totum mesuagium, placeam, domos et edificia cum schoppis, solariis, gardino... que fuerunt domini Hervici de Staunton, quondam rectoris ecclesie de Estderham,' in civitate LONDON', in parochia SANCTE AGNETIS INFRA PORTAM DE ALDRESGATE,2 que quidem tenementa habui de . . . feoffamento dominorum Johannis de Illegh, rectoris ecclesie Omnium Sanctorum de Ikelyngham, et Johannis Waryn, rectoris ecclesie de Seue, exsecutorum testamenti domini Hervici supradicti. Et extendit se illud mesuagium versus orientem super venellam sancti Martini Magni, et versus occidentem super gardinum fratrum Minorum, et versus austrum super quoddam mesuagium pertinens ad ecclesiam sancti Martini Magni London', et versus boream super exteriorem locum gardini predictorum fratrum et prope murum dicte civitatis ad portam predictam,

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1 Hervey de Staunton was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1316, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1323. He was sent to London in 1316, with Roger le Brabazon and others of the King's council, to negotiate a loan from the city for provision for the war with Scotland. In 1317 he had a bond from John de Yerdhill payable

He

from lands in Northumberland.
was prebendary of Hustwhait, in York
Cathedral; a priest of this name was
parson, in 1317, of the church of Ene-
methe, and in 1320, of the church of
Northcreyk, both in Norfolk. Letters
of protection for a year were granted
to Hervey de Staunton, parson of the
church of Est Derham, 11 February,
1324. His will, dated 26 August,
1327, and proved on Monday next
before the Feast of S. Mathias (17
February), 1327, directed that his
property in the city of London, con-
sisting of a messuage in the parish
of S. Agnes within Aldresgate, and
the reversion of certain shops, should
be sold. He must have died not long
after making his will, for 2 December,
1327, the treasurer was ordered to
make prompt payment to his executors
for 8001. of his money taken by the
King from the abbey of S. Edmund,
when he and his mother arrived from
France. Hervey was buried in the
church of S. Michael, at Cambridge,
to which he had received license to
alienate the advowson of the church
of Barenton; he died before this
license was carried out, and it was
renewed to his kinsman and heir,
Alexander de Walsham. (Calendars

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of Patent and Close Rolls; Calendar of London Wills, i., p. 343; Foss, Lives of the Judges.)

2 The parish church of SS. Anne and Agnes within Aldersgate, also called S. Anne in the Willows, was burnt down in 1548, rebuilt after seventy years, and again burnt in the Fire of London. The advowson belonged to S. Martin le Grand.

3 Icklingham, in Suffolk; Sacomb, in Hertfordshire.

4 Christ's Hospital afterwards stood on the site of the house of the Grey Friars. Their church, which was very large and beautiful, was consecrated in 1225, and at the Dissolution was made the parish church of several small parishes then united. It was burnt in the Fire, and the present Christchurch was built by Wren. S. Martin's Lane was little used as a thoroughfare, as is shown by the following ordinance of 1310 :— "And if perchance it shall happen that any tailor has so much to do, that by reason of the great press of business for our lord the King, or for some other great lord, he is obliged to scour furs by day, then let him scour them in some dead lane, such as behind St. Martin's Le Grand, or near the London Wall, where no great lords are passing, either going or coming; and whereby no dispute may arise." (Memorials of London and London Life, H. T. Riley (1868), p. 77.) The messuage was sold by Gilbert de Bruera to Henry de Percy in 1343. (No. DCCCXLVIII.)

Habendum et tenendum. . . de capitalibus dominis feodorum illorum ... Pro hac ... dedit michi predictus magister Gilbertus ducentas et quaterviginti marcas premanibus. . Hiis testibus, Johanne de Preston, maiore civitatis London', Johanne Hosebonde, Nicholao Pikot, vicecomitibus London', Ricardo de Hakeney, Henrico de Scheford,' aldermanno illius warde de Aldresgate, Nicholas de Faryndon,2 Symone de Swanlond, Roberto de Kelseye, Rogero de Depham, Johanne de Gloucestr', Nicholao de Crane, Roberto de Sordiche, Petro de Hungrie, Johanne de Hynkeston, Petro de la Cornere, et Roberto de Glatton, peyntur, et aliis. Data London', April, 1333 die Mercurii proximo post festum sancti Marci Ewangeliste, anno... Edwardi tercii . . . septimo.

