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^otict of 3:^0 iincient H)rctrs vclatiug to 

 li^amtttrg. 



By the Rev. Regd. H. C. Fitzherbert, M.A., Rector of 

 Somersal Herbert. 



N the fourth volume of this Journal, for 1882, were 



printed twenty-two cartt^ antiqua, relating to persons 



and places chiefly in Derbyshire and Leicestershire. 



Two more deeds belonging to the same series 



lately rescued from amongst two tons of " rubbish " sold out 



of a lawyer's office in Lichfield, are printed below, with the text 



extended. 



Information touching the property mentioned in these two 

 deeds may be found in the Add. MSS. 6046, f 9 (Brit. Mus.), 

 and in Nichols' " Hist, of Leicester," Vol. 4, p. 860. 



In case this should meet the eye of any solicitor, I would urge 

 upon him, and all who belong to his profession, the great value 

 from an archaeological point of view, of such documents as these. 

 Worthless, no doubt, for purely legal purposes, these carta antiquce 

 supply prime and direct evidence of many facts in the domain 

 of genealogical and topographical research which can only be 

 obtained elsewhere, if at all, on the doubtful authority of secondary 

 and indirect evidences. 



I plead for such historical MSS. as these that they are worthy 

 of a better fate than to be sold by weight for a few shillings and 

 pulped for paper or cut up by the bookbinder, as many thousands 

 of such documents have been. 



