Folios: 53v-54. Leicestershire. Settlement of a plea. First party: James de Mesnyl...

Folios: 53v-54. Leicestershire. Settlement of a plea.

First party: James de Mesnyl [Mesnil], knight.

Second party: Edmund, son of Henry III [Edmund of Lancaster].

Place or subject: Whereas James de Mesnyl, knight, had drawn into a plea by royal writ Edmund, son of Henry III, seeking from him the manors of Thornton and Baggeworth [Bagworth] with appurtenances by right of inheritance, the disagreement which arose between them has been settled in this manner: Edmund quitclaimed those manors for himself and his heirs to James and his heirs, as of his right, for £400 sterling payable to Edmund or his attorney, namely £200 on the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary [2 February] 1276, and £100 on the feast of St Peter in Chains [1 August] 1277, and the remaining £100 on the feast of St Peter in Chains [1 August] 1278. These manors by the grant and assent of James will remain entirely in the hands of Edmund until the feast of the Purification. But when James has paid the first £200 in that term, Edmund is to hand over and deliver to him seisin of a moiety of those manors by the extent to be made of them, with the other moiety remaining in Edmund's hands. And when James has paid Edmund £100 on the feast of St Peter in Chains 1277, then there is to be handed over to James the seisin of a moiety of that part of those manors which was remaining in Edmund's hands after the first payment, but in such a way that the issues of that moiety, of which he then received seisin, from that term of the Purification until the day on which the second payment was made, in part of the payment of those £100 according to the extent first of all made of them. And when James has paid the last £100 at the term, there is to be handed over to him the seisin of that part which was remaining in Edmund's hands after the second payment made to him. But there being allowed to James in part of the payment of the last £100 the issues of that part in that last year according to the extent. If by chance James fails in the payment of those £200 on the feast of the Purification in whole or in part, he granted that he is to be forever barred from all action and claim to those manors. But if he fails in the two payments following at the terms, James granted that that whole part of those manors being in Edmund's hands is to be incurred for an obligation of the money not paid, and is to remain to Edmund and his heirs forever without opposition or claim from James. And if James wants to make those payments before the appointed terms, the land will be delivered to him in this form without waiting for those terms.

County: Leicestershire.

Additional people: Witnesses: Richard Foker; Nicholas de St Mauro; Geoffrey de Langel, knights; Hugh de Vien; John Russ'; Walter de Rading; Thomas de Bray; and William de Alcumndb'.

Dated at London.

2 Aug 1276 (4 Edw I).

For the original charter see: DL 25/1791