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DCCCXL. Sciant... JOHANNES DE ILLEGH, rector ecclesie Omnium Sanctorum de Ikelyngham, et JOHANNES WARYN, rector ecclesie de Sauecamp, exsecutores testamenti domini Hervici de Staunton quondam rectoris ecclesie de Est Derham 9 . . . vendidimus . . . domino ADE DE HERWYNTON canonico ecclesie sancti Ethelberti Herefordensis, totum mesuagium, placeam, domos et edificia cum schopis et gardino . . . que fuerunt ipsius domini Hervici in civitate London' in parochia sancte Agnetis infra portam de Aldresgate. Que quidem tenementa predictus dominus Hervicus legavit per nos vendenda et ad sufficientem securitatem emptori eorundem inde faciendam secundum consuetudinem civitatis predicte. . .10 Habendum et tenendum. . . de capitalibus dominis feodorum illorum . . . Et pro hac . . solvit nobis dictus Adam quamdam pecunie summam premanibus, nomine exsecutorio in hac parte... Testibus, Symone de Swanlond, maiore civitatis London', Henrico Gisortz" et Ricardo le Lacer, vicecomitibus London', Henrico de Sechford," aldermanno warde de Aldresgate, Willelmo de Everdon, barone de scaccario domini regis,

1 Henry de Seccheford was chamber-
lain of the city from 1329 to 1335.
2 Nicholas de Farindone was mayor
in 1308 and 1314.

3 Simon de Swanland was mayor
in 1329 and 1350. He was a wool
merchant, and in 1319 had a safe-
conduct for a year to go to Brabant
and France in order to sell wool and
return with Flemish cloth. He lent
money to Edward II., and in the first
year of Edward III. was granted ex-
-emption from all taxes and aids due
for the last seventeen years.

4 Robert de Kelesaie was alderman in 1319.

5 Roger de Depham was alderman and recorder in 1356.

6 John of Gloucester lived in the neighbouring parish of S. Vedast; he was sheriff in 1345.

7 John de Hyunston was sheriff in 1334. 8 No. DCCCXLIV. is another copy of this deed.

9 See No. DCCCXXXIX.

10 The boundaries of the messuage are given here as in No. DCCCXXXIX. 11 No. DCCCXLIV.: Gisortz. He was sheriff in 1329.

12 No. DCCCXLIV.: Secford.

Roberto de Kelesaye,' Waltero Turk, Johanne de Gloucestr', et aliis. Data London', die Veneris proximo post festum sancti Valentini Martiris, anno .. Edwardi tercii . . . quarto. 16 Feb., 1338

DCCCXLI. Sciant... REMUNDUS DE BURDEUS civis London'... concessi... ROGERO LE BRABAZON' militi totam terram illam cum domibus superedificatis, schoppis, gardinis, curtilagiis, quam habui in parochia SANCTE AGNETIS INFRA ALDRESGATE LONDON', inter vicum regium ex parte orientali, et gardinum quod fuit quondam Walteri Carbonel ex parte occidentali, et tenementum quod pertinet ad sanctum Martinum Magnum ex parte australi, et vicum regium ducentem inter dictam terram et murum ville ex parte aquilonari, (folio 130 d.) Habendam et tenendam... de capitalibus dominis feodi illius... Pro hac . . . dedit michi predictus Rogerus sexies viginti libras argenti premanibus... Hiis testibus, domino Johanne Breton, tunc custode London', Johanne de Sterteford et Willelmo de Sterteford, tunc vicecomitibus ejusdem civitatis, Willelmo le Mazerer, aldermanno illius warde, Henrico de Keles, Roberto de Assingdon, Hugone de Bedeford, Johanne 3

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1 No. DCCCXLIV.: Kelesey.

2 Walter Turk was mayor in 1349.

3 Reymund of Bordeaux was a saddler. In 1292 ten hornbeams from the King's park of Haveryng were assigned to him from which to make saddle bows for the King. (Calendar of Close Rolls.)

