1277-04-28, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 5 Edward I · Edward I · Close Rolls · Membrane 9

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Dated in source: “April 28” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 9 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause Robert Giffard to have seisin of the bailiwick of the king's hundred of Berdestapel, and to receive the ministers whom he shall depute to execute that office, as the king has taken his homage for the bailiwick, which he has by the king's licence of the grant of William Giffard and Gundreda his wife.

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