suæ, et hær. suis, quieta inperp. de præfatis Priore et Can. remanebit, et mora prænominata dictis Priori et Can. et hominibus suis, et præfato Domino Petro, et Ysabellæ uxori suæ, et hær. suis [et] nativis, communis inperp. remanebit per has divisas; scil. sicut semita quæ vocatur Nunnesty ducit ad Percybiging usque ad Ormescrosse ex una parte, et ex altera, sicut via de Cliveland ducit de Ormescrosse usque ad Petram Stantem, et de alia Petra usque ad divisam inter Percybiging et Birkscouch. Ita quod nec præfati Prior et Can., nec præfati Dominus Petrus nec Ysabella uxor ejus, nec hæredes sui, nec homines ipsorum, infra prædictas divisas aliquid fodient vel decorticabunt. Et sciendum quod tam dictus Petrus et Ysabella uxor sua, quam dictus Prior, fide mediante, concesserunt quod conventionem istam in primo adventu Justiciariorum Itinerantium in partes Ebor., de assensu partium facient cyrographari. Et in hujus rei test. præsenti scripto utraque pars sigillum suum apposuit. H. T. Domino Ada de Hylton, Rogero de Stapelton tunc Vicecomite,1 Willelmo Ruffes, Magistro Johanne de Tyd, Johanne de Langeberg, Willelmo de Salkoc, Henrico de Uplyum, Johanne de Tocotes, et m. a.

portance in the reigns of John and Henry III. Matthew Paris (Chronica Majora, ii. 532) reckons him, and Robert de Vipont, and Yvo his brother, Hugh de Bailliol and Bernard his brother, Philip, Bishop of Durham, and Philip de Ulecotes, amongst King John's evil counsellors. In the earlier part of Henry III.'s reign he filled many important posts. In 1226 he had the castles of Corfe and Sherborne in his custody (Excerpta è Rotulis Finium i. 143), and in 1233-4 was entrusted with that of Devizes (Close Roll. 18 Hen. III., m. 31). He was Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset in 2-5 Hen. III., and of Northants in the last quarter of 20 Hen. III. His wife, Isabel, who is mentioned above, was the daughter and heiress of Robert de Turnham. For this marriage he agreed with King John to pay the large sum of seven thousand mares (Excerpta è Rot. Finium, i. 54), which he paid in 1221 (Rot. Litt. Claus., i. 466b). In 1222 Brian de Insula was commanded to let Peter de Mauley have the forest of Egton (Eketon), as Robert de Turnham, his wife's father, had had it (Ibid., i. 491b). Peter and his wife were still alive in 1235, VOL. II.

when they were tenants in a fine about four bovates of land in Sandal (Saundale), in which Ralph de Verneiles and Joan his wife were the plaintiffs (Pedes Finium Ebor., 16-19 Hen. III. No. 132). In 1238 the executors of Isabella de Turneham, late wife of Peter de Mauley, had a pardon of the thirtieth, arising from corn, etc., in the manors of Baynton and Cliff in Yorkshire (Close Roll. 22 Hen. III., m. 20). The Meaux chronicler (i. 165) says she predeceased her husband, and was buried in the Chapter House of that Abbey. Her husband founded a chapel in the copse (capellam in bosco), and gave to Meaux two bovates in Wharrom, three librates in Ake, and two mills in Birdsall and Lockington, to found a chantry in the chapel for her soul (Ibid.). Her husband went to the Holy Land in 1241 (Yorkshire Inquisitions, i. 12), when he was succeeded by his son of the same name.

1 Roger de Stapelton acted as deputy (custos) for Brian Fitz Alan, Sheriff of Yorkshire, in the last half of 20 Hen. III., and in the two following years, that is from 1236 to Oct. 27, 1238.

