeston; Ralph de Thursteineston ; William, son of Henry 
 de Houbi ; Edmund, Merchant of Segrave ; Hugh, son of 
 Thomas de Segrave ; Geoffrey, son of Alured ; Robert Cave 
 de Grimeston ; Roger de Role. Temp. John. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 98. Grant from Robert de Cheurecurt to Hugh de 
 Chaucumba, of a virgate cf land in Burton [Burton Lazars, 
 CO. Leic.]. Witnesses : Simon Dene ; Joseph Sacerdos ; 
 Ralph, son of Hugh ; William de Haumerie ; Geoffrey 
 de Torp ; Ivo, son of Alexander. Temp. John. Lat. 
 Mutilated. 
 
 ^ Smyth's translation, Beikeley MSS., vol. i., p. 88. 
 
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 99- Grant from Richard de Couelege to Walter Hath- 
 emer, of an acre of land in Couelege [Coaley, co. Glouc], 
 which lies opposite the cross of Apudupthrop in the field of 
 Oldebiri. Witnesses : Robert de Couelege ; Varner Pin- 
 cerna ; Walter de Benecumbe ; James Cotele ; John de 
 Dreicote ; Roger de Camme. Temp. John. Lat. 
 
 100. Confirmation by Thomas Croc to Henry Foliot, 
 of the manor of Dreicote [Draycote, co. Wilts], which Walter 
 Croc, his eldest brother, gave him, to hold by service of a 
 pound of pepper, for which confirmation the said Henry 
 gave the said Thomas a white horse valued at 40 shillings. 
 Witnesses : Walter Foliot ; Roger Foliot ; Hugh de Mara ; 
 Richard Morin ; Thomas Huscale ; Geoffrey de Chauezi ; 
 Reginald de la Caune ; Richard de Durneforte ; Robert de 
 Torenni ; Michael de Werstun : Stephen de Odestun ; 
 Maurice de Chiseldene ; John Belet ; Richard Buberel, etc. 
 Temp. John. Lat. 
 
 101. Grant from Maurice^ de Gant (with quitclaim 
 after his death) to Thomas de Berkeley, of the three 
 hundreds which Robert Fitzharding gave to Robert- Juvenis, 
 his father, namely Bedminster, Portbury, and Hareclive 
 [co. Som.] provided the said Maurice should die without an 
 heir. Witnesses : Dom. William Briwere ; Dom. Stephen 
 de Segrave; Dom. William de Pontearche; Richard de 
 Troham ; Osbert Giffard ; Thomas de Tyringeham ; Maurice, 
 son of Nigel, etc. Temp. John. Laf. 
 
 102. Release from Bertram Le Gros to Dom. Stephen 
 de Segrave of a hundred " solidate " of land in Rande 
 
 [Raunds], co. Northampton. Witnesses : J de Ripariis; 
 
 Roger de Syfrewast ; Anketil Maulore ; Richard de Welen- 
 tone ; John de Hodeng ; Nicholas Pepyn. Temp. John. 
 Lat. With fine seal of arms, chipped. 
 
 ^ Grandson of Robert Fitzharding. 
 ^ al. Robert de Were. 
 
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 103. Grant from William, son of Jordan de Hocton, to 
 Thomas Tanator de Graham, of a selion of land on Bracken- 
 hil in Hocton Field [Houghton-on-the-Hill, co. Leic] Wit- 
 nesses : John, son of Symon ; Adam le Grant; William, 
 son of Adam ; Gilbert de Hocton ; Roger Bigot ; Simon 
 Pacoc. Temp. John. Lat. 
 
 104. Confirmation by John de Ken of the grant by 
 Robert, son of Richard, " antecessoris mei," to the brethren 
 of St. Michael of the island which is called Stepholm, of half 
 a virgate of land in Uphulla [Uphill, co. Som.], which 
 Ailric de Rewa held, with right of grinding at the mill in 
 the said vill, and pasture for four cows and twenty sheep. 
 Temp. John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 Sciant tam presentes quam futuri quod ego Johannes de 
 Ken cartam Roberti filii Ricardi antecessoris mei recepi 
 in hec verba. Sciant omnes tam presentes quam futuri 
 quod ego Robertus filius Ricardi dedi et concessi divine 
 pietatis intuitu et pro salute anime mee, et patris mei et 
 matris mee et antecessorum meorum et successorum 
 meorum Sancto Michaeli de insula que dicitur Stepholm 
 et fratribus ibidem cohabitantibus dimidiam virgatam 
 terre in Uphulla quam Ailricus de Rewa tenuit cum 
 omnibus pertinentiis suis in puram et perpetuam ele- 
 mosinam, liberam et quietam ab omni servitio seculari, 
 Similiter liberam molituram in molendino de villa 
 prenominata. Similiter in pastura mea in eadem villa 
 quatuor vaccas et viginti oves. Ego siquidem prelibatus 
 Johannes de Ken hanc donationem ratam habens et 
 firmam presenti scripto et sigilli mei apposicione 
 confirmavi. His testibus A. Capellano de Broclegha, 
 Gervasib de Locaston, Daniele Capellano de Locaston, 
 A. Capellano de Cristgeston, Jordano Capellano, Hugone 
 
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 Vassal, Reginaldo Iberniense, Roberto de Sparkeford, 
 Roberto de Ferrers, Thoma de Muneketon, Galfrido 
 Vassal, Ricardo de la Hulla, et multis aliis. 
 
 105. Grant from Geoffrey de Oldelond to William de 
 Puthot, of an acre of meadow in Mickelmed towards the 
 meadow of the parson of Bitton [co. Glouc], to hold by- 
 service of a pair of white gloves, of the value of one penny. 
 Witnesses : Robert de Damenevill ; Hugh de Bathonia ; 
 Robert de Hanum ; Henry Puintell ; Robert Joie ; William 
 Malet ; Nicholas de Mar'; Martin de Langefeld. Temp. 
 John. Lat. 
 
 106. Release from John, son of Robert Nepos de 
 Osleworth, to Thomas de Rochefort, of the land which 
 Roger de Berkelay granted to Thomas, brother of the said 
 John in Ozleworth [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Geoffrey de 
 
 Cha.... ; de Hastings; Robert de Sloetre ; Philip de 
 
 Berkelay ; William de Cromhale ; John de Anesi. Temp. 
 John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 107- Sale from Hugh Pik to Stephen de Seggrave of 
 the service of Geoffrey de Crannesmere, namely, six pence 
 rent due twice a year from his tenement. Witnesses : 
 Richard de Latur ; Geoffrey de Borestrode ; Roger Heres ; 
 Alard de Dene ; William de Leicestria. Temp. John. Lat. 
 
 108. Grant from Walkelin, son of Richard de Emdon 
 to Hugh de Chaucombe, of eight bovates of land in Stake- 
 thurne [Stathern, co. Leic], at a rent of ten shillings, 
 payable to the grantor or to Simon Tolebu, the lord of the 
 fee. Witnesses : Richard de Hinton ; Thomas Basset ; 
 Anselm de Traford ; William, son of Ralph ; Thomas son of 
 Richard ; William de Bifeld ; William de Paries ; Richard 
 Pcche, etc. Temp. John. Lat, 
 
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 109. Sale from Herebert, son of Roger de Sedgrave, 
 with consent of Edith, his wife, and Gilbert, his heir, to 
 Gilbert de Sedgrave, of a virgate of land in Cusintona 
 [Cossington, co. Leic], which Robert fil. Dunninghi held ; 
 together with the said Robert himself, his wife and children, 
 to hold in chief from William, son of Ralph de Meisam, and 
 Edeina, his wife. Witnesses : William, Clerk of Baruha 
 [Rarrow-on-Soar] ; William, Chaplain of Segrave ; Ralph 
 de Cusintun ; Ranulph, his brother ; Robert de Twiford ; 
 Henry Putrel ; Turstan de Pedmain ; Stephen de Role ; 
 Stephen Pirin, etc. Temp. John. Lat, 
 
 110. Confirmation by William, son of Robert, 
 son of Martin, of the grant, by Robert, son of Richard, 
 Knight, to the Church of St. Michael de Insula "que 
 dicitur " [Stepholm], of a virgate of land in Huppilla 
 [Uphill], which Ailric de Rewa held. Witnesses ^Robert de 
 Langatot ; Robert de Sancta Cruce ; Richard de Bichefauda ; 
 Thomas, his brother ; Warin de Morcellis ; Schep' de Aude- 
 woic ; William, Clericus de Cuantona ; William Bodin. 
 Temp. John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 111. Grant by William, son of Robert, son of Martin, 
 to the Canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, for prayers for his 
 soul, of common of pasture by the way called Raganachere- 
 swei, for fifty sheep and thirty mares with their issue of two 
 years. Witnesses : Richard, Capellanus de Blakedun 
 [Blagdon, co. Som.] ; Robert de Sancta Cruce Seneschal ; 
 Roger de Aldewic : Richard de Munecheston ; Robert de 
 Lesseinga; Roger Pistor; Hugh de Paeleto [?] ; Adam de 
 Hospicio ; William Scutarius. Temp. John. Lat. With 
 green seal, a knight in armour, and on the reverse a small 
 round counterseal of a man's bust in profile, with the legend 
 " Secretum Willelmi celo." 
 
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 112. Grant from William Veisin to Philip Draesid, of 
 half a burgage in Nocton [? Notton, co. Wilts], Witnesses : 
 Helias de Cumba ; John le Sune ; William Drawesid ; 
 Robert Harding ; Hugh de Dimmoc ; Walter Drawesid. 
 Temp. John. Lat. With seal. 
 
 113. Grant from Warin, son of Ceroid, King's Cham- 
 berlain, to Henry, son of Ceroid, his brother, of tenements 
 in Sparsholt [co. Berks] and Badeleking [Baulking, co. 
 Berks]. Witnesses : Alice de Cure', " uxor mea " ; Ralph 
 Foliot ; John de Wich ; Andrew de Scaccario ; Henry 
 FoHot ; Peter, Clericus ; Stephen de Badeleking ; Ailmer 
 de Seuahanton; Robert de Warcebec. Temp. John. LaU 
 
 114. Grant from Roger de Craft to John de Chaveyni, 
 of his vill of Parva Lalleford [Little Lawford, co. Warw.] , 
 containing two hides of land, that is eight virgates,with tofts, 
 crofts, etc., excepting the mill held by the monks of Pipe- 
 well [co. Northt.] Witnesses: Robert de Campania ; Hugh 
 de Campania ; Roger Pantolf ; William, Persona de 
 Rokeby [Rugby] ; Henry de Rokebi ; Robert de Rokebi ; 
 William Hanselin ; Lawrence, the Clerk. Early 13th cent. 
 Lat, With fragment of green seal. 
 
 115. Acknowledgment from Ralph Camerarius of 
 the homage of Stephen de Sagrave of the land which the 
 latter's father held from him in Reresby [Rearsby, co. Leic], 
 for a virgate of land, which William Buteiller held from 
 Gilbert de Sagrave. Rent 25 pence, I2d. at Michaelmas, 
 1 2d. at F. of Purification, and id. "pro incremento ad 
 obblationem in die Pentecostes.'" Witnesses : Geoffrey 
 Bassett ; William de Belegrave; Hugh de Ses ; Ivo Came- 
 rarius ; Ralph de Tursteneston ; Roger Stalipres ; Roger 
 Mareschall ; Ralph de Snipestre ; William Hurel. Early 
 13th cent. Lat. 
 
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 116. Grant from Reginald Basset to Peter de Dena, 
 his nephew, of a virgate of land in Disthwrthe [Diseworth, 
 CO. Leic], which Robert Basset of Dene held. Witnesses : 
 William, Abbas de Cumbe [Combe, co. Warw.] ; Henry de 
 Ridelton ; John de Dena ; Thomas de Dena ; Bartholomew 
 de Lockinton; Robert Kide, etc. Early 13th cent. Lat, 
 With seal. 
 
 117. Release from Richard, son of Richard Basset, to 
 Reginald Basset, of two virgates of land in Ditheswrth 
 [Diseworth, co. Leic], and permission to Stephen de 
 Segrave and his heirs to hold the same in fee by grant of 
 the said Reginald. Witnesses : Henry de Segrave ; Stephen 
 de Roele ; Simon de Monteforti ; Herbert de Kaythorp ; 
 and William Faukuner. Early 13th cent. Lat, With 
 seal. 
 
 118. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to John de 
 Gosinton of two acres of meadow, which Richard Salewine 
 held in Cam [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Robert, son of 
 Richard ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; Richard de Couele; Simon 
 de Holepenne ; Elias Pincerna ; Elias de Beninton. Early 
 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 119. Grant from Thomas de Birkyn, son of John de 
 Birkyn, to Stephen de Segrave, of a third part of thirteen 
 bovatcs of land and an eighth part of one bovate, in 
 Pichuell and Leuesthorp [Pickwell and Leesthorp, co. 
 Leic], which sometime belonged to Roger Arundel. Wit- 
 nesses : John de Birkyn ; William de Flemesburg ; Peter 
 de Sancto Edwardo; Robert Puterel; William le Faukenor; 
 Hugh de Manecestre ; Robert de Waleton ; Geoffrey Pute- 
 rel ; Robert de Scepey ; Gilbert Maulore ; William de 
 Sancto Edmundo. Early 13th cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
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 120. Grant from Baldwin de Ekewike to Maurice de 
 Berkelei, of all his meadow under Foxcote [in Withington, 
 CO. Glouc] lying between Foxcote and Pekelinge, by service 
 of a pair of iron spurs. Witnesses : Henry de Monteforti ; 
 Roger, his brother; William de Balun ; Robert la Warre : 
 Thomas de Foxcote. Early 13th cent. Lat. Injured by 
 damp. 
 
 121. Release from Aumfelisia, daughter of John, son 
 of Osbert de Gloucestre, to Richard, son of David Dunning 
 of Gloucester, of all the lands which Walter Kadifor and 
 David Dunning purchased of Osbert Carnifex and of John, 
 father of the said Aumfelisia in Gloucester : and of three 
 shillings rent which the said Richard paid into her hands 
 " ad magnum negotium meum." Witnesses : Henry Bur- 
 gensis ; Richard Kadifer ; Walter Wain ; Walter de 
 Pinnekote; Robert Bel Hoste [sic]; William Gille ; Geoffrey 
 de Bathonia. Early 13th cent. Lat. With fragment of 
 seal. 
 
 122. Grant from William, son of Nigel de Aleby to 
 Geoffrey le Futur, of a toft called Longecroft, in Aleby 
 [Welby, CO. Leic] Witnesses : Ralph de Herevile ; Robert 
 le Palmer : Ralph de Rempistun ; Geoffrey de Sallowe ; 
 William de Bovile ; William Sansun. Early 13 th cent. 
 Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 123. Grant from Bernard, son of Nigel de Botesford 
 to Stephen de Sedgrave of a bovate of land in Kyrkebi 
 [Kirkby-Beler, co. Leic], being one of the four bovates which 
 the said Bernard holds from Ralph Beler, with the croft 
 which Roger de Fossato held near the highway. Rent, a 
 pound of pepper on the Feast of St. Botulph [17th June]. 
 Witnesses : Richard de Kynton ; Peter, son of Geoffrey ; 
 Ralph de Tursteinton ; Nicholas Capellanus ; Norman fil. 
 Popeline ; Robert, son of Norman ; Henry de Merston. 
 Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
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 12^. Grant from Robert de Brinkelaue to Stephen de 
 Satgrave of the land which the latter held from Robert, 
 Clericus de Strucardestune, in the vill of Meutune [Melton 
 Mowbray, co. Leic] Witnesses: Ralph Beler ; Wido de 
 Meutune ; Henry Puterel ; Thomas de Sixtenebi ; Regi- 
 nald de Torp ; Ralph de Tursteinetun ; William Careles. 
 Early 1 3th cent. Lat. With seal, chipped. 
 
 125. Grant from John de Bosco to John, the Chaplain, 
 son of William Lefward, of a selion of land '* in campo de 
 Clunmarisco qui tendit a fossato de Wurthin usque ad 
 Wallam " [in Berkeley ?]. Witnesses : Helias de Beovilla ; 
 Hugh de Wika ; Gilbert de Lincha ; Roger de Camma ; 
 John de Dreicote ; William, persona de Erlingham, tunc 
 Decanus; William Capellanus. Early 13th cent. With 
 seal. 
 
 126. Release from John le New, of Osleworth, to 
 Kingswood Abbey, of common of pasture in Frith wood, in 
 Ozleworth [co. Glouc], which wood Robert de Rocheford, his 
 lord, gave to the Abbey. Witnesses : Oliver de Bercheley ; 
 William de Bradeley ; Nicholas Rufifus; Adam de Hore; 
 Thomas le Archer ; Nigel de Oslewrth ; Henry, Clerk of 
 Bradley. Early 13th cent. Lat 
 
 127. Grant from John le New to Kingswood Abbey, 
 of an acre of land, lying under Badderigge, in Oslewrthe 
 [Ozleworth, co. Glouc] Witnesses : Oliver de Berkeley ; 
 Nicholas Ruffus ; Nigel de Oslewrth ; William de Brade- 
 ley; Adam de la Hame ; Nicholas Mig ; Roger Petit-pas ; 
 Walter Tysun. Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 128. Grant from William Burdun to Stephen de 
 Segrave of a meadow in the field of La Wike^ called 
 Hodenhulle [nr. Kirkby Malory, co. Leic], which he holds 
 
 1 Perhaps Wykin, 4 miles S.W. of Kirkby Malory. 
 
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 from James Brito. Witnesses : Philip de Kinton^ ; Walter 
 de Beseboc ; Philip de Hasting ; Simon de Monteforti ; 
 Hugh de Manecestre ; Anketil Malore. Early 13th cent. 
 Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 129. Grant from Robert de Chaucumb to the Church 
 of St, Peter and Paul at Chaucumb [Chalcombe. co. 
 Northt.] and the Canons there, of a messuage, etc., which 
 belonged to " Letitia Mulier " in the vill of Daubi [Dalby 
 Chalcombe, co. Leic], in exchange for a messuage in the 
 same place, which Turkil held, and for two shillings rent 
 due from the said Canons for Michael de Retheresby and 
 from Swinesfeir. Witnesses : Roger de L'yuns ; Ralph 
 Beler ; Robert de Brut ; Helias de Insula; Ralph de Torp ; 
 Robert le Due ; William son of Michael. Early 1 3th cent. 
 Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 130. Covenant by Peter de Cysi to Stephen de Segrave 
 for the payment of rent agreed upon in the latter's deed of 
 grant of six acres of land in Shortelangele [Langley, co. 
 Leic] Witnesses : Hugh Dispensator ; Thomas Dispensa- 
 tor ; Benedict de Dicheswrthe ; William de Seinewill ; Ralph 
 de Tursteinton; Robert Putrell ; Henry, Clericus de Merston; 
 Thomas Ormere. Early 13th cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
 131. Acknowledgment by Richard de Kagwrth, 
 Clerk, son of Thomas, to Stephen de Sadgrave, his lord, of 
 his liability for the rent agreed upon in the latter's charter 
 granting to the former 16 acres of land in Shortelangele 
 [Langley, co. Leic] Witnesses : Hugo, Thomas et Henri- 
 cus Dispensarii ; Ralph de Tursteinton ; Hamo, the Clerk; 
 Henry, the Clerk ; Henry, the Clerk of Segrave ; Hugh, 
 capellanus monialium [de Langley] ; Robert de Thorp, 
 clericus ; ''cum multis aliis tunc presentibus apud Langele." 
 Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 1 Patron of Kirkby Malory Church in 1220 [Nichols' History of Leicester- 
 shire, iv., 771]. 
 
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 132. Grant from Stephen de Sadgrave to Richard de 
 Kagwrth, Clerk, son of Thomas, of 16 acres of land in 
 Shortelangele [Langley, co. Leic], near Walton Field. 
 Rent, ten shillings per annum. Witnesses : Hugo, Thomas 
 et Henricus Dispensarii ; Richard de Pontc Cardon' ; Ralph 
 de Tursteinton ; Henry de Kagwrth ; Roger de Honinton ; 
 William de Verney ; Peter de Cisy ; Robert de Torp, 
 Clerk. Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 133. Grant from Stephen de Segrave to William 
 Niger of four acres of land in Shorte Langele [Langley, 
 CO. Leic], " mensuratas per perticam decern et octo pedum 
 et dimidie," lying near the land of the nuns of Langley 
 towards the territory of Wavertoft. Witnesses : Hugh 
 Dispensator ; Thomas Dispensator ; Benedict de Dithes- 
 wrth ; Ralph de Turstcintona ; Henry de Merstona. Early 
 13th cent. Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 IS'l. Sale from William Niger, for half a mark, to 
 Richard de Kagwurde, Clerk, of four acres of land in Syorte- 
 langele [Langley, co. Leic], which he held from Stephen 
 de Satgrave. Witnesses : Stephen de Pontefracto ; Ivo 
 de Kagwurde ; Henry, son of Thomas ; William de Verniz ; 
 Peter de Cisi ; Robert de Wivelesle ; Osbert de Waletun ; 
 William Cocaine ; Roger de Heminton ; Richard de Rode- 
 storn ; Master Hugh de Cestre. Early 13th cent. Lat, 
 
 135. Release from William de Hastede to Stephen de 
 Segrave of his land called Sortelangelee [Langley, co. 
 Leic], between the land of the Canons of Wavertoft, and 
 the path called Nunnesti by service of one pound of pepper 
 on Mid-lent Sunday. Witnesses : Reginald Basset ; Hamo 
 Clericus ; Richard de Verdun ; William, son of Richard ; 
 William, son oT Wulfric ; Stephen de Puntefreunt; Ralph 
 de Tursteinton ; Stephen de Roele ; Henry de Merston 
 Early 13th cent. Lat. With seal, chipped. 
 
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 136. Release from Yvo de Roel to Stephen de Segrave 
 of the homage and service of Richard Martel from a bovate 
 of land in Quorndon [co. Leic] Witnesses : Peter de Sancto 
 Eadwardo ; Gilbert Mallore ; Robert Puterel ; Stephen de 
 Roel ; Geoffrey Puterel ; Robert de Shepeye ; William, 
 son of Yvo de Preswalt ; Elias de Prestwalt ; William 
 Pinkenei ; Peter de Reresby. Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 137- Sale from Reginald fil. Basilic to Stephen de 
 
 Seggrave of sixpence rent in Penn [co. . Buck.], due from 
 John fil. Jacobi de Penna. Witnesses : Richard de Turvill, 
 
 persona de Penna ; Ralph de Puteham ; Richard de la 
 
 Tur ; Geoffrey de Borestrode ; William de Leicestre ; 
 
 Roger Heres ; Geoffrey, Clericus. Early 1 3th cent. Lat. 
 
 With seal, broken. 
 
 138. Grant from Roger de Infirmitorio de Croxston to 
 Hugh Moysant de Croxston of a selion of land in the 
 territory of Croxston [Croxton, co. Leic], in " le furlong " 
 called Ruttewell, in the meadow which abuts on Thorpdale- 
 bec. Witnesses : William Infans de Croxston ; Thomas 
 Sewin de Croxston ; William Niger ; Roger Faber ; John 
 Cocus. Early 1 3th cent. Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 139. Grant from Richard, son of Walter Kadifor, to 
 David Dunning of land [in Gloucester] lying between the 
 lands of Richard Burg', and of John, son of Osbert. Wit- 
 nesses : Richard Burg', Thomas Oie [Mayor of Gloucester, 
 1241], tunc prepositi; John Draperius ; John de Gosediches; 
 Maurice Palmer, and others. Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 14:0. Sale from Simon de Olepenna to Thomas de 
 Berkeley of four shillings rent, due from John de Eggeton, 
 annually from half a virgate of land in Abbewelle [in Hinton, 
 CO. Glouc], with other rent due from Jordan de Waneswelle 
 and William de Abbewelle, for two acres of land in Bulewik. 
 
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 Witnesses : Henry de Berkeley ; William de Berkeley; Peter 
 de Stintescumbe ; Nicholas Rufus ; Elyas Pincerna. Early 
 13th cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
 I'll. Grant from Robert de Rocheford to the Church 
 and Monks of Kingsvvood of the following lands in Ozle- 
 worth, viz., a half virgate which Calebat held, and a 
 " cotceld " which William Le Gathurde held, and the whole 
 meadow called Holecumbemed, with liberty of ingress and 
 egress for carts, wagons and cattle from the way of 
 Sprakeweye to the said meadow over the headland of Adam 
 Le Fuelere's croft. Witnesses : Oliver de Berkeley : Bar- 
 tholomew Labanc ; Nicholas Ruffus ; Colin de Culcretun ; 
 Roger Petipas ; Walter Tysun ; Robert le Stabler; Henry de 
 Bradele, Clerk; Adam leParcheminer. Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 142. Grant from Stephen de Satgrave to Geoffrey, 
 son of Ralph de Alebia, of a virgate of land in Aleby 
 [Wei by, CO. Leic], which Ralph de Cruce held there, and 
 the moiety of a toft called Langecroft, the other moiety of 
 which he retains in his own hand. Witnesses : Nigel fil. 
 decani de Ketleb' ; Richard, his brother ; William, son of 
 Thomas ; William, son of Nigel ; William de Bovill ; 
 Gilbert, son of Henry ; William Kareles ; John de Siwaldebi; 
 Ralph Junior de Warknotheb'. Early 13th cent. Lat, 
 
 143.' Grant to Richard, son of Alured de Wica, in 
 West . Early 13th cent. Fragment. 
 
 144. Grant from William fil. Ricardi, persone de 
 
 Ristone, to William fil. Geraldi carpentarii de Riston, and 
 
 Alice, his wife, of land in the fields of Riston [Rushton, co. 
 
 Northt.] at Haroldisti, which the said Alice acquired by 
 
 grant from Thomas dc Insula, brother to the grantor. 
 
 Witnesses : Richard Luvet; Andrew de Sancto Licio; Robert 
 
 son of Reginald; Peter de Bradewell; Philip ad Cruce.Ti. 
 
 Early 13th cent. Lat. 
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 145. Grant by Henry, son of Adam, Chaplain of 
 Cowley [Coaley, co. Glouc], to Walter Hathemer of an 
 acre of land at Oldbury, in Coaley. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Richard de Couele ; Robert de Couele ; Warner Pincerna ; 
 John de Dreicote ; James Cotele ; Walter de Benecumbe ; 
 William Ulrich. Early 13th cent. Lat. With fragment 
 of white seal. 
 
 1'16. Grant by John Le Nevou, of Ozleworth, to 
 Robert de Rocheford of the moiety of Ozleworth Mill [co. 
 Glouc] Rent, a pair of white gloves at Easter ; for which 
 grant the said Robert has released to the said John a 
 hundred shillings which he owed him, given him a silver 
 mark and quitclaimed to him the warranty of one " coth- 
 land " in Osleworth during the life of Aaliz Thoki, who 
 holds the said " cothland." Witnesses ; The Abbot, Prior 
 and Cellarer of Kingswood ; Philip de Berkelai ; Peter le 
 Franceis ; Laurence le Nevou. Early 13th cent. Lai. 
 
 147. Grant from Robert de Berkeley to Walter Snigge 
 for his life, of that fardel of land which Arthur held at 
 Bedminster. Witnesses : Robert Juvenis ; Adam, son of 
 Nigel ; Richard de Cuhill ; Bernard de Stanes ; Walter 
 Capellanus ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Simon de Olepenne ; 
 Robert Bastard ; Roger Aurifaber. Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 148. Grant from Robert Scoticus de Waledon to 
 William, son of William de Udlisford and Margaret, his 
 wife, of a certain house in Waledon [Saffron Waldon, co. 
 Essex], with two and a half perches of land near the road 
 from Waldon to Newport, and seven other perches in 
 Waldon : the said William to pay fourteen shillings yearly, 
 to build a certain house " in loco grangie," to cut the willows 
 without waste, and the twigs [ramusculos] of the ash and 
 
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 other trees, etc. Witnesses : William de Ripa ; Ranulf 
 Haryng ; John, son of Geoffrey de Wendon ; Philip Hyle- 
 berd ; John Abraham ; Stephen, clericus. Early 13th cent. 
 
 1^9. Grant from William, son of Bertram de Vhites- 
 wrhe to Robert Basset, son of Simon de Dena, of two 
 acres of land in Ditheswrhe [Diseworth, co. Leic], in 
 " Evenvveislondes." Witnesses : Reginald Basset ; Thomas 
 Sorel ; Geoffrey de Tiirvill ; Thomas de Curcun ; Godfrey 
 de Lokintona ; R — de Hoilonde ; Peter de Vesci ; Adam 
 de Sancto Andrea ; Fulco, clericus de Lisur'. Early 13th 
 cent. Lat. 
 
 150. Grant from Ranulph, Earl of Chester, to Ralph 
 de Vernon, his clerk, of the Church of Kegworth, namely, 
 one half by reason of the wardship of William Patricius, a 
 boy then in the said Earl's keeping, and the other half to 
 which Thomas Patricius was admitted on the presentation 
 of Robert de Novilla and Matilda de Spuz, his wife, who 
 have released the right of patronage to the said Earl. 
 Witnesses : Dom. H[ugh], Abbot of Chester ; Dom. R — , 
 Abbot of Doulecresse [Diculacres, co. Ches.] ; Philip de 
 Orrebi, Justice to the Earl ; Henry de Aldithlea ; William 
 de Voust ; Hugh Dispenser ; Thomas Dispenser ; John de 
 Arderne ; Walter de Damill' ; Alured de Sulingm' ; Richard 
 de Randestorn, Clerk : Master Simon de Cestria ; Parson of 
 Duninton. [1208-1226]. Lat, With fragment of seal. 
 
 151. Deed of Sale, for 100 pounds, by Philip de Kima 
 to Dom. Rannulph, Earl of Chester, of the vill of Brettebi 
 [Bretby, co. Derby]. Witnesses : Dom. H[ugh], Abbot of 
 Chester ; P[hilip] de Orrebi, Justice of Chester ; Henry de 
 
 Aldidel ; John " Extraneus " ; Guarin de Vernon ; T 
 
 Dispensarius ; John de Arden ; A. de Sulign' ; Master Hugh 
 de Cestria. [1208- 1226]. Lat. With seal of arms defaced. 
 
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 152. Grant by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, to Stephen 
 de Segrave of all the land which the former held at 
 Cagwurth [Kegworth, co. Leic], of the fee of Robert, son of 
 Nigel, namely eight virgates, with services of the free 
 holders of the same fee, in Langeleta field, etc., except the 
 advowson of the Church which the said Ranulph retains. 
 Witnesses : Philip de Orreby, Justice of Chester ; Hugh 
 Dispenser ; Walter de Dayvill ; Robert Patric ; Alured de 
 Soleigneio ; Thomas de Tuschet ; Robert de Hardredeshull ; 
 Henry de Cagwurth ; Robert Samson. [1209- 1228]. Lat. 
 With seal of Earl Ranulph, and on the reverse a gem 
 counter-seal inscribed "Se[cretum sigillum] Comitis Cestrie," 
 and representing a man seated on a chair. 
 
 153. Letter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln 
 to Richard de Kegwrth, Clerk, notifying that he had 
 granted to Dom. Stephen de Segrave the advowson of 
 Kegworth Church, whom henceforth he is to consider as his 
 Patron. Early 13th cent. Lat. With seal. 
 
 154. Grant from Ranulph, Earl of Chester and 
 Lincoln, to Stephen de Segrave of the vill of Brettebi 
 [Bretby, co. Derb.], which Simon de Kymba sometime held. 
 Witnesses : Philip de Orreby, Justice of Chester ; Baldwin 
 de Ver ; Ralph de Bray ; William de Vernun ; Nicholas de 
 Litteris; John Guboud. Early 13th cent. [1209-1228]. 
 Lat. 
 
 155. Acknowledgment by Hugh, Abbot of Abing- 
 don, of homage, etc., paid by William de Ripariis for land in 
 Bede [Beedon, co. Berks.] Witnesses : Henry de Scaccario, 
 sheriff ; John de la Helena ; William de Wanci ; Alan de 
 Fernham ; Gilbert de Louokenor ; Moyses de Niwebot ; 
 William de Londoniis ; WilHam de Lodbroc. [12 18]. Lat. 
 
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 156. Notification by Matildis de Landa, dau. of 
 Roger de Berkelai, that in the year 12 12 she leased for a 
 term of fourteen years all her land of Newintun [Newing- 
 ton, CO. Glouc], to Kingswood Abbey at an annual rent of 
 2 marks, but that in 12 18, on the F. of St. Margaret, [20 
 July], she came to the House of Kingswood and gave to 
 the monks the said land in perpetual alms, the monks 
 promising of their own free will twenty-six marks, six of 
 which they then paid, " pro magno negotio meo," with this 
 option that if at any time during the term of fourteen years 
 they elected to pay the other twenty marks they could 
 retain the land in perpetual alms, but if not, the six marks 
 already paid should be counted as three years' rent accord- 
 ing to the original lease. Witnesses : Nicholas de Kingeswd ; 
 Henry Scriptor de Bradele ; Roger Scriptor ; Adam de 
 Aula ; John de Stanlega, " nepos mens " ; John Blundell ; 
 Ralph Herman ; Roger Lathom ; Walter, Clericus, "cogno- 
 mento archidiaconus." Early 13th cent. Lat. 
 
 157. Deed of William, Bishop of Worcester, taking 
 under his protection the Canons of St. Augustine's, Bristol, 
 and granting that they may take to their use and support 
 the revenues of the Churches of Berkeley, Almondsbury, 
 Wotton, and Esseleswurth [Ashelworth]. Witnesses : Ralph, 
 Canon of Oseney; Warin, the Chaplain ; Master Godfrey ; 
 Master William de Tuneb' ; William, son of Godfrey ; 
 Master Hugh de Porwico ; John, Clericus de Draitun. 
 [circ. 12 18]. Lat. With fine impression of the Bishop's seal 
 in green wax, and on the reverse a counterseal with Virgin 
 and Child, and the inscription " Ave Maria gracia plena, 
 Domine Jesu." 
 
 158. INSPEXIMUS and confirmation by William, Bishop 
 of Worcester, of the charter granted by his predecessor, 
 Roger, to St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, of the Churches of 
 
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 Berkeley-herness, Berkeley, Wotton, Beverstone. Almondes- 
 bury, Ashelworth and Cromhall. Witnesses to charter of 
 Roger : Matthew, the Archdeacon ; Clement, Prior of 
 Lanthony ; Ralph Gansel ; Nicholas, the Dean ; Augustine, 
 the Chaplain ; Dancele, the Chaplain. Witnesses to charter 
 of William : Ralph, Canon of Oseney ; Warin. the Chaplain ; 
 Master Godfrey ; Master William de Tuneb' ; William, son 
 of Godfrey ; Master Hugh de Porwico ; John de Draitun. 
 [arc. 12 18]. Laf. With the Bishop's seal and counterseal. 
 
 159. Fine levied at Westminster before Martin de 
 Pateshull, Ralph Hareng, Simon de Insula, Thomas de 
 Eyden, Justices, whereby Henry de Nafiford and Matilda, 
 his wife, convey to Stephen de Segrave, ten and a half 
 virgates of land in Havethurn [Hathern, co. Leic], to hold 
 by service of a sparrow-hawk. Dat. Midsummer Term, 3 
 Hen. HI. [12 19]. Lat. 
 
 160. Grant (for the salvation of his soul, and the souls 
 of his father, mother, wives, etc.) from Robert de Berkeley, 
 son of Maurice de Berkeley, to the Abbey of St. Augus- 
 tine, Bristol, of his mill at Berkeley, near to the bridge 
 called Locfastebrige, which is also called the New Mill, with 
 the custom and mulcture of Berkeley Castle, for the main- 
 tenance of a lamp at the mass of t^e Blessed Virgin. 
 He also grants to the same a virgate of land in Ham near 
 to the said mill, for the saying of prayers by the Canons 
 and the maintenance of two lamps, the one before the high 
 altar, the other before the altar where 'the mass of the 
 Blessed Virgin is celebrated. Witnesses : Dom. Nicholas 
 Poinz ; Dom. Hugh, his son ; Dom. Adam, son of Nigel ; 
 Dom. Thomas de Berkeley ; Dom. Simon de Olepenna ; 
 Henry, the Chaplain ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Richard and 
 Philip de Hauberton. [1219-1220]. LaL With Robert de 
 Berkeley's seal of arms in green wax, and on the reverse 
 his privy seal, a George on horseback. 
 
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 161a. Grant from Robert de Berkelay to Helias, son of 
 Durand, Canon of Hereford, of several plots of land in 
 Arlingham [co. Glouc], called Wodegerd, Inhethinge, Wive- 
 toft, etc, at an annual rent of two shillings. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Adam, son of Nigel ; Oliver de Berkelay ; Simon de 
 Olepenna ; Richard de Couelega ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; 
 Robert de Albaniaco ; Reginald de Gosintun ; John de 
 Eggentun ; Helias de Buvill ; Hugh ; Robert Bertram ; 
 Robert, son of Gwido. Ante 1220. Lat. With seal. 
 
 161b. Grant from Robert de Berkelay to Helyas, son of 
 Durand, Canon of Hereford, of a virgate of land in Arling- 
 ham, at an annual rent of two shillings. For this grant the 
 said Helyas gave him two palfreys. Witnesses : Dom. 
 David, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol ; Henry de 
 Berkeley ; Oliver de Berkeley ; Simon de Olepenn ; Richard 
 de Coueleg'; Adam, son of Nigel ; Bernard de Stanes ; John 
 de Eggentun ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Helyas de Slimbruge. 
 [1216-1220]. 
 
 162. Confirmation by Robert de Berkeley to Richard 
 Nauta of half a virgate of land in Ham Manor, which his 
 father granted him, and grant in tail to the same of 12 
 acres of land in Dolfelde, at an annual rent of ten shillings, 
 for which grant the said Richard gave the said Robert four 
 good oxen. Witnesses : Adam, son of Nigel ; Maurice, his 
 brother ; Bernard de Stanes ; Bernard de Brothestone ; 
 Harding de Hunteneford ; Helias de Bevintun ; Maurice, 
 his son ; Robert Bastard ; John de Crauleye ; Gilbert, son of 
 Osmund ; William Cobi. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 163. Grant from Robert de Berkelai, son of Maurice 
 de Berkelai, to the Abbey of St. Augustine, Bristol, for the 
 health of his soul, and the souls of Juliana, his first wife, and 
 Lucy, his second wife, of all his land " within the walls " of 
 Bristol, which Richard Coterel, Elias, son of Alured, William 
 
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 de Penris, Gilda, Robert de Oxonia, Walter de Paris, Robert 
 la Warra, and other tenants held from him, for the celebra- 
 tion of the anniversaries of himself and his two wives. 
 
 Witnesses : Dom. R , Abbot of Keynsham ; H , 
 
 Prior of the same ; Jordan la Warra ; Roger Cord' ; Peter la 
 Warra ; Roger Ailard ; William Blakeman ; Philip Long ; 
 Robert Seuari. [12 18-1220]. Lat. With seal, and on 
 reverse, counterseal. 
 
 164. Grant from William de Cumbe to Dom. Thomas 
 de Berkeley of half a virgate of land in Wotton, which 
 William de Wyke formerly held, in exchange for a virgate 
 of land at Wurtheleye, in Wotton Manor. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Robert de Berkeley ; Dom. William Daubigny ; Dom. 
 Roger de Lokinton ; Elias de Cumbe ; Bartholomew de 
 Olepenne ; Robert de Stane ; Yvo de Cumbe. Early Hen. 
 III. \circ. 1220]. Lat. 
 
 165. Grant from Thomas de Berkele to Helyas, son 
 of Durand, Canon of Hereford, of the tenement which his 
 brother Robert gave to the same Helyas, in Herlingham 
 [Arlingham], at an annual rent of two shillings sterling, 
 payable half-yearly at Michaelmas and Easter. Witnesses : 
 Richard de Couele ; Helyas de Buvill ; Robert, son of Gwido, 
 Robert Bertram ; Hugh de Wike ; Gilbert del Ling ; Walter 
 ' homo persone' ; Hugh Pistor ; Ernulf, son of Richard de 
 Neweham. Early Hen. HI. \circ. 1220]. Lat. 
 
 166. Confirmation from Thomas de Berkele to 
 William, fil. Osberti Parcarii, of the land which the said 
 Osbert held from Dom. Robert, his brother, and an acre of 
 land in Perhamesmor [Parham Moor] : in consideration of 
 which the said William has given the said Thomas two 
 oxen, and to Dom. Johanna, his wife, a talent. Witnesses : 
 Peter de Stintescumbe ; Thomas de Tyringeham, tunc 
 
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 senescallus ; Robert, son of Maurice ; Ralph de Stanes ; 
 Arnulf, the Clerk ; John de Eggeton ; Robert, son of Walter 
 de Hineton. Circ. 1220. Lat. With seal. 
 
 167- Grant from Thomas de Berkelay to Helias de 
 Bristoll, Canon of Hereford, of liberty to keep five oxen 
 and one cow in his pastures of Arlingham. Witnesses: 
 Robert, son of Richard ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Henry de 
 Berkeley ; Ernulf, the Clerk ; Ralph de Stanes ; Elias de 
 Buvill; Hugh de Wike. Circ. 1220. Lat. 
 
 168. Indenture whereby Thomas de Berkeley coven- 
 ants to grant to Osbert Gyffard, his nephew, the reversion 
 of the land of Foxcote which his wife Lucy holds in dower, 
 the said Osbert covenanting to restore to the said Thomas 
 the land of Bray ; and the latter attorns the said Lucy to 
 be answerable to the said Osbert for all services due from 
 the land of Foxcote, and similarly the said Osbert shall be 
 answerable to Maurice de Berkeley, eldest son of Thomas, 
 for all services due from the lands of Foxcote and Bray, 
 excepting the service of a pair of gilt spurs or six pence 
 every Easter. Witnesses : Dom. William Briquere ; Dom. 
 Maurice Gaunt ; Helias Giffard ; Stephen de Segrave ; 
 Dom, William de Pontdelarch ; Thomas de Thuringham ; 
 Maurice, son of Nigel ; John de Heketon ; Hubert de Vaus. 
 Early Hen. HI. {post 1220]. Lat. 
 
 169. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to Drusiana, 
 daughter of Robert Bertram, of all that land which Dolfin 
 in-Woldrop and James, his son, held. Witnesses : Richard 
 de Kouele ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; Elias de Buvill ; Hugh 
 de Wike ; Gilbert de Linche. Early Hen. HL {post 1220]. 
 Lat. 
 
 1*70. Grant from Peter de Iweleia to Robert de 
 Berkelai of his land of Westcote [co. Glouc], and of Helyas, 
 his man. Witnesses ; Henry, Capellanus ; Hugh, Cap- 
 
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 pellanus de Lorilinga ; William de Pontearche ; Henry de 
 Coueleia ; Bernard de Stanes ; Harding de Hunteneford ; 
 Maurice, son of Nigel ; Hugh de Salso Marisco. Early- 
 Hen. HI. [ante 1220]. Lat. 
 
 171. Grant from Margaret de Quenci, Countess of 
 Winchester, to Stephen de Segrave of six virgates of land 
 in Wethstan [Whetstone, co. Leic], which Henry Byset 
 formerly held of her, in return for a release by the said 
 Stephen to the said Margaret of all his land of Roteby 
 [Ratby, co. Leic], which he acquired by exchange from the 
 Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity, London [H. Trinity 
 within-Aldgate], which land the Priory acquired from 
 Peter de Sancto Edwardo. Witnesses : Dom. John de 
 Ripariis ; William de Sancto Edmundo ; William de 
 Martiwall ; William de Sancto Georgio ; Bartholomew de 
 Cnapwell ; Roger de Turkelby ; Walter Muschet ; Walter 
 de Bristoll ; Henry Biset ; Henry de Faffington ; Philip 
 Quentin. Early Hen. HI. [1220-1235]. Lat. 
 
 1*72.' Final concord made at Westminster in the 
 octave of the Feast of the Purification [2nd Feb.], 8 
 Henry HI [1224], before Martin de Pateshull, Stephen de 
 Segrave, Thomas de Haidon, Robert de Lexinton, Geoffrey 
 le Sauvage, Justices, whereby Robert de Chaucumbe releases 
 to Philip de Bello Monte, named by William de Sutton and 
 Mabel, his wife, " ad warantum," nine hides of land in 
 Goldor and Claior. [Golder and Clare, in Pirton, co. 
 Oxon]. Lat. 
 
 173. Fin \l concord made at Westminster on the mor- 
 row of the Feast of Ascension [23rd May] 8 Hen. HI. [1224], 
 before Martin de Pateshall, Thomas de Muleton, Thomas 
 de Haiden, Robert de Lexinton, Geoffrey le Sauvage, 
 Justices, whereby Stephen de Segrave conveys to Roger de 
 
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 Craft and Cecilia, his wife, a third part of the land which 
 belonged to Colin de la Penne, in La Penne [Penn, co. 
 Bucks.] Lat. 
 
 174. I. Grant from William de Guniges to Ralph, 
 son of Reginald de Pokebrok, of a virgate of land in 
 Botilbrigge, which Geoffrey Coke held, together with the 
 said Geoffrey and all his " sequela," and half a virgate of 
 land which Eva, daughter of Godwyn, held, and the 
 service of Reginald, son of Robert, with his land in Overton 
 and Botilbrigge [Orton-Longville and Botolph Bridge, co. 
 Hunts.] Witness : Norman Darcy. 2. Fine levied in the 
 King's Court, Easter Term, 9 Hen. HI. [1225], before 
 Martin de Patishull, Thomas de Malton, Thomas de Heiden, 
 Robert de Lexington, and Geoffrey le Sauvage, Justices, 
 whereby the above-mentioned land is conveyed to the said 
 Ralph. Lai. Copies, temp. Edw. HL 
 
 l^S. Grant from Peter, Prior, and the Convent of the 
 Holy Trinity of Lenton [co. Notts.] to Stephen, son of 
 Gilbert de Sedgrava, of a carucate of land in Alebi [Welby, 
 CO. Leic], which Odo fil. Keteline formerly held by charter 
 of Philip, Prior of Lenton. Witnesses : Robert, son of 
 Fulk ; Durannus, his brother ; William, persona de Fostona 
 [Foston, CO. Leic] ; John de Londoniis ; Robert Putrel ; 
 Ralph de Tursteinton ; Nicholas, the chaplain. Early Hen. 
 HL Lat. With Priory seal, chipped. 
 
 176. Grant from Robert de Berkelai to Isillia, 
 daughter of Alexander de Egintun, of two virgates of land 
 in Hinton, called Kingesgerde and Hufland, in exchange 
 for the wood called Garstin and Aldredesmare. Witnesses: 
 Henry de Coueleg ; Bernard de Cramal ; Richard de 
 Cromhal ; Bernard de Stanes ; Bernard de Brothestan ; 
 Eustace de Camm ; Maurice, son of Nigel ; Gilbert de Ege ; 
 Hugh de Camm ; Oliver de Berkeley. Early Hen. HI. Lai. 
 
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 177- Grant from Reginald Basset, son of Robert 
 Basset, to Robert Basset, son of Simon de Dene, of a 
 virgate of land and a toft in Diccheswrthia [Diseworth, co. 
 Leic], which Robert de Curezun held from him, for three 
 shillings of annual rent. Witnesses : Helias de Diccheswrth ; 
 Peter de Martiwast ; Ralph, Chaplain of Coventry ; Alan 
 de Prestewold ; Richard, son of Alured de Kagwrth ; 
 Thomas de Curezun ; William Bertram de Dicthesvvrth ; 
 Godfrey de Lokintona ; Benedict, son of Helias de Dicthes- 
 vvrth ; Peter de Lisures ; Michael de Lisures ; Reginald de 
 Hoilanda ; Robert fil. Robert Clerici de Kingstan. Early 
 Hen. in. Lat. 
 
 178. Grant from William Basset to Stephen de Segrave 
 of the virgate of land in Outheby [Oadby, co. Leic.]. which 
 Richard, son of William, held, " cum ipso Ricardo et prole 
 sua." Rent, a pair of white gloves or one penny. Wit- 
 nesses : Thomas de Estlega ; Philip de Kinton ; Henry de 
 Segrave ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; William de Martiwast ; 
 Hugh de Manecestre ; William de Sancto Edmundo. Early 
 Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 179. Grant from William, son of Elias de Salso de 
 Marisco, with consent of Matilda, his wife, to Dom. Robert 
 de Berkeley, of that land and wood which Isillia, dau. of 
 Alexander de Eggintuna, his grandmother, gave in exchange 
 to the said Robert for two virgates of land in Eggetuna 
 belonging to the manor of Hinton : namely, all that wood 
 called Gerstuna together with Bruneswellesham, and land 
 called Aldresmara. Witnesses : Henry Swan ; Elyas, the 
 Chaplain ; Dom. Roger ; John Lupus ; Bernard de Brothestan ; 
 Thomas de Tiringeham ; Bernard de Stanes ; Bernard de 
 Cromhale. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
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 180. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to William de 
 Berkelai, his son, of a virgate of land, which Waltei le Bel 
 held in Cam Manor. Witnesses : Elyas Giffard ; Nicholas, 
 son of Roger ; Henry de Berkeleia ; Peter de Stintescumba ; 
 Robert Bel ; Thomas de Tiringham ; John de Eggeton ; 
 Elyas Pincerna. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 181. Grant from Gilbert de Columbariis to Jacobus 
 de Offintun of ten acres of land in Offintun [Uffington, co. 
 Berks.] Witnesses : Richard Barn . . ; Symon de Faellor ; 
 Jacobus Frankellan de Offintun ; Pagan de Canithtetun ; 
 William, son of Edmund de Offintun. Early Hen. HI. 
 Lai. With seal. 
 
 182. Confirmation by Matthew Gamach to Roger 
 fil. Ailaf of all the land which Ailaf, his father, and Gamel 
 Forestarius held from him in the forest of Wire [Wyre, co. 
 Salop], the said Roger paying either three shillings annually 
 or doing the service which pertains " ad prefati nemoris mei 
 de Wire forestarium," at the option of the said Matthew : 
 with a grant of a small addition of land " cum dumetis " on 
 the confines of his wood and the wood of Dom. Roger de 
 Mortuo Mari which Philip de Fernlane, the grantor's sene- 
 schal, formerly granted him : and a grant of all the bark of 
 all the trees which shall be felled in Wire forest, with the 
 use of his manor of Stottesdune [Stottesdon, co. Salop]. 
 Witnesses : Richard, William, Henry and Giles, the grantor's 
 brothers ; Walter Buhere ; Peter, son of the grantor; 
 Philip de Fernlane ; Walter de Spineto ; Adam de Salvagio ; 
 Hugh de Sutheburi ; William de Berdelee ; Warengar de 
 Dikes ; Hugh de Fernlane ; Matthew de Pleid ; Ysaac, the 
 Dean ; William de Steple ; Reginald, the Chaplain. Early 
 Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 183. Grant from Geoffrey de Holdelonde to Dom. 
 William del Puthot of 2 acres of land and a fardel in the 
 
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 meadow called Mukeliued. Rent, a pair of white gloves or 
 " unum esterlingum." Witnesses : Dom. Robert de Damene- 
 ville ; Dom. Ralph de Wileton ; Bartholomew Canute ; 
 Robert de Hanum ; William Marmiun ; Robert Joye ; 
 Martin de Holdelonde. Early Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 184. Grant from Robert, son of Roger, to Stephen de 
 Segrave, of a virgate of land in Haghethirne [Hathern, co. 
 Leic], which William, son of Turkil, held from him, 
 together with the said William and all his suit. Rent, a 
 pair of white gloves at Whitsuntide. Witnesses : John de 
 Humeto ; Ralph de Martiwastre ; William Picot ; Ralph de 
 Tursteinton ; Ralph de Perone ; Nicholas, the Chaplain ; 
 Henry de Merston. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 185. Grant from Thomas de Rocheford to Robert de 
 Rocheford, his brother, of all his land of Ozlewortli, the 
 said Robert to find a Chaplain to celebrate divine service 
 there for the health of the soul of the said Thomas, with 
 placebo and dirige, commendations and prayers for the 
 dead. Witnesses : William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke ; 
 Manasser de Hastinges ; Eustace, the Chaplain ; Geoffrey, 
 the Chaplain ; Walter de Kanebir ; William de Cromhale ; 
 John de Anes'. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 186. Indenture of covenant between John de Seynt- 
 leye and William fil. Walteri Symonis, whereby the said 
 John grants to the said William that messuage in Hamton 
 Monialium [Minchinhampton, co. Glouc], which the said 
 Walter sometime held in the same place, as well as the 
 land called Le Duppemor, near the Wodecroft, pasture for 
 two oxen and one horse, with " husbote et heybote de 
 hayiciis terras supradictas circumstantibus. " Witnesses : 
 John Bachard ; Walter Spyleman ; Thomas de Rodebure ; 
 John Mahel ; Richard de Nayleswrthe. Early Hen. III. 
 Lat. 
 
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 IS"?- Grant from Robert de Wetelei to Adam de 
 Holanda of two bovates of land in Cleitun [? co. York.], 
 namely the bovate which Hugh fil. Aky held of him, and 
 the bovate which Ailsi, son of Robert held *' cum omni 
 libera communione," in Cleitun. Witnesses : John de 
 Byrkane ; Roger, his brother ; Gilbert de Nott' ; Peter de 
 Byrkethwait ; Jordan de Hecun ; John de Brett ; Ralph 
 Tyrel ; Robert Franceis. Early Henry HI. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 188^ Grant from Ivo de Dene to Stephen de Sedgrave 
 of all his land in DItheswrth [Diseworth, co. Leic], which 
 he had from the gift of Reginald Basset, his uncle. Wit- 
 nesses : Dom. Osbert^ de Dunton, Abbot of Leicester ; 
 Henry de Sadgrave ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; William 
 de Wasteneis ; Gilbert Mallore ; Thomas Mallore ; Walter 
 de Cimiterio, de^ Leicestre ; Laurence Maudut ; William 
 de Deresford. Early Hen. HL [1224-1229]. Lat. 
 
 189. Covenant between the monks of Kingswood 
 Abbey and Roger, son of Cecily, whereby the former grant 
 to the latter certain land in Gloucester (which belonged to 
 Ralph, son of Wibert, and lies near the Severn) at an annual 
 rent of eight shillings : and Roger grants to the monks 
 the land which Edith Slane gave them near Gloucester 
 Castle, at an annual rent of two shillings. Witnesses : 
 William Russel, prepositus ; Roger the Chaplain ; Richard 
 Burgeis ; Robert Tholi ; Richeman, son of Hernisus, and 
 others. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 190. Lease from William le Ryche, son of William 
 le Ryche, of Senedhame, of all his tenements in Senedhame 
 [Sneedham, in Upton St. Leonards, co. Glouc], to John 
 Payn, Burgess of Gloucester, for which the latter binds 
 
 ' Osbert, Abbot in 1224, succeeded by Matthew de Bray in 1229; v. 
 Dugdale's Monasticon, Ed. 1830. Vol vi. 462, 
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 himself to find the said William a '* cronnoc " of com every 
 six weeks, a garment every year, and a dwelling-house to 
 live in ; on failure of which the Bailiffs of King's Barton 
 Hundred shall distrain on the said John. Witnesses : 
 Master Stephen de Glastonia, " Custos " of King's Barton ; 
 Milo, the Clerk ; Philip de Haytherleye ; Henry de Ruwes ; 
 Robert de la Grave ; Henry de Lasseberuwe ; Henry de 
 Bares ; William Geraud. Early Henry HI. Lat. With 
 small green seal. 
 
 191. GRANT^^from Warin fil. Geroldi, to Alice Lotrix 
 of land within the croft of William Key, at an annual rent 
 of twelve pence. Witnesses : Dom. Hebert de Bolebek ; 
 Walter de la Waude, Steward ; Hugh, Serviens ; William 
 Butilier ; John de la Neste ; Gilbert Jocelin ; Serlo de 
 Badelking. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal of arms,^broken. 
 
 192. Grant from Roger de Berkele to Maurice de 
 Berkeie, his nephew, of all that meadow at Gosintun [near 
 Berkeley] called Luclemede. Rent, a pair of gilt spurs. 
 For this grant the said Maurice gave the said Roger a sor- 
 falcon valued at i6 shillings, and to Hawise Painel, his 
 wife, a besant. Witnesses : Robert de Berkele ; Eustace 
 and Oliver, brothers of the grantor ; Roger de Haggele ; 
 Reginald de Gosintun ; Harding de Huntenefeld ; Adam 
 and Maurice, sons of Nigel ; Hugh and Richard de Bradele ; 
 John de Cranle ; Robert Bastart ; William de Berkele. 
 Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 193. Grant from Thomas de Berkele to Henry de 
 Berkele, his son, of " tota Rudigga mea de Buleye " in 
 Camme [Cam], extending from the King's highway to the 
 bridge of Beleya. Witnesses : Robert, son of Richard ; 
 Richard de Cromhale ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; Richard 
 de Couele ; Thomas de Tyringetun ; John de Eggeton ; 
 Elias Pincerna. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal, broken. 
 
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 19^. Grant from William le Butiler de Kingestone 
 [Kingston Lisle, co. Berks] to William Rufus of Estchau- 
 lauhe [East Challow] of an acre and a half of his meadow 
 in Eyldefelde, situate between the meadows of Nicholas de 
 Fortecumba and Adam le Hore de Estchanlauhe. Wit- 
 nesses : Simon de Offintone ; John de Gopeshull ; John de 
 Rampain de Chelrey [Childrey] ; Adam, Clerk of Childrey ; 
 Jocelin de Wanetingre ; Edmund Dringe de Westcote ; 
 John Frankelan de Chelrey. Early Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 196. Sale from Thomas, son of Sewin de Croxton, to 
 Thomas, son of Nicholas de Croxton, of two selions, with 
 meadow at the head of the selions at Grimesbrig [? in 
 Croxton, co. Leic], for seven shillings. Witnesses : Hugh 
 Infans ; Robert de Fermeria ; William Cocus ; Hugh, 
 " ejusdem ville clericus " ; Acard de Berscoldebi ; Robert, 
 son of Hugh. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 196. Deed of Sale from Roger, son of Thomas de 
 Extona, to Geoffrey de Armenters of the homage and 
 service of Thomas, son of Gregory, Clerk, of Exton [? co. 
 Rutl.], for two marks of silver. Witnesses : Ralph de 
 Normanvile ; Hugh de Silicot ; Alan Basset ; Gilbert de 
 Mevill ; Roger de Anestya ; Henry de Bevill ; Geoffrey 
 de Rokingham ; Ralph, nepos Odonis de Empringham ; 
 Ralph Thaylard. Eaily Hen. HI. Lat. With seal, 
 chipped. 
 
 19*7- Grant from Robert de Haya, son of Alan de 
 Humberstan, to Stephen 'de Satgrave of a virgate of land in 
 Hawethirna [Hathern, co, Leic], which Geoffrey, son of 
 Eda, held, together with Geoffrey himself, his chattels and 
 " sequela." Rent, a pair of white gloves at Easter. Wit- 
 nesses : Ralph de Martigwast ; William Picot ; William de 
 
 Seinevill ; Robert de Twiford ; Master Alexander de 
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 Witebia ; Alan de Emerton ; John Castelein ; Laurence, the 
 Clerk ; Ralph de Bucebia ; Edmund de Satgrave ; Gilbert, 
 son of Herebert. Early Hen. III. Lat. With seal. 
 
 198. Grant from Henry fil. Geroldi^ to Robert de 
 Insula in marriage with Alice, his daughter, of the whole of 
 his land in Mundeford [co. Norf.] Rent 40s. per annum. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Richard, Prior of St. Mary, Thetford ; 
 Osbert Gyffard ; Richard de Argentoin ; John de Esefeld ; 
 William de Lega ; Ralph Blund ; William fil. Geroldi fil. 
 Henrici fil. Geroldi. Early Hen. III. Lat. With fine seal 
 of white wax (lion rampant). 
 
 199. Confirmation by Henry fil. Geroldi to Gocelin 
 of the virgate of land in Kingesparsholte [Sparsholt, co. 
 Berks.], with messuage, etc., which Hugh fil. Geroldi for- 
 merly granted to the said Gocelin for his homage and ser- 
 vice and twenty shillings. Witnesses : Walter de Bera; 
 Rotbert de Culumb' ; Peter Clericus ; John fil. Pain ; 
 Reginald de Ledecumb ; Rotbert Finke ; Richard Blunt ; 
 Peter de Gosee. Early Henry HI. Lat. With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 1. Robert fil. Geroldi. 
 t. Will. L I 
 
 Alexander fil. Geroldi^F Alice de Rumele, 
 
 I 
 
 Warine fil. Geroldi=T=Maud de Chesney 
 
 Chamberlain to I 
 
 Hen. IL | 
 
 H 
 
 Warine fil. Geroldi=Alice de Curci. Henry fil. Geroldi=fErmintruda, 
 
 Ob. circ. 1 2 16. I d, of Roger 
 
 I Talebot. 
 
 I 
 
 Alice=FRobert de Insula. 
 
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 Warine. 
 od. circ. 1327. 
 
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 200. Grant from Geoffrey de Insula to Stephen de 
 Segrave of four acres and a half of land on Labetotehil. 
 Rent, an arrow, at Easter. Witnesses : Hugh Dispensator ; 
 Ralph de Tursteinton ; Robert Putrell ; Robert de Torp ; 
 Ralph Perron. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 201. Covenant whereby the abbot and monks of 
 Kingswood grant to Ralph Piscator that land in Gloucester 
 which Dom. Edith Slane gave in alms to the said abbey, 
 which land lies beyond the bridge of Gloucester, between 
 the Hospital and the outer rampart.^ Rent, 3 shillings. 
 Witnesses : Roger, Chaplain of St. Nicholas ; Roger, son 
 of Cecily ; Robert Toli ; Richard Burgeis ; Henry Cain ; 
 William, son of Katherine ; Simon, son of Alured ; William, 
 son of Johel ; Gilbert Pistor ; Faricius, etc. Early Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With seal displaying a fish. 
 
 202. Grant from Robert de Leicestria to Stephen de 
 Sedgrave of all his land of Ditheswrth [Diseworth, co. 
 Leic], which he had by gift from Reginald Basset, his 
 uncle. Witnesses : Henry de Segrave ; Peter de Sancto 
 Edwardo; William de Wasteneis ; Gilbert Mallore ; Thomas 
 Mallore ; Walter de Cimiterio de Leicestria ; Laurence 
 Mauduit ; William de Deresford. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 With seal, broken. 
 
 203. Grant from William de Morevile to Laurence de 
 Sancto Mauro in free marriage with Hawisia, his daughter, 
 of his dwelling-house, called " Woderige," together with 
 Walter de Woderige and all his suit, half the wood called 
 Nadderhurst, and a certain part of the moor outside the 
 wood, with twenty pigs " in pessone et in warenno meo cum 
 porcis meis." Witnesses : Matthew de Clivedune ; Roger de 
 
 ^ britaschia. 
 
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 Sancto Mauro ; Richard, son of Arthur ; Roger de Morevile ; 
 Richard de Capenor ; John la Warre ; Peter de Marisco ; 
 Philip de Nerberth ; Reginald de Remesby ; William de 
 Sancto Mauro, etc. Early Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 20^. Grant from Richard le Nevou to Kingswood 
 Abbey of half an acre of land lying on Agheleghegrave, on 
 the east of the road leading from Ozleworth towards 
 Simondeshall [near Wotton-under-Edge]. Witnesses : 
 Peter de Yweleghe ; Nigel de Kyngescote ; Roger de 
 Ny wentone ; Elias de Cumba. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 205. Grant from Robert, son of Henry de Offinton to 
 Robert de Gessit of 15 acres of land in Offinton [Uffington, 
 CO. Berks] in free marriage with Juliana, his daughter. 
 Witnesses : Walter de Boccote ; Stephen de Wlfruthestone ; 
 Simon de Faueflore ; Robert Hakkere ; James de Offinton ; 
 Pagan de Cnitteton ; Thomas de Faueflore; William, son 
 of Eadmund ; John, son of Eadmund. Early Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 206. Grant from Geoffrey de Oldelonde to William 
 Marmiun of four acres of land, viz.^ one acre in Button 
 [Bitton, CO. Glouc], between the two crosses above Fine- 
 grave, one acre at Whatewell, and two acres above Beket mill. 
 Rent, a pair of white gloves at Easter. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Nicholas de Oxhay ; Robert de Hanum : Robert Joye ; 
 Henry Puintell ; Martin de Aldelond ; Robert Juvenis ; Peter 
 Gargatte ; I'homas Francis ; William de Cherthesley. Early 
 Hen. HI. With seal, broken. 
 
 20*7. Grant from William de Pesemer, son and heir of 
 Richard de Pesemer, Knt, to Richard Darches of three 
 virgates of land in Pesemere [Peasemore, co. Berks.], which 
 John le Frances, Robert Weche, and Cecily, " vidua de 
 
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 Angulo," with all their suit, held from him. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Walter de Ripariis ; Geoffrey de Wauci ; Richard de 
 Westwude; Peter de Offinton. Early Hen. III. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 208. Grant from Randolf de Fidel to Stephen de 
 Segrave of four acres and a half of land lying beneath the 
 court of the said Stephen, with the meadow attached to it. 
 Witnesses : Richard de Ambrel ; John de Ripariis ; Henry 
 Luvet ; William de Parco; Adam, son of Philip; William 
 de Kington ; Walter de Kington ; Peter de Pidel ; Roger 
 de Acoir. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 209. Grant by Nicholas, son of Henry de Culcretun 
 to the monks of Kingswood of his tenement of Culcretun, 
 consisting of a court, with garden, 35 acres of arable 
 land, his men, rents, etc., reserving to himself a rent 
 of a pair of iron spurs at Easter, or three pence, as the 
 monks choose, and a royal service to the chief lord of Tet- 
 bury, etc. Witnesses : Bartholomew Labanc ; Walter de 
 Uptune ; Roger de Duchtune ; Adam de Cherletune ; Philip 
 de Tettebire ; Laurence de Lasceles ; Roger de Calfhaia ; 
 Roger Barette ; Geoffrey Custance ; Walter Bernard ; 
 William, son of Elias ; William de Bradeleg ; Matthew le 
 Scay ; Henry de Bradelega. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 210. Grant by Aaliz del Egge, daughter of William 
 del Egge, to Kingswood Abbey of four acres of land, of 
 which two acres lie near Ykeburg abutting on La Rugwei, 
 and the other two acres abut on La Grenewei de la Ver- 
 nislade [in Calcot, in Newington Bagpath]. Witnesses: 
 Philip de Berkelai; Oliver, his brother; Simon de Olepenne; 
 Thomas, Parson of Newington ; Peter de Yweleg ; Gilbert 
 del Egge ; William de Westcote ; Vlger de Buivile ; Thomas 
 Loch. Early Hen. HL Lat. 
 
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 211. Release from William, son of Eustace Pincerna 
 de Berkelay, to Dom. Thomas de Berkelay of that half 
 virgate of land which Sewi sometime held in Ham, and 
 which the said Eustace, his father, acquired by grant from 
 Dom. Robert de Berkelay. Witnesses : Henry de Berkelay; 
 William de Berkelay ; Richard de Coueleg' ; Richard de 
 Lukintun ; Peter de Stintecumbe ; John de Eggentun ; 
 Alexander de London. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 212. Grant from Adam the Abbot and the Abbey of 
 Garendon [co. Leic] to Stephen de Sadgrave, for his 
 homage and service, of their mill of Alebi [Welby, co. Leic], 
 which they acquired by grant from Nigel de Alebi (reserving 
 right of grinding of corn to William, son of Nigel, and his 
 heirs). Witnesses : Hugh Dispensator ; William Picot ; 
 Philip de Kynton ; Nicholas de Torp ; Brian Forestarius ; 
 William, son of Hugh de Boville ; William, son of Robert 
 de Boville. [i 2 19-1226]. Lat. 
 
 213. Grant from Geoffrey de Helyun, for the salvation 
 of the souls of his wife and parents, to the Poor's Hospital 
 of St. Mary in Tilleburry [Tilbury, co. Essex] of eight shil- 
 lings rent from land in Alvidelea [Alveley, co. Essex], the 
 Warden of the Hospital to pay the said Geoffrey one pound 
 of wax at Easter for the light at the Altar of St. Margaret 
 in Tilbury Church. Witnesses : John de Mathan ; Henry 
 de Kemesoc ; Nicholas de Walesham ; Aulf de Malegrave ; 
 William de Thorend ; William Torell ; John, son of Pagan ; 
 Richard de Berdestapel ; John de Langedun ; Godselm de 
 Tillebury ; Clement de Walesham ; Clement, son of Turold; 
 Walter de London. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 214. Grant from Ysouda de Werdun to Stephen de 
 Segrave of a virgate of land in Dideswrth [Diseworth, co. 
 Leic], which he held some time from Robert de Curzun, her 
 
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 brother. Witnesses : Dom. William de Wasteneys ; Hugh 
 de Schardelowoe ; Roger de Hausted ; Brian Forestarius ; 
 Hugh de Dideswrth ; Simon de Colleshullj Yvo de Kegwrth. 
 Early Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 215. Grant from Peter de Ywelegh to Kingswood Abbey 
 of two acres of land near the land of the monks of Kings- 
 wood " at the head of the white wall," which land he had 
 in exchange for two acres belonging to Aaliz del Egge. 
 Witnesses : Philip de Berkelai; Simon de Olepenne ; Walter 
 de Bennecumbe ; Thomas de la Planke ; Gilbert del Egge ; 
 Thomas Loc ; William de Westcote ; Ulger de Bunvile ; 
 Nicholas de Kingeswde. Early Hen. HI. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 216. Grant from Peter de Yweleye to Dom. William de 
 Berkeleye, Knt, of all his land in Yweley [Uley, co. Glouc.]. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Berkele ; Dom. Maurice de 
 Salso Marisco; Nigel de Kyngescote ; Bartholomew de 
 Olepenne ; Robert de Kyngestone ; Robert de Ywele ; Peter 
 de Stintescumbe ; John de Brochestane. Early Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 217. Grant from Thomas de Muncketon to the Church 
 of St. Michael in Stupeholm [Steep Holm], and the friars 
 there serving God, of his land, held some time by Ailmar 
 Boving, in Curcheston, which Robert, son of Richard, gave, 
 and John de Ken and Agacia, his wife, daughter and heir 
 of the said Robert, confirmed to him. Early Hen. HI. Lat. 
 Mutilated. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Thomas de Muncketon 
 dedi et concessi et presenti carta mea confirmavi Deo et 
 ecclesie Beati Michaelis in Stupeholm simul cum me 
 ipso in puram et perpetuam elemosinam totam terram 
 
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 meam in Curcheston, scilicet, illam dimidiam virgatam 
 cum omnibus pertinentiis suis quam Ailmarus Bouing 
 aliquando tenuit cum .... terram pertinente, 
 Habendam et tenendam inperpetuum fratribus ibidem 
 Deo et Beate Marie et Sancto Michaeli servientibus adeo 
 libera et quiete . . . terram melius et liberius et 
 quietius tenui per unam libram cimini annuatim 
 reddendam Johanni de Ken vel heredibus suis ad. . . 
 servicio et querela ad eos pertinente. Hanc autem 
 prenominatam terram dedit mihi et heredibus meis 
 Robertus filius Ricardi . . . carta ipsius testatur, 
 Quam ad majorem securitatem predictis fratribus tradidi 
 simul cum confirmatione Willelmi filii Ma .... 
 confirmatione Johannis de Ken et Agacie uxoris sue 
 filie et heredis predicti Roberti filii Ricardi. Ut autem 
 . . . confirmatio firma sit et stabilis presentis carte 
 mee attestatione et sigilli mei apposicione illam con- 
 firmavi. Hiis testibus . . . Sparkeford et Roberto 
 et Helia fratribus suis, Ricardo filio Arturi, Adda 
 Wallense, et Johanne filio suo, Galfrido serviente, . . 
 sacerdote de Lokeston, Hunfrido de Bagewrke, Hugone 
 de Auxe, et Ada filio suo, Henrico de Belgeton et 
 multis aliis. 
 
 218. Grant from King Henry HI. to Robert de 
 Dammenevill, heir of Adam de Dammenevill, of the Manor 
 of Bitton. Witnesses : J[ocelin Trotman], Bishop of 
 Bath ; R[ichard le Poore], Bishop of Salisbury ; H[ubert] de 
 Burgo, Earl of Kent, Justices of England ; Ralph, son of 
 Nicholas, Richard de Argent[ine], the King's Stewards; 
 Henry de jCapella. Dat " by the hand of R[alph Nevill] 
 Bishop of Chichester, at our Chancery at Westminster, 
 1 8 March A°. xl" [1227]. Lat. With fine impression of 
 first great seal in green wax, broken. 
 
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 219. Release from Robert, son of Richard de to 
 
 Stephen de Seggrave of rent of three messuages in Haben- 
 tonestrate [in Northampton] which he acquired from Robert, 
 son of Robert de Leycestre, as dowry for his wife. Wit- 
 nesses : William de Martiwall\ Sheriff of Northampton ; 
 Robert Speciarius ; Michael, son of Philip ; Ralph Passel ; 
 " prepositi " [of Northampton] ; Fulco de Martiwall, " con- 
 stabularius ;" Roger, son of Theodbert ; Robert Dispensator; 
 Henry de Mercato ; Simon Vitor ; Henry de Leycestria : 
 Philip, son of Robert ; Thomas de Leycestria [1228- 1233]. 
 Lat. 
 
 220. Confirmation by Simon de Belegrave, son of 
 Yvo, to Peter de Belegrave, his kinsman, of the grant 
 made by William de Belegrave, his uncle, of his land in 
 Wattun [Whatton, co. Leic,]. Witnesses : Stephen de 
 Segrave, tunc vicecomes2 ; Ralph de Martingwast' ; William 
 de Martingwast' ; Robert de Wivill ; Ralph Kamerarius ; 
 William de Bracebruge ; Henry de Segrave ; Tedballdus 
 Clericus; Robert Arrab. [1229-1232]. Lat. With seal. 
 
 221. Release from Henry HI. to William de Putot of 
 twenty shillings, which he is accustomed to pay every year 
 to the Constable of Bristol from his land of Manegodesfeld 
 [Mangotsfield], " nomine Jaresyue," and a grant to the same 
 of a market every Tuesday at his manor of Bitton, unless it 
 should interfere with other markets. Witnesses : H[ubert] 
 de Burgo, Earl of Kent, Chief Justicier of England; W[illiam] 
 Marshall, Earl of Pembroke ; Stephen de Segrave ; William 
 de Cantilupo ; Gilbert Basset ; John, son of Philip ; Geoffrey 
 Dispenser ; Geoffrey de Cauz ; Henry de Capella. Dat. 
 
 ^ William de Martiwast was the Deputy of Stephen de Segrave, Sheriff of 
 Northampton in 1 228-1 233. 
 
 * Sheriff of Cos. Warw. and Leic, 14-18. Hen. III. 
 
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 "by the hand of R[alph Nevill], Bishop of Chichester, Chan- 
 cellor ; at Gloucester, 2 March, A° xv." [123 1]. Lat. With 
 first great seal (broken), attached by four strings of green 
 silk plaited together. 
 
 222. Fine levied before Thomas de Mulet[one], 
 William de Ral[eigh], Robert de Lexinton, William de 
 Insula, William de London, Mag. Robert de Shard[elaw], 
 Ralph de Norwico, William de Eboraco and Richard Re- 
 inger, King's Justices, whereby Henry Pipard and Nichola, 
 his wife, convey to Stephen de Segrave the manor of 
 Torinton [Thornton, co. Leic] Dat. Westminster, Easter 
 Term, 15 Hen. HI. [123 1]. Lat. 
 
 223. Fine levied before S[tephen] de Segrave, R[obert] 
 de Lexinton, W[illiam] de Insula and Mag. R[obert] de 
 Serdelawe, King's Justices, whereby Robert de Chaucumba 
 conveys to Gilbert de Segrave and Amabel, his wife, the 
 manor of Dauby [Dalby, co. Leic] Dat. Nottingham, 
 Michaelmas Term, 15 Hen. III. [1231]. Lat. 
 
 22^^. Release by William de Hausted to Stephen de 
 Segrave of two carucates of land in Kegword [Kegworth, 
 CO. Leic], with rent of four burgages in Leicester, which 
 Robert de Nevill and Matilda, his wife, held, and which the 
 said Stephen now holds of the gift of Ranulf, Earl of Ches- 
 ter. Witnesses : Henry de Segrave ; William de Quatremare ; 
 Benedict de Dithezword ; William Picot ; William de 
 Kuneston : Robert le Ostricer ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; 
 Stephen de Pontefrigido ; Richard, son of Alfred ; Gilbert 
 Maulore ; Thomas Ordmer ; William de Sancto Edmundo. 
 A7ite 1232. Lat. With seal, knight in armour. 
 
 225. Fine levied before Stephen de Segrave, William de 
 Eboraco, William Basset and William de Insula, Justices 
 
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 Itinerant, whereby three messuages in Cambridge are con- 
 veyed to Alice de Stanton, by John Rufifus, the warrantor of 
 (i) Lettice, dau. of Rob. de Rokingham and Richard de 
 Wytewelle, of (2) Mabel Pagles and Ernisius, her son, and 
 of (3) Ellota, dau. of Bernard. Dat. Cambridge, F. of St 
 Peter-ad- Vincula [i Aug.] 16 Hen. Ill [1232]. Laf. 
 
 226. Fine levied before Stephen de Segrave, William 
 de Eboraco, William Basset, and William de Insula, Jus- 
 tices Itinerant, whereby John Ruffus releases his right in 
 certain tenements in Cambridge to Alice de Staunton. 
 Dat. Cambridge, F. of St. Peter-ad- Vincula [i Aug.] 16 
 Hen. Ill, 1232.. 
 
 227. Grant from Matilda, Countess of Essex [sister and 
 heiress of William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, wife of 
 HenrydeBohun, Earl of Hereford and subsequently of Essex], 
 to Stephen de Segrave of the homage and service of Eudo de 
 Caletot from the tenement which the latter held in Doresby 
 [Thoresby, co. Line.]. Rent, a sparrow hawk or two shil- 
 lings, to be paid yearly on the ist August. Witnesses : 
 Walter de Besebosc ; William de Wastineis ; John de 
 Ripariis ; Henry, son of Geoffrey ; Walter Muskot ; William 
 de Sancto Edmundo ; Richard de Thorp ; Roger de Pres- 
 ton ; Walter de Bishopeston. [1227-1232]. Lat With seal 
 of the Countess holding bird, etc. 
 
 228. Gfant from Peter de Sancto Edwardo to Dom. 
 Stephen de Segrave, Justicier of England, of six and a half 
 virgates of land in Dersford [Desford, co. Leic] Witnesses : 
 Hugh de Schardelaghe ; Andrew Bukerel, Mayor of Lon- 
 don ; Richard Renger ; Semaine Balistarius ; William Russel; 
 Simon Wirek ; Richard Cocus ; Richard de Depeden ; 
 Geoffrey Claudus ; John de Hoddeng. Ctrc. 1232. Laf. 
 
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 229. Grant from David, Abbot, and the convent of St. 
 Augustine's Bristol, to Dom. Maurice de Gaunt, that they 
 will every year admit a hundred poor people [pauperes 
 Christi] into the almonry which the said Maurice has 
 constructed for them, each pauper to have bread to the 
 weight of 50 solidi, for which purpose the said Maurice has 
 assigned to the Abbey sixty " summae " of corn, and sixty 
 " summae " of beans and peas each year, with a rent of ten 
 pounds for eighty summae of barley, etc., and the Abbey in 
 return grants the services of a chaplain to pray for his soul 
 and the souls of his ancestors. Witnesses : Dom. Robert de 
 Gurnay ; Dom. Jordan Warr' ; Dom. William Camerarius ; 
 Dom. Gilbert de Scipton ; Peter Warr' ; Roger Aillard ; 
 William, Clericus ; Henry Aki ; Richard Warr' ; Philip 
 Long; Robert Farthein; John Warr'; William de Hida ; 
 Adam de Budiford. [1216-1234]. Lat. 
 
 230. Lease for 1 2 years, from Thomas Loch to Ralph 
 Suneof four acres and a half of land in Niwintun [Newington, 
 CO. Glouc ], namely at Worthiacre, Tvistlebroke, and Brec- 
 cheaker. Witnesses : Bartholomew Labanc ; Thomas de 
 la Planche ; Walter de la Planche ; Adam de la Hame ; 
 William de Westcote ; William Trelli ; Walter de Fromtun ; 
 Ralph de Calfhaga ; Colin de Culcretun, Dat. Easter [3 
 April], 1233. Lat. 
 
 231. Confirmation by Henry HI. to Stephen de 
 Sedgrave of all the grants made to him by William de 
 Warrenne, Earl of Surrey, in Duninton [Donington, co. 
 Leic] ; by Alice, " Comitissa Augi " [d'Eu], in Doning- 
 ton ; by William de Ferrariis, Earl of Derby, in Mathlac 
 [Matlock, CO. Derby] ; by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, in 
 Mountsorell [co. Leic] ; with the advowson of Kegworth 
 [co. Leic], and the vill of Bretby [co. York] ; by John 
 de Scocia, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon, in Ale- 
 
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 mundebere [Almondbury], and in Weston, etc.; by Earl 
 William de Mandeville in Aumodesham [Awnsham] ; by 
 Matilda, Countess of Essex, in Thoresby, co. Lincoln ; by 
 John, son of Geoffrey, in Pydel [Piddle], co. Wore, 
 Coldoverton [co. Leic], and in Raunde [Raunds, co. Essex]; 
 by Geoffrey de Bakepuz, in Coldoverton ; by Geoffrey, Prior 
 of Thornholm, in Thunstall, co. Line, etc. Witnesses : 
 P[eter], Bishop of Winchester ; J[ohn le Scot], Earl of 
 Chester and Huntingdon ; [John de Laci] Earl of Lincoln 
 and Constable of Chester; [Humphrey de Bohun] Earl of 
 Hereford ; Walter de Lascy ; Henry de Aldithel ; Walter 
 de Bello Campo ; Ralph, son of Nicholas ; John, son of 
 Philip ; Geoffrey Dispenser ; William de Picheford. Dat. 
 " by the hand of Ralph, Bishop of Chester, our Chancellor, 
 at Hereford, 2 Nov., Anno 18" [1233]. Lat. With first 
 seal of the King, broken. 
 
 232. Release from William de Weston, son of Ralph 
 de Welleford, to Osbert de Luncecumbe of a hide of land in 
 Merston and of nine shillings and four pence rent in Cam- 
 peden which Agnes his mother held for her life. Wit- 
 nesses : Walter de Eboraco, Justiciarius de Bancho ; Henry 
 de Waltham ; Maurice Le Botiler ; Henry de Praeres ; 
 Roger de Budiford ; Richard de Clopton ; John de Bello- 
 monte, etc. Dat. Morrow of All Souls [Nov. 2] 18 Hen. 
 nL[i233]. With seal. 
 
 233. Covenant for grant by Roger Aillard, of Bristol, 
 to Kingswood Abbey of a virgate of land which Matilda 
 Bulcard held from him in Bevinton [Bevington], and all that 
 land called Colehide, the said Abbey paying an annual rent 
 of eighteen pence, and the said Roger will acquit the said 
 land of sixpence, and the said land called Colehide of six- 
 pence against the lords of the fee, to whom the said twelve 
 pence are due every Michaelmas from the said Roger, and 
 
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 of six pence relief on change of heirs. Witnesses : Geoffrey 
 de Chausi ; Walter Cauvel ; Richard Aillard ; Richard le 
 Warre ; William Beumund ; Richard de Bochoure ; Hugh 
 de Howelle ; Geoffrey de Rodmertun ; Thomas de la 
 Planche. Dat. F. or SS. Ciricus and Julitta [i6 June] in 
 Whitsun Week, 1234, Lat. 
 
 234. INSPEXIMUS by Thomas de Berkelay, of the grant 
 by his grandfather Robert Fitzharding, to Robert, his 
 son, of the three hundreds of Portbury, Bedminster, and 
 Hareclive, and of the grant of the said hundreds to Dom. 
 Maurice de Gant, the heir of Robert [de Were], uncle to the 
 said Thomas, on the payment of a silver mark. Witnesses : 
 Dom. D[avid], Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol ; Dom. 
 Richard Siward ; Dom. Jordan la Warre ; Dom. Walter de 
 Tilli ; Dom. John de Alneto ; Adam de Budiford ; Gilbert 
 de Hendun ; Henry de Veun. [1220-1234]. Lai. With 
 small white seal. 
 
 235. Letters patent of King Henry HI. granting to 
 Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke, pardon for his action in the war 
 between the King and Richard, late Earl of Pembroke, his 
 brother, and restitution of the Castle of Striguil, in Wales, 
 which he pledged to E[dmund] Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 and the Castle of Dumas in Ireland, which he pledged to 
 L[uke] Archbishop of Dublin, as security for his faithful 
 service to the King. Dat. Reading, 22 August, Anno 18 
 [1234]. Lat, Seal missing. 
 
 236. Grant from Margaret, Countess of Winchester,^ to 
 Stephen de Segrave of all the land which Peter de Sancto 
 Edwardo held of her in Dersford [Desford, co. Leic], with 
 all her land in Mountsorrel [co. Leic], called Hunthanc, for 
 his homage and service, and the payment of a pair of white 
 gloves every Easter. Witnesses : Dom. Ralph de Bray ; 
 
 1 Wife of Sahet de Quincey. 
 
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 John de Ripariis ; Roger de Sifrevvast ; Hugh de Manecestre; 
 Roger de Turketleby ; Ralph de Queneby ; Walter Mus- 
 chat ; Walter de Bristol, Clericus. [1219-1235]. Lat. 
 With fine (but broken) seal of green wax representing 
 Margaret, Countess of Winchester, in full figure, with dress 
 charged with mascules, her armorial bearings, etc. (for full 
 description of similar seal in British Museum, see W. de Gray 
 Birch's Seal Catalogue, No. 6700), and on the reverse an 
 impression of ancient Greek gem representing a galley, 
 and having on the rim the magic letters A G L A^, alter- 
 nating with mascules. 
 
 237- Confirmation by Thomas de Berkelay of the 
 grant by Roger Aillard to Kingswood Abbey [v. No. 233]. 
 Witnesses : Ralph de Wilintun ; Nicholas, his son ; Geoffrey 
 de Chausi ; Oliver de Berkeley ; Simon de Olepenne ; Henry 
 and William de Berkeley, sons of the grantor ; Bartholomew 
 Labanch ; Roger de Ductun ; Thomas de la Planche ; 
 Walter, his brother ; John de Egintun ; Robert Vitulus ; 
 William de Bradelegh ; Matthew le Scay ; Robert de 
 Soreston ; Adam Russel ; Ernulph, the Clerk. Dat. F. of 
 St. Ambrose [4 April], 1236. La(. 
 
 238. Grant from Thomas de Berkele to Kingswood 
 Abbey of the land of Wixi, four acres lying near Caldechote 
 grange [Caldicote, in Newington Bagpath, co. GIouc.]. 
 Witnesses: Ralph de Wilintun; Nicholas, son of Roger ; 
 Geoffrey de Chausi ; Oliver de Berkele ; Simon de Ole- 
 penna ; Bartholomew Labanc ; Roger de Ductun ; Thomas 
 de la Planche ; Walter, his brother ; John de Egintun ; 
 William de Bradelegh ; Matthew le Scay ; Robert de 
 Soreston e ; Adam Russel. Dat. F. of St. Ambrose [4 Apr.] 
 1236. Lat. 
 
 ^ These letters formed a charm, and are the initial letters of Hebrew words, 
 signifying "the Mighty God for ever." See Paper on a I'jth cent, roll con- 
 taining prayers and magical signs, by Dr. Sparrow Simpson printed in the 
 transactions of the British Archaeological Association. Vol. XL., p. 297. 
 G 
 
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 239. Indenture of lease for lo years by Geoffrey 
 Puterel to Ralph, Abbot, and the Convent of Croxton, co. 
 Leic, of pasture for sheep in Houwes [Hose, co. Leic.]. 
 Witnesses : William, son of Walter ; Odinel de Herdebi ; 
 Henry Rufus de Houwes ; Hugh, his son ; Robert, son of 
 Gilbert ; Robert, son of Ralph ; Robert, son of Robert ; 
 William Maleherbe ; John, son of Gilbert, the Clerk ; Henry 
 de Broctun. Dat. F. of Holy Cross [3 May]. 1236. Lat. 
 
 240. Settlement of suit between Dom. Thomas de 
 Berkeley and William, Abbot, and the Convent of St. 
 Augustine, Bristol, concerning the tithes of pannage in the 
 woods of the said Thomas, tithes of fishery and mills, and 
 concerning the manor of Arlingham [co. Glouc], the land 
 of Bray, the land of Loreweng, and concerning right of way 
 claimed by the canons of the Abbey, etc. Dat. Octave of 
 St. Augustine "in the month of May," 1236, in the Church 
 of St. Peter, Gloucester. Witnesses : Master Hubert, 
 official of the Bishop of Worcester ; Dom. William Putot ; 
 Dom. Ralph de Wileton ; Roger de Andeure, Rector of 
 Cam ; Dom. Henry de Berkeley ; Dom. William de Berke- 
 ley ; Maurice, son of Maurice de Berkeley ; Maurice de 
 Sautemareis ; Roger de Sokerwik ; Reginald de Camma. 
 Lat. With seal of Thomas de Berkeley, 
 
 241. Confirmation by Robert de Rocheford to 
 Kingswood Abbey of the grant of William le Brctun of one 
 " cotcelda " of land in Osleworth, which Alice Toki sold to 
 the said William after acquiring it from the said Robert in 
 a suit at Gloucester before William de Eboraco, William de 
 Insula, Ralph de Norwico, Thurstan Dispensator, and 
 Ralph de Chandos,lJustices itinerant inthe20thyear of Henry 
 III. [1235-6] ; and of the grant of Geoffrey, son of Geoffrey 
 de Chausi, of another " cotcelda " of land in Osleworth, 
 
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 The said Robert also grants to the Monks of Kingswood 
 right of passage through all the fields of Osleworth 
 when they are lying fallow, for carts, carriages, sheep and 
 other animals, but when the fields are sown they shall have 
 passage only under the guidance of the said Robert or his 
 men. Witnesses : Oliver de Berkeley ; Geoffrey de Chausi ; 
 Colin, his son ; Henry de Liuez ; John de Egintune ; 
 William de Bradele ; Thomas le Archer ; John le Newh ; 
 Nigel de Oslewrde ; Roger Petitpas ; Walter Tisun ; 
 Henry, Clerk of Bradley ; Walter Lefrith, of Tresham. 
 Circ. 1236. Lat. With seal of Robertus de Rupeforti 
 [Rochford]. 
 
 212, 213. Grant and counterpart by Robert de Roche- 
 fort to the church and monks of Kingswood of half a virgate 
 of land which Calebat held, and a " cotcelda " of land which 
 Walter de Gathurde held, and a meadow called Holecumbe- 
 mede, in Oslewrthe [Ozleworth]. Witnesses : Oliver de 
 Berkeley ; Bartholomew Labanc ; Nicholas Ruffus ; Robert, 
 Parson of Oslewrth ; Roger de Ductun ; Robert, his son ; 
 William, son of Elyas de Cherletun ; Nicholas Mignot ; 
 Colin de Culcretun ; John le New ; Walter Tysun ; Roger 
 Petitpas; Robert le Stabler. Dat. Feast of St. Nicholas 
 [6 Dec.]. 1238. Lat. 
 
 2H. Covenant whereby Dom. Thomas de Berkeley 
 grants to Maurice, son of Hugh de Salso Marisco, all the 
 land at; Wudeford [Woodford] which Walter Puchering held, 
 instead of that land in the park of Hoeleia [Uley, co. Glouc], 
 which the said Maurice claimed, but to which by this cove- 
 nant he gives up all claim. Witnesses : Dom. Richard de 
 Clifford ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; Walter Cauell ; John de 
 Wudeford ; William Vitulus ; Adam Russel. Dat. X. Kal. 
 
 Mar. [20 Feb.]. I238[9]. Lat. 
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 2^5. Grant from Robert de Rocheford to Kingswood 
 Abbey of two half virgates of land in Oslewrthe [Ozle- 
 worth], one of which is called Lippehiete, and the other 
 Adam le Wite and Alured de Langanacre held. Witnesses : 
 Oliver de Berkeley ; Henry de Liuez ; John de Egintune; 
 William de Bradele ; Thomas le Archer ; Nigel de Osle- 
 wrthe ; Roger Petitpas ; Henry, Clerk of Bradley, and 
 others. Circ. 1 238. Lat. 
 
 2^6. Grant from Matthew, son of Thomas, the parson 
 ofNiwintun [Newington Bagpath, co. Glouc], to Kingswood 
 Abbey of half a virgate of land in Baggapath [Bagpath], 
 which he had by grant from Dom. Adam, son of Nigel de 
 Kingescote. Witnesses : Oliver de Berkeley ; Simon de 
 Olepenne ; Robert de Rocheford ; Roger de Niwinton ; 
 Nicholas Ruffus ; John le New ; Adam de la Home ; 
 William de Bradeleg'; Nicholas de Culcretun. Circ. 1238. 
 Lat. 
 
 24*7- Grant from John le Newh to Kingswood Abbey 
 of two and a half acres of land in Oslewrde [Ozleworth]. Wit- 
 nesses : Oliver de Berkeley ; Robert de Rocheford ; Geoffrey 
 de Chausi, jun. ; William de Lasseburwe ; Robert, Parson 
 of Ozleworth ; Roger de Berkeley ; Nigel de Oslewrde. 
 Circ. 1238. Lat. 
 
 248. Grant from Thomas de Berkelay, son of Dom. 
 Thomas de Berkelay (for the souls of his father and mother), 
 to Kingswood Abbey of all his wood in Symundeshale, 
 lying between the valley called La Throte and the road 
 called CuUingewey. Witnesses : Dom. Peter de Eggewrthe; 
 Dom. Geoffrey de Chausi ; Oliver de Berkelay ; Geoffrey, 
 the Clerk, of Deerhurst ; Nicholas Ruffus ; Humphrey de 
 la Barre ; Matthew le Scay ; Peter de Yweleye ; Walter 
 Tysun. Circ. 1238. Lat. 
 
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 2^9. Fine levied before Robert de Lexinton, Walter 
 de Eboraco, and Henry de Bathonia, Justices, whereby 
 Ralph Basset and Millicent, his wife, convey to Juliana " que 
 fuit uxor Roberti de Chaucumbe," a carucate of land in 
 Stroby [Strubby, co. Line], in return for which Gilbert de 
 Segrave and Amabel, his wife, sister of the said Millicent, 
 and co-heir with her of Robert de Chaucumbe\ grant to the 
 said Ralph and Millicent 100 shillingswprth [solidatae] of 
 land and rent in Chaucumbe [Chalcombe, co. Northt], 
 namely, the land which Robert *' sub Gardino," Sabina, vidua, 
 Hugh de La Pleghestowe, and Adam athe Hulle held, and 
 10 shillingsworth of rent from Chalcombe Mill. Dat. " In 
 curia Domini Regis apud sanctam Brigidam Lond[on]." 
 Easter Term. 23 Hen. HL [1239]. Lat. 
 
 250. Grant from Reginald Bassad to Stephen de 
 Setgrave of four virgates of land in Detheswr' [Diseworth], 
 two of which virgates Richard Bassad held of the fee of the 
 Earl of Leicester, for which the said Reginald gave to the 
 said Richard, in exchange, other land in the vill of Wul- 
 stere [? Woolsthorpe, co. Leic]. Witnesses : Peterde Sancto 
 Ewardo {sic) ; Henry de Burchevill ; Hamo de Turvill ; 
 Eustace de Putof ; Henry de Setgrave ; Robert de Waletun ; 
 Simon de Monteforti. Temp. Hen. HL \ante 1241]. Lat 
 
 251. Grant from Henry de Braybroc to Stephen de 
 Segrave of ten virgates of land in Wethstoen [Whetstone, 
 CO. Leic], which he held by tenure of a fourth part of a 
 
 ^ Hugh de Chacombe=i=Amabel . . . 
 temp. Hen. H. 
 
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 Robert de Chacombe=f=-Juliana . . . 
 Simon Bassett=i= • • Avenel alive in 1209 | 
 
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 Ralph Bassett=Millicent Roger de Soniery=AmabeI=pGilbert de Segrave 
 Baron of Sapcote, (2nd husband) | ob. 1255 
 
 Sheriff of CO. Line. ob. 1273. I ' 
 
 25-29th Hen. IH. Nicholas Segrave 
 
 ob. 1265. Baron Segrave, 
 
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 knight's fee from Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Win- 
 chester. Witnesses : Dom. Martin de Pateshull ; Hugh 
 Dispensarius ; William, son of Warin ; William de Insula ; 
 William de Ralee, the Clerk ; Ralph, son of Reginald ; 
 William de Sancto Edmundo ; Stephen de Oxonia. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. [afiU 1241]. Lai.] 
 
 252. Grant from James le Breet to Stephen de Segrave 
 of all his land which Thomas Molendinarius and Solomon 
 Kyte held In Crowesscahe in the territory of La Wike 
 [? Wike, CO. Warvv.]. Rent, one pound of cummin. Wit- 
 nesses : William de HardredishuU ; Peter de Sancto 
 Edwardo ; Richard de Kinton ; Hugh de Mancestre ; 
 William de la Wike ; Geoffrey Puterel ; William Burdun ; 
 Simon, the Clerk ; Gilbert Maulore ; Hervey de Salbe ; 
 Richard de Thorp ; William de Sancto Edmundo. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. [anU 1241]. Laf. 
 
 253. Grant from Avice, sister of Roger de Sidenhale 
 to Stephen de Segrave of four bovates of land in Wimunde- 
 wald [Wymeswould, co. Leic], which Hugh Thodric and 
 Geoffrey, his son, held, and of other lands which Hugh, son 
 of Geoffrey Cruse, Adam Brun, and Peter Dod held. 
 Witnesses : Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; Ranulf de Jorz ; 
 Robert Puterel ; John, son of Hugh ; Robert de Torp ; 
 William, son of Ivo ; Hugh de Berghes ; William Malore ; 
 Thomas del Pec ; Geoffrey Blundel. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 [ante 1241]. Lai. With seal, chipped. 
 
 254. Release from Alice, widow of Peter de Pidel, to 
 Stephen de Seagrave of her rights " nomine dotis " in the 
 third part of all that land which Peter, her lord, granted to 
 the said Stephen. Witnesses : Richard de Omberleia ; 
 Henry, his brother; Robert Pipart ; William de Kington; 
 Ronulf de Pidel. Temp. Hen. HI. [ante 1241]. Lat. 
 
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 255. Grant from Hugh de Anvers to Hugh de Chau- 
 comb, of a virgate of land in Great Dalby [co. Leic], of the 
 fee of Ralph Basset. Witnesses : Will[iam] de Seinevill ; 
 Rag. Basset ; Stephen de Sedgrave ; Wigan de Mara ; 
 Thomas de Beseby ; Simon Corlevvache ; Ralph de Tur- 
 tanesthan ; Alan de Hoby ; Laurence, Clericus. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 256. Grant from Richard de Curezun to Stephen de 
 Segravia of certain rents due from the Abbot and ^ Monks 
 of Garendon for a tenement in Burton [Lazars, co. Leic] 
 Rent, three roses per annum, due within the octave of the 
 F. of SS. Peter and Paul. Witnesses : Henry de Segrave ; 
 William de Wasteneis ; Gilbert Mallore ; Robert Putrel ; 
 Hugh de Berges ; Simon de Monteforti ; Stephen de Rele ; 
 William de Sancto Eadmundo ; Robert de Wilton. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. [afiU 1241]. Lat. With seal. 
 
 257- Grant from Richard de Derle, Clerk, to Dom. 
 Stephen de Segrave, Knt., of a meadow in Kynston [co. 
 Notts], which he held by gift of his mother Cecilia. .Wit- 
 nesses : Dom. Roger de Sancto Andrea, Peter Pygot, 
 Richard de Sutton, Knights ; Robert de Alantre, of 
 Kegworth ; Robert, son of Ivo, of the same ; Richard le 
 Boteler, of Leke, etc. Temp. Hen. HI. \ante 1241]. Lat. 
 
 258. Grant from Thomas de Overton, son of Richer 
 de Overton to Stephen de Segrave of two carucates of land 
 in Dicheswrth [Diseworth, co. Leic], which Ralph Grun 
 held. Witnesses : Reginald de Carduill' ; Hugh Dispen- 
 sator ; Ralph de Martiwast' ; Robert de Appelby ; William 
 Picot ; Benedict de Dicheswrth ; Henry and Robert and 
 Geoffrey Dispenser ; Nicholas de Thorp ; Robert de 
 Thorp; Henry, the Clerk. Temp. Hen. HI. {ante 1241]. 
 Lat. 
 
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 259. Grant from William de Flemesburg to Stephen 
 de Segrave of the third part of thirteen bovates of land and 
 the eighth part of one bovate of land in Pichvell and Leues- 
 thorp [Pickwell and Leesthorpe, co. Leic,], which late 
 belonged to Roger Arundel. Witnesses : John de Birkin ; 
 Thomas, his son ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; Robert 
 Puterel ; William le Faukiner ; Geoffrey Puterel ; Robert 
 de Waleton ; Hugh de Manecestre ; Robert de Seepey ; 
 Gilbert Maulore ; William de Sancto Edmundo. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. {ante 1241]. Lat. 
 
 260. Grant from Amicia, sometime wife of William 
 de Bellgrave, to Stephen de Segrave of two virgates of land 
 in Wattun [Whatton, co. Leic.]. Witnesses : Ralph Cham- 
 berlain, of Rearsby ; Robert de Foleuill ; Nicholas de 
 Marham ; Brian Forester, of Whatton ; Hugh de Dides- 
 wrth ; Peter' de Reresby. Temp. Hen. HI. [attte 1241]. 
 Lat. With seal, broken. 
 
 261. Acknowledgment of homage, and grant by 
 Ralph Chamberlain, of Rearsby, to Stephen de Segrave of 
 the tenement which Gilbert, the latter's father, held from him 
 in Rerisbi [Rearsby, co. Leic] namely, a virgate of land 
 which Fegge held, and a toft which Seled held. Witnesses : 
 Geoffrey Basset, the Dean ; Ralph de Folevile ; Robert de 
 Tuiford ; Ralj h de Thursteinistun ; William, son of Henry 
 de Houbi ; Edmund de Segrave ; Robert, son of Ralph de 
 Thursteinestun. Temp. Hen. HI. [ante 1241]. Lat. 
 
 262. Grant by John de Humet to Stephen de Segrave 
 of a bovate and a half of land in Humberstan [Humber- 
 stone, CO. Leic] an acre of land under Litlemede, etc. Rent, 
 a pound of cummin. Witnesses: Ralph de Martiwast ; William 
 Picot ; Walter de Manecestre ; Robert de Humberstan ; Alan 
 de Quinton ; Ralph de Thursteinton ; Henry de Merston. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. {ante 1241]. Lat. With curious seal. 
 
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 263. Release from Osbert, Prior, and the Convent of 
 Laund to Dom. Stephen de Segrave of a rent of two 
 shillings, out of the three shillings due from him for a 
 bovate and a half of land, ** cum tenente et familia sua," in 
 Grimeston [Grimstone, co. Leic], which land the Priory 
 acquired by grant from Alan de Siwaldebi. Witnesses : 
 Hasculf, the son of Peter ; Henry de Segrave ; Walter de 
 Besebroc ; William de Martinwast ; Ralph de Neovill ; 
 William de la Haie ; William de Sancto Edmundo. Temp. 
 Hen. in. [ante 1241]. Lai. With Priory seal, broken. 
 
 264. Grant from William de Turvilla to Stephen de 
 Segrave of thirty acres of land with wood upon it in his 
 wood called Neuwood. Witnesses ; Henry de Segrave ; 
 Richard de Turvill ; Geoffrey Poutrell ; Robert de Seepe ; 
 Gilbert de Manecestre, etc. Temp. Hen. HI. [ante 1241]. 
 Lat. 
 
 265. Grant from Stephen de Segrave to Robert de 
 Grimeston of a bovate of land in Grimstone, which he holds 
 of the Prior of Laund. Witnesses : Ralph de Folevill ; 
 Ralph Chamberlain ; John de Siwoldebi ; Henry de Segrave ; 
 Ralph de Tursteinton ; Geoffrey Bane ; Hugh Abbas ; 
 Edmund de Segrave. Temp. Hen. HI. [ante 1241]. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 266. Notip^iCATION by Henry de Lincoln, son of Peter 
 de Lincoln, that he has taken " ad feodi firmam " from 
 Dom. Stephen de Segrave, whatever he had in Dunnestorp 
 by grant from Dom. William, Earl of Warenne, namely land 
 in Dunnestorp and Herierbi " in parte orientali de Graham 
 ultra aquam que appellatur Withme, cum Lunda et prato 
 quod appellatur Lundenge," and rents in Sumerdebi and 
 Gunnewareby [Somerby and Gonerby, co. Line.]. Wit- 
 nesses : Gilbert de Segrave, son of the same Stephen ; John 
 
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 de la Rivere ; Ralph de Sechevile ; Thomas de Lincoln ; 
 William de Sancto Edmundo ; William de Folevile ; 
 Anketil Mallore, Knights, etc. Temp. Hen. III. \ante 
 1 241]. Lat. With seal. 
 
 267, Order from Roger de Meinilwar to Geoffrey 
 Blot and Gilbert le Cat that the former do his service for his 
 land of Barwi [Barrow, co. Leic."] to Stephen de Segrave, 
 till Gilbert le Cat shall be old enough to hold his father's 
 lands, according to the custom of Segrave. Temp. Hen. 
 III. Lat. 
 
 268. Grant from Hugh, son of Andrew Neirun to 
 Stephen de Segrave of a messuage in Northampton. Wit- 
 nesses : Robert le Espicer, Mayor of Northampton ; Ralph 
 Passelewe ; William dc Gaugy ; Michael, son of Philip ; 
 Sampson, son of Sampson. Temp. Hen. III. \a71te 1241]. 
 Lat. 
 
 269. Sale from Elias, son of Anketil de Prestwald to 
 Stephen de Sedgrave (for eighteen shillings) of a toft and 
 croft in Cotis-super-Sore [Cotes, co. Leic], to hold by 
 service of a pair of white gloves. Witnesses : Henry de 
 Sedgrave ; Richard Puterel, of Cotes ; Hugh de Berwes ; 
 Gilbert Maillore ; Nicholas, Chaplain of Seagrave ; Laurence 
 Mauduit, etc. Temp. Hen. III. \_ante 1241]. Lat. 
 
 270, Grant from Geoffrey Puttrel to Stephen de 
 Segrave of whatever the former has in the vill of Howes 
 [Hose, CO. Leic], in demesnes, villenages and services. 
 Witnesses : Walter de Sancto Eadmundo ; John de 
 Ripariis ; Robert de Shep' ; Robert Mallor ; Wakelin, tunc 
 rector ecclesie de Hanlop' ; Hugh de Perers ; Thomas 
 Mallor ; William , de Sixteneby ; William de Olleby ; 
 "William Russel, of Overton. Temp. Hen. III. \anie 
 1241]. Lat. 
 
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 2*71. Release from Henry Lovet to Stephen de 
 Sedgrave of land which William de Upton held from him 
 in North Pidele [co. Wore.]. Witnesses : R[obert] de 
 Lexinton ; William de Colewurth ; Robert de la Haye ; 
 Ralph de Suthleic and Jollan de Nevile, Justic. Itiner. at 
 Worcester ; William de Bello Campo; Robert de Notingham, 
 Clerk to R. de Lexinton ; Roger le Poher ; Richard de 
 Boyvill, Clerk ; William de Wasseburn. Dat. Worcester, 
 2 Apr. 25 Hen. HI. [1241]. Lat. 
 
 2*72m Grant from John de Berkeley, son and heir of 
 Henry de Berkeley, to Kingswood Abbey, of all the lands 
 and tenements which the monks held of the fees of Roger 
 de Newintune, son of Philip de Berkelay ; Thomas, son of 
 Adam Loch ; and of Thomas de la Plaunche, in the tenure 
 of Newintun. Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Coueleya ; 
 Roger de Camme ; Robert de la Plaunche ; Nicholas 
 Rufus ; Peter de Yweleya ; Roger de Duchtune ; Robert 
 Passelewe. Dat. the Morrow of the Nat. of St. John B. 
 [24 JuneJ 1 24 1. Lat. 
 
 2*7Q* Indenture of lease from Cecily, widow of 
 Robert de Rocheford to John, Abbot, and the Convent of 
 Kingswood, of all her dower lands in Osleworth. Wit- 
 nesses : Peter de Eggeswrth ; Gilbert de Sipton ; Geoffrey 
 de Chausi ; Roger de Ducton ; Nicholas Ruffus ; William 
 Sumeri ; Robert, Parson of Oslewrth ; John le Newth ; 
 Nigel de Oslewrth ; Robert le Newh ; Roger Petipas. 
 Dat. F. of St. Mary Magdalen [22 July], 1241. Lat. 
 With seal of Cecilia de Rocheford. 
 
 274. Grant from Robert Basset, son of John Basset, 
 of Riston, to Roger, son of Fulk de Riston, of pasture and 
 common for 6 beasts in his pasture beyond the water on 
 the east in Riston Field [Rushton, co. Northton.], from the 
 
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 Feast of Inv. of Holy Cross [3 May] to Feast of the 
 Purification [2 Feb.], and also pasture, etc., for the said 6 
 beasts on either side of the water of Hyse after the hay is 
 carried, and on all the land where his other men have 
 common of pasture, excepting his closes of Bassetshawe, 
 etc. Witnesses : Dom. Robert de Ver ; Hugh de Golding- 
 ham ; John Luvet ; Henry de Sancto Licio [St. Liz.] ; 
 Thomas de Insula ; William Clericus ; Richard Marescallus. 
 Dat. 27 Hen. HI. [1242-3]. Lat. With seal. 
 
 275. Confirmation from Thomas de Berkele to 
 Robert, son of William Hurde, of the half virgate of land, 
 with the messuage in Alquinton [Alkington], which the said 
 William Hurde held from Dom. Robert de Berkele, 
 brother of the said Thomas. Rent, 10 shillings. Wit- 
 nesses : Peter de Stintescumbe ; Thomas de Tyringham ; 
 John de Eggeton ; Robert de Planche ; Elias Pincerna ; 
 Elias de Bevinton ; Alexander de London ; Arnulph, 
 the Clerk. Temp. Hen. HI. [ante 12 z^^']. Lat. With fine 
 seal. 
 
 2'76. Declaration of conditions under which Robert, 
 son of Richard, received his land of Gosinton [Gossington] 
 from his lord Thomas de Berkeley, namely, that the 
 land should revert to the said lord if the said Robert should 
 not have legitimate offspring. Witnesses : Dom. Maurice 
 de Gaunt ; Roger, son of Nicholas ; Henry de Berkeley ; 
 Richard de Coueley ; Peter de Stintescumb ; Maurice, son 
 of Nigel. Temp. Hen. HL \a7tte 1243]. Lat. With seal 
 of arms. 
 
 S"??. Sale by Robert Crispin, for four marks of silver, 
 to Henry de Berkelai, Knt., son of his Lord Thomas de 
 Berkelay, of all the land which the said Lord Thomas gave 
 him in his manor of Wotton, namely, that land which Peter 
 
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 Coterel held (and two assarts which Walter "vetus pre- 
 positus" held) called " Rudinga de Abbeleia" and "Rudinga 
 de Hage." Witnesses : Oliver de Berkelay ; Simon de 
 Olepenne ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; Richard de Coueleia ; 
 William de Berkeleya, Knt. ; Ernulf, Clericus ; William de 
 Bradele. Temp. Hen. III. [ante 1243]. Lat. 
 
 278. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to Robert, son 
 of William Vaccarius, of 2 acres of land with a messuage, 
 which Alric Pithering held in Alcrinton [Alkington], at an 
 annual rent of three pence. Witnesses : Ralph de Redlega ; 
 Henry de Berk[eley] ; William de Berk[eley] ; Walter de 
 Angrevill ; Walter Stut ; Maurice de Stanes, and others. 
 Lat. With privy seal of T. de Berkeley in green wax. 
 
 279. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley, at the prayer 
 of Thomas de Tyringeham, to Hugh, son of Alured, son of 
 Aimer de Slimbruge, of his freedom from all service, and 
 all his suit and all his children, for the service of Thomas de 
 Tyringeham, and a virgate of land in Slimbridge, which 
 Alured, the said Hugh's father, held in the same vill. 
 Witnesses : Robert, son of Richard ; Peter de Stintes- 
 cumbe ; Richard de Couele ; Elias Pincerna ; Ernulf, the 
 Clerk. Temp. Hen. HI. [^«/^ 1243]. Lat. 
 
 280. Sale and quitclaim by Hugh Gule, to Thomas, 
 Lord of Berkeley, of lands, rent and ser\'ices in Berkeleyher- 
 nesse for which quitclaim the said Lord Berkeley gave him 
 3^ marks for his " magnum negocium." Witnesses : Dom. 
 Ignacius de Cliftun ; Geoffrey de Lawertune ; Henry de 
 Berkeley ; William de Essetun ; Thomas de Rodeberwe ; 
 Adam Coby ; John Sewacre ; Alured le Sipward ; Maurice 
 de Bevintun ; Maurice de Stanes ; Peter de Wika ; William, 
 son of Robert. [1220- 1243]. Lat. With green seal, 
 representing a lion rampant. 
 
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 281. Letters of William, Abbot, and the Abbey of 
 St. Augustine's, Bristol, whereby he declared that (in con- 
 sideration of the confirmation by Maurice, son of Dom. 
 Thomas de Berkeley,of a grant of land called "La Burlonde," 
 and of 2 bushels of corn, rent due from Elias le Eskermissur 
 together with the latter's homage and service, made to the 
 Abbey by Maurice de BevintonJ he will allow no loss from 
 the land in Bevington, which Maurice de Bevinton leased 
 to the Abbey by arbitration, to fall either on Maurice de 
 Bevinton or Maurice de Berkeley. Witnesses : Dom. 
 William de Putot ; Roger de Lukinton ; Maurice de Salso 
 Marisco ; Thomas Longus ; William de Bello-Monte ; 
 Robert de Legh ; Robert de Hales ; John Tike ; Adam 
 Russel ; Adam de Portesheved. Dat. St. Augustine's, 
 Bristol, Octave of St. John Ev., [27 Dec], 1243. Lat. 
 
 282. Lease for 3 years from Nicholas de Craule to 
 Peter de Wika of all his land and court in Newenton, 
 which he had already leased to him " ad campartum " for 
 1 5 years : the said Peter to support Hawyse, wife of the 
 said Nicholas, during the term, and to keep in good 
 condition the said land and to restore the court and to 
 reconvey it at the end of the term in a better state than it 
 was when the said Nicholas leased it to him. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Richard de Cromhale ; Maurice de Salso Marisco ; 
 Roger de Lokinton ; Henry de Berkeley ; Ralph Musard ; 
 Nicholas le Rus ; Andrew de Bradestan ; John de Draicot ; 
 Robert de Coueleg' ; Maurice de Stanes. Dat. 28 Hen. \\\. 
 [1243-4]. Lat. 
 
 283. Covenant for lease from Dom. Maurice de 
 Berkeley to Peter de Wike of his land in Stapeling field, 
 Smalmor and Oldefrihtgorst, with pastures lying between 
 Walhamgarston [Wallgarstone, in Berkeley] andBradefleth 
 
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 lake, and between Stapeling field and the King's highway 
 towards Newenton, excepting the portion of land which 
 belongs to his mother, Joan de Berkele, by right of 
 dower. Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco ; 
 William Mauduit ; Roger de Lokinton ; Richard de Crom- 
 hale ; William de Aubemarle ; Ralph Musard ; Walter 
 de Burgo ; Robert de Hales, Seneschal ; Andrew de 
 Bracheston ; John de Egeton ; Tho. Mathias. Dat. 
 Ascension Day [12 May], 28 Hen. HI. [1244]. 
 
 2Q^. Covenant for lease from Dom. Maurice de 
 Berkele to Peter de Wika of land in Stapeling field, a 
 meadow called Smalemor, excepting five acres in the 
 same meadow near Mormede, together with land of 
 Oldefrithgorst, with pastures lying between Walhamgarston 
 [Wallgarstone, in Berkeley] and the lake of Bradeflet, 
 between Stapeling field and the King's highway towards 
 Newenton. Witnesses : Maurice de Salso Marisco ; William 
 Mauduit ; Roger de Lokinton ; Richard de Cromhale ; 
 William de Aubemarle ; Ralph Musard ; Walter de Burgo ; 
 Robert de Hales ; Adrian de Bradestan ; John de Oketon ; 
 Thomas Mathias. Dat. Fr. aft, F. of St. Lucy [13 Dec], 
 29 Hen. HL [1244]. 
 
 285. Counterpart of No. 284. 
 
 286. Grant from Alice de Kingeston to Dom. Maurice 
 de Berkeley of all that fishery in the R. Severn, which came 
 to her on the death of Dom. Robert de Kingeston, with a 
 tenement in Kingston and Gosinton [in Slimbridge, co. 
 Glouc], together with a place for repairing the fishing nets, 
 etc. Witnesses : Dom. Roger de Lokinton ; Dom. Maurice 
 de Salso. Marisco ; Henry de Ponte ; Bartholomew de 
 Olepenne ; Thomas de Buleye ; Elias Pincerna ; William 
 le Seriant. [1243- 1245]. Laf, With seal. 
 
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 287. Grant from Maurice, Lord Berkeley, to Peter de 
 Wika, of land which John le Vale sometime held in 
 Wanswell, in Ham manor. Rent, a pair of gilt spurs, price 
 sixpence, at Michaelmas : for which grant the said Peter 
 releases to the said Maurice the land which he held in 
 Aketre, in Alcrintone [Alkington] Manor, by grant from 
 Thomas de Berkeley, father of Maurice. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Maurice de Salso Marisco ; Dom. Roger de Lokinton ; 
 Robert de Hales, Steward of Berkeley ; Andrew de Brade- 
 stan ; John de Egeton ; Adam fil. Nel. ; William Eustace ; 
 Nicholas de Crauele ; Henry de Egetun ; Maurice de 
 Stanes ; John de Wodeford ; Adam Flaumbard, etc. 
 [1243- 1 245]. Lat. 
 
 288. Counterpart of grant from Maurice de Berkeley 
 to St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, of common of pasture in 
 Walmegerston [Wallgarstone, in Berkeley] for four and 
 twenty oxen, seven sows, one boar, and their broods of one 
 year old. Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Cromhall ; Dom. 
 Roger de Lukinton ; Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco ; 
 Alan de Hales ; Thomas, " Serviens " of Berkeley ; Thomas 
 Mathias ; John de Eggeton ; William Marshall. [1243- 
 1245]. Lat. Much damaged. With fragments of the 
 Abbey seal. 
 
 289. Quitclaim from Philip de Leycestria to Dom. 
 Maurice de Berkele of all right of common which he has 
 in the lands of the said Maurice by reason of the land of 
 Weneswell [Wanswell], which the said Philip bought from 
 Walter de Stanton for sixty-five acres of land which the 
 said Maurice granted to the said Philip. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Maurice de Salso-marisco ; Dom. Roger de Lokinton ; 
 Robert de Hales, Seneschal ; Andrew de Brodeston ; John 
 de Eginton ; Thomas Mathias ; Robert le Herde. [1243- 
 1245]. Lat. 
 
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 290. Covenant of lease for 12 years from Dom. John 
 de Plessetis to Adam de Dodinton of a certain " cultura " 
 called Croumor [? in Stottesden, co. Salop], at a rent of two 
 shillings per annum. Witnesses : Geoffrey de Overton ; 
 William de Sancto Georgio ; Reginald de Plessetis ; Robert 
 de Bolda ; Hugh de Baskerwill ; Richard, Chaplain of 
 Stottesden ; Ralph de la Love. Dat. 30 Hen. HI. 
 [1245-6]. Lat. 
 
 291. Release from Robert de Gessich to Warin fil. 
 Geroldi, of claim in the moiety of Faulore Manor [.? Fallow, 
 near Uffington, co. Berks], which he has held on lease, and 
 an undertaking to deliver all writings and muniments 
 relating thereto within the octave of Holy Trinity [3 June], 
 30 Hen. HI. [1426]. Witnesses: John Juvenis, of Dun- 
 stable ; Thomas, son of Andrew ; Simon de Faulore ; 
 Robert de Offintun ; John, dictus Monachus ; William de 
 Byaulo ; Richard de la Bere. Lat. With seal. 
 
