JOHN DE RAYNTON 



Translation. 



Adam de Lamberton, to all people and friends, greeting 

 — Know ye both present and to come that I have given 

 and granted, and by this my present charter have confirmed 

 to Galfrid de Hesswell, my grandson,* the whole third part 

 of my whole land of Lamberton in meadows and pastures 

 and all other their just pertinents within and without; To 

 be held by him and his heirs of me and my heirs in fee 

 and heritage as freely and quietly, fully and honorably as 

 I hold my other land in Lamberton from the Prior of Cold- 

 ingham ; Paying therefore yearly to me and my heirs a 

 pound of pepper at Whitsundaj', and rendering therefrom 

 to the King the forinsec service due to him and, to the Prior 

 of Coldingham the service which is due from that land. 

 Moreover the foresaid Galfrid and his heirs shall give to me 

 for his forfeiture 12 pence, and for his market 12 pence, the 

 heirs also of the said Galfrid shall give for the relief of 

 their land half a silver mark ; I shall also have outwith the 

 partition of my foresaid land two fields of fifteen acres, for 

 the third part of which I have given and granted to the 

 foresaid Galfrid and his heirs six acres on the slope of the 

 hill towards the south besides those first fields falling to 

 them. Witnesses, Richard de Prebenda, Clerk of the King; 

 Walter, the King's Chaplain ; Robert de Boraeville, Sheriff 



of Berwick ; Nicolas, Chaplain of ; Beringo, Clerk 



of the King; Richard, son of Wid. (?) Marshall of the 

 King ; Helia de Preudergest ; Gregory, Steward of Colding- 

 ham ; Ralph Arand. (?) ; Walter Steward; Robert, son of 

 Robert Frehorn ; Edward, son of Jocelin ; Richard of 

 Coldingham ; Thomas of Auldcambus ; William Pollard ; 

 Hugh Ego, and others. 



* Nepos also means nephew, and that may possibly be the relationship 

 heie intended. 

 QQ 



