94 ON SOME ANCIENT BURTON MANUSCRIPTS. 
the 2oth July would fall on a Thursday, the same as is stated in 
this second deed. 
I come now to the subject matter of these deeds. What are 
they all about? They are all of them conveyances, of one kind or 
another. Nine are conveyances of the kind called ‘‘ feoffments,”’ 
two are “ releases,” and one is a conveyance of goods and chattels ; 
so that eleven relate to real property, and one to personalty. 
Now I need scarcely say that these conveyances are worded very 
differently to the way in which a modern conveyance is worded. 
I will now refer to Plate IX. for a facsimile of the first deed. I 
daresay it looks like Greek, and, perhaps, very bad Greek, to most 
of you. I confess it puzzled me at first, but a little study soon 
breaks down most of its difficulties. Below is the same deed in 
modern type, and without any of those awkward abbreviations 
and contractions :— 
‘‘Sciant preesentes et futuri quod ego Rogerus le Rous dedi 
concessi et hae presenti carta mea confirmavi Mauricio filio 
Roberti de Swynesco quoddam tenementum cum edificatis 
supra-stantibus et omnibus aliis suis pertinentibus in villa de 
Burton super Trentam et jacet in le Newe strete inter terram 
Hugonis de Swynesco ex una parte et terram Reginaldi de Lincoln 
ex parte altera et lanceat super regias vias ad utrumque caput* 
Habendum ‘et tenendum de me et heredibus meis przdicto 
Mauricio et heredibus suis de corpore suo legitime procreatis seu 
procreandis et eorum heredibus faciendo inde capitalibus dominis 
illius feodi servicia debita et consueta qua ad predictum 
tenementum pertinent libere quiete bene et in pace cum omnibus 
libertatibus aysiamentis et pertinentibus ad prefatum tenementum 
ubique spectantibus in perpetuum. Przterea ego predictus 
Rogerus et heredes mei preefatum tenementum cnm omnibus suis 
pertinentibus predicto Mauricio et heredibus suis de corpore 
suis legitime procreatis et procreandis et eorum heredibus ut 
supradictum est contra omnes gentes warentizabimus et in 
perpetuum defendemus. In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti 
* The word in the original is written ‘‘capud ”: this is a mistake for ‘‘ caput.” 
