13° ALSOP AND OTHER CHARTERS. 



Lokkeslegh his heirs and assigns for ever all the right and claim 

 which I had or could have in one messuage two bovates of arable 

 and pasture land with the appurtenances in Alshop which John de 

 Dale holds So that neither I the said John nor my heirs nor any- 

 one in my name in the aforesaid messuage and the said bovates of 

 land and pasture anything of right or claim hereafter may be able 

 to take but that for ever we may be excluded by [these] presents 

 signed with my seal Given at Uttoxhatre on Thursday in the 

 vigil of the Apostles Peter and Paul In the ninth year of the 

 reign of King Henry the fourth since the conquest of England 

 These being witnesses Thomas Dethek de Uttoxhatre Tho Alshop 

 de Alsop William Walkere de Uttoxhatre John de Dale the 

 younger de Alshop John de Dale the elder de Alshop and others. 

 Endorsed : Allsopp. 



NOTES. 



Label attached, but seal gone. 



Size 10 in. by z\ in. 



Stanshope is in the Parish of Alstonfield, co. Stafford, and near Alsop-en-le- 

 Dale. 



Lokkeslegh. — Loxley, near Uttoxeter, co. Stafford, the seat of the 

 Kynnersley family. 



Uttoxhatre. — Uttoxeter (anciently Uttokceaster or Utcester). 



S. Peter and S. Paul. — S. Peter's day (the. traditional anniversary of the 

 common martyrdom of SS. Peter and Paul) falls on the 29th June. 



Date A. D. 1408. 



Alshop. — Alsop, originally Ellashope or Elleshope, then Alshope, Alshop, 

 Alsop. Hope. — A deep valley wiihout a stream of water. 



Allsopp. — The endorsement of the name spelt in this mode, which appears 

 on many of the foregoing deeds, is in a peculiar handwriting, apparently of the 

 17th century. In modern title deeds the name of the village and township of 

 Alsop is often met with spelt with the double 1 and double p, and sometimes 

 it is found to have been written Allsop or Alsopp. 



