1358-02-21, Westminster

Nicholas Burnel, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Gilbert Chasteleyn, knight, and Edmund de la Pole, knight, 1,000 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Salop. Gilbert Chasteleyn, knight, and Edward de la Pole, knight, acknowledge that they owe to Nicholas Burnel, knight, 500 marks; to be levied ete. in F the county of Buckingham. John de Grey of Codonore puts in his place Walter Power and Nicholas de Spaygne to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 2,000 marks, made to him in chancery by Reynold de Cobham. Enrolment of grant by Robert de Holond, knight, son and heir of Sir Robert de Holond, to Simon atte Gate, citizen and butcher of London, of all that tenement with the houses built thereon, the shops in front and all other appurtenances, which Nicholas Crane, citizen of London, formerly held for a term of years of the demise of Maud de Holand his mother, in the parish of St. Nicholas Shambles, London, situate in breadth between the tenement of the said Simon atte Gate on the west, and the tenement which formerly belonged to William Abel on the east, and extending in length from the highstreet towards the north to the tenement of Robert de Holond towards the south, to wit, whatever is contained in that tenement, as in houses, lands, buildings, shops, solars and all other things, reserving to Robert all his lodging with the enclosing walls and its other appurtenances in the parish of St. Faith in Paternosterowe, London, as entirely as Robert and his mother held it after the demise made to Nicholas Crane of the tenement in the parish of St. Nicholas: Andrew Aubrey being then mayor of London, John Wroth and Gilbert de Steyndrop sheriffs, Richard Lacer alderman of that ward. Witnesses: John de Enefeld, Robert de Huntyngdon, Richard Siward, Hugh Crane, Adam de Langeley, Walter atte Grene, Edmund de Ware, Nicholas de Thame, Walter de Nettleswell, Robert le Clerk, Simon de Beverlay, then bedel of that ward, John de Pontefracto, clerk. Dated London, Wednesday before the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 26 Edward III.