Description | Deed of gift by Henry Honeman of Assele to John his son, of part of his messuage, which was William Faber's, containing 4 perches and a fourth part of a perch lying next to the messuage of Reginald Honeman and abutting on a headland above the king's highway and another above Henry's croft, and one acre of arable land on a headland called Cruxfeld next to the land of the hospital of Chepenham [Chippenham] and abutting above leThurtweye, to be held of the capital lord of the fee for the usual debts and services, with clauses of warranty and sealing. Witnesses: John le Vysnes, John Arsici, William Boyston, Thomas Honeman, John Coleman, Geoffrey Rand, Roger Honeman and others. Dated at Assele, in the octave of the Apostles Peter and Paul 32 Edw. Seal: missing from tag. [Assele has only tentatively been identified with Ashley in Wiltshire, partly because of reference to hospital in Chippenham in the same county.] |