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Adam le Despenger

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  1. 1311-03-01 date: inferred auto-linked

    _ Pardon to Margaret, late the wife of Fulk de Rycote, for acquiring in fee, without licence from the late king, from Adam le Despenger, tenant in chief, three messuages and 4 virgates of land in Rollandrith; with restit…

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