Folios: 487-487v. Honor of Bolyngbrok [Bolingbroke], in one box, marked by the letter...

Folios: 487-487v. Honor of Bolyngbrok [Bolingbroke], in one box, marked by the letter K. Obligation.

First party: Stephen de Stanham, citizen of Lincoln.

Second party: Henry de Lascy [Lacy], earl of Lincoln.

Place or subject: Stephen has granted and, under forfeiture of forty marks, has bound himself to the earl that Stephen or anyone in his name ought never to sell any lands or tenements, rents or any other things pertaining to the same lands and tenements which Stephen has at farm in Wyvelyngham [Willingham] and Hallested [Halstead] by the demise of Theobald de Stykeswald [Stixwould], or which Stephen has at farm in Rysum [Riseholme] by the demise of Edmund Folyot [Foliot], and not acquire a feoffment thereof without licence of the earl or his steward, from whose fee those tenements are. If the steward or any of the bailiffs of the earl find that Stephen or anyone in his name is enfeoffed of any of those lands or rents, or of any land which was of the fee of the same earl other than before the completion of this deed or afterwards, and once the truth of the matter has been known and proved, Stephen grants that those forty marks are to be levied without delay from his moveable goods and chattels to the use of the earl by the earl's own bailiffs, and once seisin has been had thereof, this is to be made void by this deed until Stephen acquires the special grace from the earl without moving any other plea concerning thsi.

County: [Lincolnshire].

Additional people: Witnesses: Thomas de Burnham, then steward of the earl of Lincoln; Walter Bek, then his constable at Lincoln Castle; and Walter de Glentham, clerk.

Dated at Lincoln.

Thursday after the feast of St Gregory the Pope, 16 Edw I.

For the original charter see: DL 25/3241