 292. Lease for 9 years from Richard de Kacchemere 
 and Roysia, his wife, to Geoffrey, son of Ralph de Wenden, 
 and Matilda, his wife, of a messuage with a croft at 
 Hokerhull, in Wenden [co. Essex]. Rent, 12 pence per 
 annum. Witnesses : Matthew de Wenden ; William de 
 Ripa ; Roger Sangrinel ; Simon de Sancto Nicholao ; John, 
 son of Geoffrey ; Peter de Blanketre ; Philip Ylebert ; 
 William Ylebert. Dat. Michaelmas, 30 Hen. HI. [1246]. 
 With seal. 
 
 293. Declaration made before Dom. Robert 
 Walerand, Sheriff of Gloucester, *' in pleno comitatu," by 
 Cecily, late wife of Robert de Rocheford, that she never 
 held or laid claim to the land which Richard de la Bere 
 demanded from her in Osleworth, but that the monks of 
 Kingswood have held it for a long time. Witnesses : Dom. 
 William Mansel ; Dom. John de Wautone ; Robert le 
 
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 Veel ; Jordan la Warre ; Richard de Colewych ; Walter de 
 Naylesworth ; William de Wockeseye. Dat. 31 Hen. III. 
 [1246-7]. Lat 
 
 294. Release from William, son of Jocelin de 
 Schelvistone to Dom. Gilbert de Segrave, of the tenement 
 which Jocelin, his father, acquired from Bertram le Gros in 
 the vill of Raundis [Raunds, co. Northt.], and of 40 shillings 
 rent from a water mill in the same place, for which release 
 the said Gilbert has given the said William 20 marks, in 
 which sum the latter was bound to the former in a cove- 
 nant made before the Justices Itinerant at Northampton in 
 31st year of Henry III. [1246-7]. Witnesses: Dom. Robert 
 de Veer ; Dom. William de Hay ; Dom. Richard Irencestre ; 
 Roger, son of William de Baitone ; Eustace de Heuthling- 
 burg ; Simon, Clericus de eadem villa ; Thomas de 
 Furneys de Raund ; Dom. Ralph Chamberlain, then Steward 
 of Gilbert de Segrave; Dom. Henry de Harang ; Hugh 
 de Segrave, the Chaplain. Lat 
 
 295. Grant from Maurice de Berkeley, for his soul's 
 salvation and that of Isabella, his wife, to the Abbey of 
 Blanchalanda [Whiteland, co. Carm.] of a mill, messuage 
 and land, which Ailward the miller held of Roger de 
 Berkeley, uncle to the said Maurice, in Bedminster [co. 
 Som.] at an annual rent of twenty shillings. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco ; Dom. Jordan la Ware ; 
 William de Bello Monte; Walter, son of Alan ; Hillary de 
 Campo Florido ; Stephen de Lyons ; William de Taney, 
 Steward of Berkeley. " The Abbot de Alba Domo has 
 appended his seal to this charter." Dat. Berkeley, Fr. aft. 
 Tr. of St. Thomas, [7 July], 1247. Lat. The seal is 
 missing. 
 
 296. Lease from Mary de Overton and Robert, son of 
 Geoffrey de Overton, to Richard, son of Richard, miller, of 
 Alduluestre [Austrey, co. Warw.j, of three selions of land 
 
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 in the field of Alduluestre, till four crops shall have been 
 gathered. Witnesses : Thomas, serviens de Alduluestre ; 
 Symon, the Clerk ; Robert, the Clerk ; Henry Wyng ; 
 John, son of Roger de Aldulestre. Dat. 32 Hen. HI. 
 [1247-8]. Lat. 
 
 297. Release from William, Abbot of St. Augustine's, 
 Bristol, to Dom. Maurice de Berkeley, of the messuage with 
 appurtenances which Henry, the Chaplain, some time held, 
 in Berkeley. Witnesses : Roger de Lokinton ; Maurice de 
 Salso Marisco ; Richard de Cromhal ; Walter de Burgo ; 
 Andrew de Bradcstan ; Ralph de Angervill ; Maurice de 
 Stanes ; Peter de Wike. Dat. 1248. Lat. 
 
 298. Lease for seven years from Roger de Cantilupo 
 to Robert Bruning of two putts^ in the Severn at a place 
 called Monerewe, lying between the putts of Peter de Wike 
 and the putts of Stephen de Holeweie. Rent, one penny. 
 Witnesses : William, Dean of Arlingham ; Peter de Wika ; 
 Gilbert de Linch ; Richard de Sancta Brigida ; Robert 
 Guidonis ; William Lefward ; Adam Bertram. Dat. F. of 
 Nat. of St. John Baptist [24 June], 1248. Lat. With seal. 
 
 299. Lease from Robert, son of Geoffrey de Overton, 
 to Richard fil. Ric. Molendinarii de Aldulfistre, of six 
 selions of arable land in the fields of Aldulfistre [Austrey, 
 CO, Warw.], until the said Richard shall have obtained six 
 years' crops therefrom. Witnesses : Symon, the Clerk of 
 Austrey ; Thomas, serviens ; Robert, the Clerk of Segrave ; 
 Henry Wyring ; John, son of Roger ; William de Rolee ; 
 Roger de Cheyne. Dat. Michaelmas, 32 Hen. HL [1248]. 
 Lat. 
 
 300. Quitclaim fromWilliam, Abbot of St. Augustine's, 
 Bristol, to Dom. Maurice de Berkeley, of a virgate of heath 
 
 ^ Puthius=putt or pit. cf. Smyth's History of the Hundred of Berkeley. 
 Ed. Maclean, p. 344 7iote. 
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 land, which the said Maurice has given to Master Phih'p de 
 Leycestria, reserving to the Abbey right of way across it for 
 carriage of hay and corn in the proper seasons. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Roger de Lokinton ; Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco ; 
 Dom. Walter de Burgo, Knights ; Andrew de Bradestan ; 
 John de Eggeton ; Thomas Mathias ; Robert Bastard ; 
 Robert le Herde ; Adam Coby ; John Sewaker. Circ. 1248. 
 Lat. With Abbey seal, light brown wax. 
 
 301. Grant from Thomas de Berkelay, son of Dom. 
 Thomas de Berkeley, for the health of his soul, and the 
 souls of his parents and ancestors, to Kingswood Abbey of 
 ten shillings worth of rent from his land of Simondshall to 
 provide a "pitancia"' for the Monks of the Abbey every 
 year on St. Andrew's day. Witnesses : Dom. Robert the 
 Prior ; Odo, John, Vitalis, William the Cellarer, and 
 Andrew, Monks of Kingswood. [1241-1248]. LaL With 
 small seal. 
 
 302. Grant from Matthew, son of Thomas, Parson of 
 Niwintun [Newington Bagpath], to the Monks of Kingswood 
 of all the gift which Thomas de la Planche, his uncle, made 
 him in Baggepath, namely the land called Kynsyescroft, 
 land in Hungerfurlang, Blakewelle, and " duas Hevedacras " 
 on the left of the road going to the mill of Boxwell, the 
 Monks paying him a pair of white gloves at Easter. Wit- 
 nesses : Oliver de Berkele ; Simon de Olepenna ; Robert 
 de Rochefort; Roger de Niwintun; Nicholas Ruffus ; 
 John le New; Adam de Hamm ; Nicholas de Culcretun. 
 Temp. Hen. III. Lai. 
 
 303. Release from Richard, son of Robert, the 
 merchant, to Maurice de Berkele, his lord, of land lying in 
 the front of the castle gate. Dat. S. post. Clausum Pasch. 
 [S. after Easter, 3 Apr.], 1250. Lat. Imperfect. With seal. 
 
 An addition to the ordinary diet. 
 
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 304. Lease from Ralph le Botyler, son of Maurice le 
 Botyler, with consent of Matilda, his wife, to Gilbert de 
 Segrave of all the manor of Northburg [Narborough, co. 
 Leic] for lo years, on payment of 200 marks : after which 
 term the said Gilbert may hold the manor for his life on pay- 
 ment of an annual rent of fifty pounds. Witnesses : Dom. 
 William Burdet ; Dom. Ralph Chamberlain, of Rearsby ; 
 Dom. Peter Peverell ; Dom. Ralph de Nevill ; Adam 
 Bramceston ; Mag. John de Aunechyrch ; Hugh de Bevin- 
 ton, etc. Dat. F. of Nat. of B.V.M. [8 September], 34 
 Hen. HI. [1250]. Lat. 
 
 305. Fine levied before Roger de Thurkelby, John de 
 Cobbeham and Alan de Wassaund, King's Justices, to Gilbert 
 de Sedgrave, by Ralph de Butiler and Matilda, his wife, of 
 Northburg [Narborough] manor for a term of 10 years. 
 Dat. Westminster, Martinm. Term, 35 Hen. HI. [1250]. 
 Lat. 
 
 306. Grant by Geoffrey, Abbot of Croxton [co. Leic] 
 to Robert, son of William Byswthone, of Croxton, of a 
 piece of land in Croxton, lying under Netherigsty, etc. Rent, 
 100 pence of silver yearly on the feast of St Botulph [17 
 June]. Witnesses : William Lenfaunt, of Croxton ; Thomas 
 Cook ; Roger de Infirmitorio ; Richard le Moyne ; John 
 de la Grene ; Robert Paris. [1240-1250]. Lat. With seal 
 of the Abbey, chipped, and on the reverse the counterseal 
 with inscription SiGlLLVM Abbatis DE Croxton. 
 
 307. Grant from Roger de Infirmitorio, of Croxton, 
 to Robert, son of Hugh Moysand, of Croxton, of eight 
 selions of land in the eastern field of Croxton near the 
 road which divides the counties of Lincoln and Leicester. 
 Witnesses : William Leinfaunt, of Croxton ; Roger, son of 
 Walter de Croxston ; Thomas, son of Simon de Croxston ; 
 Elyas Kneye, of Cnipton ; John Moysand, of Croxton. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. [1240- 1250]. Lat. 
 
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 308. Grant by the Abbot and Monks of Kingswood to 
 Thomas de Ellesvvorth of all that land in Ham which 
 Walter de Horsford held : at an annual rent of twenty 
 shillings. Witnesses : Dom. Geoffrey de Chausi ; Dom. 
 Richard de Cromhale ; Dom. Roger de Lokinton ; Dom. 
 Maurice de Sautemareis ; Dom. Walter de Burgo ; Nicholas 
 de Chausi ; John de Egintun ; Andrew de Bradestun ; 
 Thomas Mathias. Temp Hen. HI. \circ. 1250]. Lat. 
 
 309. Grant from Thomas de la Planch to Gilbert fil. 
 Radulfi de Baggepath of a croft of land in Baggepath 
 [Bagpath, co. Glouc] to be held by the same Gilbert and 
 Sara, his wife, for their lives, with the condition that if 
 either die and marry again, they shall cease to hold the 
 same unless they obtain a re-grant from the said Thomas. 
 Witnesses : Philip de Berkele ; Geoffrey de Chausi ; Henry 
 de Scropes ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Robert, his brother ; 
 Gilbert de Egge ; Thomas Loch; William, son of Elias de 
 Cumba ; Hugh de Bradeleg'. Temp, Hen. HI. \circ. 1250]. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 310. Grant from Richard, son of Walter Kadifer, of 
 Gloucester, to Elicia, relict of David Dunyng, junior, of 
 Gloucester, of land [in Gloucester]. Kent, a pound of 
 cummin. Witnesses : Richard Ayllard ; Peter Burgensis ; 
 Henry Burgensis ; William de Someri ; Stephen Cornu- 
 biensis, Bailiff of Gloucester; Walter Hoth; Richard Blunt ; 
 Walter Payn; Richard Sellarius ; Payn Burgensis ; Vincent 
 Fardayn. Temp. Hen. HI. [circ. 1250]. Lat. 
 
 311. Confirmation by Nicholas fil. Radulfi, Dominus 
 de Hulle, to the Abbot and Convent of Kingswood, of 
 the grant to the same by Robert Wyther and Sybil, his 
 wife, of lands, tenements, rents, etc., which they held in the 
 vill of Hull [Hill, CO. Glouc] Witnesses : Robert de 
 Bradeston ; Robert de Berkeleye ; Thomas de Stintes- 
 cumbe ; Thomas de Beoleye ; Nicholas de Stowe, Constable 
 
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 103 
 
 of Berkeley ; Thomas de Lude ; William de Colewych ; 
 Thomas de Svvanhungre ; Nicholas de Vinea, Clerk. Dat, 
 Hill Manor, [nr. Thornbury], Feast of St. Katherine, Virgin 
 [25 Nov.] Temp. Hen. HI. LaU 
 
 312. Covenant for the grant by Maurice, Lord 
 Berkeley, to the Abbey of St. Augustine's, Bristol, of 5 
 acres and a quarter, and 20 perches of arable land, and two 
 acres of meadow, situate in Littletrolt, Scortebengrote, 
 Longbengrote, Hormede, Oxenehay, Inhechinge, Sunder- 
 lond, Perham, etc., near Berkeley, in exchange for other 
 lands not specified. Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Salso 
 Marisco ; Roger de Lokinton ; Walter de Burgo, Knights ; 
 Peter de Wik ; Richard de Wik ; Maurice de Stanes ; 
 Thomas Mathias ; Adam Coby ; Ralph Dangerode ; 
 Robert Bastard. [1243- 1264]. Lat. With seal of the 
 Abbey, broken. 
 
 313. Grant from Thomas son of Thomas de Aula de 
 Dideswrth to Dom. Gilbert de Segrave, of half an acre of 
 meadow in Didesworth [Diseworth, co. Leic], lying on 
 Suthmedwee. Witnesses : Robert de Shepeya ; Hugh de 
 Dideswrth ; Roger de Hausted ; Simon de Colleshull ; 
 William Daddi ; Richard, son of Serlo ; Robert le Gurmun- 
 del ; Richard de Pickeswith. [i 241 -125 5]. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 314. Grant from Thomas, son of Thomas de Aula, de 
 Dycheswrd to Dom. Gilbert de Segrave of four selions of 
 land on Le Haseles in Dicheswrd [Diseworth, co. Leic] 
 Witnesses : Dom. .Ralph Chamberlain, of Reafresb)-- : Dom. 
 Henry Haranc : Hugh de Dycheswrd ; Roger Brian de 
 Wadton ; William, son of Elyas de Dycheswrd ; Robert de 
 Gurmundeley ; Symon de Dycheswrd. [1241-1255]. Lat. 
 
 315. Grant and release from Thomas, son of Thomas 
 de Aula de Dytheswurth, to Gilbert de Segrave of four selions 
 
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 of land in Depedale, with the herbage and pasture of the 
 ^ame. Witnesses : Henry Harang ; Ralph Chamberlain ; 
 Robert de Meynil de Heminton ; Hugh de Dytheswurth ; 
 Roger Bryen de Watton ; Robert de Gurmundel ; William 
 son of Elyas de Dytheswurth ; Richard, son of Serlo de 
 Eddenvilla ; William fil. Stephani de eadem villa. [1241- 
 1255]. Lat. 
 
 316. Release from Agnes de Oleby " quondam uxor 
 Hugonis de Saxelby " to Dom. Gilbert de Sedgrave, of land 
 in Oleby. Witnesses : Dom. Hugh de Peters ; William 
 Beler ; William de Sixceneby ; William de Oleby ; Roger 
 Belet ; John, son of Gilbert ; Gilbert le Paumer. [1241- 
 1255]. Lat. 
 
 ZV7, Grant from Roger, son of William de Mubray, to 
 the Abbot and Convent of Suleby [Sulby, co. Northt.] of 
 thirty acres of marsh near Kelkefeld [Kelfield, co. Line] and 
 thirty acres of marsh near his house of Thurnholm 
 [Thornholm, co. Line], for the purpose of an enclosure ; at 
 a rent of fifteen shillings, unless by plea in the King's Court 
 or any other cause such enclosure shall not be made, when 
 they shall be acquitted from payment of the rent. Wit- 
 nesses : Dom. Roger de Bograve ; Dom. Ranulph de 
 Middilton ; Dom. Thomas de Colevile ; Dom. William de 
 Busci, Knights ; William de Plumton ; Robert de Bentoft ; 
 Ralph Takel ; William Takel ; Richard Deusbire. Temp. 
 Hen. HL Lat. 
 
 318. Grant from Henry de Berkeley, Lord of Dursley, 
 to Bartholomew de Olepenne, for his service, of ten shillings 
 annual rent in Dursley due from William de Bernewod for a 
 fulling mill, which he holds for his life, with remainder on his 
 death to the said Bartholomew. Rent, a rose. Witnesses : 
 Milo de Langethot ; Peter de Stintiscumbe ; Helias de 
 Cumbe ; Robert de Coueley ; Robert de Olepenne : Robert 
 Dosy. Temp. Hen. HL Lat. 
 
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 319. Grant from Warin, son of Henry fil. Geroldi to 
 to Robert de Giosyth of an acre of land near Ofifinton and 
 Fauflore [Uffington and Fallow, co. Berks.], with common 
 of pasture. Witnesses : Dom. Sampson Foliot ; Dom. 
 Henry de Peseya ; Dom. Gilbert de Columbariis ; Peter de 
 Badeleking ; Simon de Offinton ; Robert de Cffinton ; 
 Pagan Knittinton ; Andrew de Scaccario ; Roger de 
 Wrytele ; William de Wermeinstere ; Mathael de la Wyke; 
 Reginald, son of the Chaplain. Temp, Hen. III. Lat, 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 320. Grant from William, Abbot and the Abbey of St. 
 Augustine's, Bristol, to Robert le Hunde, for his homage 
 and service, of all that land at Swanhangre [Swanhunger, 
 in Ham], which Reginald Buffing held. Rent, thirty shil- 
 lings. Witnesses : Dom. Henry de Berkele, Knt. ; Andrew 
 de Bradestan ; John de Eginton ; Nicholas Rufus ; Adam 
 Gobi. Temp. Hen. HI. [1234- 1264]. Lat. 
 
 321. Grant from Alice, sometime wife of Samson 
 Machun, to Peter de Vike of a third part of her dower lands 
 in Dursley. Witnesses : Thomas Mauduit ; Dom. Richard 
 de Coueleg' ; Robert de la Planche ; Peter de Yveleg' ; 
 Roger de Camme ; Gilbert Drake, etc. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 322. Grant from Andrew de Badelking to Robert de 
 Gessiz of an acre and a rood of meadow in Bagermore 
 Meadow, which lies between the meadows of Dom. Warin 
 fil. Geroldi and the meadow of the parson of Offinton 
 [Uffington, CO. Berks]. Witnesses : Peter de Badelking ; 
 Simon de Fauueflore ; Robert de Offinton ; William de 
 Butiler ; James de Offintone ; Warin le Gardinir ; Thomas 
 le Frankelan. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
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 323. Grant from Eadmund fil. Henrici de Bronesho 
 de Neuport, to Roger fil. Walter! Cantoris de Neuport, of 
 three and a half acres of land in Neuport [Newport, co. 
 Essex], lying in Norrfield, between the land of the Hospital 
 of St. Leonard's and the highway called Nortuneweye. 
 Witnesses : Quintin, son of Warin ; John Quintin ; John le 
 Flemeng; William, son of Alan; John Habraham; Laurence, 
 son of Ranulf; John de Aula Petrina ; Stephen, the Clerk; 
 Thomas, Clericus de Wyditone ; William Agare ; Alex- 
 ander de Wandlyngtone ; Robert de Bronesho. Temp. 
 Hen. HL Lat. 
 
 32^. Grant from John le Furner, of Coventry, to 
 Geoffrey Lonton of the moiety of a messuage " in vico 
 comitis" [Earl Street] in Coventry. Witnesses : Walter le 
 Blund, Bailiff ; Roger, the Clerk ; Peter Barun ; Robert 
 de Henle ; Anketin, fil. Roys ; Robert Dale ; John Auri- 
 faber ; John Abbot ; Robert Baret ; Richard de Walton ; 
 Thomas de Henle. Temp. Hen. HL Lat. 
 
 325. Confirmation from Gwarin fil. Geroldi, to 
 Symon fil. Ricardi de Stivintun, of pasture for four oxen or 
 cattle in the vill of Kingestun [Kingston Lisle, co. Berks], 
 which his father Henry fil. Geroldi, granted to the said 
 Simon. Witnesses : Gilbert de Columbariis ; Robert de 
 Columbariis ; Nicholas de Sancto Mauro ; Stephen de 
 Wlurichestun ; Adam de Chnithtetun ; Robert Finke ; 
 William Butilier ; William de Kingestun ; Robert de 
 Offingtun ; Jacob de Offingtun. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 326. Grant from Adam Cube to Peter de Wike, son of 
 Hugh de Wike, of a messuage lying between Stanley Priory 
 and the land which Richard Wager held from Thomas de 
 Berkeley in Berkeley. Witnesses : Adam Cobi ; John 
 Sewaker ; Alan de Clotlegh ; Gilbert Corveiser ; William 
 Bonsergant; Jordan Tece. Temp. Hen. HL With seal. 
 
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 Q2*7. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to Peter de 
 Wike of that land which Richard Wager holds in Berkeley. 
 Rent, 12 silver pence. Witnesses: Henry de Berkele; 
 William de Berkele ; Elias Pincerna ; John de Eggent ; 
 Adam Gobi ; John Sewaker ; William, Glerk. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. Lat. With seal of green wax (detached). 
 
 328. Grant from Nicholas, son of Roger, to Kingswood 
 Abbey of a road through the middle of the mere called 
 Stukemere, two perches broad, including the ditch, which 
 road shall begin from the way which goes towards Wille- 
 pulle up to the way which comes from Berkeley as far as 
 Thornbury. Witnesses : Humphrey de la Barre ; Maurice 
 de Bevintone ; Nicholas Ruffus ; Adam Flaumbard ; 
 William Mandewerre ; Luke Russel ; Osbert Bulcard ; 
 Robert Selewine ; Robert de Besebury. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. 
 
 329. Grant from Walter de Burch to Robert le Herde 
 of land in Alkington. Witnesses : William de Clifford ; 
 Henry de Berkeley ; John de Egintun ; Nicholas Rufus ; 
 Adam Gobi ; Maurice de Beaumont, etc. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 LaL With seal of arms of " Walter de Burgo." 
 
 330. Release from Robert le Newh, son and heir of 
 Lawrence le Newh, to Kingswood Abbey of common of 
 pasture in Le Frith Wood in Osleworth, which wood Robert 
 de Rocheford, his lord, gave to the said Abbey. Witnesses : 
 Oliver de Berkelay ; William de Bradeley ; Nicholas Ruffus ; 
 Thomas le Archer ; Nigel de Oslewrth ; Roger Petipas ; 
 Walter Tisun. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 331. Grant from Henry de Culcretuna to Kingswood 
 Abbey for his soul's health, of half a virgate of land in 
 Culcretuna [Culkerton, in Rodmarton, co. Glouc] Wit- 
 nesses : William Camberlan ; William, son of Turstan de 
 
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 Rodmerton ; William, Parson of Tetbury ; Adam de 
 Charletun ; Robert de Ductuna ; William Frankelan ; 
 William le Scai, of Tresham ; Adam, his son ; Henry, son 
 of Bernard ; Henry Ferragii ; Harding de Hunteneford ; 
 Alured Barete ; Robert Muschet ; Richard de Becles ; 
 Adam le Scai, of Kingswood ; Nicholas de Kingswod ; 
 Master Robert Lathom ; Nicholas Lathom ; Nicholas de 
 Bristollo ; Henry de Bradeleg'. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 With seal, man on horseback. 
 
 332. Grant from John de Berkelay, Lord of Dursley, to 
 Kingswood Abbey of half a virgate of land which Richard 
 de Middeltune held in Baggepathe [Newington Bagpath, 
 CO. Glouc], etc., and land at Bollecote [Bowcot, nr. Dursley], 
 which lies between the great road which leads to Dursley 
 and the land of Roger de Newintune, son of Philip de 
 Berkelay. Witnesses : Dom. Oliver de Berkeley ; Geoffrey 
 de Chausi ; Roger de Camme ; Robert de la Blanche ; 
 Nicholas Ruffus ; Peter de Ywele ; Henry de Olepenne ; 
 Roger de Newintun ; Matthew le Scay. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. 
 
 333. Grant from Philip de Berkelay to Kingswood 
 Abbey of four acres of land, " with his body," and tenement 
 of Niwenton [Newington Bagpath], which lie " ad spine- 
 tum." Witnesses : Oliver de Berkelay, the grantor's 
 brother ; Geoffrey de Chausi ; Robert, son of Nigel ; Adam 
 de Cherleton ; Thomas de la Blanche ; William Trelli ; 
 William de Westcot ; William, son of Helias ; Matthew le 
 Scay ; Eustace Ruffus ; Henry de Bradele. Temp. Hen. 
 HI. LaL 
 
 33^. Grant from Roger de Berkelai to Kingswood 
 Abbey of the service of his man Ralph, son of Wibert, with 
 half a hide of land in Newington, and in lands which the 
 said Ralph held of him near the bridge of Gloucester. 
 
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 Witnesses : Robert de Berkelai ; Philip and Oliver, brothers 
 of the grantor ; Master Richard de Sorestan ; William 
 Chamberlain ; Geoffrey de Chausi ; Henry de Liueth ; 
 William de Scai ; John de Foxlega ; Ralph de Moun ; 
 William Cotele; William le Brun ; Robert Diffe ; Harding 
 de Hunteneford ; Nicholas de Kingeswood. Temp. Hen. 
 in. Lat. 
 
 335. Grant from Thomas de Berkelay, son of Dom. 
 Thomas de Berkelay, for the souls of his father and Dom. 
 Joan his mother, to the Abbey of Kingswood of land in 
 Symundeshale-apud-Egge [Symondshall, near Wotton], 
 which Osbert Wyxi and Roger de Bradpenne sometime 
 held, and other land on Fulemore, etc. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Peter de Eggeworth ; Dom. Geoffrey de Chausi ; Dom. 
 Oliver de Berkeley ; Geoffrey, Clerk, of Deerhurst ; Nicholas 
 Ruffus ; Henry de Fleg ; Nicholas de Chausi ; Robert 
 Joye ; Thomas Scottus, and others. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 336. Grant from Nicholas, son of Roger, for the sal- 
 vation of his soul, the souls of Sibil, his wife, and of his 
 children, to the Church and Monks of Kingswood, of right 
 of way from HuUe [Hill, near Berkeley], to Wilepille for 
 wagons, carts, horse-loads, teams of horses and cattle 
 through his pasture near the Severn, to their pasture, and 
 right of carrying hay and corn through his land and 
 meadow and pasture. Witnesses : Geoffrey de Chausi ; 
 Oliver de Berkelay ; Simon de Olepenne ; John de Egintun ; 
 William de Bradele ; William de Hulle ; John de Berkele ; 
 Matthew le Scay ; John Herman, etc. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With seal of arms (chipped). 
 
 337. Confirmation by Rodbert, son of Osbert de 
 Molesgrava, to Alexander, son of William, of the virgate of 
 land in Newintona [S. Newington, co. Oxon.], which 
 
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 William, his father, held from the said Osbert. Rent, eight 
 shillings. Witnesses : Richard de Romeseia, Clericus ; 
 " Race " de Mildecumbe ; William de Hyda ; Henry 
 Frankel' ; Alexander Bussebi de Mildecumbe ; Thomas de 
 Dorna ; Ralph Pistor de Newintona. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lai. With seal. 
 
 338. Grant from John de Wodeford to Robert Haraut 
 of land in Wodeford [Woodford, co. Glouc], which lies 
 between the land which Herebert sometime held from 
 Dom. Thomas de Berkeley and the land which John Niger 
 once held from the said John. Witnesses : Dom. Henry de 
 Berkele ; Dom. Richard de Cromhal ; Maurice de Salso 
 Marisco ; Maurice de Stanes ; Robert le Herde ; William 
 de Stanes fil. Clerici ; Walter Seli. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 339. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to St. Augus- 
 tine's Abbey, Bristol, of rents in Coueleg' [Coaley] and 
 Berkeley, with release of certain dues to the said Thomas 
 from the said Abbey, viz., a lamprey for land in Aldemunstre 
 [Oldminster], and a pound of pepper for land in Berkeley. 
 Witnesses : William de Putot ; Ralph de Wileton ; Henry 
 de Berkele ; William de Berkele ; Peter de Stintescumb ; 
 Master Hubert, Official of the Bp. of Worcester ; Roger de 
 Andeure, Rector of Cam ; William, Dean of Arlingham ; 
 Arnulf de Berkele, Clerk ; John de Eginton ; Walter de 
 Sancto Jacobo and Adam Russel. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 3*10. Grant from Alice, dau. of William (sometime 
 Rector of Wotton), widow, to William de Watersip, of a 
 messuage which Ralph Faber sometime held in Wotton 
 [Wotton-under-Edge, co. Glouc.]. Witnesses : Henry 
 Lyvet; Thomas de Rodeberge ; Elyas de Cumbe ; Nicholas 
 de Chausi ; Nicholas Hwineband ; Thomas le Archer. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
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 341. Grant from Johanna, dau. of Alan Aildred, to 
 Walter, son of Roysia de Cruce de Wenden, of a part of her 
 messuage and the whole of her croft in Great Wenden [co. 
 Essex], etc., namely, the messuage which lies between the 
 messuage of Isabel la Custere and that of Chuna, dau. 
 of Henry, which she holds from the brethren of the 
 Hospital of St. Leonard, of Newport, near the cemetery of 
 Wenden. Rent, nine pence. Witnesses : Richard, son of 
 Michael ; Roger Sangrinel ; William de Ripariis ; Simon de 
 Sancto Michaele ; John, son of Geoffrey ; Hamo Peverel ; 
 Adam de London, etc. Temp Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 3^2. Grant from Henry Bagat to Thomas, Clericus de 
 Stratton, fil. Johannis vicarii de Strattona, for his homage 
 and service, of a moiety of his land in Bagatistona [in Crom- 
 hall, CO. Glouc], which he held from Thomas de Marisco. 
 Witnesses : Robert de Flexbire ; Adam de Lunewrthi ; 
 William de Aqua ; Richard de Grimescote ; Robert, Clericus 
 de Stratton. Temp. Henry HI. With seal, broken. 
 
 343. Grant from Peter de Batelkyng to Adam le Hore 
 de Estchawelawe [East Challow] of one meadow in " le 
 Eldefclde " of Kyngstune [Kingston Lisle, co. Berks] called 
 Longeham, which lies " inter semitam et aquam que vocatur 
 Ocke." Witnesses : William de Pavely ; Richard de Pavely ; 
 Thomas de Ferers ; John de Rampayn ; Master John de 
 Celney ; John Frankelan ; William, son of Simon de Faulore, 
 etc. Temp. Hen. HL Lat. With seal. 
 
 344. Grant from Henry de Berkelay, son of Dom. 
 Thomas de Berkelay, to Thomas de Estsexia of land in 
 Wotton manor called Rudinga de Abbeleia and Rudinga 
 de Hage. Witnesses: Oliver de Berkeley ; Peter de Stintes- 
 cumbe ; Richard de Coueleia ; Nicholas Rufus ; Richard de 
 Brumelhan ; Colin de Chausi ; Adam Russel ; Nicholas 
 Minot ; Walter de Sancto Jacobo. Temp. Henry HI. Lat. 
 
112 Berkeley Castle. 
 
 345. Grant from Robert de Blavens to Walter fil. 
 Holfi, of land, with a mill, which Alured Cragg held " die 
 qua fuit vivus et mortuus," from the said Robert at Wike, 
 in free marriage with Levina, daughter of the said Alured. 
 Rent, twenty shillings a year, to be paid " apud Briddesbroc 
 terram meam in Estxexia." Witnesses : Martin, John, and 
 Henry, Chaplains ; Simon de Olepenna ; Maurice, son of 
 Nigel ; Hugh de Bradele ; Walter de Angervilla ; Walter 
 Stuoet ; Arnold de Wika ; William Venator ; Adam Cand ; 
 Hugh de Cuhulla ; Thomas, son of Baldwin. Temp. Hen. 
 HI. Lat. 
 
 340. Grant from Thomas de Berkeley to the Monas- 
 tery of St. Leonard, Stanley [Stanley Priory, co. Glouc], of 
 land which John Blunt held. Witnesses : Peter de Stintes- 
 cumbe ; Richard de Couele ; Robert de Couele ; Robert de 
 la Planke. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 34*7. Lease from David le Blund and Petronilla, his 
 wife, to Richard Poincel and Margaret, his wife, of a croft 
 in Button Manor [Bitton] called Wogenhulle, at an annual 
 rent of twelve silver pence. Witnesses : Robert Marmiun ; 
 Adam Malet ; John le Chaun ; Nicholas Joye, Tailor ; Peter 
 de Cherchesley. Temp. Henry HI. Lat. 
 
 348. Grant from Ralph de Bredona to Walter, son of 
 Geoffrey de Herteshorn, of a toft and croft in Digethelswrd 
 [Diseworth, co. Leic] " de libera clemosina ecclesie de 
 Bredona," a small space being reserved to the church for 
 building a granary. Witnesses : Robert de Maynys ; Hugh 
 de Digethelswrd ; Alan Nowel ; Reginald de Wyveleston ; 
 Walter Forestarius ; Walter Dispensarius. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. 
 
 349. Grant from Roger de Camme, son of Eustace de 
 Camme, to John le Blund of the messuage and three acres 
 
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 of land which William le Guldene sometime held of Lord 
 Eustace, his father, the land lying at Tviseledewaga near 
 the land of William Berkeley, Knt, and elsewhere in Cam. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Clifford ; Master Peter de 
 Breus ; Jordan de Budiford ; William de Berkele ; Richard 
 Stut. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 350. Grant from Maurice de Berkelay to Gilbert de 
 Lynch of four selions of land in Ham, viz., in Westmarsh, 
 Newelond, etc., in exchange for two selions of land in Glas- 
 marsh. Witnesses : Peter de Wyka ; Robert, son of Guy ; 
 Richard de Sancta Brigida ; Walter de Frenelod ; Walter 
 Sely. [1243-81]. Lat. 
 
 351. Grant from Maurice de Berkele to Dom. Nicholas, 
 Vicar of Berkeley, of 19 acres of land in La Frythegorst, of 
 which twelve acres lie between the land which Peter de 
 Wike holds of him and the road leading from Berkeley 
 towards Brathestone [Breadstone], and seven acres lie be- 
 tween Thomas Cavel's land and the Cross of Bradeflete. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco, Henry de 
 Baylol, Henry de Berkele, Knights ; Peter de Wik ; William, 
 son of Robert ; Thomas Serviens ; William de Mathem ; 
 John de Egeton ; Thomas Mathias ; Thomas Cavel ; Henry 
 de Egeton ; John Sewake ; Robert le Herde ; Walter 
 Sely. Temp. Hen, HI. Lat. With fragment of seal. 
 
 352. Covenant between Maurice, Dom. de Berkele, 
 and Alured le Skypward, whereby the former grants to the 
 latter all the land in Ochungre [Oakhunger, co, Glouc], 
 which Walter Dole sometime held, in exchange for other 
 land there. Witnesses : Adam Coby ; John Sewak' ; Adam, 
 son of Nigel ; Robert le Herde. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat, 
 
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114 Berkeley Castle 
 
 353. Grant from Maurice de Berkele to Robert de 
 Cruce of two selions of land with buildings built upon the 
 sand, in exchange for three selions lying between the land 
 of Thomas de la More and the King's highway. Witnesses : 
 Peter de Wyke ; Richard de Wyke ; Gilbert de Lynch ; 
 Richard de Sancta Brigida ; Robert, son of Guy ; Walter 
 de Fromlode ; Walter Sely. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 354. Grant from Richard, the Clerk, son of John 
 Textor, of Claverdon, to Richard de Futton of six pence 
 rent in Claverdon [co. Warw.], due from Thomas de Cump- 
 ton. Witnesses : William le Velur ; John Otin ; "Walter 
 de Markel ; Richard Pistor ; Richard de Bredon ; William, 
 the Clerk, who wrote this charter. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 355. Confirmation by Thomas, son of Hugh the 
 Clerk of Croxton, to Thomas, son of Thomas, Bailiff, of 
 Croxton, of a selion of arable land in Croxton [co. Leic], 
 which Hugh, the Clerk, granted to the said Thomas, son of 
 Thomas. Rent, a halfpenny at Easter, and a halfpenny 
 at the Feast of St. Botulph. Witnesses : William Lenfaunt, 
 of Croxton ; Thomas, the Clerk ; Thomas Cocus ; Roger 
 de Infirmitorio ; Hugh Payn. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 With seal. 
 
 356. Grant from Gilbert de Columbariis, Knt., to Yvo, 
 son of Pagan de Knitheton, of two crofts, etc., which 
 Stephen Palmer lately held in Hordewell [Harwell, co. 
 Berks.], with an acre of land lying under Ykelindeweie, and 
 pasture for two oxen or cows or calves, and one horse or 
 mare in the common pasture of Hordewell, and at the feast 
 of St. Peter-ad-Vincula [Aug. ist] free entry with the said 
 cattle to feed in the demesne pasture with the said Gilbert's 
 cattle, excepting when the latter feed in the wood ; and 
 pasture for twenty sheep in the demesne pasture of Horde- 
 
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 well. Witnesses : Philip de Alta Ripa ; Andrew de Wyk ; 
 Symon de Forde ; Pagan de Knitheton ; Robert de 
 Offinton ; James de Offinton ; Robert Butevilain ; Matthew 
 Aley ; Andrew Aley. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 357- Similar grant from the same to Brice, son of 
 Pagan, senior, of Cnitheton, of an acre of land and pasture 
 rights in Hordewell [Harwell]. Rent, a pair of gloves or 
 one penny at Michaelmas. Witnesses : Simon de Forde ; 
 Robert de Gissith ; Robert de Uffinton ; James de Uffin- 
 ton ; Pagan de Cnitheton ; Matthew Alewy ; Andrew 
 Alewy ; Roger Taillur ; Walter Waz. Temp. Hen. HI, 
 Lat, With seal. 
 
 358. Grant from Robert de Columbariis to Robert de 
 Gissih of land which he holds from William de la Beche in 
 Faulore [Fallow, near Uffington]. Rent, half-a-pound of 
 wax at Michaelmas. Witnesses : William le Butiler ; 
 Simon de Faulore ; Robert le Hackere ; Thomas, son of 
 Andrew ; Peter de Badelking ; Robert le Frankelein, of 
 Uffington ; Alexander Prinsun ; John Finke. Temp. Hen, 
 ni. Lat. With seal of arms. 
 
 359. Grant from James Cotell, son of James Cotell, 
 to Henry, son of Walter Hathmere, of Cam, of sixteen 
 selions of arable land in the field of Cowley [Coaley], for 
 which the said Henry gave the said James thirty shillings 
 " ad urgens negocium expediendum." Witnesses : Robert 
 de Coueleye ; Robert de Draycote ; Warin Pincerna ; 
 Walter Hathemer ; Walter de Bennecumbe. Temp. Hen. 
 HI. Lat. 
 
 360. Grant from Robert de Couelega to Walter 
 Hathmer of land in Hegelande \J. in Coaley], in return for 
 thirty shillings and eightpence, and one mare with her foal, 
 
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 of the value of lo shillings ; and to Mary, wife of the said 
 Robert, a pair of boots^ of the value of 12 pence. Wit- 
 nesses : Richard de Couelege ; Walter de Benethcombe ; 
 Peter de Ywele ; Warner le Butiller ; James Cotelle ; 
 William Marescall ; Hugh Pistor ; John de Draicote ; Roger 
 de la Wodehend; Richard de Corvehete. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. 
 
 361. Grant from Nicholas de Crauleyg to William de 
 Mettesdune of the land called Netherebreche [? in Uley, 
 CO. Glouc], for which he gives the said Nicholas five marks 
 of silver, and to Hawise, his wife, ten shillings. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Nicholas, Vicar of Berkeley ; Thomas Mathias ; John 
 de Egetun ; Philip de Leycestria ; Peter de Wike ; Adam 
 Mutun ; Robert le Herde ; Adam Nel ; Henry Marescall. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat, 
 
 362. Grant from Nicholas de Crauleg to William de 
 Mettesdune of the croft, which William Faber, of Berkeley, 
 held of him. Witnesses : Thomas Mathias ; Philip de 
 Leycestria ; John de Egetun ; John de Brodeston ; Adam 
 Nel ; William, son of Eustace ; Robert le Herde. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 363. Grant from John Cocus de Croxston to Hugh 
 Moysand of one selion of arable land in the field of Croxton 
 [co. Leic], with the herbage lying at Pornewelledyke. 
 Witjaesses : John Moysand of Croxton ; Hugh Asty, of the 
 same ; Thomas, son of Simon, of the same ; William le 
 Moyne, of the same ; Roger, son of Walter, of the same. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 364. Grant from John Davi de la Penne, to Henry, 
 son of John de Chalveleie, of various plots of his land in La 
 Penne [Penn, co. Bucks.] Witnesses : Peter Harewy ; 
 
 ^ \)va,% botfts. 
 
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 William de la Stocke ; Sansun de la Stook ; Thomas de 
 Chalvele ; Richard de Halmere. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 365. Grant from Hugh de Dithisworth to Gilbert de 
 Segrave of three virgates of land in Dithisworth [Diseworth, 
 CO. Leic.], viz., one virgate which Reginald de Dauby some- 
 time held, another virgate which Walter, son of William 
 Gris, sometime held, and a third which Walter, son of 
 Agnes, held ; together with the said Reginald, Walter 
 and Walter, with their chattels, etc., and a " cultura " 
 of land on Littilhilbreche, etc. Witnesses : Dom. Hugh 
 Dispensarius ; Dom. Samson Foliot ; William de Senevil ; 
 Richard de Thorp ; Roger de Haustede ; Henry de 
 Wodecote, etc. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 366. Gfant from Philip Dreyside to Dom. Adam de 
 Esscelwurthe, Chaplain, of a burgage in Wotton. Rent, 12 
 pence. Witnesses : Elyas de Cumbe ; Thomas le Archer ; 
 John le Sone ; William Dreyside ; Hugh de Dunmoch ; 
 Walter Dreyside ; Thomas de Esscelworth. Temp. Hen. 
 HI. Lat. 
 
 367. Grant from Roberd de Egeton to Reginald, son 
 of William Buddig de Bevinton, of ^ tenement in Bevinton 
 [Bevington, co. Glouc], which Roger le Ros sometime held. 
 Witnesses : Walter de Egeton ; Thomas de Swonhungre ; 
 Richard Coquus ; Alexander Purlewent; Hugh Wayneterre ; 
 Nicholas Scoth. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 368. Grant from Ysillia, dau. of Alexander de El<in- 
 ton, to Robert de Berkele of land in Hinton [co. Glouc] 
 Witnesses : Bernard de Cromhale ; Bernard de Stanes : 
 Bernard de Brodestan ; Eustace de Camme ; Maurice, son 
 of Nigel ; Gilbert de Egetun ; Hugh de Camme ; Richard 
 de Bradele ; Oliver de Berkele. Temp. Hen. HI. f.at. 
 
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 369. Grant from Robert de Ferrars, son and heir of 
 William, late Earl of Derby, to Johanna de Ferrars, his 
 sister, of the manor of Easton, co. Leic. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Roger de Quency, Earl of Winchester ; Dom. Richard de 
 Clare, Earl of Gloucester ; Dom. Simon de Montefort, Earl 
 of Leicester; Dom. Thomas de Ferrars, uncle of the 
 grantor ; William de Ferrars, his brother ; William de 
 Oyli, Knt. ; Roger de Luvetot. Circ. 1254-1260. Lat. 
 With fragment of seal. 
 
 Z*?0, Sale from Geoffrey Forestarius to Maurice de 
 Salso Marisco of half an acre of meadow in Longemede, 
 lying between the meadow of the said Maurice and 
 Hegeruding [nr. Wotton-under-Edge]. Witnesses : William 
 Mansel ; John de Wudeford ; Maurice de Stane ; William 
 Kavel ; William de Stane ; Thomas Scoth ; Robert 
 Chandel ; Thomas, Clerk of Tortewr[th], who wrote the 
 charter. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 S"?!. Grant from John de Forwude, with the assent of 
 his wife and heirs, to William Mael, of his meadow between 
 EUemoreesfeld and " the water. " Rent, sixpence per 
 annum. For this grant the said William gave to the said 
 John eight shillings, and a cronnoc of corn, to his wife 
 twelve pence, and to his eldest son, twelve pence. Witnesses : 
 John Spileman ; Walter, his son ; William de Rodeberge ; 
 Robert de Linant ; Walter de Neileswarde ; Roger Mein- 
 ard ; Richard de Aldewike ; Henry Hardewine ; Mauger 
 de Kolecumbe. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 3'72. Grant from John le Frankelein, of Cerney, to 
 Walter Dubedent of a messuage, with garden, in the croft 
 which belonged to Richard Slide [in Cerney, co. Glouc] 
 Witnesses: Dom. Milo, Parson of Cerney; Anselm de 
 Sancto Germano ; Walter Frankelan, of Driffield ; William 
 le Burgeis, of Cerney. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
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 873. Release from Matilda, widow of Robert le 
 Frankelayn de Baggepath to Kingswood Abbey, of two 
 acres of land in Baggepath field [Bagpath, co. Glouc] 
 .Witnesses : Roger de Niwentun ; William de la Home ; 
 Thomas le Nevew ; Walter Spereke ; Robert le Nevew ; 
 Robert, Constabularius. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat, 
 
 374. Grant from Ralph Gule to Walter fil. Henrici 
 Monetarii of six acres of land from his free holding at 
 Dursley. Witnesses : Gilbert Presbyter de Niblega [Nibley]; 
 Ralph de Durslega ; Swein de Bath ; Geoffrey fil. Sabilie. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. Defaced. With seal. 
 
 375. Grant from Henry fil. Geroldi, to Simon, son 
 of Richard de Stiwentun, of pasture for four oxen or four 
 beasts in his pasture of Kingeston [Kingston Lisle, co. 
 Berks.], except the spinney on the eastern side of the 
 highway. Witnesses : Alan de Fernham ; Andrew de 
 Wik ; Ralph de Grendon ; William le Botiler ; Alan, tunc 
 serviens de Kingeston ; Robert Barri ; Robert de Offintun ; 
 Thomas de Fauueflor. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 376. Grant from Adam de la Hope to Dom. Thomas 
 de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley, of land in Portbury. Wit- 
 nesses : John de Clyvedon ; William de Capenore ; John le 
 Pike; William Wale. Temp. Hen. HL Lat. 
 
 377. Grant from Henry de Hunedene to Dom. Gilbert 
 de Secegrave of a meadow called " La Grene " in Corinham 
 [Corringham, co. Lincoln], which the said Gilbert sometime 
 held on lease from the said Henry. Rent, a pair of gloves or 
 one penny at Whitsuntide. Witnesses : Elyas de Houton ; 
 William de Bulley ; Geoffrey de Parco ; William Hanketin ; 
 Gilbert de Chauce ; Martin de Thorpe ; Ralph de Ba ; 
 Henry de Greneby. Temp. Hen. UL \ante 1255]. Lat 
 With seal of arms. 
 
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 3*78. Grant from Thomas le Huthlae, of Wotton, to 
 John dela Porte, of Frocester, of the third part of a burgage 
 in Wotton-under-Edge, between the house of the said 
 Thomas and that of Nicholas, son of Nicholas le Moliner. 
 Witnesses : Philip Drayside ; William de Cumbe ; Henry 
 Pistor ; William le Seone ; Walter le Luminur ; Nicholas 
 Molendinarius ; Alexander le Hore ; Richard le Scynmar ; 
 Richard le Glovare; Ralph Marescallus. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 379- Grant from Ranulf Janitor to Stephen de 
 Segrave of six virgates of land in Whatton [co. Leic], 
 which Peter de Belegrave gave to the said Ranulf for his 
 service ; with pannage and herbage for 25 pigs in the forest 
 of the Earl of Leicester, as his charter, and the charter of 
 William, uncle of the above-named Peter, declare. Wit- 
 nesses : Henry de Brahibroc ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; 
 William Falconarius ; Peter Pictavensis ; Matthew de 
 Dunton ; Philip de Hayrun ; Robert de Attoneston. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 380. Grant of John, son of Hugh de Sancto Andrea, 
 to Thomas, son and heir of Henry de Sancto Andrea, of 
 Essendon, of 10 acres, " cum chevesciis," of land in Essendon 
 [Ashendon, co. Bucks.] Witnesses : Dom. Robert Malet ; 
 Dom. John Carbonel ; John, son of Nigel de Borestalle ; 
 Walter de Burgo ; Walter le Chevaler ; John, son of John 
 de Hamslape ; Walter de Horon ; William Golye ; William 
 de Buketot ; Osbert de Coluredon ; William le Venur ; 
 William Travers, of Winchendon ; Richard de Sancto 
 Andrea; Martin, Clericus de Essendon. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat, With seal. 
 
 381. Grant from Ralph Jowas to Sara de Blokessam, 
 for her homage and service, of half a virgate of land in 
 
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 Niuneton [S. Newington, co. Oxon.], which William Seli 
 held, and other land in the same place. Witnesses : 
 William de Paris ; Robert de Bereford ; Roger de Verdun ; 
 Peter Butelier ; Adam fil. Helie ; William de Hida ; Henry 
 Frankelan ; Thomas de Dome. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 382. Grant from Alice, Prioress, and the Convent of 
 Kington [co. Wilts.] to Henry de Hachmere, of Cam, of the 
 mill and pond, etc., at Cam, which Walter de Hachemere, 
 father of the said Walter sometime held. Witnesses : Roger 
 de Camme ; Robert de Dreycote ; Reginald de Gosinton ; 
 William de Kyngeston, Clericus ; Walter Pincerna ; James 
 Cotele; Walter, Magister de Gosinton. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat. With Priory seal, chipped. 
 
 383. Release from Nigel de Kyngescot to the Monks 
 of Kingswood of a rent of sixpence from that half virgate of 
 land in Baggepath [Bagpath], which Matthew, son of 
 Thomas, Parson of Newington [Bagpath], gave to. the said 
 Monks. Witnesses : Thomas de Rochefort ; William de 
 Lasseberg ; Peter de Ywelege ; Elias de Cumba ; Geoffrey 
 Caperun ; William de la Home ; Thomas le Archer. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 384.' Grant from Laurence le Longe de Blakeneye to 
 Richard, son of Walter de Blakeneye, and Alesia, his wife, 
 of all the messuages, gardens, etc., which he purchased from 
 Thomas de Blakeneye and John le Hore in Blakeney 
 Manor [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Richard Blund de Aure ; 
 Roger de Blydeslowe ; Thomas de Blakeneye ; Philip le 
 Gaynore ; John fil. Loue. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 385. Grant from John, son of Walter de Lorwyn to 
 Roger de Tumberleye of that acre of land, which he acquired 
 by grant from the said Walter, lying in Le Northfeld of 
 
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 Stinchcombe. Witnesses : William de Burgo ; Adam de 
 Laumpert ; Maurice de Camme ; Henry de Camme ; 
 Richard de Melkesham. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 386. Grant from Amable de Lymesee to Hugh de 
 Chaucumbe of the land which belonged to William de 
 Alrekangel in Buolee [Beoly, co. Wore], on the borders 
 between Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Witnesses : 
 Walter, Prior de Kenilleord [Kenilworth] ; Richard, Clericus 
 de Lymesee; Henry Foliot ; Henry de Ulehale ; Alan de 
 Hobi ; Geoffrey Pechie ; Richard Tanquart, etc. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 387- Release from Thomas Matthias to Dom. Maurice 
 de Berkeley, his lord, of the land which Thomas de Assel- 
 worth holds in the close of the said Maurice "in bruera juxta 
 Bradeflet" [in Osleworth]. Witnesses : John de Egeton ; 
 William, son of Eustace ; Maurice de Stanes ; Peter de 
 Wyk ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Master Philip de Leycestre ; 
 Walter Sely, the Clerk. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 388. Grant from John Molendinarius de Newenton 
 and Matilda, his wife, to Robert, son of Thomas de Gippton, 
 of the half of that land and messuage in Newenton, which 
 Michael Pistor, brother of the said Matilda sometime held, 
 in free marriage with Matilda, their daughter. Witnesses : 
 Robert de Cranforde ; Symon de Preaus ; John de la Hyde ; 
 Richard, son of William. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. With 
 seal, broken. 
 
 389. Grant from John Moysand, of Croxton, to 
 Hugh, son of Martin, of his land at Abrahamwelle in 
 Croxton fields [co. Leic], which he had by grant from 
 Croxton Abbey. Witnesses : William Lenfaunt, of Crox- 
 ton ; Hugh le Vacher, of Croxton ; John Super-la-Grene, 
 etc. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. With seal. 
 
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 390. Grant from John Moysand, of Croxton, to 
 Richard Moysand, of Croxton, of a selion of land in the 
 west field of Croxton [co. Leic], which he bought from 
 Robert Parys, on Elfringes. Rent, '* unus clavus gariofili " 
 at Christmas. Witnesses : Richard le Moyne, of Croxton ; 
 Thomas Cocus, of the same ; Roger, son of Walter, ot the 
 same ; John Super-la-Grene ; William, son of Reginald 
 Niger, of the same ; Roger de Infirmitorio. Temp. Hen. 
 III. LaU With seal. 
 
 391. Grant from Reginald Niger, of Croxton, to 
 Thomas, son of Nicholas, of the same, of an acre of arable 
 land in the fields of Croxton [co. Leic], namely, at 
 Thredikes. Witnesses : John de Gynpthona ; Hugh, the 
 Clerk ; William Leinfant ; Reginald de Parisse ; Thomas, 
 son of Walter de Croxstun ; Robert, son of Hugh; 
 Achardus fiil. persone de Berscaldeby [Beskaby, co. Leic] 
 Temp. Hen. III. L at. 
 
 392. Grant from Juhana fil. Jacobi de Offintona to 
 Richard, her brother, of a messuage and land in Uffington, 
 which she acquired by grant from her father, to whom 
 they were formerly granted by Gilbert de Columbariis and 
 Henry, his son. Witnesses : Robert Barri ; Peter de 
 Badelking ; Andrew de Badelking ; Simon de Fauflore ; 
 Pagan de Kniteton ; Hugh Alewy de Cumpton, etc. Temp. 
 Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 393. Grant from Robert de Parni to Juliana, his sister, 
 of all his tenement with houses and buildings, etc, in 
 Lambourne, co. Berks., which he held from Master Elyas de 
 Lamburne. Witnesses : Elyas de Lamburne ; Richard 
 de Parni ; John de Wika, son of Peter ; Nicholas de Gur- 
 merevile ; John de Lamburne; Dionisius et Parisius de 
 Boclande ; Silvester de Farleha. Temp. Hen. HI. La/. 
 
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 394;. Indenture of grant from Thomas de la Planche 
 to Gilbert de Baggepath fil. Radulphi of that " misum " with 
 croft and land, which Hugh Hulle held in Baggepath [Bag- 
 path], for the lives of himself and Sara, his wife : but the said 
 Gilbert, if he outlive his wife, shall not take another wife 
 into that " misum," nor the said Sara another husband, 
 except by permission of the said Thomas. Witnesses : 
 Philip de Berkeley ; Geoffrey de Chausi ; Henry de 
 Scropes ; Adam, son of Nigel ; Gilbert de Egge ; Thomas 
 Loch ; Philip, son of Elias de Cumba. Temp. Hen. IIU 
 Lat. 
 
 395. Release from William de Ponte to John Mayel 
 of a croft and assart called Jeuetescroft, which he held from 
 Walter Spilemon. Witnesses : Henry de Lupiate ; John 
 de Chalford ; John de Sentleye. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat, 
 
 396. Grant (and counterpart, undivided) from John 
 Pride, son of John Pryde, of Arlingham, to William le 
 Baker, of the same, of a messuage and selion of land 
 extending to " Lady Orcharde," with three other selions 
 in the fields of Arlingham, at Glasmersch, Polland, and 
 Wateruslondwych. Witnesses : Walter Wych ; Walter 
 Jakemonus ; Richard Stywarde ; Thomas Bolgastone ; 
 John le Heywarde. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 397.- Release from Richard fil. Willelmi Prepositi de 
 Appecorin to William fil. Alani de Hale of five acres of 
 land in Hale [co. North.] Witnesses : Roger de Foderin- 
 geye. Clerk ; John Knyvet de Sudewic ; William de 
 Horton ; William Foliot de Dodinton ; Henry Redberd de 
 Eston ; John Daneys de Ludinton ; Roger de Aylinton, 
 Clerk ; Stephen de Hauvill, in Witlesheya. Temp. Hen. 
 HI. Lat, 
 
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 398. Grant from Robert de Rocheford, " pro salute 
 anime," to Richard Clericus de Lukinton of the tenement 
 which Thomas Bacun held in Oslewrde [Osleworth], " for 
 supplying a lamp to burn day and night in the Church of 
 St. Nicholas, of Osleworth, to the honour of God and St. 
 Nicholas." The said Richard and his heirs shall also have 
 *' husbote " and " heibote " in the said Robert's wood of 
 Osleworth and common of pasture for his beasts. Wit- 
 nesses : Richard Burdun ; Richard de Lukinton ; Peter le 
 Fraunceis ; John Nepos ; Nigel de Oslewrde ; Symon de 
 Badmintun. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 399. Grant from Robert de Rochefort to Nigel, son of 
 Bernard, of eight acres of land in Oslewrth [Osleworth, co. 
 Glouc], namely, 4 acres on Baderugge, two acres on 
 Bradelegefurlang, and two acres near the land of John and 
 Laurence Le New. Witnesses : Geoffrey de Chausi ; Philip 
 de Berkele ; Oliver frater suus ; Peter de Yweleg ; Thomas 
 de la Planche ; Peter le Francois ; John Nepos ; Thomas 
 le Archer ; Gilbert del Egge ; Walter Clericus ; Adam le 
 Scay ; Walter de la Planche. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 400. Grant from Robert de Rocheford to Nigel, son 
 of Bernard, of the half virgate of land in Oslewerda [Osle- 
 worth], which William de Stanlega held. Witnesses: 
 Geoffrey de Chausi ; Philip de Berkele ; Peter le Franceis ; 
 John Nepos. Temp. Hen. HL Lat. Injured by damp. 
 
 401. Relesae from Maurice de Salso Marisco to 
 Nicholas Molendinarius and his wife, of land which he 
 held once " nomine custumarii" in Wodeford [in Berkeley]. 
 Witnesses : Nicholas de Wodeford; Robert Caudel; Richard 
 Bochard ; William Faber ; Richard Clericus. Temp. Hen. 
 III. Lat, 
 
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 ^02. Indenture of covenant whereby Annora, widow of 
 Dom. Walter de Verdun, leases to Amauric de Sancto 
 Amando the messuage in Cernay [co, Glouc.] which Dom. 
 Walter de Verdun gave the said Annora in free dowry in 
 exchange for the new messuage which the said Amauric 
 gave in the same place. Witnesses : Dom. Thomas de 
 Saunford ; Dom. Stephen de Barnhulle ; Dom. Milo, persona 
 de Cernay ; Anselm de Sancto Germano. Temp. Hen. III. 
 Lat. 
 
 403. Grant from Henry de Scaccario to Robert le 
 Hakkere of the fee which he formerly held of William de 
 Cheveleswelle, namely, a virgate of land in Feauflore 
 [Fallow]. Witnesses : William Grassus ; Alande Farnham ; 
 Warin Boystard ; John de Wyttenholt ; Robert de Coleshalle; 
 Peter de Uffinton; William, Persona de Uffinton ; John de 
 Fauflore. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 404. Grant from Peter, son of Matthew le Schey, to 
 the Church of St. Mary, and the monks of Kingswood, for 
 support of a lamp to burn daily at the mass of the Blessed 
 Virgin, of a messuage which he had by grant from John de 
 Schey, his uncle, at Bigford [Bushford, in Wotton], situated 
 near the King's highway, close to the bridge called Big- 
 fordesbruge. Witnesses : Dom. Robert le Veel, Knt. ; Dom. 
 John de Wautone, Knt. ; Elias de Cumbe ; Thomas le 
 Archer ; Richard Colewiche. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. With 
 fragment of seal. 
 
 405. Grant from Walter le Shipward to Dom. Thomas 
 de Berkeley of a curtilage in the borough of Berkeley, which 
 extends from the King's highway to the garden of the said 
 lord. Witnesses : Richard Averey ; John Sewaker ; Walter 
 le Cuppere ; Henry Cuppere ; Henry Grout ; Richard le 
 Sopere. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. 
 
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 406- Release from Matthew le Schay to Dom. 
 Joan de Berkeley of four acres of land in Moldeclive and in 
 Beckedescombe [nr. Wotton]. Witnesses : Dom. Henry 
 de Berkeley ; Thomas de Rodeberge ; Michael le Venur ; 
 Robert Brun ; Richard dePedyntun. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 407- Grant from John, son of Roger de Stampes, to 
 Richard, his brother, of six acres of land, of which three 
 and a half acres are " de terra Berd " and two and a half 
 lie near to the house of Alfred, etc., in Campel. Witnesses : 
 Roger de Braham; Eadmund de Thudeham; Robert Fucher, 
 Hosbert de Glanvile ; Bartholomew de Thudeham ; Jocelin 
 de Thudeham. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 408. (jRANT from William de Stanes fil. Walteri clerici 
 de Stanes to Robert Harald, of land in Stonhemefeld, 
 lying between the land of Maurice de Stanes and the 
 rivulet of Shadewell. Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Salso 
 Marisco ; Dom, Roger de Lokinton; Andrew deBratheston; 
 John de Egeton ; Maurice de Stanes ; Walter Sely ; Clericus. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lai. 
 
 409. Grant from John Suht de Culkertune to Kings- 
 wood Abbey of half an acre of land at Heydich [? in 
 Rodmarton, co. Glouc] Witnesses: John, Dominus de 
 Rodmertun; Walter Bernard ; Geoffrey de Constance; Henry 
 Bernard ; Walter Freman. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With 
 seal. 
 
 410. Sale by Dom. Thomas, son of Robert de Suttorp 
 to Robert de Tindale of the " varda " of the tenement which 
 John de Howt held in Neuton and Morcote [co. Rutl] to- 
 gether with the marriage of John de Howt fil. dicti Joh. de 
 Howt, the said Robert binding himself in 40 pounds to 
 marry the said John to his daughter " Et si dictum Johannem 
 ad filiam suam maritare noluerit, debet cum m^ritare ita 
 
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 quod non disparagetur," Witnesses : Geoffrey de Sancto 
 Medardo, Geoffrey Lufel, Robert de Stokes, Hugh Fawel, 
 Geoffrey de Milton, Knts.; Alexander de la Rivere de 
 Foddringeye ; Robert clericus de eadem. Dat. Suttorp 
 [Southorpe, co. Northt.] Th. aft. F. of St. Luke [18 Oct] 50 
 Henry III [1267]. Lat. 
 
 411. Lease from John, son of Thomas Cocus, of Crox- 
 ston, to Hugh, son of Martin de Croxton, of his meadow in 
 Le Neumor of Croxston [Croxton] from Pentecost [i June] 
 1270, until he shall have gathered six crops from the same. 
 Witnesses : Richard le Moyne, of Croxton ; Hugh, son of 
 William, son of Alan ; Robert, son of Hugh ; Robert the 
 Clerk, son of Hugh ; Roger, son of Walter ; John Moysand. 
 Dat. 1270. Lat. 
 
 412. Grant from Robert de Heia, son of Robert de 
 Heia de Humbreslam to Nicholas de Segrave, son of Gilbert 
 de Segraye of three virgates of land in the territory of 
 Hauthirne [Hathern, co. Leic]. Witnesses : Dom. Richard 
 de Thorp ; Walter de Tatereshall ; Stephen de Jort de 
 Wymundewel; Robert de Dixeleye; Hugh de Nevill; Richard 
 de Dorantesthorp ; Ivo de Prestewold, etc. Temp. Hen. HL 
 Lat. 
 
 413. Quitclaim from Roger, son of Peter le Haukere 
 de Kagword to Dom. Nicholas fil. Gilberti de Segrave of 
 one virgate of land in Kagword [Kegworth, co. Leic] which 
 his father once held from the ancestors of the said Dom. 
 Nicholas de Segrave, and pasture for three animals. Wit- 
 nesses: Dom. Stephen de Nevile; John Putrel; John Mallore; 
 Robert, son of Ivo de Kagword ; Robert de Haustede ; 
 Robert de Gurmendele. Temp. Hen. III. Lai. 
 
 414. Bond from Gilbert le Paumer to pay to Dom. 
 Stephen de Segrave sixteen shillings rent for two messuages 
 
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 in Meauton [Melton Mowbray, co. Leic] Witnesses : 
 Robert de Shep' ; Hugh de Perers ; William de Alleby ; 
 Richard de Houby ; John Banastre, etc. Temp. Hen. 
 HI. Lat. 
 
 415. Grant from Walter de Piriton, dictus Walensis, 
 to Alan Aug' and Agnes, his wife, of all his land called 
 Stodfold, near Swanhungre, in the parish of Berkeley. 
 Witnesses : Robert de Stanes ; Robert de Bradeston ; 
 Thomas de Swanhungre ; Geoffrey Neel ; Nicholas Neel ; 
 Adam Hathulf. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 416. Confirmation from Philip Wace to Thomas de 
 Berkeleia of that virgate of land which Philip Wace, his 
 uncle, sold to Dom. Robert de Berkelay " pro negotio suo " 
 in Tefleford [Tellisford, co. Som.] Witnesses : John 
 Bonet ; Geoffrey de Laurtun ; Pagan de Waltun ; Thomas 
 de Tefleford ; Helias de Tefleford ; Peter de Stintecumbe ; 
 Thomas de Tiringham ; " Richard Lestut qui hanc scripsit 
 confirmationem." Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With seal. 
 
 417. Grant from William de Whicheton to Stephen 
 de Segrave of ten virgates of land in Cotes-on-Soar [co. 
 Leic] "Witnesses : Hugh Dispensator ; David de Esseby ; 
 Henry de Segrave ; Ralph Ridel ; Thomas Dispensator ; 
 Ralph de Normanvill. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. With seal. 
 
 418. Grant from William, son of William, to Elias de 
 Cumbe of twenty shillings rent due from William le Wor 
 for land and a mill which he holds at Wike, together with 
 the service of the said William. Witnesses : William de 
 Berkelay ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; Laurence de Alerugge ; 
 Michael le Venur; Richard de Monasterio ; William de 
 Wike ; Bartholomew de Olepenna. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat, 
 
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130 Berkeley Castle 
 
 419. Grant from Eva la Wlbetere, son of Walter le 
 Wlbetere, to Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco of that 
 meadow which he had, " super mars," to hold by service 
 of " unus clavus gyrofri." Witnesses : Dom. Roger de 
 Lokinton, Walter de Burgo, Knts. ; Master William Taney, 
 Steward of Berkeley ; Andrew de Brotheston ; Maurice de 
 Stane ; Robert Bastard ; Adam Flaumberd. Temp. Hen. 
 III. Lat. With seal. 
 
 420. Grant from Hugh Womestrang and Leticia, his 
 wife, to Richard Womestrang, their son, of five shillings 
 of assise rent due from land in La Langerewe in the parish of 
 St. Thomas, a suburb of Bristol. Rent, two pence to be 
 paid to the Lord of Berkeley. Witnesses : Richard 
 Draperius, Prepositus Redeclivie ; William Seuare ; Mag. 
 Thomas Avverey ; John, Clerk ; James, his brother ; Roger 
 le Taverner ; Ralph Tannarius ; William Lovel ; Thomas 
 Rufifus ; John de Templo, notary public. Temp. Hen. HI. 
 Lat, With two seals. 
 
 421, Release from Robert del Ylle, Prior domus de 
 Portesmue [Domus Dei at Portsmouth], and the brothers 
 there to Nicholas de Segrave of four quarters of corn, due 
 from the said Nicholas in the manor of Penne [Penn. co. 
 Buck.] from the grant by Stephen de Segrave, the latter's 
 grandfather, for the support of the poor in the same house. 
 Witnesses : Dom. John de Diggeby ; Dom. Theobald de 
 Nevile ; Peter Belhost, of Leicester ; Ranulph de Belegrave ; 
 Roger Brabazun ; William de Normanton. Temp. Hen. 
 III. Lat. 
 
 422, Grant from Robert Zarnes de Berkeley to John 
 Schiphard, in free marriage with Agnes, his daughter, of two 
 burgages extending from Langebryggestrete to the lands 
 of St. Augustine's \) in Berkeley]. Witnesses : John de 
 Kingestone, Knt. ; John de Dune ; William Mettesdone ; 
 
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 Eudo de Haucton ; William Cuylire ; Alan Marchald ; 
 William de Charfeld. Temp. Hen. III. Lat. With seal. 
 
 ^23. Covenant between the Abbot and Convent of 
 Gerondon and Dom. Gilbert de Segrave, whereby the 
 latter is allowed free entry and egress for his beasts and the 
 beasts of his men, in Hawthorne [Hathern, co. Leic], into 
 the fields of Dixele [Dishley, co. Leic] between the F. of 
 the Nat. of the B. V. M. [8 Sept.] and the F. of Purif. of 
 B. V. M. [2 Feb.], provided that the hay and corn be carried 
 by the former date. Witnesses : Dom. Hugh Dispenser ; 
 Serlo de Torp ; Richard, his son ; Robert Bars, of Dishley ; 
 Hugh de la Grene, of Prestwood. Dat. Vig. of Ass°. of 
 B. V. M. [15 Aug.], 125 1. Lat. 
 
 424;. Grant by Henry HI. to Joan de Berkeley, and 
 on der death to Maurice, her son, of free warren in all her 
 dower lands of Wotton and Kamme [Cam] ; with a market 
 every Friday and a fair once a year, in Wotton Manor. 
 Witnesses : Geoffrey^ de Lezignan, " frater mens " ; Peter de 
 Sabaudia ; Master William de Kilkenny, Archdeacon of 
 Coventry ; Robert Walerand ; Gilbert de Segrave ; Elyas de 
 
 Rabayn ;, Robert de Muscegros ; E , Abbot of Pershore ; 
 
 Robert le Norreys ; Nicholas de Sancto Mauro ; Roger de 
 Lokinton. Dat. Woodstock, 2 August, Anno 36 [1252]. 
 Lat. "With great seal in bag, broken. The charter is 
 preserved in a leathern box. 
 
 425. Grant from Robert, son of Nicholas, to Dom 
 John Giffard, son of Osbert Giffard, of 40 librates of land 
 in the manor of Twyford [co. Bucks.] for the redemption of 
 other lands in Twyford, Smetheton, and Fineberg belonging 
 to the said Robert, which the King had assigned to the 
 
 ' 3rd son of Hugh de Lusignan, Comte de la Marche, etc., and of Isabella, 
 widow of King John, and therefore half-brother to Henry HI, 
 K 2 
 
132 Berkeley Castle 
 
 said Dom. GifFard '* occasione turbacionis habite in regno 
 Anglic." Witnesses : Dom. Robert Waleraund ; John 
 Giflfard, of Brunnesfeld ; Ralph Pipard ; Alan de Plokenet ; 
 Osbert Giffard ; Simon de Sancto Licio [St. Liz.] ; Thomas 
 de Valeynes ; Roger de Aumari ; Robert Malet and 
 Sampson Folyot, Knights, and others. Dat. F. of St. 
 Margaret, Virgin [20 July], 1253. Lat. With small green 
 seal of arms (broken). 
 
 ^26, GrRANT from Henry de Leukenor, Chaplain and 
 Warden of the Hospital of St. John's, outside the East 
 gate of Oxford to Gilbert de Segrave of a chaplain to 
 celebrate divine service in Wileby Church [Willoughby, co. 
 Warw.] and an " exhibition " of five poor men " at table in 
 our house " of Willoughby. Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With 
 seal of the Hospital in green wax. 
 
 Omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presens 
 scriptum pervenerit Henricus de Leukenore, capellanus, 
 custos Hospitalis sancti Johannis extra portam orien- 
 talem Oxonie salutem in Domino. Noveritis nos de 
 communi consilio et assensu fratrum et sororum dicti 
 hospitalis nostri concessisse et presenti carta nos et 
 successores nostros obligasse ad instanciam nobilis viri 
 domini Gilberti de Setgrave ad perpetuam sustenta- 
 tionem unius capellani in ecclesia de Wileby pro anima 
 Stephani de Setgrave et antecessorum suorum et 
 Gilberti de Setgrave et heredum suorum. perpetuo divina 
 celebraturi preter capellanum qui pro tempore in eadem 
 ecclesia parochiali debet ministrare. Preterea concessi- 
 mus eidem Gilberto perpetuam exibitionem quinque 
 pauperum qualibet die in mensa in domo nostra de 
 Wileby pro animabus predictorum Stephani et Gilberti 
 
 ^. Founded by Henry IIL On its site William Waynflete, Bp. of 
 Winchester, founded Magdalen College circ. 1456, 
 
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 et heredum suorum. Nos autem consideratione predicti 
 Gilbert! etvoluntario assensu fratrum nostrorum servicium 
 predicti capellani in dicta ecclesia de Wileby sic 
 duximus ordinandum et perpetua stabilitate continuan- 
 dum, videlicet uno die missa de Beata Virgine et reliquo 
 die pro animabus predictorum Gilberti et Sthephani et 
 heredum suorum et pro fidelibus defunctis solempni 
 celebrabitur devotione. Et nos et successores nostri 
 capellanos in eadem ecclesia successive ministrantes 
 constituemus idoneos, quos loci Diocesano presentabimus 
 instituendos. Ita quod si nos in exhibitione pre- 
 dictorum capellani et quinque pauperum contingat 
 deficere licebit dicto ordinario nos et successores nostros 
 ad exhibitionem predictam sicut predictum est perpetuo 
 continuendam per spiritualia bona nostra compellere. In 
 cujus securitatis testimonio presentem cartam communi 
 sigillo domus nostre predicto Gilberto fecimus corobo- 
 ratam. Hiis testibus Willelmo de Cantilupo ; Johanne 
 filio Galfridi ; Galfrido Dispensario ; Paulino Peuire ; 
 Silvestro de Everdun ; Galfrido de Wolward ; Roberto de 
 Shotindon ; Ricardo de Clifford ; Galfrido de Childewic ; 
 Waltero de Lattun ; Radulfo de Sancto Sampsone et 
 multis aliis. 
 
 42*7. Lease from Peter le Wike to Arnulf de Berkeley 
 for seven years, of all his land in Swanhunger, with the 
 fishery and all appurtenances, which land Reginald Luffing 
 sometime held ■ on lease : reserving to himself two days' 
 fishing in the week, namely, Wednesdays and Fridays. 
 Witnesses : Nicholas, Vicar of Berkeley ; John de Egctun ; 
 Adam Gobi ; John Sewaker ; Thomas, Serviens ; Adam, 
 son of Nigel ; William de Boifeld ; Robert le Herde. Dat. 
 Easter [28 Mar.] 39 Hen. III. [1255]. Lat. 
 
 428. Release from Petronilla Vy voun, Dom. de Button 
 
134 Berkeley Castle. 
 
 to David le Blount, her son, and Amabel, his wife, of the 
 manor of Button [Bitton, co. Glouc], which descended to 
 her on the death of Amabel, her mother. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Milo Langetot, Dom. Maurice de Salso Marisco, Knights ; 
 Hubert le Monn ; Robert de Stanton ; Nicholas Putot. 
 Dat. Bitton, 42 Hen. HI. [1257-8]. Lat. With seal. 
 
 429. Grant from Robert de Gymilles to Baldwin de 
 Draytone and Idonea, his wife, of all the land in Botulf- 
 bregge [[Botulf-Bridge, co. Hunt.] to hold by service of a 
 sparrow hawk. Witnesses : Dom. William le Moyne ; 
 Walter de Wastingele ; Robert de Beumys ; John de 
 Longavilla ; Geoffrey Russel ; Richard de Hemington ; 
 Wydo Gobald ; Symon de Copmanford ; William de 
 Waldis ; John de Folkeswrthe ; Robert de Meynil ; Lau- 
 rence de Overton ; Ralph de Waldesek ; William de Torp. 
 Dat. Morrow of St. Lucy [13 Dec] 1259. Lat. With seal. 
 
 430. Deed of William, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 
 instructing that, for the more frequent celebration of divine 
 service at the religious place called Steepholm, which with 
 the island of Steepholm, R. de Tregoz has conferred on the 
 Austin Canons of Stodlegh [Studley, co. Warw.], the Prior 
 of Studley shall appoint two canons at least to reside in the 
 said island, the senior canon to be called the Prior of Steep- 
 holm : with directions as to future nominations in case of 
 vacancy. Dat. Cherlecumb-by-Bath, v. Id. Apr. [9 April] 
 1260. Lat. With seals : (i) of the Bishop in brown wax, 
 and on the reverse, St. Andrew on cross, etc. ; (2) fragment 
 of seal of the Chapter of Bath, in green wax, displaying 
 two towers of the abbey. There was a third seal, that of 
 the Chapter of Wells, which is now missing. 
 
 Universis Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum per- 
 venerit, Willclmus miseracione divina Bathoniensis et 
 
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 Wellensis episcopus salutem in Domino sempiternam. 
 Cum vir nobilis dominus R. de Tregoz patronus loci 
 religiosi qui dicitur Stepholm ipsum locum cum tota 
 insula et omnibus aliis pertinenciis viris religiosis canon- 
 icis ordinis Sancti Augustini de Stodlegh Wygorn. dioc. 
 inpuram et perpetuam elemosinam tanquam loci patronus 
 contulerit intuitu caritatis volens et appetens ob divini 
 cultus augmentum quod apud prefatum locum divina 
 frequencius solito celebrentur. Nos predicti nobilis 
 laudabile propositum in Domino commendantes et 
 super hiis favorem sibi obtentu religionis ampliande 
 benivolum impendentes donaciones et concessiones ipsius 
 nobilis necnon et quorumlibet aliorum religiosis in 
 dicta insula degentibus pie factas, quantum in nobis est 
 pro nobis et successoribus nostris capitulorum nostrorum 
 Bathoniensis et Wellensis consensu unanimi et assensu 
 intervenientibus acceptantes et ratas habentes statuimus 
 et ordinamus quod duo ad minus canonici de prioratu 
 predicto apud prefatam insulam moram faciant con- 
 tinuam. Et quod canonicus qui ibidem preesse debeat 
 nobis et successoribus nostris loci diocesanis per pri- 
 orem de Stodlegh qui pro tempore fuerit presenteturl 
 et Prior de Stepholm nominetur sine nostro vel suc- 
 cessorum nostrorum consensu sue perpetuo per dictum 
 priorem nullatenus amovendus. Quod si per nos vel 
 successores nostros in visitacione nostra ob sua demerita 
 ipsum contigerit amoveri, volumus et concedimus quod 
 idem Prior de Stodlegh alium de suis canonicis ad 
 dictum locum et ipsius regimen nobis et successoribus 
 nostris libere valeat presentare. Et quod tempore 
 vacacionis omnium bonorum ad dictum locum spec- 
 tancium necnon et ipsius loci custodiam prior obtineat 
 supradictus usque ad tempus a jure statutum, quo deterso 
 si prior negligens fuerit presentando nos et successores 
 
136 Berkeley Castle 
 
 nostri diocesano fungentes jure, priorem preficiemus 
 loco predicto juxta formam pretactam. Hec autem 
 ordinanda et statuenda duximus jure diocesano et 
 dignitate episcopali nobis successoribus nostris et ec- 
 clesiis nostris Bathoniensi et Wellensi semper salvis 
 Relinquentes potestatem Priori de Stodlegh et suis 
 successoribus faciendi correctiones secundum regulam in 
 loco predicto cum fratres deliquerint, ac eos prout res 
 postulaverit revocandi, necnon et ipsum qui ipsi loco 
 preerit libere presentandi prout superius est expressum. 
 Ad quorum omnium predictorum testimonium et roboris 
 firmamentum nostrum sigillum, et predictorum nostror- 
 um capitulorum sigilla ad confirmacionis titulum et 
 munimen presentibus sunt appensa. Datum apud 
 Cherlecumbe juxta Bathoniam, v. Id. Aprilis Anno 
 domini Millesimo ducentesimo sexagesimo. 
 
 431. Lease for a term of sixty years from Roger de 
 Berkeley, son of Philip de Berkeley, to the Abbot and 
 Convent of Kingswood of four acres of land in Nywentun 
 [Newington-Bagpath], of which two acres lie in La Grene- 
 weye which leads from Newington to Malmesbury, and the 
 other two near Fontesdich in La Wrthifurlong. Witnesses : 
 Dom. Richard de Cromhale ; Henry de Lyues ; Geoffrey 
 Caprun ; Robert de Uptun ; Richard de Wockesye ; Peter 
 de Ewelegh ; Walter de Neylesworth. Dat. i May, 1261. 
 Lat. With small seal. 
 
 432. Grant from Peter de to Dom. William 
 
 de Berkeley, Knight, of land in Ywelege [Uley] in exchange 
 for certain tenements in Bradley. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Maurice de Berkeley ; Dom. John de ^Wauton ; Dom. 
 Maurice de Salso Marisco ; Richard de Berkeley ; Robert 
 de Kingestun ; Elyas de Cumb ; Thomas le Archer. Dat. 
 Uley, Fri. F.of St. Dunstan [21 Oct.], 1262. Lat. Defaced. 
 
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 433. Fine levied at Westminster in Hilary Term, 47 
 Hen. III. [1263] before Gilbert de Preston, and John de 
 Wyvill, Justices, whereby Henry de Belesby conveys to 
 Sampson, Abbot of Kingswood, fifty acres of wood in 
 Osilworthe [Ozleworth]. Lat. 
 
 434. Covenant whereby Richard, Abbot, and the 
 Convent of St. Augustine's, Bristol, grant to Adam de 
 Loreweng, for his life and the life of his wife, ten acres and 
 a half of land lying in Newenthonehulle field [Newington 
 Bagpath]. Rent, four shillings. Dat. The morrow of 
 Sunday on which " Quasi modo geniti " is sung [Apr. 5th], 
 1266. Lat. With fragment of the Abbey seal. 
 
 436. Covenant whereby the Abbot and Convent of 
 Kingswood agree to give to Roger le Vouler de Hulle and 
 Gonilda, his wife, five shillings of silver for the third part of 
 a tenement, which John le Newman formerly held from the 
 Abbey in Baggepath [Newington Bagpath], which sum 
 the said Gonilda claims as her dower from her former 
 husband, Matthew de Baggepath. Dat. XV. Kal. Mart. 
 [15 Feb.], 1265. Lat. With small seal. 
 
 436- Grant from Henry, Prior of Holy Trinity, 
 Longbridge, and the brothers there, to Dom. Maurice 
 Berkeley, of all that pasture, which is called La Sterte, 
 lying between La Newelond and La Warth, in exchange 
 for five and a half acres of land in Gosintune [Gossington] 
 called Suthwrthi. Witnesses : Dom. Robert de Kingestun, 
 Richard de Berkeley, Knights ; Reginald de Gosintun ; 
 Thomas de Belegh ; Robert de Bracheston : Walter de 
 Egetun ; Geoffrey Neel ; Walter Sely. Dat. 1270. Lat. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 437» Confirmation by Alexander HI., King of 
 Scotland, of the grant made by Christiana de Mubray, 
 
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 widow of Roger de Mubray, Knight, daughter and heir of 
 Bernard Fraser, Knight, to the Brothers of the Order of the 
 Holy Trinity and of the Captives of the House called Gracia 
 Dei, which the said Christiana founded in the territory of her 
 manor of Huwystune [Houston, co. Renfrew], with her land 
 of Lyveryngham, and the land which formerly belonged 
 to the Hospital of Fortimer, the land of Crauchote, etc. 
 Witnesses : John Cumyn ; Reginald le Chene ; Simon 
 Fraser ; Richard Fraser, and David Brune. Dat Hadding- 
 ton, 25 January, Anno 23 [1272]. Lat. With fragment of 
 royal seal in white wax. 
 
 438. Grant from Maurice de Berkeley, for the health 
 of his soul, to Kingswood Abbey of free entry into a 
 certain meadow containing one acre, which the Abbey 
 holds by gift of Walter le Grip, in Matford, for the support 
 of the iron fabric of the Abbey. Late Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 439. Settlement of suit between Dom. Maurice de 
 Berkelay and Nicholas, son of Roger, concerning the 
 former's claim that the latter should perform suit at 
 Berkeley Hundred Court for his manors of Hulle and 
 Nundesfeld [Hill and Nimesfield, in Berkeley] twice a year 
 and " ad efiforciamentum curie scilicet ad preceptum domini 
 regis exequendum et ad prisonem judicandum." etc., and 
 that his freed men and villeins should do suit at the same 
 courts, and that he should deliver at the prison of the said 
 Maurice all thieves apprehended in the said manor, etc. 
 Witnesses : Dom. James de Frivile ; Dom. Maurice de 
 Salso Marisco ; Dom. Roger de Lokinton ; Dom. Adam 
 de Eston ; Robert de Hales, Seneschal of Berkeley ; 
 Humphrey de la Barre ; Maurice de Stanes ; John de 
 Wodeford ; Andrew de Bradestan ; Walter le Butiller ; 
 Ralph de Bakepuz. Late Hen. HI. Lat. With seal of 
 arms of Nicholas fil. Rogeri. 
 
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 440- Grant from Philip de Berkelay to Kingswood 
 Abbey of four acres of land in Newenton [Newington 
 Bagpath], namely in Suthfelde, Sclattresslade, Vernslade, 
 etc. Witnesses : Robert, son of Nigel ; Osbert del Egge ; 
 Richard le Due ; William de Westcote ; Thomas de la 
 Blanche ; William Treilli ; Adam de la Hame ; William, 
 son of Helias ; Matthew le Scay. Late Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 441. Grant from Roger de Bercheleia, to Robert, son 
 of Walter de Baggpathe, of a half virgate of land which 
 Walter, his father, held in Baggpathe [Bagpath]. Rent, 
 thirty pence. Witnesses : William, son of Helyas ; Adam 
 de la Hamme ; Richard, son of the Clerk ; Roger Martel ; 
 Henry de Guderintona. Late Hen. HL Lat. 
 
 442. A. Grant from John Butiler and Sara, his wife, to 
 Dom. Alice de Insula, of a virgate of land in Kingstone 
 [Kingston Lisle, co. Berks.], which William de Witchirche, 
 father of the said Sara, formerly held. Witnesses : Dom. 
 Peter Achard, Henry de Pesya, Robert de Hauetford, 
 Knights ; William, son of John de Sparesholt ; Simon de la 
 Forde ; Peter de Badelking; Andrew de Badelking ; 
 Reginald de Prisun ; Richard de Loges. Late Hen. III. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 442. B.C. Release from Jacob Ben Rab Moses to Alice, 
 Lady Lisle, of a piece of land and pasture in Kingstone 
 which she bought of John le Butiler, of Badelkyng [Baul- 
 king] and Sarah, his wife. Early Edw. I. Hebrew. 
 Draft and fair copy. 
 
 443. Grant from Ernulf Byset, Dominus de Preston 
 to Ammauric de Sancto Amando of the homage, service, 
 and fealty due from Anselm de Sancto Germano, of 
 Cerney, in respect of the tenement which he holds in 
 Cerney [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Dom. Roger, Abbot of 
 
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 Cirencester ; Dom. William de Kaynes ; Dom. John 
 Padynel ; Dom. Richard, Parson of Cerney ; John de 
 Frankelein, of Cerney. etc. Late Hen. III. Lat. 
 
 444. Release from Reginald, Abbot de Gerwedon 
 [Gerondon, co. Leic], and the Convent there, to Stephen 
 de Segrave of four " solidate " of rent, which the same 
 Stephen pays from the mill of Aleby [Welby, co. Leic] in 
 exchange for two " solidate " which Stephen held by grant 
 from Thomas le Despenser in Burton [Burton Lazars, co. 
 Leic]. Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Kurzun ; Walter de 
 Besebrock ; Peter de Sancto Edwardo ; William le Was- 
 tenes ; Gilbert Maulore ; Hugh de Berwos ; Robert Puterel. 
 Temp. Hen. HI. Lat. With the Abbot's privy seal. 
 
 445. Grant from Robert Marshall, of Newport, to 
 the Church and Monks of Kingswood, for the support of 
 the iron fabric, of that meadow which he sold to Walter le 
 Gryip in Mathford [Matford], within the Manor of Berkeley. 
 Witnesses : Roger de Lokynton ; William de Mathine ; 
 William de Burgo ; William Capel ; Nicholas de Wode- 
 ford ; Henry de Batonia ; Roger le Hurde. Late Henry 
 in. Lat. With seal. 
 
 446. Grant 1 from Thomas, Prior of St. Andrew's, 
 Northampton, to Dom. Stephen de Segrave, of the tene- 
 ment which was the capital messuage of Ralph de Lichel- 
 barwe, in Northampton. Witnesses : William Martiwall, 
 Sheriff of Northampton ; Walter de Boseboch ; Robert 
 Speciarius ; Robert, son of Richard ; Robert de Leycestre ; 
 Michael, son of Philipi ; Roger, son of Theobald ; Richard 
 de Scandeisell ; Ingram Malebranche ; Thomas de Leyces- 
 tre ; Henry de Plumpton. Temp. Hen. III. [1228-1233] 
 Lat. 
 
 ^ Misplaced in error. 
 
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 447. Release from Godc, widow of John Witcolt, to 
 Dom. Warin fil. Geroldi, of the third part of a virgate and 
 a half of land, and of two messuages in Kingston [King- 
 ston-Lisle], juxta le Witchers, which "per breve Domini 
 Regis nomine dotis petii versus dictum Warinum coram 
 Justiciariis apud Westmonasterium." Witnesses : Peter 
 de Batheleking ; Andrew, son of Thomas ; Simon de la 
 Forde ; William le Botiller ; Robert Gissic, etc. Late 
 Henry III. Lat. With seal. 
 
 448. Release from Richard Chocus, of Clopton, to 
 Dom. Maurice de Berkeley, of land in Wyteclyve Park, in 
 Ham. Witnesses : William de Mathem, Seneschal of 
 Berkeley ; William Capel ; William, son of Robert ; Robert 
 de Stanes ; William de Golofre ; Robert Candel ; John de 
 Bratheston ; John de Cranleygh ; Geoffrey Neel. Late 
 Hen. HI. Lat. 
 
 449. GRANT/rom Henry de Berkeley, Lord of Dursley, 
 to Kingswood Abbey, of the tenement which they hold in 
 Ozleworth. Witnesses: Dom. Maurice de Berkeley ; William 
 de Maunsel ; Robert de Mathine ; Walter de Chaldefeld ; 
 William de Egintun ; Thomas Passelewe. Late Hen. HL 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 450. Notification by G[ilbert] de Clare, Earl of 
 Gloucester and Hertford, to his tenants of Swaneburne, that 
 he has granted to Dom. Robert le Veel a messuage and 
 carucate of land in Swaneburne [Swanbourne, co. Bucks.] 
 which formerly was part of his mother's dower. Dat. 
 Abingdon, 25 Feb., 1273. Lat. With seal of arms. 
 
 451. Release from Henry de Berkeley, Lord of Durs- 
 ley, to J[ohn de Marina], Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, 
 and the Abbey of all the lands, churches, advowsons, e'tc, 
 which the said Abbey holds in Berkeley and Berkeleis- 
 
142 Berkeley Castle 
 
 hurnes. Witnesses : Dom. Bartholomew de Sulby ; Dom. 
 Alexander Dando, Knight ; Philip de Doghton ; William 
 Goldfre ; Robert de la Stone. Temp. Edw. I. [1276- 1786]. 
 Lat. With seal. 
 
 452. Covenant whereby William de Valence, Earl of 
 Pembroke, and Joan his wife, grant and release to Dom. 
 Nicholas fil. Martini and his heirs certain pleas, rights and 
 liberties connected with the apprehension and trial of 
 thieves, outlaws, etc., in Kemmeys [Cameys, co. Pembroke]. 
 Dat. Pembroke, Mon. aft. Michaelmas. 5 Edw. I. [1277]. 
 With separate seals of the Earl and Countess. 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri quod ita convenit inter Dominum 
 Willelmum de Valence, Dominum Penbrochie et Johan- 
 nam uxorem suam pro se et heredibus suis ex una parte, 
 et Dominum Nicholaum filium Martini pro se et heredi- 
 bus suis ex altera apud Penbrochiam die lune proximo 
 post festum sancti Michaelis anno regni Regis Edwardi 
 quinto scilicet quod dictus Dominus Willelmus et 
 Johanna concesserunt et remiserunt pro se et heredibus 
 suis placitum de sanguine et vulnere ubi mahangium 
 non sit inperpetuum neque mors, Preterea idem dominus 
 Willelmus et Johanna pro se et heredibus suis concesser- 
 unt inperpetuum eidem Nicholao et heredibus suis quod 
 possint juratam capere in terra sua in Kemmeys per se 
 ipsos vel eorum ballivos de latrone cum latrocinio capto 
 et de latrocinio tam de Anglicibus \sic\ quam de Walen- 
 sibus et aliis sicut ipse Nicholaus et antecessores sui 
 capere et eorum ballivi consueverunt secundum consue- 
 tudinem parcium illarum Preterea idem dominus Willel- 
 mus et Johanna concesserunt et remiserunt pro se et 
 heredibus suis dicto N. et heredibus suis evasionem 
 latronum ubi possit se purgare et heredes sui similiter 
 per solum sacramentum suum. Vel si maluerit inqui- 
 
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 ratur in comitatu Penbrochie per duodecim liberos et 
 legales homines coram senescallo et vicecomite Pen- 
 brochie quod ilia evasio non sit per consensum neque 
 per voluntatem ipsius N. vel heredum suorum vel eorum 
 ballivorum neque per redempcionem. Et si ipse vel 
 heredes sui se non possint purgare ut supradictum est 
 dabunt centum solidos pro evasione. Et si suspicio 
 oriatur quod per consensum aliquorum ballivorum 
 suorum sive voluntatem fiat visnetum super ipsos cap- 
 iatur per dominum Willelmum et Johannam et heredes 
 suos vel eorum ballivos, et si visnetum eos non purgav- 
 erit dabunt centum solidos. Preterea idem dominus 
 Willelmus et Johanna concesserunt et remiserunt pro se 
 et heredibus suis inperpetuum dicto N. et heredibus suis 
 rectum Wrek qualecumque fuerit per totam terram 
 suam de Kemmeys. Preterea idem dominus Willelmus 
 et Johanna concesserunt et remiserunt pro se et hered- 
 ibus suis inperpetuum dicto N. et heredibus suis quod 
 possint justiciam facere in terra sua de Kemmeys de 
 homicidio cum manuopere capto, vel cum huthesio ^ ita 
 quod justicia fiat in continenti secundum legem terre 
 nisi fuerit de nocte vel tali hora captus quod justicia 
 fieri non possit racionabiliter in crastino sine dila- 
 tione fiat justicia secundum legem terre nisi ita 
 evenerit quod homines de Kemmeys sint in servicio 
 domini Willelmi et Johanne et heredum suorum in ex- 
 ercitu et in reditu eorum justicia fiat sine moraut supra- 
 dictum est, et nisi fecerint ut supradictum est, dominus 
 Willelmus et Johanna et sui heredes et eorum ballivi 
 manus apponant. Et si aliquod homicidium fiat in terra 
 de Kemmeys et homicida captus non fijerit cum manu 
 opere ut supradictum est, licet domino Willelmo et 
 Johanne et heredibus suis et eorum ballivis inde inqui- 
 
 1 i.e. hue and cry. 
 
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 sicionem facere per totam terram de Kemmeys et tarn 
 de morte Anglicorum quam Walensium vel aliorum. Et 
 si ita contingat quod aliquis homicida captus fuerit in 
 terra de Kemmeys per inquisicionem factam per dominum 
 Willelmum et Johannam et suos heredes vel ballivos 
 eorum sive per famam sive aliter dominus Willelmus et 
 Johanna et heredes sui vel eorum ballivi visneto capto in 
 Comitatu Penbrochie de eo justiciam faciant secundum 
 legem terre. Ita tamen quod nullum visnetum currat 
 super personam dicti N., nee super heredes suos nisi ad 
 eorum voluntatem, et si justicia de homicida predicto 
 facta fuerit per dominum Willelmum et Johannam vel 
 heredes suos vel eorum ballivos terra dicti homicide 
 cujuscunque feodi sit, si teneat hereditarie remaneat in 
 manus domini Willelmi et Johanne vel heredum suorum 
 per unum annum et unum diem et post unum annum et 
 unum diem facta justicia revertatur terra ad dominum 
 ejusdem feodi sine contradiccione vel impedimento 
 domini Willelmi et Johanne vel heredum suorum sive 
 eorum ballivorum et catalla ejusdem homicide con- 
 dempnati remaneant dicto N. et heredibus suis. Et si 
 ita contingat quod aliquis homicida in terra de Kemmeys 
 per dominum Willelmum et Johannam et heredes suos 
 vel eorum ballivos pro morte hominis captus vel capien- 
 dus fuerit, et per amicos suos finem fecerit cum domino 
 Willelmo et Johanna vel heredibus suis vel eorum 
 ballivis,nichilominus catalla ejusdem homicide remaneant 
 eidem N. et heredibus suis. Et si ita contingat quod 
 aliquis hutlaghatus vel exul per judicium comitatus 
 Pembrochie fuerit, in terra de Kemmeys hospitatus vel 
 recettatus licet domino Willelmo et Johanne et heredibus 
 suis et eorum ballivis inde facere inquisicionem per 
 totam terram de Kemmeys et si aliquis de terra de 
 Kemmeys inventus fuerit de tali recettamento culpabili, 
 
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 licet domino Willelmo et Johanne et heredibus suis et 
 eorum ballivis de eo facere justiciam secundum legem 
 terre et justicia facta remaneat terra illius culpabilis in 
 manus domini Willelmi et Johanne et heredum suorum 
 per unum annum et unum diem ut supradictum est, et 
 post unum annum et unum diem revertatur terra ad 
 dominum feodi sine aliqua contradiccione domini 
 Willelmi et Johanne et heredum suorum vel eorum 
 ballivorum et catalla ejusdem culpabilis remaneant dicto 
 N. et heredibus suis ut supradictum est. Et si contingat 
 quod aliquis talis recettator finem fecerit per amicos 
 suos cum domino Willelmo et Johanna et heredibus suis 
 vel eorum ballivis nichilominus catalla ejusdem re- 
 maneant dicto N. et heredibus suis nee licet dicto N. vel 
 heredibus suis nee eorum ballivis nee aliquibus aliis de 
 terra de Kemmeys redemptionem aliquam capere de 
 aliquo latrone nee aliquo malefactore neque dimittere 
 nisi per legem terre. Remaneant etiam dicto Willelmo 
 et Johanne et heredibus suis per totam terram de 
 Kemmeys omnia placita que pertinent ad coronam 
 subscripta scilicet de homicidio ut supradictum est, et de 
 combustione tempore pacis et de rapto et de thesauro 
 invento et de omnibus brevibus de cursu preterpone, et 
 de omnibus ad ea pertinentibus et de recenti forcia cum 
 vetito namii^ facto per dominum N. et ejus heredibus vel 
 eorum ballivos et de vetito namii facto per aliquem 
 alium in terra de Kemmeys ubi dictus N. vel ejus heredes 
 vel eorum ballivi justiciam facere denegaverunt. Et 
 omnes alie loquele recte et libertates que hie nominate 
 non sunt quibus dictus N. et ejus antecessores usi fuerunt 
 remaneant dicto N. et heredibus suis pro dicto Willelmo 
 et Johanna et heredibus suis inperpetuum. Incujusrei 
 
 ^ i.e.. Distraint. 
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146 Berkeley Castle 
 
 testimonium presens scriptum cyrographatum mutuis 
 sigillis partium est roboratum. Hiis testibus, Dominis 
 Imberto Gy fratre, R. de Waldesef, tunc magistro 
 Slebeth, Roberto de Valle, Johanne de Castro Martin, 
 
 militibus, Gydone de Brion, Th de Rupe, et Roberto 
 
 Martin de Kemmeys et aliis. 
 
 453. Indenture of covenant between Thomas Danvers, 
 Sheriff of Oxford, and Dom. Henry le Tyeys, " Custos of 
 the King's Town " of Oxford, concerning the latter's pledges 
 for the custody of the said town. Dat. 7 Oct, 5 Edw. I. 
 [1277]. 
 
 454. Licence from Edward I. to Almaric de Sancto 
 Amando to divert, etc., the public way which goes through 
 Cerney, co. Glouc, past his gate, in order that he may 
 erect a bridge outside his fishpond, etc. Dat. Quenynton, 
 17 March, A°. vi. [1278]. Lat. With fragment of great 
 seal. 
 
 455. Covenant of lease from Henry de Weneswell to 
 Robert Mathias, of Egeton, and Joan, his wife, of a certain 
 meadow above his fishpond in Wanswell, near the King's 
 highway which leads from Wanswell to Egeton : reserving 
 the right of driving his wagons and carts ever the said 
 meadow. Witnesses : Walter de Egeton ; Thomas de 
 Swonhungre ; William de Schokerwich ; Robert de Egeton ; 
 Geoffrey Neel ; Adam Hapulf ; Thomas Aleyn ; Richard 
 le Sauoner, Clerk. Dat. Nat. of B.V.M. [8 Sept.], 6 Edw. I. 
 [1278]. Lat. 
 
 456. Release from Henry de Berkeley, Lord of 
 Dursley, to Dom. Maurice de Berkeley of the Barony of 
 Berkeley, with Slimbridge Manor. Witnesses : Dom. God- 
 frey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester ; Dom. Reginald, Abbot 
 of Gloucester ; Dom. John, Abbot of Bristol ; Dom. John 
 
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 Giffard ; John de Boun ; John de Acton ; Richard de 
 Ripariis and William Maunsel, Knights ; John de Clyfford ; 
 Nicholas de Aperleye ; William de Mathine ; Milo de 
 Longetoft ; Elyas de Cumba ; Peter de Stintescumbe. 
 Dat. Slimbridge, F. of St. Matthias [24 Feb.], 6 Edw. I. 
 [1278]. Lat. 
 
 457- Grant from Thomas, Lord of Berkeley, to 
 William le Veysee, of four perches of land at Stone in 
 Ham, Witnesses : Richard de Avene ; Walter Moton ; 
 William le Golde ; Robert le Boschare ; Alexander, the 
 Clerk. Temp. Edw. I. Lat. With seal. 
 
 458. Grant from Edward I. to Thomas, son of Maurice 
 [de Berkeley], and Margaret, his wife, of lands in Waterford 
 and Desmond, together with the custody of Dungarvan 
 Castle, with all offices and services thereto attached (with 
 certain exceptions hereafter notedj, which lands, etc., the 
 King's grandfather, King John, leased to Thomas, son of 
 Anthony, and King Henry HI. leased to John, son of 
 Thomas, and the present King lately recovered in a suit in 
 the King's Court from the said Thomas, son of Maurice, 
 who succeeded to the said lands as kinsman and heir of the 
 said John : the said Thomas, son of Maurice to pay yearly 
 into the Exchequer at Dublin, 200 marks. Excepted from 
 the grant are (i) all the saffi^on growing on the said lands, 
 and (2) the tenures of Walter de la Haye, John de 
 Weyland, and Jordan de Exon, and of the heirs of Robert 
 de Stapleton, which are held by feoffment from the Crown. 
 Witnesses : R[obert Burnell], Bishop of Bath ; A[ntony 
 Bek], Bishop of Durham ; W[illiam de Lude], Bishop of 
 Ely ; Edmund, the King's brother ; William de Valentia, 
 the King's uncle ; Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and 
 Hertford ; Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln ; Robert de 
 
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 Tibetot ; Walter de Bello Campo ; Gilbert de Briddeshale. 
 Dat. Westminster, 16 Feb., Anno 20 [1292]. Lat. The 
 initial E of Edwardus illuminated in gold, red and blue. 
 
 459. Grant from Roger le Bygod, Earl of Norfolk 
 and Marshal of England, to John ap Adam, of a weekly 
 market on Wednesdays at his manor of Betesle [Bettesley, 
 CO. Glouc], and an annual fair to last 3 days, namely, the 
 vigil, the day and the morrow of St. Margaret, Virgin 
 [13 July] : together with free warren in all his demesne 
 lands of Betesle and La Gorste. Witnesses : Dom. Ralph, 
 Abbot of Tintern ; Dom. Thomas de Berkele, Dom. 
 Maurice de Berkele, his son, Dom. John Bluet, Knights ; 
 Dom. William de Beccles, " our chancellor " ; Philip le 
 Waleys, and Philip de la More. Dat. London, 13 May, 22 
 Edw. L [1294]. Lat. Seal missing. 
 
 460. Counterpart of Lease from Richard de Wike 
 and Dionysia, his wife, to Dom. Joan de Berkeley, wife of 
 Thomas de Berkeley, of a burgage in Wotton, for a term 
 of 7 years. Witnesses : Robert de Stane ; Robert de 
 Bradeston ; Richard de Byseleye ; Robert Wyther ; John 
 Champeneys ; Henry de Ledebury ; Alexander de Hore ; 
 Philip Draysyd ; Richard le Peleter. Dat. " A la Goule 
 Aust" [i Aug.] 26 Edw. I. [1298]. Fr. With fine seal of 
 Dom. Joan de Berkeley. 
 
 461. Grant from Thomas Lord Berkeley to his 
 nephew, Robert de Berkeley, of the wood known as In- 
 wood, in Cam, at an annual rent of forty shillings. Wit- 
 nesses : Dom. Robert de Berkeley ; Walter de Helyun ; 
 John de Wiliton, Robert le Veel, Peter Crok, Knights ; 
 Richard de Byseleye ; Robert de Bradestan ; Robert de 
 Stanes ; Robert Wither ; Richard de Avene ; Thomas de 
 Swanhongre, etc. Dat. Sat. F. of St. John Ap. and Ev. [27 
 Dec] 27 Edw. I. [1298]. Lat. 
 
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 ^162. Grant from John, son of Reginald, Lord of Blayn- 
 leuenyr and Bulthdynas, to all the men of the commonalty 
 of Talgarth, Henthporth, Tradewy, and Crouchonwell, of 
 the privilege of trying their actions in his Court of Talgarth, 
 of right of free pasturage, fishery, and many other privileges. 
 Witnesses : Dom. John Tresgroys, Dom. Henry de Solero, 
 Knights ; Thomas Walensis ; Robert Walensis ; William 
 Lupus de Llewelino and others. Dat. T. aft. F. of St. 
 Bartholomew [24 Aug.] at Stradewy, 1299. Lat. Copy. 
 
 463. Grant from Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, to the 
 Master and Brethren " miliciae Templi Solomonis " in 
 England and their tenants of Cranford, of the common of 
 pasture and heathland within Isleworth Hundred, namely 
 from the vill of Cranford to the vill of Twickenham in 
 length, and from Babworth Bridge to Hundesloue '[Houn- 
 slow] in breadth. Witnesses : Hugh, Abbot of Hayles ; 
 Walter de Ailesburie ; Roger de Marlow ; William, " our 
 Steward of Berkhampstead. Dat. Hayles, 3 Dec. 28 Edw. 
 I. [ 1 299]. Lat. Copy. "With translation. 
 
 464. Grant from Thomas, son of Maurice deBerkeleye, 
 to William, Bishop of Imlay, and Master Richard de Clifford, 
 of a messuage and carucate of land at Wyk, in Arlyngham. 
 Witnesses : Dom. Robert, son of Pagan ; Robert de Ber- 
 keleye, John de Clifford ; Knights. Master Thomas de 
 Sudinton ; Bartholomew de Ulpenne ; Robert de Stannes ; 
 Simon de Fremelade ; John Wyr ; Walter de Wyk ; John 
 de Berewe. Temp. Edw. I. Lat. 
 
 465. Grant from Andrew, Prior of Norton, to Lord 
 Stephen de Segrave of a messuage in Digtheworth [Dise- 
 worth, CO. Leic], the rent to be paid at Wavertoft manor. 
 Temp. Edw. I. With fine seal (broken) of Norton Priory. 
 
I50 Berkeley Castle 
 
 466. Deed whereby Roger de Staunton pledges his 
 manor of Staunton and "two roots of the herb called 
 maundragon " 1 for the repayment within a year of thirty 
 pounds belonging to his master, Stephen de Segrave, which 
 he had " wickedly spent by his knavery and foolish com- 
 pany " out of the treasure which his master entrusted to his 
 care when he departed over the seas : appointing as his 
 sureties, Roger de Verdoun and Gari Normand. Dat. I2 
 May. Temp. Edw. I. Fr. With 3 small white seals. 
 
 46'7- Grant from James de Berkelegh, Rector de 
 Chyw [? Chew, co. Som.] to John, his brother, and Hawise, 
 his wife, of lands in Clapton, Egeton and Berkeley, and in 
 Portbury, co. Som., etc. Witnesses : Robert, son of Pagan, 
 Simon de Monte Acuto, John de Bello Campo, John 
 Meriet, Peter Crok, Knights. Robert de Buttlescombe ; 
 Richard de Byselee, etc. Dat. F. of St. Nich. [6 Dec] 30 
 Edw. I. [1301]. Lat. Imperfect. 
 
 468- Award by Walter Bordun, Archdeacon of Glou- 
 cester, William de Kyngescote, canon of Hereford and 
 Wells, and others, in settlement of disputes between Lord 
 Thomas de Berkeley and Maurice, his son, with Robert de 
 Tetbury, Abbot of Kingswood, concerning a fold for 200 
 sheep at Symondshale [Symondshall, nr.Wotton, co. Glouc] 
 Dat. 10 Feb. 31 Edw. I. [1303]. Lat. With fine seal of 
 the Abbot of Kingswood, in black wax. 
 
 469. Letters Patent of Edward I. addressed to 
 Henry de Lascy, Earl of Lincoln, appointing John de 
 Segrave his Lieutenant of Berwick-on-Tweed, Edinburgh, 
 Linlithgow, Lanark, Selkirk, Roxburgh, etc. Dat. Berwick- 
 on-Tweed, 17 Sept. Anno 31 [1303]. Lat. With fragment 
 of great seal. 
 
 1 i.e. Mandragon, or mandrake, a herb often mentioned as a narcotic, and 
 having many superstitions regarding it. 
 
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 ^70. Grant from Maurice de Berkeley, son of Lord 
 Thomas de Berkelee, to Henry de Wayneswelle, of a mes- 
 suage and croft called Homcroft, which John de Couelee 
 sometime held at Wodeford in Alkington. Witnesses : 
 Nicholas de Kyngeston, William de Wauton, Knights ; 
 Robert de Bradeston ; Robert Wyther ; John de Salso 
 Marisco ; Walter Moton ; Richard Broun. Dat. Berkeley, 
 Sund. aft. F. of St. Margaret [13 July] 32 Edw. I. [1304] 
 Lat. With seal of arms. 
 
 471- Grant from Thomas, Lord of Berkeley, to 
 Henry le Gardiner and Isabel, his wife, of land lying in 
 four plots in StokeshuU field, in Ham, at an annual rent of 
 six shillings and six pence. Witnesses : John de Crawelee ; 
 John de Swonhungre ; Thomas de Lorewynge ; Geoffrey 
 Neel ; Robert Averey ; Robert Bastard ; Nicholas Iweyn. 
 Dat. Berkeley, Wed. F. of St. Katherine, Virg. [25 Nov.] 33 
 Edw. I. [1304]. Lat. With seal of arms. 
 
 472- Bond by Robert de Derleye and John, his 
 brother, of co. Nottingham, to Dom. John de Segrave for 
 the payment of £iQo to the latter : and in case of non- 
 fulfilment of the bond the said Robert and John will hold 
 themselves liable to the " penalty and distraint provided in 
 the King's statute staple of merchants." Dat. Nottingham, 
 8 May, 33 Edw. L [1305]. Lat. With seal, in brown wax, 
 of Edw. L "pro recognitione debitorum," on the reverse a 
 small counterseal bearing a stag's head on a shield ca- 
 bossed with an inscription Notingham, 
 
 473- Grant from Edward L to John de Segrave of all 
 the lands and tenements which belonged to Simon Eraser', 
 an enemy and rebel of the King in Scotland, " on the day 
 
 ^ For a full account of Sir Simon Fraser, General of the Scotch Forces, see 
 ' Anderson's Scottish Nation, 1863, ii., 264. 
 
152 Berkeley Castle 
 
 when he seceded from fealty to the King and joined Robert 
 Bruce and his accomplices." Dat. Berwick-on-Tweed, 6 
 July, A** 34 [1306]. Lat. Seal missing. 
 
 ^^, Writ " ad quod damnum " of Edward I. to the 
 Sheriff of Gloucester, on a proposed grant by the Abbot of 
 Gloucester to the Abbey of Kingswood, of an acre of land 
 in Bagpath, with the advowsons of Osleworth and West 
 Newington churches. Dat. Carlisle, 10 April, A** 35 [1307]. 
 Lat. Followed by the result of the Inquiry taken at 
 Wotton, before Thomas de Gardinis, Sheriff of Gloucester, 
 and a Jury. 
 
 475. Confirmation by Thomas, Lord Berkeley and 
 Maurice, his son, to St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, of 
 all the grants by Robert Fitzharding, and other their 
 ancestors, with all their liberties and customs ; view of 
 frank pledge of all the Abbey's tenants ; with stocks, cage, 
 tumbrell, pillory, cucking-stool, and judgments in all the 
 abbey courts, except in the Town of Berkeley. Dat. 
 Berkeley, i June, 35 Edw. I. [1307]. Lat. With 2 seals of 
 arms. 
 
 476. Letters Patent of Edward IL appointing 
 John de Segrave Keeper of the King's Forest beyond 
 Trent, for his life. Dat. 6 Feb. A" — . Much damaged by 
 damp, and seal missing. 
 
 4*77- Grant by John de Oka, Prior of the Hospital 
 of St. Bartholomew's, Gloucester, and the Brethren there 
 to Dom. Thomas de Berkeley of an anniversary in full 
 choir, etc., for the souls of Maurice and Isabel, the father 
 and mother of the said Lord ; as well as an anniversary for 
 the souls of the said Lord, Joan, his wife, and Maurice, their 
 son, after their death ; in return for the quitclaim by the 
 said Lord to them of suit of hundred and his court of 
 
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 Berkeley, due from the Hospital for part of a tenement 
 which belonged to James Cotele, in Couleye [Coaley, co. 
 Glouc] Dat. Gloucester, Sunday, F. of St. Matthias [24 
 Feb, i3o7[8]. Lat. With fine impression of the Hospital 
 seal, chipped. 
 
 4*78. Covenant between Walter, Bishop of Worcester, 
 Lord Treasurer, Hugh le Despencer, John de Sandale, 
 Nicholas de Segrave and Stephen de Segrave, whereby 
 John de Segrave, Warden of Scotland, is to be at Berwick- 
 on-Tweed on a certain day, and there to muster his forces. 
 Dat. 7 March, 2 Edw. H. [1309]. Lat, With seal. 
 
 479. Pardon from King Edward H. to John Mau- 
 travers, jun., for arresting John de Morton, Richard de 
 Compton, William de Holt, and William de Colwich, 
 the King's coroners for co. Gloucester, thereby preventing 
 them from performing their duties. Dat. Canterbury, 7 
 March, A° 13 [1320]. Lat. With great seal, much damaged. 
 
 480. Indenture of lease for life from Thomas Lord 
 Berkeleye to William de la Pulle, of Hurst, and Mabel, his 
 wife, of certain lands in Bottesmor, in Hurst, at an annual 
 rent of twenty-six shillings and ninepence halfpenny. Wit- 
 nesses : Thomas de Bradeston ; Roger de Gosyntone ; 
 William le Botyler ; Walter de Gosynton ; John le Due ; 
 Richard Bat ; John de Kyngestun. Dat. Berkeley, i 
 May, 8 Edw. H. [1315]. Lat. With small seal. 
 
 481. Defeasance of bond from Roger Wade, " Crou- 
 dere," to Warin del Isle, Knt., for payment of a debt. 
 Dat. London, Sun. aft. F. of St. Bartholomew [Aug. 24], 10 
 Edward II. [1316]. Fr. With seaU 
 
 ^ The special interest of this charter lies in the seal, which is one of the 
 earliest knowa representations of the " croud " or fiddle, the sign of the 
 defeasor's profession. 
 
154 Berkeley Castle 
 
 482. Manumission by Robert de Berkele and quit- 
 claim to " God, the Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross " of 
 the church of Berkeley, of Robert, son of Ralph le Gardiner, 
 of Berkeley, late his " nativus," with all his suit : for the 
 payment of a silver penny for the light at the Holy Cross 
 of that church. Witnesses : Robert de Stone ; Robert de 
 de Bradeston ; Peter de Stintescumbe ; William Capel' ; 
 Thomas de Swonhungre ; Thomas de Boeleye ; William 
 de Burgo. Temp. Edw. II. Lat, 
 
 483, 484. Grant, in duplicate, from Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley, to Thomas, his son, and Isabel, his wife, of lo 
 marks of annual rent from his fishery which he had on 
 lease from Robert, his brother, at Arlingham, in the R. 
 Severn both " in gurgitibus et borachiis " ^ ; also of the 
 Manor of Wyke near Arlingham, with the fishery there, 
 which is called " Berwewater " in the Severn : with a 
 tenement at Morcote and Hardpirie : in exchange for a 
 rent at Frompton. Rent, a lamprey due on last day of 
 May. Dat. Wymondham, Mon. aft. F. of St. Barnabas 
 [ii June], II Edw. H. [1318]. Lat. With seals of arms. 
 
 485. Letters of Edward, Prince of Wales [aft. Edward 
 HL] to Esmon Blount asking him to allow certain muni- 
 ments in his possession to be seen and examined for the 
 purposes of a lawsuit between John de Brampton, Parson of 
 St. Peter's, Bristol, and the Abbey of Tewkesbury concerning 
 Mangotsfield Chapel. Dat. London, at the house of the 
 Bishop of Ely, 20 July \circ. 1320]. Fr. Seal lost. 
 
 486. Confirmation by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of 
 the grant by William de Syde of certain lands and rents in 
 Berkeley, Wotton and Alkington for the support of the two 
 Chaplains of Newport Chapel, and another Chaplain in 
 
 I Gur'Tes=pool: borachiis, perhaps for brachiis, arms of the sea or river. 
 
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 Worteley Chapel. Witnesses : Dom. Maurice de Berkeley, 
 Thomas de Bradeston, Simon Basset, Knights ; William de 
 Chiltenham ; John de Clyve. Ante^ 1321. Lat. With 
 fine seal of arms. 
 
 ^8*7- Copy of inspeximus and confirmation by John, 
 Bishop of Jerusalem, and " Primarius " of the Pope, of several 
 papal bulls, granting privileges to the Master and Brothers 
 of the Hospital of St. Lazar of Jerusalem, and pardon and 
 indulgences to all those who shall make benefactions to the 
 same. Dat. Marseilles, ii. Kal. Sept. 1323. Lat. 
 
 488. Writ from Edward II. to Robert de Aston and 
 John de Hampton to hold an enquiry into the terms of an 
 agreement made by Thomas de Berkeley, sen., with Hugh 
 de Bysele for his support as one of the said Thomas's 
 Esquires, and for support of his horse and man, and two 
 furred robes yearly, etc., for which Richard de Bysele, 
 father of the said Hugh, leased to the said Thomas a 
 messuage, etc., in Morcote and Hardepyrye. Dat. West- 
 minster, 12 May, Anno 17 [1324]. Lat. 
 
