l86 THE VERNONS OF HADDON HALL. 



of the time ; Robert, the true heir, having been violently deposed, 

 and William Avenel who was probably not the true heir even after 

 him, was made to play this part to carry out the measures of 

 William Briwere, and to give them a legal aspect. 



The charter is as follows : " Be it known to all present as well 

 as future, that I William Avenel have agreed with (concordavi) 

 Ricard de Vern. and Simon Basset because they have (in 

 marriage) my two daughters and heirs concerning all my lands 

 and inheritance ; that (regarding them) as my heirs, I have con- 

 ceded and granted to them all my lands and hereditaments after 

 my decease, so that in all things as my heirs they should divide 

 (between them) as parceners, and so that Simon Bassett, he and his 

 heirs, should make with Rich, de Vernon and his heirs a final 

 partition. Besides I have conceded to the said Richard a capital 

 mansion lying towards the east, in which William Avenel my 

 father dwells, with a garden and orchard near the chapel of 

 St. Nicolas, to the said Simon Basset the remaining mansion, 

 and in the west with the orchard in that part, and in Adstock 

 {Bucks.), I have conceded to the said Richard de Vernon a capital 

 mansion with two orchards, one from which a certain portion ol 

 the mansion (is divided) from the remaining portion of the mansion 

 of Simon Basset in the same vill, a certain capital mansion of the 

 same magnitude with the orchard of Roger. In Urcleburc also 

 I have given to the said Simon Basset a capital mansion. 

 To this convention and concord the said Rich, de Vernon 

 and Simon Basset agreed to adhere and faithfully to keep. 

 Witnesses: WilUam fil Hugo de Fuletibi, William fil Hugo, 

 Falconer (accipitar). Ceroid fil Rich. Simon Agae, Walter de 

 Gahn." 



This fine is undated, but it has always, conjecturally, been 

 dated by the entry in the Pipe Roll of 6 R. I. before given. 

 It is, however, most probably of the 17th Henry II. 



There is a fine recorded in a Roll of the Curia Regis also of 

 uncertain date, but attributed (probably from the date of the 

 Pipe Roll) to the same year, between Simon Basset and Helesabeth 

 his wife, and Richard de Vernon and Atiiicia his wife, concerning 



