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to Eoberb jointly with John her son ; and in the document which 

 follows we have Eoberb, presumably after John's death, granting 

 the messuage by the bridge back to Agnes, Beatrice's daughter, in 

 tail, with ultimate remainder to Beatrice's right heirs, reserving, 

 however, to himself a rent for life of 6s. Sd., which must have 

 represented the full value of the premises ; and we are left in doubt 

 whether, after all, his position was fiduciary throughout, or not. 



12. 



Feoffment by Ptobert de Wilmyndon, clerk, to Agnes daughter of 

 Beatrice, daughter of William Sulleve of a messuage at the head of the 

 bridge of Bradeford together with the whole curtilage adjacent, and 

 extending from the said bridge to the wall of his new chamber of the 

 burgage (nove camfreniee de burgagio) which formerly was of Robert de 

 Wylmyndon his father ; to hold to the said Agnes and the heirs of her 

 body begotten, of the chief lords of that fee by the services which belong 

 to that messuage, and by rendering therefore yearly to him for his whole 

 life 6s. 8J., half at Easter and half at Michaelmas ; if she die without 

 heir of her body, then after her decease the messuage shall remain to 

 the said Beatrice and the heirs of her body begotten, to hold of the 

 chief lords, and by the rent to him, as above ; and if it happen the said 

 Beatrice to die without heir of her body begotten, then after her decease 

 the said messuage shall remain to the right heirs of the said Beatrice, 

 *fec. Witnesses, Sir John de Holte, knt., William de la sale, John 

 Basset, Gilbert le feuere, Nicholas le teynturer and many other. 



No. 11. 



West Ashton. 



We assumed above that inasmuch as Beatrice gave the messuage 

 by the bridge to Eobert de Wilmyndon jointly with John her son, 

 Eobert could not have granted it back to her daughter until by 

 John's death he had ])ecome solely seised of it. But it is equally 

 possible that John, by a document now lost, had released liis right 

 to Eobert, or even that he separately enfeoffed his sister by a 

 document not now in the collection. There is a suggestion, at any 

 rate, from the charters which follow, that -Tohn was alive at a much 

 later date, and there is a clue in them to his identity. We have, 

 to begin with, Walter de Wike granting to Eobert de Wilmyndon 

 clerk, John son of lieatrice Soleve and Agnes, John's sister, two 

 acres of land in West Ashton, and by a further charter granting 

 to Eobert de Wilmyndon, clerk, John de Wilmyndon, and Williau) 



