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Records of the Borough of Nottingham: 1399-1485 (v. 2)
Records of the Borough of Nottingham 13991485 - v. 2 Author:Nottingham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whereof I have placed my seal to these presents. These being witnesses: Robert Squire, then Mayor of Nottingham, Richard Verdesauce and Ralph de West, Bailiffs o... more »f the same, Thomas Rowley, John de Alastre, William de Arnold, and others. Given at Nottingham, on Thursday next after the feast of All Hallows, in the third year of the reign of King Henry the Fourth from the Conquest.' 1300, ro. I2d. IV.—Enrolment of Grant of the Wardhall in Stony Street. 1402, June 6. To this Court come John Ewer, of Nottingham, and William Clerk, of Gedling; which William sought to have a charter made to him by the aforesaid [John] read, proelaimed and enrolled under the tenor that follows: ' [Know] all men present and to come, that I John Ewer, of Nottingham, Keeper of the Gaol of our Lord the King in the same town, have given, granted, and by this my present charter have confirmed, to William Clerk, of Gedling, a vacant piece of land called ' the Wardhall,' lying in Stonystrete in Nottingham [between] . . . de Bradmer and the orchard of Cecily de Emley on the southern side, and the land of Thomas Baylok on the northern side : to have and to hold [the aforesaid vacant piece of land], with the appurtenances, as it extends from the King's highway to the garden of Henry Smith, of Gamston, to the aforesaid William Clerk, his heirs and assigns, freely, well and in peace, of the chief lords of that fee by the services thereof due and of right accustomed. And I the said John [Ewer, and my heirs,] will warrant [and defend] the aforesaid piece of land, with the appurtenances, to the aforesaid William, his heirs and assigns, as is abovesaid, against all men [for ever]. In witness whereof I have affixed my seal to this present charter. These being witnesses: Robert Squire, then Mayor of Nottingham, Ric...« less