96 ON SOME ANCIENT BURTON MANUSCRIPTS, 
tenement is situate in the town of Burton-on-Trent, and lies in a 
street called ‘‘ Newe Strete,’’ and then the boundaries of the tene- 
ment are given. 
You will observe that the rent payable, or renderable, in 
respect of the tenement conveyed is not, as is usual in these days, 
a money rent. The passage is ‘‘ by rendering therefor” “to the 
chief lords of that fee the services due and accustomed, which 
appertain to the aforesaid tenement.” I will not dwell on this 
now; I will only call your attention to it. I shall deal with it 
afterwards. 
It was the practice in those days for a grantor of real estate to 
give a warranty, or a guaranty, to the grantee, in respect of his 
title. The warranty clause in this deed begins with the words 
“ Preterea ego.” The effect of that warranty was that if the 
grantor’s title failed and the grantee was ejected, then the grantor 
had to give the grantee an estate of equal value somewhere else. 
I will now refer to Plate X. for a fac-simile of the deed of 
1369. 
Below is a translation of this deed : 
‘‘ Pateat universis per preesentes me Willelmum de Restoleston 
capellanum remisisse relaxavisse et omnino pro me et heredibus 
meis in perpetuum quietum clamavisse Roberto le Smyth de 
Burton super Trentam omnino dum jus et clameum quod habeo 
seu aliquo modo habere potero in quodam tenemento cum suis 
pertinentibus jacente in le Neuwe Strete de burton super Trentam 
inter tenementum quondam Rogeri de Aldustree et tenementum 
quod Johannes de Oxenforde tenet ex altera parte. Ita vero quod 
nec ego prdictus Willelmus nec heredes mei nec aliquis alius 
Nomine* nostro aliquod jus vel clameum in pradicto tenemento 
de cetero exigere poterimus vel vendicare seu tenere presentem 
firmiter sumus exclusi. In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti 
scripto meo sigillum meum apposui, his testibus, Alano de Gatham 
tunc ballivo de Burton Willelmo Huwetsone Johanne de 
Oxenforde et aliis. Datum apud Burton super Trentum die lune 
* In the original the word ‘‘,Nomine ” is here written twice over. 
