Folio: 203. Somerset. Final concord. First party: Millicent and Alice, daughters...

Folio: 203. Somerset. Final concord.

First party: Millicent and Alice, daughters of William de Banton [Bampton].

Second party: William Brigwerr' [Brewer].

Place or subject: Half a yardland with appurtenances in the manor of Brugewalteri [Bridgwater]. Whereupon an assize of mort d'ancestor was summoned at the last assizes of the itinerant justices in Somerset, namely that Millicent and Alice acknowledged the whole half-yardland to be the right and inheritance of William. For this concord William gave Millicent and Alice one messuage and sixteen acres of land in that manor, namely five and a half acres in one croft on the west side of the park of Brugewalteri [Bridgwater], retaining to himself there one path next to the ditch of the park of the width of four feet to go around the park, when he wishes, and four acres and three roods in one croft called Landmede, one acre and one rood on the side of Rismore next to the same croft, three and a half acres in one croft called Warneresmede, and one acre of meadow in Lamormede. To hold to Millicent and Alice and their heirs of William and his heirs in right of inheritance forever. Paying yearly two pairs of white gloves at Easter for all services to William and his heirs. If, by chance, Agnes, sister of Millicent and Alice, who was absent when that concord was made, wishes to claim anything of that half-yardland against William, Millicent and Alice will acquit William completely against her for those sixteen acres of land. In addition, Maud de Banton, mother of Agnes, Millicent and Alice, who was present in the same court, acknowledged herself to be pacified about her third part, which she was exacting from that half-yardland by this concord being made, in such a way that the concord and agreement is to be firmly held without deceit and to be affirmed on the next coming of the justices into that county of Maud de Bantun, mother, and Millicent and Alice, daughters of William de Bantun, affixed their seals. If Maud, Millicent and Alice refuse to perform the concord before the justices, it will be lawful for William to take all those sixteen acres with the messuage into his hands and hold them without any opposition, and a writ of mort d'ancestor, which was previously inquired thereof, is to be revoked, made void and held as nothing.

County: Somerset.

Additional people: Witnesses: Wymund de Ralegh [Raleigh]; Robert de Chiltun; William, parson of Sowy; Walter de Kenteleber'; William Scot; John Wason; Roger de Sydeham; Robert de Dodesham; and Humphrey de Chelad.

Made in the court of Brigewalteri [Bridgwater].

Monday on the morrow of Trinity, 16 Hen III.