9 RIC. I. (1197-1198).

689. Hertford. Thursday before the Feast of St. Adelbere [10 October, 1197]. Richard de Berlee against Cecilia, Abbess of Auuestowe, by Ralph de Eissebi her attorney. Lands in Hiche, Maldona, and Wenge. Assize of mort d’ ancestor. Richard quitclaimed to the Abbess and convent, for which the Abbess gave him ten shillings yearly rent in Hiche for life, to wit, from Master Robert four shillings, from Hubert de Hiche four shillings and from Walter Chapman two shillings.

[Subscribed]. Bedef’ [in contemporary hand]. Bedf’ Bucks Hertf’ [in later hand], [cclxxxii. 3 (59); P.R.S. xxiii., 23].

8 JOHN (1206-1207).

690. Bedford. Vigil of St. Math[ias?] the Apostle [? 23 February, 1207]. Matilda widow of Robert de Parent[in] against Clarice widow of Maurice Haliday. Two messuages in Bedeford which Matilda claimed in free marriage. Right of Clarice, to be held by Clarice and her heirs of Matilda and her heirs at a yearly service of five shillings and paying the high rent (altum gablum) at Hochetysed[ai] to wit, fivepence, of which high rent Matilda and her heirs will acquit Clarice and her heirs towards the king. And be it known that Matilda and her heirs will receive the said five pence of the high rent from Clarice and her heirs, and will pay it to the king and his heirs. [I. 7 (3); Hunter, 71].

16 HENRY III. (1231-1232).

691. Newport. Thursday after the Feast of St. Dionysius [14 October, 1232]. Godfrey Lambert against Humfrey Visdelou. Six acres of land in Clifton’. Assize of mort d’ ancestor. Right of Godfrey, for which Godfrey granted it to him for a term of eight years from Michaelmas, 16 Henry iii. Bed’, [cclxxxiv. 18 (39)].