 489. Inquisition held at Bristol before Robert de 
 Astone and John de Hamptone on Wed. aft. Trinity [10 
 June], 17 Edw. II. [1324], by order of the King's writ, 
 whereat the jury find : i. That Thomas de Berkeley, sen., 
 granted on the ist October, 14 Edw. II. [1320], to Hugh de 
 Biseleye a competent support for himself, one man and one 
 horse at Berkeley, or wherever he may be living, with two 
 furred robes, one at Christmas and the other at Whitsun- 
 tide, in return for which grant Richard de Biseleye, father 
 of the said Hugh leased to the said Thomas a messuage 
 and carucate of land in Morcote and Hardepirie. 2. That 
 the said Hugh was seized of Berkeley Manor up to 
 the time that the Manor fell to the Crown by forfeiture 
 
156 Berkeley Castle 
 
 of Maurice de Berkeley, and that the Manor of Berkeley 
 with the Manors of Ham, Alkington, Slimbridge, Coaley, 
 Cam, Wotton, Hurst and Simondshall, are held from 
 the King in chief by service of three knights' fees, 
 and are valued at six hundred and six pounds eighteen 
 shillings and fourpence farthing, and that the support of the 
 said Hugh is valued at one hundred and six shillings and 
 fivepence halfpenny yearly, or threepence halfpenny a day 
 — of the man at forty-five shillings and sevenpence half- 
 penny yearly, or penny halfpenny a day — and of the horse, 
 seventy six shillings yearly or twopence half-penny a day ; 
 all three with the two robes being valued at thirteen pounds 
 four shillings and a penny halfpenny. Lat. 
 
 490. Covenant between Nicholas de Cryel and 
 Stephen de Segrave, whereby the former undertakes to 
 serve the latter as his Bachelor during his life, in peace and 
 war, to serve him at tournaments, etc. Temp. Edw. H. 
 \ante 1325]. Fr. 
 
 491. Indenture between Drogo de Barentyn, Sheriff 
 of CO. Berks., and Alice, widow of Warin de Insula, for the 
 livery to the latter of the manor of Kingston [Kingston 
 Lisle, CO. Berks.], with all its revenues, and the lands, 
 goods and chattels, which lately belonged to Hugh le 
 Despencer, Earl of Winchester, an enemy^ of the King. 
 Dat. Kingston, 13 Dec, 20 Edw. II. [1326]. Lat. With 
 curious small seal, representing, perhaps, a cow and a 
 milking- stool. 
 
 492. Release from Frater John de Newenton, 
 Warden and Prior of the Hospital of Holy Trinity near 
 Longbridge, outside Berkeley, to Robert Wyches, of two 
 shillings annual rent from lands in Berkeley. Temp. Edw. 
 III. Lat. With seal of the Priory in green wax. 
 
 * Inimicus. 
 
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 493. Confirmation by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to 
 Maurice, his brother, and his heirs male, of the grant by 
 Maurice de Berkeley, his father, of lands and tenements in 
 Briztmerston [Brigmerston, co. Wilts.], Milverton and 
 Edenworth, and Kington Seymour, co. Som., and in Wotton 
 and Bradley, co. Glouc. Witnesses : Peter de Veel and 
 William de Wauton, Knights ; Peter de Styntescumbe ; 
 John de Melkesham ; Elias de Filton. Dat. Berkeley, Th. 
 aft. F. of Ann. of B.V.M. [25 March], 3 Edw. III. [1329]. 
 Lat. With seal of arms. 
 
 494. INSPEXIMUS by Edward III., and confirmation to 
 Thomas de Berkeley of the charters of his ancestors 
 Henry II., Richard I., and John to Robert Fitzharding, 
 and his successors, of the Berkeley Manors : together with a 
 grant by the same King [Edward III.] to the said Thomas 
 of the returns of the King's writs within the hundred of 
 Berkeley. Witnesses : H[enry], Bishop of Lincoln, Chan- 
 cellor ; R[oger], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield ; John 
 de Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, the King's brother ; Henry, 
 Earl of Lancaster ; John de Warenna, Earl ot Surrey ; 
 Oliver de Ingpam ; John Mautravers, Steward of the 
 King's Household. Dat. Woodstock, 8 June, Anno 4 
 [1330]. Lat. Seal missing. 
 
 495. INSPEXIMUS and confirmation by Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley, of a charter of Thomas [his grandfather], son and 
 heir of the late Lord Maurice de Berkeley, and [his father] 
 Maurice, son and heir of said Thomas, confirming to 
 the Abbey of St. Augustine's Bristol, the grants of Robert 
 Fitzharding and their other ancestors. Dat. Portbury-in- 
 Gordano, 20 August, 4 Edw. III. [1330]. Lat. With fine 
 seal in black wax. 
 
15^ Berkeley Castle 
 
 496- Quitclaim by John, son and heir of John de 
 Moubray, Lord of the Isle of Axholm, to Thomas de 
 Sibethorp, Parson of the Church of Bekyngham [co. 
 Notts.] of the Manor of Flauflor [Flawflorth, co. Notts], 
 with meadows, lands and mills pertaining thereto in cos. 
 Notts and Lincoln, which he held on lease from the Prior 
 and Brothers of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in 
 England. Witnesses : Nicholas de Hewyk, Chivaler ; Sire 
 William Moigne; Sire Thomas de Baumburgh ; Sire 
 William de Clyve, Clerks ; Robert de Saxton ; Hugh de 
 Bardelby ; Ralph de Wolyngham. Dat. 20 March, 6 Edw. 
 HI. [1332]. Fr. With one small seal, a second missing. 
 
 497- Licence from Thomas [de Brotherton], son of 
 Edward L, Earl of Norfolk, and Marshal of England, to 
 his son-in-law, John de Segrave^ that he may present to 
 any of his advowsons that may become vacant, although the 
 King said Thomas holds by gift of his lord and nephew, the 
 King [Edward HI.], the ward and marriage of the said John. 
 Dat. Newport in Essex, 28 July, 8 Edw. HL [1334]. Fr. 
 With fine impression of seal in red wax. 
 
 498- Indenture recording the livery by Katharine de 
 Hales to Johan de Overton, *' vallet " to John de Seagrave 
 of various household articles,'amongst which are mentioned : 
 a horn of ivory, an Agnus Dei, 21 florins reals, 21 florins 
 de Florence, 11 silver pennies, an ivory comb, various 
 articles of dress, of linen, silk, velvet, etc., and the following 
 manuscripts, viz., a Roll which commences " Reyne de 
 Piete," a psalter, and a Romance of Merlin. Dat. Mikel- 
 feld, Mon. bef. F. of St. Thomas [21 Dec], 8 Edw. III. 
 [1334]. Fr. 
 
 ' mar. Margaret, his daughter. 
 
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 499. Letters patent of Edward III. granting to John 
 de Segrave, sen., to assist him in paying his ransom from 
 " our enemies the Scots," and for other losses sustained in 
 the King's service, ;^iooo, less any sum in which he maybe 
 bound to the King from the time of his appointment as 
 Keeper of the Royal Forest beyond the Trent and Constable 
 of Nottingham Castle. Dat. Lincoln, 29 August, Anno 9 
 [1335]- 
 
 600. Grant from Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to Dom. 
 John, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, and his successors, 
 that they may have and keep without molestation all 
 animals found " cumelyng et extrahura " [t.e. strange and 
 stray] by their bailiffs in all their lordships within Berkeley 
 Hundred. Dat. Berkeley, Th. aft. F. of St. Peter-ad- 
 Vincula [i Aug.], 11 Edw. IIL [1337]. LaL With seal of 
 arms. 
 
 601. Commission from Edward III. to John de 
 Warenna, Earl of Surrey, Richard, Earl of Arundel, William 
 de Clynton, Earl of Huntingdon, John de Moubray and 
 John de Hampton to have jurisdiction in the counties of 
 Southampton, Berks, Wilts, Surrey, Sussex and Kent for 
 the apprehension and punishment of evildoers, thieves, 
 murderers, attenders of unlawful assemblies, etc., during 
 the King's absence from England. Witness : Edward, 
 Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, Guardian of 
 England. Dat. Northampton, i Aug., Anno 12 [1338]. 
 With fragment of great seal. 
 
 502. Defeasance of grant from Henry, of Lancaster, 
 Earl of Derby, to John de Moubray, Lord of the Isle of 
 Axholm, of an annual rent of 8000 marks due from his 
 Castle and Manor of Gower [in Wales], his Castle 
 and Manor of Bramber, co. Sussex, his Manors of Thirsk, 
 
i6o Berkeley Castle 
 
 CO. York, Epworth, co. Line, Melton Mowbray, co. 
 Leic, and Hannes, co. Bedford. Dat. Newsome, co. York, 
 Mon. aft. Michaelmas Day [29 Sept.], 12 Edw. III. [1338]. 
 Fr. With fine seal of Henry of Lancaster.' 
 
 503. Power of attorney from Thomas de Berkeley to 
 John le Coppare, of Berkeley, to take seisin of the lands 
 and tenements which John, son and heir of Roger de 
 Gosynton, had granted to him. Dat. Berkeley, Sun. aft. F. 
 of Translation of St. Thomas M. [7 July], 13 Edw. III. 
 [1339]. Lat. With seal of arms. 
 
 504. Grant by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to Roger de 
 Estham and Agnes, his wife, of the residue of the lands and 
 tenements (which once belonged to Richard de Acton), 
 which remain to him after his grant to Philip Smart and 
 Simon ate Broke in Beverston. Witnesses : John de Clyve ; 
 Robert le Hayward ; John Smart ; Robert Burgylon ; 
 Robert le Taillour. Dat. Berkeley, Whitsun-Monday, 15 
 Edw. III. [1342]. Lat. With two small red seals. 
 
 505. Licence from Edward III. to William de Syde 
 to assign certain mortmain lands in Berkeley and Cam to 
 the Chaplain of Cambridge [co. Gloue.] Dat. Westminster, 
 5 May, Anno 17 [1343]. Lat. With good impression of 
 sixth seal of Edward III. 
 
 506, 507. Licence (in duplicate) from Edward III. 
 to William de Syde to assign a messuage, a virgate of land 
 and fifty shillings rent in Berkeley, Camme and Slimbridge 
 for the support of the chaplain of Cambridge [co. Glouc] 
 Dat. Westminster, 5 May, Anno 17 [1343]. Lat. With 
 great seal. 
 
 508-510. Licence (in triplicate) from Edward III. 
 to William de Syde to assign two messuages, two 
 
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 virgates of land, and a hundred *' soHdate " of rent in Ber- 
 keley, Wotton, etc., for the support of the two Chaplains of 
 Newport Chapel. Dat. Westminster, 5 May, Anno 17 
 [1343]. Lat. With great seal, in green wax, to each 
 charter. 
 
 611. Covenant between John, Lord Mowbray, and 
 Edward, Earl of Salisbury, for the making of several 
 alterations in indentures of covenants between the same for 
 the marriages of John, eldest son of the Lord Mowbray, and 
 Andrea, daughter of the Earl of Salisbury, and between 
 Edward, eldest son of the latter, and Blanche, daughter of 
 the Lord Mowbray. Dat. London, 10 May, 17 Edw. IIL 
 [1343]. Fr, 
 
 612. Licence from Edward III. to Thomas de Ber- 
 keley to alienate to William de Syde, a hundred acres of 
 land, ten acres of meadow, four acres of wood and forty 
 shillingsworth of rent^in Alkington, in exchange for a similar 
 quantity of land, etc., in Wotton, Slimbridge, and Hill-by- 
 Berkeley. Dat. 30 January, Anno 18 [1344]. Lat. With 
 great seal, broken. 
 
 613. Grant from Maurice, son of Dom. Maurice de 
 Berkeley, to Dom. William de Syde of the rent of two 
 shillings from a messuage and close which Reginald de 
 Milkesham holds for his lifetime in Newport in Alkington 
 manor. Witnesses : Thomas Lord Berkeley ; Maurice, his 
 son ; John de Milkesham ; John de Seriant ; John Capel. 
 Dat. Berkeley, 11 April, 18 Edw. III. [1344]. Lat. With 
 seal of arms. 
 
 51^. Letters Patent of Edward III. granting licence 
 to Thomas de Berkele that he may assign, notwithstanding 
 the statute of mortmain, a messuage and 2 virgates of land 
 
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 in Overe [Over, co. Glouc], which he holds from the Crown, 
 in chief, for the foundation of a chapel at Overe, and for the 
 support of a chaplain to celebrate divine service daily there, 
 for the souls of the said Thomas, Margaret, his late wife, 
 and the souls of all faithful departed. Dat. Westminster, 
 12 March, Anno 19 [1345]. Lat. With fragment of great 
 seal in white wax. 
 
 515. Report from Thomas de Berkeley and his fellow- 
 commissioners instructed to inquire who and how many 
 persons in the County of Gloucester hold lands or rents of 
 the value of a hundred shillings up to a thousand pounds. 
 Dat. Bristol, Vig.of Palm Sunday [20 March], 19 Edw. III. 
 [1345]. Lat, With 14 small red seals. 
 
 516. Grant from Philip de Thame, Prior of the Hos- 
 pital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, with consent of 
 the Chapter and of the King, to Thomas de Berkeley, of 
 four acres of land in the suburb of Bristol, near the manse 
 of the Prior and Friars Hermit of the order of St. Augustine 
 at Bristol, in exchange for a messuage in the same suburb, 
 situate between the house of Dom. John Fraunceys, chap- 
 lain, and a tenement of the said Friars. Dat. Shenegeye 
 [Shingay, co. Camb ] 20 May, 1345. Lat. With fine 
 impression of seal of the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in 
 England, with signet seal on the reverse. 
 
 517. Grant from Ralph, Abbot of St. Augustine's, 
 Bristol, to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of a house inside the 
 Abbey gate, which the said Thomas had built for the use of 
 the Chaplain who shall celebrate in the Abbey Church 
 masses for the soul of the said Thomas. Dat. Chapter 
 House, 20 May, 20 Edw. HI. [1346]. Lat, With Abbey 
 seal in brown wax. 
 
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 518. Confirmation by Thomas, Lord of Berkeley, of 
 the grant by William de Syde, of lands and rents in 
 Berkeley, Cam and Slimbridge for the support of a Chaplain 
 in Cambridge Chapel [co. Glouc] Witnesses : Maurice de 
 Berkelee, Thomas de Bradeston, and Simon Basset, 
 Knights ; William de Cheltenham ; John de Clyve, Dat. 
 Berkeley, 10 July, 20 Edw. III. [1346]. Lat. With fine 
 impression of seal of arms. 
 
 510- Marriage Covenant of John, son of John de 
 Segrave, and Blanche, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lan- 
 caster. Dat. London, Fr. after F. of Invention of Holy 
 Cross [3 May], 21 Edw. HI. [1347]. Lat. With fine 
 impression of seal of arms of Henry, Earl of Lancaster. 
 
 520. Licence from Edward III. to Thomas de 
 Berkele for two fairs yearly at Newport, near Berkeley, 
 viz., the Eve, the Day, and the Morrow of Translation of St. 
 Thomas [7 July], and on the Eve, the Day, and the Morrow 
 of St. Maurice [22 Sept.], " unless they be to the harm of the 
 neighbouring fairs." Witnesses : The Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, the Bishops of London and Winchester, etc. Dat. 
 Westminster, 2 December, Anno 21 [1347]. LaU 
 
 521. Grant by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of certain 
 premises in Bristol for the foundation of a chantry in St. 
 Augustine's Abbey, and the endowment of a Chaplain, who 
 shall sing for the soul of Margaret, his late wife, and for 
 himself when he dies, the " placebo " and " dirige " with 
 the commendation : and to say for himself while he lives 
 the collect " Deus, qui caritatis dona," etc., and after his 
 death the collect " Deus, cui proprium est misereri," and on 
 the morrow after their anniversary days shall fully sing the 
 office of the dead with a mass : such Chaplain to live 
 chastely and honestly and not to go to markets or taverns 
 
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 more than shall be necessary, or frequent plays or unlawful 
 games, etc. With confirmations by Wulstan, Bishop of 
 Worcester, and John, Prior. Date of grant, Berkeley, 20 
 Apr., 1348. Date of confirmation by Bishop Wulstan, 
 Hartlebury, 25 Apr., 1348. Date of confirmation by the 
 Prior, Worcester, 27 Apr., 1348. Lat. With fine im- 
 pression of the Episcopal seal. 
 
 522. Recital and ratification by the Bishop of 
 Worcester, etc., of the foundation of a chantry in the 
 Abbey of St. Augustine, Bristol, by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 
 and appointment of William de Undirlych as chaplain ; to 
 be supported from rents from lands, etc., belonging to the 
 founder in Bristol : the election of future chaplains to be 
 in the hands of the said lord and his successors, reverting 
 after the lapse of one month to the Abbot of St. Augus- 
 tine's, and after the lapse of a second month to the Bishop 
 of Worcester. Dat. Worcester Chapter-house, 27 Apr. 
 1348. Lat. With seals of Lord Berkeley, and of the 
 Bishop of Worcester. 
 
 523. Licence by Edward IIL to Thomas de Berkele 
 to convey to William de Syde, Walter Goldmere and David 
 de Milkesham, the castle and manor of Berkeley, the manors 
 of Ham, Appleridge, Alkington, Hinton, etc., in Berkeley 
 Hundred, the King granting them, thus having seisin of the 
 same, licence to alienate them to Thomas de Berkeley, and 
 his heirs in tail. Dat. Otford, 10 Jan. A" 22 [1349]. Lat. 
 With great seal, broken. 
 
 521. Covenant whereby Walter Wyth, Walter Jake- 
 mones John Janes, and others, acquit Richard, son of Robert 
 le Hay ward, and Robert his brother in respect of 15 shillings 
 rent from premises in Arlingham, on condition that the said 
 Richard and Robert distribute every Friday before Easter 
 
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 four shillings worth of white bread to the poor of Erlingham, 
 and give two torches, with four pounds of wax, for the lights 
 in the chancel of the said Church at the Elevation of the 
 Host. Dat. Tues, bef. F. of the Ann. of the B.V.M. [25 
 March], 23 Edw. III. [1349] Lat. 
 
 525. Grant from Maurice de Berkeley, son of Lord 
 Thomas de Berkeley, to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, 
 near Longbridge, in Berkeley, of all the lands which the 
 said Maurice acquired from Richard le Ferour, brother and 
 heir of Walter le Ferour in Arlingham : in return for which 
 the Priors of Longbridge shall keep the anniversaries of 
 Walter le Ferour and Margery his wife, on which days they 
 shall distribute to the chaplain celebrating divine service 
 in Arlingham Church, one penny ; for ringing of the bell, 
 two pence ; amongst the clerks, two pence ; and to the 
 poor, twelve pence. Dat. Berkeley, F. of St. Katharine, 
 [25 Nov.] 23 Edw. HL [1349] Lat. With fine impression 
 of the Prior's seal. 
 
 525. Indenture of covenant between [Richard Fitz- 
 Alan] Earl of Arundel, and Gerard de Lisle, whereby the 
 latter undertakes to accompany the former to the war, with 
 thirty men-at-arms, etc., at a payment of 100 marks for the 
 year, 100 pounds to be paid before he leaves England, and 
 on certain other conditions as to share of ransom on capture 
 of prisoners, etc. Dat. Arundel, 5 March, 24 Edw. III. 
 [1350]. Fr. With fine seal of the Earl of Arundel, broken. 
 
 52*7. Grant from William, Prior, and the Convent of 
 Lantony, nr. Gloucester, to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of 
 Coaley manor, in exchange for the advowson of Aure. Dat. 
 Tues., vig. of St. Matthew, [21 Sept.] 25 Edw. Ill [1351]. 
 Lat, With the Priory seal, broken. 
 
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 528. Covenant concerning the grant by Thomas, 
 Lord Berkeley, to Lanthony Priory, of the advowson of 
 Aure, in exchange for the Manor of Coaley. Wed. F. of 
 St. Matthew [21 Sept], 25 Edw. Ill [135 1]. With fine seal 
 of the Priory (broken). 
 
 529. Counterpart of Grant from Maurice de Ber- 
 keley, son and heir of Dom. Thomas de Berkeley, to 
 Longbridge Hospital and the Brethren there, of the tene- 
 ment in Berkeley which Richard le Panter lately held, so 
 that the Prior or Warden of the said Hospital shall dis- 
 tribute every year on the anniversaries of the said Richard 
 and Alice, his wife, two shillings, in bread to the poor. 
 Witnesses : William Modebroc; John Wil ; Thomas Gold- 
 hoppe ; Walter le Coppare; John Coby. Dat. Berkeley, S. 
 before F. of St. Luke [18 Oct.], 25 Edw. III. [135 1]. Lai. 
 With seal of the Hospital. 
 
 530. Pardon from Edward HI. to Thomas, son of 
 Maurice de Berkerley, for acquiring from Geoffrey de Gas- 
 celyn the manors of Shalden, Chippenham and Lolledon, 
 and the hundreds of Chippenham, Bishopston and Donlewe 
 [co. Wilts], which are held from the King in chief Dat. 
 Westminster, 12 Dec, Anno 25 [135 1]. Lat. With frag- 
 ment of seal. 
 
 531. Release from Matthew, son of Herbert, to Philip 
 ap Rees, Chev., of the manor of Talgarth, [in Wales]. 
 Witnesses : William de Herleston, Clerk ; Thomas le Brut, 
 Chev.; Richard de Frome ; Nicholas Rook ; Richard de 
 Estham ; John de Stretton ; William Burdon ; Stephen 
 de Lugwardyn ; John de Coxhale. Dat. London, " in the 
 Ward of Baynardescastell," at the house of William de 
 Herleston, Wed. before F. of St. Valentine [14 Feb.] 27 
 Edw. HI. [1353]. 
 
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 532. Grant from Edward III. to Nicholas le Carpenter, 
 of Cadbury, of a house and two carucates of land in Asshton 
 [Ashton] and Kennecote, co. Som., which were forfeited to 
 the Crown by John de Gatcombc, outlawed for felony. Dat. 
 Westminster, 3rd October, A° 32 [1358]. Lat. With great 
 seal, of white wax, broken. 
 
 533. Grant from Nicholas le Carpenter, of Cadbury, 
 to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of " a year and a day and 
 waste " ^ of a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Asthin 
 and Kennecote, co. Somerset, which belonged to John de 
 Gadecombe, but had been forfeited to the Crown on account 
 of his outlawry. Dat. 12 October, 32 Edw. III. [1358]. Lai. 
 With seal of arms, in red wax. 
 
 534. Grant from Maurice de Berkeley, son of Lord 
 Thomas de Berkeley, to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, 
 of Longbridge, near Berkeley, of an annualVentof 2 shillings 
 and sixpence, for an anniversary. Dat. Mon. before F. of 
 St. George [23 Apr.] 23 Edw. III. [1359]. Lat. With fine 
 impression of the Hospital seal, in red wax, and counterseal. 
 
 535. Notarial Instrument declaring the appeal to 
 the Pope by William de Wormynton, Rector of Dersyngton 
 [Dorsington, 'co. Glouc], in the diocese of Worcester, in 
 respect of his right to the said rectory. Dat. 17 June, 1359. 
 Laf. 
 
 536. Covenant made by John, Comte de Sairebruch 
 [Salisbury] for the ransom of Morizes de Berquelee [Maurice 
 
 ^ " Part of the King's prerogative, whereby he hath the profits of lands and 
 tenements for a year and a day of those that are attainted of petit treason or 
 felony ; and the King may cause waste by destroying the tenements, etc., unless 
 the lord of the fee agree with him for redemption of the sa i e " (Jacob's LazO 
 Dictiottary). 
 
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 de Berkeley] chev., taken prisoner at Poictiers' [1356], with 
 Jehan de Bouche, chev., whose prisoner he was, on payment 
 of 1080 pounds, for which Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and 
 Sire Frank de Hale,^ chev., are bound, " whereupon the said 
 Maurice is discharged of his imprisonment and of his faith 
 given." This covenant was made before a public notary at 
 Calais, 28 Oct. 1360. 
 
 Nous Jehan Conte de Sairebruche faisons savoir a tous 
 presens et avenir, que come haut et noble homme Mon- 
 sieur Morizes de Berquelee chevalier anglois feut et 
 soit vray prisonniers de noble home Jehan de Bouch 
 chevalier et ledit Jehan de Bouch nous ait donne man- 
 dement et fait procuracone especial de mettre ledit 
 Monsieur Morize de Berquelee a raencon et recevoir a 
 composicion telle comme il nous plairoit et de li quitter 
 de sa foy et prison du tout en tout si come il est a plain 
 contenu en un publique instrument signe de la main et 
 signet de Nicole de Comercey de la diocese de Toul, 
 notaire publique de I'auctorite Imperial duquel instru- 
 ment il a apparu au notaire publique ci-dessouz escript 
 et le dit person ait accorde et compose a nous pour sa 
 dite raenson et delivrance a mil octante livres desterlins 
 bons et loyauls d'engleterre et de ce se soit oblige envers 
 nous et nous en sont pleges et principauls debteurs 
 tresexcellant et puissant prince Monsieur Henri Due de 
 Lancastre et Franke de Hale, chevalier, si come il est a 
 plain contenue en leurs lettres sur ce faites. Pour ce 
 
 * For an account of the capture of Maurice de Berkeley at Poictiers, see 
 FroissarCs Chronicles, translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Pynson's 
 Edition, 1525, fol. 82, cap. clxiii. — a passage from which is quoted by Smyth, 
 Vol. L, 368, 369 ; compare also Mr. Raskin's allusion to the same in his Bible 
 of Amiens, Ft. II., Under the Drachenfels, § 33. 
 
 2 A notice of this knight is given in Beltz's Memorials of the Order of the 
 Garter, 1841, p. 122, and in Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen's Account of the 
 Family 0) Hallen, Edinb., 1885. 
 
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 est il que nous par vertu pouvoir et force dudit pro- 
 curacone et mandement a nous fait et donne ou nom du 
 dit Jehan de Bouch, pour lequel nous nous faisons fors 
 en ceste partie, quittons, delivrons et absoillons du tout 
 et a plain ledit monsieur Morizes de sa dite person et 
 foy, et toutes autres promesses et obligacions quil avoit 
 fait en aucune maniere au dit Jehan de Bouch a nous 
 ou a autre quelconque en lieu du dit Jehan et nom de li. 
 Sauf et excepte des promesses et obligacions et autres 
 liens qu' il a fait aujourduy en notre main pour cause 
 
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 de sa dite raencon de M. iiij lib. desterlins dessusdiz, 
 lesquelles obligacions et promesses demouront en leur 
 force et vertu iusques ace que toutes les choses contenues 
 es dites lettres sur ce faites soient entierement accom- 
 plies. Et promectons par la foy de notre corps tenir 
 et garder les dites quittance et delivrance faites par nous 
 comme dessus est dit, et faire tenir et garder a dit 
 Jehan de Bouch sanz venir en aucune maniere au con- 
 traire. En tesmoing desquelles choses nous avons mis 
 notre seel avec le seing et subscripcion du notaire des- 
 souz escript a ces presentes lettres faites et donnees a 
 Calais le xxviij*' Jour du mois de Octobre Tan de grace 
 mil ccc soixante. Presens Reverent pere en Dieu 
 Monsieur Audruyn, abbe de Clugny, lesdiz Monsieur le 
 Due de Lancastre, Monsieur Franke de Hale, Maistre 
 Pierre de Courbeton, maistre en divinite, Priour de 
 Grantehanp, Messieurs Guy de Biren, Guillaume de 
 Graitton chevaliers et plusieurs autres seigneurs appellez 
 tesmoings aus choses dessusdites. 
 
 Et ego Hugon dictus de Felon de Climaco clericus Matiscon. 
 dioc. publicus auctoritate apostolica et Imperiali notarius 
 predictis quittacioni et liberacioni dicti domini Morisii, 
 per dictum dominum Comitem de Sairbruche nomine 
 
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 quo supra et modo predicto factis et aliis predictis dum 
 sic, ut premittitur, agerentur, unacum dictis testibus 
 presens fui, et meorum et multorum presencia has pre- 
 sentes litteras in camera domus dicti domini ducis quam 
 Calesii inhabitat alta voce legi et publicavi et fidem 
 dicti domini Comitis ad opus dicti domini Morisii, ut 
 supra recepi et de mandato eiusdem, Hie me subscripsi 
 et signum meum unacum sigillo ipsius domini Comitis 
 apposui requisitus procuracionumque de quo supra fit 
 mentio. Vidi tenui et legi sanum et integrum signum 
 cum manu propria notarii Imperialis superius nominati, 
 ad premissorum omnium maiorem roboris firmitatem et 
 testimonium veritatis de quibus omnibus dictus dominus 
 Morisius petiit a me dicto notario sibi dari et fieri 
 publicum instrumentum. 
 
 537- INSPEXIMUS by Edward III. of his own letters 
 patent [dated 1335] granting licence to Thomas de Berkeley 
 to alienate to William de Syde,Walter Goldmere and David 
 de Milkesham, the Berkeley manors. Dat. Westminster, 
 — Nov. Anno 35 [136 1 ]. Defaced. Lat. With great seal 
 detached, and defaced. 
 
 538. Letters of Marcus Agiensis, Guillermus Caprit- 
 avensis, and others granting forty days' indulgence to all those 
 who shall worship or make benefactions to the chapel of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John in the Castle of Berkeley. 
 Dat. Avignon, 25 May, 1364. Lat. With eleven seals, but 
 all more or less broken. 
 
 Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes 
 littere pervenerint, Nos mtseratione divina Marcus 
 Agiensis, Guillermus Capritavensis, Symon Kyssamen- 
 sis, Petrus Lobrensis, Dominicus Muranensis, Jacobus 
 Columbensis, Petrus Nebiensis, Philippus Lavacensis, 
 
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 Albertinus Surmanensis, Johannes Aytonensis, Paulus 
 Thebanensis, et Ricardus Nazarensis, Archiepiscopi et 
 Episcopi salutem in Domino sempiternam. Splendor 
 paterne glorie qui sua mundum inefabili claritate illu- 
 minat pia nota fidelium de clementissima majestate 
 ejus sperancium tunc precipuc benigno favore pro- 
 sequitur cum devota ipsorum humiiitas sanctorum meritis 
 et precibus adjuvatur, Cupientes igitur ut capella beate 
 Marie virginis et beati Johannis Evangeliste fundata 
 et edificata in castello de Berkelee Wygorniensis diocesis 
 congruis honoribus frequentetur et a Christi fidelibus 
 iugiter veneretur, Omnibus vere penitentibus et confessis 
 qui ad dictam capellam in singulis beate Marie virginis 
 festivitatibus et omnibus aliis infrascriptis videlicet 
 Nativitatis Domini, Circumcisionis, Epiphanie,Parasceues 
 Pasche, Ascencionis, Penthecostes, Trinitatis, Corporis 
 Christi, Inventionis et Exaltationis sancte Crucis, sancti 
 Michaelis, sanctorum Johannis Baptiste et Evangeliste, 
 sanctorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum et omnium aliorum 
 Apostolorum et Evangelistarum, Quatuor sancte ecclesie 
 Doctorum, in festo omnium sanctorum, in commemora- 
 cione animarum, sanctorum Stephani, Laurencii, Georgii, 
 Martini, NicolaijSanctarumque Marie Magdalene, Marthe, 
 Katherine et per octavas festivitatum predictarum octa- 
 vas habendum singulisque diebus dominicis et sabbatis 
 causa devotionis, oration is aut peregrinationis accesserint, 
 seu qui missis matutinis predicationibus aut aliis divinis 
 officiis ibidem interfuerint aut qui in serotina pulsatione 
 compane flexis genibus ter ave Maria dixerint, Necnon 
 qui ad fabricam, luminaria, ornamenta seu quevis alia 
 manus porrexerint adjutrices aut qui in eorum testa- 
 mentis vel extra aurum, argentum, vestimenta, libros, 
 calices aut aliquid aliud caritativum subsidium dicte 
 capelle donaverint legaverint aut donari vel legari pro- 
 
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 curaverint autquipropresenciumlitterarum confirmatione 
 et pro vita et statu nobilis viri domini Maricii de Berkelee 
 Baronis et nobilis mulieris Elizabethe ejus uxoris et liber- 
 orum eorundem horum impetratorum, aut pro animabus 
 quondam nobilis viri Thome de Berkelee Baronis et ejus 
 uxoris parentumque amicorum et benefactorum eorun- 
 dem et in purgatorio existentibus et in dicta capella 
 benefactoribus pie deum oraverint Quocienscunque quan- 
 tumcunque et ubicunque premissa aut aliquid premis- 
 sorum devote fecerint de omnipotentis Dei misericordia 
 et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus auctoritate 
 confisi singuli vestrum Quadraginta dies indulgenciarum 
 de injunctis eis penitentiis misericorditer in Domino 
 relaxamus, Dummodo diocesani voluntas ad id accesserit 
 et consensus, In cujus rei testimonium sigilla nostra pre- 
 sentibus sunt apensa. Datum Avinione anno Domini 
 M.ccc.lxiiij die xxv. mensis Maii, Indictione secunda 
 Pontificatus domini Urbani pape quinti anno secundo. 
 
 539, 540. Release (and counterpart) from John, son 
 of Odo de Acton, to Dom. Maurice de Berkelee of all the 
 lands and tenements which the latter holds in Slimbridge, 
 Kingston, Gosynton, and Hurst or elsewhere within the 
 lordship of Berkeley, which formerly belonged to his father, 
 Odo de Acton. Witnesses : Dom. Richard de Acton, Knt; 
 William de Cheltenham ; John Sergeaunt. Dat. Berkeley, 
 Sat. before Xmas Day, 38 Edward III. [1364]. Lat. The 
 said John has appended his seal, "but because it is unknown 
 to most people," the seal of the Mayor and Commonalty 
 of Bristol is also appended. 
 
 541. Grant from Maurice, Lord Berkeley, to Dom. 
 Richard de Acton, Knight, of Richard Fallewelle, of King- 
 ston, his " nativus." Dat. Berkeley, Thursday after F. of 
 St. Thomas the Martyr [7 July] 39 Edw. III. [1365]. LaL 
 With seal of arms. 
 
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 542. Licence from Peter, Abbot, and the Abbey of 
 Pershore, to William de Chiltenham, Patron of the chantry 
 of the chapel of St. Giles, Hildesley, to grant for the sup- 
 port of the said chantry, now destroyed by pestilence,^ 
 three messuages and land in Hildesley and Sedlewode 
 [Hillesley and Settlewood, in Hawkesbury, co. Glouc] 
 Temp. Edw. III. [Mich. 1365]. Lat. With fragment of 
 seal, in white wax. 
 
 543- Grant from William de Chiltenham, by licence 
 from the King and the Abbot of Pershore, of lands in Hildes- 
 ley, etc., in support of St. Giles' chantry, Hildesley, " im- 
 poverished by pestilence." Dat. Mon. after Michaelmas 
 Day, 39 Edw. HI. [1365]. Lat. 
 
 544. Indenture of lease from Maurice, Lord Ber- 
 keley, to William de Wynchecommbe, chaplain, for his life, 
 of the tenement with appurtenances, near St. Augustine's 
 Gate, Bristol, and the other tenements in " Bradestret," 
 Bristol (which were formerly granted for the support of a 
 chantry in St. Augustine's Abbey), for his support in the 
 celebration of divine service in the said chantry for the soul 
 of Margaret, mother of the said Maurice. Dat. Berkeley, 
 Mon. after F. of Assumption of B. V. Mary [15 Aug.] 40 
 Edw. III. [1366]. Lat. 
 
 545. Letters Patent of Nicholas, Prior of the 
 Friars Hermits of St. Augustine, Bristol, to John Warbast 
 and Alice, his wife, promising them in return for kindnesses 
 shown to their order, certain privileges, remembrances in 
 masses, vigils, fastings, abstinences, and the same attentions 
 on their death as the friars themselves are accustomed to 
 have. Dat. Bristol, F. of St. Benedict [4 Dec], 1369. Lat. 
 
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 546. Acquittance from Sibil, Abbess of Wilton, to 
 Dom. Elizabeth Berkeley for 40 marks (by the hands of 
 Ralph Cok) which she owed her. Dat. Wilton, xiv. Kal. 
 Aug. [19 July] 46 Edw. III. [1372]. Lat. With seal. 
 
 547. Indenture of Covenant between John de 
 Yate, Dom. Reginald, the vicar, William de Erlyngham, 
 and the general body of the parishioners of Arlingham, co. 
 Glouc, and Nicholas Wyshengre, " cementarius," of Glou- 
 cester, for the erection of a bell-tower to Arlingham church 
 — the work to be spread over three years, twelve feet in 
 height to be built each year : with full instructions to the 
 said Nicholas as to the buttresses, corbels, doors, windows, 
 etc. Witnesses : Dom. Robert, Rector of Freethorne ; 
 Thomas Cadul, etc. Dat. Arlingham, Mor. of the F. of St. 
 Katharine [25 Nov.] 46 Edw. III. [1372]. Lat. 
 
 648. Grant from Warin de Insula, Knt., to Dom, 
 Walter atte Hale, Parson of Kislingbury, Dom. Henry Beek 
 and Peter de Faulore, Chaplains, of the Manor of Kisling- 
 bury, CO. Northt., with all the appurtenances, excepting the 
 advowson of the Church. Witnesses : Dom. Richard 
 Haveryng, Robert Laundre, Knights ; Symon Warde ; 
 Richard Wydevyle ; John Golafre. Dat. Fulham, Sat, F. 
 of St. Barnabas [11 June], 47 Edw. III. [1373]. Lat. With 
 seal of arms. 
 
 549. Grant from Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to [his 
 mother] Katharine,^ " Dame de Wotton," of licence to cut 
 and sell wood in South wood for the space of 10 years, the 
 profits to be divided between her and the said Lord. Dat. 
 Wotton, 26 Jan., 49 Edward III. [1375]. Fr. With fine 
 seal. 
 
 1 Widow of Mauiiee, Lord Berkeley, ob. 1368. She founded the Free 
 School at Wotton, etc. 
 
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 550. Grant from John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, to 
 Ralph Damesel to have an " altare portatile " in a chapel at 
 his dwelling-house at Walton, in the parish of Stoke-super- 
 Mare, for celebration of masses and other divine services. 
 Dat. " in manerio suo de Dogmersfeld," i Feb., 1374. Lat. 
 
 551. Surrender by Richard Datton, Chev., Walter 
 Laurence, Ralph Waleis, and William Smalcombe, to 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of the Manor of Bedminster, co. 
 Som., which the latter had granted to them for their lives. 
 Dat. 8 Feb., 51 Edw. IIL [1377]. Fr. With four small 
 seals. 
 
 652. Grant from Elyas de Swonhangre to Richard de 
 Egton, of Swonhonger, of a moiety of a " stach " with the 
 fishery, called " le longestach " in the R. Severn at Swon- 
 hongre, with reversion of the other moiety of the same on 
 the death of John Seriaunt, of Stone. Witnesses : William 
 Modibroc, John Bastard, and others. Dat. Berkeley, 3 
 June, 51 Edw. III. [1377]. With small seal. 
 
 553. Bull of Pope Urban VL, by which he grants to 
 Thomas de Berkeley, Lord of the town of Berkeley, and 
 Margaret, his wife, an " altare portatile " and licence to 
 celebrate mass and other divine offices by the hands of a 
 suitable priest. Dat. St. Peter's at Rome, " Non. Julii [7 
 July] Pontificatus Nostri anno secundo," 1379. Lat. 
 With leaden bull. 
 
 551, 555. Bulls of Pope Urban VI., granting to 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, and to Margaret, his wife, licence 
 to choose for themselves a fit and discreet priest as their 
 confessor. Dat. Rome, Non. Jul. [7 July], Ar.no PonLif. 
 secundo [1379]. Lat. With leaden bulls attached. 
 
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 556. Indenture of apprenticeship of Nicholas Hulle, 
 with John Criklade, Burgess of Bristol, for a term of 1 1 
 years. Among the conditions of service is one, " that if the 
 apprentice shall commit fornication or adultery with any of 
 his master's maid-servants, and is convicted of it, the above 
 term shall be doubled." Witnesses : Walter Derbi, Mayor ; 
 Robert Gardiner and John Kaninges, Bailiffs [1380]. 
 
 557- Pardon by Richard II. to William Heyberare, 
 Hugh Manne, Ralph Waleys, Richard Scottard and others, 
 for having acquired the moiety of the Manor of Bitton 
 from Edmund Blount, now deceased, without obtaining the 
 King's licence, of whom the said manor is held in chief. 
 Dat. Westminster, 10 May, 24 A"'. 4 [1381]. With fragment 
 of great seal. 
 
 558. Grant from Richard II., to Margaret, widow 
 of Edmund Blount, of the custody of two portions of a 
 messuage and half virgate of land in Bitton, which the said 
 Edmund used to hold from the Crown in chief, and two por- 
 tions of two rents arising from lands in Bitton Manor, together 
 with the marriage of William, son of the said Edmund, till 
 he shall come of age, on the payment of an annual rent 
 from the said Margaret of four shillings and a pound of 
 cumin. Dat. Westminster, 29 May, A^ 4 [1381]. Lat. 
 Seal missing. 
 
 559. Indented Covenant between Thomas, Lord of 
 Berkeley, and Warren de Lisle, whereby the latter settles on 
 his daughter Margaret, wife of the said Thomas, all his lands, 
 and covenants that he the said Warren " shall at his pleasure 
 come, go, and dwell in Berkeley Castle, shall enjoy free 
 hunting in all his son-in-law's chaces, etc., and free fishings ; 
 in all warres they two shall travel together, and his said 
 son-in-law shall be to him an inseparable companion ; and 
 
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 that he and the issues he shall beget on the body of his 
 daughter will always bear and use the arms of him, the said 
 Lord Lisle, after his death." ^ Dat. London, 30 Nov., $ 
 Ric. II. [1381]. Fr. 
 
 660, INSPEXIMUS by Richard II. of (i) licence from 
 Edward III. to Thomas de Berkeley to alienate the Castle 
 and Manor of Berkeley, the Manors of Ham, Hinton, 
 Wotton, etc., with the Hundred of Berkeley, to William de 
 Syde, Walter de Goldmere, and David de Milkesham ; and 
 (2) of two final concords whereby the said Manors, etc., are 
 conveyed back to Maurice, son of Thomas de Berkeley, by 
 the same William, Walter and David. Dat. Westminster, 
 16 Feb., Anno 6 [1383]. Lat. 
 
 561. Manumission and "freedom from all yoke of serv- 
 itude and villenage " by Almaric de Sancto Amando, of 
 Agnes Pykes of Cerney, his " nativa." Dat. " In our manor 
 at Wydehay," Fr. bef. F. of St. George [23 Apr.] 7 Ric. II. 
 [1384]. Lat. With very fine seal. 
 
 562. License from Richard II. to Lady Katharine, 
 widow of Thomas de Berkeley, to assign certain lands in 
 Berkeley, Ham, Alkynton, etc., to the Chaplain of St. An- 
 drew's Altar, in the Parish Church of Berkeley, for his 
 support in celebrating Divine service, for the health of her 
 soul, and the souls of all faithful departed. Dat. West- 
 minster, 16 June, A° 7. [1384]. Seal missing. 
 
 1 Smyth, ii. 4. By the marriage of Margaret, only surviving child of Wariu 
 de Lisle, and, through her mother, heiress of the Tyes family, the two families 
 of Lisle and Tyes were merged in the Barony of Berkeley. 
 
 Gerard Warin de Lisle=i=Alice Tyes 
 commonly called Warin dau. and heir of 
 de Lisle. I Henry, Lord Tyes 
 
 r ' 
 
 Margaret=Thomas, Lord Berkeley 
 {at. 7 at time of {at. 15 at time of marriage), 
 marriage in 1368). 
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 563. Grant from Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to Katharine 
 "que fuit uxor Domini Thome de Berkeley nuper domini de 
 Berkeley avi nostri" of certain tenements in Berkeley, Ham 
 and Alkington, in support of the Chantry at the Altar of St. 
 Andrew in the parish Church of Berkeley. Dat 30 June, 
 8 Ric. II. [1384] Lat. With seal of arms, broken. 
 
 564:. License from Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to Lady 
 Katharine, widow of Thomas, late Lord Berkeley, to alien- 
 ate for the support of the Chaplain and chantry of St. 
 Andrew in Berkeley Church, certain houses and lands in 
 Berkeley, Ham, Alkington, etc., described in detail, Dat. 
 30 June, 8 Ric. II. [1384]. Lat. With fine seal of arms. 
 
 565. Confirmation by Alice Daundesey " fil. Wal- 
 ter! Daundesey, Domini de la Wyke extra portam Australem 
 Oxon. in comitatu Barks." to William Palmer of Oxford, 
 Sara his wife, and Thomas their son, of a " vacua placea " 
 of ground in the Parish of St. Martin's "in Cordenwaria" 
 which Walter, father of the said Alice, leased to them, where- 
 on to build a shop with cellar, etc. Witnesses : Richard 
 Garston, Mayor of Oxford ; John Berford, and Walter Bon, 
 Bailiffs. Dat. Oxford, F. of Inv. of Holy Cross [3 May], 
 II Ric. II. [1388]. Lat. 
 
 566. Covenant between James, Earl of Douglas,^ 
 and Nicholas de Dagworth and Gerard Heron, Knights, 
 Commissaries of the King of England, for a truce between 
 the marches of Scotland and of England, up to the 15th of 
 August at sunrise, the truce with the Earl of Nottingham, 
 warden of the Eastern march of England, to begin on the 
 7th of the same month, and that with the Lords Roos and 
 Neville, wardens of the West marches of Scotland and 
 England on the 8th. Dat. Edinburgh, 4 Aug. 1389. With 
 fragments of 2 seals. 
 
 * Douglas was killed at Otterburn on the 15th August, 1389, the day the 
 truce ended. 
 
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 56*7, Letters patent of John de Perkeley, sheriff of 
 CO. Gloucester, acquitting Margaret, widow of Edmund le 
 Blount, of the custody of two parts of a messuage in 
 Bitton, and two parts of 33 shillings and seven pence half- 
 penny rent, and two pounds of cummin from two tenements 
 which John Button, Knt, William Stockewall and others 
 hold of the moiety of Bitton Manor, which belonged to the 
 said Edmund, and which on account of the minority of 
 William, his son and heir, had fallen to the Crown. Dat. 
 Gloucester, Sat. bef. Cone, of B.V.M. [8 Dec], \^ Ric. II. 
 [1393]. With small official seal. 
 
 568. Letters Patent of John de Berkeley, Knt, 
 appointing William Smalcombe, jun., Steward of all his 
 lands in co. Gloucester. Dat. 20 March, 18 Ric. II. 
 [1395]' F^' With seal of arms. 
 
 669. Notification by Almeric de Sancto Amando 
 to his tenants, etc., of his grant to Henry Ingepenne, 
 William Tudderle, Clerk, and Philip Shipiere, of his Manor 
 of South Cerney and Cerney Wyke [co. Glouc] Dat. I 
 Sept., 22 Ric. II. [1398]. With very fine seal. 
 
 5*70. Release from Thomas Forster, Baker, Burgess 
 of Bristol, to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of a burgage in 
 Redeclyve Street, Bristol. Witnesses : John Canynges, 
 Mayor of Bristol ; Robert Bakster, Sheriff ; John Banbury ; 
 William Wermyster ; John Stevens ; Walter Seymore. 
 Dat. Bristol, 18 Jan, 22 Ric. II. [1328]. Lat. With the 
 town seal. 
 
 S*?!. Petition to the King and Privy Council from 
 Robert Yevelton, Knt., Lord of the Manor of Trenewith 
 and Trewishawnes, complaining that Ralph Trenewyth 
 having common of pasture in the said Manor has trespassed 
 on the said Robert's lands with great number of followers 
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 with bows, arrows, spears and bucklers, broken down the 
 wood and trees, taken wax and honey in the wood, burnt 
 7 acres of wood in Tolne Manor, etc., and asking for 
 redress. Temp. Hen. IV. 
 
 672. Petition of John de Staunton, of the county of 
 Leicester, to the King, praying that he will make good 
 certain damage done to the fences of the wood called 
 Garwood (which the said John and his ancestors have held 
 from time immemorial) by some tenants of the King's 
 Lordship of Melburn^ [Melbourne, co. Derb.] in the time of 
 the King's late father. Temp. Hen. IV. Fr. 
 
 573. Grant by Thomas Berkeley, Lord Berkeley, to 
 John Wyntour and Katherine, his wife, of several acres of 
 land in Berkeley. Witnesses : Thomas Fitznicol ; John 
 Bolnes ; Richard Goton ; Thomas Lucas. Dat. Berkeley, 
 20 June, I Hen. IV. [1400]. With two seals. 
 
 5*74;. Indenture between Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 
 and Henry Talbot, Esquire, whereby the latter undertakes 
 to deliver to the former twenty-four Scottish prisoners 
 taken by the said Henry on the sea coast near Barnstaple, 
 CO. Devon, in which prisoners the said Thomas claims to have 
 a legal interest " par cause de force de guerre fait par un 
 son Barge, sez soudeouers, et mariners sur la meer." Dat. 
 7th October, 4 Hen. IV. [1402]. Fr, 
 
 5*75. Indenture of Covenant, between King Henry 
 IV., and Thomas, Lord Berkeley, " Admiral of the South 
 and West," for the equipment of his fleet of seven ships, 
 seven barges, and seven " balyngers," with 300 men-at-arms, 
 
 ^ Melbourne Manor belonged to the Earldom and Duchy of Lancaster, 
 and became the property of the Crown on the accession of Henry IV. 
 
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 5 bannerets, ii knights, 285 esquires, etc. Dat. West- 
 minster, I May, Anno 5 [1404]. With seal of arms of Lord 
 Berkeley. 
 
 576. Covenant between Richard Milton and William 
 Kentes..., Vicar of Arlingham, and Richard de Teukesbury, 
 whereby the latter binds himself that " if the first bell of 
 Arlingham shall be out of tune with the second bell " he 
 will supply a new first bell at his own expense. Gloucester 
 ... 7 Hen. IV. [1405-6]. Imperfect. 
 
 677. INSPEXIMUS made at the instance of John 
 Sutton and John Redence on the part of Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley, by John Fisher, Mayor of Bristol, of the grant by 
 Robert de Berkclai to William, Capcllanus de Redeclive fil. 
 Edrici Plumbarii of an acre of land near the mill of Trinele 
 [Trimley, co. Glouc], which Thuri Broddcrius held, and 
 three other acres near the same mill. Witnesses to charter 
 of R. de Berkelai ; Walter de Insula ; Bernard de Stanes ; 
 Robert Warre ; Thomas Wamstrong ; Simon de Olepenna, 
 and others. Dat. Bristol, Sat. after F. of St. Thomas Ap. [2 1 
 Dec], 10 Hen. IV. [1408]. With seal of the city of 
 Bristol. 
 
 578. Grant from William Haukeford, Knt., Robert, son 
 of Robert Hull, Henry Popham and Robert, son of John 
 Hull, Knt, to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of the Manor of 
 Wyke which they held jointly by grant from William 
 Esturmy. Witnesses : Walter Hungerford and William 
 Chayne, Knights ; William Stourton ; Thomas Calston, 
 and Walter Beauchamp. Dat. Wyke, 15 May, 13 Hen. 
 IV. [141 2]. With four seals of arms. 
 
 579. Exemplification of a fine whereby William de 
 Syde, Walter de Goldemere and David de Melkesham con- 
 
1 82 Berkeley Castle 
 
 veyed to Thomas de Berkeley the Manors of Berkeley, 
 Ham, Wotton, etc. Dat. Westminster, 29 Nov. 14 Hen. 
 IV. [141 2]. With great seal, defaced. 
 
 580. INSPEXIMUS by Henry V. of the Charters of 
 Edward HI. and Henry IV., granting to Maurice de Berkele, 
 and to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, free warren in Berkeley- 
 Herness and in Portbury, co. Som. : and confirmation of 
 the same to the present Thomas, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 
 Westminster, 20 Nov. Anno i, [141 3]. With great seal, 
 broken. 
 
 681. Feoffment by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, Knt, to 
 Walter Poole, Gilbert Denys, Knts,, Thomas Knolles, citi- 
 zen of London, Thomas Rugge, John Grevell, Robert 
 Greyndour and Thomas Sergeant, esquires, of all the lands, 
 reversions, and tenants' services in Berkeley, Wotton, Glou- 
 cester, South Cerney, Cerneyeswike, Aure, Arlingham, and 
 Horton, and in Berkeley and Bledislow Hundreds ; in 
 the city of London ; in Portbury, Portishead, Weston, 
 Bedminster, and in Bedminster and Portbury Hundreds, 
 CO. Som., and in Sharnecote and Chicklade, co. Wilts., 
 together with the advowsons of St. Andrew's Church in 
 Baynard's Castle, London, the advowsons of Chicklade, 
 Portishead, and Walton, and the patronage and advowson 
 of St. Mary's Abbey of Kingswood. Witnesses : Thomas 
 Fitz Nicoll, John Pauncefot, Knts. ; Robert Poynes ; Ed- 
 mund Bassett ; Thomas Kendale. Dat. Berkeley, Thursd., 
 F. of Nat. of St. John Baptist [24 June] 5 Hen. V. [141 7]. 
 With seal, broken. 
 
 532 Letters Patent of Henry V., by which he 
 grants " per mancaptionem " of Thomas Berkeley, clerk, 
 and Richard Catyrmayn, Esquire, to John Harewell, John 
 Barton, jun., and John Baysham, clerk, the custody of all 
 
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 the castles, manors, lands, rents, and services which the late 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, held in chief from the Crown, and 
 which, on his death, reverted to the Crown. Dat Waltham, 
 21 July, Anno 5 [1417]. 
 
 583. Recital before the Mayor and Bailififs of Bristol 
 of the grant by Thomas, late Lord of Berkeley, to Thomas 
 Rede, al. Bonjon, and others, of the castle, etc., of Berkeley, 
 the Manors of Portbury, Bedminster, etc., cos. Glouc. and 
 Somerset. Undated. Temp. Rob. Russell, Mayor, David 
 Duddebroke, Sheriff. [1417]. 
 
 58^. Certificate of Statement on Oath before 
 William Nicoll, mayor, and others, of Southampton, by 
 Lionel Sebrook, Esquire, Steward of the Household to 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of what took place between him 
 and his master in the " Wythedrawing Chambre " at Wotton 
 Manor House, within 12 days after Christmas, 4 Hen. V. 
 [14 1 6], with respect to " unum vetus scriptum de feodo 
 talliato tempore Roberti fil. Hardyng, tangens castrum et 
 dominum de Berkeley." Dat. Southampton, 9 June, 6 
 Hen. V. [1418]. With the Town seal and 5 small seals. 
 
 585. Inspeximus by Henry VI., at the instance of 
 Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and Elizabeth his 
 wife, daughter of Thomas, late Lord Berkeley, of the con- 
 firmation by King John, of his father's grant of Berkeley to 
 Robert Fitzharding. Witness : John, Duke of Bedford, 
 guardian of England. Dat. Westminster, 15 June, Anno 
 6, [1428]. 
 
 58S. Letters Patent of Henry VL, granting pardon 
 to John de Merbury, Agnes his wife, John Devereux and 
 others for acquiring, and license to hold, the manor and 
 lands of Talgarth in Wales, which are held from the Crown 
 
1 84 Berkeley Castle 
 
 in chief. Witness : Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 
 guardian of England. Dat. Westminster, 20 Nov., Anno 8, 
 [1429]. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 587- Declaration by Richard de Beauchamp, Earl 
 of Warwick, of the homage of John Drayton, of Dorsington, 
 in respect of lands in Dorsington. Dat. 25 Nov., 8 Hen. 
 VI. [1429]. Fr. With seal. 
 
 588. Inspeximus by Henry VI., of the inquisitio-post- 
 mortem, taken at Gloucester on Th. bef F. of St. George 
 [23 Apr.,] 4 Ric. II. [1380], of Edmund Blount, setting 
 forth his tenure of Bitton Manor, co, Glouc. Dat. West- 
 minster, 12 November, Anno 14 [1435]. With fragment of 
 great seal. 
 
 589. Exemplification, at the request of James de 
 Berkeley, of writ of livery and seisin to Maurice, Lord Berke- 
 ley, on the death of his father, Thomas, late Lord Berkeley, of 
 the Castle of Berkeley, the manors of Berkeley, Ham, 
 Appleridge, Alkington, Hinton, Wotton, Simondshall, Cam, 
 Coaley, Slimbridge, and Upton St. Leonard's, with the 
 advowsons of Slimbridge and Wotton. Dat. 22 October, 
 5 Henry VI. [1436]. 
 
 690. Inspeximus by John Bokeland "officialis juris- 
 dictionis peculiaris exempte," of Stratford-on- Avon, Thomas 
 Lecke, master, John Webbe, John Hannys, Thomas Mayell, 
 Thomas Balsale, Aldermen, of the Guild of Holy Cro«s 
 Stratford, of the four deeds described below : 
 
 I. Grant by John de Drayton, Lord of Dorsington Magna, 
 to John Salysbury, Rector of Dorsington, co. Glouc, and 
 William Wryght, Rector of Stryxston [Strixton], co. 
 Northt, of the manors and advowsons of the said places, 
 and the manor of Cranford. Dat. Dorsington. Mor. of 
 Ascension [14 May], 17 Hen. VI. [1439]. 
 
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 2. Power of attorney for livery of the same. Same date. 
 
 3. Re-grant by John Salysbury and William Wryght to 
 John Drayton, of the same. Same date. 
 
 4. Power of attorney for livery of same. Same date. 
 With seal of the Guild. The official's seal is missing. 
 
 691. INSPEXIMUS by Henry VI., of the inquisitlo-post- 
 mortem, of Maurice, Lord Berkeley, held at Newport, near 
 Berkeley, on Wed. after F. of Tr. of St. Thomas, M., 
 [July 7], 42 Edw. III. [1368]. Dat. Westminster, 17 July, 
 Anno 17, [1439]. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 592. Release from Robert Tornour, brother of 
 William Tornour and John Bumell, sen., to John Blount, 
 Esquire, of right of pasture for 6 oxen in the pasture and 
 common of the Manor of Bitton, and in the pasture of 
 Hamstall. Witnesses: William Canynges, Sheriff of Bristol; 
 Thomas Mcde and John Gosselyn, Bailiffs of Bristol ; 
 Maurice de Berkeley, of Uley, Knt. ; Maurice de Berkeley, 
 of Beverstone, Knt. ; John Kemeys ; William Pavy; William 
 Waryn, of Bristol, etc. Dat. 4 Sept., 18 Henry VI. [1439]. 
 With two small seals, and the seal of the Mayoralty of 
 Bristol attached with the consent of Hugh Withiford, 
 Mayor. 
 
 593. Exemplification and recital of several records, 
 writs, etc., issued by Henry III. and Edward I., to prove the 
 right of the three daughters of Richard, Earl of Warwick, 
 claiming through Elizabeth, their mother, to the Berkeley 
 Manors.i Dat. Westminster, 14 Nov., 18 Hen. VI. [1439]. 
 
 594.' INSPEXIMUS by Henry VI. of the deed of par- 
 tition of the lands in cos. Devon, Oxford, Northampton, etc. 
 belonging to Elizabeth, Countess of Warwick, between her 
 
 ' For history of these suits cf, Smyth ii , 57-77. 
 
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 three daughters and coheirs, viz. : Eleanor, wife of Edmund, 
 Earl of Dorset ; Margaret, wife of John, Lord Talbot ; and 
 Elizabeth, wife of George, Lord Latymer. Dat. 31 Decem- 
 ber, Anno 18, [1439]. With fragment of great seal in 
 white wax. 
 
 595. Letters Patent of Henry VI., granting to 
 John, Earl of Shrewsbury, in consideration of his serv^ices in 
 France and Normandy, an annuity of 60 pounds. Dat. 
 Westminster, 2 March, Anno 22 [1444]. With fragment of 
 great seal. 
 
 596. Letters Patent of Henry VL, granting to John 
 Wither the office of " Sagittarius vigiliarum," and to William 
 Corbyn the office of Chief Forester of Gowereslond [Gower] 
 in Wales. Dat. Westminster, 3 April, Anno 22, [1444]. 
 With great seal, broken. 
 
 597. Grant from John [Mowbray], Duke of Norfolk, 
 to Sir William Berkeley, Knt., of all his manors, lands, etc., 
 in Ireland, for term of his life, by payment of a red rose 
 on Midsummer day. Dat. 22 March, 26 Hen. VI. [1448]. 
 With signature of the Duke, and fragment of his seal. 
 
 598. Power of Attorney from John [StaffiDrd] Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, 
 Thomas [Bouchier] Bishop of Ely, William [de Waynflete] 
 Bishop of Winchester, John, Earl of Shrewsbury, and nine 
 others to John Wylne, Prior of Repingdon, John Monmouth 
 and two others to deliver seisin to Humphrey, Duke of 
 Buckingham, Thomas, Lord Roos, John, Lord Lisle, Ralph, 
 Lord Sudely, Henry Inglose, Knt, and Richard Wallet, 
 Esquire, of the manors of Bretby [co. Derby] and North 
 Pidill [North Piddle], co. Wore. Dat. 26 Nov., 27 Hen. VI. 
 [1448]. With eleven small seals, and signature of John 
 Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Lord of Bretby Manor. 
 
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 599. Grant from Alice Dorney, of Nibley, widow, 
 daughter and heir of the late William Ryel, to John Swan- 
 ley, jun., of four selions of land in Echedone Field, in Cam. 
 Dat. Nibley, 30 Apr., 29 Hen. VI. [1451]. 
 
 GOO. Licence from James, Lord Berkeley, to the 
 Sisters and Convent of St. Mary Magdalen, near Bristol, 
 to elect a Prioress in the place of Johanna Waleys, deceased. 
 Dat. Berkeley, 5 October, 34 Hen. VI. [1455]. 
 
 601. General Pardon from Henry VI. to James, 
 Lord Berkeley. Dat. Westminster, i Nov., Anno 34, 
 [1455]. Seal missing. 
 
 602. Marriage Settlement of James, Lord Berke- 
 ley, and his wife, Joan, sister of John [Talbot], Earl of 
 Shrewsbury. Dat. 25 July, 35 Hen. VL [1457]. 
 
 603. General Pardon from Hen. VI. to James, Lord 
 Berkeley, and Joan, his wife. Westminster, 10 Jan., Anno 
 36 [1458]. With great seal, chipped. 
 
 604. General Pardon from Henry VI. to William 
 Berkeley, Knt., son and heir of James, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 
 Westminster, 17 March, Anno 36 [1458]. With great seal, 
 broken. 
 
 605. Appointment by Anne, Duchess of Buckingham, 
 of William Berkeley, Knight, as Master of the Deer and 
 Overseer of her parks, forests, chases, and warrens, in co. 
 Gloucester. Dat. London, 4 Dec, 39 Hen. VI. [1460]. 
 With seal of arms. 
 
 606. General Pardon from Edward IV. to Sir 
 William Berkeley, of Portbury, aL of Thornbury, al. of 
 Berkeley. Dat. Westminster, i May, Anno i, [1461]. 
 With great seal, broken. 
 
1 88 Berkeley Castle 
 
 607. Appointment by Anne, Duchess of Buckingham, 
 of Sir William Berkeley, Knt., " for his good and gratuitous 
 services," as Steward of Thornbury Manor, co. Glouc. 
 Dat. 6 July, i Edw. IV. [1461]. With fine impression of 
 seal, broken. 
 
 608. Letters Patent of Edward IV., granting to 
 Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, the wardship and mar- 
 riage of Thomas, son and heir of John, late Viscount Lisle. 
 Dat. Westminster, 6 July, Anno i, [1461]. With fragment 
 of great seal. 
 
 609. Grant from John, Duke of Norfolk, Marshall of 
 England, to Sir W^illiam Willoughby, and Joan his wife, 
 sister to the said Duke, of the reversion of the manors or 
 lordships of Kyrkeby Malsard [Kirkby Malzeard], Burton- 
 in-Lonsdale, Thornton, Newsom, Brynde [Brind], and 
 Gribthorpe, in Spalding Moor, co. York, now held by Kath- 
 arine, Duchess of Norfolk, for her life, Dat. 16 July, 
 I Edw. IV. [1461]. 
 
 610. Letters of Attorney from Katharine, Dowager 
 Duchess of Norfolk, for giving possession to Sir William 
 Willoughby and Joan his wife, daughter of the Duchess, of 
 the abovenamed manors or lordships which the said Duchess 
 holds for life, and of which her son John, Duke of Norfolk, 
 has the reversion. Dat. 20 July, i Edward IV. [1461]. With 
 seal of arms. 
 
 611. Grant from James, Lord Berkeley, to Thomas 
 Berkeley, Esquire, his son, of a messuage, etc., in Clopton, 
 within Berkeley Hundred, which John Edward lately held. 
 Witnesses: Walter [Devereux], Lord Ferys [Ferrers, of 
 Chartley] ; John Barre, Knt. ; Maurice Berkeley, of Bever- 
 stone. Esquire ; Maurice Denys, Esquire ; John Thorpp. 
 Dat. Berkeley Castle, 31 October, 4 Edw. IV. [1464]. With 
 seal of arms, broken. 
 
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 612. Lease from William, Lord Berkeley, to Maurice 
 Kynge,^ and Juliana his wife, of a messuage etc., which 
 Agnes Boure held, and land called Nethirmede, Pedemersh, 
 Cattemersh, Oldmere, Longerugge, etc. Dat. 20 June, 
 5 Edw. IV. [1465]. With fine seal of arms. 
 
 613. Grant from John, Duke of Norfolk, Thomas 
 [Bouchier], Archbishop of Canterbury, William [de Wayn- 
 flete]. Bishop of Winchester, and three others to Robert 
 Bernard, Esquire, for his good services to the said Duke, of 
 an annual payment of 10 pounds from the Manor of Rost- 
 laston [Rosliston], co. Derby. Dat. Ii Dec, 5 Edw. IV, 
 [1465]. With small seal of arms of the Duke, and 4 other 
 small seals, and with signature of the Duke. 
 
 61^. Re-FEOFFMENT by Thomas, Lord Stanley, son 
 and heir of Thomas, late Lord Stanley [who was the sur- 
 viving feoffee appointed by James_ Berkeley, Knt., in his 
 charter dated 3 Sep., i Hen. VI. [1422], granting to Hum- 
 phrey, Duke of Gloucester, John, Duke of Norfolk, the 
 above-named Thomas, Lord Stanley, and others, to hold 
 in trust, the Castle of Berkeley, with all manors, etc., apper- 
 taining, of the said Castle and manors, to William Stanley, 
 John Haward, John Wynkfeld, Knts., William Berkeley, of 
 Uley, and others. Witnessess : Thomas Whytynton ; 
 Thomas French ; Maurice Denyse ; John Poynt. Dat. 
 I May, 6 Edw. IV. [1466]. 
 
 615, 616. Partition of lands, manors, advowsons, 
 etc., in cos. Glouc, Somerset, etc., between Margaret, Coun- 
 tess of Shrewsbury, Eleanor, Duchess of Somerset, and 
 Elizabeth, wife of George Nevill, Lord Latimer, the three 
 daughters and coheirs of Elizabeth, late Countess of War- 
 
 ^ Gate Keeper at Berkeley Castle— (/• Smyth ii., 107. 
 
ipo Berkeley Castle 
 
 wick, daughter and heir of Thomas, late Lord Berkeley. 
 Dat. 15 Nov., 6 Edw. IV. [1466]. 
 
 61^. Grant from John, Duke of Norfolk, Marshall of 
 England, etc., to James Hobart, his beloved servant, of the 
 Manor of Aspley, co. Warwick. Dat. 4 July, 7 Edw. IV. 
 [1467]. With the Duke's signature, " Norff." 
 
 61?- Letters Patent from Edward IV. to William 
 Canynges, Merchant, of Bristol, granting him licence to 
 assign certain rents in Bristol, for the support of his 
 Chaplain at St. George's Altar in St. Mary Redcliff Church, 
 for the souls of the King and Elizabeth, the Queen. Dat. 
 Westminster, 14 April, Anno 8, [1468]. With fragment of 
 great seal. 
 
 619. Charter of William Canynges, of Bristol, Mer- 
 chant, founding a perpetual chantry at the Altar of St. 
 George, in the Parish Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, 
 and appointing Thomas Hallkesock, Chaplain of the same. 
 Witnesses : Philip Mede, Mayor ; Robert Straunge, Sheriff 
 of Bristol ; John Godard, and John Nancotham, Bailiffs, 
 etc. Dat. 24 Oct., 8 Edw. IV. [1468]. With seals. 
 
 620. Acquittance from William, Lord Berkeley, to 
 John Roger and John Bleche, collectors of the subsidy of 
 tonnage and poundage in the port of London, for the half- 
 yearly instalment of an annual payment of 100 marks, 
 granted by the King to Johanna, sometime wife of William 
 Willoughby, now wife of the said Lord Berkeley, from the 
 subsidy "trium solidorum de dolio et duodecim denariorum 
 de libra in portu civitatis predicte." Dat. 10 June, 9 Edw. 
 IV. [1469]. 
 
 621. Letters Patent of Edward IV. pardoning 
 Henry de Bradfield for alienating the Manors of Melton 
 
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 Mowbray and Dyseworth, co. Leic, and Kyngton [Kington] 
 CO. Warwick. Dat. Westminster, 3 July, Anno 9, [1469]. 
 With great seal, broken. 
 
 622. Lease by Thomas [Bouchier], Cardinal Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, George [Neville], Archbishop of 
 York, Richard, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, and others, 
 (feoffees of the Manor of Vera Worthy [ ? Weare Worthy], 
 CO. Devon, for the use of Anne, wife of Thomas Ormond, 
 Knt., al. Thomas Botiller, Knt.,^ during life of the said 
 Thomas), to Thomas Boleyn, Clerk, John Heydon, and 
 others, of the said manor to the use of William Boleyn and 
 Margaret, one of the daughters of the said Thomas Or-, 
 monde and Anne his wife, for the life of the said Thomas 
 Ormonde. Witnesses : John Pollard, Esquire ; John 
 Gyfford, Esquire ; John Dogham ; John William ; John 
 Dygge. Dat. 16 Nov., 9 Edw. IV. [1469]. 
 
 623. Bull of Pope Paul II. to the Abbot of Kings- 
 wood, granting him licence to appoint John de Alford, of 
 Kingswood, Clerk, to the " officium tabellionatus " if he 
 shall be over 25 years of age, and of an honest conversation. 
 Dat. Rome, iv. Non. Feb. [2 Feb.] Pontif. Anno 6, [1470]. 
 With leaden bulla. 
 
 624. Letters Patent of Edward IV. granting to 
 Elizabeth and Margaret Talbot special livery of the man- 
 ors, lands, etc., which had descended to them on the death 
 of their brother Thomas, Viscount Lisle. Dat. Banbury, 
 6 April, Anno 10, [1470]. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 625. Judgement by John Shipward, sen., Mayor of 
 Bristol, and a jury in a complaint made to him by Philip 
 Mede and John Shipward, jun., that " certeyn indispoozed 
 
 ' Thomas Butler, 7<h Earl of Ormonde. 
 
192 Berkeley Castle 
 
 " persoones of their grete malice and yvell wille shold 
 " noysze, utter, faame and sclaundre the said Philipp and 
 " John to have send certayn persoones forcibly arrayd in 
 " manner of warre to the Lord Berkeley azeynst the Lord 
 ** Lisle." ^ The judgement is that there is no ground at all 
 for the slander, but that the said Philip and John are and 
 always have been " persoones of goode name and faam, 
 " Rule, Guydyng and governaunce." Dat. 2 May, 10 Edvv. 
 IV. [1470]. With fine impression of the city seal, in red 
 wax. 
 
 626. Letters Patent of John [Hales], Bishop of 
 Coventry and Lichfield, giving an account of presentations 
 to the Church of Newton Regis, co. Warw., from 1350 to 
 date of letters, viz., 2 Nov., 1471. 
 
 627. Exemplification by Edward IV., made at the 
 request of William, Lord Berkeley, of the inspeximus by 
 Edward III., of all grants made by his progenitors, Hen. II., 
 Richard I., etc.. to successive Lords of Berkeley, and of the 
 same King's [Edw. III.] grant to Thomas de Berkeley of 
 the Returns of the King's Writs within the hundred of 
 Berkeley : such exemplification having become necessary 
 as the inspeximus by Edward III. has been by accident 
 lost. Dat. Westminster, i March, Anno 11, [1472]. With 
 fragment of great seal. 
 
 628. Inspeximus by Edward IV. of his own letters 
 patent, dated ist March, Anno 11, [1471], wherein he con- 
 firmed to William, Lord Berkeley, the grants of Berkeley 
 and Berkeley-herness, made by his ancestors. Kings Henry 
 II,, John, etc., to the Lords of Berkeley. Dat. Westminster, 
 16 March, Anno 12, [1472]. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 1 For an account of the quarrel between Lord Berkeley and Lord Lisle, 
 V. Roll 137. 
 
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 629. Acquittance by Henry Bodrugan, Esquire, and 
 Margaret/ Viscountess Lisle, his wife, lately wife of Thomas 
 Talbot, Viscount Lisle,- of a quarterly instalment of an 
 annuity of 100 pounds due to the said Margaret from 
 William, Lord Berkeley, and Joan his wife, out of the 
 manor and borough of Wotton-under-Edge. Dat. 2 Aug., 
 13 Edw. IV. [1473]. With 2 seals, and with signatures, 
 " Margaret Lisle," and " Bodrugan." 
 
 630. General Pardon from Edward IV. to Kath- 
 arine, Duchess of Norfolk. Dat. Westminster, 20 Sept., 
 Anno 13, [1473]. With great seal, broken. 
 
 631. Grant from Philip Mede, Burgess of Bristol, and 
 Richard, his son and heir, to Maurice Berkeley, Esquire, 
 son of James, late Lord Berkeley, and to Isabella his wife, 
 of all that tenement in Thornbury, co. Glouc, called Mar- 
 challis place, with close and garden attached, situate in 
 Back Street, opposite the Cross, and extending from the 
 same street in front to St. John's Street at the back ; three 
 gardens in " Le Raten Rewe," between John Heydon's 
 lands on the east and Le Nelmestrete on the west, with 
 various other houses, gardens, and bams in Thornbury. 
 Witnessess : William Spencer ; John Hawlis ; Maurice 
 Berkeley, of Stoke ; Maurice Deonyer ; Richard Forster. 
 Dat. Monday aft. F. of all. Saints, [i Nov.] 14 Edw. IV. 
 [1474]. With seal of the Mayoralty of Bristol, Robert 
 Straunge being Mayor. 
 
 ' Daughter of William Herbert, Ist Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 - Killed at Nibley Green, 20 March, 1470. To Margaret, his widow 
 was granted, by way of compensation, by William, Lord Berkeley, an 
 annuity of £100. Soon after, she married Henry Bodrugan, of Bodrugan, 
 Cornwall, Esquire. 
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194 Berkeley Castle 
 
 632. Confirmation by Edmund Hungerford, Esquire, 
 and Johanna his wife, late wife of James, Lord Berkeley, of 
 the release by the said Johanna to William, son and heir of 
 the said James, of all the latter's possessions in co. Glouces- 
 ter, or elsewhere in England. Dat. 26 May, 14 Edw. IV« 
 [1474]. With two small seals. 
 
 633. Exemplification of an Exchequer Record, con- 
 taining the particulars of an enquiry held at Harlow, into 
 the claim of Thomas Urswyk, Thomas Lovell, John Aps, 
 and John Byconell, to the reversion of Newhall Manor with 
 appurtenances in Boreham, co. Essex, on the death of 
 Agnes Alrede, which manor belonged to Thomas Ormond,' 
 lately attainted of high treason. Dat. 26 Jan., 14 Edw. IV., 
 [1475]. 
 
 634. Grant from William, Lord Berkeley, to William 
 Try, Esquire, and Isabella his wife, sister of the said Lord, 
 of the forty shillings rent from Stinchcombe Wood. Dat. 
 Gloucester, 18 Aug., 16 Edw. IV., [1476]. 
 
 635- Charter of the Merchant Ship the " George of 
 Berkeley," John Pembroke, Master, and Lord Berkeley, 
 owner, to Bordeaux for wine. Dat. 18 Sept., 1477. 
 
 636. Acquittance from Arnulph Colyns, Bachelor of 
 Laws, Commissary General of John [Alcock], Bishop of 
 Worcester, to William, Lord Berkeley, for four pounds, 
 payment of Peter's Pence, on account of Berkeley and 
 Wotton Manors, due to John [Carpenter], late Bishop of 
 Worcester. Dat. i Jan., 1477 [8]. With seal. 
 
 ' Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde. Attainted 1 Edw. IV., [1461J ; 
 Restored 1 Hen. VII., [1485] ; died 1515.; 
 
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 637- Letters Patent of Edward IV., granting to his 
 " dilectus et fidelis miles," William, Lord Berkeley, the title 
 of Viscount. Dat. Westminster, 21 April, Anno 21 [1481]. 
 With great seal, broken. 
 
 638. Letters Patent of Edward IV. to the Sheriff 
 of Gloucester, notifying to him the pardon of Sir William 
 Berkeley, Knt., al. William, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 20 June, 
 Anno 12, [1472]. 
 
 639. Letters Patent of Edward IV., granting to 
 William, Viscount Berkeley, " for his attendance at the 
 Council," a hundred marks yearly during his life : namely 
 50 marks from the customs on the merchandize shipped at 
 or coming into the Port of Bristol, and 50 marks from 
 " Tonnage and Poundage," that is, three shillings on every 
 cask and twelve pence on every pound in the Port of the 
 City of London. Dat. $ March, A° 23, [1483]. With great 
 seal, broken. 
 
 640. Letters Patent of Richard Ill.creatingWilliam, 
 Viscount Berkeley, (and his heirs male) Earl of Nottingham. 
 Witnesses : Thomas [Bouchier] Card. Archbp. of Canter- 
 bury ; the Bishops of London, Bath and Wells, Lincoln 
 and others. Dat. 28 June/ Anno i [1483]. With great 
 seal,^ broken. 
 
 641. Indenture, whereby it is covenanted that 
 William, Earl of Nottingham, shall convey to King Richard 
 III. certain lordships and manors in cos. Leic, York, Essex, 
 Bucks, Lincoln, Bedf, and in N. Wales, with the reversion 
 of other lands in cos. York, Line, Leic, Bucks, and Essex, 
 
 ^ Two days after his accession. 
 
 - This, the only seal used by Richard III., was the fifth and last seal of 
 Edward IV., with the substitution of Ricardus for Edwardus. For another 
 specimen, see Br. Mus. Add. Ch. 16964. 
 2 
 
196 Berkeley Castle 
 
 on the death of Jane, Countess of Nottingham, reserving to 
 himself certain other lands in cos. Bedf. and Warwick, with 
 the reversion on the death of Elizabeth, Duchess of Nor- 
 folk, of lands in cos. Northt, Hunt., Salop, Derby, Herts, 
 Cambr., Sussex, Wore, and Warw. Dat. 2nd March, 
 I Ric. HI., [1484]. 
 
 6^2. General Pardon from Richard HI. to William, 
 Viscount Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham. Dat. 10 March, 
 Anno I, [1484]. 
 
 643. Warrant to the Sheriff of Nottingham and 
 Derby to pay to William, Viscount Berkeley, and Earl of 
 Nottingham, annually, the sum of twenty pounds from the 
 revenue of the County of Nottingham, which the King 
 granted to him on raising him to the title of Earl of Not- 
 tingham on 28 June, 1483. Dat. 2 July, 2 Ric. HI., [1484]. 
 With fragment of great seal. 
 
 644. General Pardon from Richard HI. to William, 
 Earl of Nottingham, al. Viscount Berkeley, of all offences, 
 debts and recognizances, to the i6th November last past. 
 Dat. Westminster, 9 December, Anno 2, [1484]. With 
 fragment of great seal. 
 
 645. Covenant of marriage between Morice, son of 
 Morice Berkeley, of Thornbury, and Katharine, dau. of Sir 
 Wm. Berkeley, of Stoke Giffard, 28 Jan., 2 Ric. HI., [1485]. 
 
 646. Exemplification of recovery by Edward Wil- 
 loughby, Robert Logge, and others from William de Berke- 
 ley, Earl of Nottingham, of the Manors of Berkeley, Ham, 
 Appleridge, Hurst, Slimbridge, etc. Dat. 24 Apr., 2 Ric. 
 HI., [1485]. With official seal. 
 
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 647. Licence from Henry VII. to William, Earl 
 Marshal and Earl of Nottingham, to alienate the Manor of 
 Hinton, co, Cambr., which reverts to him on the death of 
 Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, to Robert Logge, clerk. 
 Dat. Westminster, 8 Feb., A*> 3, [1488]. With fragment of 
 great seal. 
 
 648. Licence from Henry VI I. to Edward Willoughby 
 and Robert Logge to alienate to William, Earl Marshal 
 and Earl of Nottingham, the Manor of Coaley, co. Glouc. 
 Dat. Westminster, 8 Feb., Anno 3, [1488]. With great 
 seal, broken. 
 
 649. 660. Licence, in duplicate, by Henry VII. to 
 John Fisher, Serjeant-at-Law, Edward Willoughby, Esquire, 
 and Robert Logge, Clerk, to alienate to William, Earl Mar- 
 shal and Earl of Nottingham, the Berkeley Manors. Dat. 
 Westminster, 8 Feb., Anno 3, [1488]. With great seal, 
 broken. 
 
 661. Inspeximus and confirmation by Henry VII. of 
 the old charters and grants by Henry II. and successive 
 kings to Robert Fitzharding, and his successors, of 
 Berkeley Castle, manors, and lands, with their various 
 privileges. Dat. 15 Feb., Anno 3, [1488]. 
 
 662. Indenture of covenant, whereby Elizabeth, 
 Prioress, and the Convent of our Lady, " within the Parke 
 of Carlton, otherwise called Wallyng Welles" [Wallingwells 
 Priory, co. Notts.] promise to consider William, Earl 
 Marshal and of Nottingham, as one of their Founders, and to 
 perform the usual offices and services in his honour, to pray 
 specially for the soul of Jane, his last wife, and the soul of 
 Thomas, Earl of Derby : and the said Earl of Nottingham 
 agrees to discharge the said Prioress of a rent of 36 shillings 
 due to him and his heirs, etc. Dat. 23 March, 3 Hen. VII., 
 [1488]. With seal of the Priory, broken. 
 
198 Berkeley Castle 
 
 653. Letters Patent of Henry VII., granting to 
 William, Earl Marshal and of Nottingham, and his heirs 
 male, the dignity and title of Marquis of Berkeley, " et ipsum 
 marchionem Berkeley per gladii cincturam insignimus ac 
 imam capam honoris et dignitatis super caput suum poni- 
 mus." Witnesses : The Archbishops of Canterbury and 
 York ; the Bishops of Lincoln and Exeter, etc. Dat. 
 Westminster, 28 Jan., Anno 4, [1489]. With fragment of 
 great seal. 
 
 654. Letters of Robert, Prior of St. Mary's, Worces- 
 ter, admitting William, Marquis of Berkeley, into the 
 society and fraternity of the Priory, with all privileges of 
 masses, prayers, vigils, fasts, etc. Dat. Worcester, 2 1 Sept. 
 [1489]. 
 
 655. Inspeximus by Henry VII. of an action grounded 
 on the statute of 5 Ric. II., brought by the three daughters 
 of Richard, Earl of Warwick (claiming through their 
 mother) for the forcible entry of their manors of Wotton, 
 Simondshall, and Coaley, by James, Lord Berkeley, and 
 his four sons \cf. Smyth ii., 57-77]. Dat. 14 Oct., Anno 5, 
 [1489]. 
 
 656. Indenture of covenant between William, Mar- 
 quis of Berkeley, and John Bury, of Cambridge, mason, for 
 the building of eight " grete chambers " in his Manor of 
 Great Chesterford ; " and also the foundacion of the said 
 viii chamberes to be made x fote of high thoroughly all the 
 stone walles above the ground, and the said John shall 
 make in the sed chamber iiij dubble chymneys conteyning 
 vj fote and an half of brede with viii fyers perteyning to the 
 seid chamberes and shall fynde all manere of stuf to the 
 same excepte mantel Trees," etc., the contract price being 
 20 marks, half to be paid in advance, and half on com- 
 pletion of the work. Dat. 22 June, 6 Hen. VII., [1491]. 
 With seal. 
 
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 657. Contract between William, Marquis of Berkeley, 
 and Alewyn Newman, of Cambridge, carpenter, for carpen- 
 ter's work in Gt. Chesterford Manor. Dat. 7 July, 6 Hen. 
 VII. [1491]. 
 
 658. Letters Testimonial of Thomas Woddeward 
 and 7 others, " the Kynges homage men " within the Parish 
 of Slimbridge, showing that they " did never put owt * John 
 the mon ' of hys place calde ye court of Hurst, nether were 
 consent therto, save only we put hym up for faut of repara- 
 cion yn my lorde marcas last court that he held, and also 
 we testifie that the forseid John had his tymbre & his 
 carpenters redy to sette up his place when his troble 
 bygon." Dat. 23 June, 8 Hen. VII., [1493] 
 
 659. Lease for 20 years from " the ryght hyghe and 
 noble Pryncesse " Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, [Elizabeth 
 Talbot, w. of John Moubray, Duke of Norfolk] to Richard 
 Wakelyn, of Lollington, co. Derby, yeoman, of her park at 
 Bretby [co. York], " excepte the tymber and the shredyng 
 and stowyng of the same tymber that groweth within the 
 said Parke." Dat. 8 Sept., 10 Henry VII., [1494]. With 
 seal. 
 
 660. Letters Patent of Henry VII., granting to 
 John Norton, Esquire, the Manor of Gyssing, co. York, 
 reserving to the Crown all advowsons, knight's fees, wards, 
 marriages, reliefs, heriots and escheats belonging thereto. 
 Dat. Westminster, 15 May, Anno 10, [1495]. With frag- 
 ment of great seal. 
 
 661. Indenture of apprenticeship of John Ely, son of 
 Richard Ely, of London, to Richard Draper, Cofferer, of 
 Bristol, for a term of 7 years, at the end of which the said 
 Richard shall pay the said John 40 sh., and 4s. 6d. for the 
 liberty of the town of Bristol, by way of salary. Dat. 
 Bristol, 10 August. 12 Hen. VIL, [1497]. 
 
200 Berkeley Castle 
 
 662. Lease for 20 years from Maurice, bro. and heir 
 of William Berkeley, late Marquis of Berkeley, to Adrian 
 Russel, of a tenement called " The Weyhouse," in Bentham 
 Street, in Calais. Dat. 6 March, 14 Hen. VII., [1499]. 
 With fragment of Calais Town Seal. 
 
 663. Lease from Maurice, brother and heir of William, 
 late Marquis of Berkeley, to Raynold Flewed, a " Sawdeyer 
 and Burgeis " of Calais, of a " voyde ground " in St. Nich- 
 olas Parish, Calais, for a term of 20 years, " and soe from 
 xx*i yeres to xx" yeres for ever more." Rent, 6 sh. 8d., " a 
 fatt capon and a galon of wyne." Dat. 8 March, 15 Hen. 
 VII., [1500]. The seals of the lessor and of Thomas Bur- 
 don, Mayor and Alderman of Calais, are missing. 
 
 664. Grant by Thomas, Earl of Surrey, to Maurice, 
 Lord Berkeley, of a buck every summer, and a doe every 
 winter from his park of Seggewike [Sedgewick, near Hor- 
 sham], CO. Sussex, with licence to the same Maurice, in 
 case the park-keepers refuse to deliver the same, to enter 
 the park and catch them. Dat. 13 November, 18 Hen. VII. 
 [1502]. With small red seal. 
 
 665. Exemplification of various records, proving the 
 tenure of Berkeley by Barony. Dat. 28 Nov., 18 Hen. VI I. 
 [1502]. 
 
 666. 66'7. Covenant [in duplicate] by Maurice, 
 brother and heir to William, Marquis of Berkeley, and 
 Maurice, and Thomas his sons, to assure to Richard, Abbot 
 of Tewkesbury and the Convent there, the advowson of 
 Wotton-under-Edge. Dat. 16 February, 19 Hen. VII., 
 [i 504]. With portion of the Abbey seal. 
 
 668. Covenant for the conveyance by the same to 
 John, Abbot, and the Monks of Westminster, of Chester- 
 ford Manor aud advowson, co. Essex. Dat. 16 Feb., 19 
 Hen. VII., [1504]. With seal of arms. 
 
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 669. Grant from Richard, Bishop of Hereford, Presi- 
 dent of Magdalen College, Oxford, to Maurice, Lord 
 Berkeley, brother and heir of William, late Marquis of 
 Berkeley, that in return for numerous benefits bestowed by 
 the latter on the same College, the said Maurice shall be 
 remembered and have share in the prayers, etc., of the 
 scholars and President of the College, and on his death 
 his obit shall be observed with " placebo," " dirige," 
 "requiem mass " and music. Dat. 30 May, 20 Hen. VII., 
 [1505]. With fragment of College seal. 
 
 6*70. Lease for 5 years from John Mogryche, Rector 
 of St. Giles' Church, Wigginton, co. Oxon. to Richard 
 Grene, Yeoman, of the fruits, tithes, offerings, lands, etc., be- 
 longing to the said Church, together with the Rectory House, 
 (excepting half the offerings made in St. Leonard's Chapel): 
 the lessee to provide a Chaplain for divine service at his 
 own expense, and to keep the fences, enclosures, etc., with 
 the chancel, in good repair, etc. Rent jC 12, to be paid at 
 Lady Day and Michaelmas, in the College of the Holy 
 Trinity at Westbury, co. Glouc. Dat. 20 Aug., 22 Hen. 
 VIL [1507J. 
 
 671. Grant from William, Warden of the Friars 
 Minor, York, to Master Thomas Berkelay and Eleanor his 
 wife, of participation in the prayers, privileges, etc., of his 
 order. Dat. York, 1 508. 
 
 672. Letters Patent of Henry VIL, granting to 
 Maurice Berkeley, Esquire, the custody of the forests of 
 Kingswood and Fyllewoode, cos. Glouc. and Som., and 
 the Stewardship of the Manor and Hundred of Portbury, 
 CO. Somerset. Dat. 25 Oct., Anno 24. [1508]. With frag- 
 ment of great seal. 
 
202 Berkeley Castle 
 
 673. Letters Patent of Henry VIII. confirming to 
 Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knt., the sum of seven pence half- 
 penny yearly, for his exercise of the office of keeper of the 
 forests of Kingswood and Filwode, cos. Glouc. and Som- 
 erset, and ten pounds yearly for the exercise of his office as 
 Steward of the Manor and Hundred of Portbury, co. Som., 
 which offices were granted to him by Henry VII. Dat. 
 Knoll, 20 July, Anno 3, [i 5 1 1]. With great seal, broken. 
 
 674. Copy of letters patent of Henry VIII., ordering 
 his Sheriffs of Bristol and his Receivers and Bailiffs of the 
 fee-farm of the said town to pay to Maurice Berkeley, 
 Knight, all arrears due to him in respect of a daily payment 
 of seven-pence halfpenny which the late King Henry VII. 
 granted him with the keepership of his forests of Kingswood 
 and Filwode, cos. Glouc. and Som. Dat. Westminster, 
 10 Nov., Anno 3, [1511]. 
 
 675. Appointment by Sir Charles Brandon, Knt, of 
 Maurice Berkeley, Knt, to be steward, etc., of his manors 
 of Painswick, Morton Valence, and Rengeworth [Range- 
 worthy], CO. Glouc, with the grant of an annual payment 
 of 4 marks from the said manors. Dat. 24 Jan., 4 Hen. 
 VIII., [1513]. 
 
 676. Petition 1 to the King that he will issue his 
 letters patent to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, granting him the 
 offices of Constable of the King's Castle of Berkeley, 
 "janitor" of the same castle, keeper of the castle and park, 
 with Le Worthy, " palesarius " of the said park, keeper of 
 the woods of Hinton, called Cheslaunder and Redwode, 
 keeper of the stags and hinds and master of the game in 
 the same park and woods, together with the herbage and 
 pannage of the same, and the fishery of Smethmore and Le 
 Gale, in the Severn. [15 May, 6 Hen. VIII., 1514]- 
 
 1 cf. Smyth ii., 224. 
 
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 &7^. Indenture of covenant between Edmund Bel- 
 lond, Prior of the Friars Eremites of St. Augustine [Austin 
 Friars], London, Tliomas Norton, Knt., Master of Burton 
 Lazars, and Isabel, Lady Berkeley, whereby the latter 
 grants to the Friars the sum of £y2 13s. 4d. towards the 
 repair of their house, in return for which they bind them- 
 selves and their successors to sing requiems, observe anni- 
 versaries, etc., and three days in every week to say a mass 
 for the health of the souls of the said Isabel, her Lord, and 
 the Lord James his father, to be called " Berkeley's Mass " : 
 on failure of these observances forfeit of 20 shillings to be 
 paid to the Master and Brethren of Burton Lazars. Dat. 
 29 May, [15 14]. The only seal remaining is the seal of the 
 Fr. Hermits, which is broken. 
 
 678. Licence from Thomas Lovell, Knt., Justice 
 Itinerant and Keeper of the King's forests on this side 
 Trent, etc., to John Husey, Knt., that he may fell 2CX) oak 
 trees in the parish of Bitton, in Kingswood Forest, provided 
 he does not fell any tree known from ancient times, or that 
 stands as a boundary, and that he fells them in fitting 
 season and not in a " forbidden month," nor to the expulsion 
 of wild beasts congregating there. Dat. 4 March, 6 Hen. 
 VIII., [1515]. 
 
 679. Indenture of covenant between William, Mar- 
 quis of Berkeley, etc., and John a-Bury, of Cambridge, 
 mason, for tiling the roofs of " all the new howses " within 
 the Manor of Great Chesterford, the said John finding " all 
 manere of stuff .... that is to sey, oyle, lyme, and sond, 
 walling, dawbyng, lathing, and pynnyng of all the walls 
 and Roffes," etc., eleven marks, 6sh. 8d. to be paid in 
 advance, and a similar sum on the completion of the work. 
 Dat. II Dec, 7 Hen. VII., [1491]. With seal. 
 
204 Berkeley Castle 
 
 680. Indenture, whereby Sir Rauf Shirley, Knt, is 
 " reteigned and bileft " with the King to serve him in his 
 wars beyond the sea, for a whole year, dating from his first 
 muster, " with the retynue and nombre of himself having 
 with him his custrell and his page, iiij lances, xl archers 
 on fote" properly garnished and armed. The said Sir 
 Rauf to make his first muster at Windsor on the ist June 
 ensuing, and to proceed at once to Portsmouth, *' and for 
 the bringing of his said Retynue to the said Portesmouth, 
 that is to say for every of them for as many xx" miles as 
 ther be betwene the houses from whens they or any of them 
 departed and the said Portesmouth vi"^' for the veray know- 
 ledge of whiche distance the Tresourer of the Kinges werres 
 .... shall take of the said Sir Rauf and iche of his 
 souldiours on othe upon a boke," etc, Dat. 27 April, 7 
 Hen. VII., [1492]. Signed " Rauf Shyrley." 
 
 681-685. Copies of the deed of covenant between the 
 Master, Fellows and Scholars of Christ's College, Cam- 
 bridge, and Sir Maurice Berkeley and his heirs, whereby 
 the former agree that on the occasion of the living of 
 Kegworth, co. Leic, being void, they will select two " dis- 
 creet, able and convenient clerks of the said College," one 
 of whom Sir Maurice or his heirs shall within six days 
 nominate for presentation to the benefice by the College. 
 It is also covenanted that Sir M. Berkeley and heirs shall 
 have right of nominating one scholar, " born in Gloucester- 
 shire," to the College. Dat. 10 Feb., 7 Hen. VIII., [15 16]. 
 
 686. Letters Patent of Adrian, Cardinal Bishop of 
 Bath and Wells, to Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knt., appointing 
 him to the Keepership of the Park of Pokulchurche [Puckle- 
 church] CO. Glouc, with all fees, etc., attached to that office. 
 Dat. London, 27 March, [15 15]. At the foot are : — 
 
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 {a) Ratification of the same by William Bridde, Prior, and 
 the Priory of Bath, dated at the Chapter house, 26 Apr., 
 1515- 
 
 (d) Ratification by William Cousyns, Dean, and the Chapter 
 of Wells, dated at the Chapter House, 26 April, 15 15. 
 With fragment of the Episcopal Seal of Bath and Wells, 
 and a. rubbed impression of the seal of the Chapter of 
 St. Andrew's, Wells. The seal of the Prior of Bath is 
 missing. 
 
 68^. Notarial Instrument setting forth a petition of 
 Maurice, Lord Berkeley, and others, to the Pope [Leo X.] 
 whereby they obtain grace of having power to choose each 
 a priest to be their confessor, who shall also have power to 
 give them absolution for their sins ; with many other graces, 
 whereof one was to enter into any nunnery " et cum mon- 
 ialibus conversari dummodo ibidem non pernoctent," etc. 
 Dat. 7 July, [1 5 16]. 
 
 688. Declaration by Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Yate, 
 Knight, settling the jointure of his wife Katharine, in the 
 hands of Sir Robert Brudenell, Knt., Chief Justice of Com- 
 mon Pleas, Sir William Sandes, Knt, Sir John Reynesford, 
 Knt, and others. Dat i May, [1520]. With signature 
 " Morys Berkeley," and seal of arms. 
 
 689. Warrant of Henry VHI. to Sir Thomas Berke- 
 ley, Knt, and Edward Tyndale, Receiver for the King of 
 the Lordship of Berkeley, in consideration of the complaints 
 of the tenants of the said Lordship, of damage done to 
 their crops by the red deer in the three small copses of 
 underwood, called " Reddewoode, Chesilhunger and Brand- 
 woode," instructing them to take all such red deer " with 
 nettes harnessis or dearhayes mete for the same," and con- 
 vey them to Estwood Park, now in the occupation of Robert 
 
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 Thomas, " to be done at the cost and charges of the King's 
 said tenants, provided that if it is thought that the year be 
 so far advanced that the hinds now being with calf should by 
 their removal endanger the lives of the calves, that then the 
 said Commissioners shall take " all the male dear and all 
 other Rasscalls i except the Hyndes," etc. Uat. Greenwich, 
 9 Feb., Anno 13, [1522]. Signed at the top "Henry R./' 
 with town seal. 
 
 690. Letters Patent of Henry VHI. to Sir Thomas 
 Berkeley, Knt, Keeper of Berkeley Park, Edward Tyndall, 
 the King's Receiver at Berkeley, Thomas Matson, gerit., 
 and Mories Bochear, merchant, instructing them that, 
 whereas complaints have been made by the King's Tenants 
 and inhabitants of Berkeley, concerning the King's red deer 
 within the Castle Park of Berkeley, " which for lack of 
 sufficient palynge, rome and fedynge come continually oute 
 to the great hurt and domage " of the said tenants, he has 
 determined to enlarge the said park by throwing into it the 
 pastures of Hampstalz and Coltyn Leyes, with Munmede 
 meadow, and that they the said Sir Thomas, etc., are to call 
 workmen and " sett them a worke uppon the same," that 
 the said pastures may be " sufficiently imparkyde, enclosed, 
 and made Rounde abowt with postis, pales, stayes, Rayles 
 and dikys," and that the palings of the Castle Park be 
 repaired "in suche wise that our saide Dear herafter breke 
 not owte." " Yevyn under our signet at our Manor of 
 Grennewyche," 10 Feb., Anno xiii. [1522]. Signed at the 
 top " Henry R.," with signet seal. 
 
 691. Letters Patent of Henry VHI., appointing 
 Thomas Berkeley, Knt., Sheriff of co. Gloucester. Dat. 
 12 Nov., Anno 14, [1522]. With great seal, broken. 
 
 ' Rascal, a lean animal, one fit to neither hunt nor kill (Halliwell). 
 
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 692. Letters Patent of Henry VIII., granting livery 
 to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of the lands, etc., which des- 
 cended to him on the death of his brother, Maurice, Lord 
 Berkeley. Dat. 10 Feb., Anno 16, [1523]. With great seal. 
 
 693. Lease for 24 years, from Robert Cheltynham, 
 Prior of St. James the Apostle, near Bristol, to Edmund 
 Arthur, of Bristol, gentleman, of the Church or Chapel of 
 St. Ethelbert, of Mangotsfield, with tithes, offerings, and all 
 other revenues, the said Edmund to supply a chaplain for 
 celebration of divine service, administration of the sacra- 
 ment, as well as the bread, wine, candles, and wax tapers 
 for the high altar and " ly tresill " [i.e. trestles] on the feast 
 of the Purification. Rent 40 shillings. Dat. St. James' 
 Priory, 13 August, [1523]. 
 
 691. Letters Patent of Henry VIII., instructing 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, William Kingstone, Knt., and 
 other commissioners, to levy contributions from the inhabi- 
 tants of CO. Gloucester, for the equipment and support of 
 an army,' to be led by the King in person against France. 
 Dat. Westminster, 21 March, Anno 16 [1525]. With frag- 
 ment of great seal in bag. 
 
 695. Articles of agreement between Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley, and Sir Richard Sacheverell and Marie, Lady 
 Hungerford, for the bargain and exchange by the former 
 of the Manors of Melton Mowbray, Cold Overton, Dalby, 
 Chacombe, Wytherley [Witherley], Syleby [Sileby], Sea- 
 grave a/. Seagrave Mountsorell, co. Leic, with the Manors 
 of Bretby, Coton, Rostlaston [Rosliston], Lynton [Linton], 
 
 ^ This was an expedient hit upon by Wolsey to raise money by means of an 
 " Amicable Loan," a project derived from the old feudal obligation of con- 
 tributing aid to the King when he led an invasion in person. The effort, after 
 nearly causing an insurrection throughout the country, failed. [Sia/e Papers^ 
 Brewer, Vol. IV., ititrodudioi!.'\ 
 
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 and Repyngdon [Repton], co. Derby, for the Manors of 
 Aller, Newton, Sentlowe [St. Loe], Pensford, Publow and 
 Wolwayd [Wollard in Compton Dando], co. Somerset. 
 Dat. 30 June, 17 Hen. VIII. [1525]. 
 
 696, Covenant between Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 
 and Thomas, Lord Berkeley, for the marriage of Thomas 
 Berkeley, Esquire, son and heir of the said Lord Berkeley, 
 with Katherine, daughter of the said Duke. Dat. 28 February, 
 17 Hen. VIII. [1526]. Seals missing. 
 
 69'7- Lease for 20 years from Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 
 to Sir John Porte, Knt., Justice of the Common Pleas, of 
 two pools well stocked with fish, at Bretby, co. Derb., 
 whereof the said Sir John had the charge and care " unto 
 such time as the said Sir John was made one of the King's 
 Justices." Dat. 25 Feb., 18 Hen. VIIL [1527]. 
 
 698- Indenture, whereby Henry Hyll, Warden of the 
 Friars Minors in Gloucester, promises the following services 
 for the souls of the parents and ancestors of Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley, viz. : every Monday, Placebo and Dirige with 9 
 lessons ; every Tuesday, a Mass of Requiem ; every 
 Thursday, Placebo and Dirige with 9 lessons ; and every 
 Friday, a Mass of the Five Wounds with the Collect, Deus 
 qui Justificas. Dat. 22 March, 18 Hen. VI 1 1. [1527]. 
 
 699. Lease for 10 years, from James Berkeley, gent., 
 "servaunt and attorney" to Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to 
 William Burdon, " souldeour of the Kinges retynue of the 
 town of Cales," of " his gret mansion place with a small 
 thacked cottage," etc., in Bentham Street, in the Parish of 
 St. Mary, in Calais. Rent £6. Dat. 30 June, 21 Hen. VI II. 
 [1529]. 
 
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 *700. Letter from Thomas Berkeley, Knt., brother and 
 heir of Maurice, late Lord Berkeley, to the Master, Fel- 
 lows, etc., of Christ's College, Cambridge, nominating 
 Gerard Trye as a Scholar of the College, Dat. 5 July, 
 23 Hen. Vin. [1531]. 
 
 701. Letters Patent of Henry VI IL, granting livery 
 to Thomas, son and heir of Thomas, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 
 25 Nov., Anno 25 [1533]. With great seal. 
 
 702. Presentation by Thomas, Lord Berkeley, of 
 Robert Derby, Canon of Croxton Abbey, to the post of 
 Abbot there vacant " per mortem maturam," of Elias Atter- 
 clyfif. Dat. 27 April [1534]. With seal. 
 
 703. Lease for 60 years, from William Burton, Abbot, 
 and the Convent of St. Augustine's, Bristol, to Lady Anne 
 Berkeley, widow of Thomas, late Lord Berkeley, of the 
 tithing barn' or barton of Oldminster, with all the " tithing 
 of Rye, benys, barley, otes, pesyn, or any other grayne," at 
 an annual rent of eight pounds. Dat. Chapter House, 
 I June, 25 Hen. VHI. [1536]. With fragment of Abbey 
 seal. 
 
 704. Inspeximus of the inquisitio-post-mortem of 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, taken 10 Oct., 29 Hen. VHI. 
 [1537] at Marchfield, co. Glouc. Dat. 16 Feb., 29 Hen.VHL 
 [1538]. With fragment of seal. 
 
 1 After the dissolution of Monasteries this barn was leased by the Dean and 
 Chapter of St. Augustine's, (then become a Bishopric) to Sir Thomas Throg- 
 morton, of Tortworth, and the possession of it was contended in a long law suit 
 between Henry, Lord Berkeley, son of the Lady Anne and Sir T. Throgmor- 
 ton, which suit might perhaps have been prevented, had Lord Berkeley's 
 Solicitors been able to lay their hands on this particular document. Smyth 
 ii. 399 et scqq. 
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 •705. Lease, for 25 years, from Robert, the Abbot, and 
 the Convent of Combe, co. Warwick, to Thomas Trye, of 
 Caloughdon, and Humphrey Bate, of Binley, of the Par- 
 sonage of Naseby, co. Northampton. Dat. 16 June, 30 
 Hen. Vni. [1587], With fine seal of the Abbey, chipped. 
 
 706. Lease, for 40 years, from Hugh Jeynkyngson and 
 John Bradley, " serving Pristes " in the Chantry of St. 
 George and of St. Katharine, in St. Mary's, Redcliffe, and 
 the Churchwardens there, to Robert Thurban, of a tenement 
 on the Quay at Bristol. Dat. 9 Aug., 30 Hen. Vni.[i538]. 
 
 707- Counterpart of Lease for 70 years, from the 
 Feoffees of a tenement on Bristol Quay (appointed under the 
 will of Richard Mede and others. Proctors of the Church of 
 St. Mary RedclifTe), to Robert White, Cofferer, of Bristol. 
 Dat. I Feb., 31 Hen. VHL [1540], With seal of the lessee. 
 
 708. Lease, for 20 years, from Sir John Bradley and 
 Sir Hugh Jenkynson, Chantry Priests, and the Church- 
 wardens of St. Mary Redcliffe, to Rob. Gyttyn, of a tene- 
 ment in March Street, in Bristol. Dat. 24 Dec, 33 Hen. 
 Vni.[i54i]. With seal. 
 
 709. Grant from the Crown to Andrew, Lord Wind- 
 sor, of the Manor of Cranford, co. Midd. Dat. 27 April, 
 34 Hen. VHL [1542]. With great seal. 
 
 710. Lease, for 17 years, from John Meryman, clerk 
 and vicar of Wotton-under-Edge, to Thomas Purnell, of 
 North Nibley, clothier, of all the tithes of the village and 
 township of North Nibley, for a payment of ;^30, at an 
 annual rent of £it for the first six years, and ;62i for the 
 remainder of the term, the said Thomas also to deliver to 
 the said John every Christmas 8 bushells of malt, the latter 
 covenanting to supply " an honest prest " to serve in the 
 chapel of North Nibley. Dat. 20 Nov. 34 Hen.VHI. [1542]. 
 
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 711. Exemplification of a decree of the General 
 Surveyors of the King's lands, dated 13 April, 34 Hen.VIII. 
 ['^543] '^^ a suit brought by Sir Richard Wyllyams, «2//rt;j 
 Cromwell, Knt., against John Adams, John Pete and others, 
 Fishermen, " for fishing within the preemynence and libertye 
 of free and severall fysshyng within the Ryver of Severne 
 in the countye of Gloucester belongyng to the Kynges 
 
 Castell and Lordship of Barkeley herons called the 
 
 Gale contrary to the custome of the said lordship which 
 lybertye of fysshynge extendyth from Caterneookesleys to 
 the Haven mouthe ther," which liberty the said Sir Richard 
 holds for term of his life ; in which suit it having been 
 proved that none other than the *' owners of the castell and 
 
 lordshipe ought to fysshe within the said libertye but 
 
 only with two kindes of nettes, that ys to saye, wyth lade 
 nettes and drugnettes and wythe no other nettes and that 
 they that so fysshe there wythe the said nettes ought of 
 right to paye unto the owner of the said libertye of fyssh- 
 inge for the tyme beyng certen dutyes and Customes callyd 
 the moyte of the Gale fysshe whiche ys the one half of all 
 the fysshe whiche they take within the said libertye of 
 fysshinge." The judgment was given for the plaintiff with 
 damages and costs against the defendants. Dat. Westmin- 
 ster, 16 April, 34 Hen. VHI. [1543]. 
 
 712. Grant from the Crown to Walter Compton, 
 Groom of the King's Chamber, of the Keepership of the 
 New Park at Berkeley [i.e. The Worthy] which Nicholas 
 Poyntz (to whom jointly with his father, Anthony Poyntz, 
 the King had previously granted it) had surrendered to the 
 Crown for that purpose. Dat. Westminster, 22 April, 35 
 Hen. VHI. [1543]. With great seal. 
 
 713. Admission of John Byrton to twelve acres of 
 pasture land belonging to the Crown situate on Westridge 
 
 p 2 
 
212 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Down in Synwell Manor [Wotton-under-Edge]. Dat. 9 
 May, 36 Hen. VIII. [1544]. 
 
 714. Lease, for 60 years, from the feoffees of lands, 
 etc., of the late William Canynge in Bristol, and the wardens 
 of the chantries in the Church of Redclyff, founded by the 
 said William Canynge to John Wade, of Bristol, coverlet- 
 maker, of a messuage and close of pasture in Brodemede 
 Street, Bristol. Rent, four marks. Dat. 12 Sept. 36 Hen. 
 
 VIII. [1544]. 
 
 715. Lease, for 70 years, from the feoffees of William 
 Canyng's lands in Bristol and the wardens of the latter's 
 chantries in St. Mary Redcliffe, to Richard Wynnowe, of 
 Bristol, Tucker, of two storehouses near the Quay of Bristol. 
 Dat. 17 Sept. 36 Hen. VIII. [1544]. 
 
 716. Letters Patent of Henry VIII. granting special 
 livery to John, Viscount Lisle, K.G., son and heir of Eliza- 
 beth, Viscountess Lisle, of all her possessions. Dat. 25 Nov. 
 Anno 38 [1546]. With great seal. 
 
 717. Letters Patent of Edward VI. granting to 
 Edward Fyries, Lord Clinton and Saye, the office of Chief 
 Seneschal of all the manors and lands belonging to Thomas, 
 Duke of Norfolk, attainted for high treason in the late 
 King's time, which the said Duke had granted to Sir Thomas 
 Hennage for his life, and which the latter had lately sur- 
 rendered to the Crown : together with the office of Clerk 
 and Warden of the Courts of the said manors, and the sum 
 of a hundred shillings yearly for the exercise of the said 
 offices. Witness : Richard Sackville, Knt. Dat. 27 Nov. 
 A*' 4 [1550]. With great seal. 
 
 718. Grant of licence from Edward VI. to Rees ap 
 Howel, clerk, to enfeoff William ap Rees in Talgarth 
 
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 Manor, and to the latter to grant the same to Phih'p ap 
 Hovvel, clerk, and to the said Rees and Philip de Brenlees. 
 Dat. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 29 April, A° 5 [155 1]. 
 
 ^19. Award by Roger Coke, Mayor of Bristol, in a 
 suit between Lord Berkeley and Arthur Kemmys concern- 
 ing lands in Bristol, which " descended by Philip Meade, 
 late mayor of Bristol, " the pleadings having been heard " in 
 the common place of audyence within the said city called 
 the Tolvesaye, sett nigh to the highe crosse." Dat. 5 Oct. 
 1551. With seal of the city of Bristol. 
 
 *720. Lease, for 7 years, from Sir James Boleyn, of 
 Blickling, co. Norf, to Henry Castell, of Egmere, of the 
 manor of Egmere, co. Norf, of an annual rent of eleven 
 pounds. Dat. 12 Aug. 6 Edw. VL [1552]. 
 
 721. Counterpart of grant from Henry Carey, Lord 
 Hunsdon, to Thomas More, Bailiff, and to the Burgesses of 
 Buckingham, of the Borough of Buckingham, with all 
 liberties, franchises, royalties, etc., which the late King 
 Henry VHI. granted to William Carey, father of the said 
 Henry Carey, on its reversion to the Crown consequent 
 on the attainder of Edward, Duke of Buckingham, to whom 
 it belonged. Dat. 20 Jan. 5 Edw. VL [1553]. 
 
 722. Admission by James [Brookes] Bishop of Glou- 
 cester, on the presentation of Henry, Lord Berkeley, of 
 Robert Knight to the vicarage of Wotton-under-Edge. 
 I March, 1555. With episcopal seal, broken. 
 
 723. Warrant by King Philip and Qu. Mary to the 
 Master of the Court of Wards for a special livery to Henry, 
 Lord Berkeley, a minor, of the Castle and Manor of Berke- 
 ley, and other manors in cos. Glouc. and Somerset, with the 
 fourth part of the Manor of Tyburn a/. Marybone, co. 
 
214 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Midd., and all the other lands, etc., which the late William, 
 Marquis of Berkeley, granted to King Henry VII. and 
 heirs in tale mail, which possessions, on failure of heirs to 
 Edward VI., have reverted to the said Henry, Lord Berke- 
 ley, as the heir of the said Marquis. The special livery is 
 granted in consideration of the " good and worthie service 
 of his Auncestors heretofore don unto our moost noble 
 progenytors And that there is no lesse hope to be con- 
 ceyved of his good and faythfull service towardes us where- 
 of we have some good experyence of his towardnes therein 
 specyally in the late rebellyon attempted agaynst us by 
 Thomas Wyat and other his complices. The whiche as we 
 thinke honorable unto us to consider and remembre, etc." 
 Dat. 13 May, i, 2, Ph. and Mary [1555]. With seal in red 
 wax, broken. 
 
 724, Exemplification, at the instance of Henry, Lord 
 Berkeley, of a decree of the Court of Wards, cancelling a 
 bond of Philip Draycott and ten others in ;^iooo for the 
 payment of £^6^ 8s. gd., in part payment of arrears of rent 
 of the castle and lordship of Berkeley, due to the Crown by 
 reason of the minority of Henry, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 10 
 June, I, 2 Philip and Mary [1555]. Seal missing. 
 
 "725, Grant from Henry, Lord Berkeley, to Thomas 
 Teysante, of the custody of free warren of his demesne of 
 Berkeley, namely : of hares, pheasants, partridges and other 
 birds, with an annual salary of five shillings. Dat. 3 Jan., 
 2, 3 Philip and Mary [1556]. With signature and small 
 seal. 
 
 "726. Lease, for 21 years, from Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 to David Dodde, " one of the Kinge and Quenes majesties 
 captens in Newnam Bridge besides Callys gentleman " and 
 Ellen his wife, of his messuage or " mansion place," in 
 
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 Bentham Street, in the parish of St. Mary, within the town 
 of Calais, with all appurtenances, excepting one cham- 
 ber to be reserved to the use of the said Lord Berkeley, 
 whenever " he himself shall comme and remayne at Callys." 
 Dat. 10 Feb., 2, 3 Philip and Mary [1556]. 
 
 727- Lease, for lives, from Henry, Lord Berkeley, to 
 Richard Tyndall, of Southende, in Stinchcombe, Katheryn 
 his wife and Edith his daughter, of " his two rnylles under 
 one roffe that is to say a cornc myll and a giggmylV " 
 with a fulling mill and part of a pasture called " the 
 Hame," etc., in Cam., the lessees to keep the mills in good 
 repair, but to be allowed timber for the purpose from the 
 woods of the said Lord. Rent 34 shillings. Dat. 28 May, 
 2, 3 Philip and Mary [iSS^]. 
 
 728. Counterpart of lease from Sir James Boleyn to 
 Paul and Thomas Gresham, of Egmere Manor, co. Norf., 
 which the said Sir James acquired from the late King 
 Henry VHL Dat. Egmere, 3 July, 2, 3 Ph. and Mary, 
 [1556]. 
 
 729. General Release from Anne, Lady Berkeley, 
 of Calloughdown, in Coventry, to Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 her son. Dat. All Saints' Day [i Nov.] 3, 4 Philip and 
 Mary [1556]. With seal. 
 
 730. Grant from Reginald, Cardinal Pole to Henry, 
 Lord Berkeley, of absolution from all dangers of excommu- 
 nication which he had incurred in the late schism in 
 England, with permission to use his chapel in his Manor of 
 Callowden, co. Warw., as his ancestors used the same before 
 the schism, and to have there a portable altar, to say mass, 
 to celebrate the Holy Eucharist, to keep the sacred elements 
 
 ^ Mill used for the perching and burling of cloth. — Blount. 
 
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 in a befitting box with fair linen cloth, with candle burning 
 before it, etc. Dat, St. James's Palace, iii. Kal. Nov. 
 [30 Oct.] 1556. 
 
 Reginaldus miseratione divina tituli Sancte Marie in Cos- 
 medin Sancte Romane ecclesie presbiter Cardinalis 
 Polus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis sanctissimi domini 
 nostri pape et sedis apostolice ad serenissimos Philippum 
 et Mariam Anglie Reges et universum Anglie Regnum 
 de latere Legatus' Dilecto nobis in Christo nobili viro 
 Henrico Barkeley militi domino Barkeley Mowbraye 
 Segrave et Brews Coventrensis diocesis Salutem in dom- 
 ino sempiternam. Pro parte tua nuper nobis expositum 
 fuit quod licet olim postquam, capella Manerio tuo de 
 Calandgowne per antecessores tuos constructa fuisset 
 tu et maiores tui hoc privilegio dudum a sede apostolica 
 concesso ut scilicet in eadem capella sacratissimum 
 eucharistie sacramentum teneretur et conservaretur ac 
 per manum cuiuslibet idonei sacerdotis eidem capelle 
 deservientis tarn ipsum eucharistie quam reliqua ecclesi- 
 astica sacramenta et sacramentalia tu et maiores tui 
 prefati cum omnibus vestris domesticis et familiaribus 
 reciperetis missasque et alia divina officia quibuscunque 
 diebus et festivitatibus et maximis audiretis a tanto 
 tempore cuius initii memoria in contrarium non existit 
 usi fueritis nihilominus cum litere apostolice privilegium 
 predictum continentes tempore perniciosissimi schis- 
 matis nuper transact! deperdite fuerint huiusmodi facul- 
 tate et licencia absque nova sedis apostolice concessione 
 uti veremini, Quare nobis humiliter supplicari fecisti ut 
 in premissis de opportuno remedio providere de benign- 
 itate apostolica dignaremur. Nos igitur iustis petitioni- 
 tuis annuere volentes teque a quibusvis excommunica- 
 tionis, suspensionis et interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis 
 
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 sententiis censurls et penis a jure vel ab homine quavis 
 occasione vel causa latis si quibus quomodolibet inno- 
 datus ex istis ad effectum presentium dumtaxat conse- 
 quendum harum serie absolvendum et absolutum fore 
 censentes. Tibi si est ita ut in Capella Manerii tui 
 prefati quod ut asseritur ab ecclesia parochiali ultra duo 
 Anglica milliaria distat dumniodo ea decenter et honeste 
 teneatur liceat habere altare portatile super quo in 
 presentia tua et quorumcumque familiarium ac domesti- 
 corum tuorum quibusvis et maximarum festivitatum 
 diebus missas et alia divina officia per quemcunque 
 idoneum sacerdotem prius tamen ab ordinario loci pro- 
 batum celebrari facere possis tuque et familiares tui 
 prefati pro missis et divinis officiis audiendis ad par- 
 ochialem ecclesiam accedere niinime teneamini Quodque 
 dictus sacerdos eidem Capelle pro tempore inserviens te 
 et singulos familiares tuos tua et eorum confessiones 
 diligenter audita a quibusvis excommunicationis aliisque 
 sententiis censuris et penis quibus pro tempore irretiti 
 fueritis facta prius rei cuius occasione sententie predicte 
 emanaverint plenaria satisfactione et quibusvis peccatis 
 ciiminibus et excessibus non tamen ordinario loci reser- 
 vatis absolvere ac pro premissis penitentiam salutarem 
 injungere possit. Quodque gloriosissimum Eucharistie 
 sacramentum in decenti pixide, cum sudario sive sin- 
 done munda collocatum hon orifice tamen devote ac 
 fideliter ac omnibus sacris canonibus de custodia euchar- 
 istie editis observatis cum lumine ardente teneri et 
 conservan possit illudque tam tu quam familiares tui 
 prefati quocunque non tamen paschali tempore et 
 reliqua ecclesie sacramenta et sacramentalia recipere 
 possitis absque tamen preiudicio ecclesie parochialis 
 auctoritate apostolica nobis hac in nostra legatione con- 
 cessa et qua fungimur in hac parte tenore presentium 
 
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 plenam et liberam concedimus facultatem constitution- 
 ibus et ordinationibus apostoHcis ceterisque contrariis 
 non obstantibus quibuscunque. Datum in Palatio Regis 
 apud sanctum Jacobum prope Westmonasterium Anno 
 a nativitate Domini millesimo quingentesimo quinqua- 
 gesimo sexto, Tertio Kal. Novembris Pontificatus sanc- 
 tissimi in Christo patris et Domini nostri Pauli divina 
 providentia pape Quarti anno secundo. 
 With signature " Reg. Car"* Polus Leg[atus]." 
 
