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delight and happiness: for they shall come, as it has been 
revealed to me, from divers nations to adore the Lord in this 
vale, and to serve Him until the end of time itself for a 
succession of ages. And because our Lord Jesus Christ of His 
secret intentions hath so deigned to show mea sinner, for that 
reason know ye that neither as a fellow nor master can ye have me 
any longer; but aided by His grace, I will amend my life 
according to His will.” And, having embraced them all, he 
departed from them; but whither he went was at that time 
unknown to them. There were certain who said that he went 
to Depedale, and there in secret intercourse served his Lord 
_ continually, and with a happy end reposed there in the Lord. 
The Lord of Badeley, Serlo de Grendon by name, and soldier 
in arms intrepid, in riches potent, in the eminence of his race 
illustrious, received as his wife Margery, daughter of the aforesaid 
Ralph Fitz Geremund, and with her the moiety of the town of 
Ockbrook, in free dowry, by whom he begot five sons—Bertram, 
afterwards our Canon ; William, the clerk, of cherished memory, 
our advocate ; Fulcher, Jordan, and Serlo. ... Robert.... 
knights . . . . Moreover he also begot three daughters—Johanna, 
Isolda, and Agatha, to whom ultimately (oh! sorrow) the 
inheritance descended. Robert took in marriage Matilda, noble 
by descent, but still more noble in conduct, Lady of . .. and 
Selston, by whom he begot Andrew de Grendon, his heir, and 
Ralph, Lord of Boyleston and Leveland .. .. than the rest of 
the brothers, knights, had been surpassed. Moreover, he also 
begot Robert, by a concubine. These four above mentioned 
were knights, but Robert, although a bastard, was a man... . 
At that time the Grendons were most famous in this land, and 
men of great power. And (the aforesaid) Serlo had an aunt, 
who was also his spiritual mother : in that she had taken him from 
the sacred font. To this (lady) the said Serlo gave, as long as 
she lived, the place of Depedale, with its appurtenances and all 
the land cultivated and waste which is between the lane that 
extends from the north gate of Boyha towards the west as far 
as Le Cockeysithe and Brunesbrok. And _ because sucl spiritual 
Concern- 
ing a noble 
matron 
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