1359-09-10, Roger Leeds
Memorandum that Roger Landu came into the chancery at Suthwerk on 10 September and acknowledged the preceding charter. Enrolment of grant by Thomas de Benchisham to William Walkelate and Joan his wife of all his lands with all the woods, hedges and appurtenances in Benchisham in the parish of Croydon, to wit all those lands and woods which lie between the land of the said William and the wood called Northwode, and so wholly to the way called Beulestret ; also his field called Souncheld with the meadow adjacent called Greneforland with all the hedges and ditches about that field pertaining thereto, with all commons of pasture and other profits, to hold to William and Joan and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of William. Dated Croydon, the feast of St. Dunstan, 88 Edward III. Witnesses: Nicholas de Carreu, Nicholas atte Welle, Thomas Hatter, John Oliver the elder, John Oliver the younger, John de Berewe, Adam Mauncel.
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