 731- INSPEXIMUS and confirmation by Philip and Mary 
 to Henry, Lord Berkeley, of the grants by Edward I. and 
 Henry V. to the said lord's predecessors of free warren in 
 the demesne lands of Berkeley Herness, co. Glouc, in Port- 
 bury, Walton, Weston, Portishead, and Charlton by Wrox- 
 hall, CO. Som. Dat. Westminster, 8 Jan., Ann. 3, 4 [i 557]- 
 With great seal. The initial letters are ornamented with 
 portraits of the King and Queen. 
 
 732. Commission from Qu. Elizabeth to Sir Richard 
 Lee, of Sopwell, co. Herts., empowering and instructing him 
 to provide the necessary workmen, materials, etc., and 
 to fortify the town and castle of Berwick-on-Tweed.^ Dat. 
 26 Jan., Anno i, [i559j- 
 
 733. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, granting to 
 John West, Groom of the Queen's Chamber, for his life, 
 the Office of Warden of the messuage called " Somersett 
 Place al. Strande House, al. Somersett House, in the 
 Strand and in the Parish of the Savoy, outside Temple 
 Bar." Dat. Westminster, 26 June, i Eliz. [1559]. 
 
 734. Warrant of Qu. Elizabeth to the Sheriffs, 
 Bailiffs, etc., of Bristol, to pay to Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 
 1 cf. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, 1559. Ed. Stevenson, 1863. 
 
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 arrears of pay due to him from Michaelmas, 1556, at the 
 rate of seven pence halfpenny per day, in respect of his 
 office as Keeper of Kingswood Forest. Dat. 2 Nov., Anno 
 2> [1559]- With great seal, broken. 
 
 ^36. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, appointing 
 Henry Gary, Lord Hunsdon, Master of the Queen's Hawks, 
 with a salary of ;^40 per year. Dat. 31 Oct., Anno 2 [1560]. 
 With fragment of great seal. 
 
 736. Warrant from Thomas, Earl of Sussex, K.G., 
 Chief Justice of the Queen's Forests on this side Trent, 
 to Lord Hunsdon, for the felling of 40 timber trees in her 
 Majesty's "little parke and grete parke" of Ampthill, co. 
 Bedf , for the repairing of Beekering and Hawghton's Parks 
 within the honor of Ampthill. Dat. 20 May, 3 Eliz. [1561]. 
 With signature and seal of the Earl. 
 
 73'7- Grant from Sir William Cecil, Secretary of 
 State, etc., and Mildred, his wife, to Henry Carey, Lord 
 Hunsdon, K.G., and Anne his wife, of the two messuages 
 " now converted into one " in " Le Chanon Rowe," in West- 
 minster, now in the occupation of the said Lord Hunsdon, 
 belonging to the College of St. Stephen, which messuages 
 the said Sir William had, by charter dated 25 Feb., 6 Edw. 
 VI. [1552], from John Beaumonte, Master of the Rolls. 
 Dat. 13 Feb., 4 Elizabeth [1562]. With signature and seal 
 of Sir Wm. Cecil. 
 
 738. Warrant to Richard Worsley, Esquire, Captain 
 of the Isle of Wight and of Carisbrooke Castle, to complete 
 the necessary repairs of the said castle, the cost of which 
 has been estimated at ;^350, and to pay for the same from 
 the revenue due to the Crown from possessions and heredit- 
 aments In the Isle of Wight, the said repairs to be com- 
 pleted within two years. Dat. 25 Feb., 4 Eliz. [1562]. Copy. 
 
220 Berkeley Castle 
 
 739- Bond in ;^20 from John Bull, citizen and gold- 
 smith of London, to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, K.G , 
 for the acquittance and discharge of the latter against John 
 Earley, citizen and cloth worker of London, to whom the 
 said Lord had delivered and paid " one aggat of gold, value 
 £6 " — 30sh. for " enamyling of a garter of gould " — igsh. 
 for more gold put in the said garter — and £^ for a 
 " George " of gold sold to the said Lord by the said John 
 Earley. Dat. 17 Sept., [1565], 
 
 740. Warrant on the Exchequer for the repayment 
 to the Executors of Richard Worsley, Esquire, late Captain 
 of the Isle of Wight, of certain sums which the latter, 
 during his said captaincy, expended on repairs to the castles 
 of Carisbrooke and Yarmouth, in the Island. Dat. 8 March, 
 8 Eliz. [1566]. 
 
 741. Lease from Henry, Lord Berkeley, to John 
 Clyfiford, gent, servant to the said Lord, and Dorothy his 
 wife, for their lives, with remainder to Henry Clifford, 
 their son, of the fishing with one boat in and upon the 
 waters of the Severn, at the weir called Bodler's Weir, 
 otherwise called " Dunsande Pool," within the Manor of 
 Arlingham. Dat. 10 July, 8 Eliz. [1566]. 
 
 742. Letters Patent of Qu. EHzabeth, granting 
 licence to Henry, Lord Hunsdon, K.G., Master of the 
 Queen's Hawks, to give power to any persons " to have and 
 keape in his or their house or houses or elsewhere in his or 
 their custody any landgun, hagbutt, demyhake, or coryer 
 to the only entente therewith to gett and kill necessary 
 meate for any hawke or hawkes and in the same at all 
 tymes nedefull and convenyent to shote at any crowes, 
 Rowkes, chowghes, stockdoves, or any other kynde of 
 byrde or fowle mete to be used and employed for hawkes 
 
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 mete and to entente onely by suche shuting to gett 
 suffycient convenyent and necessary meate for the feding " 
 of the King's hawks, etc. Dat. 22 Oct., 9 Eliz. [1567]. 
 With great seal. 
 
 743. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, appointing 
 Henry Gary, K.G., Lord Hunsdon, Governor of Berwick-on- 
 Tweed. Dat. Gorhambury, 25 August, Anno 10, [1568]. 
 With fragment of great seal. 
 
 744. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth to the Com- 
 missioners appointed " to enquire of the offencys committed 
 from the first of Aprill agaynst the lavves and statutes of 
 this our Realme for the mayntayninge of horses and of the 
 provision of Armor and weapons," extending the date 
 appointed for their rendering their report and giving them 
 fresh powers and charging them to use all their diligence 
 ** to avaunce the nombers of horses and geldinges and their 
 furniture," to the uttermost of their powers. Dat. 30 June, 
 Anno II, [1569]. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 745- Lease for 10 years from Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 to Francis Ailsworth, " to digge and make serch for cole 
 called stone cole otherwise sea cole " within the Manor of 
 Kington, co. Warwick, at a place called Ballansford, " and 
 to sinke three shaftes or pittes , . . . . that is to saie th' one 
 shafte or pitte to be for drawinge of water th'other for 
 drawinge of cole and the third only for the takinge of ayre 
 into the worke," at a yearly rent of £6 13s. 4d., with a 
 proviso that if the supply of coal, etc., shall " decay and be 
 of no value," the rent shall not be demanded. Dat. 6 Nov., 
 [1570]. 
 
 746. Confirmation and declaration of uses by Thomas 
 Sackvyle, Lord Buckhurst, of a fine, whereby he conveyed 
 to Nicholas Thorpe the Manor of Canonbury, co. Glouc, 
 
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 such confirmation being necessary, because the said lord, 
 " by reason of his jorney in the Quenes Maiesties Embas- 
 sage into France coulde not staye for the sealing of the 
 said indenture." Dat. 20 June, 13 Eliz. [1571]. With signa- 
 ture and seal. 
 
 747. Recovery of Kington Magna Manor by Richard 
 Biddell against Henry, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 4 July, 13 
 Eliz. [1571]. Much defaced, with seal broken. 
 
 748- Inspeximus of the Inquisitio-post-mortem of 
 John, Duke of Norfolk, taken at Leicester, on Tuesd. bef. F. 
 of St. Matthias [24 Feb.] i Edw. IV. [1462]. Dat. 9 July, 
 13 Eliz. [15 71]. With great seal. 
 
 749, Letters of Qu. Elizabeth empowering Henry, 
 Lord Hunsdon, Governor of Berwick and Warden of the 
 East Marches towards Scotland, to treat with John, Earl of 
 Mar, Regent of Scotland for James VI. for the pacification 
 of Scotland.^ Dat. Richmond, 23 Oct. [1571]. With 
 great seal, broken. 
 
 750, Exemplification of the Inquisitio-post-mortem 
 of Thomas de Berkeley temp. Edw. II., whereby the lands 
 and manors of Berkeley were found to be held in fee sim- 
 ple. Dat. II Oct., 14 Eliz. [1592]. With great seal broken. 
 
 751, Exemplification at the request of Henry, Lord 
 Berkeley, of inquisitiones-post-mortem, surveys, etc., from 
 the time of Henry III. to prove certain of the Berkeley 
 Manors to be fee simple lands, etc. Dat. 6 April, 1 5 Eliz. 
 [1573]. With official seal, broken. 
 
 1 cf. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, 1569-1571. (No. 2100). Ed. 
 Crosby, 1874. 
 
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 752. Exemplification of a common recovery by- 
 George Savage, clerk, and Geoffrey Ithell, gent., against 
 John Savage, Knt., and another, of forty messuages, a 
 thousand acres of pasture land, etc., in Repton, Tickenhall 
 and Smythby, co. Derby. Dat. 28 November, 16 Eliz. 
 [1573]. With official seal. 
 
 753. Pardon from Qu. Elizabeth to Henry, Lord 
 Berkeley, for " intrusion " in the Manors of Wotton-under- 
 Edge and Symondshall. Dat. 23 June, Anno 16, [1574]. 
 With great seal. 
 
 754. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, appointing 
 Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, Keeper of Somerset House, 
 al. Strand House, with the gardens, orchards, thereto be- 
 longing, together with an annual payment of twelve pence 
 a day for his care of the said house, and six pence a day 
 for care of the gardens. Dat. Gorhambury, 31 July, Anno 
 16, [1574]. Seal missing. 
 
 755. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, empowering 
 Henry, Lord Hunsdon, Governor of Berwick, etc., " to take 
 up and provide .... the nomber and quantitie of two 
 hundreth quarters of Otes " for the relief of Berwick gar- 
 rison which " standeth verie muche unfurnished of Otes in 
 this tyme of the chaunge of victellers there." Dat. 3 1 Oct., 
 Anno 17, [1575]. With fragment of great seal. 
 
 756. " Articles indented of Agreemente had and 
 " made this xxi*-^ dale of December 1575, .... of and for 
 " the game of Coneyes in Stepingley Parke, As also for the 
 " increase of the same," between Henry Carey, Lord Huns- 
 don and George Foster, yeoman. Dat. 21 December, [1575]. 
 
 757. Warrant of Qu. Elizabeth to John Abbington, 
 Esquire, General Purveyor of victualls for the town of New- 
 
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 haven-ultra-Mare, to appear at the Court of Exchequer to 
 explain certain discrepancies in his accompts for the said 
 town, more especially in regard to the payments of Ambrose, 
 Earl of Warwick, Lieutenant of the town. Dat. Westmin- 
 ster, 26 Jan., Anno 19, [1577].. 
 
 758. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, directed to 
 Henry, Lord Hunsdon, Sir John Foster, Knt., Sir Robert 
 Constable, Knt, Sir George Bowes, Knt., Sir Wm. Hilton, 
 Knt, the Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne and others, charging 
 them to take the necessary steps against all pirates cruising 
 in the seas and havens round the county of Northumber- 
 land and Bishopric of Durham. Dat Windsor Castle, 
 14 October, Anno 19, [1577]. With fragment of great 
 seal. 
 
 "759, Commission from Qu. Elizabeth to Henr>', Lord 
 Hunsdon, Sir Francis Russell, Knt, Sir John Foster, Knt., 
 Sir Robert Constable, Knt., and others, to inquire into the 
 high price of corn caused " by reason that divers covetous 
 gready and evell disposed farmors and others ingrossers 
 and Badgers . . . having great quantyte of graine in their 
 handes and mynding for their oune private lucre and gaine 
 to make a greate scarcetye thereof not without some expec- 
 tacion by some occasions of secrete transportacion of graine 
 and other victuell out of the Realme by reason of the greate 
 prises of the same in foraighne partes growen by the inward 
 trebles their, etc.," and to examine witnesses on the subject 
 and to restrain any further exportation of corn. Dat 29 
 May, Anno 20, [1578]. Seal missing. 
 
 "760. Covenant, whereby Qu. Elizabeth consents at 
 the suit of Henry, Lord Hunsdon, to grant certain lands to 
 the value of ;^200 to Robert Newdigate, Esquire, and 
 Arthur Fountayne, gent, in exchange for various manors, etc. 
 
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 in COS. Derby and York, which Lord Hunsdon covenants 
 to grant to the Crown. Dat. 14 June, Anno 20, [1578]. 
 Signed at the top by the Queen and at the bottom by Lord 
 Burghley and Sir Walter Mildmay. Seal missing. 
 
 761. Indictment of Thomas Clarke, late of London, 
 yeoman, for forcibly entering a ship called " a flebote," 
 within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty at Cocket Island, 
 Northumberland, and feloniously stealing therefrom 40 ells 
 " del Irishe freos [frieze] " valued at 2 shillings an ell, and 
 13 " le lastes del Tarr," valued at four pounds le laste, 
 belonging to certain unknown subjects of the Queen ; and 
 of Robert Crathorne, late of Newcastle, who, in his little 
 ship, " The Swallow," aided and abetted him and feloniously 
 received the goods. Dat. 18 June, 20 Eliz. [1578]. At the 
 foot is the note " True bill." 
 
 762. Commission from Queen Elizabeth to Henry 
 Carey, Lord Hunsdon, Sir John Foster, Knt, The Mayor of 
 Newcastle for the time being, and others, with William 
 Read, Captain of Holy Island, for the apprehension of 
 pirates within the Bishopric of Durham. Appended is a 
 
 paper entitled *' Instructions for the authorising of 
 
 certain persons to be sent to the seas for the taking of 
 pyrattes haunting the coasts, etc.," with signatures of 
 William, Lord Burghley, the Earls of Warwick and Sussex, 
 Lord Hunsdon, Sir Christ. Hatton, etc. Dat. Gorhambury, 
 10 July, 20 Eliz. [1578]. 
 
 763. Indictment of Martin Fyggett, late of Walbers- 
 wick, CO. Suff., master of a vessel called " A fleebote," who, 
 on 3rd May, 21 Elizabeth, [1579] committed piracy and 
 felony by robbing certain subjects of her Majesty at Barrow 
 Haven, of 21 cakes of wax, valued at forty pounds ; and of 
 Robert Palmer, late of Yarmouth, co. Norfolk, master of the 
 
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 vessel called the St. Peter, of Yarmouth, who received the 
 said wax, and aided the said master by victualling his 
 crew, etc. 
 
 764- Commission from Qu. Elizabeth to Edward, Earl 
 of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral, Richard, Bishop of Dur- 
 ham, and others to seize pirates in the northern parts of 
 England, etc. Dat. 6 Nov., Anno 2i, [1579]. 
 
 765, 756. Letters Patent (in duplicate) of Qu. Eliza- 
 beth appointing the Lords Lincoln, Sussex, Huntingdon, 
 Warwick, Bedford, Leicester, Hunsdon, with Sir Hy. Sid- 
 ney and Christopher Hatton, Commissioners, to enquire 
 into and to take measures to improve the breed of horses, 
 and to appoint deputies in each county who will make 
 report of the number of stallions, mares, geldings, etc., and 
 will see that no horses be carried by stealth over the bor- 
 ders into Scotland, or out of the Realm. Dat. 4 March, 
 22 Eliz. [1580]. 
 
 767. Lease from the Crown for 2 1 years to Sir George 
 Carey, of Hunsdon, of all mining rights in the Manor of 
 Kidwelly, co. Carm., and in the towns of Carnewallen and 
 Iskynlen, parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the same 
 county, at an annual rent of twenty shillings. Dat. 3 1 May, 
 22 Eliz., [1580]. With seal. 
 
 768. Letters Patent of Qu. Elizabeth, appointing 
 Henry, Lord Hunsdon, Captain General of the Forces 
 levied by Henry, Lord Huntingdon, Lord President of the 
 Council, within the northern parts for the defence of the 
 borders and, if necessary, for the invasion of Scotland. Dat. 
 16 Jan., Anno 23, [1581]. With great seal, broken. 
 
 769. Lease for 21 years from the Crown to Sir George 
 Carey, Knt, Marshal of the Queen's Household, of all 
 
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 mines of coal, lead, iron and other metals, within the lord- 
 ship of Kydwelly, co. Carm., reserving only to the Crown 
 any gold, silver or copper found there. Dat. 18 March, 
 23 Eliz. [1581]. With fragment of seal 
 
 770. Indenture, whereby Walter Vaughan, of Golden 
 Grove, leases to George Carey, of Hunsdon, Knt, (as the 
 said George '* hathe latelie sustayned greate costes and 
 " charges in and abowte ye digginge, myninge, and serching 
 " for the ore of leade and other kynde of metalles," in 
 Kidwelly Manor, Carm.,) for 21 years, all the metals and 
 ores which the said George shall find there. Dat. 31 
 March, 1581. 
 
 771- Lease, for 21 years, by Richard Johnes, of Aber- 
 gwilie, CO. Carm., Esquire, to Sir George Carey, of Huns- 
 don, Knt., of all metals, ores, etc., which may be found 
 at the latter's cost, on the said Richard's lands in Llangon- 
 nor, with permission to "searche, fynde owt, digge and 
 " open the earthe for the ores, mettalls and thynges afore- 
 " said .... and to drayne and to make soughe or soughes, 
 " gutter or gutters, drayne or draynes, etc." Dat. 20 Sept., 
 23 Eliz. [1 581]. 
 
 772. Grant from William Webbe, of Dursley, gent, to 
 Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, of " the manred,^ rule, gover- 
 " ment, leading and commandment of all his servauntes, 
 " tenauntz, resyauntz and inhabitauntz dwelling and inhab- 
 " iting within his Manor and Lordshippe of Dursley .... 
 " in the service of her Majestie," etc. Dat. 4 November, 
 22 Eliz. [1581]. With small red seal. 
 
 • Manred, curious survival of ihe Anglo-Saxon manroed i.e. vassalage. 
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 773. Inquisition held at Malvern by a jury of 
 thirteen, who find that there is within the Queen's Forest or 
 Chace of Malvern a " myne of Tynne " on a hill called 
 Malvern Hill, at a place called Baldenswyche, of the annual 
 value of 24 shillings, and containing 24 acres of mountain 
 land. Dat. 20 Apr., 24 Eliz. [1582]. 
 
 774. Articles of Agreement between Henry, Lord 
 Hunsdon, and John Gardyner, of Stowmarket, gent, 
 relating to the Manor of CoUumbeyn Hall al. Thorney 
 Collombers, in Stowmarket, the annual value of which is 
 detailed in an accompanying schedule. Dat. 27 May, 
 24 Eliz. [1582]. 
 
 775. Deed of sale from Richard Lee, of Hooke Norton, 
 CO, Oxon, Esquire, to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, K.G., 
 of the Manor of Hooke Norton. Dat. i June, 24 Eliz. 
 [1582]. 
 
 776. Lease, for 21 years, from Richard [Barnes], 
 Bishop of Durham, to Sir George Carey, Knt., of several 
 messuages, etc., " lying on the southe side of Wear in Stan- 
 hopp Parke in Weardale," at an annual rent of thirty-seven 
 pounds, " Provided alwaies that every inhabitant dwelling 
 in or upon any of the said tenements, shalbe redye in time 
 of warr for the Queue's service, to serve hir ma*^'® and hir 
 successors w**' horse and armor sufficient according to the 
 custome of the said county of Durham And shall also 
 helpe, cherishe, mainteine and suffer all suche deere as shall 
 
 hereafter come upon any of ther severall tenements 
 
 quietly to depasture and feed without lett," etc. Dat. 15 
 Feb., 25 Eliz. [1583]. With episcopal seal, broken. 
 
 777. Settlement of a controversy by Sir Thomas 
 Gawdye and William Ayloff, Justices of Common Pleas, 
 
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 between Henry, Lord Berkeley, and Edward Barwell, D.D., 
 Master, and the Fellows, etc., of Christ's College, Cam- 
 bridge, relating to the filling up of the living of Kegworth, 
 on the death of Edward Hawford, parson, particularly as to 
 whether the two clerks, nominated by the College, should 
 attend personally on the said Lord Berkeley for the better 
 selection of one of them for presentation to the said living. 
 Dat. 28 Oct., 25 Eliz. [1583]. 
 
 778. Lease, for 21 years, from Thomas Lovett, of 
 Astewell, co. Northampton, to Raphe King, citizen and 
 grocer of London, of the Manor of South Newnton, co. 
 Oxon. Rent ;^8 13s. 46. Dat. 29 Sept. [1584]. 
 
 779. Warrant from Edward, Earl of Lincoln, Lord 
 High Admiral to Sir George Carey, Captain of the Isle of 
 Wight, to restore to her owner, Thomas Portauquen, of 
 Auraye, in France, a vessel called The Unicorn, which had 
 been captured by William Fludde, Charles Jones, and 
 others, well-known pirates, and recaptured by her Majesty's 
 fleet, with all her equipment of guns, etc., her cargo of 
 salt, etc., of which an inventory is appended. Dat. 5 Sept., 
 [1584]. Annexed also is the acquittance by Thomas Por- 
 tauquen, merchant, to Sir G. Carey and John Smyth, gent.. 
 Customer of the port of Southampton, for the delivery of 
 the said vessel. Dat. 8 Jan., 1585 [6]. 
 
 780. Deed of sale from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
 and Sir George Carey, his son, to Thomas Foster, of St. 
 John's Street, co. Midd., gent., of the wardship and marriage 
 of John Collyn, son and heir of Thomas Collyn, late of 
 Rochford, co. Essex. Dat. 8 Jan., 27 Eliz. [1585]. 
 
 781. " A FULL and perfecte inventarie indented of a 
 " barque of late broughte to the Isle of Wighte by William 
 
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 " Vaughan and others his adherentes, pirates, and there by 
 " them lefte and of all the apparell and furnyture to the 
 *' saide barque apperteyninge taken the xxvii*'^ daie of 
 " January, 1584." 
 
 782. Commission from Edward, Earl of Lincoln, Lord 
 High Admiral to Sir George Carew, Captain of the Isle of 
 Wight, to appoint four men to take the inventory of the 
 contents of a French vessel wrecked off the Isle of Wio-ht. 
 The inventory is appended and contains the following item 
 only : " one hundred fourscore and sixe bagges of woade 
 greatelie perished and decaied as well as in quantitie as in 
 qualitie and goodnes by reason of the beatinge of them in 
 the seas and torne on the rockes." Dat. 13 Jan., 1584 [5], 
 The Admiralty seal is missing. 
 
 "783. Release from Thomas Aldersey to Henry Carey, 
 Lord Hunsdon, of the Manors of Hawes and Mire Hall, co. 
 Norf , which the said Lord had two years before mortgaged 
 to the said Thomas. Dat. 17 March, 27 Eliz. [1585]. 
 
 "784. Assignment by Sir James Croft to Sir George 
 Carey, Knt, William Mcux, and Thomas Fleming, of the 
 powers granted to him by the Queen to search for lands in 
 CO. Southampton, concealed or detained from the Crown, 
 with copy of the Queen's grant. Dat. 12 July, 27 Eliz. 
 [1585]. Signed and sealed. 
 
 785. Warrant from Charles, Lord Howard, of Effing- 
 ham, Lord High Admiral, to Sir George Carey, Captain of 
 the Isle of Wight, to stay all vessels " as well English as 
 strangers," in the ports within his jurisdiction that have not 
 a special licence from the Admiralty to the contrary, and 
 to make a return to the Court of Admiralty of all such 
 vessels, etc. Dat. London, 5 August, [1585]. 
 
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 736. Letters Patent of Charles, Lord Howard, of 
 Effingham, K.G., Lord High Admiral, etc., to Sir George 
 Carew, Vice-Admiral of Southampton, recalling the letters 
 of reprisal of John Crooke, Richard Goddard and others, on 
 account of the great enormities and abuses done by their 
 ships "uppon the shippes goods and subjectes of such princes 
 states and potentates as are in good league and ametie with 
 Her Majesty contrarye to their said letters and commys- 
 sions." Dat. 2 Feb., 28 Eliz. [1586]. Seal missing. 
 
 ^S"?. Commission to George Carye, Knt., Captain of 
 the Isle of Wight, Thomas West, the elder, Thomas 
 Worseley, Francis Cotton, William Mewes, John Dingeley 
 and Richard Cotton, to enquire into the condition of the 
 Isle of Wight, *' of late yeres greately decayed," and es- 
 pecially to enquire " what groundes whereuppon howses of 
 habitacion heretofore have stood which to this daye kepeth 
 their watche in course of the beacons which are nowe 
 utterly overthrowne and decayed and are comonly called 
 voydes, etc." Dat. 19 Feb., 28 Eliz. [1586]. With great 
 seal. 
 
 •788. Deed of sale from George Peckham, of Denham, 
 from £16 I3sh. 4d., to Sir Hy. Carey, K.G., Lord Huns- 
 don, of the brewing vessels in the capital messuage called 
 " Denham Place," co. Bucks., viz., " one furnace with a 
 copper vessell, Thre Breweinge Tonnes one Cowlbacke 
 made of Dell Boarde with an Underbacke as they .stand 
 arid are nowe fyxed and sett in the Brewhouse at Denham." 
 Dat. 22 March, [1586]. Signed " G. Peckham." 
 
 789. Acquittance by Michael Lymon, of Middle- 
 bourg, in Zeeland, on behalf of himself and other Dutch 
 merchants, owners of the ship Pelican, of Emden, 120 
 tons, to George Raymonde, Captain of The Swiftsure, 
 
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 (who had captured the said vessel Pelican, under the 
 impression that it was a Spanish vessel) for the recovery of 
 the cargo of loi tons of figs and 12 hogsheads of oil, and 
 ;^50 indemnity for loss and damage. Dat. 9 April, 28 Eliz. 
 [1586]. 
 
 790. Special Licence issued by John [Whitgift], 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, for the marriage of George 
 Sherly, of Astwell, co. Northt, Esquire, to Frances, daughter 
 of Henry, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 12 Feb., 1586 [7]. With 
 official seal, broken. 
 
 791. Mortgage by Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, to 
 Thomas Aldersey and Nicholas Moseley, citizens of 
 London, for ;^i8oo, of the Manors of Hawes and More 
 Hall, CO. Norf. Dat. 4 March, 29 Eliz. [1587]. 
 
 792. Exemplification of an Exteht of the lands and 
 possessions of Maurice de Berkeley, made at Gloucester on 
 his death in 1280. Dat. 15 June, 29 Eliz. [1587]. With 
 great seal. 
 
 793. Warrant from Charles, Lord Howard, of Effing- 
 ham, Lord High Admiral, to enquire into a complaint made 
 by Barnabas Agasso and Oliver Garlott, of Morbian, in 
 Brittany, masters of the ship called The Peryn, of Mor- 
 bian, that they had been attacked by an English ship 
 between Dover and Calais, and deprived of their merchan- 
 dize, their guns and 600 French Crowns. Dat. 19 June, 
 [1587]. 
 
 794. Commission, "out of the Exchequer," to John 
 Carey, Master of the Household, Governor of the Isle of 
 Wight, and others, to make enquiry and to take depositions 
 from witnesses, etc., as to what lands belonging to the 
 Crown have been detained or encroached upon in the Isle 
 of Wight. Dat. 12 Feb., 30 EHz. [1588]. With Exchequer 
 seal (broken). 
 
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 '795- Commission from Sir George Carey, Knt, Captain 
 of the Isle of Wight, to Henry Locke, gentleman, and 
 Richard Rigges as Captain and Mate of the Barque called 
 The Michael, proceeding against the King of Spain. Dat. 
 Carisbrooke Castle, 1st April, 1588. 
 
 796. Commission from Qu. Elizabeth to Henry Carey, 
 Lord Hunsdon, to be " Lieutenant, Principal Captain, and 
 Governour of and over all our army levied and to be levied 
 and assembled near unto us for the defence and surety of 
 our own Royal person against the attemptes and powers of 
 any manner [of] foreign forces or any the malicious and 
 traitorous enterprises of any our rebellious or undutiful 
 subjects," with a proviso that nothing in the commission 
 shall derogate from the powers given to the Earl of Leices- 
 ter, " authorized to lead an army to withstand the landing 
 by sea and invasion of our realm by any foreign forces." 
 Dat. 20 July, [1588]. Signed at top "Elizabeth," with 
 great seal in brown wax (good impression). 
 
 797. Confirmation by William Heydon, of Bacons- 
 thorpe, Knt., of the grant by Eleanor Harward, widow of 
 Clement Harward, to Thomas Harward, of the Manor of 
 Alburgh, CO. Norf, and lands in Alburgh, Wickmer, Mat- 
 lask, Barningham, Horeinge, etc., with power of attorney 
 for livery of the same. Dat. 20 Sept., 30 Eliz. [1588]. 
 
 "798. Indenture of instructions and orders given by 
 Sir George Carey, Governor of the Isle of Wight, to the 
 masters, mates and quarter-masters of the Marlion, the 
 Musket, and the Gabriel proceeding to the coast of Spain 
 on active service against the Spaniards. Amongst the 
 instructions, thirty-two in number, are the following : — 
 
 " Yow shall neither use nor willinglie permitt to be used, 
 swearinge, takinge in vayne the name of the Lord, filthie 
 
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 speeche, dishonest communication nor anie uncivill con- 
 versation which maie bringe the heavie displeasure of 
 God against you, or if he shall give you victorie over your 
 enemies, you shall not use anie crueltie but as you shalbe 
 forced thereunto for your owne defence.'^ 
 
 " Yf it shall happen that anie of you shall make any 
 chase in the nighte you are to agree that after your lightes 
 being shewed, there shalbe a token given by making a 
 false fier." 
 
 " Whosoever shall first escrie any saile out of the toppe 
 or elsewhere that is lawful prise shall have xx^" to be paide 
 him in money or the valewe thereof out of the same shippe." 
 
 " When you shall fighte with anie of your enemies 
 and that men shalbe encouraged to be forward in the 
 enteringe, there shalbe geven to tenne of them x^'" that is 
 xx8* a piece at the captain's and master's discrecion to suche 
 as are best worthie of it." 
 
 "Yf you shall winne anie birdes, beastes or straunge 
 thinges not usuallie scene, you shall do your best endevor 
 to commytt them to the custodie of some that wilbe care- 
 full of the well keeping and bringing them home." 
 Temp. Eliz. 
 
 799. Commission from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
 to the Justices Itinerant of Royal Forests this side the 
 Trent, to view a wood called " The Great Frith " in Barking, 
 with the Commissioners' report that they found 6 or 7 acres 
 of wood "of a great age," which might be cut without 
 damage of " verdure or hunting." [viridis aut venacionis]. 
 Dat. IS Jan. [1590]. 
 
 800. Appointment by Robert Cutler, sen., and Robert 
 Snellinge, Bailiffs, and the Burgesses and Commonalty of 
 
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 Ipswich, of Henry [Carey], Lord Hunsdon, to be Chief 
 Seneschall of the said town. Dat. Ipswich, 28 September, 
 32 Eliz. [1590]. With the corporate seal. 
 
 801. Commission to Henry, Lord Hunsdon, Lord 
 Chamberlain of the Queen's Household, Sir Thomas Hen- 
 nage, Vice-Chamberlain, Master John Fortescue, Under- 
 Treasurer of the Exchequer, and William Neale, Auditor 
 of the same, empowering them to examine Nicholas Pigeon, 
 Executor of the late John Pigeon. Keeper of the Queen's 
 Standing Wardrobe at the Tower, and to take view of the 
 stock of the wardrobe stuffe, to dispose of the " olde worne 
 and unserviceable stuffe being so meane that the same is 
 unmete to remaine anye longer in charge for infecting of 
 better stuffe," and to give the said Nicholas due acquittance 
 for the accompt. Dat. 21 April, 33 Eliz. [1591]. With 
 great seal, broken. 
 
 802. Deed of sale from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
 and Sir George Carey, Knight, to Thomas Foster, of the 
 wardship and marriage of Mary and Johan Collyn, sisters 
 of John Collyn, deceased, son and heir of Thomas Collyn, 
 late of Rochford, co. Essex, Dat. i Sept., 33 Eliz, [1591]. 
 
 803. Settlement of suit between John Crocke, mer- 
 chant, of Southampton, owner of " The Lyon of Hampton," 
 John Okers, Captain of the same, and the other officers of 
 the ship, and Sir George, Carey, Knt., Captain of the Isle 
 of Wight, etc., relating to the ship or prize called " our 
 Ladye of Viana in Portugal," laden with India or Sancta 
 Domingo Hides, which Sir George alleges was captured by 
 his ship, The Swallow, but which the former parties 
 declare is the prize of their ship The Lyon, " who seased 
 upon her after she had yealded unto the Swallow," the 
 
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 said owner captain, etc., of the Lyon, consenting to release 
 all claim on condition of receiving ;^200 from Sir G. Carey. 
 Dat. 10 Sept. [1591]. 
 
 801. Interrogatories put by the Bailiff and Con- 
 stables of Newport, Isle of Wight, to four Spaniards who 
 were taken prisoners off Havana in their ship The Senora 
 Rosarn, laden with sugar and hides, by an English vessel 
 called The Swallow ; with their replies. Dat. 22 Oct., 
 33 Eliz. [iS9il- 
 
 805. Commission from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
 Chief Justice Itinerant of the Royal Forests, etc., this side 
 Trent, to the verdurers of Rockingham Forest, to certify for 
 the cutting and clearing of thirty-five acres of woodland for 
 Sir William Hatton, Knt. The verdurers' certificate is 
 attached. Dat. 20, 24 Dec, 34 Eliz. [1591]. 
 
 806. InspEXIMUS made by request of Richard Thomas, 
 Bailiff of Henry, Lord Berkeley, of a book relating to 
 names of towns made in the time of Edward II. for the 
 Remembrancer of the Treasury, " in as far as it refers to the 
 names of the towns, boroughs and hundreds of co. Glouces- 
 ter." Dat. 7 Feb., 34 Eliz. [1592]. With exchequer seal. 
 
 807. Appointment by the Mayor, Bailiffs and Com- 
 monalty of Oxford, of Henry, Lord Hunsdon, to be High 
 Steward of the City of Oxford for his lifetime, with grant 
 of the usual salary of ;^5 yearly. Dat. 2 March, 34 Eliz. 
 [1592]. With the city seal. 
 
 808. Licence from the Crown to Henry, Lord Wynd- 
 sor, to alienate the Manor in Crampford le Mote [Cranford], 
 CO. Midd., to Andrew Wyndsor, Esquire. Dat. i April, 34 
 Eliz. [1592]. With great seal, broken. 
 
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 809. Commission to Arthur, Lord Grey de Wilton, 
 K.G., Thomas Chaloner, Knt, William Fleetevvood, ser- 
 jeant-at-law, George Throkmerton, Esquire, and Edward 
 Tirrell, Esquire, to enquire into the state of Whaddon 
 Chace, Co. Bucks. Dat. 12 June, 34 Eliz. [1592]. Signed 
 by Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, as Chief Justice of the 
 Queen's Forests on this side Trent. With fragment of 
 great seal. 
 
 810. Writ for the execution of a judgment in chancery 
 in the suit between Henry, Lord Berkeley, and John 
 Zouche, Esquire, with Marie his wife, daughter of the said 
 Lord Berkeley, concerning the manor of, and mining rights 
 in Codnor, co. Derby. Dat. 14 June, 34 Eliz. [1592]. With 
 seal, defaced. 
 
 811. Inquest held at Whaddon, co. Bucks., before 
 Arthur, Lord Grey, of Wilton, and other special commis- 
 sioners and a jury, touching offences and other misdemean- 
 ours within Her Majesty's chace of Whaddon. Dat. 13 
 Sept., 34 Eliz. [1592]. 
 
 812. Lease, for 21 years, from John, Archbishop, and 
 the Dean and Chapter of York to Charles, Lord Howard, 
 Lord High Admiral, of York House, Battersea, co. Surrey, 
 " nowe being in great decaye for lack of reparacions and 
 like shortlie moste parte thereof to falle down," etc., at an 
 annual rent of forty shillings, on condition that the said 
 Lord Admiral shall repair the house within four years. 
 Dat. 16 July, 35 Eliz., [1593]. With signature of the Arch- 
 bishop and with the Archiepiscopal seal, broken — the 
 chapter seal is missing. 
 
 813. Deed of sale from Walter Blount, " of the mar- 
 shalsey in the county of Surrey," to Sir George Carey, Knt. 
 of the site of the dissolved monastery of Clerkenwell at a 
 
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 yearly rent of 40 marks, and a payment of ;^20 on entry, 
 with this proviso " that if the Catholique Romishe religion 
 shall hereafter be att any tyme established within this 
 Realme of England by the lawes of the land," that then the 
 said Walter shall retake possession of the said property. 
 Dat. I Apr., 36 Eliz. [1594]. 
 
 Sl'l. Licence from the Crown to Henry, Lord Wynde- 
 sor, to alienate to Thomas Crompton, Esquire, and Mary 
 his wife, the Manor of Cranford, co. Middlesex. Dat. 2 
 April, 36 Eliz. [1594]. With great seal. 
 
 815. Release from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, to 
 William Drywood, son and heir of Thomas Drywood, late 
 of Great Warley, co. Essex, yeoman, of the wardship of the 
 said William, and of so much of the Manor of Franks al. 
 Warley Francke, and of Smythe's lands in Baynham, as 
 descended to the latter on the decease of his father. Dat. 
 10 Dec, 37 Eliz. [1594]. 
 
 816. Exemplification of Domesday for the Hundred 
 of Berkeley, and the Lordship of Bosham, co. Sussex, and 
 of records " Quo warranto " for the Hundred of Portbury, 
 CO. Som., the parsonage and liberty of Melton Mowbray, 
 the liberty of Tetbury, etc. Dat. 7 Nov., 37 Eliz. [1595]. 
 With seal, broken. 
 
 81'7. Deed of sale from Henry, Lord Hunsdon, to 
 Lady Katharine Haywarde, widow of Sir Rowland Hay- 
 warde, of the wardship and marriage of her son George 
 Hayward, which the said Lord Hunsdon acquired by grant 
 from the Crown. Dat. 31 Jan., 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 
 818. Deed of sale from Walter Windsor, Esquire, and 
 Edward Windsor, his son, to Thomas Crompton, of London, 
 Esquire, of Cranford Manor. Dat. i March, 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 
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 819. Licence from the Crown to Thomas Crompton, 
 Esquire, and Mary his wife, to alienate to William Flete- 
 wood, Esquire, and Jane, his wife, the Manor of Cranford. 
 Dat. 2 March, 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 
 820. Writ from Charles Howard, Baron Effingham, 
 K.G., Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, etc., to all Vice-Admirals, 
 Sheriffs, etc., for the arrest and attachment of the ship 
 " Pilgrim,'^ of Newport, Isle of Wight, and of Richard 
 James, of Newport, merchant. Dat. 14 March, [1596.] 
 
 821. Lease, for 1000 years, from Thomas Crompton, 
 of London, Esquire, to Sir Thomas Chalener, of Steeple 
 Claydon, co. Bucks., Knt., William Fletewood, of Missen- 
 don, CO. Bucks., James Pemberton, of Londv^n, goldsmith, 
 and Anthony NichoUs, of Paddington, gent., of the Manor 
 of Cranford, late belonging to the dissolved monastery of 
 Thame. Dat. 26 March, 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 
 822. Deed of apprenticeship of Robert Johnson, son 
 of John Johnson, late one of the Queen's Musicians, as 
 " allowes or covenaunt servaunt," to Sir George Carey, Knt., 
 for the term of 7 years, " duering all which said terme of 
 seaven yeares the saide Robert Johnson doth covenaunt 
 and graunt unto his said master good true and faithfull and 
 dilligent service — hurte to his said master he shall not doe 
 nor suffer to be donn which he maie lawfully lett — fornica- 
 tion he shall not commit — matreymoney during the said 
 terme he shall not contract — at the cards, dice or any other 
 unlawfull games he shall not play — with the goods of his 
 owne or other mens he shall not marchandize — from the 
 service of his said master dale or night he shall not absent 
 
 himself The said Sir George Carye doth covenaunt 
 
 and graunt by theis presents to teach and enstruct or cause 
 to be taught and enstructed his said servaunt in th'arte of 
 
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 musicke, fynding and allowinge unto his said servaunt 
 sufficient and competent meate, drink, apparell, beddinge 
 and washinge and all thinges to him needefull and con- 
 venient dureing the said terme, And also to give unto his 
 said servaunt every yere during the said terme one penie in 
 the name of his sallary and wagis. And in th'ende of the 
 said terme doble apparrell both lynnen and wollen." Dat. 
 29 March, 38 Elizabeth, [1596]. 
 
 823. Recovery by William Mathewe and Edmund 
 Foster, against Thomas Lovett, Esquire, of the Manor of 
 Dorsyngton. Dat. 24 Jan., 39 Eliz. [1597]. With official 
 seal, broken. 
 
 82^. Deed of sale from Sir George Carey to Anne 
 Waller, widow of Richard Waller, gent,, of the wardship of 
 Thomas Waller, son and heir of the late Richard Waller, 
 late of Leigh, co. Kent, gent. Dat. 5 May, 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 
 825. INSPEXIMUS of record of an action by writ of 
 attaynt by James, Lord Berkeley, [Easter Term, 31 Hen. 
 VI.] to prove his title to the Berkeley Manors. Dat. 15 
 June, 39 Eliz. [i597]- 
 
 826. Deed of sale from Henry, Lord Hunsdon, to 
 Mathye Rudd, of Chelmsford, of the wardship and marriage 
 of John Coker, son and heir of John Coker, of co. Suff. Dat. 
 27 June, 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 
 82*7. Exemplification at the request of Anne, Coun- 
 tess of Warwick, of the Charter of King John, confirming 
 the grants of Berkeley, etc., to Robert, son of Maurice de 
 Berkeley. Dat. 13 Oct., 39 Eliz. [1597]. With great seal, 
 (fine impression). 
 
 828. Exemplification, at the request of John Smyth, 
 gent., of the following Records : 
 
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 1. Inquiry after the death of Maurice de Berkeley, for Uley 
 
 Manor, 21 Edw. III. 
 
 2. Inquiry into the title of John Sergeant's lands at Stone, 
 47 Edw. III. 
 
 3. Inquiry after the death of Ela de Bradeston's lands at 
 
 Bradstone, Stinchcombe, Stancombe, etc., 1 1 Hen. IV. 
 
 Dat. 22 Feb., 40 Eliz. [1598]. With great seal, broken. 
 
 829. Exemplification, at the instance of Henry, 
 Lord Berkeley, of the following Records : 
 
 1. King Henry VIII.'s commission and schedule for the 
 
 anticipation of the payment of the subsidy granted 
 Anno 1 5, for expenses of the war in France. 
 
 2. The collection of the first payment of Ihe subsidy 
 
 granted lO Hen. VIII. 
 
 3. The collection of the second payment of the same. 
 
 4. The collection of the subsidy granted 32 Hen. VIII. 
 
 5. The collection of the subsidy granted 34, 35 Hen. VIII. 
 
 Dat. 30 June, 40 Eliz. [1598]. Seal defaced. Endorsed 
 " Theis fyve Recordes out of the Exchequer prove the issue 
 for the plaintiff directly." 
 
 830. Mortgage by George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
 Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and John Seyntleger, 
 Esquire, to the Crown, for ;^io, of the Manors of Ayles- 
 bury, Twiford Park, Newport Pagnall, Little Linford and 
 Much Linford, co. Bucks , and Old Swinford, Stourbridge, 
 Hagley, Broome and Cradley, co. Worcester. Dat. 31 
 August, 40 Eliz. [1598]. With signatures and seals of the 
 mortgagors. 
 
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 831. Presentment of the Jury for co. Glouc, that 
 James Bridge, of Wyke, in Berkeley, and John Saunders, 
 labourers, forcibly broke into and entered New Park, in 
 Hamme, and hunted the deer with nets, killing and carry- 
 ing off " a doe and a fawn " contrary to the statute of 
 3 Edw. I. Dat. 2 Feb., 41 Eliz. [1599]. 
 
 832. Assignment by George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
 to Thomas Smythe, and William Craven, Aldermen, Bap- 
 tiste Hickes and Edward Barnes, citizens and mercers of 
 the city of London, of all rights and privileges granted to 
 the Warden and Company of Tallow-Chandlers by letters 
 patent, dated 19 Eliz., for the searching, viewing, testing, etc. 
 of the following articles : soap, vinegar, barreled butter, oils 
 and hops, manufactured in or imported into the city of 
 London, and condemning of what may be found corrupt or 
 adulterated "with tallowe or other corrupt things." Dat. 
 18 Apr., 42 Eliz. [1600]. 
 
 833. Specl\l Livery to George, Lord Hunsdon, of 
 the lands of his late father, Henry, Lord Hunsdon. Dat. 
 3 May, 42 Eliz. [1600]. 
 
 834. Appointment by William Blake, Bailiff, and the 
 Burgesses of Andover, co. Southampton, of George Carey, 
 Lord Hunsdon, as Steward of the Manor and Hundred of 
 Andover, with a salary of 40 shillings a year, payable out 
 of the issues of the said manor. Dat. 4 May, 43 Eliz. 
 [1601]. With the common seal of the town, in brown wax, 
 on a mount a lion statant guardant beneath a tree. 
 
 835* Grant by Qu. Elizabeth to Gideon Amondesham 
 al. Awnsham and George Needier, of the Manor of Cran- 
 ford, CO. Midd. Dat. l^ Dec, Anno 45 [1602]. With great 
 seal. 
 
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 836. Exemplification, at the request of Michael 
 Stanhope, Esquire, Groom of the Queen's Privy Chamber, 
 of the following Records: viz., deeds of entail,with remainder 
 in the Crown, of the Manors of Doningworth and Staverton, 
 CO. Suff,, tempp. Edw. I.-Hen. IV. — Writ ad quod damp- 
 num for common of pasture and heath within the hundred 
 of Isleworth, co. Midd., with the Return of the same writ. 
 29 Edw. I. — Confirmation of grant made by John Nevill to 
 the Priory of Hounslow, of the Manor of Bedfont, co. Midd. 
 7 Edw. II. Dat. 14 Jan., 45 Eliz. [1603]. 
 
 SS"?. Deed of sale from George, Lord Hunsdon, to 
 John Muschampe, of Claydons, co. Essex, of the wardship 
 and marriage of Robert Noble, son and heir of Robert 
 Noble, late of Claydons. Dat. 4 Feb., 45 Eliz. [1603]. 
 
 838. Grant from the Crown to George Thorpe, Richard 
 Webbe and John Mathieu and their heirs in perpetuity, of 
 the Manor of Canonbury, co. Glouc, at an annual rent of 
 forty-seven shillings and fivepence. Dat. Westminster, 
 21 Feb., 45 Eliz. [1603]. With great seal. 
 
 839. Licence from the Crown to Sir William Flete- 
 wood, Knt, Gideon Amondesham al. Awnsham and George 
 Needier, to alienate to Sir Roger Aston, Knt., the Manor 
 of Cranford. Dat. i Sept., 2 James I. [1604.] With great 
 seal. 
 
 8^0* Grant in perpetuity from James I. to Sir Roger 
 Aston, Knt., of the Manor of Cranford, co. Midd. Dat. 
 24 Dec, Anno 2 [1604]. With great seal. 
 
 841. Acquittance by John Thomas, of Newport, Isle 
 of Wight, gent., to Elizabeth, widow of the late Sir George 
 Carey, Lord Hunsdon, Chamberlain of the Household, for 
 £40 in payment of all demands of the said John Thomas, 
 
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244 Berkeley Castle 
 
 " for divers employments wherein the said Lord Chamber- 
 layne imployed the said John Thomas about certayne forti- 
 fications at the Castle of Carisbrooke in the saide Isle of 
 Wight, and for divers Attendaunces before the Lords of the 
 Pryvie Councell of the late Queene Elizabeth of famous 
 memory." Dat i February, 1604 [5]. With small red seal. 
 
 842. Exemplification of an action brought by Henry, 
 Lord Berkeley, against William Kymorley al. Cooke, for 
 trespass and killing of a buck in Mickelwood Chace in 
 Alkington, near Berkeley, on 9th July, 1588. Dat. 26 Nov., 
 3 James I. [1605]. With seal, broken. 
 
 843. Letters of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of 
 Christ's College, Cambridge, giving the names of Edward 
 Barwell, M.A., and Mathew Warde, M.A., Fellows of the 
 College for nomination of one of them by Henry, Lord 
 Berkeley, for presentation to the living of Kegworth by the 
 College. Dat. 3 July, 4 James I. [1606]. With seal of the 
 College, rubbed. 
 
 844. Nomination by Henry, Lord Berkeley, to the 
 Master, Fellows, etc., of Christ's College, Cambridge, of 
 Edward Barwell for presentation to the living of Kegworth, 
 CO. Leic. Dat. 18 July [1606]. Copy. 
 
 845. Letters Patent of James I., granting to Lady 
 Arabella Stuart any profits or issues arising from the sale 
 or disposal of the manors and lands in the County of Essex, 
 of which the late Qu. Elizabeth was lawfully seased cither 
 in her own right or by conveyance from John Seyntleger, 
 Esquire. Dat. 9 March, Anno 4 [1607]. Paper Copy. 
 
 846. Licence, from the Crown, to Sir Roger Aston, 
 Knt., to alienate to Sir John Stanhope, Knt., Sir Thomas 
 
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 Aston, Knt., Thomas Ireland, Esquire, and Lawrence 
 Wright, gent., the Manor of Cranford. Dat. i Apr., 5 
 James I. [1607]. 
 
 847- Exemplification of an action in Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas brought by Maurice Berkeley against John 
 Wenlok, Esquire, Nicholas Daunt and John Howehell, late 
 of Wotton-under-Edge, for an assault and false imprison- 
 ment suffered at their hands at Stanley St. Leonard's, 
 15 Edw. IV. [1475-6]. Dat. 22 Apr., 5 Jas. I. [1608]. With 
 seal. 
 
 818, 849. Exemplification, in duplicate, of an action 
 in King's Bench brought by Thomas Berkeley against 
 Nicholas Daunt, late of Wotton, and John Daunt, late of 
 Wotton, and others for trespass in 15 Edw. IV. [1475-6]. 
 Dat. 4 May, 5 Jas. I. [1608]. With seals. 
 
 850. Inspeximus of depositions, etc., in a suit between 
 Sir Richard Williams, al. Cromwell, and Richard Byriate, of 
 Pyrton, co. Glouc, and others, fishermen, concerning the 
 right to a certain fishery in the Severn called The Gale, 
 which the said Richard claims to hold by grant from the 
 Crown. Dat. 7 July, 5 Jas. I. [1607]. With seal, defaced, 
 
 851. Exemplification of the interrogatories on the 
 part of the defendant, John Adams and others, in a lawsuit 
 brought by Sir Richard Williams, al. Cromwell, Knt, con- 
 cerning'rights in a fishery in the R. Severn, on the Berkeley 
 lands. Dat. Westminster, 7 July, 5 Jas. I. [1607]. 
 
 852. Licence from King James I. to Robert Sidney, 
 Viscount Lisle, Barbara, his wife, and William, their son and 
 heir apparent, to Henry Lord Berkeley, and Thomas Ber- 
 keley, Knt., to alienate to William Dutton and John Smyth 
 the manors of Wotton, Simondshall, Cam, Hinton, Coaley, 
 Arlingham, etc. Dat. i Sep. Anno 7 [1609]. With great 
 seal. 
 
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 853. Licence from James I. to William Button and 
 John Smyth to alienate the manor of Wotton to Thomas 
 Spencer, Esquire, and Thomas Ligon, gent. Dat. Westmin- 
 ster, I July, Anno 10 [1612]. With great seal. 
 
 854. Exemplification of fine from William Button 
 and John Smyth to Thomas Spencer and Thomas Lygon, 
 of Wotton Foreign and other manors, co. Glouc. Bat. 9 
 Oct. 10 James I. [1612]. Much defaced. With fragment 
 of seal. 
 
 855. Injunction to John Arundell, James ClifTord, 
 Esquires, Thomas Luffingham, Giles Addys and others to 
 observe a decree in chancery given against them as defend- 
 ants in a suit to make good their title to the ground in 
 Slimbridge, called the New Warth. Bat. 3 May, 1 1 James I. 
 [161 3]. With great seal, chipped. 
 
 856. Letters of administration to Elizabeth, widow of 
 Sir Thomas Berkeley, Knt, late of Callowdon, in Coventry, 
 CO. Warw. Bat. 12 Feb. 161 3[4]. With seal of the Pre- 
 rogative Court of Canterbury (broken), 
 
 85*7. Licence from James I. to Gilbert Houghton, Knt. 
 and Margaret, his wife, and Samuel Peyton, Bart., to alienate 
 to Elizabeth Berkeley, widow, the fourth part of Cranford 
 manor. Bat. i March, Anno 14 [161 7]. With great seal. 
 
 858. Petition of the "Baylie Burgesses and other 
 inhabitants " of the Borough of Tetbury, to [George, Lord 
 Berkeley] concerning " the liberties, privileages, customes 
 and usages antiently used and accustomed " within the 
 said Borough and Manor of Tetbury [therein recited] ; 
 [1617-1625I 
 
 859. Special livery granted to Sir Gilbert Haughton, 
 Bart, and Margaret his wife, and others, as coheirs of Sir 
 Roger Aston, Knt. Bat. 13 June, 16 James I. [1618]. With 
 great seal. 
 
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 830, Nomination by Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas 
 Berkeley, Knt., " in the right of her son [George] the Lo. 
 Berkeley " of Joseph Cranford, " borne in Warrwickshire," * 
 who had been recommended to her as " a towardly youth, 
 and sufficiently learned to enter into the studie of Logick " 
 for admission to a scholarship at Christ's College, Cam- 
 bridge. Dat. 13 June, 1621. Copy. 
 
 861. Licence to George, Lord Berkeley, to travel 
 " beyond the seas with six servants and forty pounds in 
 money, for one year, on condition that he travel not in any 
 country that is not in league or amity with England nor use 
 the company of anie Jesuit, Seminarie or otherwise evill 
 affected persons" to the State. Dat. 31 July, 2 Charles L 
 [1626]. Signed at the top " Charles R."; with paper signet. 
 
 862. Certificate of ordination by John, Bishop of 
 Oxford, of George Wilson, M.A., to Deacon's orders. Dat. 
 24 Sept. 1626. With signature ; and seal, broken. 
 
 863. Certificate of ordination by Richard, Bishop of 
 Oxford, of George Wilson, M.A., to Priest's orders. Dat. 
 I Dec. 1628. With signature and seal. 
 
 864. Licence from the Crown to George, Lord Ber- 
 keley, to alienate to Elizabeth Berkeley, widow, the manor, 
 borough, hundred and castle of Berkeley, with dependant 
 manors, and the manor of Melton Mowbray, co. Leic. Dat. 
 I July, 6 Charles I. [1630]. 
 
 865. Licence from the Crown to Elizabeth, Lady 
 Berkeley, widow, to alienate to Sir Robert Coke, Knt., John 
 Smyth and John Curnocke the manor of Cranford, to the 
 use of George Berkeley, nephew of the said Lady Berkeley. 
 Dat. 10 Jan., 10 Charles I. [1635]. With great seal, broken. 
 
 1 The Indenture of 7 Henry VIII. says that the nominee shall be of the 
 County of Gloucester. 
 
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 866. Letters of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of 
 Christ's College, Cambridge, to Sir George Berkeley, Lord 
 Berkeley proposing the names of Michael Honywood and 
 John Alsop for nomination of one of them to be presented 
 by the college to the living of Kegworth, void by the death 
 of Edward Barwell. Dat. 3 Dec. 1639. With seal, broken. 
 
 867. Certificate of ordination by Walter, Bishop of 
 Winchester " at his dwelling house at Southwark," of 
 Maurice Berkeley, M.A., Oxon, to Deacon's orders. Dat. 
 I March, i639[40]. With signature and seal. 
 
 868. Presentation to Maurice Berkeley of the Rec- 
 tory of Seagrave, co. Leic, void by the death of Robert 
 Burton. Dat. 7 April, 1640. 
 
 869. Certificate of ordination of John, Bishop of Lin- 
 coln, of Maurice Berkeley, M.A., Oxon, to Priest's orders. 
 Dat. 20 Dec. 1640. With signature and fragment of seal. 
 
 8'70. Admission by Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln, of 
 George Wilson, clerk, to the Rectory of Seagrave, co. Leic. 
 Dat. 22 August, 1645. With episcopal seal, defaced. 
 
 8*71. Injunction of Charles I. confirming George 
 Berkeley, Esquire, and others, in the possession of the 
 New Ground, Slimbridge, which they hold as sub-tenants of 
 Arnold Oldisworth and George Thorpe, Esquires, lessees 
 under Robert, Viscount Lisle. Dat. 26 June, 24 Charles I. 
 [1648]. With fragment of seal. 
 
 8*72. Lease, for a term of 21 years, from George 
 Berkeley, Esquire, son and heir apparent of George, Lord 
 Berkeley, to Thomas Smyth, of Wanswell, gent., of the 
 " power, licence and authority to search, bore, digge and 
 trye for the findinge out of Fullers earth and Tobacco-pipe 
 
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 clay or either of them within all or any the waste and wast 
 grounds of the said George Berkeley," paying yearly to the 
 latter a moiety of the clear yearly profits and increase of 
 the said Fullers earth and Tobacco-pipe clay. Dat. 20 Oct. 
 1649. With signature of Thomas Smyth. 
 
 873. Presentation by George, Lord Berkeley, to the 
 Archbishop of York, of John Strickland, to the Rectory of 
 Sutton Bunnington, co. Notts, of which the said Lord is 
 Patron, void on the death of Thomas Savage. Dat. i Nov. 
 1662. With seal, broken. 
 
 87^1, Lease for 99 years from George Thorpe, of Wans- 
 well, Esquire, to Francis Atwood, of Berkeley, Fisherman, 
 " all that one Fishing or Stage in Seaverne called the Long 
 Stage " in the parish of Berkeley, at an annual rent of five 
 shillings, reserving to himself the right of using the stage 
 for four days every year, of which notice shall be given the 
 day before, and reserving also " all great and Royal Fishes 
 as Porpuise, Sturgion and the like." Dat. 2 Feb. 1669 [70]. 
 With small seal. 
 
 8*75. Recital of certificate testifying that George, Lord 
 Berkeley, received the sacrament in the Parish Church of 
 Chiswick; co. Midd. and subscribed to the Oaths of Supre- 
 macy and Allegiance, making the following declaration : 
 *' I doe declare that I doe beleeve that there is not any 
 Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 
 or in the Elements of bread and wine att or after the 
 Consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, juxta for- 
 nam tenorem effectum et exigentiam cujusdam Actus 
 Parliamenti in hac parte nuper editi et provisi scilicet anno 
 prius supramencionato intitulati. An Act for preventing 
 dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants," etc, 
 Dat. 16 April, 25 Charles II. [1673]. 
 
250 Berkeley Castle 
 
 876. Memorandum, that at a General Assembly of 
 the Society of Merchant Adventurers within the City of 
 Bristol, on Saturday, the nth of July, 1674, the right 
 Honorable George, Lord Berkeley, Baron of Berkeley, etc., 
 was by an unanimous vote, admitted a member of the said 
 Society. Signed by Thomas Earle, Master, the two war- 
 dens, and the five assistants of the company. With paper 
 signet. 
 
 877, 878. Deed of sale for £\2 from John Smyth, of 
 Nibley, Esquire, to Hon. Sir Charles Berkeley, K.B., of 
 " all that his Rock or Fishinge in Seaverne in the parish of 
 Berkeley .... commonly called and knowne by the name 
 of Longstadge . . . . and a'soe all sands, soyle and oase 
 extending in length and bredth of the said Rock, from the 
 said Rock unto the midle of the channel," etc., with all 
 royal Fishes, as Sturgeons, Whales, and Porpoises, etc. 
 Dat. 27 March, 1678. With signature and seal. 
 
 879. Nomination by the Master, Fellows, etc., of 
 Christ's College, of " Mr. John Bolton and Dr. John Covell " 
 for selection of one of them by George, Earl of Berkeley, 
 to the Rectory of Kegworth, void by the death of Dr. 
 Michael Honywood. Dat. 19 Sept, 1681. With seal, 
 broken. 
 
 880. Notification by Ralph Cudworth, Master of 
 Christ's College, Cambridge, to George, Lord Berkeley, 
 that the Scholarship at the College on his nomination is 
 now vacant, but reminding him that the person nominated 
 ought to be of the county of Gloucester. Dat. 23 Sept., 
 1681. 
 
 881. Nomination by George, Earl of Berkeley, to the 
 Master, Fellows, etc., of Christ's College, Cambridge, of 
 
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 [name omitted] ^ one of the two selected by the College, viz., 
 " Mr. John Bolton and Dr. John Covell," for presentation 
 to the living of Kegworth, co. Leic. Dat. 3 Oct., 168 1. 
 Copy. 
 
 882. Appointment by the Governours of Charterhouse 
 of George, Earl of Berkeley, to be a Governor, vice Hon. 
 Henry Coventry, deceased. Dat. 17 Jan., 1686. With 
 seal of the Hospital [bad impression], and signatures and 
 seals of the Governors. 
 
 883. Letters of safe-conduct to Charles, Viscount 
 Dursley, despatched as Ambassador to the lords " federata- 
 rum Belgii provinciarum." Dat. Hampton Court Palace, 
 31 Aug., 1689. With paper seal and signature "Gulielmus R." 
 
 88^. Commission to Charles, Lord Dursley, to nego- 
 tiate a treaty of peace and commerce with the King of 
 Denmark. Dat. Whitehall, 5 Nov., 1690. With signature 
 of King William HI, and paper signet. 
 
 885. Grant by the Governor and Committees of the 
 Company of the Royal Fishery of England, of .^500 to 
 Charles, Viscount Dursley, " in consideration of the labour, 
 pains, loss of time, and great expenses," that the said Lord 
 Dursley "hath been at in the service of the Company." 
 Dat. 29 Nov., 1697. 
 
 886. Letters Patent of William HL to Charles, Duke 
 of Bolton, and Charles, Earl of Berkeley, Kings' Justices in 
 Ireland, notifying the appointment of Brigadier Richard 
 Ingoldsby as Governor of Limerick. Dat. " At our Court 
 at Loo," 31 Aug., I7CXD. With signatures of the King and 
 of William Blathwayt [Secretary at War]. 
 
 ^ Dr. Covel was instituted to the living, 31 Oct., i68i. — Nicholls' History 
 of the County 0/ Leicester, iii. 856, 
 
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 887. Letters of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of 
 Christ's College, Cambridge, proposing the names of 
 Thomas Parkinson, clerk, Bachelor of Divinity, and John 
 Metcalfe, clerk, for selection of one of them by Frederick 
 Augustus, Earl of Berkeley, to be presented by the College 
 to the living of Kegworth, void on the death of John 
 Willey, M.A. Dat 14 Oct., 1789. With paper signet. 
 
 888. General 1 Pardon from King Henry VII. to 
 William, Lord Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, etc. Dat. 
 12 Dec, Anno i [1485]. 
 
 889. INQUISITIO-POST-MORTEM made at York, 30 Aug., 
 8 Hen. VII. [1492], of William, Marquis of Berkeley. 
 
 890. Indenture of agreement between King Henry 
 VIII. and Maurice, Lord Berkeley [styled "Sir Maurice 
 Berkeley, Knight for his body,"] whereby the latter under- 
 takes to serve the King under Thomas [Gray], Marquis of 
 Dorset, in the war in Gascony and Guienne, with a retinue 
 of "ccccxi hable men defensibly arrayed." Dat. 30 Apr., 
 4 Hen. VIII. [15 12]. With signature of the King. 
 
 891. INQUISITIO-POST-MORTEM held at Coventry, 15 
 Sept., 2 Edw. VI. [1548], of Thomas, Lord Berkeley. 
 
 892. Licence from Matthew [Parker], Archbishop of 
 Canterbuiy, for the marriage of Sir George Carew, Knt., 
 and Elizabeth Spenser, daughter of Sir John Spenser, Knt. 
 Dat. 29 Dec, 1574. 
 
 1 This and the four following charters were found too late to be inserted in 
 their proper place. 
 
Wills 
 
 AND 
 
 Inquisitiones-post-mortem. 
 
 1. Will of John de Coueley, of Berkeley. Amongst 
 his bequests are : — to the Chaplain of Berkeley, Alexander, 
 4 pence ; to the Chaplain of St. Mary's Chapel, Berkeley, 
 3 pence ; for bread for the poor at his burial, I3sh. 4d. ; to 
 William Capel, a bow and half his arrows, a new "creagra" ^ 
 and a belt for stitching a cross-bow ; to Alan Scot, a bow 
 and the rest of his arrows, I2 cups, etc. ; to Richard Clerk, 
 a doe skin ; to John Braci, all his kitchen knives, etc. Dat. 
 Vigil of SS. Peter and Paul [29 June] 1316. [On paper], 
 
 2. Will of Henry Praiers, Knight, late lord of Dor- 
 sington, containing various bequests and directions for his 
 burial in the Choir of Lavendon Monastery. With the 
 probate dated Tuesd. after Epiph. [6 Jan.] 1322. 
 
 3. Will of William Golde, leaving bequests to Wor- 
 cester Cathedral, Berkeley Church, to the light of St. Mary 
 in the chancel there, to the Friars of St. Augustine, Bristol ; 
 to the Friars Minor there, etc. Dat. F. of St. Mark 
 [25 Apr.] 1329. 
 
 1 Creagra, lit. fleshhook ; hence, perhaps, the iron hook which the cross- 
 bowman placed in the ground to hold his weapon while he fired it. Ed. 
 
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 4. Will of Maurice Chapstowe, of Wotton, leaving 
 bequests to the Mother Church of Worcester to the light of 
 the Holy Cross of Wotton, to the Friars Minor of Bristol, etc. 
 Dat. F. of Tr. of St. S within [2 July], 1342. 
 
 5. Will of Nicholas le Skot, wherein he bequeaths 
 various sums to Berkeley Church, Worcester Cathedral, to 
 the Vicar of Berkeley, etc. Executors, Margaret his wife, 
 and William le Muleward. Dat. Mon. bef. F. of St. Mar- 
 garet [20 July], 1348. With probate dated iiij Id. Nov. 
 [10 Nov.] 1348. 
 
 6. Will of Richard Beveregge, of Wotton, bequeathing 
 fourpence to the fabric of Worcester Cathedral, and to his 
 wife his tenement called Coppedehalle, etc. Dat. Vigil of 
 St. Matthew [21 Sept.,] 1348. With probate dated 1349. 
 
 7. Will of John Wale, of Bristol, whereby he makes 
 many bequests to the religious orders of Bristol, viz., to the 
 Friars Preachers ; to the Rector of St. Peter's ; to the 
 chaplain and clerks of Pendelesford ; to the Altar of Holy 
 Cross of St. Peter's a cloth of silk ; to the Vicar of Red- 
 cliff ; to the Church of St. Thomas, two cloths of silk, with 
 five smaller cloths ; to the Friars Preachers xx. s. and a 
 pair of vestments with chalice, " corporalia, et manuter- 
 gium " ; to the Friars Minors ; to the Carmelites ; to the 
 Austin Friars ; to the Vicar of Tickenham two bushells of 
 corn. He also bequeaths to William, the Miller, of Ticken- 
 ham, his better robe; to Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Hunte, 
 a bed, two spoons of silver with a mazer, a brass pot, and a 
 silver cup ; to Margaret, his wife, one great mazer, one 
 " note " ^ and a silver cup with a silver cover : and his 
 houses and lands to Thomas his brother, his daughters 
 Agnes and Agnes [sic], Margaret his wife and others, 
 
 • Sc, nut, a kind of small urn— Halliwell. 
 
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 making the latter, with Stephen Stowe and Dom. Thomas 
 de Pendelesford, Chaplain, his executors. Dat. Th. bef. F. 
 of St. Luke [18 Oct.] 1348. With probate. 
 
 8. Will of Walter Baldwyn, of Wotton, containing 
 bequests to the fabric of the Mother Church of Worcester and 
 to the Church of Wotton ; and bequeathing his household 
 goods to his widow, children, etc. ; and to his daughter Edith 
 a tenement to provide the expense of a Chaplain to say- 
 masses for him. Dat. F. of St. Edmund the King [22 Nov.] 
 1348. 
 
 9. Will of John Averay,of Wotton-under-Edge, making 
 bequests to Wotton Church, to the poor of Wotton, etc. 
 Dat. Easter Thursday [4 Apr.] 1352. 
 
 10. Will of Robert Thomas, of Wotton-under-Edge, 
 wherein he bequeaths six pence to the fabric of Worcester 
 Cathedral ; to Wotton Church the moiety of one *' maser," 
 and to the Rector there the other moiety ; to Henry Torte- 
 worth " omnia instrumenta mea ad artem meam pertinentia 
 et unam togam de bokhorn et unam tunicam de bokhorn"; 
 to Agnes his wife his best oven ; to Isabel his daughter his 
 second best oven and a brass pot ; to Margery his daughter 
 his third best oven and a brass pot ; to each of his daughters 
 two silver spoons ; to Agnes his wife " et proli existenti in 
 utero ejusdem tempore confecti presentis testamenti," his 
 5 houses in le Chepinglane, Wotton, etc., etc. Dat. Wotton- 
 under-Edge, Fr. aft. Beh. of St. John Bapt. [29 Aug.] 1375. 
 With probate dated 29 Sept., 1375. 
 
 11. Will of Adam Legat, of Wotton-under-Edge, 
 leaving bequests to Wotton Church, Worcester Cathedral, 
 etc. Dat. F. of St. Lawrence [2 Feb.] 1381. 
 
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 12. Will of Thomas Daunt, of Wotton-under-Edge, 
 containing the usual bequests to Wotton Church, Worces- 
 ter Cathedral, and to his Executors. Dat. Mon. aft. F. of 
 St. Martin [11 Nov.] 1384. 
 
 13. Will of Thomas, Earl Marshal, and of Notting- 
 ham, Lord of Mowbray and Segrave, dated at his Manor 
 of Epworth, 23 May, 1389, appointing as his executors, 
 Thomas, Archbishop of York, his kinsman, William 
 Bagot, John Peyto, John Leek and John Seint Johan, 
 Knights, Thomas Yokflete, clerk, William Rees, Thomas 
 de Brunham, John Kyrkestede, John Hopcrone, and William 
 Hexill. 
 
 1^. Will of John Roubergh, of Bristol, containing be- 
 quests to St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol ; to the fabric of Wells 
 Cathedral ; to his wife, his tenement in Redcliff Street, in 
 the suburb of Bristol, etc. Dat. Tues. aft. F. of St. Aldelm 
 [25 May] 1 39 1. 
 
 15, Will of John Fotour, of Butley, containing be- 
 quests to the High Altar, and to the repairs of Butley 
 Church, and the residue of his goods to John dil Thorn, 
 and Agnes his wife, Dat. Sat. aft. F. of St. Michael 
 [29 Sept.] 1420. 
 
 16. Will of Margery Legat of Wotton-under-Edge, 
 containing bequests of money to the Parish Church of 
 Wotton, and to the fabric of Worcester Cathedral. Other 
 bequests are : to the Lord of Berkeley, a mortar of brass 
 with iron pestle ; gold rings to Margery, Lady Berkeley, 
 Elizabeth her daughter, Katherine de Berkeley, etc. ; to 
 Joan de Bristowe, a piece of " Pariskercheves " ; to Joan 
 Bond, an ivory comb ; to others, brazen pots, beds with 
 testers, blankets and sheets, brass plates and wearing 
 apparel. Dat. Tuesd. bef. F. of St. Martin [11 Nov.] 1444. 
 
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 17. Will of John Ridde, of Orford, containing be- 
 quests to the High Altar of Orford Church, " for his neg- 
 lected and forgotten tithes and offerings," 6s. 8d. ; to the 
 fabric and repair of Orford and Sudborne Churches ; to the 
 Convent of Orford, etc. Dat. 1 5 April, 1460. With probate. 
 
 18. Will of Thomas Ormonde, disposing of his lands 
 in High Rothing, co. Essex. Dat. 8 July, 18 Edw. IV. 
 [1478]. 
 
 19. Will of William, Marquis of Berkeley, whereby 
 he leaves his personal estate to Anne his wife, with remain- 
 der to John Berkeley, and gives various sums to the 
 religious bodies and Churches for masses, etc., for his soul 
 and the souls of his father, mother and son. Among other 
 bequests is the following : " Also I will that my seid execu- 
 tors do purchase a pardon from the Court of Rome as large 
 as it may be, to be had at Longebrigge aforesaid from even- 
 song to evensong in the feste of Seint Trinite perpetuelly 
 for pleyn remission to them that wylbe confessed and con- 
 trite and thei then to say iii Paternosters and iii aves for 
 my souls and the souls aforesaid," etc. Dat. 5 Feb., 1491 [2] 
 With fragment of seal. 
 
 20. Will of Robert Fryer, leaving bequests to the 
 High Altar of Swefling Church, and of North Glemham 
 [co. Suff.] of ten shillings " for a trental to be sung " for him 
 in Swefling Church, and to his wife his " place called 
 Darneford," etc. Dat. 25 August, 1 500. With probate. 
 
 21* Will of Ralph Shirley, Knt., of Gerondon, co. 
 Leic. Dat. 10 March, 15 13. With signature and seal. 
 
 22. A— D.i Wills of Sir Maurice Berkeley, Lord 
 
 ' The first is dated 2 May, 1512, the three others are authenticated copies, 
 under seal, of the same will 
 
258 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Berkeley, made in view of his taking part in the King's 
 expedition " into parts beyond the sea." Dat. 2 May, 15 12, 
 17 May, 1 5 13. With seal of arms. 
 
 23. Authenticated Copy, under seal of the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, of the will of Maurice Berkeley, of 
 Yate, Knt., made ist May, 1520. With fragment of seal. 
 
 24. Will, with codicil, of Maurice Berkeley, Knt., of 
 Yate. Dat. ist May, 1520, 11 Sept., 1523. With probate 
 dated 28 Nov., 1523. 
 
 25. A. B. Will of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, whereby 
 he disposes of certain manors and lands now in the hands 
 of certain feoffees for his use during life. Dat. 28 April, 
 24 Hen. viii. [1532]. Two copies. With seals of arms. 
 
 26. Will of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, with instructions 
 that his body be buried " without great pomp or pride," in 
 the Parish Church of Mangotsfield, but that it shall be 
 exhumed within a quarter of a year and re-buried by his 
 wife's side in St. Augustine's, Bristol, and making various 
 bequests, viz., to Worcester Cathedral, the Grey Friars, 
 Gloucester, towards repairs ; to the prisoners within the 
 castle and gates and prisons of Gloucester ; to the prisoners 
 in Newgate, Bristol ; to his servants a quarter's wages and 
 a black gown or coat ; to the Parish Church of Mangots- 
 field " a payre of vestments," to be provided by his execu- 
 tors, " and that Soochin ^ with myn armes be sette and 
 fyxed uppon the same vestment to the value of viii. li " ; to 
 Thomas his son and heir " all such harnes, sallettis, hals- 
 berdes and other artylary for the warres," which are at Yate, 
 Mangotsfield and Berkeley, and also "all his Parliament 
 Robes," etc., etc. Dat. 11 Jan., 1532 [3]. With probate 
 dated 6 June, 1533. 
 
 ' i.e. Scutcheon. 
 
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 27, 28. Will, in duplicate, of George Carey, Lord 
 Hunsdon, K.Q., Lord Chamberlain. Amongst the bequests 
 are : — Item, I give to my faithfull vertuous and trevve lovinge 
 wife the use and occupacion of my great Aggate where- 
 in is enclosed the portraiture of Perseus and Andromache 
 As also the use and occupacion of my Jewell with two fayre 
 and greate Amatistes orientall, and my Jewell of the greate 
 Diamond of the Gold mine, or otherwise called a Topas 
 orientall, sett abowt with Diamonds for her to use and 
 enjoy during her life. But if shee shall but goe abowt in 
 thowght to alter their propertie or to alienate them or anie 
 of them and after execute any Act to effecte it, that then 
 from her thowght thereof the propertie shall noe longer 
 remayne in her, but in my onelie and beloved daughter 
 Elizabeth Berkeley during her life, etc. Item, I give and 
 bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Berkeley my Salte and 
 clocke of golde sett with Rubies and Diamonds which the 
 Scottish King gave mee when I was Ambassador in Scott- 
 land, or one hundred pounds in lieu thereof. 
 
 Item, I give and bequeath unto my sonne in lawe 
 Mr. Thomas Berkeley the best hors I shall leave behind 
 mee, and twoe of the best mares of my Race. 
 Dat. 10 May, 1599. With signature and seal. 
 
 29. Will of Nicholas Thorpe, of Wanswell, in Berke- 
 ley, Esquire, dated 24 Feb., 1599 [1600]. With probate 
 dated 5 June, 1600. With fragment of seal. 
 
 30. Will of Sir George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 10 May, 
 1599. With probate, dated 27 Sept., 1603. Much injured. 
 
 31. 32. Will of Henry, Lord Berkeley, dated 12 De- 
 cember, 1612. Two paper copies. 
 
 33. Will of Henry, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 20 Dec, 
 161 2. With probate dated 2 Feb., 161 3. 
 s 2 
 
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 3^. Will of Henry, Earl of Northampton, Lord Privy 
 Seal, etc., containing bequests, to the King of " a cupp of 
 gold of c'* valew with lOO Jacobin peeces of xxii» a peece 
 therein, on which cupp my desire is there showld be this 
 inscription Detur dignissimo " ; to Prince Charles his " best 
 George", etc. Dat. 14 June, 1614. Copy. 
 
 35> Will of Margaret Thorpe, of Wanswell, widow of 
 George Thorpe, Esquire, whereby she " commends her soul 
 to God and commits her body to the earth to be buryed in 
 the Seate wherein she usually sits in the Church of Berke- 
 ley ", bequeaths certain property to her son William as his 
 marriage portion, in case he should marry with the sanction 
 of her overseers, whom she appoints to carry out the pro- 
 visions of her will, and divides her goods and the rest of her 
 property amongst her children. Amongst the bequests are 
 the following : — 
 
 Item, I give to the said William Thorpe one silver Bole. 
 
 Item, I give to my said sonne John Thorpe my wedding 
 Ringe wherein are fowerteene diamonds ; Item, I give him 
 more one silver bole. Item, I give to Margaret Thorpe my 
 daughter all my wearinge apparell, my cabonett and all my 
 lynnen and the rest of my plate Jewells and ringes, etc. 
 Item, I give and bequeathe to Mr. Doctor Chetwyne ^ the 
 some of Twentie Shillings and I doe desire him to preach 
 att my funerall. 
 Dat. 29 June, 1629. 
 
 36. Copy of Will of George, Earl of Berkeley, as 
 follows : " For my Sun, Charles Lord Durseley, Good Sun, 
 I desire you will show your kindness to my memorie in 
 being my sole executor. And I doe bequeath all my estate 
 to you both reall and personall, Desiring you to pay my 
 
 ' Edward Chetwynd, D.D., Vicar of Berkeley, Dean of Bristol, oh. 1639. 
 
Select Charters. 261 
 
 just Debts, and for my sake to give something considerable 
 to our Fellow Christians that are poor, whome you doe 
 believe the fittest objects of charity, And I doe desire you 
 to take care to send the Remainder of the Bookes which 
 were S*^ Robert Coke's now in my House at Durdence to 
 Sion College in London to the Divines there, to fulfill my 
 promise to them," Sept. 21, 1698. " For my son Charles, 
 Lord Durseley to bee delivered to him after my death." 
 Added are the depositions, dated i Dec, 1698, of Charles 
 Weston, gent., and Joseph Micklethwait, of St. Andrew's 
 Parish, Holborn, gent., that the will, of which the above is 
 a copy, was in the handwriting of George, Earl of Berkeley. 
 With probate, dated 9 Dec, 1698. 
 
 37- Will of Charles, Earl of Berkeley. Amongst the 
 bequests is the following : " I doe give to my son James, 
 Lord Dursley, Baron of Berkeley, the hundred pounds per 
 annum upon two orders which I purchased upon the Tin- 
 nage Act during my own life and the life of my said son 
 James and all my interest in the same, and I also give him 
 all the furniture of Berkeley Castle and that is now there 
 except only the Plate, the Cabinet, Strong Box and Indian 
 Trunks and what is in them which I give to my executrix," 
 [i.e. Elizabeth his wife, Countess of Berkeley.] Dat. 9 
 March, 1708 [9]. 
 
 The following memorandum is at the foot : " I desire to be 
 buryed in Berkeley Church amongst my ancestors, the 
 antient Barons of Berkeley with as little expence as is 
 possible either in the Funeral charges or carrying of my 
 body thither." 
 
 With probate, dated 25 Nov., 17 10. 
 
 38. Will of James Beaven, of Berkeley, Salt Boiler. 
 Dat. 31 Dec, 1734. With probate, dated 10 Sept., 1735. 
 
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 39, 40. Will (in duplicate) of James, Earl of Berke- 
 ley, by which he bequeaths his personal estate to Charles, 
 Duke of Richmond, Spencer, Earl of Wilmington, Hon. 
 James Brudenell, and Hon. George Berkeley, in trust for 
 his only son Augustus, Lord Dursley, and in case of his 
 death, under age, in trust for the testator's brother, Henry 
 Berkeley, Esquire. By a codicil he bequeaths a thousand 
 pounds to " his friend William Chetwynd, Esq.," and as the 
 testator " is going to reside for some time in France," he 
 bequeaths to each of his upper servants ;^20 apiece, and to 
 his Livery and other servants ;^io apiece, to defray their 
 expenses back to England. Dat. 23 May, 1735. With 
 probate, dated 4 Oct., 1736. 
 
 41, Will of Augustus, Earl of Berkeley. Dat. 18 
 Dec, 175 1. With seal and signature. 
 
 42. Will of Sir John Fust, Bart. Dat. 8 Apr., 1779. 
 
Select Charters. 263 
 
 Copies of Wills 
 used in various law suits. 
 
 1. Thomas, Lord Berkeley. Dat. F. of Purif. [Feb. 2]. 
 1415. 
 
 2, 3. Philip Mede, of Bristol. Dat. 11 Jan., 1471. 
 
 % 5. William, Marquis of Berkeley. Dat. 5 Feb., 1492. 
 
 6. Edward, Viscount Lisle. Dat. 17 July, 1492. 
 
 7. Joan, Viscountess Lisle. Dat. 8 Aug., 1500. 
 
 8. Lady Talbot. Dat. 1 504. Defaced. 
 
 9. John Fitzherbert. Dat. 15 17. 
 
 10-13. Maurice, Lord Berkeley. Dat 15 13-1523. 
 1^16. Thomas, Lord Berkeley. Dat. 11 Jan., 1532 [3] 
 
 17. Thomay Trye, of Caloughdon. Dat. 5 Feb., 1545. 
 
 18. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Dat. 1614. 
 
 19. Robert Essington, of co. Glouc. Dat. 162 1. 
 
 20. George Thorpe, of Wanswell. Dat. 9 July, 1672. 
 
264 Berkeley Castle 
 
 COPIES OF 
 
 INQUISITIONES-POST-MORTEM. 
 
 I, 2. Thomas de Berkeley, 28 Hen. III. [1243-4]. 
 
 3. Maurice de Berkeley, at Gloucester, Easter Monday, 
 [14 Apl] 9 Edw. I. [1281]. 
 
 4. Nicholas de Segrave, at Almondsbury, Sun. aft. F. 
 of St. Andrew, [30 Nov.] 24 Edw. I. [1295]. 
 
 6. Roger de Mowbray, at Coventry, Fr. bef. F. of St. 
 Thomas [21 Dec], 27 Edw. I. [1298]. 
 
 6. The same, at Empingham, 29 Edw. I. [i 300-1]. 
 
 7. The same, at Northampton, 29 Edw. I. [i 300-1 J. 
 
 8. The same, at Epworth, 29 Edw. I. [i 300-1]. 
 
 9. The same, at Retford, 29 Edw. I. [i 300-1]. 
 
 10. Thomas, Lord Berkeley, at Portbury, Vig. of St. 
 Lawrence, [2 Feb.] 15 Edw. IL [1322]. 
 
 II. John de Segrave, at Derby, 19 Edw. II. [1325-6]. 
 
 12. Maurice, son of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, at Bed- 
 minster, F. of St. Matthew, [21 Sep.] i Edw. III. [1328]. 
 
 13. Thomas, Earl of Norfolk, at Soham Comitis, 12 
 Edw. III. [1338-9]- 
 
 H, Thomas de Berkeley, Knt, at Wells, 35 Edw. III. 
 [136 1 -2]. 
 
Select Charters. 265 
 
 15. John de Mowbray, at Nuneaton, 35 Edw. III. 
 [1361-2]. 
 
 16. The same, at Melton Mowbray, Mor. of All Souls, 
 [Nov. 2], 35 Edw. III. [1362]. 
 
 17. Maurice, son of Thomas de Berkeley, at Newport, 
 in Berkeley, July, 42 Edw. III. [1368]. 
 
 18. Gilbert Giffard, Knt., at Gloucester, 31 Jan., 48 
 Edw. III. [1374]. 
 
 19. Edmund Clyvedon, Knt, 12 Ric. II. [1388-9]. 
 
 20. 21. Elizabeth, wife of Sir Maurice Berkeley, 13 
 Ric. II. [1389-90]. 
 
 22. Thomas [Mowbray], Duke of Norfolk, at Bunting- 
 ford, 6 Feb., I Hen. IV. [1400]. 
 
 23. The same, at Chipping Kington, i Hen. IV. [1400] 
 
 24. The same, at Cambridge, i Hen. IV. [1400]. 
 
 25. Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, at London, 15 Dec. 
 
 I Hen. IV. [1399]. 
 
 26. Thomas [Mowbray], Duke of Norfolk, at Notting- 
 ham, Wed. aft. All Saints' Day [Nov. i] 2 Hen. IV. [1400]. 
 
 2*7. Roger Swillington, at Melton Mowbray, 28 Nov., 
 8 Hen. IV. [1406]. 
 
 28. John Vyllers, at Holoughton, Whitsun Monday, 
 [8 Jun. ] 4 Hen. V. [1416], 
 
 29. John [Mowbray], Duke of Norfolk, at Uppingham, 
 
 II Hen. VI. [1432-3]. 
 
 30. The same, at Caxton, 11 Hen. VI. [1432-3]. 
 
 31. The same, at Worcester, 11 Hen. VI. [1432-3]. 
 
266 Berkeley Castle 
 
 32. The same, at Huntingdon, ii Hen. VI. [1432-3]. 
 
 33. The same, [1432-3]. 
 
 3^. Walter de la Pole, Knt, at Gloucester, Sat. bef. 
 Nativ. of St. John Baptist [24 June], 13 Hen. VI. [1435]. 
 
 35. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, at Ax- 
 bridge, 17 Hen. VI. [1438-9]. 
 
 36. William Babthorp, at Warwick, 22 Hen. VI. 
 [1443-4]. 
 
 37. Ralph [Neville, ist] Earl of Westmoreland, First 
 Inquisition at Durham, 1426; third Inquisition at Barnard 
 Castle, 26 Nov., 25 Hen. VI. [1447]. 
 
 38. John [Talbot], Earl of Shrewsbury, at Cheltenham, 
 18 Oct., 32 Hen. VI. [1453]. 
 
 39. John [Mowbray], Duke of Norfolk, at Chipping 
 Warden, Mon. aft. Purification of the B. Virgin Mary, 
 [2 Feb.]— Hen. VI. 
 
 40. The same, at Meriden, 27 Feb., i Edw. IV. [1462]. 
 
 41. Margaret, widow of John Talbot, ist Earl of 
 Shrewsbury, at Gloucester, 7 Edw. IV. [1467-8]. 
 
 42. Thomas, Lord Lisle, at Tamworth, 10 Sep., 10 
 Edw. IV. [1470]. 
 
 43. Richard Byngham, at Warminster, 21 Edw. IV. 
 [1481-2]. 
 
 44. William, Marquis of Berkeley, at Berkeley, 18 
 Nov., 8 Hen. VII. [1492]. 
 
 45. The same, at York, 8 Hen. VII. [1492]. 
 
 46. Edward, Viscount Lisle, at Moreton, 8 Hen. VII. 
 [1492-3]- 
 
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 47. William, Marquis of Berkeley, at Elmebrugge, 
 8 Hen. VII. [1492-3]. 
 
 48. Thomas Rebell, of Humberston, at Leicester, 17 
 Hen. VII. [1501-2]. 
 
 49. John Meysye, of Charfield, at Tetbury, Tu. aft. F. 
 of St. David, [i Mar.] 20 Hen. VII. [1505]. 
 
 50. Sir John Villars, at Loughborough, 13 Jan., 22 
 Hen. VII. [1507]. 
 
 61. Lawrence Teste, at Yate, 28 Oct., 2' Hen. VIII. 
 [15 10]. 
 
 52. Maurice, Lord Berkeley, at Warwick, 5 Oct-, 16 
 Hen. VIIL [1524]. 
 
 53. The same, at Lutterworth, 7 Oct., 16 Hen. VIII. 
 [1524]. 
 
 64« The same, at Derby, 16 Hen. VIII. [1524]. 
 
 55. Edward Watson, at Melton Mowbray, 15 Aug., 
 24Hen. VIH. [1532]. 
 
 56. Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 26 Hen. VIII. [1534-5]. 
 
 57. Peter Bygott, at Leicester, 28 Hen. VIII. [1536-7]. 
 
 58. Maurice, Lord Berkeley, at Rugby, 15 Jan., 
 29 Hen. VIII. [1538]. 
 
 59. Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 26 Hen. VIII. [i 534-5]* 
 60,61. The same, 31 Hen. VIII. [1539-40]. 
 
 62. The same, at Coventry, temp. Hen. VIII. 
 
 63. William Kendall, at Derby, 35 Hen. VIII. [1543-4] 
 
 64. Thomas, Lord Barkeley, at Coventry, 15 Sep., 2 
 Edw. VI. [1548]. 
 
268 Berkeley Castle 
 
 65. George Kendall, at Derby, 8 EHz. [1565-6]. 
 
 66. William Lygon, at Tewkesbury, 9 Jan., 10 Eliz. 
 [1568]. 
 
 67. Henry, Lord Berkeley, at Stow, 23 Mar. 30 Eliz. 
 [1588]. 
 
 68. Walter Sheparde, at Leicester, 23 Eliz. [i 580-1]. 
 
 69-71* Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, at North- 
 leach, 33 Eliz. [1590-1]- 
 
 72. William Olyffe, at Beckhampton, 8 Aug., 43 Eliz. 
 [1601]. 
 
 73. George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, at East Greenwich, 
 15 Feb. I Jas. L [1604]. 
 
 74. Sir Thomas Throgmorton, at Berkeley, 29 July, 6 
 Jas. I. [1608J. 
 
 75. Sir Thomas Berkeley, at Gloucester, 13 Aug., 10 
 Jas. I. [1612]. 
 
 76-78. Henry, Lord Berkeley, at Wotton, 20 Jan., 1 1 
 Jas. 1. [1613-3]. 
 
 79. William Reade, at West Brainford, 20 Jas. I. 
 [1622-3]. 
 
 80. Robert Offley, Knt., at Billesdon, 28 Sep., 2 Chas. 
 I. [1626]. 
 
Sfxect Rolls. 269 
 
 SELECT ROLLS. 
 
 1. Abstracts of sixty-one charters relating to con- 
 veyances of lands in Hinton, Berkeley, etc., of which the 
 first seven are wanting, tempp. Hen. IIL — Edw. I. 15th cent. 
 Paper. 
 
 2. Abstracts of thirty-five charters relating to lands 
 in Berkeley, tempp. Hen. HL — Edw. HI. 15th cent. 
 Paper. 
 
 3. Particulars and valuation of lands acquired by 
 successive lords of Berkeley in Berkeley, Wotton, Alking- 
 ton, etc. temp. Hen. HL — Hen. IV. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 4. Particulars and valuation of lands in Berkeley, 
 temp. Edw. L 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 5. Abstracts of charters recording the acquisitions of 
 lands in Berkeley, etc., by successive Lords of Berkeley, 
 tempp. Edw. L — Richard H. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 6. Particulars and valuation of lands in Alkington 
 acquired by successive Lords of Berkeley, tempp. Hen. 
 HL— Hen. IV. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 7. Abstracts of charters recording the acquisition by 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley of lands in Alkington, with their 
 valuation, ievip. Edw. I. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 8. Abstracts of charters relating to lands in Alking- 
 ton, temp. Edw. I., etc. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
270 Berkeley Castle 
 
 9- Abstracts of charters relating to lands in Newport 
 and Alkington, numbered 185-257. Tetnpp. Edvv. I. — Edw. 
 II. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 10, Abstracts of charters relating to lands in Alking- 
 ton. TVw/. Edw. I. — III. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 11. Copies of charters relating to Brokenborough 
 Manor and lands in Almondsbury, etc. Temp. Edw. III. 
 15th cent. Paper. Imperfect. 
 
 12, Copies of six charters relating to lands in Almonds- 
 bury, etc., CO. Glouc. 1 6th cent. Paper. 
 
 13. Abstracts of 107 charters relating to lands 
 acquired by successive Lords of Berkeley in Cam, etc. 15th 
 cent. With note on the outer leaf, " These charter Rolls 
 were written at the command of Richard Beauchamp, Earl 
 of Warwick, after the death of Thomas Lord Berkeley in 
 141 7, and were afterwards recovered by William Lord 
 Berkeley, who seized them in the house of Lord Lisle at 
 Wotton after the battle of Nibley Green in 1469." 
 
 1^. Copies of thirteen charters relating to Dagling- 
 worth and Marshfield manors, co. Glouc. Temp. Hen. V. 
 1 5 th cent. Paper. 
 
 15. Particulars and valuation of lands in Ham 
 acquired by successive Lords of Berkeley. Tempp. Edw. I. — 
 Hen. IV. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 16. Copies of charters relating to lands in Ham and 
 neighbouring hamlets, numbered. Wanting numbers i to 
 17, and imperfect at the end. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 17. Particulars and valuation of lands in Hinton, 
 Egeton, etc., acquired by successive Lords of Berkeley. 
 Temp. Edw. I. — Ric. II. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
Select Rolls. 271 
 
 18. Abstracts of charters relating to conveyances of 
 lands in Slimbridge, Gosynton, etc., of which the first 
 eighteen are wanting. Tempp. Henry III. — Edw. III. 15th 
 cent. Paper. 
 
 19. Abstracts of grants to Dom. Maurice de Berkeley 
 in Nibley, etc., n.d. 15th cent. 
 
 20. Abstracts of charters relating to lands in Wotton, 
 numbered 87 — 373. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 21. Abstract of charters of lands in Wotton. Temp. 
 Edw. III. 15th cent. Paper. Fragment. 
 
 22. Copies of five charters relating to lands in Wotton. 
 43, 44, Edw. III. [1369-70]. 1 6th cent. Vellum. 
 
 23. Abstracts of charters relating to Fallow, Uffing- 
 ton, and Baulking Manors, co. Berks. Tenip. Hen. III. 
 15th cent. 
 
 24. Abstracts of charters relating to Kingston 
 [Lisle], Fallow, and Baulking Manors. Tempp. Hen. III. — 
 Edw. III. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 25. Copies of charters relating to the families of 
 Quincy, Earls of Winchester, and Ferrars, Earls of Derby. 
 Tempp. John — Edw. III. Vellum. 
 
 26. Charter-Roll containing sixty-two charters of 
 grants to Sampson Foliot or Henry le Tyeis, of lands in 
 cos. Cornwall, Dorset, Wilts, etc. Tempp. Hen. III. — Edw. 
 I. Early 13th cent. Finely written, with ornamental 
 initials in red and blue. Vellum, 6 membranes. 
 
 27- Copies of charters relating to the manors of 
 Epworth, Belton, Haxey, etc., co. Line. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
2/2 Berkeley Castle 
 
 28. Copies of four charters relating to the Duke of 
 Norfolk's lands in Epvvorth, Belton, etc. Tem/>. Ken. V II. 
 1 6th cent. Paper. 
 
 29. Copies of four charters of grants to Kingswood 
 Abbey by John de Sancto Johanne, Bernard de Sancto 
 Walerico, and Reginald de Sancto Walerico. Temp. 
 Stephen. 15 th cent. Paper. 
 
 30. Copies of three charters, viz., (i) of Thomas de 
 Berkeley and (2, 3) of Maurice, Lord Berkeley, granting 
 certain liberties to the Burgesses of Berkeley. Temp. Hen. 
 III. 15th cent. Vellum. 
 
 31. Copies of three charters relating to lands in Cry- 
 keston-by-Banwell [Christon], co. Som. Teinpp. Edw. Ill — 
 Ric. II. iSth cent. Vellum. 
 
 32. Copies of two confirmations by Edward III. of 
 licences by Edward II. to Thomas de Berkeley to alienate 
 lands, 18, 19 Edw. III. [1344-5]. Paper. 
 
 33. Copies of two charters, viz., (i) Release from 
 Ralph de Gorges to William de Bury in Wroxhale, n.d., 
 and (2) Lease for life from Theobald de Gorges, Knt, to 
 Dom. John de Bury, chaplain, of the tenement which Robert 
 Kyngwest formerly held in Nailesheye, within Wroxhall 
 Manor. Dat. W. bef. F. of St. John, ante portam Latinam 
 [6 May], 24 Edw. III. [1350]. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 3^. Copy of charter of confirmation by Henry VII. of 
 grant by Edward IV. to William, Lord Hastings of the 
 stewardship of lands in cos. Leic, North'ton, and Warwick, 
 parcel of the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster. i6th 
 cent. Paper. 
 
Select Rolls. 273 
 
 35. Great charter of privileges' to George, Lord Ber- 
 keley. 25 July, 14 James I. [16 16]. Paper, 35 pages. 
 
 36. Copies of conveyances by fine, as follows : — 
 
 1. The manor of Compton Grenevile, co. Glouc, from 
 William Giffard to Bartholomew de Greynvill ; 35 Edw. 
 I. [1306-7]. 
 
 2. The same manor, from B. de Greynvill to William Hur- 
 ward ; 12 Edw. II. [13 18-9]. 
 
 3. The same manor from W. Herward to Walter de Stapel- 
 
 ton, Bishop of Oxford; 13 Edw. II. [1319-20]. 
 
 4. The manors of More, Dodescote and Blemesham, co. 
 
 Devon, Pencarrou, co. Cornw., and Compton Grenevill, 
 CO. Glouc, from William Corbrugge and Richard War- 
 bultoh to Maurice, son of Maurice de Berkeley. 28 
 Edw. III. [1354-5]- 
 
 5. The same manors from W. Corbrugge to Maurice, son of 
 
 Maurice de Berkeley. 30 Edw. III. [1356-7]. Vellum. 
 
 3*7-. Copies of three fines whereby Frampton-on- 
 Severn Manor is conveyed (i) from Richard, son of John de 
 Clifford, to William Bysshop, Easter, 22 Edw. I. [1294], 
 (2) from the same to Thomas de Berkeley, Midsummer, 32 
 Edw. I. [1304], and (3) from Thomas de Berkeley to Robert 
 fil. Pagani, Michaelmas, ^^ Edw. I. [1305]. 
 
 38. Copies of records in a suit brought by the 
 Trustees of Roger Kemeys, son of Thomas Kemeys, of 
 Bedminster, an infant, to recover the custody of two chests 
 containing evidences of his property, which had been placed 
 
 1 This grant of liberties, says Smyth, in his " Lives of the Berkeleys," voL 
 ii. p. 435, Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, "at her only charges, obtained from his 
 Ma"" ... in the name of this lord her son in all his hundred of Berkeley," 
 etc. 
 
 T 
 
274 Berkeley Castle 
 
 for safety in St. Mary Redcliffe Church, but had been trans- 
 ferred to the Guildhall, Bristol, in order that they might be 
 examined by Lord Berkeley, " surmysinge that certen 
 evidences therin were within the same chestes which did 
 concerne the inheritaunce of Lord Berkeley," temp. Eliz. 
 
 39. COMPOTUS of the Steward of Berkeley from F. of 
 Circumcision [Jan. i] 20 Edw. 11. to Mich., i Edw. IIL 
 [1327], containing references to the expenses of the house- 
 hold of the King's father \sc. Edw. II.],' and expenses in 
 sending a messenger to Nottingham to carry the news of 
 his death, etc. 
 Extracts : — 
 
 De i dolio vini, cera, speciebus et aliis victualibus appre- 
 ciatis, et expensis in hospicio communi . . . cc. lib, 
 de camerario Scaccarii domini Regis pro expensis 
 hospicii patris eiusdem domini Regis . . . 
 
 In I cursore de domino de Bealtchamp per Johannem 
 Perceval, x. lib. 
 
 In I palefrido empto per Willelmum de Syde et R — Mael 
 apud Wynchecombe cxiii. s. iiij d. 
 
 In expensis Johannis Perceval portantis litteras domini 
 Otoni de Bodrugan in partibus Cornwallie, ii. s. 
 
 In litteris domini deferendis cancellario domini Regis, vice- 
 
 comiti Oxoniensi, et communitati de Dunstaple, xviii. d. 
 In piris portandis domine de Mortuomari apud Lodelowe, 
 
 vi. d. 
 In falcone domini amisso querendo per loca vj. d. 
 . . . de Gourne eunti apud Notyngham pro morte patris 
 
 Regis, Regi et Regine notificanda cum litteris domini . . 
 
 Vellum, mutilated. 
 
 ^ King Edward IL was removed from Kenilworth in custody of Thomas de 
 Gournay and John Maltravers on 3rd April, 1327, and arrived at Berkeley 
 shortly after, where he remained till his murder, 22 Sep., 1327. 
 
Select Rolls. 275 
 
 40. Transcript and translation of Roll 39 by W. F. 
 Shrapnel, sometime Steward of Berkeley. 
 
 41. COMPOTUS of Robert Wydye, Steward of Alkinton, 
 from Mich'. 20 Edw. II. to Mich., i Edw. III. [1326-7], con- 
 taining references to the Queen's^ arrival at Bristol — the 
 fortification of Berkeley Castle — the household of the King's 
 father [Edward II.], etc. 
 
 Extracts : — 
 
 Exitus manerii. De xvii. s. ii. d. receptis de Mare- 
 schallo Episcopi Wyntoniensis pro feno et prebendis Ix. 
 equorum et xiii. affrorum per ii. noctes in eundo cum 
 Regina, versus Bristolliam et per alteram noctem in 
 reditu eorundem cum Regina versus Gloucestriam, 
 videlicet pro feno cujuslibet equi per quamlibet noctem, 
 ob., etc. Et in oblacione deo et beato Antonio pro 
 salute vitulorum et aliorum animalium, i vituli 
 masculi. 
 
 Et lib. ad coquinam patris Regis xiii. capriolas per ii. 
 tallagia contra Nigellum de Kynggescute. 
 
 Inde compoto liberavit ad lardarium factarumpro munitione 
 castri de Berkele contra adventum Regine xxx. porcos 
 per ii. tallagia contra Thomam de Bradeston et 
 Johannem Frelond . . . Et liberavit ad hospicium 
 patris Regis xi porcos. 
 
 Columhelle. Lib. pro. falcone domini pascendo xxiiii 
 columbellas. 
 
 XX 
 
 Ova, Lib. ad coquinam patris Regis cciiii. 
 
 * Qu. Isabella landed at Harwich from France 24 Sep., 1326, and made a 
 rapid progress through the country. She was at Gloucester in the middle of 
 October, marched from thence to Berkeley, where she restored the Castle 
 (which had been given to the Despensers in 1322) to Thomas de Berkeley, and 
 from thence advanced to Bristol, which surrendered to her. 
 
 T2 
 
2/6 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Sagitte. Idem respondet de iiij. sagittis receptis de redditu 
 Willelmi le Gold ad terminum Sancti Johannis quam- 
 diu vixerit. 
 
 Pelles lanutce. Lib. bercario pro vellere lane secundum 
 consuetudinem patrie sibi debite ad tonsuram ovium i 
 pellem lanutam per visum H. de Rokhull. In i verre 
 proveniente domino de exhennio persone de Camme die 
 Jovis in cena Domini pascendo pro x septimanis usque 
 ad diem Veneris proximum ante festum translacionis 
 sancti Thome Martiris quo die necatus fuerit pro incep- 
 tione Magistri Ivonis de Berkele apud Oxoniam i qr. ij. 
 
 b2. 
 
 Pulluli. Idem respondet de i pullulo masculo recepto de 
 exitu predictorum jumentorum. Et non de pluribus, 
 quia i junentum [fuit] liberatum domino Willelmo de 
 Wautone circa carniprivium ante fetum hoc anno, Et 
 alterum jumentum ante fetum fuit abductum per 
 homines de garderoba Regine. Et iiij. jumenta mortua 
 fuerunt in yeme hoc anno. Et ix. jumenta non concep- 
 erunt neque pullulaverunt. Liberavit ad lardarium 
 domini i vaccam per i tallagium contra Nicholaum le 
 Bruere. Et lib. ad hospicium patris Regis ii vaccas in 
 autumpno per i tallagium contra Henricum Peche. 
 
 Caseus. Lib. ad hospicia domini in castro ante quadrag- 
 esimam i caseum, pondere ii lib, dint .... lib. ad 
 hospicium patris Regis xiii. petras i lib. dim. 
 
 42. COMPOTUS of Ham Manor, 20 Edw. II. — i Edw. 
 III. [1327J, containing references to the fortification of 
 Berkeley Castle, the Queen at Bristol, and to the King's 
 father [Edward II.] Much damaged. Wanting the be- 
 beginning. Vellum. 
 
Select Rolls. 277 
 
 Aucae. In capcione et asportacione cum hominibus Domini 
 Hugonis de Dandelegh exeuntibus cum Regina de 
 Bristollia, vii. aucarum, quarum iii. mariolae, Et liberavit 
 ad coquinam Domini ante adventum patris Regis ii 
 aucas, etc. 
 
 Capones. In capcione et asportacione cum hominibus de 
 familia Regine in transitu suo versus Bristolliam circa 
 festum Sancti Luce Evangeliste x caponum, Et liberavit 
 ad coquinam domini ante adventum patris Regis iiii 
 capones per indenturam .... contra Dominum 
 Willelmum de Syde, et liberavit ad coquinam patris 
 domini Regis liiij capones per iii tallagia contra 
 Nigellum de Kyngestone et liberavit Johanni Falcon- 
 ario pro falcone Domini pascendo i caponem, etc. 
 
 Ova. Liberavit ad coquinam patris Regis clxv ova per 
 unum tallagium contra Nigellum de Kyngescote. 
 
 43. COMPOTUS of William Oldelynch, Steward of 
 Hinton in time of John Frelond, " custos de . . . . ," 
 18-19 Edw. II. [1324-5]. The following is an extract: — 
 Frnmenttim, Et liberasse Dom Will. Tracy, Vicecomiti, de 
 Glouc. ad expens[as] Domini Regis [versus] Vasconiam^ xxx 
 qr. Vellum. 
 
 44, COMPOTUS of Richard Greuel, Bailiff of Hurst 
 and SHmbridge, for one year from Michaelmas, 19 Edw. II. 
 [1326]. Extracts : — 
 
 Venditio instaiirormn. Idem de vj. s. receptis de i vetere 
 jumento circa festum Omnium Sanctorum vendito pro 
 
 1 In 1324 Charles IV,, King of France, demanded that Edward should per- 
 form homage to him for Aquitaine and Ponthieu. This, on the advice of the 
 Despencers, he refused to do, and at the end of the year the French attacked 
 Gascony. Edward then made preparations for his departure, but the difficulty 
 was settled by the grant of Gascony to Pr. Edward, whose homage was accepted 
 by charter instead of his father's. 
 
278 Berkeley Castle 
 
 senectute et debilitate. Et de v. s. vj. d. receptis de 
 xxij aucis venditis, precio cuiuslibet iii. den. . . . Et 
 de vj. s. viii. d. receptis de exitu columbarum hoc anno. 
 
 Fines. Idem de ii. s. receptis de fine Matilde Wynter pro 
 licencia habendi se maritandam extra, et de v. s. receptis 
 de fine Alicie fil. Johannis Sake pro licencia habendi se 
 maritandam extra. 
 
 Pullctrae. Idem recepit de viii puletris de exitu predic- 
 tarum gallinarum. Et non plures pro eo quod quedam 
 pitosia ^ devoravit xvj puletras in i nocte. 
 
 FructMS gardini. Nichil crevit anno. 
 
 45, 46. COMPOTUS of the same 2 from Michaelmas, 20 
 Edw. II. [1326] to Michaelmas i Edw. III. [1327], contain- 
 ing, amongst others, the following items : — 
 
 Emefidaiio domorum. In stipendio unius carpentarii per i 
 diem emendantis hostium capelle de Slymbridge fractum 
 per homines Comitis Lancastrie^ in transitu Regine 
 versus Bristoll, ii. d. In xxxiiij clavis emptis ad idem 
 hostium, i.d. In serrura eiusdem hostii emendanda, t'.d. 
 
 Expense necessarie. In feno empto ad sustentacionem 
 bovurn et affrorum domini apud Slymbridge, pro eo quod 
 homines Comitis Lancastrie nullum fenum dimiserunt 
 ibidem in predicto transitu Regine, ix. s. viii. d. In i 
 nova sella empta xii. d. pro eo quod homines predicti 
 Comitis alteram sellam abduxerunt. 
 
 Frumentum. Et liberavit ad munitionem castri de Berkele 
 contra adventum Regine xii. quart. Et liberavit ad 
 prebendam equorum domini cum carectis in transitu suo 
 versus Walliam ad Reginam i quart, per i tallagium. 
 
 ' for putacia, a polecat. 
 
 ' These rolls (duplicates) repeat many of the items contained in the pre- 
 ceding roll. 
 
 ^ Henry of Lancaster supported Qu. Isabella, and was told off to effect the 
 capture of the King. This was done on i6 Nov., 1326, at Neath. 
 
Select Rolls. 279 
 
 Anates. Idem respondet de xiii anatibus receptis de reman- 
 ente quarum i maulard et iii mariole. Et de i maulard 
 et iii mariolis receptis de emptione circa gulam Augusti 
 pro eo quod omnes alii anates predicti alienati fuerunt, 
 per homines Comitis Lancastrie in predicto transitu 
 Regine. Et pro eadem causa alienationis nichil pro- 
 venit de Exitu hoc anno. 
 
 Columbelle. Et liberavit ad coquinam patris Regis cccxx 
 
 columbellas. 
 
 Lamprede. Idem respondet de i lampreda recepta de redditu 
 manerii de Wyke super Sabrinam in mense maii. Et 
 comp. lib. ad coquinam domini, Et. nihil remanet. 
 
 47. COMPOTUS of Robert Wilkyns, Steward of Lord 
 Maurice de Berkeley's Manor of Hinton, Mich', 41 Edw. 
 III. to Corpus Christi [8 June] "quo dominus obiit " and 
 then on to Mich», 42 Edw. III. [1368]. Extract :— 
 
 Fahe. In C. aucis sustinendis et impingendis contra sepul- 
 turam domini/ iii. qr, vii. bz. 
 
 48. COMPOTUS of Robert Alford, Steward of Lord 
 Thomas de Berkeley's Manor of Ham from Michaelmas 9 
 Ric. II. [1385] to Michaelmas loRic. II. [1386]. Extracts : 
 
 Venditio victualitiin. De iii. s. iiij. d. de uno plaustro feni 
 venditi pro equis domini et aliorum existentium in 
 manerio dum Rex^ [Richard II.] fuit ad castrum. Et 
 de ii. s. de operibus famulorum eidem venditis pro bosco 
 findendo in castro per ii dies contra adventum Regis. 
 
 Stipendium famulorum. In iii. bz. iii. pec. salis empti ut 
 extra, pro potagio famulorum xxii. d. ob. precio bus. vj. 
 d. In consuetudine famulorum die Sancti Michaelis pro 
 eorum Harvestgose, quia non habent aucam extra viiii. d. 
 
 1 cf. Smyth, i. 378. 
 
 2 "The next year {i.e. lo Ric. IL) the King cometh to Berkeley Castle, 
 whom this lord royally entertained," etc. Smyth, ii. 8. 
 
28o Berkeley Castle 
 
 Forinseca. In expensis xxxviii. plaustrorum venientium 
 per ii vices pro arena de Sabrina usque ad castra cari- 
 anda precepto domini, iii. s. ix. d. In expensis xxii 
 plaustrorum apud Sabrinam pro petris ad castra cariandis, 
 viii. d. 
 
 Gardinum. De exitibus gardini, nihil hoc anno quia nullus 
 fructus. 
 
 Fenum. Inde in venditione senescallo hospicii ad grangiam 
 castri, xlix plaustra feni. Et in grangia de Hamme 
 pro equis domini et aliorum dum Rex fuit ad castrum, i 
 plaustrum .... 
 
 49. COMPOTUS of the Steward of Berkeley, relating 
 particularly to the expenses of the various parks, chaces, 
 etc., II-I2 Henry VII. [1495-6]. Imperfect at the beginning. 
 Paper. The following offices and holders are mentioned : — 
 John, Constable of the Castle ; Thomas Marston, Bailiff of 
 Hinton and Keeper of Whitecliff Park ; Robert Bowyer, 
 Keeper of New Park ; John Everard, Keeper of Redwood ; 
 William Smythe, Keeper of Mickelwood Chace ; Robert 
 Grene, Keeper of the Castle Park ; Richard Mutton, Sub- 
 Seneschal ; John Tomkins, Gatekeeper of the Castle, etc. 
 
 50. COMPOTUS of George Shipwarde, Receiver of all 
 the lordships, manors, lands, etc., of Thomas, Lord Ber- 
 keley, from Mich. 15-16, Hen. VIII. [1524-5]. Paper. 
 
 51. Extract from the Receiver's accounts of the pos- 
 sessions late belonging to the Abbey of St. Augustine's, 
 Bristol, namely, from the Compotus of Thomas Baker, 
 Bailiff of the King in Canonbury Manor, " cum membris " 
 in Berkeley Herness and of Combe, near Wotton. Dat. 32- 
 34 Hen. VIII. [1540-2]. Paper. 
 
Select Rolls. 281 
 
 52- ACCOMPTS of John Barbour, Bailiff, Henry Vane, 
 Chamberlains ; Richard Rolf and John Reede and others, 
 Bedells and Stewards of Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, in 
 Tonbridge, Hylden, Yalding, Brastead, Bletchingley, etc. 
 Mich* 16-17 Henry VI. [1437-8], containing references to 
 curious Kentish customs. Vellum, 14 membranes. Among 
 the customs, etc., mentioned are the following : — Stretepens, 
 Fayrpens, Werkgavell, Werkpeny, Quernegavell, Querne- 
 peny, Gavelese, Swoncorn, Rustewode, Benherth, Romescot, 
 Gavelerth, Berughyerd, Medesilver, Parksilver, etc. 
 
 53. CoMPOTUS of John Kynge, Steward of the Manor 
 of Old Stratford [Stratford-on-Avon], co. Warw., 4-5 Edw. 
 IV. [1465-6]. Vellum. 
 
 54- " The joynt accompt of Anthony Huntley, gent., 
 and John Machin, generall woodwards, purveyors and over 
 seers of the buyldings and husbandry " of Henry, Lord 
 Berkeley, in cos. Glouc. and Somerset, from i May, 1604- 
 4 July, 1607. Extracts : — 
 Received for one sheepe that was drowned in the washinge 
 
 V. s. iiii d. 
 
 Received for Lopps and Shrowdes and for short kebble 
 oakes and beeches by them sold out of the Newe Parke 
 within Micklewood Chace to increase the herbage and 
 better the feedinge of the Deere there, lix. /i. xviij. s. vj. d. 
 
 Received for Barke of the said Oakes sold by them to 
 Thomas Neale, of Berkeley, Tanner, xiii. /i. xiiij. s. vj. d. 
 
 Received for carpe, eeles, and Roches by them sold in 
 February this yeare out of the two pooles in Oakley 
 Parke grounds in the tenure of Mr. Smyth, xj. /i. xii. s. 
 xi. d. ob. 
 
 Paid for Oates and milke bought by them for the Lord's 
 hounds at Berkeley Castle, Ixix. s. vi. d. 
 
282 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Laid out by them in repairinge the sea wall this yeare, iii. 
 //. xi. s. viii. d. 
 
 Laid out by them in and about divers works of Husbandry 
 fellinge, makinge, clevinge .... mendinge the 
 heades of Fish ponds, . . . planting of Crabstocks 
 at the graunge for Lampres bought and sent to London, 
 keepinge the Lorde's oxen, mares, and heriotts, etc. 
 
 Paid for malt bought and provided for provision of the 
 Lordes houshold in Buckhuntinge tyme, xxiiii. //. xviii.j. 
 
 Paid for repairinge the Throughe at Coingers elmes within 
 the mannor of Ham throwne downe with the deluge and 
 Inundation,^ happeninge by the overflowinge of the 
 River of Severne in the moneth of January, the like not 
 beinge before hard of, Iviii. s. viii. <3f. 
 
 For charges in fishinge the two pooles in Oakely and in 
 sellinge of parte therof at the markett ... in mend- 
 ing the sluces grates and heades thereof, viii. //. xiii. s. 
 
 Paid for the charges in dressinge and barrellinge of ii great 
 Sturgeons in Wyne, Perry, Vinegar, Vessels, and other 
 necessary, wherof the one was taken in the 'put' of 
 Thomas Hurne of Greenstreete and the other in the 
 " putts " of George Thorpe, Esquire, in the tenure of 
 Robert Smyth in the Ryver of Severne within the hun- 
 dred of Berkeley, v. /i xv. d. 
 
 Paid for divers works of husbandry ... for buyldinge 
 a great parte of the great Kitchen at the said Castle. 
 At the foot of the roll, '•' Examined by John Smythe,'' 
 Auditor." 
 
 1 1607, A great inundation in the R. Severn, when the water rose above 
 the tops of the houses and did much damage. Toon's Chronological Historian. 
 
 • This is the Author of the Lives of the Berkeleys. 
 
Select Rolls. 283 
 
 65. COMPOTUS of William, Steward of Dom. Joh. de 
 Segrave, of receipts and expenditure at his hall of Bretby, 
 CO. York, for each week during the year. Mention is made 
 of Mag. Stephen and Mag. Gilbert, his brother, temp. Edw. 
 II, On the back are Hymns to the Virgin Mary, with 
 musical notation — of a later date. Vellum. 
 
 56. ACCOMPTS of all the King's Stewards of the lands, 
 etc., in cos. Kent and Surrey, now in the King's hands by 
 reason of the forfeiture of Edward,' late Duke of Bucking- 
 ham, attainted of high treason, Mich. 13-14 Hen. VIII. 
 [1521-2]. Vellum. 
 
 VI, " Penciones et annuitates E[lizabethe] Regine," 
 in cos. Somerset and Dorset, John Harrington being 
 Receiver. Vellum. 
 
 58. Expenses of Henry Peche, Steward of the House- 
 hold to [Thomas] Lord Berkeley at Bradley, and at Ber- 
 keley for 37 days from 5 August to 10 September, 2 Edw. 
 III. [1328]. Vellum. 
 
