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Folio: 159. Berkshire. Agreement. First party: Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester....

Catalogue reference: DL 42/2/12/1

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This record is about the Folio: 159. Berkshire. Agreement. First party: Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester.... dating from 1246 Sept 8 in the series Duchy of Lancaster: Cartularies, Enrolments, Surveys and other Miscellaneous Books. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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DL 42/2/12/1
Date
1246 Sept 8
Description

Folio: 159. Berkshire. Agreement.

First party: Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester.

Second party: Geoffrey Posard of Hungerford.

Place or subject: Simon granted for himself and his heirs to Geoffrey and his heirs, in exchange and recompense for the pasture and common of all his moveables within his wood of Bautele, according to how the old ditch and the ancient boundaries of the same wood hold and purport themselves, 5s of rent of assize forever, which Geoffrey and his ancestors used to pay to Simon and his ancestors yearly, for certain land which Geoffrey held of him in the vill of Hungerford. Geoffrey or his heirs can and ought not to claim anything by reason of herbage, pasture and common within the ancient boundaries of the wood of Bautele.

County: [Berkshire].

Additional people: Witnesses: Bartholomew de la Hose; Robert de Erpeham; Nicholas de Yngepenne [Inkpen]; Walter de Fersedun; Adam Bat; Philip the clerk; and Walter Stabilario.

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 30 Hen III.

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For the original charter see: DL 25/2296

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