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Lefwin the whittawyer (mesgucer) gives 2 messuages in the soke of henry son of the bishop outside cripplegate in everard well street. alulf son of fromund is to be paid 7s yearly.
297. Lefwin the whittawyer (mesgucer) gives 2 messuages in the soke of Henry
son of the bishop outside Cripplegate in Everard Well Street. Alulf son of Fromund is to be paid 7$. yearly.
Date : C. 1147/74 (Brichctmar de Hauerelle ; see Norman Moore, i. 53, for his
occurrence as a witness in 1147. He was sheriff in 1157, 1158 and 1174; P.R.0, Lists and Indexes, ix. 200).
MS. : Cartulary, fo. 82v.
DE DONATIONE LEUWINI MESGUCER DE FORTS CREPELGATE.
Sciant presentes e futuri quod ego Lefwinus Mesguecer 1 concessi et dedi et hac carta confirmaui deo et ecclesie Sancte Marie de Clerekenew'll' et monialibus ibidem deo seruientibus in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam duo masagia que ego habui et tenui in socha Henrici filii episcopi de foris Crepelgate in Euerardeswellestrate de Adelulfo filio Fromundi tenenda in perpetuum libere et quiete ab omni seculari seruitio, saluo censu predicti Adolulfi de eisdem masagiis scilicet septem sol' pro omni seruitio annuatim.
Testibus. Brichctmer de Hauerelle. Roberto le tanur. Symone le tanur. Gocelin le tanur. Gerold le Staue. Iolianne filio Mauricii.
Mesguecer, not in 0.E.D., but ' meguecers called Whittawyers ' occur in 1346; G. F. Sutton, ' Notes on the Early History of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers', Trans. London and Middlesex Arch. Soc., N.S., v. 15. Sharpe calls Meguecers ' Greytawyers, Cal. of Letter Books (Letter book L), p. xvii. A late 13th-cent. Megucer occurs in Bod. Lib., MS. Radcliffe dep. deed, 220. |