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DCCCCXC.' Notum sit omnibus Cristi fidelibus, quod ita convenit inter Aviciam, Priorissam, et Conventum Sanctimonialium Ecclesiæ S. Maria de Gryndale ex parte una, et Radulphum, Priorem, et Conventum Gyseburnæ ex altera, viz. quod prædictæ Priorissa et Sanctimoniales dimiserunt ad firmam perpetuam præfatis Priori et Can. unam bov. terræ et duo tofta cum suis pert. in Campis et villa de Marton, viz. illam bov. terræ quam prædictæ Sanctimoniales habuerunt ex dono Engrami de Boynton, et quæ jacet propinquior quatuor bov. terræ Willelmi Tosti, et quam dictus Engramus emit de Roberto Galicien; et unum scil. toftum quod dicta Sanctimoniales habuerunt similiter ex dono dicti Engrami, et in quo Robertus Galicien quandocunque mansit, et quod dictus Engramus de eodem Roberto emit; et aliud quoque toftum cum crofto quod præfatæ Sanctimoniales habuerunt ex dono Thomæ de Scalyng, et quod eisdem prædictus Engramus confirmavit. Reddendo inde annuatim prædictis Sanctimonialibus quatuor quart. frumenti rationabiliter purgati, et communi modio patriæ mensurati, in grangia dictorum Can. apud Marton ad duos terminos, viz. duo quart. ad festum S. Martini in hyeme, et duo quart. ad festum Pentecostes, solummodo pro omnibus. Prædicti vero Can. tenebunt et habebunt præfatam bov. terræ et prædicta tofta, libere, quiete, pacifice et integre, cum omnibus libertatibus, liberis consuetudinibus et aisiamentis cum pert. omnibus et singulis ad prædictam bov. terræ et præfata tofta qualitercunque spectantibus. Et prædicta Sanctimoniales et succestrices earum memoratis Can. et eorum succ. prædictam bov. terræ et præfata tofta cum suis pert. universis, tantummodo pro firma bladi prædicta, contra omnes homines warantizabunt, acquietabunt et defendent in lib. pur. et perp. elem. Et si contingat dictos Can. pro defectu warantiæ, acquietationis et defensionis hujusmodi jacturam vel dampnum incurrere, licebit eis tantum de firma bladi præfata subtrahere quantum per defectum hujusmodi rationabiliter poterunt ostendere se totaliter amisisse. Et ut hæc conventio stabilis et illibata permaneat, prædicte Sanctimoniales sigillum Capituli sui ex parte una, et præfati Can. sigillum Capituli sui ex altera huic scripto cyrographato apponi fecerunt. Teste utroque Capitalo.

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This deed is written in a paler and later hand.

UGTHORPE ET PERCYBYGGYNG.

DCCCCXCI.1 (330) Petrus de Malo lacu (etc., as in No.

668).

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SLETHOLME.2

DCCCCXCII. (331) Walterus filius Richeri de Sletholm pro salute animæ meæ . . . Deo et Can. de Gyseburne unum toftum et croftum in Sletholme cum omnibus pert. suis. Illud scil. quod jacet inter toftum Henrici filii Radulphi, et toftum Stephani Priggy, cum communa pasturæ ejusdem villæ et cum omnibus libertatibus et aysiamentis ad ipsam villam pertinentibus, in bosco et plano, moris et pratis, et in omnibus locis sine aliqua exceptione. T. et H. in lib. et pur. et perp. elem. Ego autem Walterus et hæredes mei prædictum toftum cum pert. et cum omnibus prædictis warantizabimus prædictis Can. contra omnes homines inperp., vel si ea warantizare non poterimus, dabimus eisdem Can. in excambium unam bov. terræ cum pert. in lib. et pur. et perp. elem. de mea dim. car. terræ in eadem villa. H. T. Roberto de Acclum,

1 Written in a large hand in very black ink.

Mr. Skaife proposes to identify Sletholme, a place named in Kirkby's Inquest (p. 125) as in the fee of Peter de Malolacu, with Lealholm. But that is quite out of the question, as Lealholm, more anciently Lelom, Lelum, Lelholm, Laclum, etc., was beyond all question in the Brus Fee, and was disposed of accordingly in the partition between the Brus heiresses, when Lelhom fell to the share of Marmaduke de Twenge and Lucy his wife (Yorkshire Inquisitions, i. 148). At the date of the appearance of the aforesaid volume, I was disposed to identify Sletholm with what is now called Barnby Sleights, and I think No. 972 nearly or quite settles the question. The "moor above the wood called Micklescov," which lies to the east of Uggethorp (as it is between that vill and the Mauley boundaries), "towards Sletholme and Birkescov," is thus locally described

in such a manner that the existing names, Sleights and Briscoe, must inevitably suggest themselves as the modern representatives of those old designations; while Percy Bigging, named again and again below, is doubtless preserved in the present Biggin Houses. It may further be remarked that in the 6-inch Ordnance Survey (Sheet 31) the track of an old fence is found laid down, which, it is more than probable, is identical with the lines of the ancient enclosure mentioned in more than one of the present series of documents. There is yet another local name in the same vicinity which probably admits of identification :-I refer to Cucket Nook, the first part of which I think embalms the older form Cuckewalde, named at p. 134 of Kirkby's Inquest, both in the text and notes.-J. C. A.

The usual style of writing re

commences here.

Henrico filio Radulphi, Helia de Wardhov, Gregorio de Bernaldeby, Willelmo de Cotum de Hylderwelle, Reginaldo de Sletholme, Petro Westiby de Gyseburne, et m. a.

DCCCCXCIII. Reginaldus filius Gamelly, et Walterus filius Richeri de Sletholm . . . Deo etc. in lib. pur. et perp. elem. terram quæ dicitur Northebris in Campis de Sletholm, quæ jacet ad capud toftorum, et extenditur usque ad divisam de Uggethorp. Ita quod liceat prædictis Can. prædictam terram claudere, et in ea ædificare vel plantare, et quicquid eis placuerit ad commodum suum facere. Hanc autem donationem nostram nos et hæredes nostri contra omnes homines inperp. warantizabimus. Et si warantizare non poterimus, dabimus eis excambium ad valentiam illius in Campis de Sletholme, sive in prato, sive in terra arabili . . . H. T. Willelmo de Galmeton, Roberto de Barneby, Radulfo et Willelmo, Forestariis de Egeton, Symone de Egeton, Alano filio Siuuardy, Gylberto de Uggethorp, et m. a.

