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gilbert son of warin the long sells his land in old street to roger son of nigel for 20 marks and for 1d yearly service, saving 8s yearly to the cnator and canons of st pauls.
324. Gilbert son of Warin the long sells his land in Old Street to Roger son of Nigel for 20 marks and for id. yearly service, saving 8s. yearly to the cantor and canons of St. Paul's.
Date : after 26 March 1204 (before no. 325. Warin the long occurs as a witness
1186/9, Norman Moore, i. 227 note. David de Mora occurs as a witness 1212/13; ibid., i. 315 note. The mention of the rent due to the cantor of St. Paul's, suggests a date after the endowment of the office of Precentor of St. Paul's by King John. See the deed dated 26 March 1204 in M. Gibbs, Early Charters of St. Paul's, no. 49. Old Street runs from Goswell Street to
Shoreditch and the endowment of the precentor wa$ the church of Shoreciitçh), MS. ; Cartulary, fo5, 88v,-89r,
DE VENDITIONE GILEBERTI FILII WARINI LONGI ROBERTO FILIO NIGELLI IN ELDESTRATE.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Gilebertus filtus Warini longi vendidi totam terram meam de Ealdestrate et hereditatem cum omnibus pertinenciis Roberto filio Nigelli plo xxti marcis argenti quas idem Robertus mihi pacauit pre, manibus : tenendam et habendam in perpetuum libere et quiete integre et honorifice de me et de successoribus meis ipsis a et heredibus suis a : reddendo annuatim mihi vel heredibus rneis b vnum den' scilicet esterlingum infra oct' pasche pro omnibus seruitiis nobis pertinentibus. •
Et ego et successores mei debemus warantizare predictam terram prescripto Roberto et successoribus suis contra omnes homilies et feminas, saluis viij solidis qui reddentur annuatim Canton i de Sancto Paulo et canonicis ibidem deo seruientibus scilicet duobus terminis quatuor sol' ad pascham et quatuor sol' ad festum Sancti Michaelis pro omni seruitio.
Hoc autem [fo. 89r.] affidaui legaliter tenendum pro me et heredibus meis sepedicto Roberto et heredibus suis et sigilli mei munimine confirmaui.
Hiis testibus. Ricardo capellano de Sancto Egidio. Godefrido de Wicha capellano. Iohanne Laware de Bristowe. Nicholao filio Nigelli. Willelmo de Crepelgate. Willelmo Thresse. Dauid de Mora.
a ipse et heredes sui Cart.
b Perhaps the phrase ipse et heredes sui occurred in the original after meis as in the corresponding phrase in no. 328. |