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By W. Braylesford Bunting. 



AST summer a bundle of documents concerning an 

 estate at Chapel-en-le-Frith came into my hands, and 

 as some of the earlier ones appear to be of interest, 

 I have availed myself of the owner's permission to 

 transcribe them. 



Two, of even date, of the fourteenth century, are, so far as can 

 be ascertained, the earliest extant private charters relating to 

 the ownership of lands in this parish, and an exact copy of one 

 of them is given, showing the abbreviations, with a verbatim 

 translation, from which the reader may judge as to whether my 

 reading of the contracted text is correct. The conventional 

 marks indicating usual contractions are not noticed in the printed 

 copy. The accomj^anying illustration is from a photograph by 

 Mr. J. T. Gray, Chapel-en-le-Frith. 



To avoid repetition, only the more important parts of the 

 others have been abstracted. 



No. I. 

 OiTiibs ad quos psens scptu pvenit Thorns fil Thorn le Raggedd 

 salute etnam in Diio Novitis me remisisse concessisse relaxasse 

 t omnino p me t hedibs meis quiet clamasse imppetuu Willmo 

 111 Rici de Hurdeffeld t hedibs suis t suis assignat totu jus meii t 

 clameu qd heo hui seu aliter jur vel heditar her potui in sex 

 acris terre cu ptin suis infra metas de Boudon que quidam ac 

 simul jacet in campo de Staynolsleye t pedder medowe Ita vero 

 qd nc Ego dts Thorns nee hedes mei nee ahqs alius p 

 nos sivc p nobs nc noie hro aliquod jus vl clameu in pdicts 



