Appendix IV

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                                APPENDIX. IV.
TRANSLATION OF DEED RELATING TO DEDDINGTON.
                                       (1607).

This is the Deed of Alice Stamper to all the faithful in Christ to whom the present Deed shall come, from Alice Stamper of Deddington in the County of Oxford, widow, eternal salvation in the Lord.

    KNOW that I the aforesaid Alice of my sole widowhood and lawful power have surrendered given and by this present Deed confirmed for the sum of thirteen shillings and four pence sterling paid into the hands of me the aforesaid Alice to Richard Gylkys of the aforesaid Deddington husbandman the whole of that my cottage situate and lying in the new suburb of the aforesaid Deddington between the farm and messuage of the Dean of Windsor on the North and a certain enclosure of our Lord the King on the South with one small curtilage Barnand garden adjacent thereto with all other appurtenances ; which cottage barn and garden came to me the aforesaid Alice by inheritance after the death of John Nycoll my father.

   The aforesaid Richard Gylkys his heirs and assigns TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid cottage with its curtilage barn and garden aforesaid with their appurtenances in perpetuity from the Chief Lord of the Fee by the services due and of right accustomed.

   And I the aforesaid Alice and my heirs will guarantee, to the aforesaid Richard Gylkys his heirs and assigns, the whole of the aforesaid cottage with its curtilage barn garden and other appurtenances against all men, and will defend them in perpetuity by these present and in witness thereof I the aforesaid Alice have appended my seal to this my present Deed.

  WITNESS : William Byllyng of the aforesaid Deddington,gentleman, Robert Gleyford, Henry Watson, Richard Stylgoe, and others. Given on the 11th day of November in the twenty-second reign of King Henry VIII (1532) in the presence of John Gys,John Coke and William Nurse, Bailiffs of the aforesaid Deddington and of the aforesaid Richard Gylkys for deliberation possession and seizure.

  ENGROSSED and examined by Hugo Handley supervisor of our Lord King James of 1607.

 

     TRANSLATION OF DEED RELATING TO DEDDINGTON.
                                            (1443).

  This is the Deed of John Scoler.

  KNOW ALL MEN present and future that we John Scoler of Northampton and Katherine my wife, daughter and heir of William Ireland lately of Deddington in the County of Oxford give concede and by this our present Deed confirm to Richard Westley, hosier, of the aforesaid Deddington, the whole of this our messuage with its garden and appurtenances which formerly belonged to the aforesaid William Ireland and which we have in the aforesaid Deddington situated between the tenement of John Admond on the one side of the tenement of John Jenyn on the other side ;

  The aforesaid Richard Westley his heirs and assigns TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid messuage with its garden and appurtenances of the Chief Lords of the Fee by the services due and of right accustomed. And we the aforesaid John Scoler and Katherine my wife and our heirs will guarantee the aforesaid messuage with its garden and the appurtenances to the aforesaid Richard Westley, his heir and assigns against all men.

  WITNESS THEREOF we have appended our seals to this our present Deed. Given at the aforesaid Deddington on the 12th day of December in the twenty-second year of the reign of Henry VI after the conquest.

  WITNESSES : William Mylcheburn, Thomas Syr, William Horncastell, of the aforesaid Deddington and many others.