ALSOP AND OTHER CHARTERS. Ill 



NOTES. 



The size of this deed is 9 in. by 5 in. 



There is a label, but the seal is gone. 



Eyton. — Now Eaton, a part of the modern township of Eaton and Alsop. 



Probable date about 1300. 



No. 6. Omibs xpi fidelibs ad quos psens scptu pvenit Margareta fil 

 Ranulphi fil Henr de Alsop saltm in Dno Nov'tis me loco meo 

 attornasse Thom de Thurmeston ad recipiendm seysina mea de 

 omibs tris t ten que pdta Ranulphs pat meus p carta sua m' dedit 

 in vill de Alsop p'ut in carta m ! satis pleni s continet In 

 cui s rei testiu p'senti he sigill meu apposui Dat apd Castr die 

 Lune px post festu purificatioe be marie virginis anno dni milesimo 

 tricentesimo visesimo sexto. 

 Endorsed : Ha seysone 



^Translation?^ 



To all the faithful of Christ to whom this present writing may 

 come Margaret daughter of Ranulph son of Henry de Alsop 

 [sends] greeting in the Lord Know ye that I in my place have made 

 Thomas de Thurmeston my attorney to receive my seisin of all 

 the lands and tenements which the aforesaid Ranulph my father 

 by his charter hath given to me in the vill of Alsop as in the 

 charter to me sufficiently more fully is contained In testimony 

 whereof to this present [writing] my seal I have affixed Given at 

 Castern on the Monday next after the feast of the Purification of 

 the blessed Mary the virgin In the year of [our] Lord one 

 thousand three hundred and twenty-six. 



Endorsed : — For the receiving of seisin 



NOTES. 



This is a power of attorney to receive seizin (or possession). This kind of 

 document was more or less in use until the early part of this (the nineteenth) 

 century. 



The feast of the Purification of B. M. is 2nd February or Candlemas. 



The size of this deed is 4^ in. by if in., there being five lines of writing. 



There is a label, but the seal is gone. 



Thurmaston North and South are in Leicestershire, and near Leicester. 



Castr, possibly Chester, but probably Castern, in Ham Parish, co. Stafford, 

 and near Alsop en le dale. Date 1326. 



