| Description | To hold the aforesaid for all their lives as long as they both shall live. Rendering yearly to him £50 sterling at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and at Michaelmas, and all other services. If Agnes and Alice outlive him, they are to continue to hold the land and to render yearly to his heirs, a rose at the Nativity of John the Baptist, for all other services and secular demands; after the deaths of Alice and Agnes the manor and all appurtenances are to revert to the closest of his heirs. And his heirs are to pay yearly to John Revel his son during his lifetime, £20. To wit £10 at the Annunciation and £10 at Michaelmas, as is required by a bond he made with the same John. Witnesses: William de Castello, Thomas de Bray, Robert Verdoun, Roger de St. Andrew, Richard Torville, knights; Eustace de Brunneby, Philip de Mongombry, Robert de Stoke, Adam Chapelein, William le Breton, William de Foderinggeseye, Stephen Beke of London, and others. Given at London, Friday on the morrow of the Nativity of John the Baptist. 22 Edward, son of Henry.
Seal: round; device: ermine field with chevron; legend: lombardic: WILLIAM REVEL.
Endorsed in later hand with rough family tree, embracing William, Alice and Agnes. |