104 ALSOP AND OTHER CHARTERS. 



aforesaid and regress from the same whensoever and as often 

 as it shall please them with cart and waggon and with every kind 

 of their animals So that they may be able to have their ease- 

 ments within my aforesaid lands in an ample manner Rendering 

 therefore yearly to me and my heirs and assigns one silver 

 penny on the day of the assassination of the blessed John 

 baptist for ever And I truly the said Henry and my heirs and 

 assigns. the whole of the aforesaid land with all liberties freedoms 

 commons easements rights and commodities everywhere to the 

 vill of Alsop appertaining as is aforesaid and the said edifices 

 with all their aforesaid [appurtenances] to the aforesaid John 

 Morkoc and his heirs or assigns and their heirs against all 

 nations for ever will warrant acquit and defend for the service 

 aforesaid In testimony whereof to this charter my seal I have 

 affixed These being witnesses Stephen de Irton Henry de 

 Kniveton Roger de Bradeburne Ranulph de Alsop Thomas 

 de Mapilton and others Dated on the Friday next after 

 the octave of the Epiphany In the year of Grace one thousand 

 two hundred and eighty- seven. 



Endorsed Alsop Allsopp. 



Concerning 20 acres of land there. 



NOTES. 



There is a seal of white wax on a label. The seal is vesica shaped, and 

 nearly perfect. On the impression " sope " is visible, in capitals, part of the 

 name of Alsope. Also a few letters of the name Henrici. 



Morkoc, qy Moorcock ? 



Fovea, a pit or quarry. 



The feast of the beheading of S. John Baptist falls on 29th August. 



Irton, Little Ireton, co. Derby (in Kedleston parish). The Ireton family 

 descended from a younger brother of an ancestor of the Shirleys. 



Kniveton, co. Derby. 



Bradeburn, Bradboume, co. Derby. Mapilton, Mapleton, co. Derby. 



This Deed bears date in the 15th year of King Edward I., and, therefore, 

 before the celebrated statute of Westminster 3, namely, 18 Edward I., St. I, 

 commonly called the statute "Quia emptores terrarum," passed a.d. 1290, 

 which abolished the power of subinfeudation, and enacted that the grantee of 

 lands should hold not of the grantor, but of the chief lord of the fee. 



