Folios: 18-19. Derby; Ferrers. Lease. First party: Henry, earl of Lancaster and Leicester,...

Folios: 18-19. Derby; Ferrers. Lease.

First party: Henry, earl of Lancaster and Leicester, steward of England.

Second party: John Colle, John Heved, Ralph Deystere, Hugh Curteis, William de Colham, Roger de Leicestre [Leicester], John Venel, Roger the clerk, John Hosiere, Simon Garet, John Lespicer, Robert Paifot, William de Wilinton, Thomas de Mouseley, Geoffrey de Mouseley, Hugh del Larder, William de Burbache, Robert Edmund, Richard Wirrok, Adam Cole, Walter Mausey, John Tonge, John le Mareschal, William de Newinton, William Preest, John Gaunter, Adam Altewey, Richard Tirel, John de Scaring, Roger de Horsham, John de Newynton, Nicholas Knyght, Yvo le Mulnere, Adam Dukkys, Thomas le Gardiner, Thomas Henfrey, Hugh le Chaundeler, Roger Gregge, John Maycok and Henry de Stanewigge [Stanwick], burgesses of Heygham Ferrers [Higham Ferrers].

Place or subject: The earl's mill of Hegham [Higham Ferrers] and Dicheford with the suit of freeholders and villeins previously due and accustomed to those mills, with ponds, watercourses, mill-dams and sluices and all other appurtenances. To hold to those burgesses and their heirs in tail of the earl and his heirs forever, paying yearly for this to the earl and his heirs 32 marks sterling at the four terms of year. The earl grants for himself and his heirs to the burgesses one entire oak suitable for timber per annum in his park of Hegham [Higham Ferrers] for repairing the mills and sustaining any other costs for those mills in the future. The earl also grants that, whenever the mills or ponds or sluices are in need of clay or land for repair, the burgesses and their heirs, by the discretion of the steward or the bailiffs there, are to dig and take from the ground of the earl and his heirs, next to the mills, ponds and sluices, just as will be necessary, and have the power to plant trees in the ground alongside the watercourse towards the greater defence of those mills, ponds and sluices. The earl grants that, if anyone withdraws suit that was previously due to those mills or grinds his corn elsewhere, that the burgesses and their heirs and the bailiffs of the earl and their heirs can attach them, and when they have been lawfully convicted before the bailiffs of the earl and his heirs, they are to make satisfaction to the burgesses and their heirs by consideration of the steward and other trustworthy men for the toll being carried way and for damages, if they sustain any. And, nonetheless, they are to be amerced against the earl and his heirs according to the size of the offence. And the burgesses grant that, whenever the farm is in arrears in part or in total at any of those terms, then it will be well lawful for the earl and his heirs to distrain in all their burgages and other tenements in Hegham [Higham Ferrers] and to take away and retain the distraint, until full satisfaction has been made to the earl and his heirs for the farm. The earl has affixed his seal and the burgesses have affixed the seal of the commonalty of the vill to the indenture alternately.

County: [Northamptonshire].

Additional people: Witnesses: Robert de Hungerford; William de Walkynton; Edmund Trussel, knights; John de Waltham; and Geoffrey de Walcote.

Dated at Leicester.

6 Jan 13 Edw III.

The rest of folio 19 and also folio 20 are blank.