ON THE EARLY DESCENT OF THE FERRERS. 1 49 



confirmasse Luciano de Seila et heredibus suis tenere de me et 

 heredibus meis totum tenementum suum quod tenuit de Radulfo 

 de Seila scilicet per idem servicium quod fecit Radulfo de 

 Seila scilicet per servicium dimidii militis et in super partem 

 nemoris quam Radulfo filio Radulfi dedit in escambium propter 

 communam quam habuit per totum boscum suum et unum Cervum 

 infra cressam ad meam fugam cum ipse mittet ad me et conredium 

 ad hominem suum quern mittet ad me donee habeat cervum 

 domini sui et hunc cervum dono ei in aumentum (sic) propter 

 homagium et servicium suum hujus autem confirmacionis et 

 donacionis sunt testes Robertas de Ferrarius frater comitis, 

 Robertus et Henricus de Ferrarius avunculi comitis Henricus 

 filius Walkelini Nicholaus filius Pagani tunc dapifer Robertus 

 de Curetun Willelmus de Mungumberi Johannes de Boscheville 

 Willelmus filius Hereberti Junior cum multis aliis." 



The other charter is a release of right of common of pasture in 

 the manor of VVodeham Ferrers, in the county of Essex, to William 

 de Ferrers. It is dated 29th October, 1254, the same year in 

 which the third earl of that name met with his death through a 

 fall into the Ouse. But if the date of his death be correctly given 

 as April 5, 1254, the grantee in the charter must have been his 

 son. To this charter a parchment label is attached with an oval 

 seal, bearing a fleur-de-lis, but the marginal legend is illegible. * 



"Omnibus has literas visuris vel audituris Willelmus Sperun 

 salutem Noveritis me remisisse concessisse et quietum clamasse 

 pro me et heredibus meis Willelmo de Ferrers et heredibus suis 

 et omnibus hominibus suis et eorum heredibus et assignatis et 

 Priori et Conventui de Bykenaker et eorum successoribus et 

 omnibus aliis tenentibus de feodo predicti Willelmi totum jus et 

 clamium quod habui vel habere potui vel potero in communa 

 pasturse in omnibus terris et tenementis prcedictorum Willelmi de 

 Ferrers et omnium tenendum suorum in manerio de Wodeham 



Ferreres viz de terris et tenementis ad hunc diem sine 



aliqua contradictione et calumpnia mei et heredum meorum in 

 perpetuum. Pro hac vero remissione et quieta clamatione dedit 

 mihi pa^rdictus Willelmus duas marcas argenti. In cujus rei 



