Folio 236r–236v contains a deed concerning the Eagle in Cheap.

The red-ink heading at the top of f. 236r is “Chepe the Egle”, and two red-ink notes are written in the right-hand margin by the same hand, as well as some further marginal notes in a later hand.

The testament of Richard Withihale [enrolled 17 November 1427]

Common pleas held at the Husting Court of London on the Monday after the Feast of St Edmund the bishop in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry VI.

In the testament of Richard Wythyhale, citizen and goldsmith of London, is contained thus: Item, I give and bequeath to Alice my wife all that tenement of mine called “The New Tavern”, with shops, upper rooms, and all its other appurtenances, situated in the parish of St Peter in West Cheap aforesaid. To have and to hold all … by the aforesaid Alice my wife and her assigns for the term of the lifetime of the said Alice, from the chief lords … And I bequeath that after the death of the aforesaid Alice, all the aforesaid tenement with … shall remain entirely to my son John and the legitimate heirs of his body, holding it from the chief lords … And if my aforesaid son John should die without a legitimate heir of his body, then I bequeath and wish that all the aforesaid tenement with … shall remain entirely to my son Thomas and the legitimate heirs of his body, holding it from the chief lords … And if my said son Thomas should die without a legitimate heir of his body, then I give and bequeath all the aforesaid tenement with … to the wardens of the mistery of Goldsmiths of London and the community of the same mistery and to their successors, each in their time.