 59. Translation of Roll 58, by W. F. Shrapnell. 
 
 60. COMPOTUS of Dom. Thomas Schypton, Wardrobe 
 Keeper to [Thomas] Lord Berkeley from 24 April to the 
 Sunday next before the F. of Nativity of B. M.V. [8 Sept.], 
 2 Edw. III. [1328], giving an account of expenses at various 
 jousts : as follows — 
 
 Recepta. Idem recepit de xxxviii. s. vj. d. de preposito de 
 Hurste, et de x. //. de domino Johanne de Insula de 
 superoneracione vendition is i equi, Et de viii. s. i. d. de 
 Johanne Brutton preposito de Bedminster, Et de cxiiii. 
 
 1 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, having excited the enmity of 
 Card. VVolsey, the latter accused him of a plot to assassmate the King, and he 
 was executed on 17 May, 1521. It was of him that the Emperor Charles V. is 
 reported to have said, " A butcher's dog has killed the finest buck in England." 
 
284 Berkeley Castle 
 
 li. i. d. qr. de domino W. de Syde, unde xvj. //. xv. s. per 
 manum Ricardi de Harssefelde per v tallagia, Et de 
 xix. s. iiij. d. de providencia remissa apud Herford vend. 
 Summa receptorum, clvi. li. vi. s. — quad. 
 
 Inde in expensis domini versus parliamentum de North- 
 ampton ibidem et in redeundo, cum equis et familia sua 
 omnibus computatis sicut patet per particulas preter 
 sumptus R. de Mortuo Mari. iiii. li, xix. s.-qu. 
 
 Item in expensis domini et sequele sue apud Circester pro 
 tepenyng sicut patet per particulas xxxix. s. v. d. 
 
 In expensis domini et familie sue pro iustis apud Herforde 
 ut patet particulis, xxix. li. vi. s. iiii. d. ob. qu. cum donis 
 Istrionum. 
 
 In expensis domini et familie sue versus Jeuelcestre et 
 ibidem pro trailbaston.^ xvj. li. xiii. s. v. d. qu. 
 
 In expensis domini et familie sue pro iustis apud Couyntree 
 ut patet per particulas, cxiiij. s. iii. d. ob. 
 
 In expensis eiusdem ad iustas de Exon ut patet per parti- 
 culas 1. s. iiii. d. ob. 
 
 In expensis eiusdem ad iustas Bristoll, videlicet de dono 
 domini armigeris suis, xxvj. s. viii. d. 
 
 In expensis eiusdem et domus sue apud Bradeley, a quinto 
 
 die Augusti per xxxviii. dies continue sequentes primo 
 die et ultimo computatis cum expensis ducentibus i 
 purpeys domine Regine, viii. //. ii. s. v. d. ob. 
 
 ^ Trailbastons were persons who bound themselves together by oath to assist 
 one another against any one who displeased a member of the body. Judges 
 were appointed expressly for trying them. They are supposed to have derived 
 their name from long staves which they carried. (Halliwell). 
 
Select Rolls. 285 
 
 In expensis factis circa sepulturam magistri Eudonis' apud 
 
 Bradeley et Kynggeswod et ibidem funerati omnibus 
 
 computatis vj. li. xi. s. vi. d. ob. 
 Item in expensis factis circa sepulturam Matilde de Seint 
 
 Omer funerate apud Berkeley omnibus computatis, 
 
 xxxii. s. ob. 
 
 In diversis expensis garderobe sicut patet per particulas, 
 xlix. s. vii. d. 
 
 In emendatione ii pellium et unius anuli simul cum emptione 
 i aquarii deaurati, li. s. vi. d. 
 
 In iij. herniciis pro corpore domini satis et emendandis ad 
 iustas cum alio apparatu omnibus computatis, xi. //. 
 viii. s. xj. </., etc. Summa, clvii. li. vii. s. iii. d. ob. 
 Vellum. Imperfect. 
 
 61. Household expenses of [Thomas] Lord Berkeley 
 when at Berkeley and Portbury in 2 Edw. III. [1328-9]. 
 Minutest details are given of provisions for the kitchen, 
 stables, purchase of beer, etc. ; expenses incurred on the 
 lord's journeys and of entertaining visitors at the castle, 
 namely. Lord and Lady Clifford, etc. Vellum, much dam- 
 aged. 
 
 62. Fragment of expense roll of John Averary [j?V.], 
 " Camerarius Domini," consisting chiefly of travelling ex- 
 penses day by day on the lord's journey from Doncaster to 
 Leicester, and from thence to Berkeley, the journey extend- 
 ing from Ash Wednesday for four and a half weeks. 
 Amongst the places where the company rested on the 
 journey were Sherborn, York (where they remained a fort- 
 night), Pontefract, Worksop, Nottingham, Leicester, War- 
 wick, Stratford, Pershore, Ledbury, Mitcheldean, Ciren- 
 cester, Dursley, etc. ; with expenses of other journeys taken 
 about Easter of the same year. Temp. Edw. III. Vellum. 
 
 1 Eudo, al. Ivo, 4th son of Maurice, Lord Berkeley, educated at Oxford, 
 died at Bradley by Wotton, aged 23. 
 
286 Berkeley Castle 
 
 63. Similar roll of expenses of John Averey " Camer- 
 arius Domini " de Berkeley, showing in detail the mode and 
 cost of Lord Berkeley's journeys to London and elsewhere. 
 Temp. Edw. III. Vellum. Much damaged at the edges. 
 
 6^. " COMPOTUS receptoris victualium et omnium 
 aliarum expensarum " of [Thomas] Lord Berkeley's House- 
 hold and Wardrobe, 20 Edw. III. [1346-7]. 
 
 65. " My Lord Berkeley's expenses for one whole year," 
 14 Aug., 1603 — 15 Aug., 1604. 
 
 66. "The rate of Mr. Zouche's sojourning and Mrs. 
 Zouche, his wife, with their Retinue, for one whole yere " 
 from Michaelmas, 1591, to Michaelmas, 1592. 
 
 67. " Valor Maneriorum," or Rental of Thomas de 
 Berkeley, taken at Michaelmas, 9 Ric. II. [1385], having on 
 the other side " Valor maneriorum Lisle," in cos. Dorset and 
 Devon. Much damaged at the end. 
 
 68. Valor of a manor in Cornwall of which the name 
 is missing, followed by list of Tenants, free and customary, 
 with their rents, and, in the margin, description of the 
 various customs and rights of the same toward the Lady 
 [Alice de Insula?]. Temp. Edw. III. Vellum. 
 
 Extract; — 
 
 Ciistumarii. Nullus eorum potest filios suos facere clericos 
 nee filias suas maritare sine licencia Domine. Et cum 
 aliquis eorum obierit et uxorem et parvos habuerit, tunc 
 Domina habebit duas partes omnium bonorum suorum 
 et tertia pars uxori et parvis eius remanebit. Et si 
 uxorem habuerit et nullos parvos tunc Domina habebit 
 medietatem omnium bonorum ipsius defuncti et altera 
 medietas penes eius uxorem remanebit. 
 
Select Rolls. 287 
 
 69-73.- Fines, amerciaments, etc., from Wye Manor 
 and other lands of George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, in Kent. 
 19-41 Eliz. [i 576-1 599]. Vellum. 
 
 74. " The Estreates of the Fines and amerciaments of 
 the Court Leet and Court Baron of the Honorable George 
 Berkeley, Esquire," held at the Manor of Segrave [co.Leic], 
 7 Apr,, 1656, before Ralph Dison, gent. Steward. Vellum. 
 
 75. Similar Roll for the manor of the Honour of 
 Melton Mowbray, co. Leic. 6 Oct., 1656. Paper. 
 
 76. Inventory of the goods of Maurice, Lord Berke- 
 ley [od. 1523], by Katharine, his widow, Thomas, his 
 brother, and William, Lord Sondes, his executors. 
 
 77. " Inventory of the goodes, chattells of Elizabeth, 
 Lady Berkeley, late of Cranford, co. Middl., widow," taken 
 24 May, 1635. Vellum. 
 
 78. *' The Inventarie and the Quietus est under the 
 scale of the Prerogative Court of and for all the goods, chat- 
 tels, and debts " of Henry Carey, ist Lord Hunsdon, 2 Dec, 
 1599. Drawn up by direction of his son, Sir George Carey, 
 2nd Lord Hunsdon. With seal of the Prerogative Court. 
 Vellum. 
 
 79. Inventory of the goods and chattels of Jane 
 Heathfield, late of Beavington, in Berkeley, widow, 3c April, 
 162 1. Vellum. 
 
 80. Subsidy Roll for the Hundreds of Berkeley, 
 Grumbolds Ash, Thornbury, Henbury, Barton by Bristol, 
 and Pocklechurch, co. Glouc. [Richard Tyndale is men- 
 tioned under the parish of Stinchcombe]. Followed by 
 " The namez of the Cleargye withyn every of the said 
 Hundreds for theire contribucion.' At the beginning is the 
 
288 Berkeley Castle 
 
 warrant of appointment of Thomas Fraunceson, of Berkeley, 
 as Collector of the Subsidy, signed by Nicholas Poyntz, 
 Knt, David Broke, Nicholas Wyke, and Hugh Denys, 
 Justices of Peace. 38 Hen. VHI. [1546]. Vellum. 
 
 81- Subsidy Rolls for the same Hundreds. (?) Temp, 
 Hen. VHI. Vellum. 
 
 82-85- Subsidy Rolls for the same Hundreds. 23-37 
 Eliz. [1580-95]. Vellum. 
 
 86. Subsidy Roll for the same Hundreds, Nicholas 
 Webbe, of Wotton-under-Edge, being Collector. 28 March, 
 2 Charles H. [1650]. 
 
 87- Subsidy Roll for Co. Kent, with copy of the 
 warrant from Thomas Palmer, Sheriff, to Ralph Quested, 
 his bailiff, to collect the same. 10 March, 38 Eliz. [1596]. 
 Vellum. 
 
 88. Number of archers and billmen in the various 
 townships in co. Glouc. 15th cent. Paper. 
 
 89. "The General certificatte accordinge to ye printed 
 certificatte of ye whole forces of this sheare of Gloucester," 
 May, 1596, viz., a tabular statement showing the names of 
 Captains and Lieutenants, number of men, shot, corslets, 
 bows, bills, pioners, Nagges to mount ye shot on," etc. The 
 total number of able men is put down on 24,000, " wheareof 
 furnished 4,000, wheareof trained 3,000, and untrained 1,000." 
 
 90. "A Schedule contayninge the severall names, 
 Armes and furniture of 100 soldiers sent from Gloucester 
 towards the Port of West Chester the xth day of June in 
 the vith yeare of his Majesty's Reigne . . . 1608." 
 Attached is the counterpart of the indenture of agreement 
 between Henry, Lord Berkeley, Lord Lieutenant for the 
 County, and John Lewis, muster master for the said draft. 
 (Almost illegible). Vellum. 
 
Select Rolls. 289 
 
 91. " The trayned bands of the horse and foot within 
 the said county [Gloucester] supplyed and perfected in the 
 months of March, Aprill, and May, 161 3, before Henry, 
 Lord Berkeley, Lieutenant of the same." Paper. 
 
 92. Copy of the King's Writ addressed to the Mayor 
 and Corporation of Bristol, the Sheriff of Co. Gloucester, the 
 Mayor and Corporation of Bridgewater, and others, com- 
 manding them to build a ship of war and equip it with guns 
 [tormentis] and 260 men to defend the coasts against 
 pirates. Paper. 
 
 93. " Orders for the fyringe of beacons in the countey 
 of Southampton." Temp. Eliz. Paper. 
 
 94. Pedigree of the Sovereigns of England from 
 William I. to James I. 17th cent. Vellum. 
 
 95. Drawing of two arches supported by three 
 columns ; on the left column being inscribed the names of 
 the Sovereigns of England from William L to Elizabeth, on 
 the centre column that of James L, and on the right column 
 those of the Sovereigns of Scotland from Malcolm [1081] 
 to James VI. Below, on four bases supporting the columns, 
 are the names of the English nobility, viz. : Marquesses, 
 Earls, Viscounts, Barons ; and of the Scottish nobility, viz.: 
 Dukes, Earls and Barons. Below all are 20 lines of rhyme, 
 explaining the drawing, etc., commencing 
 
 " Of England and of Scotland both the kingdomes brave 
 Lyke unto might ye pillars tow resembled here I have." 
 
 Signed Roger Kemys,^ in whose handwriting the whole is. 
 Early temp. James L Paper. 
 
 1 Roger Kemys, of Bristol, Receiver General to Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 a diligent antiquary, and the Author of an Ordinary of Arms, 1609, now in 
 the British Museum, Harley MS. s'^o},. cf. The family of Kemeys by Col. 
 W. Kemmis, 1886. 
 U 
 
290 Berkeley Castle 
 
 96, Descent of Qu. Elizabeth from James Butler, 
 Earl of Ormond \temp. Edw. III.] and his wife [Alianore], 
 daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. Temp. 
 Eliz. Vellum. 
 
 Q'T. Pedigree of the Berkeleys, '* compiled and trans- 
 lated out of latyn' into Englishe in the V yere of the Regne 
 of our Soverayne lord and Kynge Harry the vii*^ and bi 
 John Newlande Abbot of the Monastery of Senct Augus- 
 tines bi Bristow.^' 
 
 This roll so often referred to by Smyth in his Lives of the 
 Berkeleys as Abbot Newland's Roll, commences with the 
 Abbot's preface, wherein he makes known the reasons 
 which induced him to undertake the work, in these words : 
 "And for this cause movid [viz.: that the names of benefac- 
 tors to Religious houses should be kept in remembrance] I 
 the foresaid John Newland Abbot for my more larger 
 knowledge and informacion of my brethren Chanons 
 presen, And for evir after to come have taken uppon 
 me to put into writing the lineall and [trew] descent of Sir 
 Robert Fizherding the son and eyre of herding] whiche 
 herding was son of the Kingeof Denemarke whiche Robert 
 foresaide was first created lord of Berkeley and so lineally 
 from him I shall continew unto] William now lord marquyes 
 Berkley for whom And all othir of his noble auncetoures 
 we ben bownde specially to pray and or \_sic\ that I shall 
 begynne this said noble Petegre Firste y shall declare how 
 the said Sir Robert fizherding was first made lorde of the 
 Barony of Berkeley and shall expresse folowyngly certeyne 
 convencions made atwixe the saide Sir Robert fizherding 
 and Sir Roger of Berkeley lord and Baron of Dursley." 
 He then gives an account of the causes and effects of the 
 disorders in the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry H., the 
 
 1 See below. Rolls loi, 102. 
 
Select Rolls. 291 
 
 services rendered to the party of the latter by Robert Fitz- 
 harding, and his practical appreciation of those services by 
 giving to him " And his Eirys for evir the Barony of 
 Berkley Whiche Barony Roger of Berkeley, Baron of 
 Durseley helde of the Kyng in fee ferme And for so moche 
 the saide Kyng Harry the secunde toke from the saide 
 Roger bothe the Barony of Durseley and also the Barony 
 of Berkley for as moehe as he toke partis with Kyng 
 Stevyn ayenst Kyng Harry." 
 
 The pedigree itself begins with an account of Harding, 
 son of the King of Denmark, whose portrait is given, and 
 from whom the family has generally been considered^ to 
 spring : " The Kynge of Denmarke had a secunde son 
 namyd Herding which he send unto Kynge William Con- 
 quero"^ unto whom this Kyng William Conquero*" gave grete 
 riches and send him to Bristow there to inhabite the yere 
 of oure Lord Mlxix. The cause of his comyng to this 
 lande of Englande was this. As hit is wreten in Polecron- 
 icon, Ther was some tyme an ordinance made in Denemarke 
 that if so the Kynge of lande had eny mo sonnes then on, 
 then shuld the eldest son and eyre remayne w*in the 
 lande. And the yonger brethren shuld be sende with a 
 substance of goodis in to othir landis and there to leve in 
 evoyding all inconveniences of debatis that myght chaunce 
 atwixe them w*in theire owne lande. And for this cause 
 Herdyng a secunde son of the Kynge of Denemarke was 
 send in to this lande as hit is afore wreten." 
 
 The last entry runs as follows : 
 
 ** William Lord Marquyss Berkley .... decessid with- 
 oute issue off his body begoten and gave the barony of 
 Berkeley with all the londis Intaylid unto Kynge Henry 
 the vii*^ and lyeth buryed in the church of Fryer Austyns 
 in London." 
 
 ^ See preface. 
 U 3 
 
292 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Temp. Hen. VII. Vellum, with elaborately illuminated 
 initials, etc. 
 
 98. Contemporary copy of Abbot Newland's Pedi- 
 gree Roll of the Berkeleys : containing the Abbot's 
 preface, etc. ; the~family pedigree'^to William, Marquis of 
 Berkeley [od. 1491] ; and side by side with this family 
 chronicle a similar chronicle of the Abbots of St. Augus- 
 tine's, Bristol, from its foundation by Robert Fitzharding in 
 1 140, to the election of Robert Elyot, 21st Abbot, who 
 succeeded John Newland in 15 15, and " Ruled right honor- 
 abely." 
 
 On the other side of the Roll is a complete list of the 
 Mayors, Sheriffs and Bailiffs of Bristol from " William Can- 
 nyng, Maior, and Henry Vyell, vicecomes et primus Bris- 
 tollie, and William Combe et Thomas Knappe, Ballivi 
 [1374, the year in which Edward III. made Bristol a sepa- 
 rate county], down to John Hutton, Maior, Thomas 
 Jefferies and Johannes Spryng, vicecomites [1524]. Side 
 by side with the list is a meagre chronicle of the deaths and 
 accessions of the Kings of England ; for example, " 1272 
 [Anno] 56. Et obiit [Henricus III.] xvi Kal. Decembris 
 sepultus apud Westmonasterium cui successit filius ejus 
 Edwardus primus." Finally, there are in addition a few 
 historical notes, of which the following are specimens : — 
 1520. This yere whete barly and benes where for the more 
 part of the yere at xxij'i the bz [bushel] and above and 
 grete sea [r]sty of corne was amonges the people. Also 
 the same yere was beheddid the noble lord Edward Due 
 of Buckingham the xviij day of May and berid at the 
 Austen Freris in London, and about Seint Jamis tide 
 whete was at iij* iiij'' the bz. [bushel]. 
 
 1 For a fuller description of the roll see Paper on " Abbot Newland's Roll of 
 the Abbots of St. Augustine's Abbey by Bristol," in the Transactions of the 
 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. — Vol. xiv. 
 
Select Rolls. 293 
 
 Anno 31. [ie. Johannis Newland Abbatis]. Isto anno in 
 festo Sancti Laurencii combusta fuit navis vocata Regent 
 cum magno Carricke de Brest supra mare. 
 
 Under the year 1327, where an interesting note might 
 be looked for, there is unfortunately nothing but the bare 
 record of the death, and burial at Gloucester, of King 
 Edward II. Paper. Much mutilated in parts, and the 
 missing portions supplied by later hands. 
 
 09. Copy of Abbot Newland's Roll by John Smyth. 
 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 100. Modern Copy of the same, with coats of arms, 
 coloured. i8th cent. Paper. 
 
 101. Copy made by W. F. Shrapnell, F.S.A., on Jan. 
 1 8th, 1808, of the "Ancient Vellum Roll written by Abbot 
 Newland " in 1489, " part of which he translated from a 
 more ancient roll written in latin by John Trevysa, Vicar of 
 Berkeley," in 1398. (Mr. S. adds that "both these Rolls 
 are at Berkeley Castle, Abbot Newland's in good preserva- 
 tion, but Trevysa's much injured by time). 
 
 102. Pedigree ^ of Berkeley from Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley [1281-1321] who married Joan Ferrers down to 
 135 1. Vellum. Lat. Imperfect at the beginning, mutilated 
 by damp, etc., and the ink much faded : stated to be in the 
 handwriting of John Trevisa [od. 141 2], Vicar of Berkeley, 
 and Chaplain to Thomas, Lord Berkeley ; the translator of 
 Higden's Polychronicon and other works. 
 
 ' This is the only remaining portion of Trevisa's Latin Pedigree Roll, which 
 formed the foundation of Abbot Newland's Roll [Roll 97] and which as 
 the latter states in his introduction he " translated out of latyn into Englishe." 
 
294 Berkeley Castle 
 
 103. Pedigree of Berkeley arranged in circular form, 
 starting from James, Lord Berkeley (who married, in 1424, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk) 
 who forms the centre of the circle, and giving in radiating 
 lines his descendants down to temp. James I. 17th cent. 
 Vellum. 
 
 104. Pedigree of Fitzharding and Berkeley with brief 
 biographical notes. i6th cent. Vellum. 
 
 105. " The Genealogie of the Noble Familie of the 
 Surname of Barkley, Barons of Barkley," to temp. Edw. IV. 
 with short biographical notes, elaborately written and 
 drawn, with the shields of arms, coloured. Vellum. Two 
 sheets. 
 
 106. "The true discent and Pedegree of the Right Hon- 
 ourable the Lord Berkeley, one of the three houses of 
 England for the discent in the male line with the alliances 
 thereof in most noble families, i Aprill, 1600." Vellum. 
 Illuminated. 
 
 107. Another copy of No. 106, with the shields of 
 arms not filled in. 
 
 108. " Stemmata et Propogationes antiquae familiae de 
 Berkley Barones de Barkley in comitatu Gloucestriae, 
 Deducta ad Personam dignissimam Viri Caroli Berkley de 
 Bruton in comitatu Somerset Equitis Aurati " ; with 
 coloured shields of arms. Vellum. Three sheets. 
 
 109. Pedigree of Berkeley, showing its connection 
 with the families of Mowbray, Segrave, Beauchamp, But- 
 ler, etc., with their arms. 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 110. Pedigree of Berkeley from 3 Edw. IV. [1463] 
 to 1658. Paper. 
 
Select Rolls 295 
 
 111. Rough pedigree of Berkeley from " Harding the 
 Dane," to temp. Hen. VII., with short biographical notices. 
 Early i6th cent. Mutilated at beginning. On the other side 
 are a few historical notes of the family from the Conquest to 
 the union of the families of Berkeley and Fitzhardinge. 
 Paper. 
 
 112, 113. Rough pedigrees of Berkeley, from " Hard- 
 ing, the Dane," to Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Thomas, 
 Lord Berkeley, wife of Richard, Earl of Warwick, showing 
 the connection of the Lisle and Dudley families with the 
 Berkeleys, to 1577. 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 114;. Brief pedigree of Berkeley from Harding to 
 Henry, Lord Berkeley [temp. Eliz.] showing also the descent 
 of Elizabeth [Sidney] who married in 1599 [John Manners 
 4th] Earl of Rutland from the Berkeleys. 17th eent. Paper. 
 
 115. Rough Pedigree of Berkeley down to Thomas 
 Berkeley [born 1575], showing the connection of the family 
 with the Lords Lisle, Warwick, Roos, and Latimer, and the 
 descent of the same Thomas through Isabella, dau. of 
 Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, from King Edward I. i6th 
 cent. Paper. 
 
 116. Rough pedigree of Berkeley and Lisle. 17th 
 cent. Paper. 
 
 11*7. Rough pedigree of William, Marquis of Berkeley, 
 from James, Lord Berkeley [ob. 1463] continued to temp. 
 James I. 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 118. Pedigree of Berkeley to 1671. Printed. Paper. 
 
 119. Descent of the Berkeleys of Salop, from Maurice, 
 Lord Berkeley, 9 Edw. II. [i3i5]. 17th cent. Vellum. 
 
296 Berkeley Castle 
 
 120. Descent of Elizabeth, wife [in 1614] of George, 
 Lord Berkeley, from William Read, gent. [temp. Hen.VIIL] 
 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 121. "Descent of George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, and 
 his Royal and Noble Alliances." Illuminated and pre- 
 pared for Lord Hunsdon by William Smyth, Rouge 
 Dragon \ob. 1618]. 
 
 122. Emblazoned pedigree, in tree-form, of Carey, 
 Lords Hunsdon, side by side with pedigree of the Royal 
 Family of England, both starting from William L Elabo- 
 rately drawn and illuminated. i6th cent. On roller. 
 
 123. Complete Shield of Arms of Sir William Sitsilt 
 [Cecil] Lord Burghley, with eighty quarterings, elaborately 
 drawn and coloured, with list of the families quartered and 
 dates of their alliance. Temp. Eliz. Vellum. 
 
 12^. Pedigree of Clifford and the descent therefrom 
 of the families of Codrington, Poyntz, Porter, Shipman, 
 Borlas, etc. 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 125' Descent of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, 
 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Countess of Hun- 
 tingdon [Katharine, dau. of John Dudley, Earl of Northum- 
 berland, wife of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon], 
 and Lady Sydney [Marg., dau. of John Dudley, Earl of 
 Northumberland, wife of Sir Henry Sydney, K.G.], from 
 John Talbot, Lord Lisle [in 1452]. i6th cent. Paper. 
 
 126. Pedigree and "brieffe declaration of the pretended 
 estate and title of" the three daughters of [Richard Beau- 
 champ], Earl of Warwick \ob. 1439], co-parceners to the 
 Manors of Wotton, Symondshall, Cam, Hinton and Slim- 
 bridge. 17th cent. Paper. 
 
Select Rolls. 297 
 
 127- Pedigree of the Barons Fitzwalter, from Roger 
 [pb. 19 Edw. II.] to Benjamin Mildmay, living in 1669. 
 17th cent. Printed. Paper. 
 
 128. Rough pedigree, showing the connection of the 
 Lisles with the Berkeley s. 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 129. Descent of the families of Longney, Warner and 
 Harding, from Eustace de Cam. i6th cent. Paper. 
 
 130. Chronicle-Pedigree of the family of Mowbray, 
 showing the descent of the family from Roger, Earl of 
 Northumberland, and Nigil de Albeney to Thomas de 
 Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, 1366. Vellum. 14th cent. 
 
 131. Descent of Sir Philip Sidney from Maurice, 
 Lord Berkeley, [ternp. Hen. IV.] 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 132. Pedigree of " Roberd of Stone, Lord of Wandys- 
 welle [Wanswell] and of Stone." Late 15th cent. 
 
 133. Pedigree of West, Lords De la Warre, from 
 Roger, temp. Edw. I. to Henry, temp. Charles I. Printed. 
 Paper. 
 
 134. Three shields of arms of the Berkeley family. 
 1 8th cent. 
 
 135. Notes from Grafton's Chronicle, commencing : 
 
 " London then cauled Troynavant was builded 1108 yeres 
 befor Crist by Brutus," and ending 
 
 " William conquered Scotland and forced Malcolme to do 
 him omage — married priests excommunicated." 
 
 17th cent. Paper. 
 
298 Berkeley Castle 
 
 136. Fragment of general chronicle, containing 62 
 lines, commencing : 
 
 " This Emperour y* hadde the w 
 
 Toke to hym to inenteyne his jurisdiccion 
 Maximiam to raigne in the west " 
 
 and ending: 
 
 " In this tyme Maxencius 
 
 Reyned in Rome a tirant mischeffous. " 
 
 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 137, Contemporary Copy of the letters, challenge, etc. 
 that passed between Lord Berkeley and Lord Lisle, etc., 
 immediately previous to the Battle of Nibley and the death 
 of Lord Lisle.' 
 
 138« Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of 
 Worcester recording the admission of Rectors, etc., to the 
 Parish Churches of Slimbridge [1207- 147 5], Berkeley 
 [1287- 1460], the Chapelry of Stone [i 356-1465], the 
 Chapelry of Shipwardende al. Sheperden [i 354-1 399], 
 with copies of documents relating to Longbridge Hospital 
 near Berkeley. loth cent. Paper. Mutilated. 
 
 139. Pleas of " Quo Warranto " before William de 
 Saham, Roger Loveday and John Metingham, Justices 
 itinerant for co. Gloucester. Easter, 15 Edw. L [1287]. 
 Vellum. 
 
 1^0, Similar Roll to No. 139, but containing only 
 Plea of Thomas de Berkeley. 14th cent. Copy. Vellum. 
 
 141. Similar Roll to No. 140. i8th cent. Copy. 
 Vellum. 
 
 142. Recognition of lands, shops, etc., held by feudal 
 service in Berkeley Borough, 20 Edw. I. [1291]. Amongst 
 
 * See preface to present work for a full description of these events. 
 
Select Rolls. 299 
 
 the entries are : Willelmus de Aure fecit fidelitatem et 
 cognovit quod tenet de Domino ad voluntatem, seldam 
 
 suam cum pertinentiis subtus la Geldhalle Isabella 
 
 le Cuppere fecit fidelitatem et cognovit quod tenet i burga- 
 gium in vico subtus crucem .... The following localities 
 are also mentioned : High Street, Church Street, Saltar 
 Street, Lokastebrugg, Le Canenebury, Fromylodes, etc. 
 
 143. " A note of the names of all those that have been 
 Justices of Chester and of the tyme every of them enjoyed 
 his place," from tempp. Edw. I. — James I. 17th cent. 
 Paper. 
 
 144. Record of feoffment by Robert le Veele, Knt., 
 and his descendants, of the manor and advowson of St. 
 Pagan's, etc., co. Glamorgan. Temp. Edw. I. — Edw. IV. 
 Imperfect at beginning. Paper. 
 
 145. Declaration by the Jury at an inquiry held at 
 Meskyn, in Wales, as to the dates of the death, and age of 
 the heirs of the family of Despenser, from Hugh \ob. 23 
 Edw. III.] to Thomas, ob. i Hen. IV. Paper. Defaced. 
 
 146. Inquisition, held at Gloucester, of Knights' fees 
 pertaining to Dom. Maurice de Berkeley, by reason of his 
 castle and manor of Berkeley. Dat. Sun. aft. F. of St. 
 James [25 July] 37 Edw. III. [1363]. Paper. 
 
 147. List of Knights' Fees of the Duke of Norfolk's 
 lands, circ. i Hen. IV. [1400]. Paper. 
 
 148. Inquisitio-POST-MORTEM of Richard [Beau- 
 champ] Earl of Warwick, held at Cirencester, 2 Nov., 19 
 Hen. VI. [1440]. Vellum. 
 
 149. Award by William, Lord Ferrers and others in a 
 suit between Edward, Duke of Somerset, John, Earl of 
 
300 Berkeley Castle 
 
 Shrewsbury, and Sir George Nevill, and Sir James Berke- 
 ley, respecting the possessions of the late Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley, in cos. Glouc. and Somerset. Dat. Cirencester, 
 5 Apr., 26 Hen. VI. [1448]. Paper. 
 
 150. "The Customes of the Manor of Thornbury 
 grauntyd the iiij*^ yere of Kyng Henry the vii*^ [1488-9] 
 Sir Water Harbert then beynge Hyghe Steward there." 
 Vellum. 
 
 151. Draft of petition of Sir Maurice Berkeley to the 
 King praying to be restored to the Castle of Berkeley and 
 the manors and lordships belonging thereto, and asking the 
 King to accept the manors and lordships of Alconbury with 
 Weston's, CO. Hunts., and of Wyng and Penn, co. Bucks. 
 Temp. Hen. VH. [1491-1506]. Paper. 
 
 152. Letters Patent of Hen. VHI. appointing 
 Maurice, Lord Berkeley, Governor of the Castle of Calais 
 [1520]. Paper. Copy. 
 
 153. Petition to Henry VHI. by "his subjects and 
 Commons," begging him in view of the openly evil lives of 
 the priests and the enormous possessions of religious houses, 
 to confirm and cause to be carried into effect the various 
 acts of his predecessors affecting the same. Paper. 
 
 15^. Arrears of pay due to the various officers and 
 servants of Maurice Berkeley, in cos. Glouc. and Wilts. 
 9 Hen. VHL [15 17-8]. Paper. 
 
 155. Petition to Henry VHI. for an act of restitution 
 in favour of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, late attainted 
 for high treason [1546]. Copy. Paper. 
 
 156. List of " presentations of Abbeys and Advow- 
 sons of Livings in the gift of the Lords of Berkeley at the 
 dissolution of monasterys in 31 Hen. 8," [1539-40]. i8th 
 cent. Paper. 
 
Select Rolls. 301 
 
 157. Petition of the "poor Prestes Stypendaris" of 
 England and Wales to the King respecting payments 
 demanded from them. Temp. Hen. VIII. Paper. 
 
 158. Particulars of the lands, manors, etc. (i) in the 
 possession of Elizabeth and Margaret Talbot ; (2) of the 
 Lords Berkeley in co. Glouc. ; (3) of the lands "put in 
 feffement to paye ye dettys of my lady Shrewesbury and to 
 performe her last wyl " ; (4) of " ye joynt ur of my Lady 
 Lyle which ye Lord Berkelee hathe." Temp. Hen. VIII. 
 Paper. 
 
 159. Account of Henry, Lord Berkeley [posthumous 
 son of Thomas, Lord Berkeley] and of Anne, Lady Berke- 
 ley, his mother, and of the former's restitution to Berkeley 
 Castle on the death of Edward VI. without heir male. 
 1 8th cent. Paper. 
 
 160- Petition of Maurice, Lord Berkeley, brother and 
 heir of William, Marquis of Berkeley, to Card. Wolsey as 
 Chancellor of England, respecting the disposal of the rents 
 of the Manors of Penn and Marlow, co. Bucks, and other 
 Manors, as directed in his will. Temp. Hen. VIII. Paper. 
 Damaged by damp at the edges. Paper. 
 
 161. " A REMEMBRAUNSof all tenementis being in the 
 citee of Bath " : a rental of ten holdings in Bath, followed 
 by a similar rental for Swanyswicke [Swainswick] ; on the 
 back are : 
 (i) "The hole rent of assyse off Ayllemerton [Aylminton] 
 
 by the yere." 
 
 (2) " The hole rent off assyse off Maggerysfeld [Mangots- 
 field."] 
 
 (3) " The hole rent off assyse off Fylton [Filton], Herry- 
 stoke [Harry-Stoke, nr. Filton], and Horsfeld [Horfield], 
 Brystow [Bristol], Olston [Olveston], Othynton." 
 
 16th cent. Vellum. 
 
302 Berkeley Castle 
 
 162. Plea in Queen's Bench, Henry Carey, Lord 
 Hunsdon in suit, brought by Elizabeth Lukenor, widow and 
 executrix of Henry Lukenor, concerning a debt for certain 
 merchandize purchased by the said Lord from Henry 
 Lukenor, Easter Term, i6 EHz. [1574]. 
 
 163. Declaration by Thomas Porter, Knt, late 
 Sheriff of Gloucester, of rents due to the Crown from 
 property in co. Gloucester. Mich. 17 Eliz. [1575]. 
 
 164. Assessment for " A Rate for the Church " 
 [Bevington], 17 Eliz. [1574-5]. Paper. 
 
 165. Similar assessment for Bevington Church, 30 
 Eliz. [1587-8]. Paper. 
 
 166. " Orders and paines sett downe by the xii jury- 
 men at the Quenes Law dale holden at Bytton the xv*^^ 
 daie of Aprill .... 1600." Paper. Amongst them is the 
 following order : 
 
 " Item, we doe order and sett downe y* everie man w*in 
 this parishe of Bytton for his parte shall fill up their old 
 cole pittes y* be not nowe in workinge by Whytsondaye 
 
 next and so to continue upon paine of xx' everie 
 
 man makinge a deffalt therein." 
 
 167. " Orders and paynes sett downe .... at Bitton 
 the first of October . . . 1601." Paper. Amongst them are: 
 
 " Item, we doo order and sett downe y* no man nor 
 woman within this parishe of Bitton shall make any revell 
 uppon the Saboath daye to drawe companye togeather 
 from hearinge of Divine Service to the great dishonoure of 
 God, and evill example to others uppon paine of xx.s everie 
 one makinge a deffault therein." 
 
 " Item, we doe order and sett downe y* everie one that 
 keepeth ale for to sell shall keepe good civill and honest 
 
Select Rolls. 303 
 
 rule in their houses, and y* ther be non in their house after 
 X of the clocke at night except it be a straunger that they 
 lodge, uppon paine of iij s. iiij d. a peece." 
 
 168- " The Taytke of Kyne in theWorthey from Lam- 
 mas [i Aug.] to Allontyde [i Nov.] some by the Quarter 
 
 and by the week at viii d. the weeke and horses at 
 
 xii d. the weeke." 1602. Paper. 
 
 169. " Tayckmentes of Kyne in the Worthey the first 
 quarter from Holliroode day [3rd May] to Lammas [i Aug.] 
 in the yeare of our Lorde God 1602 at xd. the weeke." 
 Paper. 
 
 170- " The Tayckmentes of horses and coltes in Cul- 
 verhayes and Hamstalis by the Quarter and some by the 
 weeke in the yeare of our Lorde God 1602." Paper. 
 
 171. *' The Queenes tytle to part of the Lo. Riches 
 landes with Seint Legers" ; and [George Carey] Lord 
 Hunsdon's, with descent of the latter from Thomas Butler, 
 Earl of Ormonde. Temp. Eliz. Paper. 
 
 172. " Case of Mr. St. Leger," or particulars of lawsuit 
 of John St. Leger, claiming lands belonging to the Earldom 
 of Ormonde, with " The lyne of alliance between St. Leger 
 and Butler, Earle of Ormond and Wiltes." Temp. Eliz. 
 Paper. 
 
 173- " The la. Berkeleys Breviat," or particulars of 
 lawsuit of Thomas Berkeley, Knt., and the Lady Elizabeth 
 his wife, plaintiffs, claiming against Richard Jocelyn, defen- 
 dant, " to have by write of Petition the moitye of the Manor 
 of High Rothing in the county of Essex," with table of the 
 descent of Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, the plaintiff, from 
 Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond. 17th cent. Paper. En- 
 dorsed " Mr. Sergeant NicoUs " [Augustine Nicholls, Ser- 
 geant-at-law, 1603]. 
 
304 Berkeley Castle 
 
 174. Particulars of lawsuit between the same plain- 
 tiffs, claiming against Margaret Lawson al. Edmondes, 
 widow, defendant, " to have by write of Peticion the moyte 
 of the Manor of Wakeringe in the countye of Essex," with 
 table of the descent of Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, the 
 plaintiff, from Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde. 17th cent. 
 Paper. 
 
 l^S- Pleas in suit between Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 plaintiff, and Thomas Bowser, bro. and heir of Anthony 
 Bowser, defendant, relating to the latter's marriage and land 
 in Stone, co. Glouc. Attached are three subpoenas 
 for witnesses in the suit. Westminster, Easter Term, 6 
 James L [1608]. 
 
 176- Copy of the grant of the wardship of George, Lord 
 Berkeley, to his mother Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley, 13 July, 
 12 Jas. I [1614]. 
 
 177. " A Collection of the customary and Rate Tythes 
 yearly tyme out of mind accustomed to bee paid by inhabi- 
 tants of North Nibley in the county of Glouc. for their 
 severall messuages, cottages, grounds and cattle as after 
 foUoweth, renewed as well by examynacion of the inhabi- 
 tants there and conference with the parson at severall 
 meetings, as by view of divers old rolls testifying the same 
 perfited in the monthes of August and September 1619." 
 Vellum. 3 membranes. 
 
 178. " A Note of every mans labour what hee hath 
 don at the hiwayes for this yeare within this tithinge 
 of Ham, 1622." Paper. 
 
 179. " An Accompt of all the Moneys come to the 
 hands of John Massingberd, Esquire, raised by rents, sale of 
 lands and otherwise for payment of Creditors of y* R* Ho'"'* 
 
Select Rolls. 305 
 
 George Lord Berkeley which are expressed in the Scedule 
 annexed to his lo^* deed dated y® 8*^ August a° 1646 
 being extracted out of twoe cash books N^ A and N° B, 
 kept for and at y® earnest request of y® ho^'® Geo. Berkeley, 
 Esquire, wherein is contayned his gennerall accompts of all 
 the moneys received and Payd for the said Mr. Berkeley 
 by him the said Jo° Massingberd." Paper. 
 
 180. Articles of impeachment^ against George, Lord 
 Berkeley, " whereby hee stands charged of high treason 
 and other high crimes and misdemeanors." Dat. 8 Feb., 
 1648. Paper. 
 
 181. " List of all the persons' names that have served 
 the office of Reeve from the year 1650 to this present year 
 1737 for the Manor of Ham," with continuation to 1753. 
 Paper. 
 
 182. List of " My Lord's Tenants that pay Rent 
 capons and Hens." 17th cent. Paper. 
 
 183. Map of the River Severn, with names of the ten- 
 ants of the various fishing grounds. 1 8th cent. Vellum. 
 
 184. Abstracts of charters relating to South New- 
 inton, CO. Oxon. Temp. Edw. HL Vellum. 
 
 ' Impeached for " levying war against the King, Parliament, and Kingdom." 
 Cal. of State Papers, 1645-1647. [Ed. 1891.] p. 570. 
 
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 SELECT BOOKS. 
 
 BOUND 1-36. UNBOUND 37-85. 
 
 1. Chartulary^ of St. Augustine's Abbey, " called the 
 Red Book," containing copies of the Charters relating to 
 the Abbey. Late 13th cent., with some later additions. 
 Vellum, bound in red leather. Octavo. 
 
 2. The Lives of the Berkeleys,^ Lords of the Honour, 
 Castle, and Manor of Berkeley, by John Smyth, of Nibley, 
 1066-1618, written for and presented to George, Lord 
 Berkeley. Three volumes. Vellum. Bound in brown 
 morocco. Large Quarto. 
 
 3. Copy of the same, made for Lady Elizabeth Ger- 
 maine. 
 
 4. Another copy of the same. 
 
 6. Another copy of the same. First volume only. 
 
 6. An Abridgement of Smyth's lives, followed by 
 drawings of the various lords' seals. Paper. Thin folio. 
 Bound in leather. 
 
 "7. Description of the Hundred of Berkeley ^ by John 
 Smyth. Folio. 
 
 1 For a full description of its contents, see 4th Report of the Historical MSS. 
 Commission, App., p 366. 
 
 2 Edited in 1883 by Sir John Maclean, F.S.A., etc., for the Bristol and 
 Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 
 
 3 Edited in 1883 by Sir John Maclean, F.S.A.j for the Briotol and 
 Gloucestershire Archaelogidal Sodety. 
 
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Select Books. 307 
 
 8. Copy of the same. 
 
 9. Survey of the Berkeley Manors by John Smyth, 
 1606. Folio. Bound in vellum. 
 
 10. ClIARTULARY, containing transcripts of the Berke- 
 ley Charters, from the earliest times to temp. Henry V., 
 frequently referred to by Smyth as " Magna Cartula." 
 Vellum ; fif. 399. xvth cent. Large Quarto. 
 
 11. Abstracts of " charters belonging to the house of 
 Berkeley," collected and arranged by John Smyth, 
 apparently in preparation of his Lives of the Berkeleys. 
 17th cent. 
 
 12. Fair Copy of the same, finely written on vellum, 
 in October, 1798. 
 
 13. " The Booke of Wardships and Reliefs" collected 
 and written by John Smyth, preceded by a dedicatory 
 letter to Lord Berkeley. Vellum, bound in limp vellum. 
 
 I'i. " The Names of all such persons as hold any lands 
 or tenements by Knight service of the Right Honourable 
 Lord Henry, enobled also with the tytles and Baronyes of 
 Lord Mowbray, Lord Segrave and Lord Brus. Of whom 
 his Lo. may theirby require that honorable and humble 
 servise of homage : Also of Eschuage : Ayde to make his 
 Sonne Knight : Ayde to mary his daughter. Assistance in 
 the warres : castle guard : maryage of their heires : Releefe : 
 Escheats : and other like collected by John Smythe." 1603. 
 Duodecimo. Bound in leather. 
 
 15. Transcript of the same, made in 1798. Vellum, 
 bound in red morocco. 
 
 16. " The Copies of the originall and auncient deeds 
 \v 2 
 
3o8 Berkeley Castle 
 
 touchinge the hon''''' Family of the Lord Berkeley of Ber- 
 keley and the Barony thereof, and of other Records and 
 Memorialls touching the same," perhaps by John Smyth. 
 Paper. Small Quarto. Bound in leather. 
 
 1^. Fair Copy of the same. Paper. Quarto. Bound 
 in vellum. 
 
 18. Brief Register of Croxton Abbey, co. Notts., 
 with obituary notices of the Abbots, etc Late xivth cent. 
 Vellum. Quarto. 
 
 19. Survey of the Gloucestershire Manors, etc., made 
 by Commissioners appointed by King Henry VI IL on 7th 
 July, anno 36 [1544], known as " Moyle's Survey." Paper. 
 Folio. Bound in vellum boards. 
 
 20. I. Survey of Ham and other Manors in Berkeley 
 taken 8 July, 36 Hen. VHL [1544]. 
 
 2. Survey of Wotton Manor taken i July, 15 
 Eliz. [1573]. Folio. Bound in vellum. 
 
 21. Survey of the lands, etc., of Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 1,2 Philip and Mary [1554-5], called "Mr. Shillitoe's 
 Survey." Folio. Bound in Vellum. 
 
 22. " Rentale Domini Thome de Berkeleye de 
 omnibus maneriis suis in comitatu Glouc[estrie] factum per 
 visum dompni Thome de Tyringham Prioris de Stanleye 
 Sancti Leonardi. Et Roberti de Stone ad prioratum de 
 Stanleye Anno Regni Regis Edwardi xvi." Finely written, 
 with headings in red. Vellum. Folio. Bound in vellum. 
 
 23. Rental of Portbury Manor temp. Edw. L, having 
 on the last page a list of obits, from Robert Fitzharding to 
 Eve de Berkely, in 13 14. Well written, with headings in 
 red. Lat. Vellum. Preceded by a Survey of Portbury 
 
Select Books, 309 
 
 and the various Berkeley Manors, in the handwriting of 
 John Smyth, 17th cent, and followed by transcripts of 
 letters relating to subsidies. Temp. Eliz. Large folio. 
 Bound in vellum. 
 
 24. Rentals of various manors in Cos. Cornwall and 
 Somerset, 24 Hen. VI. [1445-6]. Lat. Folio. Bound in 
 vellum. 
 
 26. " Mr. Humphrey Alsop's booke of tenures, who 
 was Solicitor [and Steward] of my Lord Henry, temp. Eliz. 
 Regine, 29"°," followed by " the true discent and pedigree 
 of the right honorable Henry, Lord Berkeley, one of the 
 three houses of England, for his descent in the male line." 
 Paper. Small quarto. Bound in vellum. 
 
 26. Fair copy of the same, made ist October, 1798. 
 Vellum. Bound in vellum. 
 
 27. " Military Survey," showing, in four columns, 
 Particulars (for the Hundreds of Grimbold's Ash, Torman- 
 ton, Lytelton, and Acton Turvyle) of " Names," " Terre," 
 "Bona," and " Arma vel Harnes." 13 Hen. VHL [1521-2]. 
 Folio. 
 
 28. Similar Survey. Temp. Hen. VHI. Folio. 
 
 29. Transcripts of various deeds relating to Wotton 
 and other manors, /^w//. Eliz. — Charles H. Folio. Bound 
 in vellum. 
 
 30. Transcripts of exemplifications and inquisitions 
 taken from originals in the Berkeley Collections in January, 
 1593. Large Folio. Bound in vellum. 
 
 31. " The copy of the Rolls contained in the Cardinant 
 bagge kept in y^ Treasurie, and w*"** is kept sealed w*^ some 
 privie Councell""^^ scales." The extracts refer entirely to 
 " assaying." Late 17th cent. Folio. Bound in vellum. 
 
310 "Berkeley Castle 
 
 32. House Steward's Book, Mich« 1584 to Mich" 
 1585, giving particulars of the expenses of each meal. 
 
 33. "Old Daily Accounts." Temp. Hen. VHI. Vellum. 
 
 34. " The Statutes and ordinances of the most noble 
 order of St, George named the Garter, Reform'd .... 
 by the most . . puissant Prince Henry the 8th," with 
 continuations to 13 Eliz, [1570]. Fairly written out in black 
 and red, apparently on the installation of James, 3rd Earl 
 of Berkeley, in 17 18. Quarto. Bound in brown leather, 
 with gilt tooling, with Royal arms on back and front. 
 
 35. A — K. " The Affairs of Ireland, copies of Royal 
 Orders, Letters, etc., in the reign of K. William HI., when 
 Charles, Earl of Berkeley, was one of the Lords Justices." 
 Ten volumes. Folio. The contents are : — 
 
 A, B. " Martial Affaires," warrants and orders, 23 Aug., 
 1699 — 4 Apr., 1 70 1. 
 
 C. " Marching Orders and Lycences," 1699 — 1701. 
 
 D. "Warrants," 25 May, 1699 — 24 Mar., I70c[ij. Re- 
 versing the volume, are inserted " Plans of Farmes 
 taken by Elizabeth, Countess of Berkeley, Aug. 31st, 
 1756." 
 
 E. " King's Letters and Reports," viz., Copies of the King's 
 letters to the Lords Justices, with their Reports, 1699 — 
 1700. Included is an " Accompt of money laid out for 
 Provisions, Freight, etc., for the Soldiers sent to New 
 Yorke " in 1700, amongst the items being " 200 cwt. of 
 Tobacco at lod. per lb." 
 
 F. "King's Letters and Reports," 1699 — 17CX). 
 
 G. H. Petitions to the Lords Justices, 1699 — 1701. 
 
 J. " The Commission and Instructions to the Lords 
 Justices and the Earls of Berkeley's Letters, 1699." The 
 
Select Books. 311 
 
 Commission is dated 29 June, 1699, and the Instruc- 
 tions 18 July, 1699. The letters, with the exception of 
 the first, are from Lord Berkeley, dated from Dublin 
 Castle and Clancarty House, 22 Aug., 1699 — 6 Man, 
 1701. The first letter in the volume is from Jonathan 
 Swift, " My Lord's Chaplain," dated Kilkenny, 19 Aug., 
 1699, and contains an account of Lord Berkeley's 
 landing and reception at Waterford. It is addressed to 
 Humphrey May, at Dublin Castle. 
 
 K. " Book of Letters," the official correspondence of the 
 Lords Justices, 2 May, 1699 — 5 Apr., 1701. 
 
 36. A, B. Letter-books, containing copies of letters 
 from Charles, Viscount Dursley [2nd Earl of Berkeley in 
 1698'], Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague, to [Daniel 
 Finch] Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State, and others, 
 4 Oct., 1689 — 20 Dec, 1692. Two volumes. Small folio. 
 
 37. " Copy of Domesday Book for Gloucestershire." 
 
 38. Copies of writs of summons for the various parlia- 
 ments in 23, 27 Edw. I. and 7 Edw. II., addressed to the 
 Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Nobles, Knights, etc., with nominal 
 lists of the same. 17th cent. 
 
 39. Chartulary containing copies of the foundation 
 charter, and subsequent confirmations of the same, of the 
 chantry of St. Andrew, in Berkeley Church. 14th cent. 
 Vellum. 
 
 40. Accounts of the Collectors of the Fifteenths and 
 Tenths, 3 Hen. VIII. [151 1-12]. 
 
 41-42. " Copy of Henry, Lord Berkeley's, claim of 
 precedence of Lord De la Ware in the House of Lords 
 when he reverted to his Ancient Barony at the death of 
 King Edward the VPV Paper. 
 
312 Berkeley Castle 
 
 43. Descent of the Barony, abstracted from various 
 charters and records tempp. Henry II. — ^James I., with 
 legal notes thereon. Paper (2 copies). 
 
 44. " The Petition and Case of George, Lord Berkeley, 
 relating to his ancient Barony." Circ. 1660- 1670. 
 
 45. Particulars of money raised by the Tenants for 
 the use of Henry, Lord Berkeley, for payment of his debts. 
 Dat. 22 Eliz. [1579-80]. 
 
 46. Assessment of military loan in Co. Glouc. Dat. 
 31 Eliz. [1588-9]. 
 
 47 " SUBSIDIE booke for the Hundreds of Grum- 
 boldeashe, Poclechurche, Henburye and Barton-iuxta- 
 BrystoU." 17th cent. 
 
 48, " A View of the horse, armour, and other warlick 
 ferniture assessed upon the Cleargy within the dioces of 
 Gloucester taken by the reverend father in God, Miles, Lo. 
 Bushopp of the same dioces, Anno 1613." 
 
 49, Presentment to George, Lord of Berkeley, by 
 the 125 Customary Tenants of the " auntient customes, 
 usages and priviledges within the manor, barony and Hun- 
 dred of Berkeley," 18 Sept., 1623. 
 
 50, I. " Order of Precedence for Peers and Peeresses." 
 
 2. " Orders to be observed in Assemblys of 
 Councill," 20 Feb., 1627. 
 
 51, Household expenses at Berkeley Castle for 1550. 
 The following is an extract : — 
 
Select Books. 313 
 
 Frydaye the v^'^ of Januarie : 
 
 Butler, xxix^^ vii» j"^ cd. 
 
 Eggs, ix" vii ... iit*j"^ 
 
 Flcwnders, i ... ... ... ... ... j"* 
 
 Whitings, i iii*^ 
 
 Cards, i ii"^ 
 
 Eles great, iiii iis viii«* 
 
 Lampairns, Ixxii ... ... ... ... ... vi* 
 
 Breamis, iii xvi<* 
 
 Tenchis, iiii iis viii^ 
 
 Pykes, ii iii s 
 
 Mylletts, iii iii** 
 
 Woodcokes, viii, and iiii great birdes iis viii** 
 
 62. Steward's accounts for the manors of Bitton, 
 Upton St. Leonard's, Wotton, Brokenborowe, Cam, Arling- 
 ham, Sages, Berkeley, Frampton-on-Severn, Tetbury, 
 Dalby Chacomb, Cold Overton, Thornbury. Withcrley, 
 Thurlaston, Flecknoe, Aspley, and Mangotsfield. i EHz. 
 [1558-9]. Damaged by damp. 
 
 63. Books of Accounts, sewn together, for 1560, as 
 follow : — 
 
 1. " The Boke of the Recevars charge." 
 
 2. " The booke of necessaryes, 25 Jan., 1560." 
 
 3. " The booke of payments begonne the viii"' of September, 
 
 1560." 
 
 4. " Boke of forren paymentes begon on Saturday, the v*'' 
 
 of October for an hole money th." 
 
 5. Similar book, beginning 16 August. 
 
 6. Similar book, beginning 9 November. 
 
 7. " The booke of paymentys begynnynge the six*** of 
 
 Julye, 1560." 
 
 54. Accounts of the various Reeves, Woodwards, and 
 others for Berkeley, Ham, Alkington, Coaley, Cam, Hurs" 
 Sages, Tetbury, Slimbridge, Bitton, Mangotsfield, Arling- 
 
314 Berkeley Castle 
 
 ham, Daglinworth, Hinton, Canbury, Ailmington, Frampton, 
 Upton St. Leonards, Portbury, co. Som., Calloughdon by 
 Coventry, co. Warw., Sylby, Segrave, Mountsorrell, Melton 
 Mowbray, Dalby, Cold Overton, Goscote Hundred, co. 
 Leic, Fenny Stanton, and Alconbury, co. Hunt, Bretby, 
 CO. Derb., Bosham, Funtington, co. Suss. 19 Eliz. [1576-7]. 
 
 55. Abstracts of Stewards' accounts for the manors 
 within the Barony of Berkeley. 21 Eliz. [1578 9]. 
 
 56. Similar accounts for 22 Eliz. [1579-80]. 
 
 5*7. Book of arrears for same manors, 22 Eliz, [1579-80]. 
 
 58. Steward's accounts for the Berkeley manors, 23 
 Eliz. [1 580-1]. 
 
 59. Similar accounts, 24, 25 Eliz. [i 581-3]. 
 
 60. " The dischardge and paiments of the rentes and 
 revenues of the right honorable the Lorde Barkeleye " 
 within Cos. Glouc. and Som. 28 — 30 Eliz. [1586-8]. 
 
 61. Accounts of the manors of Ham and Dagling- 
 worth. 29, 30 Eliz. [1586-8]. 
 
 62. Work and Wages book of the Stewards of George, 
 Lord Berkeley, 1623-4. 
 
 63. " The accompt of all receipts and payments made 
 for the Lady Coke since 5 May, 1635, untill this xii*^ day 
 of July, 1635," being endorsed, " Mr. Smith's boke of 
 accompts for reciptes and payments." 
 
 64. Accounts of the Steward of the Earl of Berkeley 
 in cos. Glouc. and Sussex in 1761-1762. 
 
 65. Inventory of Furniture at New Park Lodge 
 [Berkeley], taken 20 Sept., 1608. 
 
Select Books. 315 
 
 66. Inventory of Furniture, plate, jewels, etc., of Sir 
 Michael Stanhope, Knt, " late ... of the parish of St. 
 James [Clerken ?]we]l, in the countieof Middlesex," 31 Jan., 
 1622. Injured by damp. 
 
 67. Inventories, as follows : — 
 
 1. " Household stuffs sent into Glostershire to New Parke 
 
 Lodge, XXV, of June, 1624." 
 
 2. " Account of what things [z.e. curtains] are wanting at 
 
 Berkeley Castle," 6 May, 1699. 
 
 3. " Goods belonging to my L*^ the Earle of Berkeley, all 
 are att my L*^ Clifford's house in Epsom." 
 
 4. " Pictures taken out of ye parlor att S°* Jone and carried 
 
 to Mrs. Rousses house." 
 
 5. "A Particular of Goods taken att S°* Jones ye 17th 
 
 of November, 1687." 
 
 68. I. A TRUE and just Inventorye of all soche stuff as 
 was in Shoe lane in the house sometymes the ladye Ber- 
 keleyes takine in the presence of dyverse honest men, 
 Wherfore part Diryck Anthonye toke into his custodye as 
 his and parte remaynt." i6th cent. 
 
 2. " A note of Lininge sent into Glostersheere," July, 1624. 
 
 3. "An Inventory of Goods in Burden's House," 25 Oct., 
 
 1688. 
 
 4. " An Inventory of ye goods at Berkeley Castle, taken ye 
 
 28th of July, 1687." 
 
 69. "An Inventory of ye goods in Burden's House, 
 taken Oct. the 2Sth, 1688." 
 
 70. Inventory of Furniture at Berkeley Castle. 1698. 
 
 71. Inventory of goods at Berkeley Castle belonging 
 to Charles, Earl of Berkeley, in 1699 and 1701. 
 
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 72. Survey of Segrave, Melton, and Cold Overton, co. 
 Leic. 36 Eliz. [ 1593-4]. 
 
 73. RENTALof farms, etc., containing names of Tenants, 
 lands, dates and conditions of leases, etc., in tabular form, 
 of all the manors in Berkeley parish ; preceded by list of 
 ** Annuities claimed on the Berkeley Estate." Circ. 1756. 
 
 74. List of " Knights' Fees in the County of Leicester, 
 holden of Melton Mannor." Temp. Eliz. 
 
 75. Miscellaneous Collection, containing copies of 
 charters, inquisitions, and other records. Amongst them 
 are : — 
 
 1. Knights' fees assigned by Edw. II. to Hugh Le Des- 
 
 penser and Eleanor, his wife, sister and heir of Gilbert 
 de Clare, late Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, which 
 were taken into the said King's hands on the " death of 
 the said Earl." ^ 
 
 2. Inquisitio-post-mortem of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 27 
 
 Nov., 35 Edw. III. L1361]. 
 
 3. Rental of the manors of Dom. Maurice de Berkele, 
 
 35 Edw. III. [1361]. 
 
 4. Chartulary, containing copies of 15 deeds relating to 
 
 Mangotsfield, co. Glouc, temp. Hen. III. — Hen. VI., 
 amongst them being the following inquisitiones-post- 
 mortem : — {a) David le Blount, 8 Aug., 17 Edw. II. 
 [1323] ; ib) Richard le Blount, W. after F. of St. Hilary 
 [13 Jan.], 20 Edw. II. [1327] ; {f) Margaret de Clare, 
 nuper uxor Hugonis d' Audely Comitis. Gloucestrie, 
 Sat. a. F. of St. Edmund [20 Nov.], 21 Edw. HI. [1347]; 
 {d) Edmund le Blount, 26 Apr., 36 Edw. III. [1362], 
 {/) Hugo, Comes Stafford, 21 Feb., 10 Ric. II. [1387] ; 
 
 1 Killed at Bannockbum in 1314. 
 
Select Books 317 
 
 (/) Thomas, Comes Stafford, Thurs. b. F. of St. Bar- 
 tholomew [24 Aug.], 16 Ric. II. [1392] ; (/) John Blount, 
 Th. aft. F. of St. Mark [25 Apr.], 22 Hen. VI. [1444] ; 
 (/t) Willelma que fuit uxor Joh. Blount, Sat. bef. F. of 
 SS. Simon and Jude [28 Oct.], 32 Hen. VI. [1453] ; (0 
 Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, 11 Sept., 39 Hen. VI. 
 [1460]. 
 
 76. Miscellaneous papers. Amongst them are : — 
 
 1. Copy of Order of Qu. Elizabeth for raising men in Co. 
 
 Gloucester, 18 July, A" 5 [1563]. 
 
 2. Original letter of John Smyth to Lord Berkeley, 19 
 
 May, s. a. 
 
 3. Original letter of Humphrey Alsope to Lord Berkeley, 
 
 18 March, s. a. 
 
 4. Appointment by Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley, of William 
 
 Claxton, of Bedminster, as Surveyor of Bitton and 
 Hanam, Feb., 1629. 
 
 5. Original letter from John Smyth, Edward Smyth, and 
 
 others to George, Lord Berkeley, enclosing particulars 
 of estates granted for raising money for his Lordship, 
 31 Aug., 1676. 
 
 *7*7. Copy of depositions in " the arraignment of Mrs. 
 An Turner on Thursday, the ix'^'' of November, 161 5, she 
 beynge Arraygned as an Accessary before the fact in ye 
 matter of L'' Tho. Overburye's murder." Paper. Damaged 
 by damp. 
 
 78, Account of the military expedition in the Low 
 Countries, and of the siege of Berghen-op-Zoom, 1622 ; being 
 a narrative of events from May to October of that year by 
 an Englishman, entitled, " A trewe relation of this somer's 
 servyce in those partes where myself was present." Signed 
 at the end H. H. Sixty-one pages. 
 
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 79. Pedigrees of the following families : — i. Berkeley, 
 Lords Berkeley, temp. Edw. II. — Elizabeth; 2. Chandos, 
 temp. Edw. IV. — 1608 ; 3. Berkeley, of Stoke, temp. Edw. 
 III. — Jas. I. ; 4. Berkeley, of Beverston, to temp. Jas. I, ; 5. 
 Poyntz. tetnp. Hen. III., etc.; 6. Bradstone, temp. Hen. III. 
 — Jas. I. ; 7. Veele, to temp. Jas. I. ; 8. Dennys, temp. Hen. 
 VI. — Jas. I. ; 9. Throgmorton, temp. Edw. II. — Jas. I, ; ic. 
 Butler, temp. Hen. VII. — Jas. I. ; 11. Poole, temp. Hen. 
 VIII. — Jas. I. ; 12. Porter, to temp. Jas. I. ; 13. Tracy, temp. 
 Ric. III. — Jas. I.; 14. Clifford, temp. Jas. I.; 15. Welshe, 
 /^;«/. Jas. I. ; 16. Norwood ; 17. Hungerfoi-d; 18. Wynter ; 
 19. Trye ; 20. Baynham ; 21. Seymour, of Frampton ; 22. 
 Chester; 23. Basset; 24. Huntley; 25. Thorpe; 26. Coth- 
 rington ; 27. Kemys ; 28. Thomas ; 29. Yonge ; 30. Gyfford. 
 17th cent. 
 
 80. I. "A TRUE Sertyfycathe of the deere wyche hathe 
 bene kylled bye the commandement of the Reynger." 
 
 2. Similar return of " deres wyche he lefte in Ardense Wake 
 
 bye mysschanse." 
 
 3. "A true Sertyfycathe of the buckes that hathe bene con- 
 
 sumed bye Neglygense to y^ decaye of the game." i6th 
 cent. 
 
 81. Collection of poems and miscellaneous pieces, 
 etc., amongst them being — 
 
 1. " A disputacion touching ye Arte of Alchymie betwene 
 one Brutus, a learned man, and his frende Tudorus." 
 Endorsed " the secret of Mr. Cotes." 
 
 2. Two copies of a poem " On the Happie Arrival of His 
 
 Highnesse the Prince of Orange, November 5th, 1688," 
 preceded by letter from the author, Richard West, 
 addressed to George, Lord Berkeley, asking him to show 
 his verses to the King. 
 
Select Books. 319 
 
 3. " Owen Tudor, the first Booke by Hugh HoUande," dedi- 
 cated " To the Conquering Virgin . . . Queene 
 Elizabeth." 
 
 82. Collection of apothegms in Greek and Latin, 
 etc., by Charles Bill, with dedication addressed, in Latin, 
 " Honoratissimo viro . . . Domino Pagetto." Dat. Id. 
 Jan. [13 Jan.], 1580 [i]. 
 
 83- Collection of religious memoranda, texts, and 
 commentaries on various subjects in several lands. 17th 
 cent. 
 
 84. Index of words to the Satires of Juvenal. Im- 
 perfect at end, beginning at letter C. e.g.^ compesce^ digito 
 compesce labellum. 17th cent. Octavo. 
 
 85- Spiritual Sonnets, by Henrj' Constable [^^. 1613]. 
 There is another copy of these sonnets in the British 
 Museum, Harl. 7553, from which T. Park, in his Heliconia, 
 printed them in 181 5 ; but the present MS. contains two 
 that are not in either of the above, namely, the one " To St. 
 Collet," and the other "To the Blessed Martir, Marye 
 Queene of Scotland." Quarto. 
 
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 Select Letters, Warrants, 
 
 ETC. 
 
 Vol. I. Royal Warrants and Letters. 
 
 1. Warrant of Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Berkeley, 
 Knt., as Keeper of His Majesty's Park at Berkeley, con- 
 cerning the losses certain tenants and inhabitants of the 
 lordship of Berkeley have sustained owing to the breaking 
 out of the Deer, " which dailly (by reason of the decaye and 
 Ruyne of the Pales of our seide Park) have excourst into 
 their corn and grasseland, contynew too pasture fede and 
 lye in the same to their noe small losse and preiudice ;" and 
 requesting Sir Thomas to allow Sir Anthony Poyntz and 
 others who had received directions " as well for the palyng 
 of the seide pare as for th' advoyding and taking of such 
 oure deare as be within our seide lordship " to accomplish 
 their work without let or hindrance ; Greenwich, 28 May, 
 s.a. With signature, " Henry R." and paper signet. 
 Mutilated. 
 
 2. Warrant of the same " to the maister of our game 
 within our chace of Redwood " to deliver to " Sir Maurice 
 Berkeley, Knight for our body, or unto the bringer hereof 
 . . . on stag of season to be taken of oure gift within our 
 chace of Redwood"; Greenwich, 2 Jun., Anno 7 [15 15]. 
 With stamped signature and paper signet. Mutilated. 
 
 3. Similar warrant " to the Keper of our wodd called 
 Redwodde, in Berkley Herons," to deliver a " stag in 
 season" to Sir William Kingston, Knt; Greenwich, 31 
 July, Anno 7 [15 15]. With stamped signature and paper 
 signet. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 321 
 
 4. Qu. Mary to Henry, Lord Berkeley, on Wyat's re- 
 bellion. " Trusty and right welbeloved we grete yowe well 
 and where we be by sondrie wayes enfourmed that Thomas 
 Wiatt and some others have of late, by spreading abrode 
 moste false and vayne rumors, procured to stirre our Sub- 
 iectes of our Countie of Kent to arrise againste us, our 
 Crowne and dignitie Royall, Albeit we have allready taken 
 suche ordre as we doubte not shalbe sufficient to represse 
 and overthrowe this unnaturall conspiracie, yet have we 
 neverthelesse thought good to require and chardge yowe 
 furthwith upon the sight hereof to putte yourself in full 
 ordre with as many of your servauntes, frendes, and 
 tenaunts as ye can make bothe on horsebacke and foote, to 
 be in a readines to marche and sette forwarde upon owne 
 houres warninge either againste the said rebelles or suche 
 other wayes as shalbe signified unto yowe from us, and in 
 the meane tyme to have good regarde to the quiet ordre of 
 the parties where ye dwell, causing all suche idle and lewed 
 persones as shall either by spreadinge abrode of untrue 
 rumors or by any other wayes attempte to stirre or disquiet 
 our loving subiects, to be apprehended and ponished as the 
 qualitie of their offences shall deserve. Yeven under our 
 Signet at our Manor of St. James, the xxvi*^ of January, the 
 firste year of our raigne [1554]. With signature, " Marye 
 the quene," and paper signet. 
 
 5. The same to " the Shreve and Justices of Peax of 
 our Countie of Gloueester," ordering them to furnish 500 
 men, " wherof fifty to be horsmen and the rest footemen, 
 thone halffe to be pikes and bills and well armed, thother 
 halffe to be Archers and Gonners," and to despatch them to 
 London to aid in suppressing Wyat's rebellion ;" St. James', 
 28 Jan., Anno i [1554]. Copy. 
 
 6. The same to Henry, Lord Berkeley ; Right trusty 
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 and wclbeloved, we grete you well and for as muche as 
 dyvers seditious persones traytorously conspyring togethere 
 have raysed a most unnaturall and perillous rebellion against 
 us, our lawes and dignity Royall, tending to the utter de- 
 struction of this our realme, if spedye remedie be not pro- 
 vided, We doo therefore charge and require you as ye 
 tender the suretie of our person and the preservacion of this 
 your native countrie that raysing all the force of hablemen 
 you be hable to make of your servaunts, tenaunts, frendes 
 and others under your rules and offices ye do with the same 
 warlyke manner repayre towardes us with all possible spede 
 wherein the more earnest expedition ye make the more 
 acceptable service shall ye minister unto us. This matter 
 requireth so muche the more hast for that many of the sayd 
 rebells have openly sayd that they want not in this theyr 
 detestable doing the ayde and succours of certaine our 
 auncient ennemies in forreyn partes. Yeoven under our 
 signet at our Paliace of Westminstre the xxx of Januarie, 
 the fyrst yere of oure Reigne" [1554]. With signature, 
 " Marye the quene," and paper signet. 
 
 7. Qu. Elizabeth, to Sir [George] Carey, afterwards 
 Lord Hunsdon, K.G., requesting him to repair to Windsor 
 Castle, having been appointed Commissioner, in conjunction 
 with Sir Henry Sydney, " for th' instalment .... of 
 our Right welbeloved the Lord Charles Haward, of Effing- 
 ham, beinge late chosen to be of the Fellosheppe and Com- 
 pagnions of our Order of the Garter ;" Greenwich, 30 Apr., 
 Anno 17 [1575]. With the Queen's signature and paper 
 signet. 
 
 8. The same to the same, expressing her anxiety as to 
 his health, which, she hears, is better since his " coming to 
 Bathe." " Good George ... I cannot but wonder, con- 
 sidering the great number of Payles of water that I hear 
 
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 have been powred upon you, that you are not rather 
 drowned than otherwise, but I trust all shall be for your 
 better meanes to helth." Signed at top, " Your most Affec- 
 tionate Lovinge Souveraine, Elizabeth R." n.d. [1596- 1603 J. 
 
 9. The same to the same, concerning his health. " Good 
 George, Because I have hard that before your departing 
 from Bathe, neyther your speech was becom much better 
 nor your leggs any strongar, and being still carefull and 
 desirous to know that you are rather amended since your 
 coming from thence, I have sent this gentleman, etc. . . 
 As yet I somewhat still doute that ther hath bene to greate 
 abundance of the same \i.e. water] squasshed upon you, 
 which I wold have restraynid if my self might have bene 
 with you, for therein wold I have bene bolde to have playde 
 the parte of a Phisician both to you and my Lady," etc. 
 Signed at top, " Your most Affectionate souveraine Eliza- 
 beth R." nJ, 
 
 10. The same to the same, on the same subject. " And 
 albeit my lady be alsoe most carefull in her place to omitt 
 nothing that may tende to your good, yett seeing you weare 
 the rather drawen thether by some other occasions for which 
 shee maie have cawse yett to make some further staie there : 
 yett we think it needefuU that yoursclfe shold presentlie re- 
 move from thense, though my lady remayne behinde some 
 fortnight after. And this to th'ende you might the sooner 
 tast the bennefitt wee hope shall arise unto you by this 
 chaunge and freshnes of the ayre. Herein we shalbe de- 
 sirous to heare of your resolucion. And though it hath soe 
 fallen out that hethertoo wee cold not see you wheare you 
 are, yett wee nothing doubt but shortelie to see you wheare 
 wee may. And in what place soeuer you be, you shall 
 finde us a Mother and a wife to minister unto you all the 
 best effectes of that tender and kinde affection which we 
 
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 male possiblie extende to one whom for many respectes wee 
 hold soe neere and deere unto us." Oatlands, 20 Aug., 
 Anno 44 [1602]. Copy. 
 
 11. Warrant of Qu. Elizabeth to the same, as 
 Governor of Berwick, and others, instructing them to assist 
 the Agents of the King of Scotland to " buye and provide 
 within this our Realme of England twelve horses or geldings, 
 to be conveighed from hence into Scotland for his owne 
 use." Greenwich, 30 Apr., 1588. Copy. 
 
 12. Warrant of the same to Thomas Dennys, Esquire, 
 and John Smythe, gent, directing them to peruse and ex- 
 amine a certain petition, the particulars of which are not 
 mentioned. Ludlow Castle, 4 May, Anno 38 [1596]. With 
 paper signet. 
 
 13. James VI. of Scotland to Lord Hunsdon, as 
 Governor of Berwick, asking for his favour towards " oure 
 trustie and welbelovit counsaloure, Robert [Pitcarne] Com- 
 mendatarof Dunfermeling [Abbey], owre principall Secretar 
 and Ambassador, presentlie directit toward her" [z>. the 
 Queen of England]. ' At oure castell of Striviling," i July, 
 1578. Signed "James R." 
 
 14. The same to the same, "Richt trustie cousin, as at 
 all tymes sen my first aquentance with you ye have ever 
 tane in hand the furthering of my adoos in thaise pairtis als 
 willingly and faithfully as gif ye had bene my borne subiect, 
 so now assuring my self of the lyke quheii the perfection is 
 as apperandly at hand of that worke quhairin ye have 
 longest travellit of any, I will desire you, for the further- 
 ance of the same, to trust as myself t'assist in all thingis 
 this berar, my ambassadoure, thus thinking long for the 
 expected frutis of his labouris and your concurrence. I 
 commit you, richt trustie cousin, to the Almichtye's main- 
 
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 tenance. From my palleis of Holyrudhouse, the 14 of 
 October, 1584. Your unalterit loving friend, James R." 
 Holograph. 
 
 15. Warrant by the same as James I. of England to 
 Henry, Lord Berkeley, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucester, 
 directing him to muster and enrol one hundred men for the 
 defence of the country. Greenwich, 23 May, Anno 6 [1608]. 
 With signature, "James R." and seal. 
 
 16. James, Duke of York, to Sir Andrew Richard. 
 " Understanding that my Lord Berkley hath an earnest in- 
 clination to obtaine your favorable reception in a sute which 
 he would prefer to my Lady your daughter, I do hold my 
 self so much concernd in all that relats to him that I cannot 
 but interpose myself in his behalf, and give you this testi- 
 mony that he is a person who hath so much endeard him- 
 self to me by his services to the King my Father and King 
 my Brother and my self with so much honor and successe, 
 that I do with much passion recomend him to your friend- 
 ship." London, 10 Aug., 1660. Holograph. 
 
 17. The same to George, Lord Berkeley. Brussels, 21 
 Aug., 1679. Holograph. 
 
 18. The same to the same. ''Some days since I re- 
 ceved yours of the 19 of the last month, and shall be sure 
 to recommend your concerne to his majesty, as you desire 
 me, the first tyme I write to him, and I make no dowt of 
 his majesty shewing you his favor since you serve him so 
 faithfully and so boldly. I am sure you deserve it. I am 
 glad those turbulent sperits who would have put you out of 
 the government of the Turkey company mist of their aime, 
 and am obliged to the Affrican company for being firme 
 also to me. I hope, for all the Parliament meetts so sone, 
 his Majesty will be so to himself, and only rely upon his 
 
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 old freirides, and then I make no doubt but his affairs will 
 go well in spight of the damnable designs of Phanatike and 
 republican, which are but all one, which is all I shall say- 
 now." Edinburgh, 3 March, s. a. Holograph. 
 
 19. The same to the same. Edinburgh, 8 May, s. a. 
 Holograph. Damaged by damp. 
 
 20. The same, as James H. of England to George, Earl 
 of Berkeley, summoning him and his wife to the coronation 
 of their Majesties, fixed for " ye 23*^ day of Aprill next." 
 Whitehall, 23 Mar., 16845]. Signed "James R." 
 
 21. Qu. Anne to Charles, Earl of Berkeley, summoning 
 him and his wife to the coronation of Her Majesty, fixed 
 for the 23rd April. St. James's, 2 Apr., 1702. Signed 
 " Anne R." 
 
 22. Warrant of William HI. to Narcissus [Marsh] 
 Archbishop of Dublin, and others, Justices of Ireland, dis- 
 charging Elizabeth Aldworth, widow, from certain arrears 
 of crown rents in consideration of her " great loss by ye 
 burning of her Mansion House and Townes by ye Irish 
 Army." Kensington, 30 May, 1699. Signed at the top 
 * William R.," and at the foot by Charles Montague, 
 Stephen Fox, J. Smith, and Thomas Littleton. 
 
 23. Warrants of the same to the Justices of Ireland 
 on military matters. Kensington, 22 Nov., 1699, 29 Jan., 
 17CX). With signatures and seals. 
 
 24. Warrant of the same to the same for an addi- 
 tional allowance of two shillings a day to the Sieur de la 
 Bouchetierre. Hampton Court, 3 June, 1700. 
 
 Note.— The 3 last documents are much damaged by damp. 
 
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 VOL. II. 
 
 1. Warrant from [Henry Stafford] Duke of Bucking- 
 ham to the Keepers of Forests, Parks and Chaces in Kent, 
 Surrey, and Essex that " as ofte as . . . the Vicounte 
 Berkeley liste to take his pleswer to hunte " within any of 
 the said forests, they are to " yeve hyme as good disporte " 
 as they can. Dat. Brecknock Castle, i Jan., 21 Edw. IV. 
 [1482]. / I. 
 
 2. Instructions to " Lord Berkeley and Sir William 
 Kyngiston, Knt., and other his Commissioners, auctorised 
 by the Kynges Commission under his greate seale for prac- 
 tising of an amicable and loving graunte for conservacion of 
 the honour of this realme ande Recoveryng of the crowne 
 and Realme of Fraunce, with other domynions and 
 Seignouries, rightfully apperteynyng unto his highnes 
 within the same." Undated. With the stamped signature 
 of Henry VIIL / 2. 
 
 3. John Straunge to Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knt., 
 Sheriff of co. Gloucester, on money matters, etc. " Ther is 
 grete speche touchyng the mater for Maynard of Mershfield, 
 y here say they have put my lord of Buk[ingham] in mynde 
 that he ought to have halfe his substance if he be atteynted, 
 and therfore y fere lest he woU loke on the mater. . . . 
 Ther may be shewd my lord chauncellor that ther be above 
 xlii prisoners in the Jayle, and so ther be indede. Y never 
 fye so money, it is not only a grete daunger to kepe them 
 this cold wether for fer of escape, for when they smert with 
 cold they will study to broke prison, but it is also pety to 
 see so mony pore creatures imprisoned." Dat. Michaelmas 
 Day [circ. 1512], / 10. 
 
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 4. Thomas Lovell to Sir Maurice Berkeley *' at Calice," 
 complaining of the latter's Keeper of Pucklechurch Park. 
 Dat. Hampton Court, 17 Dec. [15 12-1523]. From "your 
 awne Preste, Thomas Lovell." f. 11. 
 
 5. Privy Council to [Henry] Lord Berkeley and [Ed- 
 mund Bruges, Lord] Chandos, requesting them to hasten 
 the despatch of the 600 men which the Queen's letters had 
 ordered them to send to Newhaven, etc. Greenwich, 5 
 June, 1 563. Signed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl of North- 
 ampton, Earl of Pembroke, and others, f. 12. 
 
 6. The same to the same, "to see that there be no 
 parcialyte or coulloringe used in th' execution " of the 
 Queen's instructions for " putting in a ridinesse of certein 
 nombers of men, so to remaine for her majesty's service as 
 necessary occasion shall require." With signatures as above. 
 15 June, 1563. /. 13. 
 
 7. George Huntley, Sheriff of co. Gloucester, to [Henry] 
 Lord Berkeley, Sir Walter Denys, Sir Nicholas Pointz, and 
 others. Justices of Peace, summoning them to meet at 
 Gloucester to consider the Queen's letters for the " meting 
 of mosters." 22 June, 1563. f. 16. 
 
 8. [Edmund Bruges] Lord Chandos to [Henry] Lord 
 Berkeley on the same subject. Sudeley, 22 June [1563]. 
 
 /. 18. 
 
 9. Privy Council to the Sheriff of co. Gloucester for the 
 speedy despatch of 600 soldiers to Portsmouth for embarka- 
 tion to France. Greenwich, 24 June, 1563. Copy. f. 19. 
 
 10. George Huntley to the Justices of Peace for the 
 Hundreds of Berkeley, Grumbolds Ash, Thornbury, Hen- 
 bury, Pucklechurch, and Barton, to the same effect. 27 
 June, 1563. /. 20. 
 
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 11. Thomas Tyndale to [Henry] Lord Berkeley, that 
 money is wanted " for the coates and conduyt of the sol- 
 diers levied in the country." Eastwood, St. Peter's Day 
 [29 June], 1563. /. 21. 
 
 12. The same to the same on the furnishing of the troops. 
 Same date, f, 22. 
 
 13. Sir Thomas Throkmorton to [Henry] Lord Berkeley 
 on the cost of armour for the soldiers. " Touching the lacke 
 of your armour for that yow entende to levye the same of 
 the contrey, I must nedes like withall, but I think it had 
 byn better for you to have taken of the contrey xxx' for a 
 corslett and iii* for a pyke then to compell poore men to 
 by at Brystowe, where they pay xlv' viii*^ for a corslet, which 
 is to grett a burden for the contrey," etc. Corstcourt, 29 
 June [1563]. / 23. 
 
 14. The same to the same, appointing Cicester for the 
 place of meeting of musters, etc. Corstcourt, 29 June [1563]. 
 
 / 24. 
 
 15. [Henry, Lord] Berkeley to Sir Adrian Poyninges, 
 Knt., captain of Portsmouth, concerning the furnishing of 
 a hundred soldiers under charge of " Mr. Finch." Yate, 8 
 July, 1563. /. 25. 
 
 16. [William Somerset, 3rd Earl of] Worcester to 
 [Henry] Lord Berkeley on the latter's intended visit to him. 
 " Ther ys no manne that I wolde be more desyrous to see 
 than your Lordship." Monmouth, 10 July, 1563. /. 26. 
 
 17. Sir Francis Knollys to [Henry] Lord Berkeley in- 
 forming him of the arrival of 300 soldiers at Portsmouth 
 under the conduct of Richard Hill. Portsmouth, 12 July, 
 1563. /27. 
 
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 1 8. George Huntley, Sheriff, to the Justices of Peace, 
 summoning them to Gloucester to consider the Queen's 
 letters. 21 July, 1563. / 29. 
 
 19. Warrant from [William Pawlett, ist Marquis of] 
 
 Winchester to collectors of the subsidy in co. Gloucester to 
 
 pay to the Justices of Peace the charges' for " coates and 
 
 conducte of six hundrethe soldyers to Newehaven " [1563]. 
 
 /. 30. 
 
 20. [Thomas Butler, Lord] Ormond and Ossory to 
 Henry, Lord Berkeley, " My Lord, myn exceding chardges 
 in the quene's Ma*^'^ service sins my last cominge to this 
 land hathe ben suche as I have not onely spent my hole 
 revenue, but also am faine to mortgadge and sell my land 
 and yet to runne into debt, so as hetherto I have not bene 
 hable to sende your L. the same money," etc. Clonmel, 17 
 Apr., 1 571. /. 33. 
 
 21. Sir Nicholas Poyntz, Sir Giles Pole, Richard Ber- 
 keley, and Thomas Throckmerton to Henry, Lord Berkeley, 
 advising him as to a proposed marriage between two of his 
 daughters and the two sons of the Earl of Leicester. 26 
 Oct., 1573. /. 36. 
 
 22. " Memoire et Instruction pour Messieurs de Hautain 
 et Mansard, de ce que de la part de Monseigneur le Prince 
 d'Orange ilz auront a dire et remonstrer aux Seigneurs vers 
 lesquels ilz ont charge de s'addresser." Middelbourg, 7 
 Feb., 1577. Sz£^fied " GmWaume de Nassau." /. 37. 
 
 23. Sir George Carey, Knt., to his wife, commencing, 
 " My sweete pugge, the small plesure I take in thi absens 
 will make the returne of thy swete cumpany the more 
 welcum to me. Sens my cominge, savinge the first day, I 
 have kept my chamber, and am like so to continue this 3 or 
 9 days, being trobled of a great colde and an extreme 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 331 
 
 megram," and ending, " Bles Uttel Bes and Robin, love me 
 and so I leave thee this Saterday after dinner. Thyne ever 
 and only, George Carey." 1580. / 44, 
 
 24. The Scottish Council to Sir George Carey, Knt, and 
 Robert Bowes, Ambassadors from the Queen of England to 
 the King of Scotland, that they have announced to the King 
 their arrival and the cause of their coming. " Stonnling," 
 8 Sept., 1582. Signed by the Earls of Mar, Glencairne, 
 Gowrie, Dunfermline, and others, f. 45. 
 
 25. Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, to the 
 same respecting the " restitution " of the Earl of Angus. 
 Oatlands, 14 Sept., 1582. / 46. 
 
 26. [William Ruthven, 1st Earl of] Gowrie, to the same, 
 thanking him for his good services on his behalf with the 
 Queen. 28 Dec, 1582. / 47. 
 
 27. Robert Bowes to the same, acknowledging, on be- 
 half of the King of Scotland, the receipt of letters and 
 jewel, " and the portraieture of hir majesty." " The King 
 is so much delighted w**' the sighte of the pycture, as he 
 useth often to behold the same w*^ greatt admyration, and 
 oftentymes also to show ytt to the noblemen and others of 
 his chamber, w*** right high commendation of the excellency 
 of the rare beautye represented thereby." Edinburgh, 7 
 Jan., 1582 [3]. /48. 
 
 28. [Charles Stewart, 5th Earl of] Lennox to the same, 
 asking for his services " d'assister Mons'". de Kylseayt [Sir 
 William Livingstone, of Kilsyth], pour luy faire avoir pre- 
 sance de la royne," etc. Dover, 19 Jan., 1582 [3]. /. 49, 
 
 29. Robert Bowes to the same. " He [the King of 
 Scotland] appeareth to be inwardly affected to her majestic 
 approuving the same by many good testymonyes and signes, 
 
332 Berkeley Castle 
 
 and he burneth fervently in desier to see and heir the ex- 
 cellencyes of hir majesty's rare beautye and greatt wyse- 
 dome, the smoke of which fyre hath appeared to the 
 malcontents and to the French Ambassador." Edinburgh, 
 — Feb., 1582 [3]. /so. 
 
 30. The same to the same, on the French influence at 
 the Scottish Court. Edinburgh, 21 Feb., 1582 [3]. / 51. 
 
 31. [Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of] Angus to the same, 
 thanking him for his favour. Edinburgh, 27 Mar., 1583. 
 /. 52. 
 
 32. [Patrick Gray] Master of Gray to the same, a letter 
 of compliments. "Ye Court of Scotland," 10 Apr., 1583. 
 /•S3. 
 
 ^$. Sir William Livingstone, of Kylsyth, to the same. 
 Edinburgh, 15 Apr., 1583. / 54. 
 
 34. [William Ruthven, ist Earl of] Govvrie to the same. 
 " Halyrudhous," 23 Apr., 1583. / 55. 
 
 35. Robert Bowes to [Henry Carey] Lord Hunsdon, 
 Governor of Wick, and to Sir G. Carey, on Scotch affairs 
 and the intrigues of the French Ambassador, etc. Edin- 
 burgh, 23 Apr., 1583. //.S6,S7- 
 
 36. Col. William Stewart, Scotch Ambassador to Qu. 
 Elizabeth, to Sir George Carey, Governor of the Isle of 
 Wight. London, 6—19 May, 1583. /f. 58-61, 
 
 ^7. Robert Bowes to the same. Edinburgh, 20 May, 
 1583- /62. 
 
 38. News-letter of occurrences in Scotland, the King's 
 intended progress, etc. Edinburgh, 21 May, 1583. / 6^. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 333 
 
 39. Draft of letters patent of King James VI. for pro- 
 clamation to be made that the reason of the Court remain- 
 ing at Stirling is not, as " is bruttit and reportit be sum 
 weekit and seditious persons," that His Majesty is " reteint 
 and keepit captive " against his will and pleasure, but for 
 State purposes. Stirling Castle, i Sept., 1583. /. 64. 
 
 40. [John Ersklne, Earl of] Mar to Sir George Carey, 
 expressing his devotion.-" Haliruidhous," Dec, 1583. / 65. 
 
 41. [Ambrose Dudley, Earl of] Warwick and R[obert 
 Dudley, Earl of] Leicester to Sir James Whitney, Knt., 
 begging that he will not fail to be present at an Exchequer 
 Suit between the Queen and Lord Berkeley. 28 Jan., 
 I583[4.] f.^^> 
 
 42. Sir Thomas Throckmorton to his nephew, John 
 Tracy, concerning the same suit. Tortworth, 30 Jan., 
 i583[4]. /67. 
 
 43. [Patrick Gray] Master of Gray to Sir George Carey. 
 22 Jan., I583[4]. / 69. 
 
 44. Arguments in favour of and against Lord Hunsdon's 
 exchanging the Governorship of Berwick for the office of 
 Lord Chamberlain. 27 May, 1585. / 71. 
 
 45. Sir Francis Walsingham to Sir G. Carey, Governor 
 of the Isle of Wight, respecting the latter's detention of 
 Thomas William, who has arrived with news that " Ambrose, 
 son of Sir Nicholas Bagnall, is slain in France," and asking 
 that William may be sent to London in safe custody, etc. 
 " Wyse, the pyrat, is now in Irelande, and offerethe great 
 servyce, but the sparing of men of his professyon under 
 cullor of servyce dothe greatly slaunder this governement." 
 The Court, 17 July, 1585. / T^, 
 
334 Berkeley Castle 
 
 46. Robert Vernon to [Henry] Lord Hunsdon. Berwick, 
 4 July, 1588. /. 74. 
 
 47. The Privy Council to [Henry Herbert, 2nd] Earl of 
 Pembroke, the Lord President, and the Council of the 
 Marches of Wales, requesting them to protect the tenants 
 of Sages Manor, which the Earl of Warwick and the late 
 Earl of Leicester had obtained by recovery from the late 
 Lord Berkeley, but which one Arnold Liggon had lately 
 forcibly seized. 8 Oct., 1588. With signatures. f.JJ. 
 
 48. " A trewe reporte and observaunce of the sicknes and 
 death of P., late Erie of Derby, who departed this lief the 
 xvj*^ of this instant, Aprill, 1594, about Fyve of the Clock 
 in the Afternoone, by poyson, witchcrafte, or both, as is 
 suspected." Sigtied by John Golborne. f. yg. 
 
 49. Sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State, to George, 2nd 
 Lord Hunsdon expressing the grief " wherewith Her M*'^ is 
 possessed for the losse of her deerest and neerest kinsman" 
 [the late Lord Hunsdon].^ " Till this afternoone her Ma*'^ 
 gave herself over to infinite melancholic, not vouchsafing 
 accesse for her own busynes. ... I shall think it 
 straunge yf your Lordship should fayle of succession in 
 divers of those places all which, although your noble father 
 worthely enjoyed yet (without touch to him), the world must 
 needs attrybute much more to yourself." 25 July, 1596. 
 
 /81. 
 
 1 Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby, succeeded his father in 1592. A Jesuit 
 Agent named Richard Hesketh attempted to force him to assume the title of 
 King, in right of his grandmother, Eleanor, daughter of Princess Mary (dau. 
 of Henry VII.) and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Rejecting the pro- 
 posal, he was threatened with sudden death, and died of poison 16 Apr., 1594. 
 cf. Camden's Annals, etc. 
 
 2 Lord Hunsdon's mother was Lady Mary Boleyn, sister to Qu. Anne 
 Boleyn. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 335 
 
 50 [George Carey, 2nd Lord] Hunsdon to Qii. Eliza- 
 beth, asking for an interview. " Entring into the true 
 knowledge of my owne nateur, I finde no salve so soverayne 
 to my wounde as to behold the fayr eys of my soverayne, 
 whos beams I presume will geve new life to the overthrowen 
 minde more then half dead. For the brightnes of the sonn 
 was never more gladsum to any that longe had lived in 
 darkenes then your M*'--'' most gratieuse aspect shalbe 
 pleasinge and cordiall to the inward melancoly of my 
 opressed thoughts." 30 Aug., 1586. /. 83. 
 
 51. [Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of] Essex to [Henry] 
 Lord Berkeley. 11 Nov., 1596. / 85. 
 
 52. Sir George Carey to his wife, on the death of the 
 Earl of Derby ^ by " vilanous poysoninge wichecraft." " The 
 poysoninge made manifest by the Judgement of Doctor 
 [? John] Case and three other phisitions,all affirminge that his 
 dissease could be no other but flatt poysoninge, the wich- 
 craft partly by the confession and manifest demonstration 
 in action of a vviche aprehended in prison for hit, the en- 
 chantement evident by the findinge of his picteur framed in 
 wax, with on of his owne heares prict directely in the hart 
 therof," etc. Blackfriars, 22 Apr., 1594. / 87. 
 
 53. Sir Robert Cecil to [George] Lord Hunsdon on 
 public matters, " We heare still of Preparations gathering 
 in Spain," etc., 28 Nov. 1596 ; with draft reply, dated Caris- 
 broke Castle, 5 Dec. 1596. /. 91. 
 
 54. C[harles Howard, Lord] Howard, Lord High Ad- 
 miral to Lord Hunsdon, on the destruction of some Spanish 
 ships by " a mightie storme " off the Irish Coast, etc. 5 Dec. 
 1596. /. 95- 
 
 1 See note on page 334. 
 
336 Berkeley Castle 
 
 55. Instructions for William [Bruges], Lord Chandos, 
 Lord Lieut, of Gloucester, for the training, etc., of the 
 troops, with list of the words of command to be used, for 
 instance " Ranck open forward paces 8," " Face to the right 
 hand," " Bubble your files to the leaft hand," " Frunt passe 
 thorough," etc. The instructions end thus : " For the most 
 of theis words there can be hardly better chosen but it is 
 not soe material what words we first chnse to trayne by as 
 it is to use some words constantly. And if the same words 
 should not be generally throughout the troope of one Armye 
 it would breed confusion, And if it were generally the Dis- 
 cipline of one Kingdome it were the better." 1599. f- 97. 
 
 56. [Thomas le Scrope, 10*^ Lord] Scrope to Henry 
 Lord Berkeley on Military affairs in the North. Carlisle, 
 8 Oct., 1599. / 103. 
 
 57. Sir Henry Winston to [Henry] Lord Berkeley re- 
 lating to the trained foot bands of co. Gloucester, etc. Stan- 
 dish, 19 Sept. 1603, 20 Aug. 1605, II Oct. 1608. ff. 105, 
 III, 123. 
 
 58. Privy Council to [Henry] Lord Berkeley concerning 
 
 the payment of the third and fourth subsidies granted to 
 
 her late Majesty, 17 Nov. 1603, 3 Nov. 1604. With signa- 
 tures, ff. 107, 109. 
 
 59. Gilbert [Talbot, Earl of] Shrewsbury to Sir Edmond 
 Nicholson for the supply of armour and weapons for the 
 troops in Co. Derby. Sheffield Lodge, 2 Sept. 1605. /. 113. 
 
 60. T[homas Sackville, Earl of] Dorset to the farmer of 
 of H.M. " Imposte of French and Gascoigne wine, and to 
 his Deputie or Deputies in that porte," instructing him to 
 exempt Lord Berkeley from payment of impost on four 
 tuns of wine " for his owne expences in howsehold," 3 July, 
 l6o6. / 115. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 337 
 
 61. Privy Council to [Henry] Lord Berkeley for payment 
 of various subsidies granted to the King. 7 July, 1606, 14 
 Mar. i6o8[9]. With signatures, ff. 116, 125. 
 
 62. The same to the same, for the suppression of riots, 
 etc., 8 June, 1607. With signatures. / 117. 
 
 63. The same to [Anne Carey] Dowager Lady Hunsdon, 
 for the payment of the second subsidy. 7 Oct. 1607. With 
 signatures. /! 119. 
 
 64. R[obert Cecil, Earl of] Salisbury, and Sir Julius 
 Caesar to Lord Berkeley demanding the prompt payment 
 of sums due from him to the Exchequer. 29 June, 1608. 
 /. 121. 
 
 65. Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Berkeley, K.B., to 
 Ellis Dobson, concerning the lawsuit with Lady Arabella 
 [Stuart]. Cleardon, 18 Apr., 20 Oct. 1609. ff- 127, 131. 
 
 6^. Sir Thomas Berkeley, K.B., to the same. Cleardon, 
 16 June, 1609. / 129. 
 
 67. Privy Council to [Henry] Lord Berkeley on the 
 composition for the aid. 20 May, 1609. With signatures. 
 /• 133. 
 
 68. The same to the same, on the provision of gunpow- 
 der. 10 July, 1609. With signatures. /. 134. 
 
 69. The Mayor and Aldermen of Gloucester to the same, 
 reporting that the City can supply seven barrels of gun- 
 powder, and hoping that that quantity will be thought 
 sufficient, as the city has lately been at great expense " in 
 the erecting of a Newe Shirehall." Gloucester, 12 Oct. 1609. 
 /. 136. 
 
 70. Privy Council to the same, for the payment of the 
 subsidy. 9 Oct. 1610. With signatures. /. 138. 
 
338 Berkeley Castle 
 
 71. [Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of] Thomond, to the 
 same on the recovery of the latter's lands in Ireland. Bon- 
 ratty, 7 Jan. 1610. /. 140. 
 
 72. Privy Council to the same, as Lord Lieutenant of 
 the County of Gloucester, concerning " the setling of a 
 certaine sum of money to be paid yerely to the officers of 
 the householde for purveyance of all kinde whatsoever," 
 the amount to be settled by the officers of the Greencloth. 
 17 Mar. i6io[ii]. With signatures. /. 142. 
 
 73. The same to the same, postponing time for payment 
 " of that composition that hath bene made for provision for 
 his majestie's house in specie." 161 1. With signatures. 
 f, 144. 
 
 74. The same to the same, ordering " a general muster 
 and survey to be made and certified of the armed Forces 
 of the Realme and of the supply of all the defects apper- 
 tayning to them." 31 Jan. 161 2. With signatures. /. 146. 
 
 75. Richard Berkeley to the same, on the same subject. 
 Stoke, 26 Feb. 161 2[3]. / 148. 
 
 ^6. Sir George Huntley to John Smyth on the same 
 subject. 10 Mar. 161 2[3]. / 150. 
 
 TJ. Henry Howard, 7th Earl of] Northampton to Lord 
 Berkeley, respecting Sir John Poyntz's troop. Northampton 
 House, 17 Mar. i6i2[3.] / 152. 
 
 ']%. Privy Seal to Lord Berkeley requesting the payment 
 of ;^ioo within 12 days (to be repaid in eighteen months' 
 time) by way of loan to the King, 17 May, 1613. Printed ; 
 with note of the receipt of the sum. Signed by William 
 Pitt, Deputy to Sir Edward Carey, f, 1 54. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 339 
 
 79. T[homas Howard, Earl of] Suffolk, E[dward Somer- 
 set, 4th Earl of] Worcester, and Hon. William Howard to 
 Lady Elizabeth Berkeley respecting the wardship of 
 [George] Lord Berkeley. Northampton House, 4 Nov. 1615. 
 
 /. 156. 
 
 80. [Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of) Thomond to Lady 
 Berkeley on public topics, and concerning Lady Berkeley's 
 lands in Ireland, etc. " I knowe the wounder of ye great 
 news is by this past, I am sorry that so fowle a cry me 
 shold be comitted by any christian accounted noble." * 
 Limerick, 29 Dec. 161 5. /. 158. 
 
 81. The Duke of Lennox, the Earls of Suffolk, Notting- 
 ham and Pembroke to [George] Lord Berkeley signifying 
 his Majesty's pleasure to confer on him the dignity of Knight 
 of the Bath on the occasion of the creation of Prince Charles 
 to be Prince of Wales. Whitehall, 7 Oct. 1616. / 160. 
 
 82. [Robert Sydney, Earl of] Leicester to Lady [Eliza- 
 beth, wife of Sir Thomas] Berkeley, " one of the Ladys of 
 the Privie Chamber to the Queene," requesting her to attend 
 the funeral of Qu. Anne, wife of James I., " I thought good 
 to give you knowledge for your repaire hethcr if you may 
 conveniently be here by the foresaid day [29 Apr.], when 
 your Ladyship shall receave such allowance for morning 
 garments as are to be delivered unto you agreeable to your 
 place and quallity." Denmark House, 26 Mar. 1619. f. 162. 
 
 83. [William Herbert, 3rd Earl of] Pembroke to [George] 
 Lord Berkeley reminding him that he this year omitted to 
 send the King a new year's gift, and requesting him to send 
 one at once to the Master of the Jewels. Whitehall, 23 May, 
 1624. / 164. 
 
 1 The reference is probably to the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, which 
 about this time was brought home to the Earl of Somerset, etc. 
 
340 Berkeley Castle 
 
 84. [Thomas Howard, Earl of] Arundel and Surrey, 
 Lord Marshal, to Sir Henry Sherley, forbidding him to pro- 
 ceed further in a duel with Lord Bartlett [? Lord Berkeley]. 
 Whitehall, i Apr. 1625. / 166. 
 
 85. "Mr'* Dudleo, Principessa di Northumbria," * to 
 Lord Berkeley. 24 July, 1628. Ital. f. 168. 
 
 86. Privy Council to the same, concerning payment of 
 the subsidy in arrear. 20 Sept. 1628-20 Feb. 1629. With 
 signatures, ff. 170, 172, 174. 
 
 87. Robert Coke to his brother-in-law Lord Berkeley, 
 mentioning the King of Sweden's death, the Queen of 
 Bohemia's expected journey to England, and family matters. 
 14 Jan. 1632. / 176. 
 
 88. Copy of the Petition of George, Lord Berkeley to 
 the House of Lords complaining that the Castle of Berkeley 
 was in February last [1642/3] " delivered upp unto Collonel 
 Forbus a Scctishman for the use of King and Parliament," 
 who did " soone after imprison and turne out all his ser- 
 vants, did seize on their estates and plunder their houses 
 
 did cutt downe very much of his woods pretending 
 
 them prejudiciall to the safetie of the castle, though some 
 
 of them five miles distant, and sould them, which 
 
 outrages being made known to S' William Waller, hee com- 
 mitted him, and placed one Harcuss an Irishman in his 
 Roome, whoe went on in the same Track and made his hand 
 of what was left," and begging that some reparation may 
 
 1 Robert Dudley, son of the Earl of Leicester, retired to Italy, and was 
 created Duke of Northumberland of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor 
 Ferdinand H. Having abandoned his lawful wife, he is believed to have had 
 13 children by Elizabeth Southwell, whom he took to Italy with him. The 
 writer of this letter is perhaps Maria Gouffier, wife of Carlo Dudley, the eldest 
 son of this family. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 341 
 
 be made to him and punishment dealt out to the said 
 Forbus and Harcuss. Accompanying the petition is the 
 report of the Lords upon it, signed by John Brown, clerk of 
 the Parliament. 29 May, 1643. ff. 178, 180. 
 
 89. Protection for [George] Lord Berkeley '*with his 
 Coach, coach-horse, 13 sadle horses, travelling Armes and 
 necessaryes quietly to passe and repasse betvveene London 
 and Burdens in Surrey." 5 Aug. 1659. / 152. 
 
 90. General protection to the same from " the Com- 
 mander in Cheife of all the Forces in England and Scot- 
 land." Wallingford House, 5 Aug. 1659. /. 183. 
 
 91. [Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of] Manchester, to 
 Charles Berkeley, son of Lord Berkeley, summoning him 
 to the King's coronation, and notifying that the King has 
 been pleased to nominate him Knight of the Bath, i Mar. 
 i66o[i]. Followed at / 187 by "The Manner of makeing 
 those Knights of ye Bath as are to be honoured with that 
 dignity, the ceremony whereof is to begin the iS*** of Aprill 
 preceding the Coronation." / 185. 
 
 92. '* An Account of such moneys as have beene paid 
 by George, Lord Berkeley, Keeper of the Queen's Ma*''* 
 House and Little Park of Nonsuch in the County of Surrey, 
 and due unto him out of the King's Ma"** Exchequer. St. 
 John's, 13 Feb. 1662. With signature of Lord Berkeley. 
 /. 189. 
 
 93. [John Mordaunt, Viscount] Mordaunt, Lord Lieu- 
 tenant of Surrey, to Lord Berkeley requesting him to make 
 a return of the yearly value of his estate in Surrey, that he 
 may certify it for assessment according to the Act of Par- 
 liament for ordering y^ forces in the several counties." 
 Parson's Green, 12 Nov. 1662. / 191. 
 
342 Berkeley Castle 
 
 94. Similar letter from [George Monck, ist Duke of] 
 Albemarle, to the same, in respect of his estate in Middle- 
 sex. 14 Oct. 1662. /. 193. 
 
 95. [Edmund Hyde, ist Earl of] Clarendon, to the 
 same, acquainting him that a Bill in Chancery has been ex- 
 hibited against him by Mr. John Armiger. Worcester 
 House, 19 Dec. 1663. /. 195. 
 
 96. Bernard Gascon ^ to the same expressing his 
 pleasure to be of service to Hon. Charles Berkeley, his son, 
 Florence, 22 May, 1666. / 197. 
 
 97. Appointment of Cosmo HI.,^ Grand Duke of Tus- 
 cany, of Hon. Charles Berkeley to be Gentleman of his 
 Bed-chamber. Florence, 3 Jan. 1675. Signed " II Gran 
 Duca di Toscano." With paper signet. / 199. 
 
 98. [James Butler, ist Duke of] Ormonde, to Lord 
 Berkeley, congratulating him " for the honour the King has 
 done " him etc. Kilkenny, 5 Oct. 1678. /. 201. 
 
 99. Copy of the Petition of Lord William' Russell to 
 the King asking his pardon. Written from Newgate, 19 
 July, 1683 [2 days before his execution for complicity in the 
 Rye House Plot]. /. 203. 
 
 100. Resolution of the States General relating to Con- 
 suls' Dues, 26 Jan. i688[9]. /. 205. 
 
 loi. Power from Federic Christian, Bishop of Miinster, 
 to Jean Conrad Norff, one of his Councillors, to represent 
 him at the Congress to be held at the Hague, 21 Dec, 1689, 
 French translation. /. 207. 
 
 ^ A Florentine diplomatist, naturalised by the name of Sir Bernard Gas- 
 coigne in 1661. 
 
 ^ Cosmo IIL travelled to England in 1669, An account of his travels, by 
 L. Megalotti, was published ia 1821. 
 
Select Letters, Warrants, &c. 343 
 
 102. Power from the Emperor Leopold to Amadeus,Baron 
 de Valstein, Thai et Trautmanstorfif, and Johan Kramprich 
 to act as Plenipotentiaries at the same Congress. 28 Dec. 
 1689. Copy. /. 209. 
 
 103. Similar power from Frederick, Margrave of Bran- 
 denburg to Thomas Ernest von Danckelman to represent 
 him at the same Congress. 30 Mar. 1690. Copy. /. 211. 
 
 104. William Blathwayt to Charles, Viscount Dursley, 
 enclosing copies of letters from Lord Nottingham and him- 
 self relating to the business of the " Toll in the Sound " 
 and to the " Commerce of Neuters." Genape, 10 July, 
 1692. /. 213. 
 
 105. "Arms seized by Capt° Prestley at Badmington at 
 the house of the late Duke of Beaufort's in his Return from 
 Cirencester. The party being sent to search the Oxford 
 Road from that place to Bath for certain persons, arms and 
 amunition." Followed by " A List of the Gentlemen's 
 names that was seized in Bath, and sent confined to London 
 under a guard by order of y** Secretary of State." Bath, 13 
 Oct. 171 5. /. 215. 
 
 106. [Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord] Hawkesbury, 
 Secretary of State, to Frederick Augustus, Lord Berkeley, 
 concerning the assessment of co. Gloucester for " penalties 
 due in respect of vacancies and deficiencies in the additional 
 Force." Whitehall, 3 Aug. 1805. /. 217. 
 
 107. The same to the same concerning Lord Berkeley's 
 report on the Secretary of State's letter, relative to the 
 Quarantine laws and regulations. 6 Aug. 1805. With 
 
 letter of Lord Berkeley to Rudge on the subject. 
 
 /. 219. 
 
344 Berkeley Castle 
 
 io8. [Horatio Nelson,Viscount] Nelson, [Duke of] Bronte 
 to Capt. Cracraft, speaking favourably of the latter's services. 
 The postcript runs, " I wonder Adml. Murray is not come 
 up, I think he had better show himself ... I think 
 he will hoist his flag whenever he wishes." Merton. 24 
 Aug. 1805. /. 221. 
 
 109. Printed circular from the "Commissary of St. Pauls" 
 to the Earl of Berkeley, requesting his acceptance of a 
 Memorial of Lord Nelson in the shape of " a facsimile of 
 his Lordship's handwriting, being the Direction of a Letter 
 addressed to the Commissary of the University of Cam- 
 bridge, only nine days before his departure from Merton, 
 OQ the service of his Country." /. 223. 
 
 no. [Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of] Liverpool, 
 to the same, notifying the King's approval of a " Dress 
 Uniform, to be worn on special occasions by his Lieu- 
 tenants of Counties." 28 July, 1809. /. 226. 
 
 Paper ; f. 227. Folio. 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 ABSOLUTION, grant of, to 
 Henry, Lord Berkeley, 215 
 Accompts, householcl, 310; various, 
 
 313, 3H 
 Admiralty jurisdiction, 225, 230 
 African Company, the, 325 
 Agate, bequest of an, 259 
 AGLA, magic letters on seal, 81 
 Agnus Dei, An, 158 
 Aids, 311 ; z: also, Subsidies 
 
 Alchemy, disputation touching the 
 art of, 318 
 
 Ale- Houses, orders for regulation 
 of, 302 
 
 " Allowes or Covenant " servant, 239 
 Alms-giving, 78, 165 
 Altars, Portable, grant of, 175, 215 
 Amicable Loan, 207 «. 
 Anniversaries, 39, 152, 163, 165, 201 
 Annuities, claimed on the Berkeley 
 Estate, arc. 1756, 316 
 
 Apprenticeship, articles of, 176, igo. 
 239 ^^' 
 
 Aquitaine, homage of Edw. II for 
 277 «. ' 
 
 Archers, number of, in co. Glouc 
 288 ■' 
 
 Armed Men, lists of, in co. Glouc, 
 
 Arms : Beauchamp, 294 ; Berkeley, 
 293, 294, ; Butler, 294 ; Cecil, 
 296; Mowbray, 294; Segrave, 
 id. ~ 
 
 Arms and Armour : bequest of, 25S • 
 repair of, 285; cost of, 329;' 
 supply of, for troops in co. Derby, 
 336; seizure of, at Badminton,' 
 343 
 
 Army v. Military Affairs 
 
 Arrows, rent service of, 69, 276; 
 bequest of, 253 
 
 Art, portraits of King William and 
 
 Qu. Mary in initial letters, 218 
 Assarts, 19, 29 
 Assaying, 309 
 Attaint, Writ of, 240 
 
 B 
 
 "D ACHELOR, service as a, 156 
 
 " Badgers' " commission against men 
 so-called, 224 
 
 Balyngers, equipment of, 180 
 
 Barges, equipment of, 180 
 
 Bark, sale of, 281 
 
 Barony, tenure by, 18, 200 
 
 Bath, reference to the waters of, 322, 
 323 
 
 Beacons, in Isle of Wight, 231 ; 
 orders for firing, 289 
 
 Beauchamp, Richard, Earl of War- 
 wick, pedigree of the three daugh- 
 ters of, 296 
 
 Beds, bequest of, 254, 256 
 
 Belle, custom of, i, 10 
 
 Bellringing, fee for, 165 
 
 Bells, Church, 181 
 
 Bell- tower, erection of, at Arline^. 
 ham, 174 ^ 
 
 Benherth, 281 
 
 Berghen-op-Zoom, siege of, 317 
 
 Berkeley Hundred, description of 
 by J. Smyth, 306, 307 
 
 Town : lands held by feudal 
 
 service in, 298; localities, streets 
 etc. in, viz. La Geldhalle, High 
 Street, Church Street, Saltar 
 Street, Lokastebrugg, Le Can- 
 enebury, Fromylodes, 299 
 
346 
 
 Index. 
 
 Berkeley Manor, customs and privi- 
 leges of, 312 
 Barony, 290, 291, 311, 312 
 
 Caslle : charter for building 
 
 of, I ; called the King's Castle, 
 202 ; household expenses while 
 Edw. II. was a prisoner at, 274- 
 279 ; general household expenses, 
 274-286, 312 ; fortification of, 
 in 1327, -275, 276, 278 ; visit of 
 Richard II. to, 279 ; names of 
 various officers of, in I495» 280 ; 
 overseers' accompts, 281 ; build- 
 of the great kitchen, 282 ; visi- 
 tors at, 285, 286 ; restored to 
 Lord Berkeley on death of Edw. 
 VI., 301 ; petition cone, damage 
 to, in 1643, 340 
 
 Park, enclosure and empa- 
 
 ling of, 206, 320 ' 
 
 Church : bequests to, 253, 
 
 254 ; record of admission of Rec- 
 tors to, [1287- 1460], 298 
 
 Family: pedigrees of, 290- 
 
 295 ; advowsons, etc. in gift of, 
 at the dissolution, 300 ; works of 
 J. Smyth relating to, etc, 306, 
 307 
 Berkeley, Charles, Viscount Dursley, 
 aft. 2nd Earl of Berkeley, letter- 
 books when envoy to the Hague, 
 1689 — 1692, 311 ; transactions 
 when Justice in Ireland, 1699- 
 1701, 310, 311 
 
 Berkeley, George, Lord, articles of 
 impeachment against, 305 ; crea- 
 tion, as Knight of the Bath, 339 
 
 ■ Berkeley, Maurice, Lord, \pb. 1368], 
 mention of day of his death, 279 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, Lord, \ob. 1523], 
 undertaking to serve the King, 
 252 
 
 Berkeley, Sir Maurice, Knt., various 
 appointments of, by Henry VIII. 
 etc., 201, 202 ; right of nomina- 
 ting to Kegworth Church, 204 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, M. A., ordina- 
 tion as Deacon and Priest, 248 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas, Lord, [ob. 1 361], 
 household expenses, 285, 286 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas, Lord, Yob. 1417], 
 equipment of his fleet as Adm. of 
 the South and West, 180 
 
 Bei-keley, William, Lord, creation as 
 Viscount by Edward IV., 195 ; 
 creation as Earl of Nottingham, 
 195 ; grant of annuity to, from 
 CO. Nottingham, 196 ; creation 
 as Marquis of Berkeley, 198 ; 
 buried in London, 291 
 
 Berkeley's Mass, covenant for, at the 
 Austin Friars, London, 203 
 
 Berughyerd, 281 
 
 Berwick-on-Tweed : fortification of 
 the town and castle in 1559, 218 ; 
 appointment of Lord Hunsdon to 
 be Governor, 221 ; relief of gar- 
 rison at, 223 ; proposed exchange 
 by Lord Hunsdon of the govern- 
 ship, for office of Lord Chamber- 
 lain, 333 
 
 Bill, Charles, collection of apothegms 
 by, 319 
 
 Billmen, number of, in co. Glouc, 
 
 288 
 Birds, to be shot for food for the 
 
 Queen's hawks, 220 
 
 Bitton, orders for government of the 
 parish, 302 
 
 Blood, placitura de sanguine, 142 
 
 Boar, killing of, on Ivo de Berkley's 
 entering Oxford University, 276 
 
 Bokhorn, articles of, 255 
 
 Books, bequest of, to Sion College, 
 261 
 
 Bow and arrows, bequest of, 253 
 
 Bowl, silver, bequest of, 260 
 
 Brass pots, etc., bequests of, 254, 
 
 255. 256 
 Bread, distribution of, 165, 253 
 Brewing Vessels, sale of, 231 
 
 Bristol, city of, price of the liberty 
 of, 199 ; customs at, 195 ; admis- 
 sion of Lord Berkeley to the 
 Society of Merchant Adventurers, 
 250 ; bequests to various religious 
 orders of, 254 ; bequest to the 
 prisoners in Newgate in, 258 ; 
 lists of Mayors, Sheriffs, and 
 
 Bailiffs, 292 
 
 I 
 
 St. Augustine's Abbey, 
 
 Chartulary of, 306; list and chron- 
 icle of the Abbots, 292 ; bequest 
 to the Friars, 253 
 
Index. 
 
 347 
 
 Britaschia, a rampart, 69 
 
 Brutus, disputation on the art of 
 Alchemy, 318 
 
 Buckhunting, 282 
 
 Building contracts : for bell-tower at 
 Arlinghara, 174 ; for Gt. Chos- 
 terford Manor-house, 19S 
 
 Burhgiet, i 
 
 Burial, right of free, 16 
 
 Butler, Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, 
 descent of Qu. Eliz. £rom, 290 
 
 Butter, adulteration of, 242 
 
 CABINET, in Berkeley Castle, 
 bequest of, 260, 261 
 
 Cage, 152 
 
 Calais, residence of Lord Berkeley 
 in, 208, 215 ; English Guard in, 
 214 ; appointment of Maur. , Lord 
 Berkeley, to be Governor of, 300 
 
 Cambridge, Christ's College, presen- 
 tation to Kegworth Church, 204, 
 244 ; nomination of Scholars, 
 209, 247, 250 
 
 Card, a fish, so-called, 313 
 
 Carey, George, Lord Hunsdon, ped- 
 igree, 296 ; letters to his wife, 
 330. 335 ; letters to, from Qu. 
 Elizabeth, 322, 323, 3;24 
 
 Carpenter's Contract, 199 
 Carrick, burning of a, at Brest, 293 
 Chantries : in Berkeley Church, 177, 
 178, 311 ; in St. Augustine's 
 Abbey, Bristol, 163, 164, 173 ; 
 in St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, 
 190, 210 ; in Cambridge, co. 
 Glouc, 163 ; in llillesley, 173 ; 
 in Newport, co. Glouc, 161 ; in 
 Over, CO. Glouc, 162; in Ozle- 
 worth, 64 ; in Christchurch Pri- 
 ory, co.- Hants, 39 ; inWiUough- 
 by, CO. Warw., 132 
 
 Charter-chests, detention of, 274 
 Charters lost, 192 
 
 Chartularies : St. Augustine's Ab- 
 bey, Bristol, 306 , Berkeley, 307; 
 St. Andrew's Chantry in Berke- 
 ley Church, 311; Croxton Ab- 
 bey, 308 
 
 Chester, names of Justices of, t. 
 Edw. L-Jas. I., 299 '-N 
 
 Chronicle, general, fragment of, 
 298 ; notes from Grafton's, 297 
 
 Church History, etc.: lease of tithes, 
 fruit, etc., of Wigginton, with 
 conditions as to repair of chan- 
 cel, etc., 201 ; petition to Hen. 
 VIIL, cone the laws regulating 
 the lives of priests, and possess- 
 ions of religious houses, 300 ; 
 petition of the " poor Prestes 
 Stypendaries," 300. 
 
