ON SOME ANCIENT BURTON MANUSCRIPTS. 97 
proximo past festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli. Anno regni 
regis Edwardi tertii past conquestum quadragesimo tertio.” 
I subjoin a translation of the same deed : 
“Let it be manifest to all by this present deed that I William of 
Restoleston Chaplain have given up released and entirely for 
myself and my heirs for ever have quit claim to Robert the 
Smyth of Burton-on-Trent the entire right and claim which I have 
or in any manner shall be able to have in a certain tenement with 
its appurtenances lying in the ‘ Neuwe strete’ of Burton-on-Trent 
between a tenement formerly of Roger of Aldustree and a 
tenement which John of Oxford holds onthe other part. Namely 
so that neither I the aforesaid William nor my heirs nor any 
one else in our name shall be able to set up any right or 
claim to the aforesaid tenement but from selling or holding the 
present tenement we are firmly precluded. In witness whereof I 
have placed my seal to this my present writing, these being 
witnesses, Alan of Gatham, then a bailiff of Burton, William 
Hewetsone, John of Oxford, and others. Given at Burton- 
on-Trent on the Monday next after the feast of St. Michael 
the Archangel, in the 43rd year of the reign of King Edward 
the 3rd after the Conquest.” é 
This document is not a “ feoffment” but a ‘ release,” another 
kind of conveyance. 
Now by this deed William of ‘‘ Restoleston,” which I take to be 
the same place that is now called ‘‘ Rosliston,” releases to Robert 
the Smyth of Burton-on-Trent all William’s interest in a certain 
tenement lying in the ‘‘le Neuwe strete’’ of Burton-on-Trent. 
Here again New Street is mentioned, but this time it is spelt Neuwe 
strete with awandaw. Therest of the deed calls for no comment, 
except, perhaps, that I might call your attention to the fact that this 
deed does not contain any warranty of title, nor any reservation of 
rent. This I propose to explain lateron. I might also ask you to 
notice that what are called the ‘‘ operative words ” are different in 
this deed from those used in the other. In the “ feoffment” the 
words were, “ dedi” ‘‘ concessi et confirmavi”: in this they are 
“remisisse relaxavisse et quietum clamavisse.” One other thing 
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1st Oct., 1369. 
