90 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



the Englifh army coming upon him, im-t 

 mediately raifed the fiege and fled. In me- 

 mory of this fervice the Earl, by charter, 

 granted to Roger Lacy and his heirs the 

 government over all the above defcription 

 of people in the County of Chefter, which 

 government was afterwards, in part, grant- 

 ed by his fon to Hugh Button, his ftew- 

 ard, and his heirs, by the following deed. 



" Sciant praefentes et futuri, quod ego, 

 " Johannes Conftabularius Ceftritz, dedi et 

 " concern" et hac praefenti mea charta con- 

 " firmavi Hugoni de Dutton et haeredibus 

 " fius, magiflratum omnium * leccatorum 

 tf et meretricum totius Ceftermirias, ficut 

 " liberius . ilium magiftratum teneo de 

 *' comite. Salvo jure meo, mihi et haere- 

 " dibus meis." 



* Mr, Pennant has miflaken this word for peccatorum. >\ 

 See his Tour, II. 12. Blount, in his Law Didion- 

 ary, has Leccator, a riotous, debauched perfon. 



This 