 Church Rates, 302 
 
 Clergy, list of, in various hundreds 
 in CO. Glouc, 287 ; assessment 
 for horse, armour, etc., 312 
 
 Clock, gold, bequest of, 259 
 
 Cloth, manufacture of, 215 
 
 Coal and coal mines, 221, 227 ; 
 
 order for filling up disused pits 
 
 in Bitton, 302 
 
 Coins : florins real, florins de Flor- 
 ence, silver pennies, 158 
 
 Comb, ivory, bequest of, 256 
 
 Commerce of Neuters, 343 
 
 Companies : Royal Fishery of Eng- 
 land, 251 
 
 Concealed lands, powers to search 
 for, in CO. Southampton, 230 
 
 Coneys, breeding of, 223 
 
 Confessor, licence to Lord Berke- 
 ley to choose a priest as, 175 
 
 Constable, Henry, sonnets by, 319 
 
 Contracts : for Imilding bell-tower, 
 174; for building manor-house, 
 198 ; for carpenter's work, 199 ; 
 for tiling roof, 203 
 
 Copper, found in mines, reserved to 
 the Crown, 227 
 
 Corn : grant of, for oblations, 33 ; 
 rights of grinding, etc., 56; scar- 
 city and exportation of, 224 ; 
 bequest of, 254 ; price of, (1520) 
 292 
 
 Cotcelda7 measure of land, 51 ■ 
 
 Cotes, Mr., disputation in the art of 
 alchemy, 318 
 
 Cowlbacke, a brewing vessel, 231 
 
 Cows, taykments of kine, 303 
 
348 
 
 Index. 
 
 Crabstocks, 282 
 
 Crea^^ra, a hook, 253 
 
 Cronnoc, measure of corn, 118 
 
 Crossbow, grant of, 253 
 V. also, Bows 
 
 Croud, representation of croud or 
 fiddle, 153 
 
 Crown property in co. Glouc, 302 
 
 Cucking-stool, 152 
 
 Cumelyng et exlrahura, 159 
 
 Cummin, v. Rent-services, 
 
 Cups, bequest of, 253, 254, 260 
 
 Customs, Ancient : tol, them, etc., 
 I, 10; manorial, 286 
 
 Customs of the Ports of London and 
 Bristol, 195 ; v. Tonnage and 
 poundage 
 
 D 
 
 DEER, illegal capture of, 242 ; 
 damage done by, 205, 206, 320 
 
 Denmark : commission to Lord 
 Dursley to negotiate treaty with, 
 251 
 
 Derby, Earl of, v. Stanley, Ferdi- 
 nando. 
 
 Diet of food used at Berkeley Cas- 
 tle in 1550, 313 
 
 Distraint, right of, 145 
 
 Divine .Service, covenant for, at 
 Mangotsfield, 207 
 
 Doeskin, bequest of, 253 
 
 Domesday, (or Berkeley Hundred, 
 and Bnsham Lordship, co. Suss. 
 238 ; fur Gloucestershire, 311 
 
 Drama, gifts to players (1328), 284 
 
 Dress, articles of, 158 
 
 Duel, forbidden by the Earl Mar- 
 shal, 1625, 340 
 
 Dursley, barony of, 291 
 
 Dutch Merchants, capture of vessel 
 bel. to, 231 
 
 ENCLOSURE, power of, sub- 
 ject to the King's Court, 104 
 
 Encroachment of lands in the Isle of 
 Wight, 232 
 
 England, Sovereigns of— Pedigrees, 
 289, 290 
 
 Stephen. Services of R. de 
 
 Berkeley to, 290, 291, Introd. 
 
 Henry H. Services of Rob. 
 
 Fitzharding to, 290, 291, Introd. 
 
 Richard I. Ref. to his 
 
 lost seal, 23, and his captivity in 
 Germany, ib. 
 
 Edward II. Projected jour- 
 
 ney to Gascony to do homage to 
 Charles IV. of France, 277 ; cap- 
 ture of, by the Earl of Lancas- 
 ter, at Neath, [1326,] 278 n; 
 household expenses when a pris- 
 oner at Berkeley, 274-279 ; ex- 
 penses of messenger announcing 
 death of, 274 ; movements of 
 Qu. Isabella in 1326-7, 274-279 
 
 Edward III. Movements of, 
 
 while Edw. II. was a prisoner 
 at Berkeley, 274-279 ; provision 
 for Government during his ab- 
 sence, [1338], 159 
 
 Richard II. Visit to Berke- 
 
 ley Castle in 1386, 279 
 
 war with Scotland [1389], 
 
 178 
 Henry VIII. Signature, 206 
 
 Elizabeth. Descent of, from 
 
 the Earl of Ormonde [t. Edw. 
 III.], 290 
 
 Charles I. Bequest to, as Pr. 
 
 Charles, 260 ; creation as Prince 
 of Wales, [1616], 339 
 
 James II. Summons of Lord 
 
 Berkeley to his coronation, 326 
 
 William III. Poem on his 
 
 arrival in England in 1688, 318 ; 
 letter to the Archbp. of Dublin, 
 326 
 
 Anne. Letter summoning 
 
 Lord Berkeley to her coronation, 
 326 
 Eschuage, 307 
 
 Esquires, service of, i55> ^S^* ^^5 
 Eucharist, Holy, elements of, 216 
 Evidences, Ancient : unum vetus 
 scriptum, inWotton Manor House 
 [141^], 183 
 
Index. 
 
 349 
 
 Exhibition " of five poor men at 
 Willoughby, 132 
 
 FAIRS, grants of; at Wot- 
 ton, 131 ; at Bettesley, 148 ; 
 at Newport, 163 
 
 Falcon, loss of a, at Berkeley, 274 
 
 Fayrpens, 281 
 
 Fermail, silver, 30 
 
 Feudal service, 298 
 
 Fiddle, representation of, on seal, 
 
 153 
 Figs, cargo of, 232 
 
 Finch, Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, 
 letters to, from Visct. Dursley, 
 1689-1692, 311 
 
 Fish : royal, 249, 250 ; sale of, 281; 
 as articles of diet, 313 
 
 Fisheries, grants, etc. of, 29, 82, 95, 
 99. 133, 154. ^75, 202, 211, 220, 
 245 
 
 Fishponds, 146, 208, 282 
 
 Fitzharding, Robert, pedigrees of, 
 290 295 
 
 Flebote, seizure of a, 225 
 
 Fleet, equipment of, 180 
 
 Flood, at Ham, [1607], 282 
 
 Forbus, Col., put in charge of Berke- 
 ley Castle in 1643, 340 
 
 Forests, Crown, 63, 203, 219, 228 
 
 Forest customs and rights, 12, 63 
 
 Forfeited lands, 167 
 
 Fox hunting, 34 
 
 France: war with, 241 ; troops or- 
 dered to, 328; intrigues with 
 Scotland, 332 
 
 Free Warren, grant of, 214, 218 
 
 Friars Hermits, services to, 173 
 
 Frieze, Irish, 225 
 
 Froissart's Chronicles, re''orence to 
 the capture of M. de Berkeley at 
 Poictiers in, 168, Introii. 
 
 Fuller's Earth, licence to dig for, 
 248 
 
 Fulling iTiilis, in Dursley, 104; in 
 Cam, 215 
 
 Funeral expenses, 279, 285 
 
 Funeral sermon, bequest of twenty 
 shillings for, 260 
 
 Furniture . bequest of, in Berkeley 
 Castle, 261 ; inventories of, 314, 
 315 
 
 G 
 
 /^ ALLEY, on seal, 81 
 
 Games, unlawful, chaplains forbid- 
 den to go to, 164 
 
 Gara terre, a strip of land, 16, 39 
 
 Garter, bill for enamelling a garter 
 of gold, 220 
 
 Gascony: projected journey of Ed- 
 ward II. into, 277 ; grant of, to 
 Pr. Edward in 1324, ib, 
 
 Gavelerth, 281 
 
 Gavelese, 281 
 
 Geese : accompts, 277 ; fattening of, 
 for Lord Berkeley's funeral [1358] 
 279 ; payment to servants in- 
 stead of harvest -goose, ib. 
 
 George, sale of a gold George, 220 
 
 Gifts, made on trans er of lands : 
 gold ring with sapphire, 8 ; gold 
 rings, 12, 30, 31 ; an ounce of 
 gold, 12 ; talent of gold, 14; white 
 horse of Powys, 17 ; a tercel, 
 27 ; a silver fermail, 30 ; seventy 
 shillings of silver, 31 ; horse, 
 valued at half a mark, 31 ; white 
 horse, valued at 40 sh., 40 ; two 
 palfreys, 57 ; two cxen, 58 ; a 
 talent, ib. ; a sor-falcon, 66 ; a 
 besanl, ib. 
 
 Giggmill, mill for perching and 
 burling of cloth, 215 
 
 Gloucester, county of, Domesday 
 Book for, 311 
 
 city of, bequest to the pris- 
 oners in the casile prison, e;c., 
 258 ; letter relating to the pris- 
 oners in the jail at, 327 ; bequest 
 to the Grey Friars at, 258 
 
 Golborne, John, account of the 
 death of Ferd., Lord Derby, 
 334 
 
350 
 
 Index. 
 
 Gold : gifts of, 12, 14, 26 ; found in 
 mines, reserved to the Crown, 
 227 ; bill for jewels, 220 ; be- 
 quest of cup, 260 
 
 Goldsmith's account, 220 
 
 Grafton's Chronicle, notes from, 297 
 
 Granary, space reserved to the 
 Church of Breedon for building 
 a, 112 
 
 Grinding rights, 41, 72 
 
 Guild of Holy Cross, Stratford-on- 
 Avon, 184 
 
 Gunpowder, supply of, demanded 
 from city of Gloucester, [1609], 
 337 
 
 H 
 
 H 
 
 , H , account 
 
 of expedition in the Low 
 Countries in 1622, 317 
 
 Hague, The : appointment of Lord 
 Dursley to be Envoy Extr. to, 
 [1689], ^51 ; letter-books of the 
 same, 311 ; references to the 
 Congress, 342, 343 
 
 Ham Manor, list of Reeves from 
 1650-1753, 3P5 
 
 Harcuss , an Irishman put in 
 
 charge of Berkeley Castle, 1643, 
 340 
 
 Harding, family of, 297, Introd. 
 
 Hares, hunting of, 34 ; preservation 
 of, 214 
 
 Harvestgoose v. Geese 
 
 Harwich, landing of Qu. Isabella at, 
 [1325], 275 
 
 Hatton, Sir Christopher, signature, 
 225, 226 
 
 Hawks : mewed, i ; master of the 
 Queen's, 219 ; provision for the 
 Queen's, 220 
 
 Hebrew charter, 139 
 
 Heibote, 125 
 
 Henry, Earl of Lancaster, raids by 
 his men on the poultry yards, etc. 
 of the Berkeley Manors [1327], 
 278, 279 
 
 Herness, meaning of, 2 n. 
 
 Hides, cargoes of, 235, 236 
 
 Higden's Polychronicon, references 
 
 to, 291, 293 
 Hollande, Hugh, poem called "Owen 
 
 Tudor," by, 319 
 Homicide, 143 
 Hops, adulteration of, 242 
 
 Horses : gifts of, 17, 57 ; for the 
 army, 221 ; commission for im- 
 provement of breed of, 226 ; 
 bequest of, 259 ; cost of forage 
 and keep of, 275, 303 ; warrant 
 for provision of, for the King of 
 Scotland, 324 
 
 Hounds: food for the hounds at 
 Berkeley Castle, 281 
 
 Household goods, miscellaneous, 
 158 
 
 Hue and cry, 143 
 
 Husbote, 125 
 
 Hymns, with music, 283 
 
 I 
 
 TNDULGENCES, grant of, 155, 
 i 170 
 
 Infanckenethef, i, 10 
 Ingrossers, men so called, 224 
 Inquisitiones-post-mortem, 184, 209, 
 222, 241, 252, 264-268, 316 
 
 Babthorpe, William, 1444 
 Beaucharhp, Ric., Earl of War- 
 wick, 1444 
 Berkeley, Eliz., w. of Sir Maur., 
 1390 
 
 Berkeley, Henry, Lord, 158S, 
 1613 
 
 Berkeley, Maur. de, 1281 
 
 Berkeley, Maur., s. of Thos. 
 
 Lord, 1328 
 Berkeley, Maur., Lord, 13 8 
 Berkeley, Maur., Lord, 1524, 
 
 1538 
 Berkeley, Thomas de, 1244 
 Berkeley, Thomas de, 1322 
 Berkeley, Thomas de, 1362 
 Berkeley, Thomas, Lord, 1535, 
 
 1537. '548 
 Berkeley, Sir Thomas, 161 2 
 
Index. 
 
 351 
 
 Inqidsitiones-post-mortem — continued. 
 
 Berkeley, Will., Lord, 1492 
 
 Bradeston, Ela de, 1374 
 
 Bygott, Peter, 1537 
 
 Byngham, Richard, 1482 
 
 Carey, Geo., Lord Hunsdon, 1604 
 
 Clyvedon, Edmund, 1384 
 
 Dudley, Ambr., Earl of Warwick 
 
 Giflfard, Gilbert, 1374 
 
 Kendall, George, 1566 
 
 Kendall, William, 1544 
 
 Lygon, William, 1568 
 
 Meysye, John, 1505 
 
 Mowbray, John de, 1362 
 
 Mowbray, John, Duke of Nor- 
 folk, 1462 
 
 Mowbray, Marg., Ducheas of 
 Norfolk, 1399 
 
 Mowbray, Roger de, 1298 
 Mowbray, Thos., Earl of Nor- 
 folk, 1339 
 Mowbray, Thos., Duke of Nor- 
 folk, 1400 
 
 Nevill, Ralph, Earl of Westmore- 
 land, 1426 
 
 Offley, yir Robert, 1626 
 
 OlyflFe, William, 1601 
 
 Pole, Walter de la, 1435 
 
 Reade, William, 1623 
 
 Rebell, Thomas, 1502 
 
 Segrave, John de, 1326 
 
 Segrave, Nich. de, 1295 
 
 Sheparde, Walter, 1581 
 
 Swillington, Roger, 1406 
 
 Talbot, Edw,, Visct. Lisle, 1492 
 
 Talbot, John, Earl of Shrews- 
 bury, 1453 
 
 Talbot, Mary, widow of same, 1468 
 
 Talbot, Thomas, Lord Lisle, 1470 
 
 Teste, Lawrence, 15 10 
 
 Throgmorton, Sir Thomas 
 
 Villars, Sir J., 1507 
 
 Vyllers, John, 1416 
 
 Watson, Edward, 1532 
 
 Intrusion, pardon for the ofifence of, 
 223 
 
 Inventories, 287, 314, 315 ; of barque 
 bel. to pirates, 229 ; of French 
 ship wrecked off Isle of Wight, 
 230 
 
 Ireland : affairs in, 1699-1701, 310, 
 311 ; letter of William III. to the 
 Justices of, 326 
 
 Iron mines, 227 * 
 
 Ivory : combs, 158, 256 ; horn, 158 
 
 J 
 
 ACOBIN pieces, bequest of, 260 
 
 Jannettum, 29 
 
 Jewellery, bill for, 220 
 
 Jewels : gifts of, gold ring with sap- 
 phire, 8 ; bequests of, 259, 260 ; 
 inventory of, 315 
 
 Jousts, expenses of Lord Berkeley, 
 at, [1328], 283-285 
 
 Justices (Westminster) : Martin de 
 Pateshull, Ralph Hareng, Simon 
 de Insula, Thomas de Eyden, 
 1219; Martin de Pateshull, Ste- 
 phen de Segrave, Thomas de 
 Haidon, Robert de Lexinton, 
 Geoffrey le Sauvage, Thomas de 
 Muleton, 1224 ; Thomas de 
 Muleton, William de Raleigh, 
 Robert de Lexinton, William de 
 Insula, William de London, Mag. 
 Robert de Shardclaw, Ralph de 
 Norwico, William de Eboraco, 
 Richard Reinger, 1231 ; Walter 
 de Eboraco, 1233 ; Robert de 
 Lexinton, Walter de Eboraco, 
 Henry de Bathonia, 1239 ; Roger 
 de Thurkelby, John de Cobbe- 
 ham, Alan de Wassaund, 1250; 
 Gilbert de Preston, John de Wy- 
 vill, 1263 
 
 Itinerant (Warwick) : Geof- 
 frey, son of Peter, Tedbald de 
 Valain, Michael Belet, Henry 
 de Wichinton, Master Aristotil, 
 1194; (Cambridge): Stephen de 
 Segrave, William de Eboraco, 
 William de Insula, William Bas- 
 set, 1232 ; (Worcester) : Ralph 
 de Suthleic, Jollan de Nevile, 
 1241 ; (Gloucester) : William de 
 Eboraco, W'illiam de Insula, 
 
352 
 
 Index. 
 
 Justices Itinerant — continued. 
 
 Ralph de Norwico, Thurstan 
 Dispensator, Ralph de Chandos, 
 1236 ; (Gloucester) : William de 
 Saham, Roger Loveday, John 
 Metingham, 1287 
 
 Justices of Peace for co. Glouc. : 
 Sir Nich. Poyntz, David Broke, 
 Nich.Wyke, Hugh Denys, 1546 ; 
 Henry, Lord Berkeley, Sir Wal- 
 ter Denys, Sir IS'ich. Pointz, 
 1563 
 
 Justices of Chester, list of, 299 
 
 Juvenal, index of words to the sa- 
 tires of, 319 
 
 K 
 
 TV-EMEYS, family of, 289 «. 
 
 Kentish customs, 281 
 
 Kingswood Abbey, Monks of, pro- 
 vided with a " pitancia " on St. 
 Andrew's Day, lOO 
 
 Knights' fees, 18, 26, 29, 36, 156, 
 299, 316 
 
 Knights' retinue, 204 
 
 Knights' service, tenants of Berke- 
 ley by, 307 
 
 Knives for kitchen, bequest of, 253 
 
 LAMPS : in ch. of St. Nicholas in 
 Osleworth, 125 ; in Kingswood 
 church, 126; for chancel of Ar- 
 lingham church, 165 
 
 Lampreys : rents, 154, 279 ; sent to 
 London, 282 
 
 Lancaster, Duchy of, 272 
 
 Landgable, 26 
 
 Land Measures: cultura, 17, 117; 
 gara, ib. ; numniata, 29; 2 hides 
 = 8 virgates, 44 ; fardel, 63 ; 
 cotcelda, 82, 83 ; hevedacre, 100 
 
 Lead mines, 227 
 
 Letters, cost of carriage of, [1327], 
 
 274 
 Linen,' varicXus ait cles of, 158 
 
 Loan, demanded from Lord Berke- 
 ley, 161 3, 338 
 
 London : collection of subsidy of 
 tonnage and poundage, 190; cus- 
 toms in the port of, 195 ; Tallow- 
 chandlers' company, rights of, 
 242 ; Charterhouse, appt. of Lord 
 Berkeley to be a governor of, 
 251 
 
 Long Stage in R. Severn, fishery of, 
 249, 250 
 
 Lord Lieutenants, a dress uniform 
 for, 344 
 
 M 
 
 MAGIC letters AGLA, on seal, 
 81 
 
 Maiming, 142 
 
 Mandragon, the herb, 150, Introd. 
 
 Manred, 227 
 
 Manuscripts : Roll beg. " Reyne de 
 Piete," a psalter, and a Romance 
 of Merlin, 158 ; Inspexiinus of 
 book relating to names of towns, 
 temp. Edward II., 236. 
 
 Manumissions, 93, 154, 177 
 
 Map of R. Severn, 305 
 
 Mariola, a kind of goose or duck, 
 277, 279 
 
 Markets, grants of, 3, 75, 131, 148 
 
 Marriage : contract uniting the fam- 
 ilies of Fitzharding and Berke- 
 ley, 4, 5 ; covenant of Marg. de 
 Lisle and Tho., Lord Berkeley, 
 175 ; grant of, ib. ; at age of 
 seven, 177 n. ; fine from tenants 
 marrying outside the manor, 278 ; 
 manorial restrictions, rel. to, 286 
 
 Masses, grants, etc., of, 39, 201, 203, 
 
 208, 255, etc. 
 May, Humphrey, letter to, from J. 
 
 Swift, 311 
 Mazers, bequests of, 254, 255 
 Medesilver, 281 
 Melton Mowbray, manor, list of 
 
 knights* fees held of, 316 
 
 Metals, rights in, 227 
 
Index. 
 
 353 
 
 Military matters : levy for army to 
 be led by the King in person 
 against France, 207 : law for 
 
 {)rovision of horses, etc , 221 ; 
 ists of officers, soldiers, etc , in 
 CO. Glouc. , I5th-i7ih cent., a'^S ; 
 view of horse, armour, etc , as- 
 sessed on the clergy in diocese of 
 Gloucester, 1613, 312; account 
 of expedition in Low countries, 
 1622, 317 ; order for raising men 
 in CO. Glouc, ib^ ; affairs in the 
 north, 336 ; words of command, 
 [1599]. «*• 
 Military Service, engagement with 
 the King for, 204 
 
 Military Survey of various hundreds 
 in CO. Glouc, 309 
 
 Mining rights, 226, 227, 237 
 
 Mint, grant of, 3 
 
 Monasteries, dissolved, grants of, 
 
 237. 239 
 Mortar and pestle, bequest of, 256 
 Moyle's Survey, 308 
 Muniments, undertaking to deliver, 
 
 97 
 Murderers, arrest of, 159 
 
 Music, article in apprenticeship for 
 teaching, 239 
 
 Musical Services, 163 
 
 Musicians, Queen's : John Johnson, 
 ante 1596 
 
 Musters, 204, 288, 338 
 
 N 
 
 NAMES, Christian, curious : Aga- 
 cia, 73 ; Ailsi, 65 ; Aky, ib. ; 
 Aulf, 72 ; Aumfeli.sia, 46 ; Ellota, 
 77 ; Faricius, 69; Hernisius, 65 ; 
 Odinel, 82 ; Popelina, 46 ; Riche- 
 man, 65 ; Semaine, 77; Sewi, 72 ; 
 Thuri, 181 
 
 Nativi, grants of, 43, 59, 61, 62, 
 
 "7. 172, 177. 
 Navy : equipment of fleet under 
 
 Adm. Lord Berkeley [1404], 180 
 
 instructions for masters of 
 
 vessels on active service against 
 the Spaniards [1588], 233 
 
 Neath, capture of Edw. II. at, 27S 
 
 Netherlands: appointment of Lord 
 Dursley to be Envoy extr. to the 
 Hague, 251 ; expedition into, 
 317 
 
 Newland, John, Abbot of Bristol, 
 pedigiee-roU of, 290 293 
 
 New Year's Gifts : reminder to Lord 
 Berkeley of his omission to send 
 gift for the King, 1624, 339 
 
 New York, provisions, etc , for sol- 
 diers sent to, in 1 700, 310 
 
 Nibley, battle of, references to, 192, 
 193 «. ; letters and challenge, 
 previous to the battle of, 298, 
 Introd. 
 
 Nibley Church, covenant for supply 
 of priest, 210 
 
 Nobility, English and Scottish, lists 
 of, 289 
 
 " Note," i.e. a small urn, bequest of, 
 254 
 
 OATHS of supremacy and alle- 
 giance, subscription by Lord 
 Berkeley to, [1673], 249 
 
 Oil : cargo of, 232 ; adulteration of, 
 242 
 
 Oldminster, tithing barn at, 209 
 
 Oratory, at Bedniinster Court 38 
 
 Orders, military : manner of making 
 Knights of the Bath, 341 ; statutes 
 of the order of the Garter, 310 ; 
 instalment of Lord Howard of 
 Effingham as K.G., 322; grant 
 to the brethren " miliciae Templi 
 Solomonis," in England, 149 
 
 Orders, religious : grant of privileges 
 to the brethren, etc., of the hos- 
 pital of St. Lazar of Jerusalem, 
 155 ; lands in cos. Notts, and 
 Line , held of the Prior and 
 Brothers of the Hospital of St. 
 John of Jerusalem, in England, 
 158 ; Philip de Thame, Prior of 
 the same in 1345, 162 
 
 Ordination of a priest and deacon, 
 247 
 
 Orford Church and Convent, be- 
 quests to, 257 
 
 Ormonde, Earldom of, 303 
 
354 
 
 Index. 
 
 Otterburn, death of the Earl of 
 Douglas at, 178 «. 
 
 Outlaws, 142, 167 
 
 Oven, bequest of an, 255 
 
 Overbury, Sir Thomas, arraignment 
 of Mrs. A. Turner concerned in 
 the murder of, 317 ; allusion to 
 his murder, 339 
 
 Oxford, University of, entrance of Ivo 
 de Berkeley to, [1327], 276; 
 Maurice, Lord Berkeley, a bene- 
 factor to Magdalen College, 201 
 
 Ozleworth, ch. dedicated to St, 
 Nicholas, 125 
 
 PAGET, Lord, collection of 
 apothegms by C. Bill, dedica- 
 ted to, 319 
 
 Pardon, bequest for purchase of, 257 
 Pariskercheves, bequest of, 256 
 Park, T., reference to his Heliconia, 
 
 319 
 Parksilver, 281 
 
 Parliament, writs of summons for, 
 with nominal lists, 23, 27 Edw. 
 I., 7 Edw. II., 311 ; held at 
 Northampton, in 1328, 284 
 
 Partridges, 214 
 
 Pasture, right of, grant of, after the 
 hay is carried, 92 ; restriction to 
 specified animals and their broods 
 of 1 year old, 96 : free entry to 
 on 1st Aug., 114 
 
 Pedigree rolls, 289-297 
 
 Pedigrees : 
 
 Sovereigns of England, 289, 290 
 
 Berkeley, 290-297, 318 
 
 Berkeley, of Beverstone, 318 
 
 Berkeley, of co. Salop, 295 
 
 Berkeley, of Stoke, 318 
 
 Basset, 318 
 
 Baynham, 318 
 
 Beauchamp, 294 
 
 Borlas, 246 
 
 Bradstone, 318 
 
 Butler, 294 
 
 Pedigrees — continued. 
 
 Carey, Lords Hunsdon, 296 
 
 Chacombe, 85 n. 
 
 Chandos, 318 
 
 Chester, 318 
 
 Clifford, 296, 318 
 
 Codrington, 296 
 
 Dennys, 318 
 
 Fitzgerold, 63 n. 
 
 Fitzwalter, 297 
 
 Gyfford, 318 
 
 Hungerford, 318 
 
 Kemys, 318 
 
 Latimer, 295 
 
 Lisle, 177, 297 
 
 Longney, 297 
 
 Mowbray, 294, 297 
 
 Norwood, 318 
 
 Poole, 348 
 
 Porter, 296, 318 
 
 Poyntz, 296, 318 
 
 Roo?, 295 
 
 Segrave, 13 n., 294 
 
 Seymour, 318 
 
 Shipman, 296 
 
 Thomas, 318 
 
 Throgmorton, 318 
 
 Tracy, 318 
 
 Trye, 318 
 
 Tyes, 177 
 
 Veele, 318 
 
 Warner, 297 
 
 Welshe, 318 
 
 West, Lords de la Warre, 296, 
 297 
 
 Wynter, 318 
 
 Yonge, 318 
 Pestilence, in 1361, 173 
 Pestle and mortar, bequest of, 256 
 Peter's Pence, 194 
 Pheasants, 214 
 Pillory, 52 
 
Index. 
 
 355 
 
 Pirates, measures against, 224, 225, 
 226, 289 ; seizure of, 229 ; in- 
 ventory of barque, ib. 
 
 Pilancia, explanation of the term, 
 
 100 ». 
 ritosia V. Putacia 
 
 Placitum de sanguine et vulnere, 
 142 
 
 Plate, bequest of, 260, 261 ; inven- 
 tory of, 315 
 
 Poetry : rhymes rel. to union of 
 Scotland with England, 289 ; 
 poems on the arrival of the Prince 
 of Orange in 1688, 318 ; " Owen 
 Tudor," by H. Holland, 319 ; 
 Spiritual Sonnets, by H. Con- 
 stable, ib. 
 
 Poictiers, battle of, 168 
 
 Polecat, destruction of poultry by, 
 
 278 
 
 Ponthieu, homage of Edw. II. for, 
 
 277 
 
 Porpoises : reservation of, in fishing 
 lease, 249, 250 ; sent to the 
 Queen, [1328], 284 
 
 Portrait of Philip and Mary in 
 initial letters, 218 
 
 Poultry : rearing of, 278 ; destruc- 
 tion of, by polecat, ib. 
 
 Powis, gift of a white horse of Powis, 
 
 Precedence : claim of Lord Berke- 
 ley over Lord de la Warre, 311 ; 
 order of, 312 
 
 Presentations : to Kegworth, 229 ; 
 advowsons, etc. in gift of the 
 liOrds Berkeley in 1540, 300 
 
 Prices : mare and foal, 10 shillings, 
 pair of boots, 12 pence [t. Hen. 
 III.] 116; various live stock, 
 provisions, etc. [14th cent.] 274- 
 -285 ; corn, [1520] 292 ; arms 
 and armour [1563], 329 
 
 Prisoners of war, 180 
 
 Privy Council letters, 328, 334, 336- 
 340 
 
 Purprestura, 29 .. 
 
 Purveyance, for King's Household, 
 commuted to payment of money, 
 338 
 
 Putacia, [pitosia], a pole-cat, 278 
 
 Putts, fishing, 99 »., 282 
 
 /QUARANTINE, laws of, 343 
 
 Quernegavell, 281 
 Quernepeny, 281 
 
 R 
 
 RANSOMS : of John de Segrave 
 [1335]. 159; of Maurice de 
 Berkeley, [1360], 167 
 
 Rascal, a deer in bad coDdition, 
 206 
 
 Red Book, The, 306 
 
 Relevagium, 26 
 
 Religion, Romish, proviso in lease 
 in case of revival of, 238 
 
 Rent Services : arrows 6g, 276 ; 
 capons, 29, 305 ; a fat capon 
 and a gallon of wine, 200 ; cla- 
 vus gyrofri, 130 ; cummin, 31, 
 32, 86, 88, 102, 179 ; (our bush- 
 ells of corn, 27 ; gloves. 21, 51, 
 63, 70, 80, 90, 100, 115, 119; 
 hawks, I, 56, 77, 134 ; lampreys, 
 no, 154, 279 ; eight bushells of 
 malt, 210 ; an ox, 27 ; pepper, 
 28, 36, 40, 46, 49, 110; roses, 
 87, 104, 186 ; spurs, 17, 24, 30, 
 46, 59. 66, 67, 71, 96; green 
 tunic, 27 ; half-a-pound of wax, 
 "5 
 
 Reprisal, letters of, 231 
 
 Right of way : claimed by canons of 
 St. Augustine's Abbey, 82 : un- 
 restricted through fallow fields, 
 83 ; under guidance only through 
 sown fields, ib ; reserved for car- 
 riage of hay and com, 100 
 
 Rings, gold, 8, 12, 31, 256 ; 
 wedding ring, containmg 14 dia- 
 monds, 260 
 
 Riots, suppression of, [1607], 337 
 
 Robes, bequests of, 254, 255 ; be- 
 quest by Thomas, Lord Berke- 
 ley, of his Parliament robes, 258 
 
 Romescot, 281 
 
 Russell, Lord William, petition to 
 the King, written two days before 
 his execution, 342 
 
 Rustewode, 281 
 
 Rye House Plot, 342 
 
356 
 
 Index. 
 
 SABBATH Day, orders for due 
 observance of, 302 
 
 Sache, i, 10 
 Sacrament, Holy, 33 
 Safe-conduct, letters of, 251 
 SafiFron, 147 
 
 Salt, capture of vessel laden with, 
 229 
 
 Sand, carriage of, from R. Severn 
 to the castle, 280 
 
 Schism in England, [1556], 215 
 
 Scotland : wars in, 14th cent., 153, 
 I59> 17S ; pacification in 1571, 
 222 ; intrigues with France in 
 1583, 332 ; news-letters of occur- 
 rences in, il). 
 
 • Sovereigns of : pedigree, 2S9 
 
 — James VI., letters to Lord 
 
 Hunsdon, 324; letter from the 
 Council to Sir G. Carey, 331 ; 
 his admiration for Qu. Elizabeth, 
 
 - East inarches of, 222 
 
 Scutcheon, directions in will of 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, concer- 
 ning his, 258 
 
 Sea-wall, repair of, 282 
 
 Seals, Royal : Henry, Duke of Nor- 
 mandy, I, 3, 4 (imperfect) ; 
 Richard I., 18, 33 ; John, as 
 Earl of Mortaigne, 21 ; as King, 
 33; Henry HL, 74, 76, 79, 131; 
 Edward I., 150, 151 ; Edward 
 III., 160, 161, 164 ; Henry V., 
 182 ; Henry VI., 184-187 ; Ed- 
 ward IV. 187, 189-192 ; Richard 
 III. 195, 196; Henry VII., 197- 
 199, 201, 202 ; Henry VIII., 
 202, 206, 207 ; Philip and Mary, 
 213 ; Elizabeth, 219, 221-224, 
 226, 233, 238, 242 ; James I., 
 245, 246 ; Alexander III. King 
 of Scotland, 138 
 
 •■ Episcopal, etc. : Bath and 
 
 Wells, 134, 205 ; Bath Chapter, 
 ib. ; Durham, 228 ; Wells Chap- 
 ter, 205 ; Worcester, il, 19, 55, 
 164 ; York, 237 
 
 — of Religious Houses : 
 
 210; Croxton Abbey, loi ; the 
 Abbot of Gerondon (Privy Seal); 
 140; St. Bartholomew's Hospi- 
 tal, Gloucester, 153 ; Kingswood 
 Abbey, 150 ; Lantony Priory, 
 165, 166 ; Laund Priory, 89 ; 
 Austin Friars, London, 203 ; 
 Longbridge Priory, 156, 165, 1G6, 
 167 ; Norton Priory, 149 ; Mag- 
 dalen Coll., Oxford, 201 ; Soulh- 
 wick Priory, 37 ; Guild of the 
 Holy Cross of Stralford-on-Avon, 
 185 ; Twinham al. Christchurch 
 Priory, 39 ; Wallingwells Priory, 
 197 ; Whiteland Abbey, 98 ; 
 Priory of St. John of Jerusalem 
 in England, 162 
 
 Corporate Towns, etc. : An- 
 
 dover, 242 ; Bristol, 172, 179, 
 181, 1S5, 192, 193, 213 ; Calais, 
 200 ; Ipswich, 235 ; Oxford, 236 ; 
 Southampton, 183 
 
 Personal : Richard, Earl of 
 
 St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, 96, 
 100, 103, 162; Combe Abbey, 
 
 Arundel, 165 ; Anne, Duchess of 
 Buckingham, 188 ; Ranulph, 
 Earl of Chester, 54 ; Matilda, 
 Countess of Essex, 77 ; Henry, 
 Earl of Lancaster, 163; Earl and 
 Countess of Pembroke, 142 ; 
 Thomas, Earl of Norfolk, 158 ; 
 John, Duke of Norholk, 189 ; 
 Thomas, Earl of Sussex, 219 ; 
 Margaret, Countess of Winches- 
 ter, 81 ; Joan de Berkeley, 148 ; 
 John de Berkeley, Knt., 179; 
 M. de Berkeley, 14; Maur. son 
 of Dom. M, de Berkeley, 161 ; 
 Rob. de Berkeley, 33, 56 ; Rog- 
 er de Berkeley, 13; Thomas, 
 Lord Berkeley {oli. 1321], 154; 
 Thomas, Lord Berkeley {oO. 136 1] 
 157, 160, 163 ; Thomas, Lord 
 Berkeley {ol>. 14 17], 174, 178, 
 181 ; William, Lord Berkeley, 
 189 ; Drogo de Barenlyn, Sherifl 
 of Berks, 156; Walter de Burgo, 
 107 ; SirWill. Cecil, 219 ; Henry 
 fil. Geroldi, 68 ; Nicholas (il. 
 Rogeri, 138 ; A. de S. Amando, 
 177, 179; Adam de Siavcleia, 
 34 ; Roger Wade, " Crouder," 
 153 ; William, son of Robeil, 
 son of Martin, 43 
 
 Servants, bequests to, 262 
 
 Services, tenants of Berkeley by 
 various, 307 
 
 V. also Rent Services 
 
Index. 
 
 35; 
 
 Severn, R. : fishing accompts, 282 ; 
 great flood, [1607], ib, ; map, 
 with tenants, of fishing grounds, 
 i8lh cent., 305 
 
 ■ V. also Fisheries 
 
 Sheep-shearing, 276 
 
 Sheperden, admission to the chapel- 
 
 ry of, [1354-1399]. 298 
 
 Shillitoe's Survey, 308 
 
 Ships : capture of foreign, 235 ; com- 
 mission to build a war-ship, 289 ; 
 English, burnt at Brest, 293 
 
 names of : The Gabriel, 233 ; 
 
 The George of Berkeley, 194 ; 
 Our Ladye of Viana in Portugal, 
 235 ; The Lyon of Hampton, 
 235 ; The Marlion, 233 ; The 
 Michael, 233 ; The Musket, 233 ; 
 The Pelican, of Emden, 231 ; 
 The Peryn, of Morbian, 232 ; 
 The Regent, 293 ; The St. Peter, 
 of Yarmouth, 226 ; The Senora 
 Rosarn, 236 ; The Swallow, 225, 
 235. 236 ; The Swiftsure, 231 ; 
 The Unicorn, 229 
 
 Silk: articles of dress, 158 
 
 Silver found in mines, reserved to 
 the Crown, 227 
 
 Silver bowl, bequest of, 260 
 
 Slander, case of, 192 
 
 Slimbridge : record of admission of 
 rectors [1207-1475], 298; damage 
 to the chapel door by Henry of 
 Lancaster's men in 1327, 278 
 
 Smyth, John, various works of, 306- 
 309. httrod. 
 
 Soap, adulteration of, 242 
 
 Soch, r, 10 
 
 Soochin v. Scutcheon 
 
 Soul alms, 14, 29, 39, 43, 56, 57, 84, 
 109, 138, 152, 162, 163, 173, 177, 
 197, 208, 257 
 
 Spain : ships for service against, 
 233 ; Spaniards taken prisoners 
 off Havana, 236 ; preparations 
 against England, 335 ; destruc- 
 tion of Spanish ships off the Irish 
 coast by storm, ib. 
 
 Spoons, silver, bequests of, 254, 
 
 255 
 Stach, in R. Severn, grant of a, 171; 
 
 Stafford, Edward, Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, note of his death, 292 
 
 Stanley, Ferdinando, sth Earl of 
 Derby, account of his pretensions 
 to the Crown and his death by 
 poison, 334, 334, «., 335 
 
 Stocks, 152 
 
 Stone, admissions to the chapelryof, 
 [13561456], 293 
 
 Stones, carriage of, from R. Severn 
 to the castle, 280 
 
 Stray, 159 
 
 Stretepens, 281 
 
 Sturgeons : reservation of, in fishing 
 lease, 249 ; accompt for dressing 
 and barrelling, 282 
 
 Subsidies, 190, 241, 287, 288, 312, 
 
 330, 336, 337 
 Sudborne church, bequest to, 257 
 Sugar, cargo of, 236 
 Swefling church, bequest to, 257 
 
 Swift, Jonathan, Chaplain to Lord 
 Berkeley, letter, 1699, 311 
 
 Swoncorn, 281 
 
 TALBOT, Thomas, Viscount 
 Lisle, killed at Nibley Green 
 in I470, 193 ji. 
 
 Talgarth, Court of, 149 
 
 Tallow, used for adulteration, 242 
 
 Taverns, chaplains forbidden to go 
 to, 163 
 
 Tayckments of kine, 303 
 
 Tepenyng, 284 
 
 Tercel, a male hawk, 27 
 
 Theology : collection of religious 
 memoranda, commentaries, etc., 
 319 
 
 Thieves, apprehension of, 138, 142, 
 159 
 
 Thornbury manor, customs of, 300 
 
 Timber : rights of felling, etc., 63, 
 203, 219; licence to cut, 203; 
 woodwards' accompts, 281 
 
 Tin mine, 228 
 
 Tinnage Act, 261 
 
358 
 
 Index. 
 
 Tithes : of pannage, 82 ; of fishery 
 and mills, ib. ; lease of, at Wig- 
 gington, 201 ; at Oldminster, 
 209 ; of Nibley, 210, 304 
 
 Tobacco, for soldiers sent to New 
 York in 1700, 310 
 
 Tobacco-pipe clay, licence to dig 
 for, 248, 249 
 
 Tolls : for grinding corn, 25 ; in the 
 Sound, 343 
 
 Tolvesaye, the, near the High Cross 
 of Bristol, 213 
 
 Tonnage and poundage, 190, 195 
 
 Tournaments, service at, 156 
 V. also Jousts 
 
 Trail bastons, 284 
 
 Travel : licence for, 247 ; expenses 
 of, 284, 285 
 
 Trees : felling of, 234 ; ancient or 
 boundary, not to be felled, 203 ; 
 V. alsb Timber 
 
 Trental, bequest for singing of a, 257 
 
 Trevysa, John, pedigree-roll of the 
 Berkeleys by, 293. Introd. 
 
 Truce betw. the marches of Scotland 
 and England, 178 
 
 Tudor, Owen, poem so called, by H. 
 HoUande, 319 
 
 Tudorus, disputation on the art of 
 alchemy, 318 
 
 Tumbrell, 152 
 
 Turkey Company, the, 325 
 
 V 
 
 VALUES : The Berkeley Man- 
 ors valued at £,bo^ i8 4^, 
 in 1320, 156 ; V. also Prices 
 
 Vassalage, 227 n. 
 
 Velvet, 158 
 
 Vessels, ecclesiastical, bequest of, 
 
 254 
 Vestments, ecclesiastical, bequests 
 
 of, 254, 258 
 
 Villeins v. Nativi 
 
 Vinegar, adulteratiqp of, 242 
 
 Wales, journey of Lord Berkeley 
 into, to Qu. Isabella [1327], 278 
 Wales, the marches of, 334 
 Wardrobe, the Queen's, 235 
 Wardrobe accompfs, of the Lord 
 Berkeley, 283 
 
 Wars, etc., in England : between 
 Henry III. and Richard, Earl of 
 Pembroke, atite 1234, 80 ; ' Tur- 
 bacio in regno Anglie,' [1253], 
 132 
 
 with Scotland [1335, 1389], 
 
 159, 178 
 with France, 165, 207 
 
 w 
 
 w 
 
 AGES book, [1585-8], 314 
 
 Warwick, Eliz., Countess of, parti- 
 tion of her lands between her 
 daughters and coheirs, 189 
 
 Waste, a year and a day and, 167 
 Wax : ship laden with, 225 ; for 
 
 church lights, 72, 165 
 Weapons, bequest of, 258 
 Wearing apparel, bequest of, 260 
 Wedding ring, bequest of, 260 
 Wells Cathedral, bequest to, 256 
 Werkgavell, 281 
 Whale, a royal fish, 250 
 
 Wigginton, co. Oxon, chapel of St. 
 Leonard in St. Giles' Church at, 
 201 
 
 Wight, Isle of : matters connected 
 with Sir G. Carey's captaincy of, 
 229-239 ; letters to Sir G. Carey, 
 captain of, 332, 333 ; enquiry 
 into the decayed condition of, 
 [1586], 231 
 
 Wills: Averay, John, 255; Baldwj-n, 
 Walter, 255 ; Beavan, James, 
 
 261 ; Berkeley, Auerustus, Earl 
 of, 262 ; Berkeley, Charles, Earl 
 of, 261 ; Berkeley, George, Earl 
 of, 260 ; Berkeley, Henry, Lord, 
 259 ; Berkeley, James, Earl of, 
 
 262 ; Berkeley, Maurice, Lord, 
 [1513=3]. 257, 263 ; Berkeley, 
 Maurice, of Yate, Knt., 258; 
 Berkeley, Thomas, Lord, [14x5], 
 
 263 ; Berkeley, Thomas, Lord, 
 [1533]. 25!>, 263 ; Berkeley, 
 William, Marquis of, 257, 263 ; 
 Bevercgge, Richard, 254; Carev, 
 George, Lord Hunsdon, 259 ; 
 
Index. 
 
 359 
 
 Wills — Continued. 
 
 Chapstowe, Maurice, 253 ; Cove 
 ley, John de, 253 ; Daunt 
 Thomas, 256; Essington, Robert 
 263 : Fitzherbert, John, 263 
 Fotour, John, 256 ; Fryer, Rob 
 ert, 257 ; P'ust, Sir John, Bart. 
 
 262 ; Golde, William, 253 ; How 
 ard, Henry, Earl of Northampton 
 260, 263 ; Legat, Adam, 255 ; Le 
 gat, Margery, 256; Mede, Philip 
 
 263 ; Ormonde, T., 257; Praiers 
 Henry, Knt., 253 ; Ridde, John 
 257 ; Koubergh, John, 256 ; Shir 
 ley, Ralph, 257 ; Skot, Nicholas 
 le, 254 ; Talbot, Edward, Vis 
 count Lisle, 263 ; Talbot, Joan 
 Viscountess Lisle, [1500], 263 
 Talbot, Lady, [1504], 263 
 Thomas, Robert, 255 ; Thorpe 
 George, 263 ; Thorpe, Marg. 
 260 ; i horpe, Nicholas, 259 
 Trye, Thomas, 263 ; Wall, John, 
 254 
 
 Wine : ship chartered to bring wine 
 from Bordeaux, 194 ; custom on 
 French wines, 336 
 
 Woad, French vessel laden with, 230 
 
 Worcester Cathedral : bequests to, 
 253, 254, 25s, 256, 258 ; episco- 
 pal registers of, 298 
 
 Workman's wages, 278 
 
 Wotton Church, bequests to, 255, 
 256 
 
 Writs : grant of the returns of the 
 Kin/s Writs, 157 
 
 Wyat's rebellion, 214 ; letters of 
 Qu. Mary on, 321 
 
 \ 
 
 /ORK HOUSE, in Baltersea, 
 decayed condition of, 237 
 
S6o 
 
 Index. 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 ABBELEIA, rudinga de, in Wot- 
 ton, 93, III 
 
 Abbewelle, in Hinton, 50 
 
 Abingdon, co. Berks : Abbot of, 
 Hugh [1218] 
 
 Abington, 141 
 
 Abrahamwelle, in Croxton, 122 
 
 Accatone v. Acton 
 
 Acton, CO. Glouc, 8, 10 
 
 Acton Turvyle Hundred, 309 
 
 Agheleghegrave, near Wotton, 70 
 
 Ailmington, 314 
 
 Aketre, in Alkington Manor, 96 
 
 Alburgh, CO. Norf., 233 
 
 Alconbury, co. Hunts, 300, 314 
 
 Alcrintone v. Alkington 
 
 Aldemunstre v. Oldminster 
 
 Aldredesmare, Aldresmara, in Hin- 
 ton, 60, 62 
 
 Aldufistre v. Austrey 
 
 Alduluestre v. Austrey 
 
 Aleby v. Welby 
 
 Alkington, co. Glouc, 92, 93, 96, 
 107, 151, 154.156, 161, 164, 178, 
 1F4, 244, 269, 270, 275, 313 
 
 AUer, CO. Som., 208 
 Alemundebere v. A'mondsbury 
 AlmoJesbure ?'. Almondsbury 
 Almondsbury, co. Glouc, 9, 11, 55, 
 
 56; 79, 264, 270 
 Alquinton v, Alkington 
 Alvele, CO. Essex, 72 
 Alvidelea v. Alveley 
 Ampthill Park, co. Bedf., 219 
 Amu nde fort v. Mundford 
 
 Andover, co. Southampton, 242 
 
 Baiiiflfof, Will. Blake [1601] 
 
 Appleridge, near Berkeley, 164, 184, 
 196 
 
 Apudupthrop in Coaley, 40 
 
 Arlingham, co. Glouc, 57, 58, 59, 
 82, 99, 124, 149, 154, 164, 165, 
 174, 181, 182, 220, 245, 313 
 
 Dean of, William, 1248 
 
 Vicars of, William, early 13th 
 
 cent. ; Reginald, 1372 ; William 
 Kentes . . . 1406 
 
 Ashelsworth, Ashelworth, co. Glouc. 
 
 9, II, 55, 56 
 Ashendon, co. Bucks, 120 
 
 Clerk of, Martin, t. Hen. HI 
 
 Ashton, CO. Wilts, 167 
 Aspley, CO. Warwick, 190, 313 
 Asshton z: Ashton 
 Asthin V. Ashton 
 Auraodesham v. Awnsham 
 Aure, 165, 166, 182 
 Austrey, co. Warw., 98, 99 
 
 Clerk of, Symon, 1248 
 
 Avignon, 38 172 
 Awnsham, 79 
 Aylesbury Manor, 241 
 Ayllemerton z/, Aylminton 
 Aylminton, 301 
 
 B 
 
 ■DAB WORTH Bridge, 149 
 
 Badderigge, in Ozleworth, 47 
 Badeleking v. Baulking 
 Baderugg, in Ozleworth, 125 
 Badminton, 343 
 
Index. 
 
 361 
 
 Bagatistona, in Cromhall, co. Glouc. 
 Ill 
 
 Bagermore Meadow, 105 
 
 Baggapath, Baggepath, Baggpath, 
 V. Bagpath 
 
 Newington-Bagpath 
 
 Bagpath, co. Glouc, 119, 121, 124, 
 
 139, 152 
 Baldenswyche, in Malvern, 228 
 Ballansford, co. Warw., 221 
 Banbury, co. Oxon, 191 
 
 Barford, co. Oxon : Priest of, Regi- 
 nald, [late i2th cent.] 
 
 Barking, 234 
 
 Barnard Castle, 266 
 
 Bamingham, co. Norf., 233 
 
 Barnstaple, co. Devon, 180 
 
 Barnwell Priory, co. Cambr. : Prior 
 of, Lawrence, early 13th cent. 
 
 Barrow Haven, 225 
 
 Barrow-on-Soar, co. Leic, 90 
 
 Clerk of, William, t. John 
 
 Barton, King's, Hundred, co. Glouc. 
 66, 287, 288, 312, 328 
 
 Warden of. Master S. de 
 
 Glastonia, early Hen. IH. 
 
 Baruha v. Barrow-on-Soar 
 
 Barwi v. Barrow-on-Soar 
 
 Bassetshawe, in Rush'.on, co. Northt. 
 92 
 
 Bath, 22, 301, 343 
 
 Abbey: Priors, Robert, 1204; 
 
 Walter, [1199-1212] ; William 
 Bridde, 1515 
 
 Bishops of : Burnell, Robert ; 
 
 Reginald ; Trotman, Jocelin 
 
 Bath and Wells, Bishops of: z/. John; ( 
 Reginald ; William 
 
 Battersea, York House in, 237 
 
 Baulking, co. Berks, 44, 271 
 
 Baynham, co. Essex, 238 
 
 Beckedescombe, near Wotton, 127 
 
 Beckering Park, 219 
 
 Beckhamplon, 268 
 
 Bede v. Beedon 
 
 Bedfont, co. Midd., 243 
 
 Bedminster Hundred, co. Som., 40, 
 80 
 
 Bedminster, 6, 15, 38, 52, 98, 175, 
 182, 183, 264 
 
 Rector of: Walter de Dun- 
 
 stanville, t. John 
 
 Chaplain of: Philip, t. John 
 
 Beedon, co. Berks, 54 
 
 Beket Mill, near Bitton, 70 
 
 Bekyngham, co. Notts, 158 
 
 Beleya Bridge, near Cam, 66 
 
 Belton, CO. Leic, Priest of, William, 
 late 1 2th cent. 
 
 Belton, CO. Line, 271, 272 
 
 Benleigemore, in Wick, co. Glouc, 
 28 
 
 Bentham, co. York, 34 
 
 Beoly, CO. Wore, 122 
 
 Bereford v. Barford 
 
 Berchalei 7'. Berkeley 
 
 Berkeley Hundred, 159, 177, 182, 
 
 238, 287, 288, 328 
 
 Barony, 146 
 
 Herness, 2, 3, 8, 9, 18, 23, 
 
 56, 93, 141, 192, 218, 280 
 
 Manor, i, 2, 155, 182, 194, 
 
 196, 213, 214 
 
 Town, 6, 18, 23, 24, 25, 47, 
 
 55. 56, 98, 99. 103, 105, 106, 
 
 107, no, 113, 125, 126, 127, 
 
 129, 140, 141, 150, 152, 153, 
 
 154, 156, 160, 161, 163, 164, 
 
 166, 172, 178, I So, 183, 184, 
 
 192, 200, 222, 242, 247, 249, 
 
 254, 268, 269, 270, 272, 274, 
 
 283, 285, 298, 306-319 
 
 Church, 9, II, 15, 56, 154, 
 
 177. 178 
 
 Vicars of : Nicholas, 
 
 1255 ; John Trevisa, 1398 ; Edw. 
 Chetwynd, 1629 
 
 St. Andrew's Chantry in, 
 
 177, 178 
 
 Chaplains of: Adam, [1x89- 
 
 1220]; henry, [11 89-1220] ; Wal- 
 ter, [1189-1216] 
 
 Clerk of, Henry, t. John 
 
 Castle, I, 56, 100, 176, 177, 
 
 197, 213, 214, 261, 300, 301 
 
362 
 
 Index. 
 
 Berkeley Castle, Constable of, Nich. 
 de Stowe, t. Hen. III. 
 
 ■ Seneschals of : Wm. 
 
 de Taney, 1247 ; Rob. de Hales, 
 1243 ; W. de Mathem, late 
 Hen. HI. ; Humph. Alsop.'isS; 
 
 Chapel of B.V. Mary 
 
 and St. John in, 170 
 
 Chaplain of: Walter 
 
 t. Ric. I. 
 
 Berkhampstead, Steward of, William, 
 1299 
 
 Berks, county of, 159 
 
 Sheriffs of: H. de Saccario, 
 
 1218 ; D. de Barentyn, 1326 
 
 Berscaldeby v. Beskaby 
 
 Berwewater, in R. Severn, 154 
 
 Berwick-on-Tweed, 150, 152, 153, 
 218, 324 
 
 Beskaby, co. Leic, 123 
 Betesle v. Bettesley 
 Bettesley, co. Glouc, 148 
 Beverstan v. Beverstone 
 Beverstone, co. Glouc, 9, 11, 56, 
 160 
 
 Bevington, in Berkeley, 79, 94, 117, 
 302 
 
 Bevinton v. Bevington 
 
 Bigford V. Bushford 
 
 Bigfordesbridge, 126 
 
 Billesdon, 268 
 
 Billow Brook, near Slimbridge, 33 
 
 Birbladethwait, in Mewith, 34 
 
 Bishopston Hundred, co. Wilts, 166 
 
 Bitton, CO. Glouc, i, 10, 18, 20, 42, 
 70. 74, 75. 112, 134, 176, 179, 
 184, 185, 302, 313, 317 
 
 Blagdon, co. Som., 22 
 
 Chaplain of, Richard, t. John 
 
 Blakedune v. Blagdon 
 
 Blakemere Pool, co. Som., 22 
 
 Blakeney, co. Glouc, 121 
 
 Blakewelle, in Newington Bagpath, 
 100 
 
 Blanchalanda v. Whiteland Abbey 
 
 Blaynleuenyrs, 149 
 
 Bledislow Hundred, 182 
 
 Blemesham, co. Dev., 273 
 
 Bletchingley, co. Kent, 281 
 
 Bodler's Weir, in R. Severn, 220 
 
 Boeleyebroc v. Billow Brook 
 
 BoUecote v. Bowcot 
 
 Bonratty, in Ireland, 338 
 
 Bordeaux, 194 
 
 Bordesley Abbey : Abbot of, William, 
 1203-10 
 
 Boreham, CO. Essex, 194 
 
 Bosham, co. Suss., 238, 314 
 
 Botilbrigge v. Botolph Bridge 
 
 Botilfbridge v. Botolph Bridge 
 
 Botolph Bridge, co. Hunts, 61, 134 
 
 Bottesmor in Hurst, 153 
 
 Bowcot, near Dursley, 108 
 
 Boxwell Mill, co. Glouc, 100 
 
 Brackenhil, in Houghton-on-the- 
 Hill, 41 
 
 Braddadale, Braddale, or Brddedale, 
 in Dalby, co. Leic, 16, 39 
 
 Bradeflet, in Ozleworth, 94, 95, 113, 
 122 
 
 Bradelegefurlang, in Ozleworth, 125 
 
 Bradley, in Wotton, 136, 157, 283, 
 284, 285 
 
 Clerk of, Henry, early 13th 
 
 cent., 1236, 1238 
 
 Bradstone, 241 
 
 Brainford, West, 268 
 
 Bramber Castle and Manor, co. Suss. 
 
 159 
 Brandwood, 205 
 Brastead, co. Kent, 281 
 Brathestone v. Breadstone 
 Bray, co. Devon, 7, 36, 59, 82 
 Breadstone, in Berkeley, 113 
 
 Breccheaker, in Newington, o. 
 Glouc, ']^ 
 
 Brecknock Castle, 327 
 Bredona v. Breedon 
 Breedon, co. Leic, 112 
 Bretby, co. Derb., 53, 54, 186, 208, 
 314 
 
Index. 
 
 363 
 
 Bretby, co. York, 78, 199, 283 
 
 Bretteby v. Bretby 
 
 Bridgewater, 289 
 
 Brigmerston, co. Wilts, 157 
 
 Brind, co. York, 188 
 
 Bristol, City of, i, 4, 21, 22, 24, 25, 
 27. 57, 75. 96, 103, 105, no, 
 130, 15s, 162, 163, 164, 172, 
 ^11, 179, 183, 193, 199, 202, 
 210, 212, 213, 218, 256, 258, 
 275, 277, 284, 289, 301 
 
 Sheriffs of : Robert Bakster, 
 
 [1398] ; David Duddebroke, 
 [1417]; Wm. Canynges, 1439; 
 Robert Straunge, 1468 ; John 
 Spryng, 1524 
 
 Mayors of : Wm. Canyng, 
 
 1374; Walter Derbi, 1380; John 
 Canynges, 1398 ; John Fisher, 
 1408 ; Robert Russell, 1417 ; 
 Hugh Withiford, 1439 ; Philip 
 Mede, 1468 ; John Shipward, 
 1470 ; Robert Straunge, 1474 ; 
 John Hutton, 1524 ; Roger Coke, 
 1551 
 
 Bailiffs of: Will. Combe, 
 
 Thos. Knappe, 1374 ; Rob. Gar- 
 diner, John Kaninges, 1380 ; 
 Thomas Mede, John Gosselyn, 
 1439 ; John Godard, John Nan- 
 cotham, 1468 
 
 Prepositus Redeclivie, Richard 
 
 Draperius, t. Hen. IH. 
 
 Deans of : Savarie [ 1 193-95] ; 
 
 Henry [1200-10]. 
 
 Abbey of St. Augustine at, 
 
 9, II, IS, 18, 19, 22, 25, 33, 37, 
 43. 55. 56, 78, 82, 94, 96, 99, 
 100, 103, 105, no, 141, 152, 
 157, 280, 306 
 
 Abbots of: Richard [1150- 
 
 1160], [1154-1157], [1175-80], t. 
 Hen. n. ; John [1185-90], late 
 12th cent. t. John, [1200-1210] ; 
 David [1216-1220], [1220-1234] ; 
 William, 1236-48; Richard, 1266; 
 John, 1278 ; John, 1337 ; Wm. 
 Burton, 1536 
 
 Priors of : W , t. 
 
 Hen. II.; William [1175-80]; 
 R , ante 1216 ; Ralph, 1346 
 
 — — • ■' Subprior of, Andoenus, ante 
 1216 
 
 Bristol, Sacristan of, W , ante 
 
 1216 
 
 Chamberlain of, J , ante 
 
 1216 
 
 St. James' Priory : Prior of, 
 
 Robert Cheltynham, 1523 
 
 Priory of St. Mary Magdalen: 
 
 Prioress of, Johanna VValeys, 1455 
 
 — House of Austin Friars : 
 
 Prior of, Nicholas, 1369 
 
 St. Mary Redcliffe Church, 
 
 190, 210, 212, 256, 274 
 
 ^ Chaplainsof: William 
 
 t. Ric. I. — John ; William, 1408 
 
 Parson of, J. de 
 
 Brampton, 1 320 
 Briztmerston v. Brigmerston 
 
 Broclegh, Chaplain of, A , t. John 
 
 Brodwildmor, near Leire, 17 
 Brokenborough Manor, 270, 313 
 Broome, co. Wore, 241 
 Browd, 23 
 
 Bruneswellesham in Hinton, 62 
 Brussels, 325 
 Brynde v. Brind 
 Brystow v. Bristol 
 Buckingham, 213 
 
 Bailiffof, Thomas More, 1553 
 
 Bulewik, co. Glouc, 50 
 
 Buleye, in Cam, 66 
 
 Bulthdynas, 149 
 
 Buntingford, 265 
 
 Buolee v. Beoly 
 
 Buringtone v. Burrington 
 
 Burlonde, La, 94 
 
 Burrington, co. Som., 22 
 
 Burton Lazars, co. Leic. , 39, 87, 140 
 
 Master of, Thomas 
 
 Norton, Knt., 15 14 
 Burton in Lonsdale, 34, 188 
 Bushford in Wotton, 126 
 Butley, 256 
 Button V. Bitton 
 Bytton V. Bitton 
 
3^4 
 
 Index. 
 
 /^ACHELEIE V. CHATLEY 
 
 Cagwurth z: Kegworth 
 
 Calais, 1 68, 200, 208, 214, 215, 328 
 
 Mayor of, Thomas Burdon, 
 
 1500 
 
 Calcot, in Newington Bagpath, 71 
 
 Caldechote v. Caldicote 
 
 Caldicote, in Newington Bagpath, 
 
 CO. Gloiic. ,'8i 
 Caloughdon, co. Warw. , 215, 246, 
 
 314 
 Cam, CO. Glouc, 45, 63, 66, 113, 
 
 131, 148, 156, 163, 184, 187, 215, 
 
 245, 270, 276, 296, 312 
 
 Dean of, Walter [1193-95] 
 
 Parson, of, Reginald, 11 54 
 
 Rector of, R. de Andeure, 1236 
 
 Cambridge, co. Cambr., 77 
 
 Christ's College, 204, 209, 229, 
 
 248, 250, 252 
 
 Cambridge, co. Glouc, 33, 160, 163 
 
 Cameys, co. Pembr., 142 
 
 Campeden, 79 
 
 Campel, 127 
 
 Canbury, co. Glouc, 314 
 
 Canonbury Manor, co. Glouc, 221, 
 
 243, 280 
 
 Canon Row v. Westminster 
 
 Canterbury, 153 
 
 Archbishops of v. Edmund ; 
 
 Bouchier, Thos. ; Stafford, John 
 
 Cardiff, Chaplain of, Richard, t. Ric. 
 I. 
 
 Carisbrooke Castle, 219, 220, 233, 
 
 244, 335 
 Carlisle,;i52, 336 
 Carlton, co. Notts, 197 
 Carnewallen, 226 
 Garwood, 180 
 
 Caternookesleys, in R. Severn, 211 
 Cattemersh, 189 
 
 Caxton, 265 
 
 Cerney, co. Glouc, 26, 118, 126, 
 139, 146, 179, 182 
 
 Parsons of: Milo, t. Hen. 
 
 III. ; Richard, late Hen. HI. 
 
 Cerneywick, 179, 182 
 
 Chalcombe, co. Northt., 85 
 
 Church of SS. Peter and 
 
 Paul, 48 
 
 Challow, East, co. Berks, 67, in 
 
 Charfield, co. Glouc, 267 
 
 Charlton-by-Wroxhall, co. Som., 218 
 
 Chatley, co. Som., 34, 35 
 
 Chattelei, Chattleg v. Chatley 
 
 Chaucumbe v. Chalcombe 
 
 Chelmiredescote v. Chilvers-Coton 
 
 Chelmsford, 240 
 
 Chelrey v. Childrey 
 
 Cheltenham, 266 
 
 Cherlecumb-by-Bath, 134 
 
 Cheselhanger Wood, 29, 205 
 
 Cheslaunder Wood, 202 
 
 Chester, Justice of, P. de Orreby, 
 [1208-26] 
 
 Constables of, John de Laci, 
 
 [1233] 
 
 Bishops of V. Hugh 
 
 Abbot of, H.~ , [1208- 
 
 1226] 
 
 Chester, West, Port, 288 
 
 Chesterford, co. Essex, 198-200 
 
 Chew, CO. Som., Rector of, James 
 de Berkelegh, 1301 
 
 Chichester, Bishops of v. Ralph 
 
 Chicklade, co. Wilts, 182 
 
 Childrey, co. Berks, Clerk of, Adam, 
 early Henry HI. 
 
 Chilvers-Coton, co. Warw., 20 
 
 Chippenham Hundred, 166 
 
 Chippenham Manor, 166 
 
 Chipping Kington, 265 
 
 Chipping Warden, 266 
 
 Christchurch Priory v. Twinham 
 
 Christen, co. Som., 272 
 
 Chaplain of, A. t. John 
 
 ChulrenehuU, in Mangotsfield, 21 
 
Index. 
 
 3^5 
 
 Chyw V. Chew 
 
 Cornwall, co., 271, 274, 286, 309 
 
 Cirencester, 284, 285, 299, 300, 329, 
 
 Corringham, co. Line, 119 
 
 343 
 
 Corstcourt, 329 
 
 
 Cossington, co. Leic, 19, 43 
 
 
 III. 
 
 Cotes, CO. Leic, 90, 129 
 
 Claior v. Clare 
 
 Coton, CO. Derb., 207 
 
 Clancarty House [in Dublin ? ] 31 1 
 
 Coulham, [ ? near Bitton], 20 
 
 Clapton, CO. Glouc, 38, 150, 1 88 
 
 Coueleg V. Coaley 
 
 Clare, in Pirton, 60 
 
 Couleye v. Coaley 
 
 Claverdon, co. Warwick, 114 
 
 Coventry, co. Warw., 106, 157, 215, 
 
 Claydons, co. Essex, 243 
 
 252, 264, 267 
 
 Cleardon, ■i:i7 
 
 Archdeacon of, Wm. de 
 
 Cleitun, co. York [?], 65 
 
 Kilkenny, 1252 
 
 Clerkenwell, 315 
 
 Chaplain of, Ralph, early 
 
 Hen. in. 
 
 ID..^^*.. z*^*. 
 
 
 
 Priory of, 32 
 
 Clonmel, 330 
 
 Prior of, Josbert, early 
 
 Clopton, Cloptune v. Clapton 
 
 13th cent. 
 
 Clugny, Abbot of, Andruyn, 1360 
 
 Coventry and Lichfield, Bishops of, 
 
 Clunmaiisco campus de, 47 
 
 V. Roger 
 
 Cnipton [ co. Leic], lOl 
 
 Cowley V. Coaley 
 
 Coaley, co. Glouc, 33, 40, 52, no. 
 
 Cradley, co. Wore, 241 
 
 IIS, 153, 156, 165, 166,184,197, 
 
 Cranebr [ook ?], 21 
 
 245 
 
 Crampford le Mote v. Cranford 
 
 Chaplain of, Henry, son of 
 
 Cranford, co. Middl., 149, 184, 210, 
 
 Adam, early I3lh cent. 
 
 236, 238, 239, 242, 245, 246, 
 
 Cocket Island, Northumberland, 225 
 
 247, 287 
 
 Codnor, co. Derby, 237 
 
 Crauchote, 138 
 
 Coingers Elmes, in Ham, 282 
 
 Cristgeston v. Christon 
 
 Cold Overton, co. Leic, 79, 207, 
 
 Cromhall, co. Glouc, II, 56, in 
 
 313,314, 316 
 
 Crouchonwell, 149 
 
 Colehide, in Bevington, 79 
 
 Croumor, 97 
 
 Collumbeyn Hall, in Stowmarket, 
 
 Crowesscahe, in La Wike, 86 
 
 228 
 
 Croxston v. Croxton 
 
 Colne R., 30 
 
 Croxton, co. Leic, 50, 67, loi, 114, 
 
 Coltyn Leyes, in Berkeley, 206 
 
 116, 122, 123, 128 
 
 Combe, near Wotton, co. Glouc, 8, 
 
 Abbey, 82, loi, 122, 209, 
 
 280 
 
 308 
 
 Combe Abbey, co. Warw., 210 
 
 Abbots of: Ralph, 1236; 
 
 Abbots of : 
 
 Geoffrey [1240- 1260] ; R. Derby, 
 
 William, early 13th cent. ; Rob- 
 
 1534 ; £. Attercliff, 1534 
 
 ert, 1537 
 
 nprk r>f Fliiph t Hen TIT 
 
 
 Compton, CO. Glouc, Clerk of, 
 
 Crykeston v. Christon 
 
 Richard, late 12th cent. 
 
 Cuantona, [co, Som. ?], Clerk of. 
 
 Compton Grcnvile, co. Glouc, 273 
 
 William, t. John 
 
 Corinham v. Corringham 
 
 Cubington, co. Warw., 32 
 
\66 
 
 Index. 
 
 Culcretuna v. Culkerton 
 
 
 Diseworth, co. Leic, 13, 27, 30, 45, 
 
 Culkerton, in Rodmarton, co. Glouc. 
 
 53, 62, 65, 69, 72, 85, 87, 103, 
 
 71, I07 
 
 
 112, 117, 149, 191 
 
 Cullingewey road, near Symondshall, 
 
 Dishley, co. Leic, 131 
 
 84 
 
 
 Disthwrthe v. Diseworth 
 
 Culverhayes, 303 
 
 
 Ditheswrhe v. Diseworth 
 
 Curcheston, 73 
 
 
 Ditheswrth v. Diseworth 
 
 Cusinton v. Cossington 
 
 
 Dithisworth v. Diseworth 
 Dixele v. Dishley 
 
 D 
 
 
 Dodescote, co. Dev., 273 
 
 
 Dogmersfield, 175 
 
 ■pvAGLINGWORTH, co. Glouc. 
 
 Dolfelde, in Ham, 57 
 
 U 270, 314 
 
 
 Doncaster, 285 
 
 Dalby, co. Leic, 76, 314 
 
 
 Donington, co. Leic, 78 
 
 Dalby Chalcombe, co. Leic, 
 
 48, 
 
 Parson of, Simon de Ces- 
 
 207, 313 
 
 
 tria, [1208- 1 226] 
 
 Dalby, Great, co. Leic, 87 
 
 
 Doningworth, co. Suff., 243 
 
 Dalby-on-the-Wolds, co. Leic, i 
 
 6 
 
 Donlewe Hundred, co. Wilts., 166 
 
 Darneford, 257 
 
 
 Doresby v. Thoresby 
 
 Darsington v. Dorsington 
 
 
 Dorset, county of, 271, 283, 286 
 
 Daubi V. Dalby Chalcombe 
 
 
 Dorsington, co. Glouc, 184, 240 
 
 Daubra v, Dalby-on-the-Wolds 
 
 
 Rector of, Wm. de Wor- 
 
 Dauby v. Dalby 
 
 
 mynton, 1359 
 
 Deerhurst. co. Glouc, Clerk 
 
 of, 
 
 Doulecresse v. Dieulacres 
 
 Geoffrey, 1238 
 
 
 Draitun, Clerk of, John, circ, 1218 
 
 Denham Place, co, Bucks., 231 
 
 
 Draycote, co. Wilts, 36, 40 
 
 Depedale, 104 
 
 
 Dreicote v, Draycote 
 
 Derby, 267, 268, 386 
 
 
 Dublin, 80, 147 
 
 Derselega v. Dursley 
 
 
 Archbishops of: v. Luke; 
 
 Dersford v. Desford 
 
 
 N. Marsh 
 
 Desford, co. Leic, 77, 80 
 
 
 Dumas Castle, in Ireland, 80 
 
 Desmond, 147 
 
 
 Dungarvan Castle, 147 
 
 Detheswr' v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Duninton v. Donington 
 
 Devon, county of, 185, 256 
 
 
 Dunnestorp, 89 
 
 Dhiteswrhe v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Dunsande Pool, in R. Severn, 220 
 
 Diccheswrthia v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Dunstable, 97, 274 
 
 Dicheswrd v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Duppemor, Le, 64 
 
 Dicheswrth v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Durdan's House, Epsom, 261, 315 
 
 Didesworth v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Dureslega v. Dursley 
 
 Dieulacres, co. Chest., Abbot 
 
 of. 
 
 Durham, county of, 228 
 
 R. , [1208-26], S3 
 
 
 Durham, city of, 266 
 
 Digethelswrd v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Bishopric of, 224, 225 
 
 Digitheswurth v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Bishops of: v. Barnes, Ric. ; 
 
 Digtheworth v. Diseworth 
 
 
 Bek, Anthony ; Hugh 
 
Index. 
 
 367 
 
 Dursley, 5, 15, 37, 104. ioS> 108. 
 
 Fauflore v. Fallow 
 
 119, 227, 285 
 
 Faulore w. Fallow 
 
 Duuelina, 24 
 
 Feauflore v. Fallow 
 
 Dyseworth v. Diseworth 
 
 Fenny Stanton, 314 
 
 E 
 
 Filton, 301 
 
 Fineberg, 131 
 
 •p ASTON, CO. Leic, 118 
 
 Finegrave, co. Glouc, 70 
 
 Flauflor v. Flaw forth 
 
 Eastwood, CO. Glouc, 205, 329 
 
 
 Echedone Field, in Cam., 187 
 
 Flawforth, co. Notts, 158 
 
 Edenworth, co. Som., 157 
 
 Flecknoe, 313 
 
 Edinburgh, 150, 326, 331, 332 
 
 Florence, 342 
 
 Egeton, in Hinton, 33, 62, 146, 150, 
 
 Foddringeye v. Fotheringay 
 
 270 
 
 Fontesdich, in Newington, 136 
 
 Eggetuna v. Egeton 
 
 Forda, 36 
 
 Egmere, co. Norf., 213-215 
 
 Fortimer Hospital, 138 
 
 Eldefelde, in Kingston Lisle, 1 1 1 
 
 Foston,co. Leic, Parson of, William, 
 
 Elfringes, in Croxton, 123 
 
 early Hen. III. 
 
 EUemoreesfeld, 118 
 
 Fotheringay, co. Northt., Clerk of. 
 
 Elmebrugge, 267 
 
 Robert, 1267 
 
 Ely, Bishops of : v. Bouchier, Th. ; 
 
 Foxchotis V. Foxcote 
 
 Longchamps, Will, cle ; Lude, 
 
 Foxcote, in Withington, co. Glouc, 
 
 Will, de 
 
 II. 30. 46, 59 
 
 Empingham, 264 
 
 Chaplain of, Thomas, c, 1200 
 
 Epsom, 315 
 
 Frampton-on-Severn, 154, 273, 313, 
 
 Epworth, CO. Line, 160, 256, 264, 
 
 314 
 
 271, 272 
 
 France, 186 
 
 Esselesworth v. Ashelworth 
 
 Franks al. Warley Francke Manor, 
 
 Esselwrd v. Ashelworth 
 
 CO. Essex, 238 
 
 Essendon v. Ashendon 
 
 Freethorne, co. Glouc, Rector of, 
 
 Essex, county of, 244, 327 
 
 Robert, [1372] 
 
 Estchaulauhe v. Challow, East 
 
 Freibec, 36 
 
 Estchawelawe v. Challow, East 
 
 Freleswrthie, near Leire, 17 
 
 Estwood V. Eastwood 
 
 Fremantle, co. Hants, 18 
 
 Evenweislondes, in Diseworth, 63 
 
 Frigidum Mantellum v. Fremantle 
 
 Exeter, 284 
 
 Frith Wood, in Ozleworth, 47, 107 
 
 Archdeacon of: Henry, son 
 
 Frith Wood, Great, in Barking, 234 
 
 of Robert Fitzharding, t. Hen. 
 
 
 IL 
 
 Frocester, 120 
 
 Eye, CO. Suff., 37 
 
 Frompton v. Frampton-on-Severn 
 
 Eyldefelde, [? in Kingston-Lisle] 67 
 
 Frythegorst, La, in Berkeley, 113 
 
 F 
 
 Fulemora, in Hinton, 33, 109 
 
 Funtington, co. Suss., 314 
 
 L^ALLOW al. FAWLER, near 
 J/ Uffington, CO. Berks, 97, 105, 
 
 Fyllewoode Forest, 201, 202 
 
 IIS, 126, 271 
 
 Fylton V. Filton 
 
368 
 
 Index. 
 
 G 
 
 GARAMEST, in Dalby, co. Leic. 
 i6 
 
 Garendon v. Gerondon 
 
 GarstinWood, 6i 
 
 Genape, 343 
 
 Gerondon Abbey, co. Leic, 72, 87, 
 
 131, 140 
 Abbots of: Adam [1219-26]; 
 
 Reginald, late Hen. III. 
 Gerstuna Wood, in Hinton, 62 
 Gerwedon v. Gerondon 
 Glasmarsh, Glasmersch, in Ham, 
 
 113, 124 
 Glemham, North, co. Suff., 257 
 
 Gloucester, county of, 162, 187, [288, 
 300, 314, 336, 343 
 
 Lord Lieutenant, William, 
 
 Lord Chandos, 1599 
 
 Sheriffs of: Rob.Walerand 
 
 1246-7 ; Th. de Gardinis, 1307 ; 
 Will. Tracy, 1324-5 ; John de 
 Berkeley, 1393; Sir Maur. Berke- 
 ley, circ. 1512 ; Sir Thos. Berke- 
 ley, 1522; Geo. Huntley, 1563; 
 Thos. Porter, Knt., ante 1575 
 
 King's Coroners : John de 
 
 Morton ; Richard de Compton ; 
 William de Holt ; William de 
 Colwich, 1320 
 
 City of, 46, 50, 65, 69, 82, 
 
 102, 108, 153, 179, 182, 184, 
 232, 275, 288, 289, 299, 330, 
 337 
 
 Bailiffs of: Richard Bury, 
 
 Thomas Oie, early 13th cent. ; 
 William Russell, early Hen. IH. ; 
 Stephen Cornubiensis, c. 1250 
 
 Bishops of V. Miles ; 
 
 Brookes, J, 
 
 Archdeacons of: Matthew, 
 
 c. 1170; Richard, 1193-5 ; W. 
 de Verdun, 1200-10; W. Bordun, 
 1303 
 
 Abbey of, 146, 152 
 
 • Abbot of, Reginald, 1278 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Hospi- 
 
 tal, 152, 162 
 Oka, 1308 
 
 Prior of, John de 
 
 Gloucester, Friars Minors : Warden 
 of, Henry Hyll, 1527 
 
 St. Nicholas' Church : 
 
 Chaplain, Roger, early Hen. HI. 
 
 St. Peter's Church, 82 
 
 Colder, in Pirton, 60 
 
 Gonerby, co. Line, 89 
 
 Gorhambury, 221, 223, 225 
 
 Gorste. La, 148 
 
 Goscote Hundred, co. Leic, 314 
 
 Gosintonz'. Gossington 
 
 Gosintune v. Gossington 
 
 Gossington, co. Glouc, 14, 66, 92, 
 
 95. 172, 271 
 Gosynton v. Gossington 
 Gower Castle and Manor, in Wales, 
 
 159 
 Gracia Dei House, in Houston, co. 
 
 Renfrew, 138 
 
 Graham, 89 
 
 Grantchamp, Prior of, Pierre de 
 Courbeton, 1360 
 
 Greenwich, 268, 320, 322, 328 
 Grenewei, La, near Newington-Bag- 
 
 path, 71, 136 
 Greva, in Chilvers-Coton, 20 
 
 Gribthorp, in Spalding Moor, co. 
 
 York, i88 
 Grimesbrig [Pin Croxton], co. Leic, 
 
 67 
 
 Grimestone v. Grimstone 
 
 Grimstone, co. Leic, 89 
 
 Clerk of, Roger, t. John 
 
 Grumbold's Ash Hundred, co. Glouc. 
 287, 288, 309, 312, 328 
 
 Gunnewareby v. Gonerby 
 
 Gyssing Manor, "CO. York. 199 
 
 H 
 
 H 
 
 ADDINGTON, 138 
 
 Hage, rudinga de, in Wotton, 93, 
 III 
 
 Haghethirne v. Hathern 
 
 Hagley, co. Wore, 241 
 
Index. 
 
 369 
 
 Hale, CO. Northt., 124 
 
 Ham, CO. Glouc, 38, 57, 96, 102, 
 113, 141, 147, 151, 156, 164, 177, 
 178, 182, 184, 196, 242, 270, 276, 
 279. 304. 305. 314 
 
 Hamhille, co. Oxon. 28 
 
 Hampton, co. Glouc, 10 
 
 Hampton Court, 326, 328 
 
 Hamstall, in Berkeley, 185, 206, 303 
 
 Hamton Monialium v. Minchinhamp- 
 ton 
 
 Hamtona v. Hampton 
 
 Hanam v. Hanham 
 
 Hanham, in Bitton, co. Glouc, 10, 
 
 317 
 Hanlop', Rector of, Wakelin, a. 
 
 1241 
 
 Hannes Manor, co. Bedf,, 160 
 Hardepyrye, Hardpirie, 154, 155 
 Hareclive Hundred, 40, 80 
 Harlow, co. Essex, 194 
 Haroldisti, in Rushton, 51 
 Harry-Stoke, near Filton, 301 
 Hartlebury, co. Wore, 164 
 Harwell, co. Berks., 114, 115 
 Haseles, Le, in Diseworth, 103 
 Hathern, co. Leic, 56, 64, 67, 128, 
 
 131 
 Hauthorne v. Hathern 
 Havana, 236 
 Havethurn v. Hathern 
 Hawes Manor, co. Norf., 230, 231 
 Hawethirna v. Hathern 
 Hawghton Park, 219 
 Hawkesbury, co. Glouc, 38 
 
 Rector of, Absolom dc 
 
 Ahnoneremunstre, [1203-10] 
 
 Hawthorne v. Hathern 
 
 Haxey, co. Line., 271 
 
 Hayles, co. Clone, 149 
 
 Abbey, Abbot of, Hugli, 129) 
 
 Hegelande [? in Coaley], 115 
 
 Hegeruding, near Wotton, 118 
 
 Henbury Hundrcil, 287, 288, 312, 
 328 
 
 Hereford, Canons of: Elyas de 
 Bristol, [i 189-1220] ; Durand, 
 a. 1220; H elyas, c. 1220 ; W. 
 de Kyngescote, 1303 
 
 Herford, 284 
 
 Herierbi, 89 
 
 Herlingham v. Arlingham 
 
 Herrystoke v. Harry-Stoke 
 
 Heuthlingburg v. Irthlingborough 
 
 Heydich [? in Rodmarton], 127 
 
 Hildesleyz*. Hillesley 
 
 Hill, near Berkeley, co. Glouc, 14, 
 102, 103, 109, 138, 161 
 
 Hillesley, co. Glouc, 38 
 
 St. Giles's Chantry at, 173 
 
 Hinton, co. Glouc, 29, 33, 50, 61, 
 62, 117, 164, 177, 184, 202, 245, 
 269, 270, 277-279, 296, 314 
 
 Hinton Manor, co. Cambr., 197 
 
 Hoclon V. Houghton-on-the-Hill 
 
 Hodenhulle, near Kirkby-Mallory,co. 
 Leic, 47 
 
 Hoeleia v. Uley 
 
 Hokerhull, inWenden, co. Essex, 97 
 
 Hol'ciimbemede, in Ozleworth, 51, 
 
 83 
 Holoujhton, 265 
 
 Holy Island, 225 
 
 Holyrood House, 325, 332, m 
 
 Homcroft, in Alkington, 151 
 
 •Hooke Norton, co. Oxon., 228 
 
 Hopws V. Hose 
 
 Hordewell v. Harwell 
 
 Horeing, 233 
 
 Horfield, 301 
 
 Hormede, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Horsfeld v. Horfield 
 
 Horton, co. Glouc, 182 
 
 Chaplain of, William, c. 1200 
 
 Hose, CO. Leic, 17, 82, 90 
 Houghton-on-the-Hill, co. Leic , 4 1 
 Hounslow, 149 
 
 Priory of, 243 
 
 Houstcn, CO. Renfrew, 1^8 
 Houwes V. Hoso 
 
370 
 
 Index. 
 
 Howes V. Hose 
 Hufland, in Hinton, 6r 
 Hulemanecote, in Coaley, 33 
 Hull, Hulla, Hulle v. Hill 
 Humberstan v. Humberstone 
 Humberstone, co. Leic, 88, 267 
 Hundesloue v. Hounslow 
 Hungerfurlang, in Newington-lJa - 
 
 path, too 
 Hunthanc, in Mountsorrell, co. 
 
 Leic, 80 
 Huntingdon, 266 
 Archdeacon of, William, 
 
 1209 
 Huppilla V. Uphill 
 Hurst, CO. Glouc, 153, 156, 172, 
 
 196, 199, 277, 313 
 
 Huwystone v. Houston 
 Hylden, co. Kent, 281 
 Hyse, water of, 92 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 LCHESTER, 284 
 
 Imlay, Bishop of, v. William 
 
 Ingleton, co. York, 34 
 
 Inhechinge, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Inwood, in Cam, 148 
 
 Ipswich, 234 
 
 Chief Seneschal of, Henry, 
 
 Lord Hunsdon, 1590 
 
 Bailiffs of: Robert Cutler, 
 
 sen., Robert Snellinge, 1590 
 Ireland, 186, 251, 338 
 
 Irthlingborough, co. Northt. , 98 
 
 Clerk of, Simon, 1246-7 
 
 Iskynlen, 226 
 
 Isleworth Hundred, 149, 243 
 
 T ARESYNE in Mangotsfield, 75 
 
 Jerusalem, Bishop of, v. John 
 Jeuelcestre v. Ilchester 
 Jeuetescroft, 124 
 
 K 
 
 IV'AGWORD V. KEGWORTH 
 
 Karswell, in Dursley, 1 5 
 
 Kegword v. Kegworth 
 
 Kegworth, co. Leic, 53, 54.76, 78, 
 87, 126, 204, 229, 244, 248, 250, 
 
 Rectors : Edw. Hawford, 
 
 1583 ; Edw. Barwell, 1606 ; 
 Mich. Honywood, 1681 ; John 
 Covell, 1681 ; John Willey, 1789 
 
 Kelfield, co, Line, 104 
 Kelkefeld v. Kelfield 
 Kemmeys v. Cameys 
 Kenilleord v. Kenilworth 
 Kenilworth, 274 n. 
 
 Priory : Prior of, Walter, 1. 
 
 Hen. IIL 
 Kennecote, co. Som., 167 
 Kensington, 326 
 Kent, county of, 159, 283, 327 
 
 Sheriff of, Thomas Palmer, 
 
 1596 
 
 Keynaham Abbey, 20, 25, 29, 58 
 
 Abbots of: Richard, t. Ric. 
 
 I. ; William, t. Ric. I. ; William 
 c. 1200; R , [1218-20J 
 
 Prior of, H , 1218-20 
 
 Kidwelly, co. Carm., 226, 227 
 Kilkenny, 342 
 Kingesgerde, in Hinton, 61 
 Kingesparsholte v. Sparsholt 
 Kingestun 7'. Kingston Lisle 
 Kingston, in Slimbridge, 95, 172 
 Kingston Lisle, co. Berks, 67, 106, 
 
 III, 119, 139,^141, 156, 271 
 Kingswood Abbey, 25, 29, 38, 55, 
 
 70, 71, 73. 81, 83, 84, 91, 100, 
 
 102, 107, 108,109,119, 121, 126, 
 
 127, 137-140, 149. 152, 272 
 Abbots of : William, late 
 
 I2th cent. ; William, c. 1200 ; 
 
 William, 1199-1212; John, >24i; 
 
 Sampson, 1263 ; R. de Tetbury, 
 
 1303 
 Prior of, Robert, 1241-8 
 
Index. 
 
 371 
 
 Kingswood Forest, 201, 202, 219 
 Kington, co. Warw., 191, 221, 222 
 Kington Priory, co. Wilts., 121 
 
 Prioress of, Alice, t. Hen. 
 
 III. 
 Kington Seymour, co. Som., 157 
 Kirkby Beler, co. Leic, 19, 46 
 Kirkby Mallory, co. Leic , 47 
 Kirkby Malzeard, co. York, 188 
 
 Kislingbury Manor and Church, co. 
 Northt., 174 
 
 Rector of, W. atte Hale, 
 
 1373 
 Knoll, 202 
 
 Koueham, [?near Bitton], 20 
 Kyngstune v, Kingston Lisle 
 Kyngton v. Kington 
 Kynston, co. Notts., 87 
 
 Kynsyescroft, in Newington-Bag- 
 path, 100 
 
 Kyrkebi v. Kirkby-Beler 
 
 Kyrkeby Malsard v. Kirkby Mal- 
 zeard 
 
 T ABETOTEHILL, 69 
 
 Lambecotehov, in Thriissington, 17 
 
 Lambourne, 123 
 
 Lanark, 150 
 
 Langebryggestrete [? in Berkeley], 
 130 
 
 Langecroft, in Welby, co. Leic, 51 
 
 Langerewe, La, in Bristol, 130 
 
 Langleton, in Kegvvorth, 54 
 
 Langley, co. Leic, 48, 49 
 
 Nunnery, 49 
 
 Lantony Priory, co. Glouc, 
 166 
 
 165, 
 
 Priors of: Clement, c. 
 
 1170; GeofiVey [1185-89], Clem- 
 ent, c. 1218; William, 1351 
 
 Laund Priory, 89 
 
 Prior of, Osbert, ante 1241 
 
 [ Lavendon Abbey, 253 
 
 Lawford, Little, co. Warw., 44 
 
 Ledbury, 285 
 
 Leesthorpe, co. Leic, 45, 88 
 
 Leicester, county of, loi, 272 
 
 Sheriff of, William deCan- 
 
 telu, 1 201 -2 
 
 Acting Sheriff of, William 
 
 de Hardred [eshulla], 1201-2 
 
 Town of, 76, 222, 267, 
 
 268, 285 
 
 Abbots of : [1186-90] ; Os- 
 
 bert de Dunton, early Henry III.; 
 M. de Bray, early Picn. III. 
 
 Leigh, CO. Kent, 240 
 
 Leire, co. Leic, 17 
 
 Clerks of: William, t. 
 
 Hen. II.-Ric. I. ; Hugh, t. 
 
 Hen. II.— Ric. I. 
 Leke, 87 
 Lcnton Priory, co. Notts. 61 
 
 Prior of, Philip, early Hen. 
 
 III. 
 
 Leonard Stanley 
 Leonards 
 
 V. Stanley St. 
 
 Leuesthrop v. Leesthorpe 
 
 Limerick, 251, 339 
 
 Governor of, Richard In- 
 
 goldsby, 1700 
 
 Lincoln, county of, loi, 159 
 
 Sheriff of, Ralph Bassett, 
 
 1 240- 1 245 
 
 Bishop of V. Henry 
 
 Linford, Little, co. Bucks., 241 
 
 Linford, Much, co. Bucks., 241 
 
 L'nlithgow, 150 
 
 Linton, co. Derb., 207 
 
 Lippehiete, in Ozleworth, 84 
 
 Littilhilbreche, 117 
 
 Littlemed, 33, 88 
 
 Littletrolt, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Llandaff, Bishops of, v. William 
 
 Llangonnor, 227 
 
 Locfastebrig, in Berkeley, 56 
 
 Lodelowe v, Ludlow 
 
 Lokeston, 74 
 
 LoUedon Manor, co. Wilts., 166 
 
172 
 
 Index. 
 
 London, 153, 154, 163, 166, 182, 
 
 315 
 Sion College, 261 
 
 Strand House, al. Somerset 
 
 House, 218, 223 
 
 Austin Friars : Frior of, 
 
 Edmund Bellond, 1514 
 
 Priory of Holy Trinity within 
 
 Aldgate, 60 
 
 St, Andrew's Church, in 
 
 Baynard's Castle, 182 
 
 Longbengrote, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Longbridge Hospital, near Berke- 
 ley, 15, 156, 165, 166, 167, 298 
 
 Warden of, J. de Newenton, 
 
 t. Edw. HI. 
 
 Priory of, 137, is6, 257 
 
 Priors of, Henry, 1270; J. 
 
 de Newenton, t. Edw. HI. 
 
 Longecroft, in Welby, co. Leic, 46 
 
 Longeham, in Kingston Lisle, iii 
 
 Longemede, 118 
 
 Longerugge, 189 
 
 Loreweng, 82 
 
 Loughborough, 267 
 
 Luclemede, in Gosinton, 66 
 
 Ludlow, 274 
 
 Castle, 324 
 
 Lunda. 89 
 
 Lutterworth, 267 
 
 Lynton v. Linton 
 
 Lytelton Hundred, 309 
 
 Lyveryngham, 138 
 
 M 
 
 MAGGERYSFELD v. MAN- 
 GOTSFIELD 
 
 Malmesbury, co. Wilts, 7, 136 
 
 Malvern, 228 
 
 Manegodesfield v. Mangotsfield 
 
 Mangotsfield, co, Glouc, 21, 75, 
 
 258, 301. 313. 316 
 St. Ethelbert's Church, 
 
 207, 258 
 
 . Chapel, 154 
 
 Marchfield, co. Glouc, 209 
 
 Marlow, co. Bucks, 301 
 
 Marseilles, 155 
 
 Marshfield, 270 
 
 Marylebone al. Tyburn Manor, co. 
 Midd., 213J 
 
 Matford, co. Glouc, 138, 140 
 
 Mathford v. Matford 
 
 Mathlac v. Matlock 
 
 Matlask, co. Norf., 233 
 
 Matlock, CO. Derb., 78 
 
 Meauton v. Melton Mowbray 
 
 Melbourne, co. Derb., 180 
 
 Melton Mowbray, co. Leic, 47, 129, 
 191, 207, 238, 247, 265, 266, 
 267, 287, 314, 316 
 
 Merston, co. Leic, 48, 79 
 
 Clerk of, Henry, early 13th 
 
 cent 
 
 Merton, 344 
 
 Meskyn, in Wales, 299 
 
 Meutune v. Melton-Mowbray 
 
 Mewith Forest, co. York, 34 
 
 Mickelwood Chace, 280, 281 
 
 Middlebourg, in Zealand, 231 
 
 Milverton, co. Som., 157 
 
 Minchinhampton, co. Glouc, 64 
 
 Mire Hall al. More, co. Norf., 230, 
 231 
 
 Mitcheldean, 285 
 
 Moldeclive, near Wotton, 127 
 
 Monerewe, in R. Severn, 99 
 
 Monmouth, 329 
 
 Morcote, co. Glouc, 154, 155 
 
 Morcote, co. Rutl., 127 
 
 More, CO. Dev. , 273 
 
 More Hall v. Mire Hall 
 
 Moreton, 266 
 
 Morevill, Chaplain of, William 
 
 c. 1200 
 Mormede, 95 
 
 Morton Valence, co. Glouc, 202 
 Mountsorell, co. Leic, 78, 80, 314 
 Mukeliued, 64 
 
Index. 
 
 373 
 
 Mundford, co. Norf., ii, 68 
 Munmede, in Berkeley, 206 
 
 N 
 
 \ TADDERKURST WOOD, 69 
 
 Nailesheye, in Wroxhall, 272 
 
 Narborough, co. Leic, loi 
 
 Naseby, co. Northt., 210 
 
 Netherebreche, 116 
 
 Netherigsty, in Croxton, lOl 
 
 Netherlands, 342 
 
 Nethirmede, 189 
 
 Neuinton v. Newington, South, co. 
 Oxon 
 
 Neuton, co. Rutl., 127 
 
 Neuwood, 89 
 
 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 213, 224, 225 
 
 Neweland, La, in Berkeley, 113, 137 
 
 Newenlhonehulle, in Newington- 
 Bagpath, 137 
 
 Newenton v. Newington-Bagpath 
 
 Newhall Manor, co. Essex, 194 
 
 Newhaven, 224, 328, 330 
 
 Newington v. Newington-Bagpath 
 
 Newington-Bagpath, co. Glouc. ,55, 
 71, 78, 84, 91, 94, 95, 100, 102, 
 108, 122, 136, 137, 139 
 
 Parsons of : Thomas, early 
 
 Hen. III. ; Matthew, son of 
 Thomas, c. 1238 
 
 Newington, South, co. Oxon, 28, 
 109, 121, 229, 305 
 
 Chaplain of, Henry, late 
 
 1 2th cent. 
 
 Newington, West, co. Glouc, 152 
 Newintona v. South Newington 
 Newintun v. Newington-Bagpath 
 New Park, in Ham., 242 
 New Park Lodge, in Berkeley, 314, 
 
 315 
 Newport, CO. Essex, 52, 106, in 
 
 St. Leonard's Hospital in, 
 
 106, III 
 
 Newport, in Berkeley, 154, 161, 
 185, 270 
 
 Newport, co. Essex, 158 
 Newport, Isle of Wight, 236, 243 
 Newport Pagnall, 241 
 Newsome, co. York, 160, 188 
 Newton, co. Som., 208 
 Newton Regis, co. Warw., 192 
 New Warlh, in Slimbridge, 246 
 Nibley, 19, 31, 187, 193, 210, 270, 
 271, 298, 304. Introd. 
 
 Nimdesfeld, Nimesfield v. Nimps- 
 field 
 
 Nimpsfield, co. Glouc, 14, 138 
 Niuueton v. Newington S., 121 
 Niwent' v. Newington 
 Niwinton, Niwintun, v. Newington- 
 Bagpath 
 Nocton V. Notion 
 Nonsuch Park, 341 
 Normandy, 186 
 
 Norrfield, in Newport, co. Essex, 
 106 
 
 Northampton, county of, 185, 272 
 
 Sheriff of. Will, de Marti- 
 
 wall [1228-1233] 
 
 Town of, 75, 90, 98, 140, 
 
 264, 284 
 
 Mayor of, Roljert le Es- 
 
 picer, «. 1241 
 
 Prepositi, Robert Spec- 
 
 iarius, Michael, son of Philip, 
 Ralph Passel, [1228- 1233] 
 
 Constable of, Fulco de 
 
 Martiwall, [1228-1233] 
 
 St. Andrew's Piiory, 140 
 
 Prior of, Thomas, 
 
 [1228-123J] 
 Northburg v. Narborough 
 Northleach, 268 
 Northumberland, county of, 224 
 Norton Priory, 149 
 Prior of, Andrew, temp. 
 
 Edw. I. 
 Nortuneweye, 106 
 
374 
 
 Index. 
 
 Nottingham, 76, 151, 274, 285 
 
 Castle, Constable of, J. de 
 
 Segrave, [1335] 
 
 Notion, CO. Wilts, 44 
 
 Nubbelei v. Nibley 
 
 Nubelei v. Nibley 
 
 Nundesfeld v. Nimpsfield 
 
 Nuneaton, 265 
 
 Nunnesti, in Langley, 49 
 
 Nywentun v. Newington-Bagpath 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 ADBY, CO, Leic, 62 
 
 Oakhunger, near Berkeley, 113 
 
 Oakley Park, 281 
 
 Oaksey, co. Wilts, 11 
 
 Oatlands, 324, 331 
 
 Ochungre v. Oakhunger 
 
 Ocke, water in Kingston Lisle, called, 
 III 
 
 Offinton V. Uffington 
 
 Oldebiri, 40 
 
 Oldefrithgorsl, in Ozleworth, 94, 95 
 
 Oldmere, 189 
 
 Oldniinster, near Berkeley, no, 209 
 
 Oleby, 104 
 
 Olston V. Olveston 
 
 Olveston, 301 
 
 Orford, 257 
 
 Oseney, Canon of, Ralph, circ. 1218 
 
 Osilworthe v. Ozleworth 
 
 Osleworth v. Ozleworth 
 
 Otford, 164 
 
 Othynton, 301 
 
 Outhebi v. Oadby 
 
 Over, CO. Glouc. , 162 
 
 Overton, 90 
 
 Oxedaleput, near Leire, 17 
 
 Oxenehay, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Oxford, county of, 185 
 
 Sheriff of, Thomas Danvers, 
 
 1277 
 
 Oxford, City of, 146, 178, 236 
 
 Mayor of, Richard Garstin, 
 
 1388 
 Custos, Henry le Tyeis, 1277 
 
 Bailiffs of : John Berford, 
 
 Walter Bon, 1388 
 
 Bishop of, V. Stapleton, W. 
 
 de 
 
 St. John's Hospital : 
 
 den, H. de Leukenor, 
 Hen. HI. 
 
 War- 
 
 ieiitp. 
 
 University of, Henry, Lord 
 
 Hunsdon, High Steward of, 1592 
 
 Magdalen College, 132 ;/. 
 
 Ozleworth, co. Glouc, 42, 47, 51, 
 52, 64, 70, 82, 83, 84, 91, 97, 
 107, 122, 125, 137, 141, 152 
 
 Parson of, Robert, 1238, 
 
 1241 
 
 "PAINSWICK, CO. Glouc, 202 
 
 Par ham, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Parham Moor, 58 
 
 Parson's Green, 341 
 
 Peasemore, co. Berks., 70 
 
 Pedemersh, 189 
 
 Peisia, 24 
 
 Pekelinge, in Withington, 30 
 
 Pembroke, 142 
 
 Pencarrou, co. Cornw. , 273 
 
 Pendelesford, 254 
 
 Penn, co. Bucks, 50, 61, 116, 130, 
 
 300, 301 
 Parson of, R. de Turvill, 
 
 early 13th cent. 
 
 Pensford, co. Som., 208 
 
 Perham v. Parham 
 
 Perhamesmor v. Parham Moor 
 
 Pershore, 285 
 
 Abbey of, 173 
 
 Abbot of, E , 
 
 1252 
 
 Pesemer v. Peasemore 
 
Index. 
 
 375 
 
 richvell V. Pickwell 
 
 Raundi, co. Northt., 40, 98 
 
 
 Pickwell, CO. Leic, 45, 88 
 
 Raunds, co. Essex, 79 
 
 
 Piddle, North, co. Wore, 91, 186 
 
 Reading, 80 
 
 
 Pidill, North v. Piddle, North 
 
 Rearsby, co. Leic, 44, 88, loi 
 
 103 
 
 Pipewell, Abbey, co. Northt., 44 
 
 Redcliffz'. Bristol 
 
 
 Pirton, CO. Oxon, 60 
 
 Redelanda, La, 28 
 
 
 Pochamton v. Pockhampton 
 
 Redmor, near Leire, 17 
 
 
 Pockhampton, co. (Jlouc, 29 
 
 Redwood, 202, 205, 280, 320 
 
 
 Pokulchiirche v. Pucklechurch 
 
 Rengeworth v. Rangeworthy 
 
 
 Polland, in Arlingham, 124 
 
 Repingdon v. Repton 
 
 
 Pontefract, 285 
 
 Repton, CO. Derb., 208, 223 
 
 
 Pornewelledyke, in Croxton, 1 16 
 
 Priory : Prior of, 
 
 Wylne, 1448 
 
 John 
 
 Portbury Hundred, 40, 180, 238 
 
 
 Portbury, co. Som, 9, 29, 119, 150, 
 
 Repyngdon v. Repton 
 
 
 157, 182, 183, 201, 202, 218, 
 
 Reresby, Rerisbi, v. Rearsby 
 
 
 308, 314 
 
 Retford, 264 
 
 
 T\„«„ ^C TT^.-..... t T.^K.^ 
 
 Riston V. Rushton 
 
 
 
 
 Portishead, co. Som., 182, 218 
 
 Roche d'Andely, 24 
 
 
 Portsmouth, 328, 329 
 
 Rochford, 235 
 
 
 Doniiis Dei, Prior of, 
 
 Robert del Ylle, t. Hen. HI. 
 
 Rockingham Forest, 236 
 
 
 Priddy, co. Som., 22 
 
 Rodmarton, co. Glouc, 107, 127 
 
 Publow, CO. Som., 208 
 
 Rokeby v. Rugby 
 
 
 Pucklechurch Hundred, 287, 288, 
 
 Rosliston, CO. Derb., 189, 207 
 
 
 312, 328 
 
 Rostlaston v. Rosliston 
 
 
 Pucklechurch, co. Glouc, 204, 328 
 
 Roteby V. Ratby 
 
 
 Dean of, Richard, t. Ric. 
 
 Rolhing, High, co. Essex, 257, 
 
 303 
 
 I. 
 
 Roxburgh, 150 
 
 
 Punsedune, La, 28 
 
 Rugby, CO. Warw., 267 
 
 
 Pydel V. Piddle 
 
 Parson of, William, 
 
 13th cent. 
 
 early 
 
 Q 
 
 Rugwei, La, near Newington 
 path, 71 
 
 Bag- 
 
 i^UENYNTON, 146 
 
 Rupes V. Roche d'Andely 
 
 
 Quernside, in Mewith, co. York, 34 
 
 Rushton, CO. Northt., 32, 51, 9 
 
 
 Quorndon, co. Leic, 50 
 
 Parson of, Richard, 
 
 13th cent. 
 
 early 
 
 R 
 
 Ruttewell, in Croxton, co. Leic 
 
 ., 50 
 
 TJAGANACHERESWEL 43 
 Rangeworthy, co. Cllouc, 202 
 
 s 
 
 
 Q ADGRAVE V. SEGRAVE 
 
 
 Ratby, co. Leic, 60 
 
 
 Rande v. Raunds 
 
 Saffron Waldon, co. Essex, 52 
 
 
 Raundis v. Raunds 
 
 Sages, CO. Glouc, 313, m 
 
 
37(^ 
 
 Index. 
 
 St. Fagan's, co. Glam., 299 
 
 St. John's, 341 
 
 St. Loe, CO. Som., 208 
 
 Salisbury, Bishop of, v. Poore, R. Ic 
 
 Saniger, near Berkeley, 105, 129, 
 
 133, 175 
 Scalthwele, near Leire, 17 
 Schipton V, Shipton 
 
 Sclattresslade, in Newington-Bag- 
 path, 139 
 
 Scortebengrote, near Berkeley, 103 
 
 Scotland, 152, 153, 324 
 
 Warden of, John de Segrave, 
 
 1309 
 
 Segehistou, Seggishou, Seghishou, ?'. 
 Segs-hill 
 
 Segrave, co. Leic. , 14, 32, 90, 99, 
 207, 248, 287, 314, 316 
 
 Rectors of: Maurice Berke- 
 ley, 1640 ; George Wilson, 1645 
 
 Chaplains of : William, t. 
 
 John; Nicholas, a. 1241 
 
 Clerks of: Henry, early 13th 
 
 cent. ; Robert, 1248 
 Segs-hill, near Dalby, co. Leic, 16, 
 
 39 
 Selkirk, 150 
 Senedhame v. Sneedham 
 Sentlowe v. St. Loe 
 Sethgravia v. Segrave 
 Settlewood, co. Glouc, 173 
 Severn, River, 29, 65, 95, 99, 109, 
 
 154, 175, 211, 220, 245, 249 
 Shadewell, rivulet of, 127 
 Shalden Manor, co. Wilts, 166 
 Sharnecote, co, Wilts, 182 
 Sheffield Lodge, 336 
 Shcnegeye v. Shingay 
 Sheperden, 298 
 Sherborn, co. York, 285 
 Shingay, co. Cambr., 162 
 Shipton-under-Wychwood, Manor of, 
 
 CO. Oxon, 17 
 Shipwardende v. Sheperden 
 Shortelangele v. Langley 
 
 Sileby, co. Leic, 207, 314 
 
 Silingefen, 20 
 
 Simondshall near Wotton, co. Glouc. 
 19, 84, 100, 109, 150, 156, 184, 
 223, 245, 296 
 
 Siston Manor, near Bristol, 4 
 
 Six-hills V. Segs-hill 
 
 Slimbridge, co. Glouc, 4, 24, 25, 
 33. 93. 146, 147. 156, 160, 161, 
 163, 171, 184, 196, 199, 246, 
 248, 271, 278, 296, 298, 313 
 
 Chaplains of; Gilbert, c. 
 
 1200; William, c. 1200 
 
 Smalemor c/. Smalmor meadow, 
 Berkeley, 94, 95 
 
 Smethmore Fishery, 202 
 
 Smetheton, 131 
 
 Smythby, co. Derb., 223 
 
 Sneedham, in Upton St. Leonards, 
 CO. Glouc, 65 
 
 Snitelega, 33 
 
 Soham Comitis, 264 
 
 Somerby, co. Line, 89 
 
 Somerset, county of, 283, 309 
 
 Sortelangele v. Langley 
 
 Sound, The, 343 
 
 Southampton, County of, 159, 289 
 
 Town of, 183 
 
 Mayor of, William Ni- 
 cole, 141 8 
 
 Southorpe, co. Northt., 128 
 
 Southwark, 248 
 
 Southwick Priory, co. Southt. 37 
 
 Prior of, Guido, a. 12 16 
 
 Southwood, in W^otton, 174 
 
 Spalding Moor, co. York, 188 
 
 Sparsholt, co. Berks, 44, 68 
 
 Sprakeweye, in Ozleworth, 51 
 
 Stancombe, 241 
 
 Standish, 336 
 
 Stanhope Park, in Weardale, 22S 
 
 Stanley, St. Leonard's, Priory of, 
 
 CO. Glouc, 106, 112 
 Prior of, Thomas de Tyr- 
 
 ingham, 1288 
 
Index. 
 
 377 
 
 Stanlicha, La, 28 
 
 Stapeling Field, near Berkeley, 94, 
 
 95 
 Staunton Manor, 150 
 Staverton, co. Suff., 243 
 
 Steepholm, Island of, St. Michael's 
 Church and Friary, 22, 23, 41, 
 43. 13, 134- Introd. 
 
 Stepingley Park, 223 
 
 Sterte, La, in Berkeley, 137 
 
 Stinchcombe, co. Glouc, 121, 194, 
 215, 287 
 
 Stirling Castle, 324, 333 
 Stodfold, in Berkeley, 129 
 Stodlegh V. Studley 
 Stoke-super-Marc, 175 
 StokeshuU Field, in Ham, 151 
 Stone, near Berkeley, 147, 241, 298, 
 
 304 
 Stonhemefeld, 127 
 
 Stonnling, 331 
 
 Stottesdon, co. Salop, 63, 77 
 
 Chaplain of, Richard, 
 
 1245-6 
 
 Stourbridge, co. Wore, 241 
 
 Stow, 268 
 
 Stowmarket, 228 
 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 184, 281, 285 
 
 Holy Cross Guild at, 184 
 
 Stratton, Vicar of, John, t. Hen. III. 
 
 Clerks of: Robert, t. lien. 
 
 III. ; Thomas, t. Hen. HL 
 
 Striguil Castle, in Wales, 80 
 Striviling v. Stirling 
 Strixton, co. Northt., 184 
 
 Rector of, William Wryght, 
 
 1439 
 Stroby t'. Strubby, co. Line. 
 Strubby, co. Lincoln, 85 
 
 Strucardestone [? co. Leic], Clerk 
 of, Robert, early 13th cent. 
 
 Stryxston v. Strixton 
 
 Studley, co. Warw., 134 
 
 Stukemere, 107 
 
 Stupeholm v. Steepholm 
 
 Sudbourne, 257 
 
 Sudeley, 20, 328 
 
 Chaplain 
 
 Ric. L 
 
 of, Richard, t. 
 
 Suleby v. Sulby 
 Sulby Abbey, co. Northt. , 104 
 Sumerdebi v. Somerby 
 Sunderland, near Berkeley, 103 
 Surrey, County of, 159, 283, 327 
 Sussex, County of, 159, 314 
 Suthfelde, in Newington-Bagpath, 
 
 139 
 Suthmedwee, in Diseworth, 103 
 Suthwrthi, in Gossington, 137 
 Sutterescales, in Mewith, 34 
 Sutton-Bunnington, co. Notts, 249 
 
 — — Rectors of: Thomas Sav- 
 age, John Strickland, 1662 
 
 Suttorp V. Southorpe 
 
 Swainswick, 301 
 
 Swanbourn, co. Berks, 141 
 
 Svvaneburne v. Swanbourne 
 
 Swanhangre, Swanhunger, v. Saniger 
 
 Swanyswicke v. Swainswick 
 
 Swavesey Priory, co. Cambr. , 37 
 
 Prior of, John, early 13th 
 
 cent. 
 
 Swelling, co. Suff., 257 
 
 Swinford, Old, co. Wore, 241 
 
 Swonhongre ?'. Saniger 
 
 Sylby, Syleby, v. Sileby 
 
 Symondshall, Symundeshall, v. Si- 
 mondshall 
 
 Synwell Manor, in Wot ton, 212 
 
 Syortelangele v. Langley 
 
 T 
 
 T 
 
 ABLESFORD 
 
 TELSFORD 
 
 Talgarth, 149, 166, 183, 212 
 
 Tefleford v. Telsford 
 
 Telsford, co. Som,, 27, 34, 35, 129 
 
 Tetbury, 71, 238, 246, 267, 313 
 
 Parson of, William, t. Hen. 
 
 HL 
 
378 
 
 Index. 
 
 Tevellsford v. Telsford 
 
 Tewkesbury, 268 
 
 Abbey, 154, 200 
 
 Abbot of, RicharJ, 1504 
 
 Thame, Abbey, 239 
 
 Thetford Priory : Prior of, Richard, 
 early Hen. III. 
 
 Thirsk, Manor of, 159 
 
 Thoresby, co. Line, JT, 79 
 
 Thornbury Hundred, 287, 288, 328 
 
 Town of, 107, 188, 193, 300, 
 
 313 
 Thorney Collombers, in Stowmarket, 
 
 228 
 Thornhohn, co. Line, 104 
 Priory : Prior of, Geoffrey, 
 
 1233 
 Thornton, co. Leic, 76 
 Thornton, co. York, 188 
 Thorpdalebec, in Croxton, co. Leic, 
 
 50 
 Thredikes, in Croxton, 123 
 
 Thre Howes, in Thrussington, 17 
 
 Throte, La, near Symondshall, 84 
 
 Through, The, in Ham, 282 
 
 Thrussington, co. Leic , 17 
 
 Thunstall, co. Lino , 79 
 
 Thurlaston, 313 
 
 Thurnholm v. Thornholm 
 
 Tickenhall, co. Derby, 223 
 
 Tickenham, 254 
 
 Tidrington v. Tytherington 
 
 Tilbury, St. Mary's Hospital at, co. 
 Essex, 72 
 
 Church of, 72 
 
 Tilleburry v. Tilbury 
 
 Tintern Abbey, Abbot of, Ralph, 
 1294 
 
 Tolne, Manor of, 180 
 
 Tonbridge, co. Kent, 281 
 
 Torinton v. Thornton 
 
 Tormanton Hundred, 309 
 
 Tortworth, co. Glouc, 333 
 
 Clerk of, Thomas, t. Hen. 
 
 in. 
 
 Trade wy, 149 
 
 Trenewith, 179 
 
 Trewishawnes, 179 
 
 Trimley, co. Glouc, 181 
 
 Trineleu. Trimley 
 
 Trivel, R., 15 
 
 Turnewod v. Turnworth 
 
 Turnworth, co. Dors., 36 
 
 Tursteineston v. Thrussington 
 
 Tviseledewaga, in Cam, 113 
 
 Twickenham, 149 
 
 Twinham al, Christchurch, Priory of, 
 CO. Southt., 39 
 
 Twyford, CO. Bucks, 131, 241 
 
 Tyburn al. Marybone, Manor of, co. 
 Midd., 213 
 
 Tytherington, co. Glouc, 10 
 
 u 
 
 UFFINGTON, CO. Berks, 63, 
 70, 105, IIS, 123, 271 
 
 Parson of, William, t. 
 
 Hen. IIL 
 Ulehall V. Ullenhall 
 Uley, CO Glouc, 73, 83, 116,136, 
 
 246 
 
 Ullenhall, co. Warw., 19 
 
 Uphill, CO. Som., 22, 23, 41, 43 
 
 Uphulla V. Uphill 
 
 Uppilla V. Uphill 
 
 Uppingham, 265 
 
 Upton St. Leonards, co. Glouc, 65, 
 184, 312, 314 
 
 V 
 
 VERA WORTHY v. WEARE 
 WORTHY 
 
 Vernislade, Vernslade, co. Glouc, 
 71, 139 
 
 w 
 
 TT 7ADSTICHENE, La, 28 
 Wakelowe, co. Leic, 17 
 
Index. 
 
 m 
 
 Wakering, co. Essex, 304 
 
 Waledon v. Saffron Waldon 
 
 Walhamgarston v. Wallgarstone 
 
 Wallgarstone, in Berkeley, 94, 95. 
 96 
 
 Wallingford House, 341 
 
 Wallingwells I'riory, co. Notts, 197 
 
 Prioress of, Elizabeth, 
 
 1488 
 
 Walmegerston v. Wallgarstone 
 
 Walton, CO. Som., 175, 218 
 
 Walton P"ield, in Langley, 49 
 
 Wanswell, near Berkeley, 13, 96, 
 146, 260 
 
 Warley, Great, co. Essex, 238 
 
 Warley Francke v. Franks 
 
 Warminster, 266 
 
 Warth, La, in Berkeley, 137 
 
 Wartoft, CO. Leic, 49, 149 
 
 Canons of, 49 
 
 Warwick, County of, 272 
 
 Town of, 19, 266, 267, 
 
 285 
 
 Warwick and Leicester, cos. of. 
 Sheriff of, Stephen de Segrave, 
 1229- 1 232 
 
 Waterford, 147 
 
 Wateruslondwych, 124 
 
 Wattun V. Whatton 
 
 Wavertoft v. Wartoft 
 
 Weardale, co. Durham, 228 
 
 Weare Worthy, co. Dev., 191 
 
 Welby, CO. Leic, 46, 51, 61, 72, 
 140 
 
 Wells, 256, 264 
 
 Dean of, William Cousyns, 
 
 1515 
 
 Canon of, Wm. de Kynges- 
 
 cote, 1303 
 
 Wenden, co. Essex, 97, iii 
 
 Weneswella v. Wanswell 
 
 Were, co. Som., 21 
 
 Weslbury, co. Glouc, College of 
 
 Holy Trinity at, 201 
 Westcote, co. Glouc, 59 
 
 Westmarsh, in Ham, 113 
 Westminster, 18, loi, 219 
 
 Abbey, Abbot of, John, 
 
 1504 
 
 St. Stephen's College, 219 
 
 Weston, CO. Som., 79, 182 
 Weston's Manor, co. Hunts., 300 
 Westridge Down, in Wotton, 211 
 Wethstan, Wethstoen, v. Whetstone 
 Whatewell, co. Glouc, 70 
 Whatton, co. Leic, 12, 75, 88, 120 
 Whetstone, co. Leic, 60, 85 
 Whitecliff Park, 141, 280 
 Whiteland Abbey, co. Carm., 98 
 Wicha r. Wick 
 Wick, CO. Glouc, 28, 149, 154, 242 
 
 Chaplain of, Helyas, late 12th 
 
 cent. 
 
 Wick, in Scotland, Governor of, 
 Henry, Lord Hunsdon, 1583 
 
 Wickmer, 233 
 
 Widdington, co. Essex, 106 
 
 Clerk of, Thomas, t. Hen. 
 
 HI. 
 
 WidipuUe, 33 
 
 Wight, Isle of, 219, 220, 229-239 
 Wiginton, co. Oxon, 28 
 Wike, CO. Glouc 129 
 Wike, La, co. Leic, 47 
 Wike, CO. Warw., 86 
 Wileby v, Willoughby 
 Wilepille, Willepulle, 107, 109 
 Willoughby, co. Warw., 132 
 Wilton, CO. Wilts, 174 
 
 Abbey, Abbess of, Sibil, 
 
 1372 
 Wilts, county of, 159, 271 
 Wimundewald v. Wymeswould 
 Winchcombe, 274 
 Winchendon, 120 
 
 Winchester, Bishops of, v. Peter ; 
 Waynflele, Will, de 
 
 Windsor, 204 
 
 Castle, 224, 322 
 
38o 
 
 Index. 
 
 Wire V. Wyre 
 
 Wislade, in Dursley, 15 
 
 Witchers, Le, in Kingston Lisle, 141 
 
 Witherley, 313 
 
 Withington, co. Glouc, 11, 30, 46 
 
 Withme, 89 
 
 Wivetoft, in Arlingham, 57 
 
 Wixi, in Caldicote, co. Glouc. , 8 1 
 
 Wodecroft, 64 
 
 Wodeford v. Woodford 
 
 Wodegerd Inhethinge, in Arlingham, 
 
 57 
 Wodemoncote, in Dursley, 15 
 
 Woderige, 69 
 
 Wogasia v. Oaksey 
 
 WogenhuUe, in Bitton Manor, 112 
 
 Wollard, in Compton Dando, co. 
 
