Group of four Warwickshire charters, 13th-15th century

FOUR DEEDS CONCERNING PROPERTY IN THE AREA OF KENILWORTH, SOLIHULL, AND WARWICK, IN LATIN

[Warwickshire, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries]

manuscripts on vellum, 4 single-sheet documents: (1) c.170x125mm, the lower 15mm folded up, 15 lines, finely written, endorsed ‘kenelworth’, pendant green wax seal c.40mm in diameter, depicting a rampant lion [England, 13th century]; (2) c.185x150mm, the lower 20mm folded up, 24 lines, with fragment of an oval pendant seal [England, 13th century]; (3) c.230x135mm, the lower 30mm folded up, 11 lines, finely written, dated at Little Kineton, 12 May 1316; (4) c.130x265mm, the lower 25mm folded up, 9 lines, dated at Lapworth, 4 December 1426; all with creases, some with stains, holes, etc., not significantly affecting legibility, two with seals missing

(1) Richard, son of Paine, grants land to his daughter Matilda, and 12 pence annually to the Prior of Kenilworth; witnesses include William of Warwick, Robert of Morcote, Robert ‘kanuto’, Henry son of Ynge, and Nicholas Bassett. (2) Richard Sampson of Parva Kyngton (Little Kineton) grants to Miles de Cirencester, vicar of Butlers Marston, an acre in the field of Little Kineton; witnesses include Robert, vicar of Kineton, Richard de Kyngton de Brockhampton, and John of Little Kineton. (3) Roger de Longel’ (Langley) grants to Godfrey de Pinnel’ (Pinley), a ½-acre and a right of way in lands of Claverdon, in a place called Longpong(?); witnesses include Hugh and John de Blayds, Alan of Curdeshale, Richard of Bredon, Henry Dolphin, and William de Preston. (4) John Brom[wich?] of Warwick, junior, grants to John Brom[wich?] of Warwick, senior, his property in the vills and fields of Lappeworth, Stodeley, Henley, Beaudesert (‘Bello deserto’), Warwick, and elsewhere in Warwickshire; witnesses include Thomas Sydenahle, John Fulwode, and Thomas Grene de Solihull.