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Notification of the King's grant of two carrucates of land in Formby (Lancashire) to Richard of Meath

Identity

B152

Title

Notification of the King's grant of two carrucates of land in Formby (Lancashire) to Richard of Meath

Beneficiary

Richard of Meath (People)

Date of issue

28 February 1203

Place of issue

Pont-Audemer, France (Places)

Sources

B = PRO C 52/16 (Cartae Antiquae Roll Q) no.14, s.xiii in.

Printed

(from B) The Cartae Antiquae Rolls 1-10, ed. L. Landon, Pipe Rolls Society n.s. xvii (1939), ii, 115-16 no.494

Comment

Transcription

Iohannes Dei gratia rex Anglie etc omnibus fidelibus suis salutem.  Sciatis nos dedisse et concessisse et presenti carta nostra confirmasse dilecto et fideli nostro Ricardo de Mida duas carrucatas terre in Forneby cum omnibus pertinentiis suis que fuerunt dominicum nostrum, tenendas et habendas de nobis et heredibus nostris sibi et heredibus suis iure hereditario ad feodi firmam, reddendo de predicta terra nobis et heredibus nostris rectam, debitam et antiquam firmam, videlicet xxviii. solidos, et de cremento singulis annis ad festum sancti Michaelis dimidiam marcam per annum pro omni seruicio et exactione.  Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus quod predictus Ricardus et heredes sui post ipsum habeant et teneant predictas duas carrucatas terre cum omnibus pertinentiis suis bene et in pace, libere, quiete, integre et honorifice in bosco, plano, in viis, semitis, pratis, pasturis, aquis, molendinis, stagnis, viuariis, piscariis et in moris, mariscis, turbariis, in omnibus locis et rebus cum omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad predictam terram pertinentibus.  Datum per manum Hugonis de Well' apud Pontem Aldomar' xxviii. die Februarii anno regni nostri iiii.

Calendar

Notification that the king has granted to Richard of Meath two carucates of land in Formby, to hold in hereditary right at fee farm, rendering the ancient farm of 28 shillings, and the yearly increment at Michaelmas of half a mark per annum for all service.

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