DCCCCXCIV. Robertus Stodhyrde et Willelmus filius Hugonis de Sletholm . . . Noveritis nos assensum præbuisse donationi quam fecerunt domini nostri, Reginaldus filius Gamelli et Walterus, filius Richeri de Sletholm, Can. de Gyseburne de terræ quæ dicitur Northebris in Campo de Sletholm. Ita scil. quod nec nos nec hæredes nostri aliquod jus in prædicta terra ad nocumentum prædictorum Can. vel prædictorum Reginaldi et Walteri vendicare possimus. . H. T. Willelmo de Galmeton (etc., as in the last charter).

DCCCCXCV. Petrus de Malo lacu et Ysabella uxor ejusdem. . . Deo etc. unum toftum et croftum et duas acras terræ et dim. cum pert. in villa de Sletholme, quæ habent ex dono Walteri filii Richeri; et duas acras et dim. cum pert. in eadem villa, quas habent ex dono Reginaldi filii Gamelli. T. et H. in lib. pur. et perp. elem. cum communa pasturæ ejusdem villæ, et cum omnibus libertatibus et aisiamentis ad dictam terram pertinentibus, in bosco et plano, moris et pratis, et omnibus aliis sicut cartæ dictorum Walteri et Reginaldi testantur. . . . (331) H. T. Domino Petro de Brus, Domino Ambrosio de Camera, Willelmo de Barton, Johanne de Langberge, Reginaldo de Danecastre, Alano Clerico, Johanne de Tocotes, Johanne de Bernaldeby, Petro Westiby, Petro Nurri, Willelmo de Thorneton, et m. a.

DCCCCXCVI. Hæc est finalis concordia, facta in Curia Domini Regis apud Ebor., die Veneris prox.' fest. S. Martini anno regni Regis Henrici filii Regis Johannis decimo nono [1234], Coram Rogero Bertram, Roberto de Ros, Adam de

'An omission in the manuscript.

Novo Mercato, Willelmo de Ebor., Radulpho de Norwyco, et Jollano de Nevil, Justiciariis Itinerantibus, et aliis Domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibi præsentibus, Inter Michaelem, Priorem de Gyseburne, querentem, per fratrem Andream Can., positum loco suo etc., et Walterum de Sletholm, impedientem, de uno tofto cum pert. in Sletholm. Unde placitum warantiæ summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem Curia, scil. quod prædictus Walterus recognovit totum prædictum toftum cum pert. esse jus ipsius Prioris et Ecclesiæ suæ de Gyseburne, ut illud quod idem Prior et Ecclesia prædicta habent de dono prædicti Walteri. H. et T. eidem Priori et succ. suis et Écclesiæ prædictæ, de prædicto Waltero et hær. suis in lib. pur. et perp. elem. inperp., quietam ab omni sæculari servitio et exactione. Et prædictus Walterus et hæredes sui warantizabunt eidem [Priori] et succ. suis et Ecclesiæ prædictæ totum prædictum toftum cum pert. in lib. pur. et perp. elem. suam contra omnes gentes inperp. Et idem Prior recepit prædictum Walt. et hæredes suos in singulis beneficiis et orationibus, quæ de cætero fient in Ecclesia sua de Gyseburne inperp.

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SCALYNGE.'

DCCCCXCVII. (332) Hugo filius Patricii . . . Deo etc. pro salute animæ Rogeri de Acclum specialiter, et pro salute animæ meæ, et pro animabus patris et matris meæ, et omnium antecessorum meorum, sex acras terræ in Skalynge in Whytebistrande, pertinentibus ad Rouceby; scil. de illis quatuordecim acris terræ quas præfatus Rogerus michi dederat, quæ jacent versus austrum. H. et T. in lib. et perp. elem., cum omnibus pert. et libertatibus et aysiamentis ad præfatas acras pertinentibus infra villam et extra. Ita etiam ut liceat eisdem Can. facere proficuum suum de prædicta terra omnibus modis quibus potuerint. . . . H. T. Roberto de Acclum, Gregorio de Levingthorpe, Willelmo de Tocotes, Waltero de Hoton, Umfrido de Tocotes, Willelmo de Bolleby, Alexandro Pugeys, Willelmo de Thorneton, Jordano de Beverlaco, et aliis.

DCCCCXCVIII. Rogerus de Acclum . . . Hugoni filio

1 Scaling and Scaling Dam are in the parish of Easington, Little Scaling in that of Hinderwell. Rouceby, now Roxby or Rousby, mentioned above, lies to the south and east of

Scaling in Hinderwell parish. William, son of Roger de Acclum, occurs as a donor in the Helagh Park Chartulary, ff. 126, 127.