by Jill Blackwell Hughes, BA Thesis submitted to the University of ...

thereafter annually to the bp. and his successors
5s. of silver at the usual four terms in his manor
of Longdon (Longedon) for all secular service
exacted and claimed. The bp. and his successors
will warrant the said ten acres of land with its
appurtenances to the said Henry and his begotten
heirs or those to be begotten against all men. In
witness of which the bp. 's seal is attached to
these presents. Witnesses, Thomas de Pype, John de
Esmerebrock, John de la Bourne, Nicholas de
Ambriton, clerk, John de Pype in Lichfield,
Richard Cardoun from the same, William le Taverner
and others.
787 4 August 1307, Lichfield (? ]. Know etc. that
Walter gives and grants to Hugh de la Dale, mason,
and Agnes his wife a certain part of a tenement
with its appurtenances in the town of Lichfield,
which was of John de la Hul, lying between the
tenement of Vincent son of John de le Hul on the
one part and the tenement of Hawise, who was the
wife of John de la Hul, on the other part, and it
extends in length from the royal road as far as
the bp. 's pool and it is twelve feet in length at
the head on both sides, together with the
reversion of the dower of the said tenement which
Hawise holds containing six feet in length since
it has fallen to the bp., and which indeed it was
falling in the name of escheat by the payment
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