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manors were held by fealty in socage under grant from the 

 Crown. East Greenwich would be well known because it was 

 a royal manor, and when granted by the Plantagenet kings to 

 any member of their family, which was frequently the case, 

 it always reverted to the Crown on failure of issue, in addition 

 to which it was the birthplace of the reigning Sovereign, Queen 

 Elizabeth, as also of her father and sister, Henry VIII. and 

 Mar}'. 



The expression so constantly used, " free and common 

 socage," was the ordinary tenure of land. 



Many of the personages mentioned in this manuscript played 

 an important part in the history of their time. 



THE MANUSCRIPT. 



Translation. 



4 Elizabeth. 



Aldwarke Manor and Ilston Rectory. — The lordship 

 and manor of Aldwarke with its appurtenances, and rectory of 

 Ilkeston and the advowson of the vicarage and church of Ilston 

 with its appurtenances, as also of the lands, tenements, etc., 

 in Aldwarke, Bradburne, Little Hallam, Ilkeston, and Ilston, 

 held by James Hardwicke, for himself and his heirs of the King, 

 as with respect to the manor of East Greenwich in the county 

 of Kent in free and common socage and not in capite. — 4 Eliz., 

 lib. 20, fol. 343. 



3 Edward VI. 



Aldwarke Grange. — Aldwarke, alias Aldwarke Grange, 

 and all the lands, meadows, pastures, etc., lying in Aldewarke 

 called the Grange, alienated to Robert Goche, arm., and his 

 heirs by Thomas Heneage, knt, and William, Lord Willoughby, 

 and held in capite. — 12th February, 3 Edward VI., fol. 69. 



2 Edward VI. 

 Aldwarke Grange.- — Aldwarke, alias Aldewarpe Grange, 

 with its appurtenances in County Derby, and diverse messuages, 

 etc., in Aldwarke, alias Aldwarpe, as well as diverse messuages, 



