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Rowley alias Wittenham. 



accrue to the Rector of the Church of Farley Hungerford and 

 his successors through non-exhibition of the same ; seeing that the 

 said original Letters of our Rev d . Brother Robert,, Bishop of Sarum 

 cannot always be produced, 



" We, John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, upon the request of 

 the Lord Walter Hungerford, Patron of both the Churches, and 

 of the aforesaid [J ohn Gloucestre,] Rector of the Church of Farley 

 Hungerford, have specially commanded the exact purport of the 

 Letters aforesaid to be largely truly and wholly within these presents 

 embodied and inscribed, in order that the same implicit reliance may 

 be for ever thereon placed as on the original Letters themselves. 



" In Witness and assurance of which things all and singular, we 

 have to these presents caused our seal to be attached. 



" Given at our Place 1 in London the xxiv th day of November, 

 1428, and in the fourth year of our Consecration. 33 



Deeds relating to Rowley alias Wittenham, in the " Hungerford 

 Chartulary ; 33 translated from the Latin and abridged. 



"The Lands and Tenements formerly Hamunde's. 



1. Roger de Sancto Laudo [St. Lo] grants to Walter Brutun a virgate of 

 land in "Rueleia," held by Johes. Clericus : and a messuage, in y e occupation 

 of " Petrus Pistor " on the E. side of a meadow belonging to the virgate, with 

 half an acre on the South side, next to the arable called " Worthehes" with 

 another half acre lying in the East field near the Nore&hall. Paying annually 

 a pound of pepper, and on condition that the said "Walter answers for those lands 

 to the King for the 40 th part of a Knight's fee. Furthermore the said Roger 

 grants that Walter shall have pannage for six swine in his [Roger's] woods 

 yearly, and six loads of fuel from his woods, the week before Christmas. War- 

 ranty given against all men and women. Witnesses, Rob*, de Mucegros, Rob*, de 

 Bekeford, Robert Clerk, William Blundell, Roger, son of Ralph, Alexander de 

 Montford, Hamon Ursel, and many others. \_No date.~\ 



2. John Bruton grants the aforesaid messuage and virgate, (formerly held by 

 his Father Walter B), to his daughter Catherine and her heirs ; Yielding for the 

 same, a pound of pepper at Michaelmas to the Lord of the Fee, and to him the 

 said John a Rose at Midsummer. Witnesses John de St Lo, Lord John Lovel, 

 Junior, Kt : Henry de la Cleye,* Grervase de Suddebur', Richard de Bath, Sir 

 Richard Vicar of the Monistr' for the time being, Gilbert de Hestoker and others. 

 \_No date.'] 



1 " Place," — the proper word for a Bishop's residence in or near London. 

 Burn's Eccl. Law., vol. 1., p. 218. 



* Perhaps Clay Farm, still in the parish of Bradford. 