 Som., 208 
 Wolwayd v. Wollard 
 
 Woodford, near Berkeley, 83, no, 
 125, 151 
 
 Woodstock, 131, 157 
 
 Woolsthorpe, co. Leic, 85 
 
 Worcester, City of, 91, 265 
 
 Bishops of, V. Alcock 
 
 John; Constantiis, J. de ; Gifford, 
 Godfrey; Mal^;er ; Soilly, H. de ; 
 Walter ; William ; Wulston, 
 
 Aichdeacon of, 
 
 I193-1195 
 
 Priory, Pricrs of ; 
 
 Peter, 
 
 Ralph 
 John, 
 
 de Evesham, 1203-10 
 1348 ; William, 1489 
 
 Worcester House, 342 
 
 Worksop, 285 
 
 Worteley Chapel, 155 
 
 Worihiacre, in Newin^ton, co. Glouc. 
 
 78 
 Worthy, Le, in Berkeley, 202, 211, 
 
 303 
 Wotton-under-Edge, 9, 11, 31, 55, 
 56, 58, 70, 92, 109, no, ni, 
 117, 118, 120, 127, 131, 
 156. 
 i«3, 
 
 152, 
 177. 
 
 154. 
 182, 
 
 157, 
 184, 
 
 161, 
 193. 
 
 200, 210, 212, 213, 223, 
 
 246, 254, 255, 
 271, 280, 296, 
 
 268, 
 308, 
 
 269, 
 309, 
 
 140. 
 174, 
 194. 
 245. 
 270, 
 313 
 
 Rector of, William, temp. 
 
 Hen. HL 
 
 Vicars of : William, cleri- 
 
 cus de Hesl'. 1 193-5 ! John Mer- 
 ryman, 1542 ; Robert Knight, 
 1555 
 
 Parson of, Gerin, 11 54 
 
 Wroxhale, 272 
 
 Wrthifurlong, La, in Newington, 
 136 
 
 Wtton V. Wotton-under-Edge 
 
 Wudeford v. Woodford 
 
 Wudewellegrof, 13 
 
 Wurthelye, in Wotton, 58 
 
 Wurthin, 47 
 
 Wydehay Manor, 177 
 
 Wyditone v. Widdington 
 
 Wye Manor, co. Kent, 287 
 
 Wyke V. Wick 
 
 Wykin, co. Leic, 47 
 
 Wymeswould, co. Leic, 86 
 
 Wymondham, 154 
 
 Wyng, CO. Bucks, 300 
 
 Wyre Forest, co. Salop, 63 
 
 Wyteclyve Park v. Whitecliff 
 
 Wytherley v. Witherley 
 
 "\ /ALDING, CO. Kent, 281 
 
 Yarmouth Castle, Isle of Wight, 220 
 Yate, CO. Glouc, 258, 267, 329 
 Ykeburg, nr. Newington-Bagpath, •'i 
 Ykelindeweie, co. Berks, 114 
 York, 34, 201, 285 
 
 Archbishops of v. Neville, 
 
 Geo. 
 
 Dean and Chapter of, 237 
 Friars Minors, Warden of. 
 
 William, 1508 
 Ywelege v. Uley 
 Vweley v. Uley 
 
Index. 
 
 381 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 A , Chaplain of Brockley 
 
 A , Chaplain of Christen, 41 
 
 Abbas, Hugh, 89 
 
 Abbedeston, Walter de, 20 
 
 Abbewelle, William de, 50 
 
 Abbington, John, Purveyor of Vic- 
 tuals, 223 
 
 Abbot, John, 106 
 
 Abedeston, William de, 24 
 
 Abenesse, Richard de, 26 
 
 Abraham, John, 53 
 
 A-Bury, John, of Cambridge, 203 
 
 Achard fil. persone de Berscaldeby, 
 
 123 
 Achard, Dom. Peter, Knt., 139 
 Acoll', Roger de, 71 
 Acton, John de, Knt., 147 
 Acton, John son of Odo de, 171 
 Acton, Odo de, 171 
 Acton, Richard de, 160 
 Acton, Dom. Richard de, Knt., 172 
 Adam, Abbot of Garendon, 72 
 Adam, Canon of Bristol, 2 
 Adam, Chaplain of Berkeley, 33 
 Adam, Clerk of Childrey, 67 
 Adam, sacerdos de Widibroch, 17 
 Adam, seneschal, 13 
 Adam, Wallensis, 74 
 
 Adam, bro. of William, 'Abbot of 
 Leicester, 14 
 
 Adam fil. Helie, 121 
 
 Adam fil. Nel., 96 
 
 Adam, son of Nigel, 12, 13, 15, 16 
 
 i8> 3i.:32, 33. 36, 52, 56, 57 
 
 Adam, son of Nigel, 102, 113, 122, 
 
 124, 133 
 Adam, son of Philip, 71 
 Adams, John, 211, 245 
 Ad-crucem, Philip, 51 
 Ad-crucem, William, 32 
 Addys, Giles, 246 
 
 Adrian, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 
 204 
 
 Agare, William, 106 
 
 Agassso, Barnabas, 232 
 
 Agatha, cognata Ric. fil. Hel. Ores- 
 coiz, 28 
 
 Agiensis, Marcus, 170 
 
 Ailaf, 63 
 
 Ailard, Peter, 58 
 
 Aildred, Alan, iii 
 
 Aildred, Johanna dau. of Alan, in 
 
 Ailesburie, Walter de, 149 
 
 Aillard, Richard, 80 
 
 Aillard, Roger, of Bristol, 78, 79, 81 
 
 Ailsi, son ot Robert, 65 
 
 Ailsworth, Francis, 221 
 
 Ailward, the miller, 98 
 
 Aisebi, Thomas de, 17 
 
 Aki, Henry, 78 
 
 Ala, wife of Nich. son of Rob. 
 Fitzharding, 27 
 
 Alan, serviens de Kingestun, 119 
 
 Alan, son of Buci, 7 
 
 Alantre, Robert de, of Kegworth, 87 
 
 Alard, Master, 21 
 
 Albaniaco, Robert de, 57 
 
 Albemara, Randolph de, 36 
 
 Albemarle, Duke of, v. Monck 
 
 Albcney, Nigil de, 297 
 
 Albert, chaplain, 16, 18 
 
\ 
 
 382 
 
 Index. 
 
 Albumara, Robert de, 36 
 
 Albus, Walter, 24 
 
 Alcock, John, Bp. of Worcester, 
 194 
 
 Aldelanda, Peter de, 20 
 
 Aldelond, Martin de, 70 
 
 Aldersey, Thomas, 230, 232 
 
 Aldewic, Roger de, 43 
 
 Aldewike, Richard de, 118 
 
 Aldidel, Henry de, 53 
 
 Aldithel, Henry de, 79 
 
 Aldulestre, John son of Roger de, 
 
 99 
 Aldulestie, Roger de, 99 
 Aldworth, Elizabeth, 326 
 Alebi, Nigel de, 72 
 Alebia, Geoffrey son of Ralph de, 
 
 51 
 Alebyj William son of Nigel de, 46 
 
 Alerugge, Laurence de, 129 
 
 Alewy, Andrew, 115 
 
 Alewy, Hugh, de Cumpton, 123 
 
 Alewy, Matthew, 115 
 
 Alexander IH. , King of Scotland, 
 V. Scotland 
 
 Alexander, clerk, 147 
 
 Alexander, son of William, 109 
 
 Aley, Andrew, 115 
 
 Aley, Matthew, 115 
 
 Aleyn, Thomas, 146 
 
 Alford, John de, of Kingswood, clerk, 
 
 191 
 Alford, Robert, Steward of Ham, 
 
 279 
 
 Alfred, 127 
 
 Alice, Comitissa Augy, [Comtesse 
 d'Eu], 35 
 
 Alice, Prioress of Kington, 121 
 
 Alice, dau. of William, sometime 
 Rector of Wotton, no 
 
 AUeby, William de, 129 
 
 Almari, Robert de, 11 
 
 Almoneremunstre, Master Absolom 
 de, Rector of Ilawkesbury, 38 
 
 Alneto, Dom. John de, 80 
 
 Alrede, Agnes, 194 
 Alrekangel, William de, 122 
 Alsop, Humphrey, Steward of Berke- 
 ley, 309, 317 
 Alsop, John, 248 
 Alta Ripa, Philip de, 115 
 Alured, janitor, 13 
 Ambrel, Richard de, 71 
 Amenesehes, William de, 26 
 Ammenevill, Robert de, 21 
 
 Amondesham a/. Awnsham, Gideon, 
 
 242, 243 
 Amundefort, Ralph de, il 
 
 Andeure, Roger de, Rector of Cam, 
 
 no 
 Andrew, Prior of Norton, 149 
 
 Andrew, Monk of Kingswood, loo 
 
 Andrew, son of Thomas, 141 
 
 Anesi, John de, 42, 64 
 
 Anesti, William de, 32 
 
 Anestya, Roger de, 67 
 
 Angervill, Ralph de, 99 
 
 Angervilla, Walter de, 112 
 
 Angervillis, Walter de, 32 
 
 Angrevill, Walter de, 93 
 
 Angus, Earl of, v, Douglas 
 
 Anketin fil, Roys, 106 
 
 Anthonys, Diryck, 315 
 
 Anvers, Hugh de, 17, 87 
 
 Ap Adam, John, 148 
 
 Ap Howel, Philip, clerk, 213 
 
 Ap Howel, Rees, 212 
 
 Ap Rees, Philip, Knt., 166 
 
 Ap Rees, William, 212 
 
 Aperleye, Nicholas de, 147 
 
 Appelby, Robert de, 87 
 
 Aps, John, 194 
 
 Aqua, William de, in 
 
 Archer, Thomas le, 47, 83, 84, 107, 
 no, 117, 121, 125, 126, 136 
 
 Arden, John de, 53 
 
 Arden, Ralph de, 21 
 
 Ardena, William de, 32 
 
 Arderne, John de, 53 
 
Index. 
 
 383 
 
 Argentine. Richard de, King's Stew- 
 ard, 74 
 
 Argentoin, Richard de, 68 
 
 Aristotil, Master, 19 
 
 Armenters, Geoffrey de, 67 
 
 Armiger, John, 342 
 
 Arnulf, clerk, 59 
 
 Arnulph, clerk, 92 
 
 Arrab, Robert, 75 
 
 Arthur, 52 
 
 Arthur, Edmund, of Bristol, 207 
 
 Arundel, Earl of, v. Fitzalan, Richard 
 
 Arundel and Surrey, Earl of, v. 
 Howard 
 
 Arundel, Master Roger, 34, 45, 88 
 
 Arundell, John, 246 
 
 Asselworth, Thomas de, 122 
 
 Aston, Robert de, 155 
 
 Aston, Sir Roger, 243, 244, 246 
 
 Aston, Sir Thomas, 245 
 
 Astona, Rodbert, son of William 
 
 de, 26 
 Asty, Hugh, 116 
 
 Atte Hale, Walter, Parson of Kis- 
 lingbury, 174 
 
 Attoneston, Robert de, 120 
 
 Atwood, Francis, 249 
 
 Aubemarle, William de, 95 
 
 Aubinni, William de, 23 
 
 Audelande, Geofifrey de, 21 
 
 Audelande, Martin de, 21 
 
 Audeley, Hugh d', Earl of Glouces- 
 ter, 316 
 
 Audewoic, Schep' de, 43 
 
 Audiburn, Waleran de, 36 
 
 Audoenus, Subprior of Bristol Ab- 
 
 l^ey, 37 
 Audniyn, Abbe de Clugny, 169 
 Aug', Agnes, 129 
 Aug', Alan, 129 
 Augi, Alice, Comitissa, 78 
 Augustine, Chaplain, 11, 56 
 Aula, Adam de, 55 
 
 Aula de Dideswrth, Thomas, son of 
 Thomas de, 103 
 
 Aula Petrina, John de, 106 
 
 Aumari, Roger de, Knt., 132 
 
 Aumfelisia, dau. of John, son of 
 Osbett, of Gloucester, 46 
 
 Aunechyrch, Master John de, loi 
 
 Aure, William de, 299 
 
 Aurifaber, John, 106 
 
 Aurifaber, Roger, 52 
 
 Autevilla, William de, 12 
 
 Auvery, Ralph de, 29 
 
 Auvery, Robert de, 29 
 
 Auxe, Adam, son of Hugh de, 74 
 
 Auxe, Hugh de, 74 
 
 Avene, Richard de, 147, 148 
 
 Averary a/. Averey, John, 255, 285, 
 286 
 
 Averey, Richard, 126 
 
 Averey, Robert, 151 
 
 Avverey, Master Thomas, 130 
 
 Awnsham v. Amondesham 
 
 Aylinton, Roger de, clerk, 124 
 
 Ayllard, Richard, 102 
 
 Ayloff, William, Justice of Common 
 Pleas, 228 
 
 Aytonensis, Johannes, 171 
 
 B 
 
 B 
 
 A, Ralph de, 1 19 
 
 Babthorp, William, 266 
 Bachard, John, 64 
 Backanton, Hillary de, 36 
 Bacun, Thomas, 125 
 Badeleking, Stephen de, 44 
 Badelking, Andrew de, 105, 123, 
 
 139 
 Badelking, Peter' de, 105, iii, 115, 
 
 123, 139, 141" 
 
 Badelking, Serlo de, 66 
 
 Badmintun, Symon de, 125 
 
 Bagat, Henry, iii 
 
 Baggepath, Gilbert, son of Ralph de, 
 102, 124 
 
 Baggepath, Matthew de, 137 
 
384 
 
 Index. 
 
 Baggepath, Ralph de, 102 
 
 Barnhulle, Dom. Stephen de, 126 
 
 Baggepath, Sara, wife of Gilbert de, 
 
 Barre, Humphrey d6 la, 84, 107, 138 
 
 102 
 Baggepathe, Walter de, 139 
 
 Baggpathe, Robert, son of Walter 
 
 Barre, John, Knt., 188 
 Barri, Robert, 119, 123 
 
 de, 139 
 
 Bars, Robert, of Dishley, 131 
 
 Bagnall, Ambrose, son of Sir Nico- 
 
 Bartholomeus Canutus. 20 
 
 las, 333 
 
 Barton, John, jun,, 182 
 
 Bagot, William, Knt., 256 
 
 Bartona, Ernald de. Steward to B. 
 
 Baitone, Roger, son of Will, de, 98 
 
 de Ditheswarth, 27 
 
 Baitone, William de, 98 
 
 Barun, Peter, 106 
 
 Bakepuz, Geoffrey de, 79 
 
 Barwell, Edward, D. D., Master of 
 
 Bakepuz, Ralph de, 138 
 
 Christ's College, Cambridge, 
 229 
 
 Baker, Thomas, King's Bailiff in 
 Canonbury Manor, 280 
 
 Barwell, Edward, M. A., Parson 
 of Kegworth, 244, 248 
 
 Baker, William le, 124 
 
 Baskerwill, Hugh de, 97 
 
 Bakster, Robert, Sheriff of Bristol, 
 
 Bassad t. Basset 
 
 179 
 Baldwyn, Walter, of Wotlon, 255 
 
 Basset family, 318 
 
 Balistarius, Semaine, 77 
 
 Basset, Alan, 67 
 
 Balsale, Thomas, Alderman of Holy 
 
 Basset, Avenel wife of Simon, 85 «, 
 
 Cross Guild, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 Basset, Edmund, 182 
 
 184 
 
 Basset, Geoffrey, the Dean, 44, 88 
 
 Balun, Ernald de, 30 
 
 Basset, Gilbert, 75 
 
 Balun, William de, 30, 35, 46 
 
 Basset, John, 91 
 
 Banastre, John, 129 
 
 Basset, Millicent wife of Ralph, 85 
 
 Banbury, John, 179 
 
 Basset, Ralph, Baron of Sapcote, 
 
 Bane, Geoffrey, 89 
 
 Sheriff of CO. Line, 85, 87 
 
 Bantona, Juliana de, 21 
 
 Basset, Reginald, 30, 45, 49, 53, 62, 
 
 Barat, Roger, 32 
 
 65, 69, 85, 87 
 
 Barbast*, Ernald, 28 
 
 Basset, Richard, 31, 45, 85 
 
 Barbour, John, Bailiff to the Earl of 
 
 Bassett, Dom. Robert, 30, 32 
 
 Stafford [1437], 281 
 
 Basset, Robert, son of Simon de 
 
 Barchetun, Simon de, 32 
 
 Dena, 45, 53, 62 
 
 Bardelby, Hugh de, 158 
 
 Basset, Robert, son of John, 91 
 
 Bardulf, Hugh, 23 
 
 Basset, Roger, 32 
 
 Barentyn, Drogo de. Sheriff of Berks, 
 
 Bassett, Simon, 85 ;/. 
 
 156 
 
 Basset, Simon, Knt., 163 
 
 Bares, Henry de, 66 
 
 Basset, Thomas, 24, 42 
 
 Baret, Robert, 106 
 
 Basset, Thomas, Knt., 155 
 
 Barete, Alured, 108 
 
 Basset, William, 62 
 
 Barette, Roger, 71 
 
 Basset, William, Justice Itinerant, 
 
 Barn . . . , Richard, 63 
 
 76 
 
 Barnes, Edward 
 
 Bastard, John, 175 
 
 Barnes, Richard, Bishop of Durham, 
 
 Bastard, Robert, 18, 22, 29, 38, 52, 
 
 226, 228 
 
 57, 66, 100, 103, 130, 151 
 
Index. 
 
 385 
 
 Bat, Richard, 153 
 
 Bedmenistra, Alan de, 10 
 
 Bate, Humphrey, of Binley, 210 
 
 Beinton, Master Robert de, 19 
 
 Batelkyng v. Badelking 
 
 Bek, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, 
 
 Bath, Sweinde, 119 
 
 147 
 
 Bathelking v. Badelking 
 
 Bel, Robert, 63 
 
 Bathonia, Alsi de, 25 
 
 Bel, Walter le, 63 
 
 Bathonia, Master Ernald de, 19 
 
 Belegh, Thomas de, 137 
 
 Bathonia, Geoffrey de, 46 
 
 Belegrave, Master Gilbert de, 12 
 
 Bathonia, Henry de, 85 
 
 Belegrave, Peter de, 75, 120 
 
 Bathonia, Hugh de, 42 
 
 Belegrave, Ranulph de, 130 
 
 Batonia, Henry de, 140 
 
 Belegrave, Simon de, 75 
 
 Baumburgh, Thomas de, clerk, 158 
 
 Belegrave, William de, 12 
 
 Baylol, Henry de, Knt., 113 
 
 Belegrave, William de, 44, 75 
 
 Baynham family, 318 
 
 Beler, Ralph, 19, 46,47, 48 
 
 Baysham, John, clerk, 182 
 
 Beler, William, 104 
 
 Bealtchanip, Dominus de, 274 
 
 Belesby, Henry de, 137 
 
 Beauchamp, Elizabeth, wife of Rich- 
 
 Belet, John, 40 
 
 ard, 5th Earl of Warwick, 183, 
 
 Belet, Michael, 19 
 
 185, ifc'9 
 
 Belet, Roger, 104 
 
 Beauchamp, Richard, Earl of War- 
 wick, 183, 184, 198, 266, 270, 
 
 Beletona, Helias de, 27 
 
 299 
 
 Belgeton, Henry de, 74 
 
 Beauchamp, Walter, 18 1 
 
 Bel host, Peter, of Leicester^ 130 
 
 Beaufort, Duke of, v. Somerset 
 
 Bel Hoste, Robert, 46 
 
 Beaufort, Edward, Duke of Somer- 
 
 Bellgrave, Amicia wife of William 
 
 
 de, 88 
 
 set, 299 
 
 
 Beaufort, Eleanor, wife of Edm., 
 
 Bellgrave, William de, 88 
 
 Earl of Dorset, alt. Duke of 
 
 Bello Campo, John de, Knt., 150 
 
 Somerset, i86, 189 
 
 Belle Campo, Walter de, 79, 148 
 
 Beaumont, Maurice de, 107 
 
 Bello Campo, William de, 91 
 
 Beaumonte, John, Master of the 
 
 Bellomonte, John de, 79 
 
 Rolls, 219 
 
 Bello Monte, Philip de, 60 
 
 Beaven, John, of Berkeley, Salt 
 Boiler, 261 
 
 Bello Monte, William de, 94, 98 
 
 
 Bellond, Edmund, Prior of the Aus- 
 
 Beccles, Dom. William de. Chan- 
 
 
 cellor to Roger, Earl of Norlolk, 
 
 tin Friars, London, 203 
 
 148 
 
 Benecumbe, Walter de, 40, 52 
 
 Bcche, William de la, 115 
 
 Benethcombe, Walter de, 116 
 
 Becles, Richard de, 108 
 
 Beninton, Elias de, 45 
 
 Beek, Dom. Henry, Chaplain, 174 
 
 Bennecumbe, Walter de, 73, 115 
 
 Becket, Thomas, Chancellor, 7 
 
 Bentoft, Robert de, 104 
 
 Bede, Baldwin de, 27 
 
 Beoleye, Thomas de, I02 
 
 Bede, Robert son of Baldwin de, 27 
 
 Beovilla, Helias de, 47 
 
 Bedford, John, Duke of, 183 
 
 Bera, Walter de, 68 
 
 Bedford, Earl of, v. Russell 
 
 Berchelay z'. Berkeley 
 
386 
 
 Index. 
 
 Berdelee, William de, 63 
 Berdestapel, Richard de, 72 
 Bere, Richard de la, 97 
 Bereford, Robert de, 121 
 Bereford, Roger de, 29 
 Berewe, John de, 149 
 Berges, Berghes, Hugh de, 86, 87 
 Berkeley family, 290-297, 318 
 Berkeley, of Beverstone, family of, 
 
 318 
 Berkeley, of Salop, family of, 295 
 Berkeley, of Stoke, family of, 318 
 Berkeley, Aaliz al. Alice, wife of 
 
 Lord Maurice I. de, 16, 24, 25 
 Berkeley, Anne, wife of Lord Thomas 
 
 VL,209, 215, 301 
 
 Berkeley, Anne, wife of Will. Mar- 
 quis of, 257 
 
 Berkeley, Arnulf de, Clerk, no, 133 
 
 Berkeley, Augustus, Viscount Durs- 
 
 ley, 4th Earl of Berkeley, 262 
 
 Berkeley, Charles, Viscount Dursley, 
 2nd Earl ol Berkeley, 250, 251, 
 260, 261, 310, 311, 315, 341, 342, 
 343 
 
 Berkeley, Eleanor, wife of Lord 
 Thomas V., 201 
 
 Berkeley, Elizabeth, widow of Augus- 
 tus, 4th Earl of, 310 
 
 Berkeley, Eliz., wife of Charles, 2nd 
 Earl of, 261 
 
 Berkeley, Eliz., wife of George, 
 Lord, 296 
 
 Berkeley, Eliz., wife of Lord Maurice 
 IV., 172, 174 
 
 Berkeley, Eliz. , wife of Sir Maurice, 
 265 
 
 Berkeley, Eliz., wife of Sir Thomas, 
 \pb. i6ii], 246, 247, 259, 287, 
 303, 304, 3i7» 337-339 
 
 Berkeley, Eudo de, v, Berkeley, Ivo 
 
 de 
 
 Berkeley, Eustace de, 66 
 
 Berlscley, Eva, wife of Lord Maurice 
 IIL, 308 
 
 Berkeley, Frances, dau. of Lord 
 Henry, 232 
 
 Berkeley, P^ed'erick Augustus, 5th 
 Earl of, 252, 343, 344 
 
 Berkeley, George I., Lord, 246, 247, 
 248, 273, 287, 304, 305, 306 
 339, 340, 341 
 
 Berkeley, George XL, ist Earl of, 
 248-251, 260, 312, 317, 318, 325 
 
 Berkeley, Hon. George, 262 
 
 Berkeley, Hawise, wife of John de, 
 
 150 
 Berkeley, Henry, bro. of Lord 
 
 Robert II., 22, 24, 25, 33 
 
 Berkeley, Henry, son of Lord 
 Thomas I., 51, 57, 59, 63, 66, 
 72, 81, 82, 91, 92, 93, 94, 105, 
 107, no, in, n3, 127 
 
 Berkeley, Henry de, Lord of Durs- 
 ley, 104, 141, 146 
 
 Berkeley, Henry, Lord, 209, 213- 
 215, 218, 220-224, 229, 236, 237, 
 241, 244, 245, 259, 268, 281, 
 288, 289, 301, 304, 308, 3n, 
 312, 321, 325, 328, 329, 330, 
 333, 336, 337 
 
 Berkeley, Henry, son of James, 3rd 
 Earl, 262 
 
 Berkeley, Isabel, wife of Lord 
 Maurice V. de, 152, 193, 203 
 
 Berkeley, Isabella, dau. of Will. 
 Lord Berkeley, wife of W. Try, 
 194 
 
 Berkeley, Ivo al. Eudo, 276, 285 
 
 Berkeley, James I., Lord, 184, 187- 
 189, 240, 256, 295, 300 
 
 Berkeley, James II., Viscount 
 Dursley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley, 
 261, 262, 310 
 
 Berkeley, James de, Rector of Chyw, 
 
 150 
 Berkeley, James, gent., 208 
 Berkeley, Joan, wife of Lord Thomas 
 
 I-, 58, 95, 109, 127, 131 
 Berkeley, Joan, wife of Lord Thomas 
 
 II, 148, 152, 293 
 
 Berkeley, Johanna, wid. of Lord 
 James, I., 194 
 
 Berkeley, Johanna, 2nd wife of Lord 
 William, 190, 196, 197 
 
 Berkeley, John, s. and h. of Henry 
 de, 91 
 
Index. 
 
 387 
 
 Berkeley, John de, Lord of Dursley, 
 108, 109 
 
 Berkeley, John, bro. of Jas. de, 150 
 
 Berkeley, John de. Sheriff of Glouces- 
 ter, 179 
 
 Berkeley, John, 257 
 
 Berkeley, Juliana, wife of Lord 
 Robert IL, 29, 37, 57 
 
 Berkeley, Katharine, wid, of Lord 
 Maurice VI., 287 
 
 Berkeley, Katharine, wid. of Lord 
 Thomas IIL, 177, 178 
 
 Berkeley, Katharine, dau. of Sir 
 Will., of Stoke Giffard, 196 
 
 Berkeley, Katharine, wife of Sir 
 Maurice, of Yate, 205 
 
 Berkeley, Katharine de, 256 
 
 Berkeley, Lucy, 2nd wife of Lord 
 Robert IL, 57 
 
 Berkeley, Margaret, wife of Thomas 
 de, 147 
 
 Berkeley, Margaret, wid. of Lord 
 
 Thomas III., 163, 173 
 Berkeley, Margaret, wife of Lord 
 
 Thomas IV., 175, 176 
 
 Berkeley, Margery, Lady, 256 
 
 Berkeley, Marie, dau. of Henry, 
 Lord, V. Zouche 
 
 Berkeley, Matilda de Landa, dau. of 
 Roger de, 55 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice I., Lord, 4, 5, 7, 
 8, 10, II, 13, 15, 15 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice II., Lord, 59, 94, 
 95. 96, 98, 99. 100, 103, 113, 
 114, 122, 131, 136, 137, 138, 
 141, 146, 152, 232, 264 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice III., Lord, 148, 
 
 150. 151. 152, 155. 157. 264, 
 
 295 
 Berkeley, Maurice IV., Lord, 163, 
 
 165-167, 168, 172, 173, 185, 265, 
 
 279, 299, 316 
 Berkeley, Maurice V., Lord, 193, 
 
 200, 301 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice VI., Lord, 200, 
 205, 207, 209, 257, 258, 263, 
 267, 287, 300 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, son of Lord 
 Maurice I., 16, 18, 22, 25, 30, 
 66, ^^, 82 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice de, 32, 33, 35, 
 46 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, son of Lord 
 Maurice III., 157, 161 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, son of Lord 
 Thomas IV., 177 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice de, of Uley, 
 Knt., 185 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice de, of Beverstone, 
 Knt., 185, 188 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, of Stoke, 193 
 
 Berkeley, Maurice, son of Lord 
 Thomas V,, 201, 202, 204 
 
 Berkeley, Sir Maurice, of Yate, 205, 
 
 258 
 Berkeley, Sir Maurice, Knt., [1512- 
 
 1515]. 320, 327, 328 
 Berkeley, Morice, son of Morice, of 
 
 Thornbury, 196 
 
 Berkeley, Oliver de, 25, 29, 31, 35, 
 38, 47, 51, 57. 61, 66, 71, 81, 83, 
 84,93, ioo> J°8, 109, III, 117, 
 125 
 
 Berkeley, Oliver de, brother of Philip 
 de Berkeley, 108 
 
 Berkeley, Oliver, brother of Roger 
 de, 109 
 
 Berkeley, Philip de, 24, 25, 26, 37, 
 42, 52, 71, 73, 91, 102, 108, 109, 
 124, 125, 139 
 
 Berkeley, Richard, son of Lord 
 Maurice I. de, 13, 16 
 
 Berkeley, Richard de, Knt., 136, 
 
 Berkeley, Richard, 330, 338 
 
 Berkeley, Robert Fitzharding, ist 
 Lord of, V. Fitzharding 
 
 Berkeley, Robert II. , Lord, 14, 15, 
 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, 33-39, 52, 
 56. 57. 58, 59, 61, 62, 66, 72, 92, 
 129, 240 
 
 Berkeley, Robert de, 13, 27 
 
 Berkeley, Robert, son of Thomas I., 
 80 
 
 Berkeley, Robert de, 102, 109, 117 
 
 Berkeley, Robert de, nephew of 
 Lord Thomas II. , 148 
 
 Berkeley, Robert de, Knt., son of 
 Maurice II., 148, 149 
 
388 
 
 Index. 
 
 Berkeley, Robert de, 154 
 
 Berkeley, Roger de, Lord of Durs- 
 sley, [od.c. 1170], 4, 5, 13, 290 
 
 Berkeley, Roger, son of the above 
 Roger de, 4, 5, 15 
 
 Berkeley, Roger de, 24, 25, 33, 35, 
 36, 42, 66, 84, 98, 108, 139 
 
 Berkeley, Roger son of Philip de, 
 136 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas I, Lord, 24, 25, 
 40, 45. 50, 56, 58, 59, 63, 66, 72, 
 80, 81, 82, 83, 92, 93, 94, 100, 
 110, III, 119, 126, 264 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas IL, Lord, 147, 
 148, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155, 
 264, 272, 273, 308 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas III., Lord, 157, 
 159, 160-167, 283 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas IV., Lord, 174- 
 i84, 190, 256, 263, 270, 279, 
 
 286, 300 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas V., Lord, 202, 
 206, 207, 208, 258, 263, 280, 
 
 287, 320 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas VI., Lord, 208, 
 209, 267, 301 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas de, son of Lord 
 Thomas I., 84, 100, 107, 109, 
 112 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas son of Maurice de, 
 
 147, 149 
 Berkeley, Thomas son of Thomas 
 
 IL, 154, 157 
 Berkeley, Thomas, clerk, 182 
 
 Berkeley, Sir Thomas, son of Lord 
 Henry, 259, 268, 303, 304, 337 
 
 Berkeley, Thomas, son of Lord James 
 L, 188 
 
 Berkeley, William, Viscount and 
 Marquis of Berkeley, Earl of 
 Nottingham, etc., 186, 193-201, 
 214, 252, 257, 263, 266, 267, 
 295, 298, 301, 327, Introd. 
 
 Berkeley, William de, son of Lord 
 Maurice I., 14, 16, 24, 32 
 
 Berkeley, William de, son of Lord 
 Thomas I., 63, 66, 73, 81, 82, 
 93, 107, no, 113, 129, 136 
 
 Berkeley, William, of Uley, 189 
 
 Bernard, 19 
 
 Bernard, Henry, 127 
 
 Bernard, Robert, 189 
 
 Bernard, Walter, 71, 127 
 
 Bernewod, William de, 104 
 
 Berscoldebi, Acard de, 67 
 
 Bertelot, Moyses, 15 
 
 Bertram, Adam, 99 
 
 Bertram, Drusiana dau. of Robert, 
 
 59 
 Bertram, Robert, 57, 58 
 Bertram, William, of Diseworth, 62 
 Berwes, Hugh de, 90 
 Berwos, Hugh de, 140 
 Beseboc, Walter de, 48 
 Besebosc, Walter de, 77 
 Besebroc, Walter de, 89 
 Besebrock, Walter de, 140 
 Besebury, Robert de, 107 
 Beseby, Thomas de, 87 
 Betthon', Robert de, 20 
 Beucamp, Peter de, 7 
 Beufiz, William, 32 
 Beumund, W^illiam, 80 
 Beumys, Robert de, 134 
 Beveregge, Richard, of Wotton, 254 
 Bevill, Henry de, 67 
 Bevinton, Elias de, 32, 57, 92 
 Bevinton, Hugh de, loi 
 Bevinton, Maurice, son of Elias de, 
 
 32, 57, 93. 94. 107 
 Bevintuna v. Bevinton 
 Bichefauda, Richard de, 43 
 Bichefauda, Thomas de, 43 
 Biddell, Richard, 222 
 Bifald, William de, 42 
 Bigot, Roger, 41 
 Biren, Guy de, chev., 169 
 Birkin, Berkyn, John de, 45, 88 
 Birkin, Birkyn, Thomas son of John 
 
 de, 45. 88 
 Biset, Henry, 60 
 
 Biseth, Manaser, dapifer, 2, 4, 6, 7 
 Bishopeston, Walter de, 77 
 
Index. 
 
 389 
 
 Blake, William, Bailiff of Andover, 
 242 
 
 Blakeman, William, 58 
 
 Blakeneye, Richard son of Walter 
 de, 121 
 
 Blakeneye, Thomas de, 121 
 
 Blanketre, Peter de, 97 
 
 Blathwayt, Will., Secretary-at-War, 
 
 251, 343 
 Blavens, Robert de, 112 
 
 Bleche, John, collector of tonnage 
 and poundage, 190 
 
 Bloech, Robert, 36 
 
 Blokessan, Sara de, 120 
 
 Blot, Geoffrey, 90 
 
 Blount V. also Blund 
 
 Blount, Amabel w. of David le, 134 
 
 Blount, David le, son of Petronilla 
 
 Vyvoun, 134, 316 
 Blount, Edmund, 176, 184, 316 
 Blount, Esmon, 154 
 Blount, John, Esquire, 185, 317 
 Blount, Margaret, wid. of Edm. le, 
 
 176, 179 
 
 Blount, Richard le, 316 
 
 Blount, Willelma wid. of John, 317 
 
 Blount, Walter, 237 
 
 Blount, William, s. and h. of Edm. 
 le, 176, 179 
 
 Bluet, Dom. John, Knt. 148 
 
 Blund V. also Blount, Blunt 
 
 Blund, David le, 112 
 
 Blund, John le, 112 
 
 Blund, Petronilla, wife of D. le, 112 
 
 Blund, Ralph, 68 
 
 Blund, Richard, of Aure, 121 
 
 Blund, Walter le. Bailiff, 106 
 
 Bluudel, Geoffrey, 86 
 
 Blundell, John, 55 
 
 Blunt, John, 112 
 
 Blunt, Richard, 68, 102 
 
 Blunt, Walter, 26 
 
 Blunt, William, 25 
 
 Blydeslowe, Roger de, I2I 
 
 Boccote, Walter de, 70 
 Bochard, Richard, 125 
 Bochear, Mories, 206 
 Bochoure, Richard de, 80 
 Boclande, Dionisius de, 123 
 Boclande, Parisius de, 123 
 Boclande, William de, 22 
 Bodin, William, 22, 43 
 Bodrugan, Henry, 193 
 
 Bodrugan, Margaret, Viscountess 
 
 Lisle, w. of Henry, 193 
 Bodrugan, Oto de, 274 
 Boeleye, Thomas de, 154 
 Boes, Geoffrey, de Grimeston, 39 
 Bograve, Roger de, Knt., 104 
 Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of, 340 
 Bohun V. also Buhun 
 
 Bohun, Henry de, Earl of Hereford 
 and Essex, 77 
 
 Bohun, Humphrey de, the King's 
 Steward, 8 
 
 Bohun, Humphrey de. Earl of Here- 
 ford, 79, 290 
 
 Bohun, Matilda, wife of Henry, Earl 
 of Hereford, and in 1227 Coun- 
 tess of Essex, 77, 79 
 
 Boifeld, William de, 133 
 
 Boivill, Boivillis, Roger de, 31, 32 
 
 Bokeland, John, of Stratford-on- 
 
 Avon, 184 
 Bolda, Robert de, 97 
 Bolebek, Dom. Hebert de, 66 
 Boleyn, Sir James, of Blickling, 213, 
 
 215 
 Boleyn, Lady Mary, 334 n. 
 Boleyn, Thomas, clerk, 191 
 Boleyn, William, 191 
 Bolgastone, Thomas, 124 
 Bolnes, John, 180 
 Bolton, Duke of, v. Pawlet 
 Bolton, John, 250 
 Bonavilla, John de, 21 
 Bond, Joan, 256 
 Bonet, John, 129 
 
390 
 
 Index. 
 
 Bonjon al. Rede, Thomas, 183 
 
 Bonsergant, William, io6 
 
 Bordous, Reginald de, 30 
 
 Bordun, Walter, Archdeacon of 
 Gloucester, 150 
 
 Borestalle, John son of Nigel de, 120 
 
 Borestrode, Geoffrey de, 42, 50 
 
 Borlas, pedigree of, 296 
 
 Boschare, Robert le, 147 
 
 Bosco, Ernald de, 12 
 
 Bosco, John de, 47 
 
 Boseboc, Walter de, 140 
 
 Boso, II 
 
 Boteler, Richard le, of Leke, 87 
 
 Botesford, Bernard son of Nigel de, 
 
 46 
 Botiler, Maurice le, 79 
 Botiler, William le, 119, 141 
 Botiller v, Botyler, Butler 
 Botyler, Matilda wife of Ralph le, 
 
 lOI 
 
 Botyler, Maurice le, loi 
 Botyler, Ralph le, loi 
 Botyler, William le, 153 
 Bouch, Jehan de, chev., 168 
 Bouchetierre, Sieur de la, 326 
 
 Bouchier, Thomas, Bp. of Ely, 
 Archbp, of Canterbury, 186, 189, 
 191. 19s 
 
 Boun, John de, 147 
 
 Bourchier, John, Lord Berners, i68«. 
 
 Boure, Agnes, 189 
 
 Bovill, William de, 46, 51 
 
 Boville, Will,, son of Hugh de, 72 
 
 Boville, William son of Rob. de, 72 
 
 Boving, Ailmar, 73 
 
 Bowes, Sir George, 224 
 
 Bowes, Robert, 331, 332 
 
 Bowser, Thomas br. and heir of An- 
 thony, 304 
 
 Bowyer, Robert, Keeper of New 
 Park, 280 
 
 Boyshard, Warin, 126 
 
 Boyvill, Richard de, clerk, 91 
 
 Brabazun, Roger, 130 
 
 Bracebruge, William dc, 75 
 
 Bracheston, Bradestan, Bratheston, 
 Brodeston, Andrew de, 94-96, 
 99, 100, 102, 105, 127, 130, 
 
 Bracheston, Bradeston, Robert de, 
 IC2, 129, 148, 151, 154 
 
 Bradele, Bradeleg', Henry de, 51, 
 71, 108 
 
 Bradele, Bradeleg', Bradeleia, Hugh 
 de, 31, 66, 102, 112 
 
 Bradele, I^chard de, 66, 117 
 
 Bradele, Bradeleg, William de, 47, 
 71, 81, 83, 84, 93, 107, 109 
 
 Bradestan, Adrian de, 95 
 Bradestan v. Bracheston 
 Bradeston, Thomas de, Knt., 153, 
 
 155, 163 
 Bradewell, Peter de, 51 
 Bradfield, Henry de, 190 
 
 Bradley, John, Chantry Priest in St. 
 Mary Redcliffe, 210 
 
 Bradpenne, Roger de, 109 
 
 Braham, Roger de, 127 
 
 Brahibroc, Henry de, 120 
 
 Brai, Master Philip de, 34 
 
 Braiosa, William de, 7 
 
 Braiose, Philip de, 8 
 
 Braiose, Walter de, 8 
 
 Braiuse, William de, 7, 8 
 
 Bramceston, Adam, loi 
 
 Brampton, John de. Parson of St. 
 Peter, Bristol, 154 
 
 Brandenburg, Frederick, Margrave 
 
 of, 343 
 Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, 
 
 334 
 Brandon, Sir Charles, 202 
 Bratheston, John de, 141 
 
 Bray, Matthew de. Abbot of Leices- 
 ter, 65 n. 
 
 Bray, Ralph de, 36, 54, 80 
 
 Braybroc, Henry de, 85 
 
 Bredon, Richard de, 114 
 
 Bredona, Ralph de, 112 
 
 Breet, James le, 86 
 
Index. 
 
 391 
 
 Brenlees, Philip de, 213 
 
 Bretheston, Bernard de, 38, v. also 
 Brothestan 
 
 Brett, John de, 65 
 
 Bretun, William le, 82 
 
 Breus, Master Peter de, 113 
 
 Brian de Wad ton, Roger, 103 
 
 Brian, Forestarius, 72, 73 
 
 Brice, son of Pagan, senior, of Cnith- 
 
 eton, 115 
 Bridde, William, Prior of Bath, 205 
 Briddeshale, Gilbert de, 148 
 Bridge, John, of Wyke, 242 
 Brinchelaue, William de, 32 
 Brinkelaue, Robert de, 47 
 Brion, Gydo de, 146 
 Briquere, Dom. William, 59 
 Bristol, Walter de, clericus, 81 
 Bristol, Master William de, 31 
 
 Bristoll, Elyas de, Canon of Here- 
 ford, ^i 
 
 Bristoll, Walter de, 60 
 
 Bristollo, Aufria wife of Folkeram 
 
 de, 26 
 Bristollo, Folkeram de, 26 
 Bristollo, Nicholas de, 108 
 Bristowe, Joan de, 256 
 Brito, James, 48 
 Brito, William, 12 
 Briwere, William, 40 
 Brochestane, John de, 73 
 Broctun, Henry de, 82 
 Brodderius, Thiiri, 181 
 Brodestan, Bernard de, 117 
 Brodeston, John de, 116 
 Broke, David, 288 
 Broke, Simon ate, 160 
 Bronesho, Robert de, 106 
 
 Bronesho de Neuport, Eadmund fil. 
 Henrici de, 106 
 
 Bronesho de Neuport, Henry de, 106 
 
 Brookes, James, Bishop of Glouces- 
 ter, 213 
 
 Brotherton, Thomas de, Earl of 
 Norfolk, 158 
 
 Brotherton, Margaret dau. of Thomas 
 
 de, w. of J. de Segrave, 158 
 Brothestan, Bernard de, 57, 61, 62 
 Broun, Richard, 151 
 
 Brown, John, clerk of the Parliament, 
 
 341 
 Bruce, Robert, 152 
 Brudenell, Hon. James, 262 
 Bruere, Nicholas le, 276 
 Bruge, Vlger de, 19 
 Bruges, Edward, Lord Chandos, 328 
 Bruges, William, Lord Chandos, 336 
 Brumelham, Richard de, III 
 Brun, Adam, 86 
 Brun, Robert, 127 
 Brun, William le, 109 
 Brune, David, 138 
 Brunham, Thomas de, 256 
 Bruning, Robert, 99 
 Brut, Robert de, 48 
 Brut, Thomas le, Knt., 166 
 
 Brutton, John, Provost of Bedmin- 
 ster, 283 
 
 Bryen de Watton, Roger, 104 
 
 Buberel, Richard, 40 
 
 Bucebia, Ralph de, 68 
 
 Buchet, William de, 21 
 
 Buckhurst, Earl of, v. Sackville 
 
 Buckingham, Duke of, v, Stafford 
 
 Buddig, Reginald son of William, of 
 Bevington, 117 
 
 Budiford, Adam de, 78, 80 
 
 Budiford, Jordan de, 113 
 
 Budiford, Roger de, 79 
 
 Buffing, Reginald, 105 
 
 Bugewrke, Humphrey de, 74 
 
 Buhere, Walter, 63 
 
 Buhun V. also Bohun 
 
 Buhun, Henry de, 12 
 
 Buhun, Humphrey de, 10, II 
 
 Buhun, Margaret de, dau. of Mile 
 of Gloucester, 8 
 
 Buhun, Countess Margaret, wife of 
 Humphrey de, 12 
 
392 
 
 Index. 
 
 Buhun, Margaret de, 26, 26 n. 
 
 Buhun, Richard de, 8 
 
 Buhun, William de, 8 
 
 Buivile, Vlger de, 71 
 
 Bukerel, Andrew, Mayor of London, 
 
 77 
 Buketot, William de, 120 
 Bulcard, Matilda, 79 
 Bulcard, Osbert, 107 
 Buleye, Thomas de, 95 
 Bull, John, of London, goldsmith, 
 
 220 
 
 Bullets, Amaric de, 31 
 
 BuUey, Will, de, 119 
 
 Bun vile, Ulger de, 73 
 
 Burch, Walter de, 107 
 
 Burchevill, Henry de, 85 
 
 Burci, Philip de, 22 
 
 Burci, Robert de, 22 
 
 Burdet, William, 19 
 
 Burdet, Dom, William, loi 
 
 Burdon, Thomas, Mayor of Calais, 
 200 
 
 Burdon, William, 166 
 
 Burdun, Richard, 125 
 
 Bur dun, William, 86, 147, 203 
 
 Burg', Richard, " Prepositus " of 
 
 Gloucester, 50 
 Burgeis, Richard, 65, 69 
 Burgeis, William le, 118 
 Burgensis, Henry, 46, 102 
 Burgensis, Payn, 102 
 Burgensis, Peter, 102 
 Burghley, Lord, v. Cecil 
 Burgo, Hubert de, Earl of Kent, 74, 
 
 75 
 Burgo, Walter de, Knt., 95, 99, 100, 
 
 102, 103, 12a, 130 
 
 Burgo, Will, de, 122, 140, 154 
 Burgylon, Robert, 160 
 Burheston, Nicholas de, 19 
 Burnell, John, sen., 185 
 Burnell, Robert, Bishop of Bath, 147 
 Burton, Wm. , Abbot of Bristol, 209 
 
 Bury, John, of Cambridge, 198 
 Bury, John de, chaplain, 272 
 Bury, Will, de, 272 
 Busci, Dom. William de, Knt., 104 
 Bussebi de Mildecumbe, Alex., no 
 Buteiller, William, 44 
 Butelier, Peter, 121 
 Butevilain, Robert 115 
 Butiler, John, of Baulking, 139 
 Butiler, Matilda wife of Ralph de, loi 
 Butiler, Ralph de, loi 
 Butiler, Sara w. of John, 139 
 
 Butiler, William le, of Kingston- 
 Lisle, 67 
 Butiler, William le, 105, 115 
 Butilier, William, 66, 106 
 Butiller, Walter le, 138 
 Butilier, Warner le, 116 
 Butler, family, 294, 318 
 
 Butler, Alianore d. of Humphrey, 
 Earl of Hereford, w. of James, 
 Earl of Ormonde, 290 
 
 Butler, Anne, wife of Thomas, 7th 
 Ear] of Ormonde, 191 
 
 Butler, James, ist Duke of Ormond, 
 342 
 
 Butler, Thomas, 7th Earl of Or- 
 mond in 1478, 191, 194, 257 
 
 Butler, Thomas, loth Earl of Or- 
 mond and Ossory, 304, 330 
 Buttlescombe, Robert de, 150 
 Button, John, Knt., 179 
 Buvill, Helias de, 57, 58, 59 
 Byaulo, William de, 97 
 Byconnell, John, 194 
 Bygod, Rog. le. Earl of Norfolk, 148 
 Bygott, Peter, 267 
 
 Byngham, Richard, 266 * 
 
 Byriate, Richard, of Pyrton, 245 
 Byrkane, John de, 65 
 Byrkane, Roger, bro. of John de, 65 
 Byrkethwait, Peter de, 65 
 Byrton, John, 211 
 
 Bysele, Hugh, son of Richard de, 155 
 Byseleye, Richard de, 148, 150, 155 
 
Index. 
 
 393 
 
 Byset, Ernulf, Dominus de Preston, 
 
 139 
 Byset, Henry, 60 
 Bysshop, William, 273 
 Byswthone, Robert, lOI 
 Byswthone, William, loi 
 
 /''^ADUL, Thomas, 174 
 
 Coesar, Sir Julius, 337 
 
 Cagwurth, Henry de, 54 
 
 Calebat, 51, 83 
 
 Caletot, Eudo de, 77 
 
 Calfhaga, Ralph de, 78 
 
 Calfnaia, Roger de, 71 
 
 Cain, Henry, 69 
 
 Calston, Thomas, x8i 
 
 Camberlan, William, 107 
 
 Camerarius v. Chamberlain 
 
 Camma v. Camme 
 
 Camme, Eustace de, 13, 61, 112, 
 117, 297 
 
 Camme, Henry de, 122 
 
 Camme, Hugh de, 22, 30, 38, 61, 
 
 117 
 Camme, Maurice de, 122 
 Camme, Reginald de, 82 
 
 Camme, Roger de, 40, 47, 91, 105, 
 108, 112, 121 
 
 Campania, Hugh de, 44 
 
 Campania, Robert de, 44 
 
 Campo Florido, Hillary de, 98 
 
 Cand, Adam, 112 
 
 Candel, Robert, 141 
 
 Cantelu, William de. Sheriff of co. 
 Leic, 32 «. 
 
 Cantilupo, Roger de, 99 
 
 Cantilupo, William de, 75, 133 
 
 Canute, Bartholomew, 64 
 
 Canyng, W^illiam, Mayor of Bristol, 
 
 1374. 292 
 Canynges, William, Sheriff of Bristo\ 
 
 185 
 
 Canynges, William, of Bristol, mer- 
 chant, 190, 212 
 
 Capel, John, l6l 
 
 Capel, William, 140, 154, 253 
 
 Capella, Henry de, 74, 75 
 
 Capenor, Richard de, 70 
 
 Capenore, William de, 119 
 
 Caperun, Geoffrey, 121 
 
 Capreole, Hugh, 27 
 
 Capritavensis, Guillermus, 170 
 
 Caprun, Geoffrey, 136 
 
 Carbonel, Dom. John, 120 
 
 Carbonell, Pagan, 6 
 
 Cardevilla, Ralph de, 28 
 
 Carduiir, Reginald de, 87 
 
 Careles, William, 47 
 
 Carew, Sir George, v. Carey 
 
 Carey, Anne wife of Henry, Lord 
 Hunsdon, 219, 337 
 
 Carey, Sir Edward, 338 
 
 Carey, Elizabeth, wid. of George, 
 Lord Hunsdon, 243 
 
 Carey, Sir George, aft. 2nd Lord 
 Hunsdon, 226-240, 243, 259, 
 268, 287, 303, 322, 323, 330-335 
 
 Carey, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, 213- 
 215, 218-225, 228-240, 242, 287, 
 302, 334 
 
 Carey, William, 213 
 
 Carnifex, Osbert, 46 
 
 Carpenter, John, Bishop of Worces- 
 ter, 194 
 
 Carpenter, Nich. le, of Cadbury, 167 
 
 Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset, 339 
 
 Case, Dr., 335 
 
 Castelein, John, 68 
 
 Castell, Henry, of Egmere, 213 
 
 Castello, Adrian de, Bishop of Bath 
 and Wells, 204 
 
 Castro Martin, John de, Knt. 
 
 Cat, Gilbert le, 90 
 
 Catecuniba, Helias de, 26 
 
 Catyrmayn, Richard, Esquire, 182 
 
 Caudel, Robert, 125 
 
 Cauell, Walter, 83 
 
394 
 
 Index. 
 
 Caune, Reginald de la, 40 
 
 Cauvel, Walter, 80 
 
 Cauz, Geoffrey de, 75 
 
 Cave, Robert, 39 
 
 Cavel, Thomas. 113 
 
 Cecil, Mildred, wife of Sir William, 
 219 
 
 Cecil, Sir Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 
 
 334. 335. 337 
 Cecil [Sitsilt], Sir William, Lord 
 
 Burghley, 219, 225, 226 
 
 Cecily, "vidua de Angulo," 70 
 Celney, Master John de, iii 
 Cestre, Cestria, Master Hugh de, 49, 
 
 Cestria, Master Simon de, Parson of 
 Duninton, 53 
 
 Chacombe, Chacumbe, v. Chaucumbe 
 
 Chaisne, William de, 26 
 
 Chaldefeld, Walter de, 141 
 
 Chalford, John de, 124 
 
 Chalvele, Thomas de, 117 
 
 Chalveleie, Henry son of John de, 116 
 
 Chaloner, Sir Thomas, 237, 239 
 
 Chamberlain, Ivo, 44 
 
 Chamberlain, Ralph, 44, 89 
 
 Chamberlain, Ralph, of Rearsby, 88, 
 loi, 103, 104 
 
 Chamberlain, Dom. Ralph, Steward 
 of G. de Segrave, 98 
 
 Chamberlain, Robert,' 34 
 
 Chamberlain, William, 78, 109 
 
 Champeneys, John, 148 
 
 Chandel, Robert, 118 
 
 Chandos family, 318 
 
 Chandos, Lord, v. Bruges 
 
 Chandos, Ralph de, 82 
 
 Chanu, Bartholomew, 21 
 
 Chapstowe, Maurice, of Wotton, 254 
 
 Charfeld, William de, 131 
 
 Charletun, Adam de, 108 
 
 Charnel, Charneles, Gilbert de, 12 
 
 Chauce, Gilbert de, 119 
 
 Chancumbe, Amabel wife of Hugh 
 de, 85 ;/. 
 
 Chaucuml>e, Amabilia dau. of Robert 
 de, 13 «., 85 «. 
 
 Chaucumbe, Hugh de, 32, 39, 42, 
 85 «., 87, 122 
 
 Chaucumbe, Juliana, wife of Robert 
 de, 8s 
 
 Chaucumbe, Robert de, 13 «., 19, 
 48, 60, 76. 85 
 
 Chauezi v. Chausi 
 
 Chaun, John le, 112 
 
 Chausi, Colin son of Geoffrey de, 
 83, III 
 
 Chausi, GeoiFrey de, 35, 40, 42, 80, 
 
 81, 83, 84, 91, 102, 108, 109, 124, 
 
 Chausi, Geoffrey son of Geoffrey de, 
 
 82, 84 
 
 Chausi, Nicholas de, 102, 109, no 
 
 Chauton, William de, 36 
 
 Chaveyni, John de, 44 
 
 Chayne, William, Knt., 181 
 
 Cheltenham, William de, 163, 171 
 
 Cheltynham, Robert, Prior of St. 
 James', Bristol, 207 
 
 Chene, Reginald le, 138 
 
 Chenecote, Richard de, 26 
 
 Cherchesley, Peter de, 112 
 
 Cherleton, Cherletune, Adam de, 71, 
 108 
 
 Cherletun, Elyas de, 83 
 
 Cherletun, Will, son of Elyas de, 83 
 
 Cherthesley, W^illiam de, 70 
 
 Chesney, Maud de, 68 «. 
 
 Chester family, 318 
 
 Chester, Earls of, v. Edward ; Ran- 
 ulph ; Scocia, J. de 
 
 Chetwynd, Edward, D.D., Vicar of 
 Berkeley, 260 
 
 Chetwynd, Sir William, 262 
 
 Cheurecurt, Robert de, 39 
 
 Chevaler, Walter le, 120 
 
 Cheveleswelle, William de, 126 
 
 Cheyne, Roger de, 99 
 
 Childewic, Geoffrey de, 133 
 
 Chiltenham, William de, 155, 173 
 
 Chiselden, Helias de, 28 
 
Index. 
 
 m 
 
 Chiseldene, Maurice de, 40 
 Chnithtetun, Adam de, 106 
 Chocus, Richard, of Clopton, 141 
 Chohull, Richard de, 22 
 Chuna, dau. of Henry, III 
 Chuncher, Alemannus, 26 
 Citniterio de Leicestria, Walter de, 
 
 65, 69 
 Citnma, Hugh de, 29 
 Cisy, Peter de, 48, 49 
 
 Clare, Gilbert de, Earl of Gloucester 
 and Hertford, 141, 147, 316 
 
 Clare, Margaret de, wid. of Hugh 
 d'Audely, Earl of Gloucester, 316 
 
 Clarendon, Earl of, v. Hyde 
 
 Clarevall, William de, 36 
 
 Clarke, Thomas, of London, 225 
 
 Claudus, Geoffrey, 77 
 
 Claxton, William, of Bedminster, 317 
 
 Clement, 27 
 
 Clement, Prior of Lanthony, li, 56 
 
 Clement, son of Turold, 72 
 
 Clendon, Warin de, 32 
 
 Clerk, Richard, 253 
 
 Clifford family, 296, 318 
 
 Clifford V. also Clyfford 
 
 Clifford, Lord, 315 
 
 Clifford, Isabel d. of Maur. Berkeley, 
 w. of Rob. Lord, 285 
 
 Clifford, James, 246 
 
 Clifford, John de, Knt., 149 
 
 Clifford, Richard de, 22, 24, 29 
 
 Clifford, Dom. Richard de, 83, 113, 
 133 
 
 Clifford, Master Richard de, 149 
 
 Clifford, Richard son of John de, 273 
 
 Cliftbrd, Rob., 7th Lord Clifford, 285 
 
 Clifford, William de, 107 
 
 Cliftone, Walter de, 8 
 
 Cliftun, Dom. Ignacius de, 93 
 
 Clinton, Edward, Earl of liincoln, 
 226, 229, 230 
 
 Clinton, William de. Earl of Hun- 
 tingdon, 159 
 
 Clinton and Saye, Lord, v. Fynes 
 Clipstun, Master Robert de, 34 
 Clivedune, Matthew de, 69 
 Clopenne, Simon de, 22 
 Clopton, Richard de, 79 
 Clotlegh, Alan de, 106 
 Clyfford, Henry, son of John, 220 
 Clyfford, John de, 147 
 Clyfford, John and Dorothy, 220 
 Clyve, John de, 155, 160, 163 
 Clyve, William de, clerk, 158 
 Clyvedon, Sir Edmund, 265 
 Clyvedon, John de, 119 
 Cnapwell, Bartholomew de, 60 
 Cnitheton, Cnithtetun, Cnitteton, 
 
 Pagan de, 63, 70, 115 
 Cnolla, John de, 24 
 Cobbeham, John de, loi 
 
 Cobi, Coby, Adam, 93, lOO, 103, 
 105, 106, 107, 113 
 
 Cobi, William, 57 
 Coby, John, 166 
 Cocaine, William, 49 
 Cocele, William, 30 
 Cocus, John, of Croxton, 50, 1 16 
 Cocus, John son of Thomas, of Crox- 
 ton, 128 
 Cocus, Richard, 77 
 Cocus, Thomas, of Croxton, 114, 123 
 Cocus, William, 67 
 Codrington, family of, 296 
 Cogan, Henry de, 14, 15 
 Cogan, John de, 22 
 Cohill, Richard de, 14 
 Cok, Ralph, 174 
 Coke, Sir Edward, Knt., 15 
 Coke, Geoffrey, 61 
 Coke, Sir Robert, 247, 261, 340 
 Coke, Roger, Mayor of Bristol, 213 
 Coker, John s. and h. of John, 240 
 Cole, John, 36 
 Coleshalle, Robert de, 126 
 Colevile, Henry de, Knt., 37 
 
396 
 
 Index. 
 
 Colevile, Dom. Thomas de, Knt., 104 
 
 Colewiche, Colewych, Richard de, 
 98, 126 
 
 Colewurth, William de, 91 
 Colewych, William de, 103 
 Colleshull, Simon de, 73, 103 
 CoUyn, Joan, dau. of Thos., 235 
 Collyn, John, s. and h. of Thomas, 
 
 235 
 Collyn, Mary dau. of Thomas, 235 
 
 Collyn, Thomas son and heir of John, 
 of Rochford, 229 
 
 Columbariis, Dom. Gilbert de, 63, 
 105, 106, 114, 123 
 
 Columbariis, Henry, son of Gilbert 
 de, 123 
 
 Columbariis, Robert de, 106, 115 
 Columbensis, Jacobus, 170 
 Columbers, Philip de. 2 
 Colureden, Osbert de, 120 
 Colwich, William de. Coroner for co. 
 Gloucester, 153 
 
 Colyns, Arnulph, Bachelor of Laws, 
 194 
 
 Combe, Mahihele fil. Ansgeri de, 8 
 
 Combe, William, Bailiff of Bristol, 292 
 
 Comercey, Nicholas de, Notary Pub- 
 lic, 168 
 
 Compton, Richard de, Coroner for 
 CO. Gloucester, 153 
 
 Compton, Spencer, Earl of Wilming- 
 ton, 262 
 
 Compton, Walter, Groom of the 
 King's Chamber, 211 
 
 Constable, Sir Robert, 224 
 Constance, Geoffrey de, 127 
 Constantiis, John de. Bishop of 
 Worcester, 24 
 
 Cook, Thomas, loi 
 Copmanford, Symon de. 134 
 Coppare, Johnle, cf Berkeley, 160 
 Coppare, Walter le, 166 
 Coppe, Aldwin, 38 
 Coquus, Richard, 117 
 Corbrugg, William, 273 
 
 Corby n, William, Chief Forester of 
 Gower, 186 
 
 Cord', Roger, 58 
 
 Corduwanarius, Roger, 24 
 
 Corlewache, Simon, 87 
 
 Cornefold, Robert, il 
 
 Comubiensis, Stephen, Bailiff of 
 Gloucester, 102 
 
 Cornwall, Earls of, v. Edmund ; Ed- 
 ward ; Eltham, J. de ; Reginald ; 
 Richard 
 
 Corvehete, Richard de, 116 
 
 Corveiser, Gilbert, 106 
 
 Cosmo III., Grand Duke of Tus- 
 cany, 342 
 
 Cotele, James, 40, 52 
 
 Cotele, Cotell, James, 115, 116, 121, 
 153 
 
 Cotele, Cotell, Richard, 30, 34, 38 
 
 Cotele, William, 109 
 
 Coterel, Peter, 93 
 
 Coterel, Richard, 57 
 
 Cothrington, family of, 318 
 
 Coton, Richard, 180 
 
 Cotton, Richard, 231 
 
 Couele, Couelege, Richard de, 33, 
 40, 45, 52, 57, 58, 66, 72, 91, 92, 
 93, 105, III 
 
 Couele, Richard son of Harding de, 
 
 8, IS 
 Couele, Couelege, Coueley, Robert 
 
 de, 40, 52, 104, 112, 115 
 
 Couele, Symon son of Richard de, 8 
 
 Couelee, John de, 151 
 
 Coueleg, Couelei, Henry de, 25, 
 60, 6r 
 
 Couelega, Mary, wife of Robert de, 
 116 
 
 Coueley, John de, of Berkeley, 253 
 
 Courbeton, Pierre de, 169 
 
 Cousyns, William, Dean of Wells, 
 205 
 
 Covel, Dr. John, Rector of Keg- 
 worth, 250, 251 
 Coventry, Hon. Henry, 251 
 Coxhale, John de, 166 
 
Index. 
 
 397 
 
 Cracroft, Capt,, 344 
 
 Craft, Cecilia de, 61 
 
 Craft, Roger de, 44. 61 
 
 Cragg, Alured, 112 
 
 Cragg, Levina, dau. of Alured, 112 
 
 Cramal, Bernard de, 61 
 
 Cranford, Joseph, 247 
 
 Cranforde, Rob. de, 122 
 
 Cranle, John de, 66 
 
 Cranlega, John de, 28 
 
 Cranleygh, John de, 141 
 
 Crannesmere, Geoffrey de, 42 
 
 Crathorne, Robert, of Newcastle, 225 
 
 Crauele, Crauleyg, Nicholas de, 94, 
 96, 116 
 
 Ctiule, Crauleyg, Hawyse, wife of 
 Nicholas de, 94 
 
 Crauleia, Crauleigh, Crauleye, John 
 de, 29, 33, 57 
 
 Craunfort, Roger de, 12 
 
 Craven, William, Alderman of Lon- 
 don, 242 
 
 Crawelee, John de, 151 
 
 Criklade, John, Burgess of Bristol, 176 
 
 Crispin, Robert, 92 
 
 Cristian, Matthew, 37 
 
 Croc, Humphrey, 28 
 
 Croc, Thomas, 40 
 
 Croc, Walter. 36, 40 
 
 Crocke, John, Merchant, of South- 
 ampton, 235 
 
 Croft, Sir James, 230 
 
 Crok, Peter, Knt., 148, 150 
 
 Crokeshale, William de, 20 
 
 Cromale, Robert de, 28 
 
 Cromhale, Bernard de, 31, 32, 36, 
 62, 117 
 
 Cromhale, Richard de, 31, 32, 33, 
 61, 66, 94-96, 99, 102, no, 136 
 Cromhale, William de, 42, 64 
 Crompton, Thomas, 238, 239 
 
 Cromwell rt/. Wyllymas. Sir Richard, 
 211 
 
 Crooke, John, 231 
 
 Croxston, Croxton, Hugh son of 
 Martin de, 128 
 
 Croxston, Roger son of Walter de, 
 loi, 123 
 
 Croxston, Simon de, loi 
 
 Croxton, Thomas son of Nicholas 
 de, 67 
 
 Croxton, Thomas son of Sewin de, 67 
 
 Croxton, Thomas son of Simon de, 
 
 lOI 
 
 Croxstun, Thomas son of Walter 
 de, 123 
 
 Croxston, Walter de, lOI 
 
 Cruce, Ralph de, 51 
 
 Cruce, Robert de, 114 
 
 Cruce de Wenden, Roysia de, in 
 
 Cruce de Wenden, Walter, son of 
 Roysia de, in 
 
 Cruse, Geoffrey, 86 
 
 Cruse, Hugh son of Geoffrey, 86 
 
 Cryel, Nicholas de, 156 
 
 Cube, Adam, 106 
 
 Cudworth, Ralph, Master of Christ's 
 
 College, Cambridge, 250 
 Cuhill, Richard de, 52 
 Cuhulla, Hugh de, 112 
 Culcretun, Colin de, 51, 78, 83 
 Culcretuna, Henry de, 107 
 Culcretun, Nicholas son of Henry 
 
 de, 71, 84, 100 
 Cultura, Henry de, 35 
 Cultura, Wido de, 34, 35 
 Culumb', Rotbert de, 68 
 
 Cumba, Cumbe, Elias de, 32, 44, 
 58, 70, 104, no, 117, 121, 126, 
 129, 136, 147 
 
 Cumba, Philip son of Elias de, 124 
 
 Cumba, William son of Elias de, 102 
 
 Cumbe, William de, 58, I20 
 
 Cumbe, Yvo de, 58 
 
 Cumin, John, 138 
 
 Cumin, William, 2, 4 
 
 Cumpton, Thomas de, 114 
 
 Cunningham, James, Earl of Glen- 
 cairne, 331 
 
398 
 
 Index. 
 
 Cuppere, Walter le, 126 
 
 Cure', Curci, Alice de, uxor Warini 
 fil. Geroldi, 44, 68 n. 
 
 Curcun, Avice wife of Tho. de, 14 
 
 Curcun, Thomas de, 13, 53 
 
 Curezun, Richard de, 87 
 
 Curezun, Robert de, 62 
 
 Curezun, Thomas de, 62 
 
 Curie, Walter, Bishop of Winches- 
 ter, 248 
 
 Curnocke, John, 247 
 
 Curtun, Thomas de, 31 
 
 Curzun, Robert de, 72 
 
 Cusinton, Ranulph, bro. of Ralph 
 
 de, 43 
 Cusintun, Ralph de, 43 
 Custance, Geoffrey, 71 
 Custere, Isabel la, 1 1 1 
 
 Cutler, Robert, sen., Bailiff of Ips- 
 wich, 234 
 
 Cuylire, William, 131 
 
 Cysi V. Cisy 
 
 D 
 
 FAADDI, William, 103 
 
 Dagworth, Nicholas de, Knt., 178 
 
 Dalbi, Daubi, Dauby, Reginald de, 
 117 ; Will. s. of Geoffr., 16, 39 
 
 Dale, Robert, 106 
 
 Damenevile, Damenevilla, Damm- 
 enevile, Damnevill, Robert, heir 
 of Adam, 18, 20,42, 63, 74 
 
 Damesel, Ralph, 175 
 Damiir, Walter de, 53 
 Dancele, chaplain, 56 
 Danckelmann, Thomas Ernest von, 
 
 343 
 Dandelegh, Hugh de, 277 
 Dando, Dom. Alex., Knt., 142 
 Dangerode, Ralph, 103 
 Daniel, chaplain, 11 
 Daniel, capellanus de Locaston, 41 
 
 Danvers, Thomas, Sheriff of Ox- 
 ford, 146 
 
 Danvill, John de, 34 
 
 Darches, Richard, 70 
 
 Darcy, Norman, 61 
 
 Datton, Richard, Knt., 175 
 
 Daubi, Dauby, v. Dalby 
 
 Daubigny, Dom. William, 58 
 
 Daundesey, Alice, d. of Walt., 178 
 
 Daundesey, Walter, Dominus de la 
 Wyke, 178 
 
 Daunt, John, of Wotton, 245 
 
 Daunt, Nicholas, of Wotton, 245 
 
 Daunt, Thomas, of Wotton, 256 
 
 Davi, John, de la Penne, 1 16 
 
 David, Abbot of Bristol, 57, 78, 80 
 
 David, nephew of Rob. Fitzharding, 2 
 
 David, fil. Gudbmundi, 11 " 
 
 David, Scriptor de Wirec', 19 
 
 David, Walensis, 22 
 
 David, Decanus Bledensis, 23 
 
 Dayvill, Walter de, 54 
 
 Dena, Dene, Aland de, 42 ; Ivo de, 
 65 ; John de, 45 ; Peter de, 45 ; 
 Simon de, 39, 62 ; Thomas de, 45 
 
 Denis, son of Walerand, 16 
 
 Dennys, Denys, Denyse, family of, 
 3:8 ; Gilb. de, Knt., 182; Hugh, 
 288 ; Maurice, 188, 189 ; Thom- 
 as, 324 ; Sir Walter, 328 
 
 Deonyer, Maurice, 193 
 
 Depeden, Richard de, 77 
 
 Derbi, Walter, Mayor of Bristol, 176 
 
 Derby, Earls of, v. Ferraiiis, Will. 
 de ; Henry, of Lancaster 
 
 Derby, Rob. , Abbot of Croxton, 209 
 
 Deresford, William de, 65, 69 
 
 Derle, Cecilia mother of Richird 
 de, 87 
 
 Derle, Richard de, clerk, 87 
 
 Derleye, John de, 151 
 
 Derleye, Robert de, 1 5 1 
 
 Despencer, Despenser, Dispensaiius, 
 Dispensator, Dispenser, family 
 of, 299 ; Geoffrey, 75, 79, 87, 
 133 ; Henry, 48, 49, 87 ; Hugh, 
 48, 49, 53. 54, 67, 72, 86, 87, 
 117, 129, 131, 153, 316; Hugh 
 
Index. 
 
 399 
 
 le, Earl of Winchester, 156 ; 
 Robert, 87 ; Roese d. of Th. 13//; 
 Thomas, 13 n., 48, 49, 53, 129, 
 140 ; Thurstan, 82 
 
 Dessuble, William, 35 
 
 Deusbire, Richard, 104 
 
 Devereux, John, 183 
 
 Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Es- 
 sex, 335 
 
 Devereux, Walter, Lord Ferrers of 
 Chartley, 188 
 
 Dhiteswrhe v. Diseworth 
 
 Diccheswrth, Dicheswrth, etc. v. 
 Diseworth 
 
 Dideswrth, etc. v. Diseworth 
 
 Diffe, Robert, 109 
 
 Diggeby, Dom. John de, 130 
 
 Dikes, Warengar de, 63 
 
 Dimmoc, Hugh de, 44 
 
 Dingeley, John, 231 
 
 Diseworth, Dhiiheswrhe, Dicches- 
 wrth, Dicheswrth, Dictheswrth, 
 Dideswrth, Digethelswrd, Dige- 
 theswurth, Ditheswarth, Dithes- 
 wrth, Dithezword, Dithisworth, 
 Dycheswrd, Dytheswurth, Bene- 
 dict de, 48, 49, 62, 76, 87 ; 
 Helias de, 14, 20, 62, 103, 104 ; 
 Hugh de, 73, 88, 103, 104, 112, 
 117 ; John, s. of Hel., 14; Sy- 
 mon de, 103 ; Will, son of Ber- 
 tram, 27, 30 ; Will, son of Hel. 
 de, 103 
 
 Dison, Ralph, Steward of Segrave 
 Manor, 287 
 
 Dispensator, Dispenser, v. Despencer 
 
 Ditheswrth, etc. v. Diseworth 
 
 Dixeleye, Robert de, 128 
 
 Dobson, Ellis, 337 
 
 Dod, Peter, 86 
 
 Dodde, David, Captain at Calais, 214 
 
 Dodde, Ellen wife of David, 214 
 
 Dodinton, Adam de, 97 
 
 Doghan, John, 191 
 
 Doghton, Philip de, 142 
 
 Dole, Walter, 113 
 
 Dorantesthorp, Richard de, 128 
 
 Dorna, Dome, Thomas de, no, 121 
 
 Dorney, Alice, of Nibley, 187 
 
 Dorset, Earl of, v. Sackville 
 
 Dorset, Countess of, v. Beaufort 
 
 Dorset, Marquis of, v. Gray 
 
 Dosy, John, 104 
 
 Douglas, Archibald, 8th Earl of 
 Angus, 331, 332 
 
 Douglas, James, Earl of Douglas, 178 
 
 Draesid, Drawesid, Drayside, Dray- 
 syd, Dreyside, Philip, 44, 117, 
 120, 148 ; Walter, 44, 117; 
 William, 44, 117 
 
 Draicot, Draicote, Draycote, Dray- 
 cott, Dreicote, Dreycote, John 
 de, 40, 47, 52, 94, 116 ; Philip 
 de, 214 ; Ralph de, 8; Robert de, 
 115, 121 
 
 Draitun, John de, 56 
 
 Drake, Gilbert, 105 
 
 Draper, Richard, of Bristol, cofferer, 
 199 
 
 Draperius, John, 50 
 
 Draperius, Richard, Prepositus Rede- 
 clivie, 130 
 
 Drawesid v. Draesid 
 
 Draycote, etc. v. Draicot 
 
 Drayside v. Draesid 
 
 Drayton, John de. Lord of Dorsing- 
 ton Magna, 184 
 
 Dray tone, Baldwin de, 1 34 
 
 Draytone, Idonea w. of B. de, 134 
 
 Dreicote v. Draicot 
 
 Dreycote v, Draicot 
 
 Dreyside v. Draesid 
 
 Dringe, Edmund, of Westcote, 67 
 
 Drywood, William, s. and h. of 
 Thos., 238 
 
 Dubedent, Walter, 118 
 
 Due, John le, 153 
 
 Due, Richard le, 139 
 
 Due, Robert le, 48 
 
 Duchtune, Ducton, Ductun, Ductu- 
 na, Dutton, Robert, s. of Rog. 
 de, 83 ; Robert de, 108 ; Roger 
 de, 71, 81, 83, 91 
 
 Duddebroke, David, Sheriff of Bris* 
 tol, 183 
 
400 
 
 Index. 
 
 Dudleo, M"^*, Principessa di North- 
 umbria, 340 
 
 Dudley, pedigree of, 295 
 
 Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, 
 224-227, 268, 296, 333, 334 
 
 Dudley, Maria nee Gouffier, wife of 
 Carlo, 340 71. 
 
 Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, 
 233. 296, 330, 333, 334 
 
 Dudley, Robert, styled Duke of 
 Northumberland, 340 n. 
 
 Duncepucke, David, 6 
 
 Dune, Jobn de, 130 
 
 Dunfermline Abbey, Commendator 
 of, V. Pitcarne, Robert 
 
 Dunmoch, Henry de, 117 
 
 Dunning, David, 50 
 
 Dunning, Richard son of David, 46 
 
 Dunstanvilla, Rodbert de, 2 
 
 Dunstanville, Walter de, 7 
 
 Dunstanville, Walter de. Canon and 
 Rector of Bedminster, 38 
 
 Dunton, Matthew, 120 
 
 Dunton, Osbert de. Abbot of Lei- 
 cester, 65 
 
 Dunyng, David, junior, 102 
 
 Dunyng, Elicia relict of David, 102 
 
 Durand de . . . . ai, 7 
 
 Durand, Canon of Hereford, 57 
 
 Durannus, son of Fulk, 61 
 
 Durnefote, Richard de, 40 
 
 Durslega, Ralph de, 1 19 
 
 Dursley, Lord of, v. Berkeley, Henry 
 de 
 
 Dursley, Viscount, v. Berkeley 
 
 Duttun V. Duchtune 
 
 Dutton, William, 245, 246 
 
 Dycheswrd v. Diseworth 
 
 I^ygge, John, 191 
 
 Dytheswurth v. Diseworth 
 
 -, Abbot of Pershore, 131 
 
 Earle, Thomas, Master of the Soc. 
 of Merch. Adventurers, Bristol, 
 250 
 
 Earley, John, of London, cloth- 
 worker, 220 
 
 Eboraco, Walter de, Justice, 79, 85 
 
 Eboraco, William de, 76, 82 
 
 Echewicha, Ekewike, Hechewicha, 
 Avice, w. of Baldw. de, 30; Bald- 
 win de, 28, 30, 46 ; Herbert de, 
 28 ; William, s. of Baldw. de, 30 
 
 Echingeham, Symon de, 36 
 
 Eddenvilla, Richard son of Serlo 
 de, 104 
 
 Eddenvilla, Serlo de, 104 
 
 Eddenvilla, William fil. Stephani 
 de, 104 
 
 Edmondes al. Lawson, Margaret, 304 
 
 Edmund, son of Hen. IIL, 147 
 
 Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, 149 
 
 Edmund, Archbp. of Canterbury, 80 
 
 Edmund, Merchant of Segrave, 39 
 
 Edward', John, 188 
 
 Egge, Auliz, d. of Will, del, 71, 73 
 
 Egge, Gilbert del, 61, 71, 73, 102, 
 124, 125, 
 
 Egge, Osbert del, 139 
 
 Eggesworth, Peter de, 21, 84, 91, 
 109 
 
 Eggeton, Egeton, Egetun, Eggentun, 
 Eggintuna, Eginton, Egintun, 
 Ekinton, Gilbert de, 117 ; Henry 
 de, 96, 113 ; Isilia d. of 
 Alex, de, 61, 62, 117 ; John de, 
 33. 50. 57. 59, 63, 66, 72, 81, 83, 
 
 84, 92, 96, ICX5, 102, 105, 107, 
 109. 1 10, 113, 116, 122, 127, 133 
 
 Robert de, 117, 146 ; Walter de, 
 II7> 137) 146; William de, 141 
 
 Egton, Richard de, of Swonhanger, 
 175 
 
 Eilwin, Dispensator, 15 
 
 Ekewike v. Echewicha 
 
 Ekinton v. Egeton 
 
 Elias, 24 
 
 Elias, son of Alured, 57 
 
 Elias, son of Geoffrey, 14 
 
 Elias, son of Toke, 25 
 
Index. 
 
 401 
 
 Elizabeth, Prioress of Wallingwells, 
 197 
 
 EUesworth, Thomas de, 102 
 Ellota, d. of Bernard, 77 
 Elmedon, Richard de, 12 
 Eltham, John de, Earl of Cornwall, 
 
 157 
 Ely, John son of Richard, 199 
 Ely, Walter de, 23 
 Ely, William de. Lord Treasurer, 36 
 Elyas, chaplain, 62 
 Elyot, Robert, Abbot of Bristol, 292 
 
 Emdon, Walkelin, son of Richard 
 de, 42 
 
 Emerton, Alan de, 68 
 Empringham, Odo de, 67 
 England, Sovereigns of: Henry I., 
 2, 3 
 
 Stephen v. Index of Subjects 
 
 Henry II., 6, 7, 9, 15, 18, 
 
 21, 23, 157, V. also Index of 
 Subjects 
 
 Eleanor, wid. of Henry II. 18 
 
 Henry, son of Henry II., 22 
 
 Richard I., 18, 23, 157 
 
 John, 21, SI, 147, 157, 183, 
 
 240 
 
 Qu. Isabella v. Lusignan 
 
 Henry III., 74, 75, 78, 80, 
 
 131, 132, 147 
 
 Edward I., 146, 147, 150, 
 
 295 
 
 Edward II.. 152, 153, 155, 
 
 272, 316, V. alsolndcxof Subjects 
 
 Edward III., 154, 157-167, 
 
 170. 177. 182, 272, V. also Index 
 of Subjects 
 
 Richard II., 176, 177 
 
 Henry IV., 179, 180, 182 
 
 ' Henry v., 182, 218 
 
 Henry VI., 183-187 
 
 Edward IV., 187-192, 272 
 
 Richard III., 195, 196 
 
 Henry VII., 197-199, 201, 
 
 214, 252, 272 
 
 England, Sovereigns oi— continued. 
 
 Henry VIII., 202, 205-207, 
 
 209-213, 215, 241, 252, 300, 310, 
 320 
 
 Edward VI., 212, 301 
 
 Mary, 321 
 
 Philip and Mary, 213, 218 
 
 Elizabeth, 218-226, 233, 238, 
 
 242, 244, 283, 317, 319, 322-324, 
 
 James I., 243, 245, 246, 
 
 325. 339 
 
 Anne, wife of James I., 339 
 
 Charles I., 247, 248, 339 
 
 James II., 326 
 
 William III., 251 
 
 Erdecot, Stephen dc, 36 
 Erlega, Erlei, Erleia, John de, 31, 34 
 Ernulph, clerk, 59, 81, 93 
 Erskine, John, Earl of Mar, 222, 
 
 331. 333 
 Esefeld, John de, 68 
 Eskermissur, Elias le, 94 
 
 Eapicer, Robert le. Mayor of North- 
 ampton, 90 
 
 Espregin, 11 
 
 Esscelworth, Thomas de, 117 
 
 Efscelwurthe, Dom. Adam de, chap- 
 lain, 117 
 
 Esseby, David de, 129 
 
 Essetun, William de, 93 
 
 Essex, Earlsof, v. Bohun ; Devereux 
 Mandeville 
 
 Essington, Robert, 263 
 
 Estham, Agnes wife of Roger de, 160 
 
 Estham, Richard de, 166 
 
 Estham, Roger de, 160 
 
 Estlega, Estleia. Thomas dc, 32, 62 
 
 Eston, Dom. Adam de, 138 
 
 Estsexia, Thomas de, 11 1 
 
 Esturmy, William, 181 
 
 Eu, Alice, Comtesse d', 35, 78 
 
 Eu, Henri, Comte d', 35 ;/. 
 
 EuhuUa, Richard de, 13 
 
 Eustace, the Chamberlain, 12 
 
402 
 
 Index. 
 
 Eustace, Oliver, 15 
 
 Eustace, Philip, 15 
 
 Eustace, William, 96 
 
 Eva, dau. of Godwyn, 61 
 
 Eva, wife of Robert Fitzharding ?'. 
 Fitzharding 
 
 Everard, John, Keeper of Redwood, 
 280 
 
 Everdun, Silvester de, 133 
 
 Evesham, Ralph de. Prior of Wor- 
 cester, 38 
 
 Eveske, Jordan le, 24 
 
 Ewelegh, Peter de, 136 
 
 Exon, Jordan de, 147 
 
 Extona, Roger son of Thomas de, 67 
 
 Extraneus, John, 53 
 
 Eyden, Thomas de, Justice, 56 
 
 TJ'ABER, Ralph, no 
 
 Faber, Richard, 30 
 
 Faber, Roger, 50 
 
 Faber, William, 125 
 
 Faber, William, of Berkeley, 1 16 
 
 Faellor, Symon de, 63 
 
 Faffington, Henry de, 60 
 
 Falconarius, William, 120 
 
 Fallewelle, Richard, of Kingston, 172 
 
 Fanencort, Hellebold de, 36 
 
 Fardayn, Vincent, 102 
 
 Faricius, 69 
 
 Farleha, Silvester de, 123 
 
 Farnham, Fernham, Alan de, 54, 
 119, 126 
 
 Farthein, Robert, 78 
 
 Fauflore v. Faulore 
 
 Faukenor, Faukiner, Faukuner, 
 William le, 45, 88 
 
 Faulore, Faueflore, Fauflore, Fauue- 
 flore 
 
 Fauflore, John de, 126 
 
 Faulore, Peter de, chaplain, 174 
 
 Faulore, Faueflore, Fauueflore, 
 Simon de, 70, 97, 105, in, 
 115. 123 
 
 Faueflor, Fauueflor, Thomas de, 
 70, n9 
 
 Faulore, Will. s. of Sim. de, in 
 
 Fauueflor v. Faulore 
 
 Fawel, Hugh, Knt., 128 
 
 Fegge, a tenant in Rearsby, 88 
 
 Felevill v. Folevile 
 
 Felon de Climaco, Hugh de, 169 
 
 Fermeria, Robert de, 67 
 
 Fernham v. Farnham 
 
 Fernlane, Hugh de, 63 
 
 Fernlane, Philip de, 63 
 
 Ferour, Margery w. of Walter le, 165 
 
 Ferour, Richard le, 165 
 
 Ferour, Walter le, 165 
 
 Ferragii, Henry, 108 
 
 Ferrars, Ferrariis, Ferrers 
 
 Ferrars, Earls of Derby, 271 
 
 Ferrars, Johanna de, 118 
 
 Ferrers, Joan de, w. of Th., Lord 
 Berkeley, 293 
 
 Ferrars, Rob., s. of Will., Earl 
 of Derby, 118 
 
 Ferers, Ferrers, Thos. de, in, 
 118 
 
 Ferrariis, Will, de. Earl of Derby, 
 78, 118 
 
 Ferrars,Will. de, 118 
 
 Ferrars, William, Lord, 299 
 Ferrers, Lord v. Devereux 
 Filton, Elias de, 157 
 Finch — , 329 
 Finch, Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, 
 
 311 
 Finke, John, 115 
 Finke, Robert, 68, 106 
 Fisher, John, Mayor of Bristol, 181 
 P'isher, John, Sergeant-at-Law, 197 
 Fitzalan, Richard, Earl ol Arundel, 
 
 159, 165 
 Fitzalan, Thomas, Archbishop of 
 
 York, 256 
 
Index. 
 
 403 
 
 Fil. Geroldi, family of, 66, 68 
 
 Fil. Geroldi, Alice d. of Henry, 68 
 
 Fil. Geroldi, Henry, 68, 105, 106, 
 
 119 
 Fil. Geroldi, Hugh, 68 
 
 Fil. Geroldi, Warin al. Gwarin, 
 
 Chamberlain to Henry II., 2, 7, 
 
 23.44 
 Fil. Geroldi, Warin, son of Warin, 
 
 66,68 
 Fil. Geroldi, Warin son of Henry, 
 
 97, 105, 141 
 
 Fitzharding, Ala wife of Nich., son 
 of Robert, 27 
 
 Fitzharding, Aldena dau. of Rob. 8«. 
 
 Fitzharding, David nephew of Rob- 
 ert, 2 
 
 Fitzharding, Eva, wife of Robert, 
 8,15 
 
 Fitzharding, Helyas, bro. of Robert, 
 6, 8, n 
 
 Fitzharding, Henry son of Robert, 
 *' Decanus Moreton," 2, IC, 15 
 
 Fitzharding, Hugh bro. of Robert v. 
 Hasele, Hugh 
 
 Fitzharding, Jordan bro. of Robert, 
 2, 6, II 
 
 Fitzharding, Jordan nephew of Rob- 
 ert, 2 
 
 Fitzharding, Maurice son of Robert, 
 V. Berkeley, Maurice I., Lord 
 
 Fitzharding, Nicholas, son of Robert, 
 
 6, 8, 13, 14, 27 
 
 Fitzharding, Nigel husband of Ald- 
 ena, dau. of Robert, 7, 8, 9, 10 
 
 Fitzharding, Robert, i, 2, 4-9, 14, 
 18, 21,23, 29, 40,290,292. Introd. 
 
 Fitzharding, Robert son of Robert, 
 
 7, 8, 15, 22, 40, 52, 70 ; V. also 
 Were Robert de 
 
 Fitzherbert, John, 263 
 
 Fitznicol, Thomas, 180, 182 
 
 Fitzwalter, Barons, pedigree of, 297 
 
 Flaumbard, Adam, 96, 107, 130 
 
 Fleetwood, William, Sergeant-at- 
 Law, 237 
 
 Fleg, Henry de, 109 
 
 Flemeng, John le, 106 
 
 Fleming, Thomas, 230 
 
 Flemesburg, William de, 45, 88 
 
 Fletewood, Jane w. of William, 239 
 
 Fletewood, Sir William, 239, 243 
 
 Flewed, Raynold, of Calais, 200 
 
 Flexbire, Robert de, in 
 
 Fludde, William, pirate, 229 
 
 Foderingeye, Rog. de, Clerk, 124 
 
 Folcellis, William de, 8 
 
 Folevile, Felevill, Ralph de, 88, 89 
 
 Folevile, William de, 90 
 
 Foliot, Henry, 36, 40, 44, 122 
 
 Foliot, Ralph, 44 
 
 Foliot, Richard, 8, 10 
 
 Foliot, Roger, 40 
 
 Foliot, Dom, Sampson, 105, 117, 
 
 132, 271 
 Foliot, Walter, 40 
 Foliot, William, of Dodinton, 124 
 Folkeswrthe, John de, 134 
 Folyot, V. Foliot 
 Forde, Simon de, 115, 139, 141 
 Forestarius, Gamel, 63 
 Forestarius, Gilbert, 118 
 Forestarius, Walter, 112 
 Forester, Brian, of Whatton, 88 
 Forlang, al. Furlang, 7 
 Forster, Richard, 193 
 
 Forster, Thomas, Burgess of Bristol, 
 
 179 
 Fortccumba, Nicholas de, 67 
 Fortescue, John, Under Treasurer of 
 
 the Exchequer, 235 
 Forwude, John de, 116 
 Fossato, Roger de, 46 
 Fosse, Roger de, 19 
 Foster, Edmund, 240 
 Foster, Sir John, 224, 225 
 Foster, Thomas, 229, 235 
 Fotour, John, of Butley, 256 
 Fountayne, Arthur, 224 
 Fox, Stephen, 326 
 Fox cote, Thomas de, 46 
 Foxlega, John de, 109 
 
404 
 
 Index. 
 
 France, King of, Charles IV. , 277 « 
 Franceis, Fraunceis, Peter le, 52, 
 
 125 
 Franceis, Robert, 65 
 Frances, John le, 70 
 Francis, Ralph, 12 
 Francis, Thomas, 70 
 Francois, Robert le, 21 
 Frankel', Frankelan Henry, 1 10, 121 
 Frankelan, Jacobus, of Uffington, 
 
 63 
 Frankelan, John, iii 
 Frankelan, John, of Childrey, 67 
 Frankelan, Thomas le, 105 
 Frankelan, Walter, of Driffield, 118 
 it'rank'elan, William, 108 
 Frankelayn, Matilda, w. of Rob. le, 
 
 of Bagpath, 119 
 
 Frankelein, John, of Cerney, 118, 
 140 
 
 Frankelein, Ribert de, of Uffington, 
 1 1-5 
 
 Fraser, Christina, d. of Bernard, 
 wid. of R. de Mubray, Knt., 138 
 
 Fraser, Simon, 138 
 
 Fraser, Sir Simon, General of the 
 
 Scotch Forces, 151 
 Fraunceis, v. Franceis 
 Frauncesson, Tho. , of Berkeley, 288 
 Fraunceys, Dom John, Chaplain, 162 
 Freland, John, 277 
 Freman, Walter, 127 
 Fremelade, Simon de, 149 
 French, Thomas, 189 
 Frenelod, Walter de, 1 13 
 Friendai, Ralph, 12 
 Friville, Dom. James de, 138 
 Frome, Richard de, 166 
 Fromelode, Walter de, 1 14 
 Frompton, William de, 20 
 Fromtun, Walter de, 78 
 Fromturia, William de, 20 
 Fronte, Robert, 8 
 Fryer, Robert, 257 
 
 Fucher, Robert, 127 
 
 Fuelere, Adam le, 51 
 
 Fulco, Clericus de Lisur', 53 
 
 Furlang, v. Forlang 
 
 Furnellis, Alan de, 7, 8 
 
 Furner, John le, 106 
 
 Furneys, Thomas de, of Raunds, 98 
 
 Fust, Sir John, Bart., 262 
 
 I'Utton, Richard de, 114 
 
 Futur, Geoffrey le, 46 
 
 Fyggett, Martin, of Walberswick, 225 
 
 Fynes, Edward, Lord Clinton and 
 Saye, 212 
 
 G 
 
 /^^ADECOMBE v. Gatcombe 
 
 Gamach, Giles, 63 
 
 Gamach, Henry, 63 
 
 Gamach, Matthew, 63 
 
 Gamach, Peter, 63 
 
 Gamach, Richard, 63 
 
 Gamach, William, 63 
 
 Gamel, forestarius, 63 
 
 Gansel, Ralph, 56 
 
 Gansel, Randolf, 11 
 
 Gansel, Robert, 13 
 
 Gant, Henry de, 22 
 
 Gant, Hugh de, 22 
 
 Gant, Maurice de, 21, 40, 59, 78, 
 80, 92 
 
 Gantor, Roger son of Walter, 106 
 
 Cantor, Walter, of Newport, 106 
 
 Gardiner, Henry le, 151 
 
 Gardiner, Isabel w. of Henry le, 151 
 
 Gardiner, Rob., Bailiff of Bristol, 176 
 
 Gardiner, Robert son of Ralph le, 154 
 
 Gardinir, Warin le, 105 
 
 Gardinis, Thomas de. Sheriff of 
 Gloucester, 152 
 
 Gardyner, John, of Stowmarket, 228 
 
 Gargatte, Peter, 70 
 
Index. 
 
 405 
 
 Garlott, Oliver, of Morbian, 232 
 Garnun, Ranulph, 35 
 
 Garston, Richard, Mayor of Oxford, 
 178 
 
 Gascelyn, Geoffrey de, 166 
 
 Gascon aU Gascoigne, Bernard, 342 
 
 Gatcombe, John, an outlaw, 167 
 
 Gathurde, Walter de, 83 
 
 Gathurde, William le, 51 
 
 Gaufridus, capellanus, 10 
 
 Gaugy, William de, 90 
 
 Gawdye, Sir Thomas, Justiceof Com- 
 mon Pleas, 228 
 
 Gaynore, Philip le, 121 
 
 Geoffrey, Abbot of Croxton, loi 
 
 Geoffrey, Prior of Thornholm, 79 
 
 Geoffrey, chaplain, 64 
 
 Geoffrey, clerk of Deerhurst, 84, 109 
 
 Geoffrey, clerk, 50 
 
 Geoffrey, serviens, 74 
 
 Geoffrey, son of Alured, 39 
 
 Geoffrey, son of Eda, 67 
 
 Geoffrey, son of Peter, 19, 23 
 
 Geoffrey fil. Sabilie, 119 
 
 Geraud, William, 66 
 
 Geremund ad-capud-pontis, 17 
 
 Gerinus, parson of Wotton, 10 
 
 Germaine, Lady Eliz., 306 
 
 Gessich, Gessit, Gessiz, Gissic, Gis- 
 sih, Gissith, Robert de, 70, 97, 
 105, 115, 141 
 
 Gessit, Juliana w. of Rob. de, 70 
 
 Giffard, Elyas, 15, 59, 63 
 
 Giffard, Sir Gilbert, 265 
 
 Giffard, Godfrey, Bishop of Worces- 
 ter, 
 Giffard, Dom. John, son of Osbert, 
 
 131 
 Giffard, John, of Brunnesfeld, Knt., 
 132 
 
 Giffard, Dom. John, 147 
 GifiFard, Lucy wife of Osbert, 59 
 Giffard, Osbert, nephew of Th. de 
 
 Berkeley, 40, 59, 68 
 GiJQTard, Osbert, Knt., 132 
 
 Giffard, Walter, 36 
 Giffard, William, 273 
 Gilbert, chaplain of Slimbridge, 25 
 Gilbert, chaplain, 38 
 Gilbert, presbyter de Nibley, 119 
 Gilbert, son of Eddriz, 1 1 
 Gilbert, son of Gerard, 17 
 Gilbert, son of Henry, 51 
 Gilbert, son of Herebert, 68 
 Gilbert, son of Osbert, 32 
 Gilbert, son of Osmund, 29, 30, 57 
 Gilbert, son of Picot, 20 
 Gilda, 58 
 Gille, William, 46 
 Giosyth, Robert de, 105 
 Gippton, Rob. son of Thomas de, 122 
 Girard, son of Rich. Faber, 25 
 Gissic, Gissih, Gissith, v. Gessich 
 Glanvile, Hosbert de, 127 
 Glastonia, Master Stephen de, War- 
 den of King's Barton, 66 
 Glencairne, Earl of, v. Cunningham 
 Glint', Ralph de, 29 
 Glint', Roger de, 29 
 Gloucester, Earl of, v. Clare 
 Gloucester, Henry son of Milo de, 26 
 
 Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 
 184, 189 
 
 Gloucester, Milo of, 8 n. 
 
 Gloucester, Robert, ist Earl of, 6 
 
 Gloucester, William, 2nd Earl of, 
 II, 21 
 
 Gloucestre, Aumfelisia dau. of John, 
 
 son of Osbert de, 46 
 
 Gloucestre, Master Robert de, 36 
 
 Glovare, Richard le, 120 
 
 Gnoweshalla, Richard de, 14 
 
 Gobald, Wydo, 134 
 
 Gobi, Adam, 133 
 
 Gocelin, 68 
 
 Goda, son of Aceman, 20 
 
 Godard, John, Bailiff of Bristol, 190 
 
 Goddard, Richard, 231 
 
4o6 
 
 Index. 
 
 Godesten, Master John de, 31 
 Godfrey, Master, 56 
 Godwin, 34 
 Golafre, John, 174 
 Golde, William le, 147, 243, 276 
 Goldfre, William, 142 
 Goldhoppe, Thomas, 166 
 Goldingham, Hugh de, 32, 92 
 Goldmere, Walter, 164, 170, 177, 
 
 181 
 Golofre, William de, 141 
 Golye, William, 120 
 GopeshuU, John de, 67 
 Gorges, Ralph de, 272 
 Gorges, Theobald de, Knl., 272 
 Gosediches, John de, 50 
 Gosee, Peter de, 68 
 Gosinton, John de, 45 
 Gosinton, Gosintune, Reginald de, 
 
 25, 31. 38, 57, 66, 121, 137 
 Gosintunia, Engebald de, 6 
 Gosselyn, John, Bailiff of Bristol, 185 
 Gosynton, John s. and h. of Roger 
 
 de, 160 
 Gosynton, Roger de, 153 
 Gosynton, Walter de, 153 
 Gournay, Thomas de, 274 n 
 
 Gourne, de^ [1327] 274 
 
 Gowrie, Earl of, v. Ruthven 
 
 Graitton, Guillaume de, Chev. 169 
 
 Gramaticus, William, 34 
 
 Grant, Adam le, 41 
 
 Grassus, William, 126 
 
 Grave, Robert de la, 16 
 
 Gray, Patrick, Master of Gray, 332, 
 
 333 
 Gray, Tho., Marquis of Dorset, 252 
 Gregory, 15 
 
 Greinton, Jordan de, 23 
 Grendon, Ralph de, 119 
 Grene, Hugh dela, of Prestwood, 131 
 Grene, John de la, loi 
 
 Grene, Richard, Yeoman, 201 
 Grene, Robert, Keeper of Berkeley 
 
 Park, 280 
 Greneby, Henry de, 119 
 Gresham, Thomas, 215 
 Gresham, Paul, 215 
 Greuel, Richard, Bailiff of Hurst 
 
 and Slimbridge, 277 
 Grevell, John, Esquire, 182 
 Grey, Arthur, Lord Grey de Wilton, 
 
 237 
 Greyndour, Robert, 182 
 Greynvil, Bartholomew, 273 
 Griffin, son of Reginald, 26 
 Grimescote, Richard de, iii 
 Grimeston, Gerard de, 16 
 Grimeston, Robert de, 89 
 Grip, Gryip, Walter le, 138-140 
 Gris, Walter son of William, 117 
 Gros, Bertram le, 40, 98 
 Grout, Henry, 126 
 Grun, Ralph, 87 
 Gryip, v. Grip 
 Guboud, John, 54 
 Guderintona, Henry de, 139 
 Guido, Prior of Southwick, 37 
 Guldene, Lord Eustace le, 113 
 Guldene, William le, 113 
 Gule, Hugh, 93 
 Gule, Osbert, 8 
 Gule, Ralph, 119 
 Guniges, William de, 61 
 Gurmendele, Gurmundel, Gurmunde- 
 
 ley, Robert de, 103, 104, 128 
 Gurmerevile, Nicholas de, 123 
 Gurnay, Dom. Robert de, 78 
 Gy, Dom. Imbert, frater, 146 
 Gyffard, v. Giffard 
 Gyffbrd, John, 191 
 Gymilles, Robert de, 134 
 Gynpthona, John de, 123 
 Gyttyn, Robert, 210 
 
Index. 
 
 407 
 
 H 
 
 
 Haraut, Robert, no 
 
 TT TT A vy^Tt ^ An^.^t-t *-vf /^rtT^f^ll■ 
 
 Harbert, Sir Watar, "'. Herbert 
 
 n bury, 23 
 
 
 Hardewine, Henry, 118 
 
 H , Prior of Keynsham, 58 
 
 
 Harding, Kingof Denmark, 291, /tUro. 
 
 Habraham, John, 106 
 
 
 Harding, Robert, 44 
 
 Hachmere, Henry de, 121 
 
 
 Hardredeshull, Robert de, 54 
 
 Hackere, Robert le, 115 
 
 
 Hardredeshulla, William de, Sheriff 
 
 Hagelega, William de, 28 
 
 
 of Leicester, 32, 86 
 
 Haggele, Roger de, 66 
 
 
 Hareng, Ralph, Justice, 56 
 
 Haia, Peter de, 13 
 
 
 Harewell, John, 182 
 
 Haidon, Thomas de, Justice, 60 
 
 
 Harewy, Peter, 116 
 
 Haie, William de la, 89 
 
 
 Harold, Robert, 127 
 
 Hakkere, Robert, 70, 126 
 
 
 Harrington, John, 283 
 
 Hale, Sire Frank de, chev,, 168 
 
 
 Harssefelde, Richard de, 284 
 
 Hale, William, son of Alan de, i 
 
 24 
 
 Harward, Eleanor, wid. of Clement, 
 
 Hales, Alan de, 96 
 
 
 233 
 
 Hales, John, Bishop of Coventry 
 
 Harweturt, Robert de, 30 
 
 and Lichfield, 192 
 
 
 Haryng, Ranulf, 53 
 
 Hales, Katharine de, 1$^ 
 
 
 Hasculf, son of Peter, 89 
 
 Hales, Robert de. Seneschal 
 
 of 
 
 Hasele, Hugh de, brother of Robert 
 
 Berkeley, 94-96, 138 
 
 
 Fitzharding, 5, 6 
 
 Hallen, family of, 168 m. 
 
 
 Hastede, William de, 49 
 
 Hallen, Rev, A. W. C, 168 «. 
 
 
 Hasting, Philip de, 48 
 
 Hallkesock, Thomas, chaplain, i 
 
 90 
 
 Hastinges, Manasser de, 64 
 
 Halmere, Richard de, 117 
 
 
 Hastings, de, 42 
 
 Hambroc, Eliot de, 26 
 
 
 Hastings, Henr)', Earl of Hunting- 
 
 Hame, Hamm, Hamme, Adam 
 
 de 
 
 don, 226, 296 
 
 la, 47, 78, 100, 139 
 
 
 Hastings, Katharine, wife of Henry, 
 
 Hamo, clerk, 48, 49 
 
 
 Earl of Huntingdon, 296 
 
 Hamo, serviens, 11 
 
 
 Hastings, Will., Lord Hastings, 272 
 
 Hampton, John de, 155, 159 
 
 
 Hasweia, William de, 26 
 
 Hamslape, John son of John de, i 
 
 20 
 
 Hathmere, Henry, son of Walter, 115 
 
 Hanketin, William, 119 
 
 
 Hathmere, Hathemere, Walter, of 
 
 Hannys, John, Alderman of Holy 
 
 Cam, 40, 115 
 
 Cross Guild, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 
 Hathulf, Adam, 129 
 
 184 
 
 
 Hatton, Sir William, 236 
 
 Hanselin, W'illiam, 44 
 
 
 Hautain, Monsieur de, 330 
 
 Hanstede, Robert de, 128 
 
 
 Hauvill, Stephen de, 124 
 
 Hanum, Richard de, 2 
 
 
 Hauberton, Philip de, 56 
 
 Hanum, Robert de, 8, 20, 21, 
 64, 70 
 
 Hanum, William de, 12 
 
 42, 
 
 Hauberton, Richard de, 56 
 
 
 Hauetford, Robert de, Knt., 139 
 
 Hapulf, Adam, 146 
 
 
 Haueton, Eudo de, 131 
 
 Haranc, Harang, Dom. Henry, 98, 
 
 Haughton v. Houghton 
 
 103, 104 
 
 
 Haukeford, William, Knt., 181 
 
408 
 
 Index. 
 
 Haukere, Roger son of Peter le 
 
 ,of 
 
 Helyun, Walter de, 148 
 
 Kegworth, 128 
 
 
 TIemington, Richard de, 134 
 
 Haumerie, William de, 39 
 
 
 Heminton, Roger de, 49 
 
 Hausted, Roger de, 73, 103, 117 
 
 
 Hendun, Gilbert de, 80 
 
 Hausted, William de, 76 
 
 
 Henle, Robert de, 106 
 
 Haveryng, Dom. Richard, Knt., 
 
 174 
 
 Henle, Thomas de, 106 
 
 Haward, John, Knt., 189 
 
 
 Hennage, Sir Thomas, 212, 235 
 
 Hawford, Edward, Parson of Keg- 
 
 Henry, Bishop of Lincoln, 157 
 
 worth, 229 
 
 
 H [enry de Soilly], Bp. of Worces- 
 
 Hawkesbury, Lord, v. Jenkinson 
 
 
 ter, 19 
 
 Hawlis, John, 193 
 
 
 Henry, Dean of Bristol, 33 
 
 Hay, Dom. William de, 98 
 
 
 Henry, Dean of Moreton, 10 
 
 Haya, Robert de, 67 
 
 
 Henry, Dean of Portbury, 138 
 
 Haye, Robert de la, 91 
 
 
 Henry, Archdeacon of Exeter, 15 
 
 Haye, Walter de la, 147 
 
 
 Henry, the Treasurer, 4 
 
 Hayrun, Philip de, 120 
 
 
 Henry, Prior of Longbridge, 137 
 
 Haysford, William de, 31 
 
 
 Henry, the chaplain, 30, 32, 36, 38, 
 
 Haytherleye, Philip de, 66 
 
 
 56, 59, 99. 112 
 
 Hayward, George s. of Sir Rowland, 
 
 Henry, Chaplain of Berkeley, 33, 34 
 
 238 
 Hayward, Kath., widow of 
 Rowland, 238 
 
 Sir 
 
 Henry, Chaplain of S. Newington, 29 
 
 
 Henry, the clerk, 48, 87 
 
 Hayward, Richard son of Robert 
 
 Henry, Clerk of Berkeley, 31 
 
 le, 164 
 
 
 Henry, Clerk of Bradley, 47, 83, 84 
 
 Hayward, Robert le, 160 
 
 
 Henry, Clerk of Merston, 48 
 
 Hayward, Rob. son of Robert le. 
 
 164 
 
 Henry, Clerk of Segrave, 48 
 
 Heathfield, Jane, of Bevington, 
 
 287 
 
 Henry, Scriptor, of Bradley, 55 
 
 Hechewicha v. Echewicha 
 
 
 Henry, son of Adam, Chaplain of 
 
 Hecun, Jordan de, 65 
 
 
 Coaley, 52 
 
 Hegge, Gilbert de, 37 
 
 
 Henry, son of Bernard, 108 
 
 Heia, Robert son of Robert, 
 
 of 
 
 Henry, son of Geofirey, 77 
 
 Humfresham, 128 
 
 
 Henry, son of Harketil, 17 
 
 Heketon, John de, 59 
 
 
 Henry, son of Hervey, 34 
 
 Helena, John de la, 54 
 
 
 Henry, son of Lioff'us, 28 
 
 Helenes, John de, Introd. 
 
 
 Henry, son of Nicholas, son of Rob. 
 
 Helyas, 59 
 
 
 Fitzharding, 27 
 
 Helyas, Camberarius, 1 1 
 
 
 Henry, son of Thomas, 49 
 
 Helyas, Chaplain of Wick, 28 
 
 
 Henry, son of Waleran, 17 
 
 Helyas, son of Bernard, 8 
 
 
 Herbert, Camerarius, 8 
 
 Helyas, son of Durand, Canon of 
 
 Herbert, son of Roger, 16 
 
 Hereford, 57, 58 
 
 
 Herbert, Henry, 2nd Earl of Pem- 
 
 Helyas, son of Hugh the clerk, 2 
 
 5 
 
 broke, 334 
 
 Helyas, son of Harding, bro. of R. 
 
 Herbert, Marga et, d.of Will., ist 
 
 Fitzharding, 6, 8, 10, 11 
 
 
 Earl of Pembroke, 193 
 
 Helyun, Geoffrey de, 72 
 
 
 Herbert, Sir Walter, 300J 
 
Index. 
 
 409 
 
 Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, 
 
 328, 339 
 Herde, Robert le, 96, 100, 107, no, 
 
 113. 116, 133 
 Herdebi, Odinel de, 82 
 Herebert, Master, 19 
 Herebert, no 
 
 Hereford, Roger, Earl of, 4, 6 
 Hereford, Earl of, v. Bohun 
 Heres, Roger, 42, 50 
 Herevicus, 20 
 Herevile, Ralph de, 46 
 Herlega, Master Reginald de, 28 
 Herleston, William de, clerk, 166 
 Herman, John, 109 
 Herman, Ralph, 55 
 Heron, Gerard, Knt. , 178 
 
 Hersin, Malvesin de, Senescallus 
 Alicie comitiase Augy, 36 
 
 Herteshorn, Geofl'rey de, 112 
 
 Herteshorn, Walter, son of Geoffrey 
 
 de, 112 
 Hertford, Earl of, v. Clare 
 Hesketh, Richard, Jesuit, 334 «, 
 Hesla, Hugh de, 7 
 Hethe, Roger de la, 28 
 Heuthlingburg, Eustace de, 98 
 Hewyk, Nicholas de, Knt., 158 
 Hexill, William, 256 
 Heyberare, William, 176 
 Heydon, John, 191 
 
 Heydon, Sir William, of Bacons- 
 thorpe, 233 
 
 Heywarde, John le, 124 
 
 Hickes, Baptiste, 242 
 
 Hiclong, Gervase de, 16 
 
 Hida, William de, 78, 121 
 
 Hill, Richard, 329 
 
 Hilton, Sir William, 224 
 
 Hineton, Rob. son of Walter de, 59 
 
 Hinetun, Robert de, 28 
 
 Hinton, Richard de, 42 
 
 Hobart, James, 190 
 
 Hobi, Hoby, Alan de, 87, 122 
 
 Hocton, Gilbert de, 41 
 
 Hocton, Will, son of Jordan de, 41 
 
 Hoddeng, Hodeng, John de, 40, 77 
 
 Hoilande, Reginald de, 31, 62 
 
 Hoilonde, R de, 53 
 
 Holanda, Adam de, 65 
 
 Holdelonde, Geoffrey de, 63 
 
 Holdelonde, Martin de, 64 
 
 Holepenne, Simon de, 4$ 
 
 Holeweie, Stephen de, 99 
 
 Holkham, Thomas son of Ralph 
 de, 32 
 
 Holt, Willinm de. Coroner for co. 
 Gloucester, 153 
 
 Homa, Hum, Roger de, 12 
 
 Home, Adam de la, 84 
 
 Home, William de la, 121 
 
 Honinton, Roger de, 49 
 
 Honywood, Michael, 248 
 
 Hopcrone, John, 256 
 
 Hope, Adam de la, 119 
 
 Hore, Adam de, 47 
 
 Hore, Adam le, of East Challow, 
 67, III 
 
 Hore, Alex, le, 120, 148 
 
 Hore, John le, I2i 
 
 Horon, Walter de, 120 
 
 Horsford, Walter de, 102 
 
 Horton, Will, de, 124 
 
 Hosatus, Henry, 6 
 
 Hosatus, Walter, 8 
 
 Hospicio, Adam de, 43 
 
 Hoth, Walter, 102 
 
 Hotoft, Hamo de, 12 
 
 Houbi, Gilbert de, 17 
 
 Houbi, Henry de, 88 
 
 Houbi, William de, 32 
 
 Houbi, William son of Henry de, 
 
 39,88 
 Houby, Richard de, 129 
 Houghton, Sir Gilbert, 246 
 
 Houghton, Margaret wife of Sir Gil- 
 bert, 246 
 
 Houton, Elyas de, 119 
 
4IO 
 
 Index. 
 
 Hoveden, Roger de, 3 n. 
 
 Howard, Charles, Lord Howard, of 
 Effingham, 230, 232, 237, 322, 
 335 
 
 Howard, Henry, 7th Earl of North- 
 ampton, 260, 263, 338 
 
 Howard, Katharine, dau. of Thomas, 
 Duke of Norfolk, w. of Thos. 
 Berkeley, 208 
 
 Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel 
 and Surrey, 340 
 
 Howard, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 
 208, 212, 328 
 
 Howard, Thos., Earl of Suffolk, 339 
 
 Howard, Thos. , Earl of Surrey, 300 
 
 Howard, Hon. William, 339 
 
 Howelle, Hugh de, 80 
 
 Howt, John de, 127 
 
 Howt, John son of John de, 127 
 
 Hua, Reginald de, 12 
 
 Hubert, dapifer, 11 
 
 Hubert, Master, official of the Bishop 
 
 of Worcester, 82, no 
 
 Hugh, Bishop of Chester, 18, 23 
 
 Hugh, Abbot of Abingdon, 54 
 
 Hugh, Abbot of Chester, 53 
 
 Hugh, Abbot of Hayles, 149 
 
 Hugh, chaplain, 11, 29, 32 
 
 Hugh.capellanus monialium de Lang- 
 ley, 48 
 
 Hugh, capellanus de Lorilinga, 60 
 
 Hugh, clerk, 25, 123 
 
 Hugh, clerk of Croxton, 67, 114 
 
 Hugh, Dispensator, 69, 72 
 
 Hugh, Master, 12 
 
 Hugh, Infans, 67 
 
 Hugh, Parvus, 24 
 
 Hugh, servant of Warin fil. Geroldi, 
 66 
 
 Hugh, 57 
 
 Hugh, fil. Aky, 65 
 
 Hugh, son of Martin, 122 
 
 Hugh, son of Ric. son of Suetric, 35 
 
 Hugh, son of Will, son of Alan, 128 
 
 Hull, Robert son of John, Knt., 181 
 
 Hull, Robert son of Robert, 181 
 
 Hulle, Adam athe. 85 
 
 Hulle Hugh and Sara, 124 
 
 Hulle, Nich. s. of Ralph, Dominus 
 de, 102 
 
 Hulle, Nicholas, 176 
 
 Hulle, Richard de la, 42 
 
 Hulle, William de, 25, 109 
 
 Hum, Roger de, v. Home 
 
 Humberstan, Alan de, 67 
 
 Humberstan, Robert de, 88 
 
 Humet, Humeto, John de, 64, 88 
 
 Humez, Hummaz, Richard de, con- 
 stabularius, 2, 4, 7 
 
 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, v. 
 Gloucester 
 
 Humphrey, chaplain, 26 
 
 Hunde, Robert le, 105 
 
 Hunedene, Henry de, 119 
 
 Hungerford, family of, 318 
 
 Hungerford, Edmund and Johanna, 
 194 
 
 Hungerford, Marie, Lady, 207 
 
 Hungerford, Walter, Knt., 181 
 
 Hunsdon, Lord, v. Carey 
 
 Hunte, Isabel dau. of Hugh le, 254 
 
 Hunteneford, Harding de, 31, 32, 
 
 35. 57. 60, 66, 108, 109 
 Huntingdon, Earls of, v. Clinton ; 
 
 Hastings ; Scocia, J. de 
 
 Huntley, family of, 318 
 Huntley, Anthony, 281 
 Huntley, Sir George, Sheriff of 
 
 Gloucester, 328, 330, 338 
 Hurde, Robert son of William, 92 
 Hurde, Roger le, 140 
 Hurde, William, 92 
 Hurel, William, 44 
 Hurne, Thomas, 282 
 Hurward, Will., 273 
 Huscale, Thomas, 40 
 Huthlae, Thomas le, of Wotton, 120 
 Hutton, John, Mayor of Bristol, 292 
 Hvelega, Ralph de, 6 
 
Index. 
 
 411 
 
 Hwineband, Nicholas, no 
 
 Jenkynson, Hugh, Chantry Priest in 
 
 Hyda, William de, 1 10 
 
 St. Mary Redclifife, 210 
 
 Ilyde, Edw., ist Earl of Clarendon, 
 
 Jocelin, Gilbert, 66 
 
 342 
 
 Jocelyn, Richard, 303 
 
 Hyde, John de la, 122 
 
 John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 175 
 
 Hyleberd, Philip, 53 
 
 John, Bishop of Oxford, 247 
 
 Hyll, Henry, Warden of the Friars 
 
 John, Bishop of Jerusalem, 155 
 
 Minors in Gloucester, 208 
 
 John, Abbot of Bristol, late 1 2th 
 
 
 cent., 25 
 
 1 
 
 John, Abbot of Bristol, t. John, 38 
 
 
 John, Abbot of Bristol, [1278], 146 
 John, Abbot of Bristol [1337], 159 
 
 TDA, ux. Domini [de Wick], 28 
 
 Infirmitorio, Roger de, of Croxton, 
 
 John, Abbot of Kingswood, 91 
 
 50, 101, 114, 123 
 
 John, Abbot of Westminster, 200 
 
 Ingepenne, Henry, 179 
 
 John, Prior of Swavesey, 37 
 
 Inglose, Henry, Knt., 186 
 
 John, Prior of Worcester, 164 
 
 Ingoldsby, Brigadier Richard, Gov- 
 
 John, Vicar of Stratton, Hi 
 
 ernor of Limerick, 251 
 
 John, chaplain, 33, 47, 112 
 
 Ingpam, Oliver de, 157 
 
 John, Dominus de Rodmertun, 127 
 
 Insula, de, v. Lisle 
 
 John, marescallus, 23 
 
 Ireland, Thomas, 245 
 
 John, clericus de Draiton, 55 
 
 Irencestre, Dom. Richard, 98 
 
 John, clericus de Estbrenca, 23 
 
 Isle, del V. Lisle 
 
 John, clerk, 130 
 
 Issoudun, Raoul de Lusignan d', 35 
 
 John, constable of Berkeley Castle. 
 
 Ithell, Geoffrey, 223 
 
 280 
 
 Ivo, Camerarius, 44 
 
 John, monk of Kingswood, 100 
 
 Ivo, son of Alexander, 39 
 
 John, dictus Monachus, 97 
 
 Iwele, Walter de, 13 
 
 John, the falconer, 277 
 
 Iweleia, Peter de, 59 
 
 John, Juvenis, of Dunstable, 97 
 
 Iweyn, Nicholas, 151 
 
 John, son of Adam Wallensis, 74 
 
 
 John, son of Eadmund, 70 
 
 J 
 
 John, son of Fulk, 16 
 
 «# 
 
 John, son of Geoffrey, 79, 97, m. 
 
 T , Chamberlain of Bristol 
 
 J Abbey, 37 
 
 133 
 
 John, son of Gilbert, the clerk, 82 
 
 Jacob Ben Rab Moses, 139 
 
 John, son of Gilbert, 104 
 
 Jakemones, Jakemonus, Walter, 124, 
 164 
 
 John, son of Hugh, 86 
 
 James, son of Dolfin in-Woldrop, 59 
 
 John, fil. Joh. Episcopi, 22 
 
 Janes, John, 164 
 
 John, fil. Loue, 121 
 
 Janitor, Ranulph, 120 
 
 John, son of Osbert, 50 
 
 Janitor, Thomas, 32 
 
 John, son of Pain or Pagan, 68, 72 
 
 Jenkinson, Robert Banks, Lord 
 
 John, son of Philip, 75, 79 
 
 Hawkesbury, 2nd Earl of Liver- 
 
 John, son of Reginald, Lord of Blayn- 
 
 pool, 343. 344 
 
 leuenyrs and Bulthdynas, 149 
 
412 
 
 Index. 
 
