SOME ANCIENT DOCUMENTS. 97 
the tenure of John Taylor. and one garden, situate between the garden of 
Thomas Cooke, &c., from the date thereof for 40 years, yielding to the said 
Alderman and his successors 7s, at the feasts of the Annunciation and St. 
Michael the Archangel. Witnesses, John Barker of Dore, William Owtrem, 
Thomas Fox, William Shemyng, William Cuttlufe, and others. 
[Endorsed ‘‘ Lease of the Gilde of or blessed lady of Dranefield.”] 
On the north bank of the Humber, near Hedon, in the 
seigniory of Holderness, is a place called Paul Holme, the seat 
of a family named Holme, who have lived there since the Con- 
quest. A few miles distant is a village called Welwick, the seat 
of an ancient family of that name; and there is also another 
village called Preston in the same district. Of the following 
charters, the first is a grant by John, son of Thomas del Holme, 
of a piece of land called the Stord or*Storth, with other adjoining 
lands, situate in the village of Holmesfield. The place is yet 
known as Storth House. The document is not dated, but the 
handwriting and the names of witnesses enable me to fix it about 
the year 1280. Charters III. and IV. are grants of land at Dore, 
which is about three ‘miles from Holmesfield, by Ralph, son and 
heir of Ralph de Welwick, Knight. The date of one of them is 
cut off, but the other bears date 1325. Ina pedigree of Holme, 
of Paul Holme, printed in Poulson’s History and Antiquities of 
ffolderness, I find that John Holme, who was living in 1286, had 
a daughter Ursula, who married Ralph Welwick. (The pedigree 
_ gives ‘‘ Roger,’ erroneously.) Moreover, I find that, in 1280, 
John, nephew and heir of Henry de Preston, who held land of 
the king in the Honour of Albemarle, married Emma, daughter of 
Ralph de Welwick.* This family of Preston held lands in 
~Waxham, in Holderness. Ralph de Welwick appears to have 
been living at Welwick between the years 1249—1269, for 
between that period the monks of Meaux agreed to pay him a 
way leave across his land to land belonging to them at Orwith- 
fleet, near Welwick, a place which was destroyed by the inunda- 
tions of the Humber in 1313, and no longer exists. The following 
* Calendarium Genealogicum. 
