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terras et tenementa mea cum suis pertinenciis predictis Johanni et Johanne 
heredibus et Assignatis suis contra omnes gentes Warrantizabimus et 
deffendemus imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti carte mee 
sigillum meum Apposui hiis testibus. Johanne Broke de Somersale Henrico 
AllesWorthe de eadem Henrico Taylor de eadem Johanni[e] M(e)rihurst 
de eadem et laurencio Wordull et multis Aliis Data Apud Somersale die 
Jouis proximo Ante festum sancti Simonis et Jude Anno regni Regis 
EdWardi quarti post conquestum Anglie quarto.” 
In good condition. Seal wanting. 
Membrane 114 x 44 inches. 9} lines. 
Indorsed—‘ olde Croft.” 
“ Concessio Johanne Adde facta 
Johanni fytzherbert ” 
NOTES. 
No. 1. Wirke.—Wirksworth. 
Le sureys.—? The Surveyor, or Overseer. 
No. 2. #raundiston.—? Branston, near Burton-on-Trent, or Braunston, 
- near Leicester. 
Stepul.—Steephill or Steeple, near Wirksworth. De Stepla held half 
a Knight’s fee in Derbyshire under Will. de Ferrars (Lib. Nig.). 
No. 3. Decanum (decanatum ?) Lyncolniensem.—The Dean of Lincoln 
held lands at Wirksworth, as well as the advowson of the Rectory. 
Will. de Stepil.See No. 2, Stepudl. 
No. 4. There is no mention of this Zsaéel/a, wife ot William Fitzherbert, 
in Brydges’ Collins, nor in the Harl. MSS., nor in any other pedigree or 
account of the family that I have seen. 
Norton.—Norton juxta Twycross, in Leicestershire; see Nichols’ Zeic. 
_ Vol. iv., p. 860. 
Hation.—In parish of Marston on Dove. 
Ricardus de Corson.—? Richard de Curzon of Croxhall, Knt., 16 Edw. 
I. ; see Glover’s Derbyshire, ii. 333. 
No. 5. A/munton.—Alkmanton ; see Cox’s Derbyshire Churches. vol. iii, 
Will. de Montegomery—Of Marston Montgomery and Cubley ; see Glover, 
ii., 335; Reliquary xv., pl. 1.; Derbys. Ch. iii, 91. ‘‘Carta Will. de 
