108 ON SOME ANCIENT BURTON MANUSCRIPTS. 
of Burton-on-Trent, tanner, grants to Jacob Nones of Burton, 
and John Mylles and William Walker of the same place, the 
fourth part of a burgage tenement in Burton. It is noticeable 
that the tenement is said to be built and situated ‘‘ below 
Newbygging, now called Horninglow Street,’”’ thus showing that 
Horninglow Street was a comparatively new name in the year 
1479. 
The Latin scholarship of the draughtsman of this deed is not 
very high, seeing that he writes ‘‘ totum illud quartam partem,” 
meaning, I presume, “all that fourth part.” 
The deed of 1497 is a feoffment by which John Porter, senior, 
of Bromley Abbotts, grants to John Barnes of Burton a half 
burgage tenement in the town of Burton. It is noteworthy that 
in this deed we have the date given in the modern form, namely, 
the 5th of May; and not so many days before or after a saint’s 
day. 
The deed of 1512 I venture to call a fine specimen of hand- 
writing. It is written in the hand called “ Court hand.” This 
document is a release by which William Greysley, grandson of 
John Greysley, releases to Thomas Power, John Blount, and 
Henry Watson, their heirs and assigns, a certain messuage situate 
in High Street, Burton-on-Trent, with its appurtenances. William 
Greysley also ratifies and confirms a feoffment which had been 
made of the same property by his grandfather, John Greysley, to 
Robert Middleton, Thomas Browne, Thomas Power, Henry 
Watson, Richard Poppawe, John Mills, John Blount, junior, John 
Walker, and William Walker. One of the boundaries of the 
property released is the Hay Ditch, which all who have known Bur- 
ton for the last thirty years will remember. This deed, though of 
more recent date than the one just referred to, is dated in the 
ancient way, by reference toasaint’s day. There is also a warranty 
of title in this release, which, according to the recital part of it, 
seems to have been rendered necessary by some defect in the 
feoffment made by the relessor’s grandfather, John Greysley. 
~ BEMROSE AND SONS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, DERBY AND LONDON. 
10 APR. OA 
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