4 Roger le Brabazon was justice of the King's Bench from 1289 to 1316. He had lands in the counties of Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, and Oxford. In 1288, he was appointed justice of the forests in Yorkshire of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, and, with Hugh de Vienna, was appointed his attorney when the Earl went out of England in 1289. He was chosen to demand from the Scottish people meeting at Norham, in 1291, a full recognition of the claims of Edward I. He retired from his post of chief justice in 1316, and in this and the following year he had licenses for grants in mortmain. He died in 1317, and was buried in S. Paul's Cathedral. By his will, not dated, and proved on Monday before the feast of S. Margaret (13 July), 1317, he directed that his houses and shops in the parish of S. Anne within Aldresgate should be sold. His heir was his brother, Mathew le Brabazon, aged forty years.

(Calendar of London Wills, i., p. 272;
Inq. p. m., 11 Edw. II., No. 40.)

5 Walter Carbonel died in 1281, his
will, without date, being proved on
Monday, 12 May. He directed that
his houses in Penticost Lane should
be sold, and bequeathed half the pro-
ceeds to his daughter Idonia, and half
to pious uses. (Calendar of Wills, i.,
p. 52.) In 1405, John Carbonell, a
goldsmith, was living in the neigh-
bouring parish of S. Vedast, in the
church of which he founded a chantry.

6 John le Breton was mayor in 1285 and 1292. In consequence of offences committed by the city, Edward I. appointed a warden by letters patent, who should take the place of mayor, and this office was assigned to John le Breton, 7 June, 1293. By his will, proved on Monday before the feast of SS. Simon and Jude (26 October, 1311), he bequeathed all his houses in London to Nicholas his son. (Calendar of London Wills, i., p. 227.)

7 William le Mazerer or Mazeliner, was coroner in 1289. The word means a maker of wooden cups or mazers.

8 Enefeud, now Enfield. In 1337, a John de Enefelde was one of those who dwelt "around the Conduit at London." (Riley, p. 200.)

de Enefeud, Petro de Hungrie, Nicholao le Broun, Johanne 26 Jan., 1297 de Stanes, Thoma Juvenal, et aliis."

DCCCXLII. Omnibus . . . ROGERUS LE BRABAZON de Musele,3 miles concessisse THOME DE DERLAY' unam placeam terre ... in civitate LONDON' INFRA ALDRESGATE in parochia SANCTE AGNETIS cum omnibus domibus et edificiis super dictam placeam edificatis, que quidem placea sita est inter quoddam tenementum sancti Martini Majoris London', ex parte australi, et tenementum meum ex parte boriali, et regiam viam a parte orientali, et tenementum meum a parte occidentali, et continet in longitudine a tenemento sancti Martini usque ad tenementum meum septem ulnas regias et dimidiam et unum quarterou, et continet in latitudine in parte australi et boriali et in medio a regia via usque ad tenementum meum decim ulnas regias et unum quarteron et duas pollices. Habendam et tenendam... ad totam vitam suam . . . reddendo inde annuatim michi . . . tresdecim solidos et quatuor denarios . . . ad festum Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste... et ad festum sancti Michaelis ... et ad festum Natalis Domini ... et ad festum Pasche... pro omnibus serviciis... Et faciendo pro me . . . capitalibus dominis feodi illius debita servicia et consueta . . . Hiis testibus, Johanne de Wyngrave, tunc maiore London', Roberto de Kellesey, aldermanno ejusdem civitatis, Ricardo de Wirhale, aldermanno, Symone de Abindon, aldermanno, Nigello le Avener, Henrico de Keyle, Petro de Hungry, Andrea cyssore et aliis. Data 9 May, 1317 London', die Lune proximo post festum sancti Johannis ante Portam Latinam, anno regni regis Edwardi filii regis Edwardi decimo.

DCCCXLIII. Sciant... THOMAS DE THORP persona ecclesie de Whatton, WILLELMUS DE MUSELE quondam senescallus domini Rogeri le Brabazon, et ROBERTUS DE EURE, persona

1 Thomas Juvenal died in 1309, when the King requested the mayor to give his office to John Albon. (Riley, p. 69.) He seems to have lived in this parish, for in 1318, Alice Juvenal, widow of Thomas, left a bequest for the maintenance of a chantry in the church of S. Agnes. Her will mentions her daughters Ellen and Mary, and Ellen's late husband, Simon de Burgh. (Calendar of London Wills, i., p. 277.)

