1346-05-20, Richard Westminster

Cancelled on payment. Enrolment of indenture made between William de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon and John son of Sir John de Clynton, sometime lord of Maxstoke, testifying that John demised to the earl the manor of Shustoke, a messuage, 2 carucates of land in Shustoke and a moiety of a park, demesne lands and meadows in Netherwhitakre with rents, homages, fealties, wards, mazrriages, reliefs, heriots, escheats, suits of court of free tenants and bond and all other services and customs and all appurtenances which John formerly had of the gift and enfeofiment of the prior and convent of Maxstoke, in exchange for certain other lands in Maxstoke, and all messuages, lands, bondmen with their suit and issue, which belonged to John, sometime lord of Maxstoke in Maxstoke, Colshull, Cotes, Merston and Sulihull and which the earl had in his custody of the grant of Sir John de Oddynggesheles, by reason of the minority of John son of John, except certain lands which the prior and convent held, on the date of these presents, in Maxstoke, of the grant of John son of John, in exchange, as aforesaid, for which fines were afterwards levied in the king's court at Westminster between the prior and convent and John, to hold for the earl's life. Witnesses: Sir John Buttourt, Sir Thomas de Astelee, Sir Ralph de Bracebrugge, Sir John Hillary, knights, John de Peyto, the younger, John du Lee. Dated at Heyling near Portesmuth at Midsummer, 20 Edward IIT.