 John, son of Robert Nepos de Osle- 
 worth, 42 
 
 John, son of Symon, 41 
 
 John, son of Thomas, 147 
 
 Johnes, Richard, of Abergwilie, 227 
 
 Johnson, Robert son of John, 239 
 
 Joie, Joye, Robert, 20, 42, 64, 70, 
 109 
 
 Jones, Charles, pirate, 229 
 
 Jordan, chaplain, 41 
 
 Jordan, Master, 19 
 
 Jordan, son of Harding, 1 1 
 
 Jordan, fil. Joh. Episcopi de Bristol, 
 22 
 
 Jordan, son of Nich., son of Rob. 
 Fitzharding, 27 
 
 Jordan, brother of Robert Fitzharding 
 V. Fitzharding 
 
 Jordan, nephew of Rob. Fitzharding 
 V. Fitzharding 
 
 Jort, Stephen de, de Wymundewel, 
 128 
 
 Jorz, Ranulf de, 86 
 
 Josbert, Prior of Coventry, 32 
 
 Joseph, Sacerdos, 39 
 
 Jowas, Ralph, 120 
 
 Joye, Nicholas, tailor, 112 
 
 K 
 
 IV'ACCHEMERE, Richard de, 97 
 
 Kacchemere, Roysia, wife of Richard 
 de, 97 
 
 Kadifer, Richard son of Walter, 46, 
 
 50. 102 
 Kadifer, Walter, of Gloucester, 102 
 
 Kagword, Kagwrth, Kagwurde, 
 Kegwrth 
 
 Kagwrth, Henry de, 49 
 Kagwurde, Ralph de, clerk, 49 
 Kegwrth, Rich, de, clerk, 48, 49, 
 
 54, 62 
 Kagword, Rob. son of Ivo de, 128 
 Kegwrth, Yvo de, 73 
 Kanebir', Walter de. 
 
 Kaninges, John, Bailiff of Bristol, 176 
 
 Kareles, William, 51 
 
 Kavel, William, 118 
 
 Kaynes, Dom. William de, 140 
 
 Kaythorp, Herbert de, 45 
 
 Kegwrth v. Kagword 
 
 Kemesoc. Henry de, 72 
 
 Kemeys, John, 185 
 
 Kemeys, Roger son of Thos., 273 
 
 Kemmis, Col. W., 289 
 
 Kemmys, Arthur, 213 
 
 Kemys family, 318 
 
 Kemys, Roger, Antiquary, 289 
 
 Ken, Agacia d. of Rob. son of Ric, 
 w. of John de, 73 
 
 Ken, John de, 73 
 
 Ken, Simon de, 41 
 
 Kendale, Thomas, 182 
 
 Kendale, William, 267 
 
 Kendall, George, 268 
 
 Kent, Earl of, v. Burgo, Hubert de 
 
 Kentes , William, Vicar of Ar- 
 
 lingham, 181 
 Key, William, 66 
 Kide, Robert, 45 
 
 Kilkenny, Master William de. Arch- 
 deacon of Coventry, 131 
 
 Kilseayt, Kilsyth, Mons. de, v. Liv- 
 ingstone 
 Kima, Philip de, 53 
 
 King, Ralphe, of London, grocer, 229 
 
 King', Nicholas de, 37 
 
 Kintjescote, Dom. Adam, son of 
 Nigel de, 84 
 
 Kingescote, Nigel de, 70, 73, 84, 
 121, 275, 277 
 
 Kingescote, William de, Canon of 
 Hereford and Wells, 150 
 
 Kingeston, Alice de, 95 
 Kingestone, John de, Knt., 130, 153 
 Kingestone, Nicholas de, Knt., 151 
 Kingestone, Nigel de, 277 
 Kingestone, Dom. Robert de, 73, 
 
 95. 136, 137 
 Kingestone, Will, de, clerk, 121 
 
Index. 
 
 4-13 
 
 Kingestone, Sir William, 207, 320, 
 
 327 
 Kingestun, William de, 106 
 Kingestune, William de, 25 
 Kingswood, Nicholas de, 55, 73, 
 
 108, 109 
 Kington, Walter de, 71 
 Kington, William de, 71, 86 
 Kinton, Kynton, Philip de, 48, 62, 72 
 Kinton, Kynton, Richard de, 46, 86 
 Kirkebi, Norman de, 19 
 Knappe, Thomas, Bailiff of Bristol, 
 
 292 
 Kneye, Elyas, of Cnipton, lOl 
 Knight, Robert, Vicar of Wotton, 213 
 Kniteton, Knitheton, Knittinton, Pa- 
 gan dc, 105, 114, 115, 123 
 Knitheton, Yvo, son of Pagan de, 114 
 Knittinton v. Kniteton 
 Knolles, Thomas, citizen of London, 
 
 182 
 Knollys, Sir Francis, 329 
 Knyvet. John de Sudewic, 124 
 Kolecumbe, Mauger de, 118 
 Kouele, Richard de, 59 
 Kramprich, Johan, 343 
 Kuneston, William de, 76 
 Kurzun, Dom. Richard de, 140 
 Kymba, Simon de, 54 
 Kjmiorley al. Cooke, William, 244 
 Kynge, John, Steward of Stratford- 
 on-Avon Manor, 281 
 
 Kynge, Juliana, wife of Maurice, 189 
 
 Kyn^e, Maurice, porter at Berkeley 
 Castle, 189 
 
 Kyngescot v. Kingescote 
 Kyngeston, Kyngestun, v. Kinges- 
 tone 
 Kynggescute v. Kinge?cote 
 Kyngwest, Robert, 272 
 Kynton v. Kinton 
 Kyrkestede, John, 256 
 Kyssamensis, Symon, 170 
 Kyle, Solomon, 86 
 Kywestoc, Walter de, 23 
 
 LABANC, Bartholomew, 51, 71, 
 78, 81, 83 
 
 Laci, John de, Earl of Lincoln, 79 
 Lacy, Henry de, Earl of Lincoln, 
 
 147. 150 
 Lamburne, Elyas de, 1 23 
 Lamburne, John de, 123 
 
 Lancaster, Blanche d. of Henry, 
 Earl of, 163 
 
 I^ncaster, Henry, Earl of, 157 
 
 Lancaster, Henry of. Earl of Derby, 
 
 159 
 Landa, Matilda de, dau. of Rog. de 
 
 Berkelai, 36, 55 
 
 Landa, Robert de, 37 
 Langanacre, Alured de, 84 
 Langatot, Robert de, 43 
 Langedun, John de, 72 
 Langefeld, Martin de, 42 
 Langethot, Langetot, Milo de, 104, 
 
 134 
 Langetona, Robert de, 12 
 Lasceles, Lawrence de, 71 
 Lascy, Walter de, 79 
 Lasseberg, William de, 121 
 Lasseberuwe, Henry de, 66 
 Lasseberuwe, William de, 84 
 Lathom, Nicholas, 108 
 Lathom, Master Robert, 108 
 Lathom, Roger, 55 
 Latimer, Family of, 295 
 Latimer, Lord, v. Nevill 
 Lattun, Walter de, 133 
 Latur, Richard de, 42 
 Laumpert, Adam de, 122 
 Laundre, Dom. Robert, Knt. 174 
 Laurence, Prior of Barnwell, 37 
 Laurence, Clerk, 44, 68, 87 
 Laurence, son of Ranulf, 106 
 Laurence, Walter, 175 
 Laurtun, Lawertune, Geoffrey de, 
 
 93. 129 
 Lavacensis, Philippus, 170 
 
414 
 
 Index. 
 
 Lawson, al. Edmondes, Margaret, 
 
 304 
 Lecke, Thomas, Master of the Guild 
 
 of Holy Cross, Stratford, 184 
 
 Ledebury, Henry de, 148 
 
 Ledecumb, Reginald de, 68 
 
 Lee, Sir Richard, of Sopwell, 218 
 
 Lee, Richard, of Hook Norton, 228 
 
 Leek, John, Knt. 256 
 
 Lefrith, Walter, of Tresham, 83 
 
 Lefward, John son of William, Chap- 
 lain, 47 
 
 Lefward, William, 99 
 
 Lega, Robert de, 22 
 
 Lega, William de, 68 
 
 Legat, Adam, of Wotton, 255 
 
 Legat, Margery, of Wotton, 256 
 
 Legh, Robert de, 94 
 
 Legle, Hugh son of Hugh, de Bele- 
 tona, 27 
 
 Leicester, Petronella, Countess of, 
 
 12 
 Leicester, Robert, Earl of, 12 
 
 Leicester, Earls of, v. Montfort ; 
 Dudley 
 
 Leicestria, Robert de, 69 
 
 Leicestria, William de, 42, 50 
 
 Leicestria v. also Leycestre 
 
 Leire, Richard de, 17 
 
 Leiria, Tomas de, 17 
 
 Leissinga, Robert de, 43 
 
 Lenfaunt, William, loi 
 
 Lenfaunt, al. Leinfaunt, William, 
 loi, 114, 123 
 
 Lennox, Earl of, v. Stewart 
 
 Lennox, Charles, Duke of Rich- 
 mond, 262 
 
 Leopold, Emperor of Germany, 343 
 
 Lestut, Richard, 129 
 
 Letitia, mulier, 48 
 
 Leukenor, Henry de, Warden of St. 
 
 John's Hospital, Oxford, 132 
 Levet, Henry, 38 
 Lewis, John, Muster-master, 288 
 
 T^xinton, Robert de. Judge, 60, 76, 
 85,91 
 
 Leycestre, Robert de, 140 
 
 Leycestre, Robert son of Rob. de, 75 
 
 Leycestre, Thomas de, 140 
 
 Leycestria, Philip de, 96, 100, 116, 
 122 
 
 Leycestria, Thomas de, 75 
 
 Leye, Robert, 21 
 
 Lezignan, Geoffrey de, 131 
 
 Lichelbarwe, Ralph de, 140 
 
 Liggon, Arnold, 334 
 
 Ligon al. Lygon, Thomas, 246 
 
 Linant, Robert de, 118 
 
 Linch, Gilbert de, 47, 59, 99 
 
 Lincoln, Earls of, v. Clinton ; Laci ; 
 
 Lacy ; Ranulph 
 Lincoln, Henry de, 89 
 Lincoln, Peter de, 89 
 Lincoln, Thomas de, 90 
 Ling, Gilbert del, 58 
 Linz, Roger de, 24 
 Lisle, family of, 286 
 Lisle, pedigree of, 295 
 Lisle, Viscount v. Talbot 
 Lisle De, Del Isle, De Insula 
 
 Alice, wife of Robert, 68 
 
 Alice, wid. of Warin, 156 
 
 Alice, 139, 286 
 
 Geoffrey, 69 
 
 Gerard, 165, 177 
 
 Helias, 48 
 
 John, 283 
 
 Margaret, 176 
 
 Robert, 68 
 
 Simon, 56 
 
 Thomas, 92 
 
 Thomas, fil Ric. persone de Ris- 
 tone, 51 
 
 Walter, 181 
 
 Warin, 153, 174, 176, 177 
 
 Warine, fil Rob., 68 
 
 William, 76, 82, 86 
 Lismer, Fulco, Clericus de, 31 
 Lisures, Michael de, 62 
 
Index. 
 
 415 
 
 Lisures, Peter de, 62 
 Litteris, Nicholas de, 54 
 Littleton, Thomas, 326 
 Liverpool, Earl of, v. Jenkinson 
 Liueth, Liuez, Lyves, Lyvet, Henry 
 de, 83, 84, 109, no, 136 
 
 Livingstone, Sir Will., of Kilsyth, 
 
 331. 332 
 Loas, Helewisa wife of Ralph, 28 
 Loas, Ralph, 28 
 Lobrensis, Petrus, 170 
 Loc, Thomas, 73 
 Locaston, Gervase de, 41 
 Loch, Adam, 37, 91 
 Loch, Thomas, 71, 78, 91, 102, 124 
 Locke, Henry, 233 
 Lockeston, Richard de, 23 
 Lockington, Bartholomew de, 45 
 Lodbroc, Henry de, 17 
 Lodbroc, William de, 54 
 Loges, Richard de, 139 
 Logge, Robert, Clerk, 196, 197 
 Lokinton, Godfrey de, 31, 53, 62 
 Lokintun, Richard de, 72, 125 
 
 Lokinton, Lokintun, Lukinton, Ro- 
 ger de, 94, 95, 96, 99, 100, 103, 
 127, 130, 131, 138, 140 
 
 London, Adam de, in 
 
 London, Alexander de, 72, 92 
 
 London, Walter de, 72 
 
 Londoniis, John de, 61 
 
 Long, Philip, 58, 78 
 
 Longavilla, John de, 134 
 
 Longe, Laurence le, of Blakeney, 
 121 
 
 Longetoft, Milo de, 147 
 
 Longney, pedigree of, 297 
 
 Longo Campo, William de. Chan- 
 cellor, 23 
 
 Longus, Thomas, 94 
 
 Lonton, Geoffrey, 106 
 
 Loreweng, Adam de, 137 
 
 Lorewynge, Thomas de, 151 
 
 Lorwyn, John son of Walter le, 121 
 
 Lotrix, Alice, 66 
 
 Louokenor, Gilbert de, 54 
 
 Love, Ralph de la, 97 
 
 Loveday, Roger, Justice Itinerant, 
 298 
 
 Lovel, William, 130 
 
 Lovell, Thomas, 194 
 
 Lovell, Thomas, Knt,, Justice Itin- 
 erant, 203 
 
 Lovell, Thomas, Priest, 328 
 
 Loventa, Thomas de, 34 
 
 Lovet, Henry, 91 
 
 Lovett, Thomas, 229, 240 
 
 Lucas, Thomas, 180 
 
 Luckenor, Eliz. wid. of Henry, 302 
 
 Luckenor, Henry, 302 
 
 Lude, Thomas de, 103 
 
 Lude, William de. Bishop of Ely, 
 
 147 
 Lufel, Geoffrey, Knt, 128 
 Luffing, Reginald, 133 
 Luffingham, Thomas, 246 
 Lugwardyn, Stephen de, 166 
 Luke, Archbishop of Dublin, 80 
 Luke, Canon of Bristol, 37 
 Lukinton v. Lokinton 
 Luminur, Walter le, 120 
 Luncecumbe, Osbert de, 79 
 Lunewrthi, Adam de, III 
 Lupiate, Henry de, 124 
 Lupus, John, 24, 25, 62 
 Lupus de Llewelino, William, 149 
 Lusignan, Hugh de, 131 n. 
 Lusignan, Isabella, widow of King 
 
 John, wife of Hugh de, 131 n. 
 Lusignan, Raoul de, 35 n. 
 Luvet, Henry, 71 
 Luvet, John, 32, 92 
 Luvet, Richard, 51 
 Luvetot, Roger de, 118 
 Lygon V. Ligon 
 Lygon, William, 268 
 Lymesee, Amable de, 122 
 
4i6 
 
 Index. 
 
 Lymon, Michael, of Middlebourg, 
 
 Manecestre, Mancestre, Hugh de, 
 
 231 
 
 
 45, 48, 62, 81, 88 
 
 Lynch, Gilbert de, 1x3 
 
 
 Manecestre, Walter de, 88 
 
 Lynch, Gilbert de, 1 14 
 
 
 Manne, Hugh, 176 
 
 Lyons, Stephen de, 98 
 
 
 Mansard, M. de, 330 
 
 Lyuns, Roger de, 48 
 
 
 Mansel, William, 97, 118 
 Mar', Nicholas de, 42 
 
 M 
 
 
 Mara, Hugh de, 40 
 
 'VTACHIN, John, 281 
 
 
 Mara, Wigan de, 87 
 
 
 Marchald, Alan, 131 
 
 Machun, Alice, wid. of Samson, 105 
 
 Maretot, Adam de, 20 
 
 Machun, Samson, 105 
 
 
 Margaret, quandam ux. Othonis fil. 
 
 Maclean, Sir John, F.S.A., 
 
 306 n. 
 
 Willelmi, 31 
 
 Mael, R de, 274 
 
 
 Marham, Nicholas de, 88 
 
 Mael, William, 118 
 
 
 Marina, John de. Abbot of Bristol, 
 
 Magneby, Hugh de, 34 
 
 
 141 
 
 Mahel, John, 64 
 
 
 Marisco, Peter de, 70 
 
 Mahihele, fil. Ansgeri de Combe, 8 
 
 Marisco, Thomas de, ill 
 
 Maillore, Mallor, Mallore, 
 
 Malore, 
 
 Markel, Walter de, 114 
 
 Maulore, 
 
 
 Marlow, Roger de, 149 
 
 Anketil, Knt., 40, 48, 90 
 
 
 Marmium, Geoffrey, 20 
 
 Gilbert, 45, 50, 65, 69, 76, 86-88, 
 
 Marmium, Robert, 112 
 
 90, 140 
 
 
 Marmium, William, of Bitton, 21 
 
 John, 128 
 
 
 Marmium, William, 64, 70 
 
 Robert, 90 
 
 
 Marsh, Narcissus, Archbishop of 
 
 Thomas, 65, 69, 90 
 
 
 Dublin, 326 
 
 William, 86 
 
 
 Marshall, Marescall, Marescallus 
 
 Malebranche, Ingram, 140 
 
 
 Mareschall, 
 
 Malegrave, Aulf de, 72 
 
 
 Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke, 80 
 
 Maleherbe, William, 82 
 
 
 Henry, 116 
 
 Malet, Adam, 112 
 
 
 John, 21, 23 
 
 Malet, Dom, Robert, 120, i 
 
 32 
 
 Mast. Joscellin, 36 
 
 Malet, William, 20, 42 
 
 
 Ralph, 120 
 
 Malger, Bishop of Worcester 
 
 , 33. 35 
 
 Richard, Earl of Pembroke, 80 
 
 Mallor V. Maillore 
 
 
 Richard, 92 
 
 Malreward, William, 30 
 
 
 Robert, 20 
 
 Maltravers, John, 274 n. 
 
 
 Robert, of Newport, 140 
 
 Manchester, Earl of, v. Montagu 
 
 Roger, 44 
 
 Mandevill, William de, 3rd 
 
 Earl of 
 
 William, 23, 29, 96, 116 
 
 of Essex, 18, 23, 79 
 
 
 William, Earl of Pembroke, 35, 
 
 Mandeville, William de, 6th 
 
 Earl of 
 
 64, 75 
 
 Essex, 77 
 
 
 Marston, Thomas, Bailiff of Hinton, 
 
 Mandewerre, William, 107 
 
 
 etc., 280 
 
 Manecestre, Gilbert de, 89 
 
 
 Martel, Richard, 50 
 
Index. 
 
 417 
 
 Martel, Roger, 139 
 
 Martin, chaplain, 112 
 
 Martin, clericus de Essendon, 120 
 
 Martin, Robert, of Cameys, 146 
 
 Martingwast, Martigwast, Martiwall, 
 Martiwast, Martiwastre, 
 
 Fulco, Constable of Northamp- 
 ton, 75 
 Peter, 62 
 Ralph, 12, 64, 67, 75, 87, 88 
 
 William, Sheriff of Northampton, 
 60, 62, 75, 89, 140 
 
 Martra, Hugh, 27 
 
 Martra, Martre, Osbert, 7, 8, 12 
 
 Mary, 32 
 
 Mary, Princess, dau. of Henry VII., 
 
 334 ". 
 Massingberd, John, 304, 305 
 Mathan, John de, 72 
 
 Mathem, William de. Seneschal of 
 Berkeley, 113, 141 
 
 Mathewe, William, 240 
 Mathias, Joan wife of Robert, 146 
 Mathias, Robert, 146 
 Mathias, Thomas, 95, 96, 100, 102, 
 
 103. "3> 1 16, 122 
 Mathieu, John, 243 
 Mathine, Robert de, 141 
 Mathine, William de, 140, 147 
 Matson, Thomas, 206 
 Mattheus, Francus, 20 
 Matthew, Archdeacon, 56 
 
 Matthew, Archdeacon of Glouces- 
 ter, II 
 
 Matthew, nepos domine Margarete 
 de Buhun, 26 
 
 Matthew fil. Goche, 16 
 
 Matthew, son of Herbert, 166 
 
 Matthew, son of Thomas, Parson of 
 Newington, 84, 100, 121 
 
 Matthew, son of William, 17, 20 
 
 Matthias, son of Daniel Rufus, 18 
 
 Mauduit, Maudut, Lawrence, 65, 
 69, 90 
 
 Mauduit, Robert, King's Chamber- 
 lain, 36 
 
 Mauduit, Thomas, 105 
 
 Mauduit, William, 95 
 
 Maulore v. Maillore 
 
 Maunsel, William, Knt., 141, 147 
 
 Maurice, clericus, 12 
 
 Maurice, Magister, 8, 13, 14 
 
 Maurice, son of Nigel, 12-14, 16, 25. 
 
 29-34. 40, 52, 56-61, 66, 92, 112, 
 
 117 
 
 Maurice, son of Robert Fitzharding, 
 4. 5. 7, 10, II 
 V. also Berkeley, Maur. Lord 
 
 Mautravers, John, Steward of the 
 King's Household, 157 
 
 Mautravers, John, jun., 153 
 
 Mautravers v. also Maltravers 
 
 May, Humphrey, 311 
 
 Mayel, John, 124 
 
 Mayell, Thomas, Alderman of Holy 
 Cross Guild, Stratford-on-Avon, 
 184 
 
 Maynard, , of Mershfield, 327 
 
 Maynys, Robert de, 1 12 
 
 Mazoni, Estrida wife of Reg., 15 
 
 Mazoni, Reginald, 15 
 
 Meade v. Mede 
 
 Made, Philip, Mayor of Bristol, 190, 
 
 191, 193, 213, 263 
 
 Mede, Richard s. and h. of Philip, 
 193, 210 
 
 Mede, Thomas, Bailiff of Bristol, 185 
 
 Meinard, Roger, 1 18 
 
 Meinil, Will, de. Lord of Dalby, 16 
 
 Meinil, Will, son of Will, de, 16 
 
 Menil, Will, de, 16 
 
 Meinilwar, Rog. de, 90 
 
 Meisam, Edeina, wife of Will, son 
 
 of Ralph, 43 
 Meisam, Meisham, Will., son of 
 
 Ralph de, 19, 43 
 Meisham, Ralph de, 19 
 Melkesham, Milkesham, David de, 
 
 164, 170, 177, iSi 
 Melkesham, John de, 157, 161 
 Melkesham, Reginald de, 161 
 
4i8 
 
 Index. 
 
 Melkesham, Richard de, 122 
 
 Merbury, John and Agnes de, 183 
 
 Mercato, Henry de, 75 
 
 Meriet, John, Knt., 150 
 
 Merlai, Bamo de, 7 
 
 Merleberg', Elias son of E de, 22 
 
 Merston, Henry de, 46, 49, 64, 88 
 
 Meryman, John,Vicar of Wotton, 210 
 
 Metcalfe, John, clerk, 252 
 
 Metingham, John, Justice Itinerant, 
 298 
 
 Mettesdone, Mettesdune, Will, de, 
 116, 130 
 
 Meutune, Wido de, 47 
 
 Meux, William, 230 
 
 Meverel, Rob., 19 
 
 Mevill, Gilb. de, 6^ 
 
 Mewes, Will., 231 
 
 Mey, John, Archbp, of Yoik, 237 
 
 Meynil, Rob. de, 134 
 
 Meynil de Heminton, Rob. de, 104 
 
 Meysye, John, of Charfield, 267 
 
 Michael, son of Philip, Provost of 
 Northampton, 75, 90, 140 
 
 Micklethwait, Joseph, 261 
 
 Middeltune, Richard de, 108 
 
 Middilton, Dom, Ranulph de, Knt, 
 104 
 
 Mig, Nicholas, 47 
 
 Mignot, Nicholas, 83 
 
 Mildecumbe, Race de, no 
 
 Mildmay, Benjamin, 297 
 
 Mildmay, Sir Walter, 225 
 
 Milkesham v. Melkesham 
 
 Miller, William, of Tickenham, 254 
 
 Milo, Parson of Cerney, 118, 126 
 
 Milo, clerk, 66 
 
 Milton, Aliz de, 17 
 
 Milton, Geoffrey de, Knt., 128 
 
 Minot, Nicholas, in 
 
 Modebroc, William, 166 
 
 Modibroc, William, 175 
 
 Mogryche, John, Rector of Wiggin- 
 ton, 201 
 
 Moigne, William, clerk, 158 
 
 Molendinarius, Nicholas, 125 
 
 Molendinarius, Nicholas, 120 
 
 Molendinarius, Thomas, 86 
 
 Molendinarius de Newenton, John, 
 and Matilda his wife, 122 
 
 Molesgrava, Osbert de, 109 
 
 Molesgrava, Rodbert, son of Osbert 
 de, 109 
 
 Moliner, Nich. s. of Nich. le, 120 
 
 ompinchun, William de, 7 
 
 Monachus, John dictus, 97 
 
 Monasterio, Richard de, 129 
 
 Moncellis, William de, 36 
 
 Monck, George, ist Duke of Albe- 
 marle, 342 
 
 Monmouth, John, 186 
 
 Monn, Hubert le, 134 
 
 Montagu, Audrey dau. of Edw., 161 
 
 Montagu, Edward, Esquire, 161 
 
 Montagu, Edw. s. of Edw., 161 
 
 Montagu, Edw., 2nd Earl of Man- 
 chester, 341 
 
 Montagu, Sir John, '* Comte de 
 Sairebruche, 167 
 
 Montagu, Will, de, Earl of Salisbury, 
 161 
 
 Montague, Charles, 326 
 
 Montague, Rich., Bp. of Oxford, 247 
 
 Monte Acuto, Simon de, Knt., 150 
 
 Monteforti, Alexander, 30 
 
 Monteforti, Henry de, 30, 34, 35, 46 
 
 Monteforti, Hubert de, 35 
 
 Monteforti, Roger de, 30, 34, 35, 46 
 
 Monteforti, Simon de, 45, 48, 85, 87 
 
 Montfort, Simon de. Earl of Leices- 
 ter, 118 
 
 Morcellis, Warin de, 43 
 Mordaunt, John, Viscount Mordaunt, 
 
 341 
 More, Philip de la, 148 
 
 More, Thomas, Bailiff of Bucking- 
 ham, 213 
 
 More, Thomas de la, 1 14 
 
 Morel, Normao son of Suein, 27 
 
Index. 
 
 419 
 
 Morel, Roger son of Suein, 27 
 
 Morel, Suein, 27 
 
 Morevile, Hawisia d. of Will, ile, 69 
 
 Morevilla, Herebert de, 29 
 
 Moreville, Ivo de, 29 
 
 Moreville, Richard de, 9 
 
 Moreville, Richard de, 29 
 
 Moreville, Roger de, 70 
 
 Moreville, Roger son of Ivo de, 30 
 
 Moreville, William de, 14, 25 
 
 Moreville, William son of Ivo, 30 
 
 Moreville, William de, 69 
 
 Morgan, Camerarius, 20 
 
 Morin, Ralph, 21 
 
 Morin, Richard, 40 
 
 Morstun, John de, 38 
 
 Mortaigne, John, Earl of, 21 
 
 Morton, John de. Coroner for co. 
 Gloucester, 153 
 
 Morton, William de, 24 
 
 Mortuo-Mari, Domina de [1327], 274 
 
 Mortuo-Mari, R de, 284 
 
 Mortuo-Mari, Dom. Roger de, 63 
 
 Moseley, Nicholas, 232 
 
 Moton, Walter, 147, 151 
 
 Moun, Ralph de, 109 
 
 Moubray, John de, 159, 265 
 
 Mowbray, family of, 294, 297 
 
 Mowbray, Blanche d. of John, Lord, 
 16 
 
 Mowbray, Elizabeth, Duchess of 
 Norfolk, 196, 197, 199 
 
 Mowbray, Katharine, Duchess of 
 Norfolk, 1 88, 193 
 
 Mowbray, John, Lord, 161 
 
 Mowbray, John son of John, Lord, 
 158, 159. 161 
 
 Mowbray, John, Duke of Norfolk, 
 186, 188, 189, 190, 222, 265, 266 
 
 Mowbray, Marg. Duchess of Nor- 
 folk, 265 
 
 Mowbray, Roger de, 264 
 
 Mowbray, Thomas, Ear! of Norfolk, 
 264 
 
 Mowbray, Thomas de. Earl of Not- 
 tingham, 297 
 
 Mowbray, Thomas, Duke of Nor- 
 folk, 265, 299 
 
 Mowbray, William de, 34 
 
 Moyne, Richard le, of Croxton, loi, 
 123, 128 
 
 Moyne, Will. le, 116, 134 
 
 Moysand, Moysant, Hugh, of Crox- 
 ton, 50, loi, 116 
 
 Moysand, John, loi, 122, 123, 128 
 Moysand, Richard, of Croxton, 123 
 Moysand, Robert son of Hugh, loi 
 Mubray, Christina, wid. of Rog. de, 
 
 137 
 Mubray, Rog. son of Will, de, 104 
 Mubray, Will, de, 104 
 Muleton, Thomas de, justice, 60, 76 
 Muleward, William le, 254 
 Muncketon, Thomas de, 42, 73 
 Munechestun, Richard de, 43 
 
 Mumford, Munford, Munfort, Henry 
 de, 15, 21, 27 
 
 Munster, Frederic Christian, Bishop 
 of, 342 
 
 Muranensis, Dominicus, 170 
 
 Murray, Adm., 344 
 
 Musard, Ralph, 22, 38, 94, 95 
 
 Musard, Robert, 31 
 
 Muscegros, Rob. de, 131 
 
 Muschampe, John, of Claydons, 243 
 
 Muschat, Muschet, Musket, Walter, 
 60, 77, 81 
 
 Muschet, Robert, 108 
 
 Mutton, Richard, Sub-seneschal at 
 Berkeley, 280 
 
 Mutun, Adam, 116 
 
 N 
 
 TSJT AFFORD, Henry de, 56 
 
 Nafford, Matilda wife of Henry de 
 56 
 
 Nancotham, John, Bailiff of Bristol, 
 190 
 
420 
 
 Index. 
 
 Nassau, Guillaume de, 330 
 
 Nauta, Richard, 57 
 
 Naylesworth, Walter de, 98 
 
 Nayleswrthe, Richard de, 64 
 
 Nazarensis, Richard, 171 
 
 Neale, Thomas, of Berkeley, tanner, 
 281 
 
 Neale, William, Auditor of the Ex- 
 chequer, 235 
 
 Nebiensis, Petrus, 170 
 
 Needier, George, 242, 243 
 
 Neel, Geoffrey, 129, 137, 141, 146, 
 
 151 
 Neel, Nicholas, 129 
 Neileswarde, Walter de, 118 
 Neirun, Andrew, 90 
 Neirun, Hugh son of Andrew, 90 
 Nel, Adam, 116 
 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, 
 
 Duke of Bront^, 344 
 
 Neovill, Ralph de, 89 
 
 NepoSjJohn, 125 
 
 Nepos, Robert, 42 
 
 Nerberth, Philip de, 70 
 
 Neste, John de la, 66 
 
 Neuburgh, William de, 3 n, 
 
 Nevew, Rob. le, 119 
 
 Nevew, Thomas le, 119 
 
 Nevile, Nevill, Neville, 
 
 Eliz. w. of Geo. Lord Latimer, 
 186, 189 
 
 Sir George, 300 
 
 Geo., Archbp. of York, 191 
 
 Hugh de, 128 
 
 John, 243 
 
 Jollan de, 91 
 
 Matilda, w. of Rob. de, 76 
 
 Ralph, Bp. of Chichester, 74, 76 
 
 Dom. Ralph de, loi 
 
 Ralph, 1st E. of Westmoreland, 
 266 
 
 Richard, Earl of Salisbury, 191 
 
 Richard, Earl of Warwick, 191 
 
 Robert de, 76 
 
 Dom. Stephen de, 128 
 
 Dom. Theobald de, 130 
 
 Nevou, John le, of Ozleworth, 52 
 
 Nevou, Laurence le, 52 
 
 Nevou, Richard le, 70 
 
 New, al. Newh, al. Newth, John le, 
 47, 83, 84, 91, 100 
 
 Newdigate, Robert, 224 
 
 Neweham, Ernulf son of Rich, de, 58 
 
 Newenton, John de, Warden and 
 Prior of Longbridge, 156 
 
 Newh, Lawrence le, 107 
 
 Newh, Robert le, 91, 107 
 
 Newintune, Rog. de, son of P. de 
 Berkeley, 91, 108 
 
 Newland, John, Abbot of Bristol, 
 
 291-293 
 Newman, Alewyn, of Cambridge, 199 
 
 Newman, John le, 137 
 
 Newth V. New 
 
 Neylesworth, Walter de, 136 
 
 Nibley, Gilbert, presbyter de, 119 
 
 Nicholas, the Dean, 11, 56 
 
 Nicholas, Prior of the Friars Hermit, 
 Bristol, 173 
 
 Nicholas, Vicar of Berkeley, 113, 
 116, 133 
 
 Nicholas, chaplain of Seagrave, 90 
 
 Nicholas, the chaplain, 46, 61, 64 
 
 Nicholas, the clerk, 23 
 
 Nicholas, son of Godwin, 17 
 
 Nicholas, son of Martin, 142 
 
 Nicholas fil. Radulfi, Dominus de 
 HuUe, 102 
 
 Nicholas fil. Raher, 26 
 
 Nicholas, son of Richard, 14 
 
 Nicholas, son of Rob. Fitzharding, 
 
 6, 8 
 Nicholas, son of Roger, 63, 81, 107, 
 
 109, 138 
 Nicholls, Anthony, of Paddington, 
 
 239 
 
 Nicholls, Augustine, Sergeant-at- 
 law, 303 
 
 Nicholson, Sir Edmond, 336 
 
 Nicoll, William, Mayor of South- 
 ampton, 183 
 
Index. 
 
 421 
 
 Nigel, son of Arthur, 7, 8, 9, 10 
 
 Nigel, son of Bernard, 125 
 
 Nigel fil. decani de Ketleb', 5X 
 
 Niger, John, 110 
 
 Niger, Reginald, of Croxton, 123 
 
 Niger, Will, son of Reginald, 123 
 
 Niger, William, 49, 50 
 
 Niwintun, Nywentone, Roger de, 70, 
 
 84, 100, 119 
 Noble, Rob. s. and h. of Rob., 243 
 Noel, Thomas, 17, 23 
 Norff, Jean Conrad, 342 
 Norfolk, Earls of, v. Brotherton 
 V. Bygod 
 V. Mowbray 
 Norfolk, Duke of, v. Mowbray 
 Norman, fil. Popeline, 46 
 Normand, Gari, 150 
 Normandy, Henry, Duke, of, i-6 
 
 V. also England, Sovereigns of, 
 
 Henry II. 
 Norraanton, William de, 130 
 Normanvill, Ralph de, 67, 129 
 Norreys, Robert le, 131 
 Northampton, Earls of, v. Howard 
 
 V, Parr 
 Northumberland, Duke of, v. Dudley 
 Norton, John, 199 
 Norton, Thomas, Knt., Master of 
 
 Burton Lazars, 203 
 
 Norwico, Ralph de, King's Justice, 
 76,82 
 
 Norwood family, 318 
 
 Notingham, Robert de, 91 
 
 Nott', Gilbert de, 65 
 
 Nottingham, Earls of, v. Berkeley 
 
 V. Mowbray 
 
 Notion, Gilbert de, 34 
 
 Novavilla, John de, 22 
 
 Novilla, Robert de, 53 
 
 Novoburgo, Rog. de, 21 
 
 Nowel, Alan, 112 
 
 Nywentone v. Niwintun 
 
 O'BRIEN, Donogh, 4th Earl of 
 Thomond, 337, 339 
 
 Odestun, Stephen de, 40 
 
 Odo, monk of Kingswood, 100 
 
 Odo fil. Keteline, 61 
 
 Oftechirche, William de, 32 
 
 Offington al. Offintone, James de, 
 63, 105, 106, 115 
 
 Offinton, Juliana fil. Jacobi de, 123 
 
 Offinton, Juliana d. of Rob. son of 
 Henry de, 70 
 
 Offinton, Peter de, 71 
 
 Offinton, Richard fil. Jacobi de, 123 
 
 Offinton, Rob. son of Henry de, 70 
 
 Offinton, Robert de, 97, 105, 106, 
 
 Offinton, Simon de, 67, 105 
 
 Offinton, Will, son of Edm. de, 63 
 
 Offley, Sir Robert, 268 
 
 Oie, Thomas, Provost of Gloucester, 
 50 
 
 Oilleio, Henry de, 6 
 
 Oka, John de, Prior of St. Bartholo- 
 mew's Hospital, Gloucester, 152 
 
 Okers, Capt. John, 235 
 
 Oketon, John de, 95 
 
 Oldelond, Geoffrey de, 20, 42, 70 
 
 Oldelynch, William, Steward of 
 Hinton, 277 
 
 Oldisworth, Arnold, 248 
 
 Oleby, Agnes de, 104 
 
 Oleby, William de, 104 
 
 Olepenne, Bartholomew de, 13, 35, 
 
 58, 73. 95. 104, 129 
 Olepenne, Henry de, 108 
 Olepenne, Robert de, 104 
 Olepenne, Simon de, 33, 50, 52, 56, 
 
 57. 71. 73. 81, 84, 93, 100, 109, 
 
 112, 181 
 
 Olleby, William de, 90 
 
 Olyffe, William, 268 
 
 Omberleia, Henry bro. of Richard 
 de, 86 
 
422 
 
 Index. 
 
 Omberleia, Richard de, 86 
 
 
 Pagan, sen., of Cnitheton, 115 
 
 Orange, William, Prince of, 330 
 
 
 Pagles, Ernisius s. of Mabel, 77 
 
 Ordmer, Thomas, 76 
 
 
 Pagles, Mabel, 77 
 
 Orescoiz, Richard son of Helyas, 
 
 28 
 
 Palmer, Maurice, 50 
 
 Orinere, Thomas, 48 
 
 
 Palmer, Robert, 46 
 
 Ormond, Margaret d. of Thomas, 
 
 Palmer, Rob. of Yarmouth, 225 
 
 191 
 
 Ormonde, Earl of, v. Butler 
 
 Ormonde, Thomas, of High Roding, 
 V. Butler 
 
 Orreby, Philip de, Justice of Chester, 
 
 CI CA 
 
 Palmer, Sara w. of Will., 178 
 
 Palmer, Stephen, 114 
 
 Palmer, Thomas, Sheriff of Kent, 
 288 
 
 Palmer, Thomas, son ol Will., 178 
 
 b6> d4 
 Osbert, Prior of Laund, 89 
 Osbert, carnifex, 46 
 Osbert, parcarius, 58 
 
 Oslewrde, al. Oslewrth, Nigel 
 47, 83, 84, 91, 107, 125 
 
 de, 
 
 Palmer, Will., of Oxford, 178 
 Panter, Alice w. of Rich, le, 166 
 Panter, Richard le, 166 
 Pantolf, Roger, 44 
 Pantulf, Hugh, 23 
 
 Ossory, Lord, v. Butler 
 
 
 Parcarius, Richard, 28, 34 
 
 Ostricer, Robert le, 76 
 
 
 Parcheminer, Adam le, 51 
 
 Otho, son of William, 7, 8 
 
 
 Parco, Geoffrey de, 119 
 
 Otin, John, 114 
 
 
 Parco, Will, de, 71 
 
 Ottelaio, Richard de, 36 
 
 
 Paris, Helewisa dau. of Will, de, 28 
 
 Oustwic, Akuna de, 34 
 
 
 Paris, John de, 15 
 
 Overbury, Sir Thos., 317 
 
 
 Paris, Nica w. of Will, de, 28 
 
 Overton, Geoffery de, 97, 98, 99 
 
 
 Paris, Peter de, 14, 24-26 
 
 Overton, John de, " vallet " to J. 
 
 de 
 
 Paris, Robert, loi, 123 
 
 Segrave, 158 
 Overton, Laurence de, 134 
 Overton, Mary de, 98 
 Overton, Picher de, 87 
 Overton, Rob. son of Geoff, de, 
 
 99 
 Overton, Thomas de, 87 
 Oxhay, Dom. Nicholas de, 70 
 Oxonia, Robert de, 58 
 Oxonia, Stephen de, 86 
 Oyli, William de, Knt., 118 
 
 98, 
 
 Paris, Walter de, 58 
 
 Paris, William de, 13, 28 
 
 Paris, William de, 121 
 
 Parisse, Reginald de, 123 
 
 Parker, Matthew, Archbp. of Can- 
 terbury, 252 
 
 Parkinson, Thomis, B.D. , 252 
 
 Paries, William de, 42 
 
 Parni, Juliana de, 123 
 
 Parni, Richard de, 123 
 
 Parni, Rob. de, 123 
 
 P 
 
 
 Parr, William, Marquis of North- 
 
 
 ampton, 328 
 
 "PACOC, Simon, 41 
 
 
 Passel, Ralph, Provost of Nf)rthamp- 
 ton, 75 
 
 Padynel, John, 140 
 
 
 Passelewe, Ralph, 90 
 
 Paeleto, Hugh de, 43 
 
 
 Passelewe, Rcbirt, 91 
 
 Pagan, the Clerk, 7 
 
 
 Passelewe, Thomas, 141 
 
Index. 
 
 423 
 
 Pateshill, Dom. Simon de, 34 
 
 Perrers, Robert de, 42 
 
 
 PateshuU, Martin de. Justice, 56, 
 
 Perron, Ralph, 69 
 
 
 60,86 
 
 Pesemer, Rich., Knt., 70 
 
 
 Patric, Robert, 54 
 
 Patricius, Thomas, 53 
 
 Patricius, William, 53 
 
 Paul, Abbot of Leicester, 12 
 
 Paumer, Gilbert le, 104, 128 
 
 Pauncefot, John, Knt., 1S2 
 
 Pavely, Richard de, iii 
 
 Pavely, William de, 1 1 1 
 
 Pavy, William, 185 
 
 Pavtrlet, Charles, Duke of Bolton, 
 
 251 
 Pawlett, William, ist Marq. of 
 
 Winchester, 330 
 
 Pesemer, Will. s. of Rich., 70 
 Peseya, Pesya, Henry de, 105, i 
 Pete, John, 211 
 
 Peter, Bishop of Winchester, 79 
 Peter, Archdeacon of Worcester, 
 Peter, Abbot of Pershore, 173 
 Peter, Master, 16, 24 
 Peter, Clericus, 44, 68 
 Peter son of Geoffrey, 46 
 Peters, Dom. Hugh de, 104 
 
 39 
 19 
 
 Petipas, Petitpas, Roger, 47, 51, 
 84, 91, 107 
 
 83. 
 
 Payn, Hugh, 114 
 
 Petit, Hugh le, 26 
 
 
 Payn, John, Burgess of Gloucester, 
 
 Peuire, Paulin, 133 
 
 
 65 
 
 Peverel, Hamo, III 
 
 
 Payn, Walter, 102 
 
 Peverell, Dom. Peter, loi 
 
 
 Pec, Thomas del, 86 
 
 Peche, Henry, Steward of Berkeley, 
 
 Peyto, John, Knt., 256 
 Peyton, Sir Samuel, Bart., 246 
 
 
 276, 283 
 
 Philip, Prior of Lenton, 61 
 
 
 Peche, Richard, 42 
 
 Phihp, Chaplain of Bedminster, 
 
 38 
 
 Pechie, Geoffery, 122 
 
 Philip bro. of Walter, 8 
 
 
 Peckham, George, of Denham, 231 
 
 Picheford, Will, de, 79 
 
 
 Pedmain, Turstan de, 43 
 
 Pickeswilh, Richard de, 103 
 
 
 Pedyntun, Richard de, 127 
 
 Picot, Will., 64, 67, 72, 76, 87 
 
 , 88 
 
 Peisia, Suen de, 24 
 
 Pictavensis, Peter, 120 
 
 
 Peleter, Richard le, 148 
 
 Pidel, Alice wid. of P. de, 86 
 
 
 Pemberton, James, of London, Gold- 
 
 Pidel, Peter de, 71, 86 
 
 
 smith, 239 
 
 Pidel, Randolf de, 7 1 
 
 
 Pembroke, Earls of, v. Valence 
 
 Pidel, Ronulf de, 86 
 
 
 V. Marshal 
 
 Pigeon, Nicholas, 235 
 
 
 Pembroke, John, 194 
 
 Pigeon, John, late Keeper of 
 
 the 
 
 Pendelesford, Thomas de, Chaplain, 
 255 
 
 Queen's Standing Wardrobe at 
 the Tower, 235 
 
 Penna, John, fil. Jacobi de, 50 
 
 Pik, Hugh, 42 
 
 
 Penne, Colin de la, 61 
 
 Pike, John le, 119 
 
 
 Penris, William de, 58 
 
 Pincerna, Elias, 45, 51, 63, 66 
 
 92, 
 
 Pepyn, Nicholas, 40 
 
 93, 95. 107 
 
 
 Perceval, John, 274 
 
 Pincerna, Eustace, 72 
 
 
 Perers, Hugh de, 90, 129 
 
 Pincerna, Ralph, 12, 15 
 
 
 Perone, Ralph de, 64 
 
 Pincerna, Walter, 121 
 
 
424 
 
 Index. 
 
 Pincerna, War in, 115 
 
 Pincerna, Warner, 52 
 
 Pincerna, Will, son of Eustace, 72 
 
 Pinkenei, Pinkeny, William, 26, 50 
 
 Pinkeni, Richard de, 31 
 
 Pinnekote, Walter de, 46 
 
 Pipard, Henry, 76 
 
 Pipard, Nichola, 76 
 
 Pipard, Ralph, Knt., 132 
 
 Pipart, Robert, 86 
 
 Pirin, Stephen, 43 
 
 Piris, Hugh de, 6 
 
 Piriton, Walter de, 129 
 
 Piro, William de, ig 
 
 Piscator, Ralph, 69 
 
 Piscis, Peter, 31 
 
 Pistor, Gilbert, 69 
 
 Pistor, Henry, 120 
 
 Pistor, Hugh, 33, 58, 1 16 
 
 Pistor, Michael, 122 
 
 Pistor, Ralph, of Newinton, no 
 
 Pistor, Richard, 114 
 
 Pistor, Roger, 43 
 
 Pitcarne, Robert, Commendator of 
 Dunfermline Abbey, Secretary of 
 State for Scotland, 324 
 
 Pithering, Alric, 93 
 
 Pitt, William, Deputy to Sir E. 
 
 Carey, 338 
 Planca, Gwaifer de, 6 
 Planca, Plancha, Hugh de, 6, 13 
 Planca, Roger de, 38 
 
 Planca, Planche, Plaunche, Thomas 
 de la, 37, 78, 80, 81, 91, 100, 
 102, loi, 124, 125, 139 
 
 Planche, Planke, Plaunche, Robert 
 
 de la, 91, 92, 105, 108, 112 
 Planche, Walter de la, 78, 81, 125 
 Planche, William de, 15 
 Planke, Simon de la, 73 
 Pleeiz, Ralph de, 1 1 
 Pleghestowe, Hugh de la, 85 
 Pleid, Matthew de, 63 
 Plessetis, Dom. John de, 97 
 
 Plessetis, Reginald de, 97 
 Plokenet, Alan de, Knt., 132 
 Plumbarius, Edric, 181 
 Plumpton, Henry de, 140 
 Plumton, William de, 104 
 Pochamton, Alex, de, 29 
 Poher, Roger le, 91 
 Poincel, Marg. w. of Rich., 112 
 Poincel, Richard, 112 
 Poinz, Hugh, s. of Nich., 56 
 Poinz, Dom. Nicholas, 56 
 Poinz V. also Poyntz 
 Pokebrok, Ralph s. of Reg. de, 61 
 Pole, Sir Giles, 330 
 Pole, Reginald, Cardinal, 215 
 Pole, Sir Walter de la, 266 
 Pollard, John, 191 
 
 Pontdelarch, Pontearche, Punthde- 
 larch, Dom. William de, 29, 40, 
 59. 60 
 
 Ponte, Henry de, 95 
 
 Ponte, Will, de, 124 
 
 Ponte Arche, Dom. Juliana de, wife 
 of R. de Berkeley, 31 
 
 Ponte Cardon', Richard de, 49 
 
 Pontefrigido, Stephen de, 76 
 
 Poole family, 318 
 
 Poole, W^alter, Knt., 182 
 
 Poore, Rich, le, Bp. of Salisbury, 74 
 
 Popes : Clement HI., 18 ; Innocent 
 in., 38; Paul II., 191 ; Urban 
 v., 172 ; Urban VI., 175 
 
 Popham, Henry, 181 
 
 Portauquen, Thomas, of Auraye, 229 
 
 Porte, John de la, of Frocester, 120 
 
 Porte, Sir John, Justice of Common 
 
 Pleas, 208 
 Porter family, 296, 318 
 Porter, Thomas, Knt., late Sheriff 
 
 of Gloucester, 302 
 Portesheved, Adam de, 94 
 Porwico, Master Hugh de, 55, 56 
 Poutrell, Geoffrey, 89 
 Poynes, Robert, 182 
 
Index. 
 
 425 
 
 Poyiiinges, Sir Adrian, Captain of 
 Portsmouth, 329 
 
 Poynt, John, 189 
 
 Poyntz family, 296, 318 
 
 Poyntz, Sir Anthony, 320 
 
 Poyntz, Arthur, 211 
 
 Poyntz, Sir John, 338 
 
 Poyntz, Nicholas, 211, 288, 328, 330 
 
 Praeres, Henry de, 79 
 
 Praiers, Henry, Knt., Lord of Dor- 
 
 sington, 253 
 Preaus, Symon de, 122 
 
 Prestewold, Alan de, 62 
 
 Prestewold, Ivo de, 128 
 
 Prestley, Capt., 343 
 
 Preston, Dominus de ?'. Byset 
 
 Preston, Gilb. de. Justice, 137 
 
 Preston, Roger de, 77 
 
 Prestwald, Anketil de, 90 
 
 Prestwald, Prestwalt, Ellas, 50, 90 
 
 Preswalt, Will, son of Yvo de, 50 
 
 Prestwde, Richard de, 31 
 
 Prethor, Alduin, 26 
 
 Prethor, Thomas, 26 
 
 Pride, John son of John, 124 
 
 Prinsun, Alexander, 115 
 
 Prisun, Reginald de, 139 
 
 Prochard, Ger.ird, 23 
 
 Puchering, Walter, 83 
 
 Pudsay, Hugh, Bp. of Durham, 23 
 
 Puingtel, Puintell, Henry, 21, 42, 70 
 
 Pulla, John, 12 
 
 PuUe, Mabel w. of W. de la, 153 
 
 Pulle, William de la, 153 
 
 Punc', Nicholas, 13 
 
 Puntefreunt, Stephen de, 49 
 
 Punthdelarch v. Pontdelarch 
 
 Purlewent, Alex., 117 
 
 Purnell, Thomas, of Nibley, 210 
 
 Puteham, Ralph de, 50 
 
 Puterel, Puttrel, Geoffrey, 45, 50, 
 82, 86, 88, 90 
 
 Puterel, Putrel, Henry, 14, 17, 20, 
 43.47 
 
 Puterel, Rich. , of Cotes, 90 
 
 Puterel, Putrel, Putrell, Robert, 45, 
 48, 50, 61, 69, 86-88, 140 
 
 Puthot, Putot, William de, 21, 42, 
 
 63. 75. 82, 94, no 
 Putof, Eustace de, 85 
 Putot, Nicholas, 134 
 Putot V. Puthot 
 Putrel, John, 128 
 Pygot, Peter, Knt , 87 
 Pykes, Agnes, 177 
 
 QUATREMARE, William de, 
 76 
 Quenci v. Quincy 
 Quencby, Ralph de, 81 
 Quentin, Philip, 60 
 Quercu, William de, 19 
 Quested, Ralph, 288 
 Quincy, Earls of Winchester, 271 
 
 Quincy, Margaret, Countess of Win- 
 chester, 60, 80, 81, 86 
 
 Quincy, Rog. de. Earl of Winches- 
 ter, 118 
 
 Quincy, fcjeer de, 24 
 
 Quintin, son of Warin, 106 
 
 Quintin, John, 106 
 
 Quinton, Alan de, 88 
 
 R 
 
 R 
 
 — Abbot of Dieulacres, 53 
 
 R Abbot of Keynsham, 58 
 
 R Prior of St. Augustine's, 
 
 Bristol, 37 
 
 Eabayn, Elyas de, 131 
 
 Ralee, Will, de. Clerk, 86 
 
 Raleigh, William de. Justice, 76 
 
 Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, Chan- 
 cellor, 79 
 
 Ralph, Abbot of Bristol, 162 
 
 Ralph, Abbot of Croxton, 82 
 
 Ralph, Abbot of Tintern, 148 
 
426 
 
 Index. 
 
 Ralph, Canon of Oseney, 55, 56 
 
 I'lalph, Chaplain of Coventry, 62 
 
 Ralph, Chaplain, 31 
 
 Ralph, Camerarius, 44, 75 
 
 Ralph, Clericus, 23 
 
 Ralph, cognatus Will. Longaspei, 
 28 
 
 Ralph, nepos Odonis de Empring- 
 ham, 67 
 
 Ralph, son of Godfrey, 18 
 
 Ralph, son of Hugh, 39 
 
 Ralph, son of Nicholas, King's 
 Steward, 74, 79 
 
 Ralph, son of Reginald, 86 
 
 Ralph, son of Wibert, 65, 108 
 
 Rampain, John de, of Childrey, 67 
 
 Rampayn, John de, in 
 
 Randestorn, Rich, de, clerk, 53 
 
 Ranulph, Earl of Chester, 53, 54 
 
 Ratcliflfe, Thomas, Earl of Sussex, 
 219, 225, 226 
 
 Raymonde, Capt, George, 231 
 
 Read, William, Captain of Holy 
 Island, 225 
 
 Read, William, 296 
 
 Reade, Wllltam, 268 
 
 Rebell, Thomas, of Humberston, 267 
 
 Redberd, Henry de Eston, 124 
 
 Reddeman, Henry de, 34 
 
 Rede al. Bonjon, Thomas, 183 
 
 Redence, John, 181 
 
 Redleg, Redlega, Ralph de, 21, 93 
 
 Reede, John, Steward to the Earl 
 
 of Stafford [1437], 281 
 Rees, William, 256 
 RefTan, Richard de, 1 1 
 Reginald, Bishop of Bath, 18, 23 
 Reginald, Abbot of Gerondon, 140 
 Reginald, Abbot of Gloucester, 146 
 Reginald, Vicar of Arlingham, 174 
 Reginald, parson of Cam, 10 
 Reginald, sacerdos de Hereford, 29 
 Reginald, chaplain; 13, 14, 16, 24- 
 
 26, 63 
 
 Reginald, clerk, 24 
 Reginald, the cook, 27 
 Reginald, Iberniensis, 42 
 Reginald fil. Basilic, 50 
 Reginald, son of Gladwin, 29 
 Reginald, son of the chaplain, 105 
 Reginald, son of Robert, 61 
 Reginald, son of William, 1 1 
 Reinger, Renger, Richard, Justice, 
 
 76,77 
 Rele V. Roele 
 Remesby, Reginald de, 70 
 Rempistun, Ralph de, 46 
 Renger, v. Reinger 
 Reresby, Peter de, 50, 88 
 Resingis, Richard de, II 
 Rethersby, Michael de, 48 
 Revell, Richard, 23 
 Rewa, Ailric de, 41, 43 
 Rich, Lord, 303 
 
 Rich, Anne, Countess of Warwick, 
 240 
 
 Richard, Bp. of Hereford, Pres. of 
 Magdalen Coll., Oxon., 201 
 
 Richard, Dean of Pucklechurch, 20 
 
 Richard, Archdeacon of Gloucester, 
 
 19 
 Richard, Abbot of Bristol, 6, 8, 12, 
 
 137 
 Richard, Abbot of Keynsham, 20 
 Richard, Abbot of Tewkesbury, 200 
 Richard, Prior of Tretfcrd, 68 
 Richard, Parson of Cerney, 140 
 Richard, chaplain of Blagdon, 43 
 Richard, chaplain of Cardiff, 23 
 Richard, chaplain of Stottesden, (yj 
 Richard, capellanus de Sudleia, 20 
 Richard, clericus de Cumtonia, 26 
 Richard, clericus de Limesee, 122 
 Richard, clericus de Lukinton, 125 
 Richard, clericus de Marisco, 23 
 Richard, clericus de Suit', 28 
 Richard, chaplain, 14, 27 
 Richard, clerk, 125 
 
Index. 
 
 427 
 
 Richard, notarius, 15 
 Richard, novus homo, 28 
 Richard, scriptor, 10 
 Richard, son of Alfred, 76 
 Richard, son of Arthur, 70, 74 
 Richard, son of the Clerk, 139 
 Richard fil. decani de Ketelbe, 51 
 Richard, son of Geoffrey 23 
 Richard, son of Garin, 12 
 Richard, son of Herebert, 30 
 Richard, son of Lioffus, 28 
 Richard, son of Michael, 11 1 
 Richard, son of Nicholas, 20 
 Richard, son of Osbert, 17 
 
 Richard fil. Ric Molendinarii, of 
 Austrey, 98, 99 
 
 Richard, son of Robert the mer- 
 chant, 100 
 
 Richard, son of Roger, 32 
 
 Richard, son of Serlo, 103 
 
 Richard, son of Suetric, 35 
 
 Richard, son of William, 13, 62, 122 
 
 Richard fil. Will. Prepositi de Appe- 
 corin, 124 
 
 Richard, Sir Andrew, 325 
 
 Richeman, son of Hernisus, 65 
 
 Richer, clericus de Roele, 14 
 
 Richmond, Duke of, v. Lennox 
 
 Ridde, John, of Orford, 257 
 
 Ridel, Ralph, 129 
 
 Ridel, Stephen, 21 
 
 Ridell, Geoffrey, 27 
 
 Ridelton, Henry de, 45 
 
 Rigges, Richard, 233 
 
 Ripa, William de, 53, 97 
 
 Riparia, Bartholomew de, 27 
 
 Riparia, Richard de, 27 
 
 Riparia, Walter nephew of Walt, de, 
 27 
 
 Ripariis, Dom. John de, 60, 71, 77, 
 81, 90 
 
 Ripariis, Richard de, Knt., 147 
 
 Ripariis, Roger de, 28 
 
 Ripariis, Dom. Walter de, 7? 
 
 Ripariis, William de, 54, in 
 
 Riston, Fulk de, 91 
 
 Riston, Rog. son of Fulk de, 91 
 
 Rivere, Alex, de la, of Fothringay, 
 128 
 
 Rivere, John de la, 90 
 
 Robert, Abbot of Combe, 210 
 
 Robert, Prior of Bath Abbey, 34 
 
 Robert, Prior of Kingswood Abbey, 
 100 
 
 Robert, Prior of St. Mary's, Worces- 
 ter, 198 
 
 Robert, Canon of Bristol, 37 
 
 Robert, Rector of Freethorne, 174 
 
 Robert, Parson of Ozleworth, d)'^, 84, 
 
 91 
 Robert, clerk, of Fothringay, 128 
 Robert, clerk, of Segrave, 99 
 Robert, clerk, of Stratton, in 
 Robert, clerk, of Stnicardestone, 47 
 Robert, clericus vie [ecomitis], 27 
 Robert, the clerk, 99 
 Robert, the clerk, son of Hugh, 128 
 Robert, chaplain, 29 
 Robert, Dispensator, 75 
 Robert Juvenis, v. Fitzharding, 
 
 Rob. son of Rob. 
 Robert, the Merchant, 100 
 Robert, Walensis, 149 
 Robert, son of Archebald, 28 
 Robert fil. Dunninghi, 43 
 Robert, son of Elias, 20 
 Robert, son of Fulk, 61 
 Robert, son of Gilbert, 82 
 Robert, son of Guy, 57, 58, n3, n4 
 Robert, son of Hugh, 67, 123, 128 
 Robert, son of Ivo, of Kegworth, 87 
 Robert, son of Ivor, 28 
 Robert, son of Maurice, 59 
 Robert, son of Nicholas, 131 
 Robert, son of Nigel, 54, 102, 108, 
 
 139 
 Robert, son of Norman, 46 
 Robert, son of Pagan, 149, 150, 273 
 
428 
 
 Index. 
 
 Robert, son of Ralph, 82 
 Robert, son of Reginald, 51 
 Robert, son of Richard, 22, 31, 41, 
 
 43, 45. 57, 66, 73, 75, 92, 93, 
 
 140 
 Robert, son of Robert, 8, 82 
 
 Robert fil. Rob. cler. de Kingston, 62 
 Robert, son of Roger, 64 
 Robert, son of the Seneschal, 13 
 Robert, son of Walter, 27 
 Rocelinus, vice-agens, cancellarii, 24 
 Rocheford, Cecily w. of R. de, 91, 97 
 Rocheford, Robert de, 47, 51, 52, 
 64, 82-84, 91, 97, 100, 107, 125 
 Rocheford, Thomas de, 42, 64, 121 
 Rodbert, Hiberniensis, 26 
 
 Rodeberge, Rodeberwe, Rodebure, 
 Thomas de, 64, 93, no, 127 
 
 Rodeberge, William de, 118 
 
 Rodestorn, Richard de, 49 
 
 Rodinc, Thomas de, 34 
 
 Rodmerton, Turstan de, 108 
 
 Rodmerton, Will, son of Turstan de, 
 loS 
 
 Rodmertun, Geoffrey de, 80 
 
 Roele, Ivo, son of Walkelin de, 14, 
 
 SO 
 Roele, Richer, clericus de, 14 
 Roele, Rich, son of Walkelin de, 14 
 
 Roele, Role, Roger son of Walkelin 
 de, 14, 39 
 
 Roele, Rele, Roel, Roelai, Role, 
 Stephen de, 16, 17, 20, 43, 45, 
 49, 50, 87 
 
 Roger, Bishop of Coventry and Lich- 
 field, 157 
 
 Roger, Bishop of Worcester, 11, 55 
 
 Roger, Abbot of Cirencester, 140 
 
 Roger, Prior of Twinham, 38 
 
 Roger, chaplain of St. Nicholas, 
 Gloucester, 69 
 
 Roger, clericus de Grimeston, 39 
 
 Roger, chaplain, 65 
 
 Roger, the clerk, 106 
 
 Roger, scriptor, 55 
 
 Roger, venator, 13 
 
 Roger, Dom., 62 
 
 Roger, fil. Ailaf, 63 
 
 Roger, son of Cecily, 65, 69 
 
 Roger, son of Fulk, 32 
 
 Roger, son of Hugh, 28 
 
 Roger, son of Nicholas, 33, 92 
 
 Roger, son of Theobald, 140 
 
 Roger, son of Theodbert, 75 
 
 Roger, son of Walerand, 16 
 
 Roger, son of Walter, 116, 128 
 
 Roger, John, collector of tonnage, 
 etc., in the Port of London, 190 
 
 Rokebi, Henry de, 44 
 
 Rokebi, Robert de, 44 
 
 RokhuU, H de, 276 
 
 Rokingham, Geoffrey de, 67 
 
 Rokingham, Lettice d. of R. de, 77 
 
 Role V. Roele 
 
 Rolee, William de, 99 
 
 Rolf, Richard, Steward to the Earl 
 
 of Stafford, [1437], 281 
 
 Romeseia, Richard de, clerk, no 
 
 Rook, Nicholas, 166 
 
 Roos, family of, 295 
 
 Roos, Thomas, 5th Lord Roos, War- 
 den of the West Marches, 178 
 
 Roos, Thomas, 9th Lord Roos, 186 
 
 Roppelaya, Robert de, 34 
 
 Ros, Roger de, 117 
 
 Rotomag', William de, Vic [arius ?] 
 
 36 
 Roubergh, John, 256 
 Rous, Mrs., 315 
 Rudd, Mathye, of Chelmsford, 240 
 
 Rudge, 343 
 
 Ruffus, Eustace, 108 
 Ruffus, John, 77 
 
 Ruffus, Rufus, Nicholas, 47, 51, 83, 
 84,91, 100, 105, 107-109, III, 
 130 
 
 Rufus, William, of East Challow, 67 
 
 Rufus de Houwes, Henry, 82 
 
 Rufus de Houwes, Hugh son of 
 Henry, 82 
 
Index. 
 
 429 
 
 Rugge, Thomas, 182 
 
 Rumele, Alice de, 68 n. 
 
 Rupe, Guido de, 6 
 
 Rupe, Th de, 146' 
 
 Rupeforti, v. Rochford 
 
 Rus, Nicholas le, 94 
 
 Russel, Adam, 81, 83, 94, 1 10, ill 
 
 Russel, Adrian, 200 
 
 Russel, Geoffrey, 134 
 
 Russel, Luke, 107 
 
 Russel, Peter, 20 
 
 Russel, William, 77 
 
 Russel, William, of Overton, 90 
 
 Russell, Sir Francis, 224 
 
 Russell, Fran., Earl of Bedford, 226 
 
 Russell, Odo, 31 
 
 Russell, Robert, Mayor of Bristol, 
 183 
 
 Russell, William, Provost of Glou- 
 cester, 65 
 
 Russell, Lord William, 342 
 Ruthven, William, Earl of Gowrie, 
 
 331. 332 
 Ruwes, Henry de, 66 
 Ryel, Alice d. of Will, 187 
 
 QABAUDIA, Peter de, 131 
 
 Sabina, widow, 85 
 
 Sacheverell, Sir Richard, 207 
 
 Sackville, Sir Richard, 212 
 
 Sackville, Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, 
 Earl of Dorset, 221, 336 
 
 Sadgrave, Sagrave, v. Segrave 
 
 Saham, Master Philip de, 36 
 
 Saham, William de. Justice Itiner- 
 ant, 298 
 
 Sairebruche, Comte de, v. Montagu, 
 Sir John 
 
 Sake, Alice dau. of John, 278 
 
 Salbe, Hervey de, 86 
 
 Salewine, Richard, 45 
 
 Salisbury, Earls of, v. Cecil ; Mon- 
 tagu ; Neville ; William Longe- 
 spee 
 
 Sallowe, Geoffrey de, 46 
 
 Salso Marisco, Saltemareis, Adam 
 
 de, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14-16 
 Salso Marisco, Saltemaries, Elias de, 
 
 13. 14 
 Salso Marisco, Saltemareis, Henry 
 
 de, 8, 14, 22 
 
 Salso Marisco, Hubert de, 18 
 
 Salso Marisco, Hugh de, 60, 83 
 
 Salso Marisco, John de, 151 
 
 Salso Marisco, Matilda wife of Will, 
 son of Elias de, 62 
 
 Salso Marisco, Sautemareis, Maurice 
 de, 73, 82, 83, 94-103, no, 113, 
 118, 125, 127, 130, 134, 136, 138 
 
 Salso Marisco, Saltemaresco, Salte- 
 mareis, Robert de, 4, 6, 7, 11 
 
 Salso Marisco, Will, son of Elias de, 
 62 
 
 Saltemareis, W de, 10 
 
 Salvagio, Adam de, 63 
 
 Salysbury, John, 184, 185 
 
 Samson, Robert, 54 
 
 Sampson, Abbot of Kingswood, 137 
 
 Sampson, son of Sampson, go 
 
 Sancta Brigida, Richard de, 99, 113, 
 114 
 
 Sancta Cruce, Robert de, 30, 43 
 Sancto Amando, Amautic de, 126, 
 
 139, 146, 177. 179 
 Sancto Andrea, Adam de, 53 
 
 Sancto Andrea, John son of Hugh 
 de, 120 
 
 Sancto Andrea, Richard de, 120 
 
 Sancto Andrea, Dom. Roger de, 87 
 
 Sancto Andrea, Thomas s. and h. of 
 Henry de, 120 
 
 Sancto Augustino, John de, 29 
 
 Sancto Eadmundo, Walter de, 90 
 
 Sancto Edmundo, William de, 45, 
 60, 62, 76, 77, 86-90 
 
 Sancto Edwardo, Peter de, 45, 50, 
 60, 62, 65, 69, 76, 77, 80, 85, 
 86, 88, 120, 140 
 
430 
 
 Index. 
 
 Sancto Georgio, William de, 69, 97 
 Sancto Germano, Anselm de, 118, 
 
 126, 139 
 Sancto Jacobo, Walter de, no, iii 
 St. Johan, John, 256, 272 
 St. Leger, John, 241, 244, 303 
 Sancto Leodegario, Reginald de, 27 
 Sancto Licio [St. Liz] Andiewde, 51 
 Sancto Licio, Henry de, 32, 92 
 Sancto Licio, Simon de, Knt., 132 
 Sancto Mauro, Hawisia wife of L. 
 
 de, 69 
 Sancto Mauro, Lawrence de, 69 
 Sancto Mauro, Nicholas de, 106, 131 
 Sancto Mauro, Roger de, 70 
 Sancto Mauro, William de, 70 
 Sancto Medardo, Geoffrey de, 128 
 Sancto Michaele, Simon de, in 
 Sancto Nicholao, Simon de, 97 
 St. Omer, Matilda de, 285 
 Sancto Quintino, Herbert de, 22 
 Sancto Salvatore, Eudo de, 12 
 Sancto Sampsone, Ralph de, 133 
 Sancto Vigore, Humphrey de, 8 
 Sancto Walerico, Bernard de, 272 
 Sancto Walerico, Reginald de, 272 
 Sandale, John de, 153 
 Sangrinel, Roger, 97, in 
 Sansun, W^illiam, 46 
 Santemars, Helias de, 16 
 Santemars, Robert de, 15 
 Satgrave v. Segrave 
 Saunders, John, 242 
 Saunford, Dom. Thomas de, 126 
 Sauvage, Geoffrey de, Justice, 60 
 Savage, George, clerk, 223 
 Savage, Joh^^, 223 
 Savaric, Dean of Bristol, 19 
 Savoner, Rich, le, clerk, 146 
 Saxelby, Hugh de, 104 
 Saxton, Robert de, 158 
 Scaccario, Andrew de, 44, 105 
 
 Scaccario, Henry de. Sheriff of Berks, 
 
 54. 126 
 Scai, Adam le, 37, 108, 125 
 Scai, Scay, Sckai, Roger de, 6, 8, 28 
 Scai, William le, 37, 108, 109 
 Scandeisell, Richard de, 140 
 
 Scay, Scray, Matthew le, 71, 81, 84, 
 108, 109, 127, 139 
 
 Scay, Ralph de, 12 
 
 Scepey, Seepey, Robert de, 45, 88, 89 
 
 Schalopesburia, Stephen de, 34 
 
 Schardelaghe, Schardelowoe, Hugh 
 
 de, 73^ 77 
 Schelvistone, Jocelin de, 98 
 Schelvistone, Will. s. of Joe. de, 98 
 Schey, John de, 126 
 Schey, Peter son of Matthew de, 126 
 Schiphard, John, 130 
 Schokerwich, William de, 146 
 Schypton, Dom. Thomas, Wardrobe 
 
 Keeper to Lord Berkeley, 283 
 Scipton, Dom. Gilbert de, 78 
 Scocia, John de. Earl ot Chester, etc. 
 
 78,79 
 Scone, Will, le, 120 
 Scoth, Nicholas, 117 
 Scoth, Thomas, 118 
 Scoticus, Robert de Waledon, 52 
 Scotland, Kings of : 
 
 Alexander IIL, 137 
 
 James VL, 222, 324, 331, 333 
 Scottard, Richard, 176 
 Scottus, Thomas, 109 
 Scray v. Scai, Scay 
 
 Scrope, Thomas le, loth Lord Scrope, 
 
 336 
 Scropes, Henry de, 102, 124 
 Scutarius, William, 43 
 
 Sebrook, Lionel, steward to Th., 
 Lord Berkeley, 183 
 
 Secegrave v. Segrave 
 
 Sechevile, Ralph de, 90 
 
 Sedgrave, Sedgravia v. Segrave 
 
 Sedle, Lucian de, 20 
 
Index. 
 
 431 
 
 Seepe, Seepey, v. Scepey 
 
 Sees, William de, 20 
 
 Segrave, Sadgrave, Sagrave, Satgrave, 
 Secegrave, Sedgrave, Sethgrava 
 
 Family of, 13, 294 
 
 Amabel, w. of Gilb. de, 76, 85 
 
 Edith, w. of Herebert de, 43 
 
 Edmund de, 68, 88, 89 
 
 Gilbert I. de, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 
 39, 43, 44, 88 
 
 Gilbert II. de, 13 «., 76, 85, 89, 
 98, loi, 103, 104, 117, 119, 
 131. 132 
 
 Gilbert, heir of Herebert, son of 
 Roger de, 43 
 
 Mag. Gilbert, 283 
 
 Henry de, 45, 62, 65, 69, 75, 76, 
 85, 87, 89, 90, 129 
 
 Herebert s. of Rog. de, 43 
 
 Hugh s. of Tho. de, 39 
 
 Hugh de, chaplain, 98 
 
 John de, 13 n. 
 
 John de. Warden of Scotland, etc. 
 
 150-153. 158, 159. 264, 283 
 John son of John de, 163 
 
 Nicholas, Baron Segrave, 13 «., 
 85 «,, 128, 130, 153, 264 
 
 Stephen I. de. Chief Justice, 13- 
 
 91 passim. 
 Stephen II. de, 13 «., 120, 128- 
 
 130, 132, 140, 149, ifo, 153, 
 
 156 
 Mag. Stephen de, 283 
 
 Thomas son of Anketil, 14, 16, 17 
 
 William son of Rog. de, 16 
 
 Seinewill, Senevil, William de, 48, 
 67,87, 117 
 
 Seled, a tenant in Rearsby, 88 
 
 Selewine, Robert, 107 
 
 Seli, Sely, Walter, no, 113, 114, 
 122, 124, 127, 137 
 
 Seli, William, 121 
 
 Sellarius, Richard, 102 
 
 Serdelawe v. Shardelaw 
 
 Sergeant, Thomas, 182 
 
 Sergeaunt, Sergiant, Seriant, John, 
 161, 172, 175, 241 
 
 Seriant, William le, 95 
 
 Serlo, Richard son of, 103 
 
 Ses, Hugh de, 44 
 
 Sethgrava v. Segrave 
 
 Seuahanton, Ailmer de, 44 
 
 Seuarc, William, 130 
 
 Seuari, !..bert, 58 
 
 Sewacre, Sewake, Sewaker, John, 
 93, 100, 106, 107, 1.3, 126, 133 
 
 Sewi, 72 
 
 Sewin, Thomas, of Croxton, 50 
 
 Seymore, Walter, 179 
 
 Seymour of Frampton, family of, 318 
 
 Seynmar, Rich, le, 120 
 
 Seyntleye, John de, 64 
 
 Shardelaw, Robert de. Justice, 76 
 
 Shep', Shepeya, Shepeye, Robert de, 
 SO, 90, 103, 129 
 V. also Scepey 
 
 Sheparde, Walter, 268 
 
 Sherley, Sir Henry, 340 
 
 Sherly, George, of Astwell, 232 
 
 Shipiere, Philip, 179 
 
 Shipman, family of, 296 
 
 Shipward, John, sen.. Mayor of 
 Bristol, 191 
 
 Shipward, John, jun., 191 
 
 Shipward, Walter le, 126 
 
 Shipwarde, George, 280 
 
 Shirley, Ralph, Knt., 204, 257 
 
 Shotindon, Robert de, 133 
 
 Shrapnel, W. F., Steward of Berke- 
 ley, 275, 283, 293 
 
 Shrewsbury, Earls of, v. Talbot 
 
 Sibsthorp, Thomas de, parson of 
 Bekyngham, 158 
 
 Sidenhale, Avice sister of Rog. de, 86 
 
 Sidenhale, Roger de, 86 
 
 Sidney, Barbara w. of Rob., Vis- 
 count Lisle, 245 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 297 
 
 Sidney, Robert, Viscount Lisle, 245, 
 248 
 
 Sidney, Will., son of Rob., Viscount 
 Lisle, 245 
 
432 
 
 Index. 
 
 Sifrewast, Syfrewast, Rog. de, 40, 81 
 
 Silicot, Hugh de, 67 
 
 Simon, clerk of Austrey, 99 
 
 Simon, clericus de Heuthlingburg, 98 
 
 Simon, clerk, 86, 99 
 
 Simon, son of Alured, 69 
 
 Sipton, Gilbart de, 91 
 
 Sipward, Alured le, 93 
 
 Sitsilt V. Cecil 
 
 Siuard, superbus, 26 
 
 Siwaldebi, Alan de, 89 
 
 Siwaldebi, Siwoldebi, John de, 51, 89 
 
 Siward, Dom. Richard, 80 
 
 Sixtenebi, Thomas de, 47 
 
 Sixtenebi, Will, son of Tho. de, 19 
 
 Sixteneby, Sixceneby, William de, 
 90, 104 
 
 Skenefrid, Mahel de, 13 
 
 Skot, Marg., wife of N, le, 254 
 
 Skot, Nicholas le, 254 
 
 Skypward, Alured le, 113 
 
 Slane, Edith, 65, 69 
 
 Slide, Richard, 118 
 
 Slimbrige, Slirnbruge, Helias de, 25, 
 
 33, 57 
 Slimbrigga, Juliana de, 33 
 Slirnbruge, Aimer de, 93 
 Slirnbruge, Alured son of A. de, 93 
 Slimbruge, Hugh son of Alured, son 
 
 of Aimer de, 93 
 
 Slimbrugg, Master Maurice de, 25 
 
 Sloetre, Slohter, Robert de, 16, 42 
 
 Smalcombe, William, 175, 179 
 
 Smart, John, 160 
 
 Smart, Philip, 160 
 
 Smith, J , 326 
 
 Smith, Miles, Bishop of Gloucester, 
 312 
 
 Smyth, Edward, 317 
 
 Smyth, John, of Nibley, Historian of 
 the Berkeleys, 240, 245-247, 281, 
 282, 293, 306, 307, 314, 317, 
 324. 338 
 
 Smyth, John H. of Nibley, 250, 317 
 
 Smyth, John, customer of Southamp- 
 ton Port, 229 
 
 Smyth, Robert, 282 
 
 Smyth, Thomas, of Wanswell, 248 
 
 Smyth, William, Rouge Dragon, 296 
 
 Smythe, Thomas, Alderman of Lon- 
 don, 242 
 
 Smythe, William, Keeper of Mickel- 
 wood Chace, 280 
 
 Snellinge, Rob. Bailiff of Ipswich, 234 
 
 Snigga, Snigge, Walter, 18, 35, 38, 
 52 
 
 Snipestre, Ralph de, 44 
 
 Sokerwik, Roger de, 82 
 
 Soleigneio, Alured de, 54 
 
 Solero, Dom. Henry de, Knt., 149 
 
 Someri, Sumeri, William de, 91, 102 
 
 Somerset, Earl of, v. Carr 
 
 Somerset, Duke of, v. Beaufort 
 
 Somerset, Edward, 4th Earl of Wor- 
 cester, 339 
 
 Somerset, Henry, Duke of Beaufort, 
 343 
 
 Somerset, William, 3rd Earl of Wor- 
 cester, 329 
 
 Somery, Amabel w. of R. de, 85 n, 
 
 Somery, Roger de, 85 n. 
 
 Sondes, William, Lord Sondes, 287 
 
 Sone, John le, 117 
 
 Sopere, Richard le, 126 
 
 Sorel, Thomas, 31, 53 
 
 Sorestan, Richard de, 109 
 
 Soreston, Robert de, 81 
 
 Southwell, Elizabeth, 340 «. 
 
 Spana, Bernard de, 16 
 
 Sparesholt, Will, son of John de, 139 
 
 Sparkeford, de, 74 
 
 Sparkeford, Helias, 74 
 
 Sparkeford, Robert de, 42, 74 
 
 Speciarius, Robert, Provost of North- 
 ampton, 75 
 
 Speciarius, Robert, 140 
 
 Spencer, Thomas, 246 
 
 Spencer, William, 193 
 
Index. 
 
 433 
 
 Spenser, Eliz. , dau. of Sir John, wife 
 of Sir G. Carew, 252 
 
 Spereke, Walter, 119 
 
 Spileman, John, 118 
 
 Spilemon, Spyleman, Walter, 64, 
 118, 124 
 
 Spineto, Walter de, 63 
 
 Spryng, John, Sheriff of Bristol, 292 
 
 Spuz, Matilda de, wife of Rob. de 
 Novilla, S3 
 
 Stabler, Robert le, 51, 83 
 
 Stafford, Anne, Duchess of Buck- 
 ingham, 187, 188 
 
 Stafford, Edward, 3rd Duke of 
 Buckingham, 213, 283 
 
 Stafford, Henry, Duke of Bucking- 
 ham, 327 
 
 Stafford, Hugh de, Earl |of Stafford, 
 316 
 
 Stafford, Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, 
 281 
 
 Stafford, Humphrey, Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, 186, 317 
 
 Stafford, John, Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, 186 
 
 Stafford, Thomas de. Earl of Staf- 
 ford, 317 
 
 Stalipres, Roger, 44 
 
 Stampes, John son of Rog. de, 127 
 
 Stampes, Rich, son of Rog. de, 127 
 
 Stane, Stanes, Bernard de, 13, 14, 
 18, 22, 24, 29, 31, 32, 35, 36, 38, 
 52, 60-62, 117, 181 
 
 Stane, Stanes, Maurice de, 93, 94, 
 96,99, 103, no, 118, 122, 127, 
 130, 138 
 
 Stane, Stanes, Stannes, Robert de, 
 58, 129, 141, 148, 149 
 
 Stane, Stanes, William de, no, 118, 
 127 
 
 Stanes, Henry de, 13 
 Stanes, Peter de, 57, 58 
 Stanes, Ralph de, 59 
 Stanford, Godfrey de, 17 
 Stanhope, Sir John, 244 
 Stanhope, Sir Michael, Groom of the 
 Chamber, 243, 315 
 
 Stanlega, John de, nepos Matild. de 
 Landa. 55 
 
 Stanlega, William de, 125 
 Stanley, Thomas, Lord Stanley, 189 
 Stanley, Thomas, Earl of Derby, 197 
 Stanley, William, Knt., 189 
 Stanton aL Staunton, Alice de, 77 
 Stanton, Robert de, 134 
 Stanton, Walter de, 96 
 Stapleton, Robert de, 147 
 
 Stapleton, Walter de, Bishop of Ox- 
 ford, 273 
 
 Staunton, John de, 180 
 
 Staunton, Roger de, 150 
 
 Staveleia, Adam de, 34 
 
 Stephen, Clerk, 53, 106 
 
 Stephen, bro. of " Richer clericus de 
 Roele," 14 
 
 Stephen, Virgo al. Parvus, 26 
 
 Steple, William de, 63 
 
 Stevens, John, 179 
 
 Stewart, Col. William, Scotch Am- 
 bassador, 332 
 
 Stihelvei, Peter de, 26 
 Stintescomlje, Harding de, 8 
 
 Stintescombe, Stintescumbe, Roger 
 de, 8, 13 
 
 Stintescumb, Ralph de, 13 
 
 Stintescumbe,^ Stintecumbe, Stintis- 
 cumbe, Styntescumbe, Peter de, 
 45. 51. 57-59.63,66, 72. 73, 83, 
 92,93, 104, 110-I12, 129, 147, 
 154. 157 
 
 Stintescumbe, Thomas de, 102 
 
 Stivintun, Richard de, 106 
 
 Stivintuu, Stiwentun, Symon son of 
 R. de, 106, 119 
 
 Stock, Sansun de la, 117 
 
 Stocke, William de la, 117 
 
 Stockewall, William, 179 
 
 Stokes, Robert de, 128 
 
 Stokes, Saiher de, 20 
 
 Stone, Robert de, 142, 154, 308 
 
 Stone, Roberd of, Lord of Wans well 
 and Stone, 297 
 
434 
 
 Index. 
 
 Stourton, William, i8i 
 
 Stowe, Nicholas de, Constable of 
 Berkeley, 102 
 
 Stowe, Stephen, 255 
 
 Straunge, John, 327 
 
 Straunge, Robert, Sheriff and Mayor 
 of Bristol, 190, 193 
 
 Stretton, John de, 166 
 
 Stretun, Helias de, 28 
 
 Strickland, John, Rector of Sutton- 
 Bunnington, 249 
 
 Stuart, Lady Arabella, 244, 337 
 
 Stuart, Charles, Sth Earl of Len- 
 nox, 331 
 
 Stuart, Ludovic, Duke of Lennox, 
 
 339 
 Stuoet, Walter, 112 
 Stures, Walter de, 28 
 Stut, Richard, 113 
 Stut, Walter, 93 
 Stut, William, 8 
 Stutecumb, Richard de, 36 
 Stywarde, Richard, 124 
 
 Suanintona, Adam, son of Adam son 
 of Gunel de, 27 
 
 Sub-Gardino, Robert, 85 
 
 Sudely, Ralph, Lord, 186 
 
 Sudinton, Master Thomas de, 149 
 
 Sudleia, Ralph de, 20 
 
 Suffolk, Duke of, v. Brandon, 
 Charles 
 
 Suht, John, de Culkertune, 127 
 
 Suint', Walter de, 28 
 
 Suit', Richard, clerk of, 28 
 
 Sulby, Dom. Bartholomew de, 142 
 
 Sulign', Saulingm', Alured de, 53 
 
 Sumerford, Reginald de, 12 
 
 Sumeri, v. Someri 
 
 Sumery, Ralph, 29 
 
 Sune, John le, 14 
 
 Sune, Ralph, 78 
 
 Super-la-Grene, John, 122, 123 
 
 Surmanensis, Albertus, 171 
 
 Surrey, Earl of, v. Warenna 
 
 Sussex, Earl of, v. Ratcliffie 
 
 Sutheberi, Hugh de, 63 
 
 Suthleic, Ralph de, 91 
 
 Sutton, John, 181 
 
 Sutton, Mabel, w. of Will, de, 60 
 
 Sutton, Richard de, Knt., 87 
 
 Sutton, William de, 60 
 
 Suttorp, Tho. son of Rob. de, 127 
 
 Swan, Henry, 62 
 
 Swanhungre, Swonhungre, Thomas 
 de, 103, 117, 129, 146, 148, 154 
 
 Swanley, John, jun, 187 
 
 Swonhangre, Elyas de, 175 
 
 Swonhungre, John de, 151 
 
 Swift, Jonathan, 311 
 
 Swigin, chaplain, 36 
 
 Swillington, Roger, 265 
 
 Sybil, Abbess of Wilton, 174 
 
 Sybil, w. of Nich. son of Rog. , 109 
 
 Syde, William de, 154, 160, 161, 
 163, 164, 170, 177, 181, 274, 277, 
 284 
 
 Sydney, Sir Henry, 226, 322 
 Sydney, Marg. w. of Sir Hen., 296 
 Sydney, Robert, Earl of Leicester, 
 339 
 
 Syfrewast, v. Sifrewast 
 
 Symon, v. Simon 
 
 Symon, Will, son of Walt., 64 
 
 TABLESFORD. Tevellesford, 
 Ivor de, 34, 35 
 
 Taillour, Robert le, 160 
 
 Taillur, Roger, 115 
 
 Takel, Ralph, 104 
 
 Takel, William, 104 
 
 Talbot, Lady, [1504], 263 
 
 Talbot, Joan, wife of James, Lord 
 Berkeley, 187 
 
 Talbot, Edward, Viscount Lisle, 
 263, 266 
 
 Talbot, Eliz. wife of John, Duke of 
 Norfolk, 199 
 
Index. 
 
 435 
 
 Talbot, Eliz., Lady Lisle, [1546], 
 212 
 
 Talbot, Lady Elizabeth, 191, 301 
 Talbot, Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, 
 
 336 
 Talbot, Henry, 180 
 
 Talbot, Joan, Lady Lisle, [1500], 
 263 
 
 Talbot, John, ist Earl of Shrews- 
 bury, 1 86, 266, 300 
 
 Talbot, John, Viscount Lisle, 186, 
 212, 296 
 
 Talbot, Margaret, wife of John, ist 
 Earl of Shrewsbury, 185, 188, 
 189, 266. Inlrod. 
 
 Talbot, Margaret, widow of Thomas, 
 
 Viscount Lisle, 193. Introd, 
 
 Talbot, Lady Margaret, 191, 301 
 
 Talbot, Thomas, Viscount Lisle, 
 [slain at Nibley], 188, 191-193, 
 266, 270, 298. Introd. 
 
 Talebot, Ermintruda d. of Roger, 
 68 ». 
 
 Talebot, Rob. son of Ralph, 27 
 Tanator, Thomas, de Graham, 41 
 Taney, Will, de. Steward of Berke- 
 ley, 98, 130 
 TannariUs, Ralph, 130 
 Tanquart, Richard, 122 
 Tatereshall, Walter de, 128 
 Taverner, Roger le, 130 
 Tece, Jordan, 106 
 Tedballdus, clericus, 75 
 Tefleford, Heliasde, 129 
 Tefleford, Thomas de, 129 
 Teinton, Lewis de, 19 
 Temple, John de, notary public, 130 
 Teste, Lawrence, 267 
 
 Tetbury, Robert de, Abbot of Kings- 
 wood, 150 
 
 Tettebire, Philip de, 71 
 
 Tevellesford, v. Tablesford 
 
 Textor, John, of Claverdon, 114 
 
 Textor, Richard, the Clerk, son of 
 John, 114 
 
 Teysante, Thomas, 214 
 
 Thame, Philip de. Prior of the Hos- 
 pital of jSt. John of Jerusalem, 
 162 
 
 Thaylard, Ralph, 67 
 
 Thebanensis, Paulus, 171 
 
 Their, Simon, 26 
 
 Theobald, son of Walter, 21 
 
 Thiringeham, Thomas de, 34 
 
 Thirintona, Master Walter de, 37 
 
 Thodric, GeofiF. son of Hugh, 86 
 
 Thodric, Hugh, 86 
 
 Tboki, Toki, Alice, 52, 82 
 
 Tholi, Toli, Robert, 65, 69 
 
 Thomas, Prior of St. Andrew's, 
 Northampton, 140 
 
 Thomas, Parson of Newington, 37, 
 
 71, 100 
 Thomas, capellanus de Cnolla, 34 
 Thomas, chaplain of Foxcote, 30 
 Thomas, clerk of Dudinton, 28 
 Thomas, clericus de Stratton, 1 1 1 
 Thomas, clerk of Tort worth, 1 18 
 Thomas, clericus de Wyditone, 106 
 Thomas, chaplain, 13 
 Thomas, the clerk, 114 
 
 Thomas, Dispensarius al. Dispen- 
 
 sator, 14, 2Q 
 Thomas, serviens, 133 
 Thomas, serviens, of Austrey, 99 
 Thomas, serviens, of Berkeley, 96 
 Thomas, Walensis, 149 
 Thomas, son of Andrew, 97, 115 
 Thomas, son of Anthony, 147 
 Thomas, son of Baldwin, 112 
 Thomas, son of Geremund, 17 
 Thomas, son of Gervase, 17 
 Thomas, fil. Goche, 16 
 Thomas fil, Gore, 16 
 
 Thomas, son of Gregory, clerk of 
 Exton, 67 
 
 Thomas, son of Hugh, clerk of 
 
 Croxton, 114 
 Thomas, son of Nicholas, 123 
 Thomas, son of Richard, 42 
 
 Thomas, son of Robert Nepos de 
 Osleworth, 42 
 
436 
 
 Index. 
 
 Thomas, so" of Simon, li6 
 Thomas, son of Thomas, Bailiff cf 
 
 Croxton, 114 
 Thomas, son of William, 34 
 Thomas, frater Domini [de Wick], 
 
 28 
 Thomas, family ol, 318 
 Thomas, John, of Newport, 243 
 Thomas, Richard, Bailiff to Lord 
 
 Berkeley, 236 
 Thomas, Robert, 206, 255 
 Thomond, Earl of, v. O'Brien 
 Thorend, William de, 72 
 Thorenny, Torenni, Rob. de, 36, 40 
 Thoringn', Thoringtun, Ran. de, 35 
 Thoringn', Robert de, 35 
 Thorp, Geoffrey de, 14 
 Thorp, Nicholas de, 87 
 Thorp, Richard de, 77, 86, 117, 128 
 Thorp, Robert de, clericus, 48 
 Thorp, Robert de, 87 
 Thorpe family, 318 
 Thorpe, George, 243, 248, 249, 282 
 Thorpe, George, of Wanswell, 263 
 Thorpe, John son of Geo. , 260 
 Thorpe, Marg. wid. of George, 260 
 Thorpe, Marg. dau. of Geo., 260 
 Thorpe, Martin de, 119 
 Thorpe, Nicholas, of Wanswell, 221, 
 
 259 
 Thorpe, Will, son of Geo., 260 
 Thorpp, John, 188 
 Throgmorton family, 318 
 
 Throgmorton, Throkmorton, Sir Tho- 
 mas, of Tortworth, -jof), n., 
 268, 329, 330, 333 
 
 Throkmerton, George, 237 
 
 Thudeham, Bartholomew de, 127 
 
 Thudeham, Eadmund de, 127 
 
 Thudeham, Jocelin de, 127 
 
 Thurban, Robert, 210 
 
 Thuringeham, Thomas de, 59 
 
 Thurkelby, Roger de, loi 
 
 Thursteineston, Thursteinastun, 
 Thursteintun, Tursteinston, Turs- 
 teineton,Tuttanesthan, etc. Ralph 
 de, 17, 20, 39, 44, 46-49, 61, 64, 
 69, 87-89 
 
 Thursteinistun, Rob. sen of Ralph 
 
 de, 88 
 Tibeton, Robert de, 148 
 
 Tike, John, 94 
 
 Tillebury, Godselm de, 72 
 
 Tilli, Dom. Walter de, 80 
 
 Tim pan, Hugh, 19 
 
 Tindale, Robert de, 127 
 
 Tiringham, Thomas de, 25, 36, 62, 
 
 63, 129 
 Tirrell, Edward, 237 
 
 Tisun, Tysun, Walter, 47, 51, 83, 
 84, 107 
 
 Toke, nurse of Alice de Berkele, 25 
 
 Toki, z/. Thoki 
 
 Tolebu, Simon, 42 
 
 Toll, V. Tholi 
 
 Tomkins, John, gatekeeper at Berke- 
 ley, 280 
 
 Torell, William, 72 
 
 Torenni, v, Thorenni 
 
 Tormertun, Mael de, 16 
 
 Tornour, Robert, 185 
 
 Tornour, William, 185 
 
 Torp, Geoffrey de, 39 
 
 Torp, Nicholas de, 72 
 
 Torp, Ralph de, 48 
 
 Torp, Reginald de, 47 
 
 Torp, Richard son of Serlo de, 131 
 
 Torp, Robert de, 49, 69, 86 
 
 Torp, Serlo, 131 
 
 Torp, William de, 134 
 
 Torp, V. also Thorp 
 
 Torteworth, Henry, 255 
 
 Tracy family, 318 
 
 Tracy, John, 333 
 
 Tracy, William, Sheriff of Glouces- 
 ter, 277 
 
 Traford, Anselm de, 42 
 
 Travers, William, of Winchendon, 
 120 
 
Index. 
 
 437 
 
 Tregoz, R de, 134 
 
 Treigoz, Pobert, 23 
 
 Treilli, Trelli, William, 78, 108, 139 
 
 Trenewyth, Ralph, 179 
 
 Tresgroys, Dom. John, Knt. , 149 
 
 Trevysa, John, Vicar of Berkeley, 
 
 293. Introd. 
 Troham, Richard de, 40 
 
 Troi, Wido de, 27 
 
 Trotman, Jocelin, Bishop of Bath, 74 
 
 Trowella, Nicholas de, 17 
 
 Trussi, William, 37 
 
 Try, William and Isabella, 194 
 
 Trye family, 318 
 
 Trye, Gerard, 209 
 
 Trye, Thomas, of Caloughdon, 210, 
 
 263 
 Tudderle, William, clerk, 179 
 
 Tudinton, Robert de, 20 
 
 Tudintona, Philip de, 20 
 
 Tuiford, Twiford, Twyford, Robert 
 de, 14, 17, 20, 32, 43, 67, 88 
 
 Tumberlaye, Roger de, 121 
 
 Tuneb', Master William de, 53, 56 
 
 Tur, Richard de la, 50 
 
 Turevilla, Turvill, Geoff, de, 30, 53 
 
 Turkel fil. Hoviet, 17 
 
 Turkelby,Turketleby, Rog. de,6o,8l 
 
 Turkil, 48 
 
 Turner, Ann, 317 
 
 Turpin, Mahu, 35 
 
 Turre, Gregory de, 1 1 
 
 Tursteineston, etc. v, Thursteineston 
 
 Turtanesthan, v. Thursteineston 
 
 Turvill, Geoff, de, v. Turevilla 
 
 Turvill, Hamo de, 85 
 
 Turvill, Rich, de, parson of Penn, 50 
 
 Turvill, Richard de, 89 
 
 Turvill, Robert de, 21 
 
 Turvill, Turvilla, William de, 32, 89 
 
 Tuschet, Thomas de, 54 
 
 Twiford, Twyford, v Tuiford 
 
 Tyeis, Henry le. Gustos of Oxford, 
 146 
 
 Tyeis, Henry le, 271 
 
 Tyes, family of, 177 n. 
 
 Tyes, Alice, 177 n. 
 
 Tyes, Henry, Lord, 177 
 
 Tyndale, Edward, Receiver, for the 
 King, of Berkeley Lordship, 205, 
 206 
 
 Tyndale, Richard, 287 
 
 Tyndale, Thomas, 329 
 
 Tyndall, Edith dau. of Rich., 215 
 
 Tyndall, Richard and Katharine, of 
 Stinchcombe, 215 
 
 Tyrel, Ralph, 65 
 
 Tyringeham, Tyringham, Thomas de, 
 40, 58, 92, 93 
 
 Tyringham, Thomas de. Prior of 
 
 Stanley St. Leonard's, 308 
 Tyringetun, Thomas de, 66 
 Tysun, v. Tisun 
 
 u 
 
 UDLISFORD, William son 
 Will, and Marg. de, 52 
 
 Uffington, James de, 115 
 
 Uffinton, Peter de, 126 
 
 Uffinton, Robert de, 115 
 
 Ulehale, Henry de, 122 
 
 Ulpenne, Bartholomew de, 149 
 
 Ulrich, W^illiam, 52 
 
 Undirlych, William de, chaplain, 164 
 
 Unfridus, Superbus, 26 
 
 Uppilla, Hugh de, 23 
 
 Upthorp, Peter de, 37 
 
 Upton, Bartholomew de, 20 
 
 Upton, William de, 91 
 
 Uptun, Robert de, 136 
 
 Uptune, Walter de, 71 
 
 Urswyk, Thomas, 194 
 
 T 7"ACCARIUS, Rob. son of Will. 
 
 Vaccarius, William, 93 
 
 Vacher, Hugh le, of Croxton, 122 
 
438 
 
 Index. 
 
 Vale, John le, 96 
 
 Valain', Tedbald de, 19 
 
 Valence, Joan w. of William de, 
 Countess of Pembroke, 142 
 
 Valence, William de, Earl of Pem- 
 broke, 142 
 
 Valentia, William de, uncle of King 
 Edward I., 147 
 
 Valeynes, Thomas de, Knt. 132 
 
 Valle, Robert de, Knt., 146 
 
 Valoniis, Valounes, Hamo de, 21 
 
 Valstein, Thai et Trautmanstorflf, 
 Amadeus, Baron de, 343 
 
 Vane, Henry, Chamberlain to the 
 Earl of Stafford [1437], 281 
 
 Varner, pincerna, 40 
 
 Vassal, Geoffrey, 42 
 
 Vassal, Hugh, 23, 42 
 
 Vaughan, Walter, of Golden Grove, 
 227 
 
 Vaughan, William, 230 
 
 Vans, Hubert de, 59 
 
 Veel, family of, 318 
 
 Veel, Peter de, Knt., 157 
 
 Veel, Dom. Robert le, 81, 98, 126, 
 141, 148, 299 
 
 Veel, William, 83 
 
 Veer, v. Ver 
 
 Veisin, William, 44 
 
 Velur, William le, 114 
 
 Venator, William, 112 
 
 Venur, Michael le, 127, 129 
 
 Venur, William le, 120 
 
 Ver, Baldwin de, 54 
 
 Ver, Dom. Robert de, 92, 98 
 
 Verdun, Annora wid. of Dom. Walt, 
 de, 126 
 
 Verdun, Ralph de, 26 
 
 Verdun, Richard de, 49 
 
 Verdun, Verdoun, Roger de, 121, 
 
 150 
 Verdun, Dom. Walter de, 126 
 
 Verdun, William de. Archdeacon of 
 Gloucester, 33, 38 
 
 Verney, Verniz, William de, 49 
 
 Vernon, Guarin de, 53 
 
 Vernon, Ralph de, Clerk to Ranulph, 
 Earl of Chester, 53 
 
 Vernon, Robert de, 12 
 
 Vernon, Robert, 334 
 
 Vernun, William de, 54 
 
 Vesci, Peter de, 31, 53 
 
 Veun, Henry de, 80 
 
 Veysee, William le, 147 
 
 Vhiteswrhe, William son of Bertram 
 
 de, 53 
 Vike, Peter de, 105 
 Vilers, Guy son of Rog. de, 24 
 Vilers, Walter de, 24 
 Vilers, Wiot de, 25 
 Viliers, William de, 2i 
 Villars, Sir John, 267 
 Ville, Thomas de la, 23 
 Vinea, Nicholas de, clerk, 103 
 Vitalis, Monk of Kingswood, 100 
 Vitor, Simon, 75 
 Vitulus, V. Veel 
 Vivien, Robert, 16 
 
 Vouler, Gonilda wife of Roger le, 
 wid. of M. de Baggepath, 137 
 
 Vouler, Roger le, de Hulle, 137 
 
 Vydevyle, Richard, 174 
 
 Vyell, Henry, SherifiF of Bristol, 
 
 [1374], 292 
 Vyllers, John, 265 
 
 Vyvoun, Petronilla, Domina de But- 
 ton, 133 
 
 w 
 
 w 
 
 , Abbot of Kingswood, 25 
 
 W , Sacristan of Bristol Abbey, 
 
 Wace, John son of Walt,, 27 
 Wace, Philip son of Elias, 27 
 Wace, Philip, 129 
 Wade, John, of Bristol, 212 
 Wade, Roger, "Crouder," 153 
 
Index. 
 
 439 
 
 Wager, Richard, io6, 107 
 
 Wain, Walter, 46 
 
 Wakelin, rector de Hanlop, 90 
 
 Wakelyn, Richard, of Lollington, 199 
 
 Waldesef, R de, magister Sle- 
 
 beth, 146 
 
 Waldesek, Ralph de, 134 
 
 Waldis, William de, 134 
 
 Wale, John, of Bristol, 254 
 
 Wale, William, 119 
 
 Waleis, Waleys, Ralph, 175, 176 
 
 Walensis, David, 22 
 
 Walerand, Dom. Robert, Sheriff of 
 Gloucester, 97, 131, 132 
 
 Walesham, Clement de, 72 
 
 Walesham, Nicholas de, 72 
 
 Waleton, Robert de, 45, 85, 88 
 
 Waletun, Osbert de, 49 
 
 Waleys, Johanna, Prioress of St. 
 Mary Magdalene, Bristol, 187 
 
 Waleys, Philip le, 148 
 
 Walkelin, 6 
 
 Walkelin, Canon of Bristol, 37 
 
 Waller, Anne wid. of Rich., 240 
 
 Waller, Thomas son of Rich., 240 
 
 Waller, Sir William, 340 
 
 Wallet, Richard, 186 
 
 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 331, 333 
 
 Walter, Bishop of Worcester, 153 
 
 Walter, Prior of Bath, 35 
 
 Walter, Prior of Kenil worth, 122 
 
 Walter, Dean of Cam, 19 
 
 Walter, Dean of , 38 
 
 Walter, capellanus de Castelio, 18 
 
 Walter, chaplain to Robert de Ber- 
 
 chele, 22 
 Walter, chaplain of Berkeley, 38 
 
 Walter, clericus de Stanes, 127 
 
 Walter, chaplain, 29, 30, 52 
 
 Walter, clericus, "cognomentoarchi- 
 diaconus, 55 
 
 Walter, clerk, 125 
 
 Walter, magister de Gosintun, 121 
 
 Walter, homo persone, 58 
 
 . Walter, vetus prepositus, 93 
 
 Walter, son of Agnes, 117 
 
 Walter, son of Alan, 98 
 
 Walter, son of Albert, 7, 13 
 
 Walter, son of Alwin, 13 
 
 Walter, son of Edward, 28 
 
 Walter, fil. Henrici Monetarii, 119 
 
 Walter, fil. Holfi, 112 
 
 Walter, son of Ric. son of Suetric, 
 
 35 
 Waltham, Henry de, 79 
 
 Walton, Richard de, 106 
 Waltun, Pagan de, 129 
 Wamstrong, Thomas, 181 
 Wanci, Wauci, Geoflfrey de, 18, 71 
 Wanci, Robert de, 23 
 Wanci, William de, 54 
 Wandlyngtone, Alexander de, 106 
 Waneswelle, Jordan de, 50 
 Wanetingre, Jocelin de, 67 
 Wappenbiri, John de, 17 
 Wapjienbiri, Rob. son of Tho. de, 
 
 17 
 Warbast, Alice w. of John, 173 
 Warbast, John, 173 
 Warbulton, Richard, 273 
 Warcebec, Roliert de, 44 
 Warde, Matthew, M.A., 244 
 Warde, Symon, 174 
 Warenna v. also Warren 
 Warenna, Fulch de, 11 
 Warenna, John de, Earl of Surrey, 
 
 157. 159 
 Warenna, Reginald de, 1 1 
 
 Warennarius, William, 11 
 
 Warenoshebi, Warenothebi, Gilbert 
 de, 16 
 
 Warin, chaplain, 55, 56 
 
 Warin, son of Geoffrey, 16 
 
 Warknotheb', Ralph de, junior, 51 
 
 Warner, family of, 297 
 
 Warre, Lord de la, v. West 
 
 Warre, John la, 30, 70 
 
 Warre, Jordan le, 6, 58, 78,80, 97, 98 
 
440 
 
 Index. 
 
 Wane, Peter la, 22, 58, 78 
 
 Warre, Richard le, 80 
 
 Warra, Robert la, 35, 46, 58, 181 
 
 Warren v. also Warenna 
 
 Warren, Hamelin, Earl of, 11 
 
 Warrenne, William, Earl of, 36, 89 
 
 Warrenne, William de, Earl of Sur- 
 rey, 78 
 
 Warwick, Earls of, v. Beauchamp ; 
 
 Nevile 
 Warwick, Countess of, v. Rich 
 Waryn, William, of Bristol, 185 
 Wassaund, Alan de, loi 
 Wasseburn, William de, 91 
 Wasteneis, Wasteneys, William de, 
 
 65, 69, 73, 77. 87, 140 
 Wastingele, Walter de, 134 
 Watersip, VA^'illiam de, no 
 Watson, Edward, 267 
 Wattevil, Robert de, 7 
 Wauci, V. Wanci 
 Waude, Walter de la, Steward to 
 
 Warin, fil. Geroldi, 66 
 Wautone, Dom. John de, 97, 126, 
 
 136 
 Wauton, William de, Knt., 151, 
 
 157, 276 
 
 Wayneswelle, Henry de, 151 
 
 Wayneterre, Hugh, 117 
 
 Waynflete, William, Bp. of Win- 
 chester, 132 «., 186, 189 
 
 Waz, Walter, 115 
 
 Webbe, John, Alderman of the Holy 
 Cross Guild, Stratford, 184 
 
 Webbe, Nicholas, of Wotton, 288 
 
 Webbe, Richard, 243 
 
 Webbe, William, of Dursley, 227 
 
 Weche, Robert, 70 
 
 Welentone, Richard de, 40 
 
 Welleford, Ralph de, 79 
 
 Welshe family, 318 
 
 Wenden, Geoff, son of Ralph, de, 97 
 
 Wenden, Matilda wife of G. de, 97 
 
 Wenden, Matthew de, 97 
 
 Wenden, Ralph de, 97 
 
 Wendon, John son of Geoff, de, 53 
 
 Weneswell, Henry de, 146 
 
 Wenneval, William de, 21 
 
 Wenri, William, 13 
 
 Were, Robert de, s. of Rob. Fitz- 
 harding, 21, 40, 80 
 
 V. also Fitzharding 
 
 Wermeinstere, Wermyster, William 
 de, 105, 179 
 
 Werdun, Ysoulda de, 72 
 
 Werra, David la, 24 
 
 Werra, Herbert, 12 
 
 Werra, Werre, John la, 21, 24, 78 
 
 Werr', Richard, 78 
 
 Werra, Robert la, clerk, 24 
 
 Werra, Rog. bro. of John la, 24 
 
 Werra, Thomas son of Herb, la, 24 
 
 Werra, Walt, son of Herb, la, 24 
 
 Werstun, Michael de, 40 
 
 West, Lords de la Warre, 297, 311 
 
 West, John, Groom of the Queen's 
 
 Chamber, etc., 218 
 
 West, Richard, 318 
 
 West, Thomas, sen,, 231 
 
 Westcote, William de, 71, 73, 78, 
 108, 139 
 
 Westmoreland, Earl of, v. Neville 
 
 Weston, Charles, 261 
 
 Weston, Roger de, 12, 15 
 
 Weston. William de, son of Ralph 
 de Welleford, 79 
 
 Westwude, Richard de, 71 
 
 Wetelej, Robert de, 65 
 
 Weyland. John de, 147 
 
 Whicheton, William de, 129 
 
 White, Robert, of Bristol, Coflferer, 
 210 
 
 Whitgift, John, Archbp. of Canter- 
 bury, 232 
 
 Whitney, Sir James, Bart., 333 
 
 Whitynton, Thomas, 189 
 
 Wic', Liofifus de, 28 
 
 Wica, Richard son of Alured de, 5 1 
 
Index. 
 
 441 
 
 Wich, John de, 44 
 
 Wicha, Reginald de la, 28 
 
 Wichintoni Henry de, 19 
 
 Wik, Wyk, Andrew de, 115, 119 
 
 Wik, Wika, Wike, Wyka, Peter de, 
 
 93-96, 99> 103. 106, 107, 113, 
 
 114, 116, 122, 133 
 
 Wika, Arnold do, 112 
 
 Wika, Wike, Hugh de, 24, 47, 58, 
 59, 106 
 
 Wika, John de, 123 
 
 Wike, Dionysia, w. of Rich, de, 148 
 
 Wike, Wyke, Richard de, 114, 148 
 
 Wike, Robert at, 112 
 
 Wike, Wyke, William de la, 58, 86, 
 
 129 
 Wil, John, 166 
 
 Wileton, Wilintun, Dom. Ralph de, 
 63, 81, 82, no 
 
 Wiliton, John de, 148 
 
 Wilintun, Nich, son of Ralph de, 81 
 
 Wilkyns, Willia a. Steward of Hin- 
 ton, 279 
 
 William son of Henry, Duke of Nor- 
 mandy, 6 
 
 William, Marshal, aft. Earl of Pem- 
 broke, 18, 23 
 
 William, " Longesp^e," Earl of 
 Salisbury, 14, i8, 29 
 
 William, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 
 
 134 
 William, [de Lorgchamps], Bp. 
 
 Elect of Ely, Chancellor, 18 
 
 William, Bishop of Imlay, 149 
 William, Bishop of Llandaff, l6 
 William, Bishop of Worcester, 55 
 William, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 
 
 36 
 William, Dean of Arlingham, 47, 99, 
 
 no 
 
 William, Abbot of Bordesley, 38 
 William, Abhot of Combe, 45 
 William, Abbot of Bristol, 82, 94, 
 99,105 
 
 William, Abbot of Keynsham, 20, 24 
 William, Abbot of Kingswood, 18, 
 35.38 
 
 William, Prior of Lantony, 165 
 
 William, Warden of the Friars Mi- 
 nors, York, 201 
 
 William, persona de Fostona, 61 
 
 William, parson of Rugby, 44 
 
 William, parson rf Tetbury, 108 
 
 William, parson of Uffinton, 126 
 
 William, rector of Wotton, no 
 
 William, chaplain of Horton, 30 
 
 William, chaplain of RedcliflF, 18, 22, 
 
 38 
 William, capellanus de Redeclive fil. 
 
 Edrici Plumbarii, 181 
 
 William, capellanus de Morevill, 30 
 William, chaplain of Segrave, 43 
 William, chaplain of Slimbridge, 25 
 William, chaplain, 17, 25, 28, 33, 47 
 William, cUrk of Barrow-on-Soar, 
 
 43 
 William, clericus de Cuantona, 43 
 
 William, clericus de Gaiton, II 
 
 William, clericus de Leire, 17 
 
 William, clerk, 78, 92, 107, 114 
 
 William, cellarer of Kingswood Ab- 
 bey, 100 
 
 William, steward of Berkhampstead, 
 149 
 
 William, steward to Dom. John de 
 Segrave, 283 
 
 William son of Adam, 41 
 William son of Alan, lOO 
 William son of Bernard, 8 
 William son of Eadmund, 70 
 William son of Eddriz, 1 1 
 William son of Elias, 71, 108, 139 
 William son of Eustace, 116, 122 
 William son of Geoffrey, 8, 12, 16 
 William fil. Geraldi Carpentarii de, 
 
 51 
 William son of Godfrey, 55, 56 
 William son of Guarin, 17 
 William son of Hamo, 2 
 William son of Hamund, 7 
 William son of Henry, 27 
 William son of Ivo, 86 
 
442 
 
 Index. 
 
 William son of Johel, 69 
 . William son of John, 21 
 William son of Katharine, 69 
 William son of Michael, 48 
 William son of Nigel, 32, 51, 72 
 William fil. Osberti Parcarii, 58 
 William son of Ota, 15 
 William son of Ralph, 42 
 William son of Richard, 49 
 William fil. Ric. persona de Ristone^ 
 
 51 
 William son of Robert, 31, 93, 113, 
 141 
 
 William son of Rob. son of Martin, 
 
 22, 30, 43 
 William son of Thomas, 51 
 William son of Turkel, 64 
 William son of Walter, 82 
 William fil, Walteri Symonis, 64 
 William son of Warin, 86 
 William son of William, 129 
 William son of Wulfric, 49 
 William bro. of Reginald, 7 
 William frater Domini (de Wick), 28 
 Williams al. Cromwell, Sir Rich. 245 
 Williams v. also Cromwell 
 Willoughby, Edward, 196, 197 
 Willoughby, Johanna w. of Will., 
 
 188, 190 
 Willoughby, Sir William, 188 
 Wilmescote, William de, 31 
 Wilmington, Earl of v. Compton 
 Wilson, George, M.A., 247 
 Wilton, Robert de, 87 
 Winchester, Ea'l of v. Despencer 
 Winchester, Countess of, v. Quincey 
 Winchester, Marquis of v. Pawlett 
 Windessor, John de, 36 
 Windsor, Andrew, Lord, 210 
 Windsor, Andrew, Esq., 236 
 Windsor, Honry, Lord, 236, 238 
 Windsor, Edward son of Walt., 238 
 'Vindsor, Walter, 238 • 
 
 Winniffe, Thomas, Bp. of Lincoln, 
 248 
 
 Winston, Sir Henry, 336 
 
 Wintonia, Humfridus jde, 24 
 
 Wintrid, Thomas de, 30 
 
 Wirek, Simon, ']'] 
 
 Wisman, Gilbert, 19 
 
 Witchirche, William de, 139 
 
 Witcolt, Gode wid. of John, 141 
 
 Wite, Adam le, 84 
 
 Witebia, Alexander de, 67 
 
 Witefeld, Robert de, 23 
 
 Witenk, Giffard, 20 
 
 Witenk, Hugh, 20 
 
 Witenk, Walter, 20 
 
 Wither, John, * Sagittarius vigiliarum' 
 ofGower, 186 
 
 Wither v. Wyther 
 
 Withiford, Hugh, Mayor of Bristol, 
 
 185 
 Wivelesle, Robert de, 49 
 Wivill, Robert de, 75 
 Wlbetere, Eva, d. of Walter le, 130 
 Wlfeia, Rob. son of Rob., 14 
 Wlfruthestone, Stephen de, 70 
 Wlurichestun, Stephen de, 106 
 Wockeseye, William de, 98 
 Wockesye, Richard de, 136 
 Woddeward, Thomas, 199 
 Wodecote, Henry de, 117 
 
 Wodeford, Wudeford, John de, 31, 
 83, 96, 1 10^ 118, 138 
 
 Wodeford, Nicholas de, 125, 140 
 
 Wodehend, Roger de la, 1 16 
 
 Woderige, Walter de, 69 
 
 Woldrop, Dolfin in — , 59 
 
 Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal, 207 «., 
 283 «., 301 
 
 Wolward, Geoffrey de, ^2'i 
 
 Wolyngham, Ralph de, 158 
 
 Womestrang, Hugh, 130 
 
 Womestrang, Leticia w. of Hugh, 
 130 
 
 Wome^rang, Rich. s. of Hugh, 130 
 
Index. 
 
 443 
 
 Wor, William de, 129 
 
 Worcester, Earl of v. Somerset 
 
 Worle, Robert de, 15 
 
 Wormynton, William de, Rector of 
 of Dorsington, 167 
 
 Worseley, Thomas, 231 
 
 Worsley, Richard, Captain of the 
 Isle of Wight, 219, 220 
 
 Wright, Laurence, 245 
 
 Wryght, William, Rector of Strixton, 
 184, 185 
 
 Wrytele, Roger de, 105 
 
 Wudeford v. Wodeford 
 
 Wuleton, Ralph de, 21 
 
 Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester, 164 
 
 W^yal, Thomas, 214 
 
 Wych, Walter, 124 
 
 Wyches, Robert, 156 
 
 Wydye, Robert, Steward of Alkin- 
 ton, 275 
 
 Wyk, Walter de, 149 
 
 Wyk, Wyka, v. Wik, Wika 
 
 Wyke, Mathael de la, 105 
 
 W>ke, Nicholas, 288 
 
 Wyllyams v. Williams 
 
 Wylne, John, Prior of Repton, 186 
 
 Wynchecommbe, Will, de, chaplain, 
 
 173 
 Wyndsor v. Windsor 
 Wyng, Henry, 99 
 Wynkfeld, John, Knt., 189 
 Wynnowe, Richard, of Bristol, 212 
 Wynter family, 318 
 Wynter, Matikb, 278 
 Wyntone, John and Katharine, 180 
 Wyr, John, 149 
 Wyring, Henry, 99 
 Wyse, , pirate, 333 
 
 Wyshengre, Nicholas, cementarius, 
 174 
 
 Wytewelle, Richard de, 77 
 Wyth, Walter, 164 
 Wyther, Robert, 102, 14S, 151 
 Wyther, Sybil, wife of Rob., 102 
 Wyttenholt, John de, 126 
 Wyveleston, Reginald de, 112 
 Wyvill, John de, Justice, 137 
 Wyxi, Osbert, 109 
 
 \/ATE, John de, 174 
 
 Yevelton, Robert, Knt., Lord of the 
 Manor of Trenewith, etc., 179 
 
 Ylebert, Philip, 97 
 
 Ylebert, William, 97 
 
 Ylle, Robert del, Prior of Domus 
 Dei at Portsmouth, 130 
 
 Yokflete, Thomas, clerk, 256 
 
 Yonge family, 318 
 
 York, James, Duke of, 325 
 
 Ysaac, the Dean, 63 
 
 Yveleg, Ywele, Yweleg, YwUegh, 
 Vweleye, Peter de, 73, 84, 91, 
 105, 108, 116, 121, 125 
 
 ZARNES, Agnes d. of Rob., w. 
 of J. Schiphard, 130 
 
 Zarnes, Robert, of Berkeley, 130 
 
 Zouche, — —■, 286 
 
 Zouche, John, 237 
 
 Zouche, Marie dau. of Henry, Lord 
 Berkeley, wife of John, 237 
 
 Zuche, Roger la, 37 
 
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