2 The date of this deed is supplied from that of No. DCCCXLV., which refers to the same land, has the same witnesses, and was probably made on the same day.

3 Musele is Mowsley, in Leicestershire, in which manor Roger held land of the Earls of Lancaster and Warwick. (Inq. p. m., 11 Edw. II., No. 40.)

4 MS.: Berlay; but always subsequently D takes the place of B.

5 Licence was granted, 22 May, 1314, to John de Wengrave, citizen of London, to crenellate a chamber which he had built in the street called Bradestrete.

6 Symon de Abyndone was sheriff in 1319, and in 1316, Stephen de Abyndone, who was the King's chief butler in the port of London, was

mayor.

ecclesie beate Marie de Arcubus, London', exsecutores testamenti dicti domini ROGERI1... vendidimus... domino HERVICO DE STANTON clerico, rectori ecclesie de Est Derham, totum mesuagium, placeam, domos et edificia cum schoppis et gardino

.2 Et pro hac . . . solvit nobis dictus Hervicus ducentas libras sterlingorum, nomine exsecutorio in hac parte... Testibus, Johanne de Wengrave, maiore civitatis London', Radulfo le Balauncer3 et Willelmo de Causton,' vicecomitibus ejusdem civitatis, Ricardo de Wirhale, aldermanno warde de Aldresgate, Nigello de Whetley, Henrico de Kele, Petro de Hungry, Johanne Spray, Ricardo de Rothing, Willelmo Huberd, Willelmo de Sordich et aliis. Data London', in pleno hustengo in guldhalda London', die Lune proxima ante 18 July, 1317 festum sancte Margarete virginis, anno . . . Edwardi filii regis Edwardi undecimo.

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DCCCXLIV. (Folio 131.) Sale by the executors of Hervey de Stanton, formerly rector of the church of Estderham, to Adam de Herewynton, canon of the church of S. Ethelbert, Hereford, of a messuage in the parish of S. Agnes within Al Iresgate; dated London, Friday next after the feast of 16 Feb., 1338 S. Valentine, martyr, 4 Edward III. A duplicate of No. DCCCXL.

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DCCCXLV. Universis ... REMUNDUS DE BURDEUS, civis London'. . . Cum . . . per cartam meam' concesserim ROGERO LE BRABAZON militi totam terram meam cum domibus, edificiis, schoppis... in parochia SANCTE AGNETIS INFRA ALDRESGATE volo et concedo me . . . teneri et per presentes obligari ad acquietandum predictum Rogerum versus quemcumque ... de omnimodis demandis et exaccionibus quibuscumque, et eciam de arreragiis firmarum seu reddituum seu debitorum que ab eodem Rogero... racione predictarum terrarum ... exigi seu recuperari poterunt de quocumque tempore ante confeccionem presentis scripti... Hiis testibus, domino Johanne Breton, tunc custode London', Johanne de Stretteford, et Willelmo de Stretteford, tunc vicecomitibus ejusdem civitatis, Willelmo le

1 Two other executors of Roger le Brabazon are mentioned in letters of protection till the following Michaelmas, granted 4 March, 1318, to his executors Gilbert de Roubiry, John le Brabanzon, Thomas de Thorpe, and William de Mousele. (Calendar of Patent Rolls.)

2 The messuage is described here as in No. DCCCXXXIX.

3 Ralf le Balauncer and John de Grantham were pepperers, and took part in making ordinances for that trade in 1316. (Riley, p. 120.)

4 William de Causton lived in the parish of S. Vedast, very near to that of S. Agnes.

5 Richard de Rothing was sheriff in 1327.

6 The court of Husting was always held on Monday; in time the sittings extended to Tuesday, but were recorded as having been held on Monday only. The day was altered in 1550 to Tuesday, on which day the court is still held. (R. R. Sharpe, Calendar of London Wills, i., p. viii.)

7 No. DCCCXLI.