THE MANOR OF LITTLE WELDON. 11 



of Little Weldon, and the bailiwick of keeping the Royal 

 Buckhounds, with the appurtenances, to the said Sir Bernard 

 and Mary his wife for the natural term of her life ; should she 

 survive Matilda and her heirs, the manor, etc., was to revert 

 to the said Mary; and after her death it was to go to Sir 

 Bernard and his heirs.* She having died about the year 1381, 

 and no claimant appearing, the manor and bailiwick, with the 



* P Bernardo I ly omnib} ad quos &c. saitm Sciatis qd de gra nra 

 Brocas Ispaii & p quatuor libris quas diicus & fidelis nr 

 Bernardus Brocas Chiualer notjs soluit concessione 

 & licenciam dedim} p nobs & heredibs nris quantu 

 in nob est Matilt Louel qd ipa concedere possit 

 qd mafiiu de parua Weldon ac ballina custodiendi 

 canes nros damaricios cum ptui que de nob tenent 

 in capite & que pfatus Bernardus & Maria ux. 

 eius tenent ad tminii vite ipsius Marie que eciam 

 post mortem eiusdem Marie ad pfatam Matiti & 

 heredes suos reuti deberent post decessum eiusdem 

 Marie remaneant pfato Bernardo & heredib} suis 

 tenend de nob & heredib} nfis p suicia inde debita 

 & consueta imppm et eidem Bernardo qd ipe maiiiii 

 & ballinam pdca cum ptim post mortem ipsius Marie 

 retinere possit sibi & heredib} suis tenend de nob & 

 heredib} nris p suicia supdca imppm tenore psenciu 

 similit licencia dedim} spaiem nolentes qd pdca 

 Matitt vel heredes sui aut pfatus Bernardus vel 

 heredes sui rone pmissor p nos vel heredes nros 

 Justic Escactores vicecomites aut alios ballinos seu 

 Ministros nros quoscun3 occonent} molestent} in 

 aliquo seu g^uent''. In cui} &c., T. R. apud Westm, 

 vj die Junii. 



et pdca quatuor libre soliat sunt in han. 

 Vide Patent Roll, 40 Edward III., Part I., m. 19. See also Originalia 

 Roll (Exch. L. T. R.), 40 Edward III., Ro. 27, under " Grossi Fines." 

 In the I. P. M., 40 Edward III. (2nd numbers. No. 40b), the tenure 

 was for the custody of fourteen of the King's buckhounds with one 

 man to keep them, amounting to ^4 a year. This document is very 

 faded. 



